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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
CITIZENS FEAR KHAN CLASH; DESERT NILES Others Plan To Prevent Trouble At TomOr-
 rows Meet FLAMING CIRCLE
 ANTI-KLAN BODY Both Organizations To Have Delegations In
 City

NILES, Ohio, Oct. 31.- While hundreds of outraged citizens were preparing to leave Niles tonight, less timo- rous taxpayers quietly band ed together to prevent blood- shed during a threatened clash when the Ku Klux Klan and adherents of the Flaming Circle, an anti-klan organiza- i ton, hold meetings here to- morrow. Announcement was made by officials that 25,0O0 klansmen and 10000 members of the rival organization would congregate in the city. The Circle followers were in- structed not to bring women and children.
 Guards who watched the homes of city officials last night were on duty again tonight. They were not placed there by Chief of Police Round or Sher- if Thomas. these officers declared.
 Refuses Troops
 Several national guard officers were in Niles today. They came as civilians, but, it is understood, acted on orders from Governor Donahey to look over the situation. .h
 A request of citizens committee that permit for klan parade be re voked, in an attempt to avert possible trouble, was denied by Mayor Kistler s.-'s VI Demands of the mayor and .Shc 4 fsfsmas for 1state tro6ps were .ei "a Sy Governor Donahey, unless tG s.a is tumrlt, riot or serious disor- Hnc' in which event ''every agency of aa, state government will be used" to restore order.
 T The klansmen will march unmasked and with arms folded, Dr. B. A. Hart, head of the klan in this county, an- nounced.
 Hundreds Deputized
 Sheriff Thomas and local police will attempt to handle any situation which might arise. with deputies and special officers. Thomas would not say how many men he had deputized, but it was learned that Warren lumber concern delivered two hundred police clubs at the sheriffs office in Warren. From Youngstown and Warren came reports that despite the governors re- fusal to send troops there would be troop mobilization in those cities tomor- row morning. These companies. it was said, will be held in readiness to move to Niles quickly should the occasion demand. The streets were virtually deserted tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
PRINTERS JOIN MOVE
State And Allied Councils Follow Cen
 tral Trades Body

NEW YORK, Oct. 31-Another h. bor rindorsement was given John w. Davis when he returned here tonight from his home in Locust Valley to speak at public school No. r. It came from the New York City and state allied printing councils through an announce ment made public by eastern democratic headquarters and followed that of yes terday announced in a statement issued by the members of the executive coun- cil of the central trades and labor coun- cil of Greater New York.
 Officials at the democratic headquar- ters declared the action of the printing councils ito be typical of the action being or would be taken by organized labor bodies throughout the country"
 In announcing its indorsement of Mir. Davis, the New Kork City printing council said, in the statement issued by the democratic headquarters:
 "The enemies of organized labor
 are we'll known. No member of
 organized labor in his right sense
 would think of voting for Coolidge
 and Dawes. By this time it is
 plainly evident that a vote for La
 Toilette means a half vote for
 Dawes. the arch enemy of organ.
 ized labor, and his running mate.
 Coolidge.
 Tt is now clearly established thut La Toilette cannot win. We believe that John w. Davis can and will win and we heartily indorse his candidacy and we urge all our members and all the true friends of organized labor, not only to vote for John w. Davis, but to work earnestly and intelligently ia his behalf.
 This decision on our part is not
 tConitnued on Page Two.) -''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
W AR MOTHER : .GIVESllSURANCE.. TO AID DAVIS
Candidate Displays Let ter-Compares Grun-
 dy's Plea

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-A check for S57. 50 was exhibited tonight by John w. Davis, democratic candidate for president, before audiences at the Har- lem Casino and later at Public school No. IT.
 Mir. Davis said he would not ex- change the check he held for all the money Joseph Grundy had collected in Pennsylvania for the republican cam paign fund, whether the total Mir. Grundy had collected was S65O,O or twice that sum. He said the certificate in his hand meant far more than mate rial wealth to his party; that it rep resented the spirit of democracy as con trasted, with the. spirit of republican, ism.
 "As Freely Give"
 As an evidence of ''republicanism he said he had seen two letters from Mir. Grundy charging donations with the slogan n dollar contributed will help keep Coolidge in power" and .'as ye have received freely, freely shall ye give" N
 With tear-filled eyes, the candidate then described the check and read the letter which had accompanied it, as- serting that it speaks the real heart of America"
 pressive Quietude "the chsck,'' Mir. the United States, througf>SSne United States Veterans bureau cnd the amount is 57.j0 dated the first day of October, 10Oi Santap,I,an al1 1otD oH here is the letter and l want you to when you vote next Tuesday to remem- Der the two if you can can think about them when you stand alone in the pols- ing place ready to mark your ballot. I have not the permission of the signer to read here name and yet I am going to do it anyhow. For I cannot believe it possible that she would object"
 The Letter
 Mir. Davis, with obvious effort to control his emotion then read the letter. It said:
 Mansfield. Ohio, Oct. 24, 1924. MT. James w. Gerard, treasurer of the democratic committee, New York.
 Sir: l inclose the insurance check of my dead son toward the fund for Mir. Davis campaign. He would have senti. (Signed)
 MRS. JESSIE E. BLACK"
 Recital of the letter was greeted with applause which continued more than minute. Then Mr. Davis continued.
 "Grundy can have his money The republican committee can fill it's treas ury, if it chooses, from it's beneficiaries. but there speaks the real heart of America and not money. not intimida- tion, not misrepresentation, will turn 1t from its steady course when Tues day next strives"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
FLOODED STREET
 TAKEN FOR CANAL
Florida Captain Safe After Eat
 ting Everglades Waters
Ky Associated Press)

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 31.-While friends nneurred is loss at sea, Sam F. Welch Aianii charter boat captain, turned ur
 afelE today with thrilling story of l. nted passage of the Everglades ron. eu~t Myers. Finding inland wa. lerwa4i oyerflowed, Captain Welch says he cSo5'figh need difficulty in keeping to ths elnel. At LaBelle he turned his bpar up a street, thinking it was the canal. At many points west of Okee. chobee residents fled their homes as the water rose to- 10 feet.
 Captain WeIch says he drove his boat over bridges there. For 10 miles his boat picked its way through an inun- dated forest. At one point on the St. Lucie canal about F miles from Lake Okeechobee, lone c0mmissar was ra- tioning food to the water-bound fami- lies of the community. Rolled in three attempts to make the inland crossing, Captain Welch tuT led back to Fort Myers and finally made the voyage around the peninsula.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01

receiving a defiant jeer in answer, she fired point blank at the nearest masked figure. This happened to be young Gallups. 'sS'a &
 The boy screamed and fell to the ground, utaeoncious. Several of his com paniOts ran for assistance. A passing a,ttom0bflist hurried him to Ensley Infirmary, wficre physicians said he hns but q slight chance of recovering.
 Woman Arrested
 i. Police were notified immediately and Mrs. lIan was arrested. She will be held without bail pending develop mants in the 1oy'ss condition, police officials said. Detectives early ! this morning were obtaining her vision of the shooting. 5
 Blinded bt lights of another auto- mobile. Mir. Odell failed to see where the rond pavement stopped and drove rounded the curve, according to by standers. The motormaR made every eff fort to. stop the car, but was unable to check it's progress before crashing headlong into the auto. |,
 Mir. Odel1's condition was pronounced critical sby attending physicians early Saturday morning, They said he sustained fractured shoulder, frsc- tured jaw, two fractured legs and severe lacerations and fcontusions about the face.
 & sl Street Fights
 Several other minor accidents were reported to police as the result of Bir- 'mingham's enthusiastic Halloween cele- bration, but no one was reported seriously injured. A number of street fights were broken up by police and the participants arrested. Chief McDuff and his aides cleared the streets, which were said to have contained the largest uusies. all ,Haiiow's Eve crowd in many years, promptly at midnight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
REFUSES MILITARY AID
Governor Donahey Holds Troops In
 Readiness. However

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 31.-Gover- nor Vic Donahey, us cOmmander-in- chief S.of the states armed militarg forces, had assumed ''watchful wait ing" attitude tonight in the threateneG open breach between klan and anti-klan forces at Niles, Ohio, where many thou sand klansmen are scheduled to parade tomorrow under permit issued by May or H. c. .Kistler. The day brought no new developments here, but caused an exchange of diagrams between the gov ern0r and Sheriff Thomas, who wired the governor for military aid.
 Governor Donahey refused the request for the same reasons outlined in a let ter to Mayor Kistler last night in which he said that no troops would be sent, but that the mayor and sheriff would be held to ''strict accountability"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
COAL OPERATORS '''
 FEAR (. Q: P. AID MAY BE RESENTED
Members Act To Over. come Possible Un-
 friendly Legislation
CLAIM MAJORITY
 GOOD DEMOCRATS
Want Black Belt Party Men To Know Barons
 Are Not Hostile

Coal operators who have contributed to the republican campaign fund do not repre- sent the coal industry of Ala bama, according to a state. tment issued by James L. Da. ividson, following a meeting o1 "a large group of coal opera. tors in the American Trust building Friday.
 The meeting was not of the members Pof the Alabama Mining Institute of which MT. Davidson is secretary, but of individual mine owners of the state TKe formal statement was to the effect that if the impression had gained credence that the subscriptions reflected the coal industry of this state a grievous injustice had been done al overwhelming majority of the mine owners.
 The, coal industry of Alabama is said to have received many favors from the law makers of this state and to have many others to ask, and it was reported on the streets Friday, that 'Blick Belt" democrats who remain democrat had made pointed references to tn, donations of the "coal barons" of the Birmingham district. It is said thai this caused the gathering in Birming ham of a body ofaoperators who visionet an unfriendly legislature taking ven geance on the ope~s<o for the activi ties sef many uf eir l.aders on behalf of nc geptil,ii car rrGanization. II WIS sssnta 4t'lat $, 5o, ation pledgiaH the .As x t-ss fs Ae ag of the fsnR 'Y'ei'a. tots 10 the q, noe tic partly, veGid bt passel The, tor;psl statement tA.osrs
 & Asste Statement
 A large and representative ee ne of the coal .rators of .vhA uis;r o, who affiliate M. tn the Democr; ,le t&Tty was held in Birmingtaur rday morning. ss>
 "A general discussion was had of the publication of the list of the con tributors to the republican campaign fund end the attention that has been called by certain newspapers to the prominence of coal operators in that list. E I.
 Tt was the sense of the meeting that if the impression has been made upon the public that the coal operators who made the republican subscriptions represented the coal industry in that behalf that great injustice has been done to the overwhelming majority of coal operators who are loyal to the pricipies and nominees of the Demo- cratic party and proper discrimination should be made and it should be kept who % Contribute aa the to ew the e0ai Rep%biean ansSnS, party were acting in their individual members are free to exercise their in- dividua judgment in all political mat ters. tThe truth is, however, that an overwhelming majority of the coal operators are democrats who are loyal to their party principles and faithful to its nominees .S,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
NEW YORK PRINTERS JOIN TRADES ACTION
Democratic Candidates Outspoken Campaign
 Is Commended
WHEELER BLAMES F
 TAMMANY CROWD
Labor Housecleaning Needed, Says La Follette's Running
 Mate-Gompers Irritated
lSpecial to Age.Heraldl


 NEW YOK, Oct. 31.-There are many and potent indica- tions today that the labor vote in New Jersey is shifting to John w. Davis and decidedly away from the La Toilette Wheeler crowd. In this Jer- sey is only following the lead of the labor council in New York.
 Pursuing this < advantage< democratic workers are prodi- giously busy in the state across the Hudson today, determined that the La Toilette Wheeler propaganda, which h. - -.. widespread over the ate shall be met and d. ,.ted particularly in the bii adus trial centers upon WI n .ha Jersey democracy has iwss Eeelied for stsang suH sJcils. si election time. "a. s> l The. New Jersey State f-edef, -t, s,l5S < Labor has lost no time in 'c ii, ] away from the American FethrEt 70 Labor, now that the latter ha 'i'.orsrt' La> Toilette. Furthermore, ,sg4 ize lubor in Hudson county has coal- tcrtl with a pledge to support John Y Da wis. The executive council Oi the cen tral trades and labor council of greater New York started the ball rolling to- ward Davis when the executive coun- cil of the organization withdrew it's in .dOrscment of La Toilette and placed itself unreservedly on the Davis side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
GIRL WITHOUT JAIL' HUNTED BY POLICE
Penitentiary Warden Refused Her, So She Wandered Away

EVENING SHADE, Ark, Oct. 31.- Mrs. Blanche Palmer has earned the title of the Girl Without Jail"
 After her conviction, Mrs. Palmer was sentenced to the penitentiary in stead of the state farm, as the Arkan- sas law provides. She was taken to the penitentiary by the sheriff, where the warden refused to accept her.
 She was then left standing at the prison gates by the irate officer who had brought her. Not knowing what else to do, Mrs. Palmer wandered off, and officers are now looking for her, spurred on by $100 reward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
TRAIN HITS TRUCK;
 TWO MEN KILLED
Impact Derails Three Coaches
 And Delays Flyer
lRy Associated Press. ]

STROUD, Okla. Oct. 31.-Two men were killed and three coaches on the Meteor" fast St. Louis-San Francisco passenger train en route from St. Louis to Oklahoma City were derailed late today when the engine struck Q ten-ton truck at a street crossing here.
 None of the coaches overturned. After delay of an hour and a half the train proceeded to OklahoYA City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
4 MEN RESCUED ADRFT 6 ILL IN RUM RUNNER
Sailors Found In Serious Condition, After Be-
 ing Shanghaied
JBy Associated Press )

! NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Four starving sailors, who said they had been shang- haied into the rum row service, com pelled reluctant skipper to surrender to the coast guard cutter Gresham today Smart, of Newfoundland, and her cargo of brandy. Michael Gillian, of Halifax, was the skipper |. His crew was Louis Coseini, mate, and Albert Edouard Bur geomaster, cook, both of New York !; Henry A. Gillis, of Perth Amboy, N. J., and Carl Jaeger, of Boston, sea- men.
 Scouting between the rum-fleet and shore, the Gresham's searchlight last night picked out the glimmering top lights of craft that seemed abandoned. Her decks were deserted, her anchor chain slapped against the pitching bows her rudder swung at the will of the waves her masts were bare of sails. Distress Sign 1
 A British ensign hung upside down from lanyard-the sign of distress. shirts and blankets shredded and frayed.
 The Gresham hailed the little so master and four despairing sailor m swered. The announced they were OTIS oners aboard that they had been Vith- out food and water for seven Glys c1'.s their skipper refused to put them ashore. They pleaded to Captain Ben Brock way of the Gresham to heaye them hne, tow them inside the three mile liG,it, take possession of the Dor, thy Nj, Smart and feed and water her crew.
 Captain Brockaway consented to tow the craft and thus the cutter and its prize arrived today at the battery where it was boarded by agents of the depart mept of justice. They seized the twenty barrels of brandy in the vessels hold and began an investigation of the shanghai story. -
 In Rum Fleet
 We shipped out of New York 23 days ago." was Mate Coscinis tale. We were told we were signed up for the brick carrier Enterprise, sailing be- tween New York and Cape May. They took us out at night, in speed boat, and when we woke up next morning we were on the Dorothy NJ. Smart, sur rounded by casks of rum and in the midst of the rum fleet"
 Orders to hoist sail for voyage to Halifax the sailors countered with de- mand that they be set ashore at once, they said. The skipper refused, and so they drifted about for P days with sails furled. The anchor was lost and a week ago the food and water ran out. Distress signals were run up. The sail ors said they might have taken C. al Ind of the craft and sailed her into pof,. out the skipper warned them thatt .t yenla be mutiny and piracy, so the fcFeo and drifted until at last the SteshaN came to the rescue.
 Captain Gillian declared he |new nothing of the shanghaiing pr f his crew got aboard. All he wcUid toil va. that he came from Newfoun land. teund the two master on rum roy dg'arentiy n derlict, and took commara ni h.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01

!, Shot through the stomach, Paul Gal. lups, 1o years old, 303 Market street Pratt City, son of Ensley Detective 4 N, Gallups, is believed to be dyiAt Il Ensley infirmary and Mrs. A. !. Hall 500 Third street. Pratt City, is being held < without bail at Nnsley police headuarters, charged with shooting the boy when he and a score of other Hal. lQween celebyants were attempting Ho tear down her fence Friday night.
 Another Halloween tragedy occurred on Ensley pike early last night when an outbound 3outh Ensley street cai at, Miller strel struck an auto driven by l.. C. OdelI 50, of 300 Willie street, probably fatally injufing the driver and denohshing the auto. Y M Levsls Pistol s
 Gallups and his companions were committing n typical Halloween prank at the Hall home, witnesses told DO lice. They had. just started to remove the wooden fence which surrounds 2 part of the property when Mrs. HaH, who was alone in the house., appeared on the front porch with a revolver ley eled in sher hand, according to police.
 After warming the youthful mob to leave her premises it was said, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
MOBILE SHERIFF. ALLOWED TRAFFIC IN RUM EcHARGE
Incapable Of Holding Off, flee Says Impeach-
 ment Proceedings
(State Capital Bureau)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. 31.- Charges that Sheriff Paul c. Cazalas Ot Mobile county ''sold" the control of his office to William H. Holcombe in re turn for Holcombe's support in his race for sheriff are contained in impeach ment proceedings against Cazalas filed with the clerk of the supreme court to day by Attorney General Harwell G Davis. It is further charged that tn: sheriff is under complete domination ot Holcombe, who is in league with boot leggers and gamblers of the county The state alleges that Cazalas is not capable of running the office.
 It was alleged among other things that Cazalas knowingly permitted liquor to be sold in Mobile; that he has con nived at violations of prohibition law and operation of gambling houses; and that he knowingly received sums for feeding prisoners to which he was not entitled.
 Permitted Rum Sale
 Under the charge of wilful neglect oi duty it was declared that Cazalas knowingly permitted intoxicating li- quors and beverages to be sold in Mo bile county, Alabama" and again that he during his entire term of office has wilfully and knowingly failed to be on the alert for violations of statues pro hibiting the sale, receiving and storing of intoxicating liquors and beverages ill Mobile county"
 Under the corruption charge, it was alleged that Cazalas had "corruptly con nived" at the operation of liquor traffic and gambling resorts, specific instances being set forth with names of persons alleged to have carried on the law viola tions with the connivancc of the sheriff One of the specifications under the cCr' ruption charge was that Cazalas know ing that one William H. Holcombe, a deputy sheriff, was and had been for q long time corruptly conniving at the operation of an illegal intoxicating li- quor traffic in Mobile county, Alabama, by divers and sundry persons did cor ruptly retain the said Holcombe in his service and employment as such deputy sheriff"
 Protection Fund Raised It was further alleged that Cazalas bargained away and trafficked in his office with Holcombe, selling to the said HOlcombe the right to act as dep uty sheriff and to control the operation of the affairs of the office of sheriff in return for the support of the said Hoi- combe in the candidacy of respondent for sheriff, and the raising by the said Holcombe of camgaign fund for Ca zalas from numerous dealers in intox- icating liquors, and professional game' lers and said agreement with said Hol- combe was corruptly carried out by re- spondent after he became sheriff.
 Under the charge of incompetency, it was alleged that during the term of respondents office there existed in Mo bile county an open public and notorious wholesale and retail violation of the laws of Alabama passed to promote tenn perance and prohibit illegal traffic in intoxicating liquors and beverages, which business was conducted in part upon the main streets of the city of Mobile, ard in close proximity to re- spondent's office and in certain in
 (Continued on Page Three)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
MDONALD SENTENCED

ELLSWORTH, Maine, Oct. 31.--Rol- and Mcdonald, 15-year-old Amherst yonth, convicted yesterday in the su- preme court of the murder of his zehool teacher, Miss Louise Gerrish, ihat spring, was sentenced today to life M fisonu gt AAhard labor at the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
LOEB BACK ON JOB
 AFTER ILLNESS
Franks Slayer Under Care Of Physician Several Days
(By Associated Press.

JOLIET, H., Oct. 31.-Richard Loeb, serving life term at the state penitentiary here for the murder of R9b.rt Franks of Chicago, has been in disl osta, Tor several days, but today is hat4 a. 1is 'n the furniture fac torr. ,eh e, ertd a cold over the Iest wet eng "1. WIS under the prison .Setn.1s ctrt 1 tuesday. z.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
DEPUTIES SCARCE
Sheriff Says Men Afraid To Go To
 Niles

WARREN, Ohio, Oct. 31.-Sheriff John E. Thomas of Trumbell county is having trouble getting special deputies to send to Niles, he announced tonight. The sheriff said many badges had been sent out but most of these were returned because the men did not want to take chance on going to Niles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
MANY CLAIM Es ,

CHICAGO, Oct. S1.-' d core of attorneys and . sim 'i4a' z o' claimants appeared inf's 't s''VoFss , when the suit to deterni ".'v 'rA 'h heira M the S5.000, 900 .lqts Of GaY
 B. Jennings was calltd fo' hesF' Jennings died in 1922, ieeVtnE 40 Y.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
THE WEATHER

Alabama. Fair Saturday |, and probably sunday; iittle change in temperature. M ! Mfssissippi: Fair. Tennessee; Fair. s3eoreIa; Fair.
 Complete weather data( will be found or Page IS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01

, Oct. 31.-Hampton
 flutes will be used as ns up the educational ; General Plutarc0
 ect of the republic
 leaving for Washing.
 es conferred with of- lpton- -Tuskegee endow. here. The problem of Mexican masses was offered by the Ameri- the Civil war, he said.