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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
|. AND N. PLACES BIG RAIL ORDER
 WITH I. C..L. co.
Nearly Two Million Dol lars Is Reported
 Involved

n arsleE fas ga tons of steel rail involving nearly two million dollars has been placed by the Louisville and Nashville railroad with the Tennessee Goal, Iron and RailrOad company, it was announced Monday While the of 'ficial announcement contained no inti- nation of the amount involved, the pre- vailing price for rail hovers in the neighborhood of $50 ton.
 Combined with an order placed with the T. c. I. three weeks ago, this gives the Louisville and Nashville sufficient rail te care for 1925 expansion and re- newals. The Louisville and Nashville order is expected to be followed by or ders from other lines during the next week.
 Simultaneously with the announce ment of the Louisville and Nashville order, it became known Mnoday that the Union Pacific system has placed an order for, more than 1,5O0 tons of cast iron pipe in the Birmingham district, the order being split equally between the National Cast Iron Pipe company and the United States Cast Iron Pipe company. The value is about $100, 900. According to J. H. Doughty, general agent of the system in Birmingham, the order will be followed by others at an early date.
 In placing its order with the T. c. l., the Louisville and Nashville is follow ing it's usual practice of placing it's re- quirementS in the Birmingham district. The railroad is one of the most liberal patrons of the car shops at Fairfield.
 Conditions in the Birmingham dis trict are distinctly gratifying, leaders said Monday. Reports reaching the city were to the effect that eastern mills have increased their operations above 65 per cent, decided improvement over conditions prevailing up to September 15. Virtually none of the depression was reflected here. Throughout the en- tire year, the operations of the T. c. l. have been at their maximum, and the independents have suffered little when compared with the fate of those in other districts.
 Operations in the coal fields, which took an upward turn when the first cold snap arrived, have fallen back somewhat, and conditions have not been up to expectations. The outlook is far from pessimistic, however, as operators feel that the situation will soon be better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
INVENTOR FRIEND
 OF EDISON DIES
Heart Trouble Is Fatal To
 Patrick B. Delaney

SOUTHORANGE, N. J., Oct. 20.- Patrick B. Delaney, @, inventor for many years an associate of Thomas A. Edison, died last night from heart trou- ble He was the inventor of over 200 major devices most of which were of an electrical nature. His inventions included precious metal detector, the use of which resulted in the location and recovery of $30,000,000 in gold and silver from the sunken liner Laurentic off the coast of Ireland recently. This device also was used during the past year by a wrecking company for the re- covery of $300,000 worth of copper in- gots from the mud of New York bay.
 Another invention of his is the ma for synchronous multiplex telegraphy which allows the transmission of six messages on one wire and which won him a gold medal and diploma at the International Inventions exposition in London in 1885.
 Funertal services will be held here Wednesday. Burial will be at Nan. tucket, Mass, on Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
STATEMENT DISCOUNTED Early Action By Congress Likely To
 F0restall Weeks
 

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20-The statement of John W. Weeks, secretary of war, who returned to Washington this morning, that, if congress has taken no action regarding Muscle Shoals by the date of the completion of Wilson Day, next July, he would lease the resulting power pending action by con- gress, is regarded as interesting but un- important today.
 In all probability there would be but one bidder for the temporary use of that power. The Alabama Power company would doubtless enter into negotiations with the government just as it acquired the temporary use of the power gener- ated in the steam plants. But the state ment of the secretary is regarded as un- important nj view of the practically certainty that before July some action will have been taken by congress.
 Muscle Shoals will be the continuing order of business before the senate from the date of it's reconvening until the problem is solved as far as the senate is concerned. It would require unanimous consent for the senate to abandon or even postpone action, and Senator Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama has said that unanimous consent will not be granted. That the senate, in some positive direction will proceed, is cer- tain, and if action is not made final,
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
SENATOR STANDS PAT ON SPEECH
 MADE IN MAINE
Nothing To Withdraw Is UnderwOOd's Attitude.
 Ready For Inquiry

Declaring that he had nothing to withdraw" from what he said in his speeches in the recent Maine guberna- torial campaign, Senator Oscar w. Un- derwood Monday gave statements to Birmingham newspapers of his attitude on the subject.
 While not asserting definitely that he had returned to Birmingham for the purpose, Senator Underwood conveyed the impression that he came prepared to appear before the Jefferson county grand jury, if called upon, to support or explain his Maine utterances as a result of Judge William E. Forts charge to that body to investigate conditions as alleged to have been depicted by the senator, as far as this county was con- cerned.
 The Associated Press in reporting Senator Underwood's Maine speeches to newspapers throughout the nation, quoted him in one of them as saying:
 Tt (the klan) walks on the streets with you, confronts you at your doorstep and threatens your very destiny and the future happiness of your families. I come from a state where men and women shudder at night when a knock comes at the door, where men do not dare assert freedom of thought because an invisible hand may fall. The south and the west have felt it's blight. Free government is at stake. The govern ment of the invisible empire is taking it's place. Justice has miscarried in the courts that prejudice may pass judg- ment on the destinies of men.
 "WOmen have been dragged from their homes and whipped, mems lives have been sacrificed, and little children have been orphaned that the invisible empire might have it's way"
 In refutatiOn of this Senator Under wood asserted Monday that he did not mention either the state of Alabama or Jefferson county in his address.
 Says KIan Was Issue
 'Ths speech in question was a straight-frOm-the-sh anti-klan speech. The klan was tine issue. told my hearers of some of the crimes which are laid to the klan in the south.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
HURRICANE HITS FLORIDA COAST,
 SWEEPS INLAND
Streets Flooded, Wires Blown Down And
 Towns Darkened

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 20.-The tropical storm expected by the weather bureau for several days, swept southern Flor ida coasts Monday afternoon and was reported sweeping inland tonight, ac- companied by a deluge of rain.
 The hurricane swept over the gulf near Fort Myers or Punta Gorda and was expected to strike somewhere be- tween Miami and Jupiter.
 Key West reported heavy gale, and ocean-going vessels were rushing to nearest ports along the east and gulf coasts.
 Schools at Tampa, Lakeland and other Florida cities were closed today, and other preparations made to care for residents and property in event the storm strikes inland.
 Intermittent rains have drenched southern Florida since Friday night, and many sections of the Peninsula reported trains and highways blocked by high waters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
RADICALISM NO MENACE, SAYS DAVIS Can Overflow Only If Conservative Dykes
 Are Too Strong ARMS CONFERENCE APPROVED IN PART People Must Not Be Mis- led As To It's Scope,
 Says Candidate NOMINEE PLEDGES
 NEW TARIFF LAW  Democratic Standard Bearer Ends Tennessee Drive With
 Nashville Speech
ARMS CONFERENCE
 APPROVED IN PART
NOMINEE PLEDGES
 NEW TARIFF LAW
(By Associated Press)

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 20.-Concluding his personal campaign in Tennessee, John w. Davis, democratic nominee for president, told a gathering of Nashville business men to- night that if radicalism some day swept the American peo- pie to unknown ports and des- tinies it would "be because the dykes of conservatism have been so stoutly built that they gave to the rising of the waters no outlet whatever, but held against them until the flood was immediate and destructive"
 s.Ig you are afraid of radicalism in this eotisfry Mir. HaEis said Eeia want to prevent radiealism in this coun- .try. you will not do 1t by throwing your selves into the arms of reaction. There is no relief there.
 Mir. Davis spoke to an audience gathered in the chamber of commerce, which he described as s.the financial heart of the city" Earlier in the day he had addressed larger meeting at the Vanderbilt stadium, making the out standing feature of his address there and extended explanation ofhis attitude on the Washington Armaments confer ence and the naval limitation treaty.
 Promises Tariff Cut
 In the evening address the candidate again promised that he would, if elect ed, reduce existing tariff duties and would see that the new law was written with an equal eye upon the head of the manufacturers, .. .. upon the need of the laboring man and for the consumers of the country"
 Emphatic denial of charges that the Democratic party was destructive to business whenever in power was made by Mir. Davis.
 ''There is no party in these United States" MT. Davis said "that deliber- ately desires to injure American busi ness; and there is nothing in the pro gram of the party I represent that holds for any legitimate business in this country and threat or menace what so ever."
 "There is a promise" he continued, that the existing tariff duties shall be reduced and that instead of the law being written off by and for one sole class in the community. to wit: man ufacturers, it shall be written with an equal eye upon the need of the manu- lecturers, none of whom shall suffer upon the need of the laboring men, not one of whom shall feel loss or danger in his employment; and for the con- sumers of the country, who are quite as much entitled to be considered as any one else. And this further thought I want to leave with the business men of Nashville:
 Much is said by Secretary Hughes aha other speakers of the meance of radicalism in the United States,
 Dawes Is Ridiculed
 General Dawes would have us believe that around every corner there turks a
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
COST OF LIVING
 SHOWS INCREASE
Birmingham Reports Jump Of
 Is Per Cent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-The cost of living in the United States increased nine-tenths of one per cent. from June to September of this year, although for the year period beginning with Septem. Der; 1923, the general level decreased by the same amount. These. changes, set forth in a statement today by the bureau of labor statistics of the de- pertinent of labor, disclosed a net gen eral increase of 70.5 per cent from De cember 1917, to September, 1924.
 Increases between June and Septem- Der were topped by Is per cent in Mo bile, Boston was second with 7.7 per cent. Birmingham reported 1. per cent. Richmond and Jacksonville 1.3, New Orleans and Memphis O.S, Chicago, Norfolk and Washington 0.6, New York 0,5; St. Louis and Savannah 0.4; At lanta, Seattle and Philadelphia O.1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
BOY IS INJURED
 WHEN HIT BY CAR

James Abston, 12, 73 Mill Village, was seriously injured Monday when he was struck by an automobile reported to have been driven by Clay Simmons of Irondale in front of the Cullman school in east Birmignham. According to the police, the child ran directly in front of the car.
 R. NJ. Whisant and J. F. Bryan, principal of the Cullman school, hurried the lad to the Hillman hospital, where he is reported to be severely bruised and to have sustained possible Internal in- juries. The accident was investigated by Detectives w. P. Elledge and T. N. Williamson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
NEWS FROM TODAYs
 WANT ADS

Fox Terrier puppies. Persian kit tens and canary birds for sale. Beautiful California bungalow can he had in .Norwood for only $500; $500 cash.
 Heater for sale.
 Alredale dog lost.
 1900 acres black land farm for Furnished brick home on South HighlanGs for rent.
 Diamond engagement ring for sale.
 Bright young man steno-typist with knowledge of business and bookkeeping wanted.
 Groom bungalow in West End is available for oIly S5,o0o.
 Lady stsnOgrapher bOOkkeeper Typist-fils clerk wanted.
 Beautiful lot In Druid Hills for New s-roOm bungalow in Walnut Kill. |, Creamery and Dairy lunch for sale.
 Two beautiful lots. are offered In East Lake for only $500.
 All-wOol baby comforts made to Dandy ,elose.in cOraer Is offered for $2o,o00. e' ,:oAl miners war ted.
 Complete office furnishings fo. sale cheap.
 Money wanted.
 Coats refined and altered
 White leghorn lens for sale Modern bungalow in East Lake. Dandy store site on s1st 'strset, south.
 New colonial bungalow with tile roof is available on Chestnut Hill. Turn to Pages lt and lS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
CLASH
 WITH CHINESE
Race Feeling Is Kindled By
 Killing
lRy Associated Press.l ]

MANILA, Oct. 2O.-Race feeling be- tween Filipinos and Chinese here had so subsided tonight that Go General Leonard Wood, after a tour of the dis turbed districts decided that the police could handle the situation and said that the constabulary would not be called out unless further rioting occurred.
 Trouble started Saturday night when a Chinese merchant was killed by a Filipino. following business quarrel
 Nearly a thousand Chinese stores were closed today fearing further clashes. The closing it was feared if continued would work a harship on the poorer classes of Filipinos who daily buy their supplies in small quantities from those stores. Chinese transact a large percentage of the business throughout the islands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
CONVICT PAROLED
 TO AID HIS WIFE
Mother Of Triplets Is Found To
 Be PenniIess

MESQUITE, Texas, Oct. 2O.-Rob- ert Hall, 21, sentenced to prison for murder last May, was expected to leave rhe penitentiary at Huntsville under parole and unguarded return to his home, wife and three children. One of the latter dead, here today. Triplets were born to Mir. Hall Saturday. One died last night. Mrs. Hall is penni- less. Judge J. +. McCulloch telephoned Acting Governor Davidson of the fam ily's plight and the parole was granted.
 Hall was convicted of killing Win field Knox, IT, member of a party of youngsters, which on New Years Eve, 1922, ticktacked Halls home. Hall fired into the party with shotgun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
PLAN SUGGESTED TO PROVIDE COPS ADDITIONAL PAY Would Grant Exclusive Rights For Annual
 Fee To City MATTER SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY MEET Rentals Would Average From $5 To $10 Yearly,
 Wilkinson Says

Renewing the fight of po- licemsn and firemen for an additional salary increase of S5 and serving notice that un- less they get it, a city-wide ref erendum on a proposal to amend the 1925 budget will be forced, Judge Horace c. Wilk- inson of the civil service board Monday suggested to members of tEe city commission several ways to find the needed reVe- nue, one of which is a plan to prohibit parking in the loop area except by automobile owners who pay the city $5 or $1O a year for parking per mits.
 The commission agreed to grant Judge Wilkinson, to- gether with committees of uni formed men and a number of citizens, a full hearing Friday morning.
 Wilkinson told the commission that the policemen and firemen are dissatis- fled with the $10 increase voted them last week, and that the extra $5 would mean meat and bread" to many of the members. Other revenue raising plans .he suggested called. for the collection aDf additional fees as recorders court Et0sts. or an upward revision of the business license schedule.
 'If you Commissioners really want to help the cops and firemen," Wilkin- son declared, you can find the money. The men need it and must have it. An additional $00 per year would amount to the cost of the two uniforms they have to buy annually. A city without adequate fire and police protection is going to suffer, and the police and fire departments should have the first claim on municipal revenues"
 s To $1O Yearly
 Wilkinson, in discussing his parking permit plan, said the commission could mark off parking spaces in the loop, which embraces all territory between Eighteenth and Twenty-second streets and between the railroad tracks and Fifth avenue, and sell exclusive park ing privileges in the spaces for $5 or $10 per year.
 T believe this plan would be abso- lutely legal,' said Wilkinson. "The commission has right to prohibit park ing if it wants to, and therefore, has the further right to allow parking un- der such regulations as it may promul- gate. Autoists, in my opinion, would be glad to pay a nominal fee for a per- init. The spaces in the loop could be marked off and numbered, and placards, also numbered, could be fur nished the holders of permits to be placed on their cars."
 Judge Wilkinson estimated that it will take $36,000 to provide the addi- tional increases. Of this amount, ST. GOO would go for the policemen and $19,0O0 for the firemen.
 We wouldn't be here asking for this
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
VICTIMS OF BLAST RUSHED TO NORFOLK
Exact Cause Of Explosion Is Yet To Be De-
 termined
BIRMINGHAM SAILOR ESCAPES UNINJURED
U. s. Trenton Recently Brought Body Of Major Imbrie Back
 From Persia
lBy Associated Pressl

NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 20.- Four men, one of them an en- sign, were killed and IS were injured in an explosion late today aboard the scout cruiser Trenton while at target prac- tice off the Virginia Capes- So great was the explosion that an access door at the rear of the turret was opened and four men were blown over board. One, terribly burned, never came to the surface.
 The dead, whose names were not made public by navy off cials here for nearly eight hours after the accident be cause of the cars in checking the ships list and the delay in transmission from the Tren- to nanchored in Hampton Roads, were:
 
 Ennsign Henry Clay Drexler, Sussex Beach, Del.
 Rowland Philip Hanson. sea. man, first class, Soldier. Iowa.
 William Alfred Walker, seaman, first class.
 Bernard Beverly Bryan, seaman, second class, Bristol, Conn.
 
 Hams, South Easton, Mass.
 George R. Cholister, 2722 Lincoln Avenue, Camden, N. J.
 F. B. Jeffrey, 135 Belledue Road, Lynn, Mass.
 Mervin Seamon. 596 Eightieth street. Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Severely injured; George Luker, Joseph Cohen, 246 Monroe street, c. J. Gaffney, 19s Ainsle street, Brooklyn.
 Edgar John Ivey, Huntsville, Ala. R. E. Bunker, 12 Maple Avenue, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y. John Upzolini, 77 Adams street, New ark, N. J.
 Slightly injured: Lieut.. Sedwick, York Village, Maine.
 T. H. Bailey, 461 West Front street, Erie, Pa.
 CalmOn Colby White, JOnesborO, Joseph Leo White. 2737 South Beu- lah street, Philadelphia.
 Sterling. 45 Leonard street, Port Chester, Conn.
 While the Trenton reported IS in- jUred, only 16 names were carried in the official list. Navy officers said the others two probably were only slightly hurt.
 Among the injured four were listed as critically burned and seven as seriously
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
BUTLER ATTACKS
 DAYS STATEMENT
Democrats And Independents
 Accused Of Combining

CHICAGO, Oct. 2O.-Chairman Will liam M. Butler of the republican na- tiOnal committee issued another state ment today attacking what he termed a combination on the part of democrats and independents to force the presi- dential election into congress.
 After opening with the assertion that "there exists in certain sections of the country a conspiracy to deprive the people of the right to select their own president" the state said:
 'The democratic presidential nominee at Nashville, Tenn, yesterday made the bold claim that the third party candi- date will carry six or eight states. He does not name them. But he displays his keen interest in such contin- gency,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
LAWMAKERS FACE
 FINE IN NEW YORK
Pedestrians Must Observe All
 Laws Of Traffic

NEW YORK, Oct 2O.-JapwaIkers will be subject to arrest and fine under regulations which Police Commissioner Enright said today he hoped to make effective within six weeks.
 Pedestrian traffic would be guided by the laws for motor vehicles, keeping to the right and moving at the corner by policemen's orders.
 Pedestrian traffic control was decided upon after every other means had been considered and discarded, the commits sinner said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
THREE MEN HURT
 INV TRAIN WRECK

ALTOONA, Pa, Oct. 2O.-Three persons were injured seriously when the Commercial Express of the Penn sylvania railroad was derailed at Long, fellow today, railroad officials here an- nounced. They are:
 Judge Thomas F. Bailey, of Hunting don, Pa; Nal H. NeuVhal, well knowi Altoona business man and A. J. Pen rod, of Swissdale. They were removed to a LewistOwn hospital.
 While all the passengers on the train were shaken up only a few re- quired medical attention, railroad of ficials said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
TRUSTEES TO ACT
 ON STUDENT STRIKE
Petition Will Be Presented Ask
 ing Reinstatement
(By Associated Press.l ]

CLEMSON. COLLEGE, S. C., Oct. 20.-Trustees of Clemson College met here tonight to consider action in con nection with the so-called strike of a portion of student body last week. It was understood that petition from the student body will be presented seek ing re-statement of students who left the campus.
 The petition, it is said, will also request that a matron be installei as part of the comlement of college of ficials.
 Although approximately 800 students left the campus, most of them have returned, it is announced and the ab- sentees are now placed at less than fifty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Fair Tuesday and Wed. neslay; cooler Wednesday and in north portion Tuesday.
 Mississippi: Fair.
 Georgia: Generally fair.
 Tennessee; Fair. (C0mplete weather data will be found on Page tS.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
DIES OF INJuRIES

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 2O.-Mrs. and build, so must the style-mOdels they Shirley Sims. of Oxford, Miss, died in local hospital today from injuries received October IT when an automo- bile in which she was riding collided with a wagon near Luxora, Miss. A shaft of the wagon struck Mrs. Sims over the heart, inflicting internal in- iuries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
MRS. FLEsCHMANN WEEDS
  Former Mayors Wife Is Married In Paris

PARIS, Oct. 20.-Mrs. Julius Flesch- mann, who divorced her husband, for mer mayor of Cincinnati in July, was married today at the city hall of the sixteenth ward to Jay O'Brien, The ceremony was an extremely quiet one. The only witnesses were Mir. and Mrs. George Burnham Squires. MT. and Mrs. O'Brien soon left for London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
ENSIGN KILLED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-Ensign William A. Engemans of Bennington
 N. J., was killed when his seaplane crashed in Pensacola Bay, Florida, to- day, the navy department was advised tonight. The body was recovered. He was a pilot of the student class of 1921
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
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