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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
MONTGOMERY MAY|
 GET GAS RATE CUT
Alabama Power Company Cited To Show Reasonable
 ness Of Present Charge
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU |
 THE AGE-HERALD Montgomery, Ala, Jan. l4

Revision of gas rates In Montgom- cry loomed as a possibility when the Alabama public service commission issred an order at noon Monday summoning the Alabama Power company to its offices in the capitol at 9:3o o'clock on the morning oi Wednesday February for an inves- .igation of the reasonableness of the present. charges. N
 Under the order of the commission, not only the respondent, but also any other person interested, Is entitled to appear on that date and be heard Copies of the order will be issued to respondent corporations and to the mayor of Montgomery at least ten days prior to the hearing.
 It is further ordered by the com concluded the commission shall fix and order such rates service reguia- tions, classification, practices or service for respondent in the matter of it's gas utility operation at Mont gomery as the commission shall de- termine to be just and reasonable in accordance with the statutes made and provided.
 The commission last March read justed these rates in Montgomery. the most important changes being the installation of a minimum charge of $2, and a meter rate of s1 per 1000 cubic feet. Before this order Of March, 1923, the meter rate for gas in Montgomery was $2 per thousand cubic feet, said to be one of the highest rates in the United States. A member of the public service com mission stated Monday that the et- feet of the rates promulgated, last March was to reduce the bills ot consumers using over 2.000 cl bic feet of gas a month and to increase the bills of those using less than 1000 cubic feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
sOME COMPENsATTON

Your little brother Is rather bow legged?"
 "Yes. if 1t wasn't that he's very cross-eyed too. he wouldn't be able eo, keep his balance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15

State and local road construction is going ahead at the rate of more than 10000. miles per year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
STATION IMPROVED
about $5O,0O0.
 POSTAL PLANS DANGLING

Speculation is rife as to who will get the post office plums. soon to be awarded in Fort Payne and Collins Vile. Receipt of applications for the postmastership here closed December q and an open competitive examina- tion for postmaster at Collinsville was held. on January s. There are said to be about a dozen applicants for each position, both of which will be vacant on February II. The new postmaster at Fort Payne will draw a salary of $2,500, while the Collins vile office pays $1,900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
GIVES DEM0xsHRAYHox

County Farm Demonsru.AniiDn Agent c. E. Stapp Monday gawe a ternaeilnG and orchard pruning dHmens1uafhen at Happy Fdin. In the ahternDEm h8 talked on fertiiizers and sDHIls att ulhe request of 8 number S0f ERrmRrS adr the community
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
ENTERS JUDGES, RACE

R. B. Carr of Anniston filed Mon- day with the secretary of state hls announcement as candidate for. the democratic nomination to the judge ship of the Seventh circuit, subject to the action of the primary of the second Tuesday in May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
DR. MURRHREE EI ALABAMA NATIVE.
Rryan's choiee For President Was Born h Bloumt.
 Reared In EtOsuah
GADsDEE DUkEAU \
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 Dr. Albert Murphree, manned as William Jennings Buyans spurhern candidate for president. fs am Ala bamian. He wRs born i'm Balaunr county, just across u]he Euowah csnn- ty line, but was resrea i'm Ea1wah. His father was a prusperDus rltanuar and merchant mt wannut Grwwe i'm the western end of thfs cpnnuy 6lDr many years. nr. Mnrphree HssnR4isesd his educatipn Ihere and Ra1ar grad- uated from the Peabody Hnsniumte and went from there to Cllelburme,. Texas, where he taught in ulhe hifh ssehsoa f'pr one year. From there he went to Naa- .ahassee, Fla. where he was ufsHngfc fled with the FfDriifa WGmams cDa- lege until he was elscfed Hre4sdenu of the Uniwersfty of F1Orit1fR 2bDuu 12 years ago. Attorney Malftar IT. Murphree and county helnn1h GdaHrHr pr. c. B. Murphree O6 Gaafsfen are his brothers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
MAsoys TO MEE.T

The semi-annunl MAsDntr eam- ference for Etowah county whln be held at the Masonic uemple fn GsRttsB- den Wednesday, and TihnrBfRy 0f thits week. Seven lodges Df tihe e,psmnuB win be represented. IT. E. CsHIbersEn. master of the Gadsaen 1Ddge, wf1l preside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
LIGHT RATEs,. IN.
 FORT PAYNE GUT.
Company Makes Voluntary Reduction-NeW Plant Is
 About Ready

FORT PAYNE, Ala, Jan. It. Special. )-Consumers of electricity in Fort Payne will receive substan- tial cut in their bills for January and the following months. according to announcement made here this week by the Fort Payne Light and Pow CT company. A voluntary reduction from 15 to 1914 cents per kilowatt has been made by the company. ef- fective from January 1 and still lower rates are in effect for com- mercial electricity. In commenting ager and owner of the utility, stated that the large volume of business and the new water power plant soon to be opened at DeSota Falls had made the reduction pos. sibIe and that\he was glad to pass 1t on to the consumers voluntarily.
 Machinery Is now being installed at the DeSoto plant and within a few weeks several thousand horse- power will be generated there, mak- ing 1t unnecessary to operate the steam and crude oil units in Fort Payne except during the low water period of the summer months and in emergencies. These plants will be kept intact ready for instant use power from three distinct methods. STATION IMPROVED
 A number of improvements at the passenger station of the Southern Railway in Fort Payne are being con- templated. The Civitan club now has the matter of constructing 8 large shed over the tracks up with the railroad company and the city council is planning local laws regu- lating taxicabs and setting aside a public stand for their use. It is un- derstood that the railroad company is also planning to beautify the sta- tion grounds with the coming of the spring months and it is planned to make the local station one of the most attractive on the entire South. ern system. The station is already one of the handsomest small stations in the south, being constructed of sand stone and it Is saic to have cost about $50. 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-15
o,REAR-wOODLEY

A com munity sing was held at Cor dova Sunday under the auspices o1 the Cordova Nazarine church. Mrs W. P. Gurganous of Jefferson county was the leader. It was held in the Indian Head hall. A large crowd at tended this sing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
KHAN APPLAUSE |HALTS TESTIMONY
 AT RIOT TRIAL
Judge Clears Courtroom. No Theater' He
 Says

EBENSBURG, Pa, June 1O.-The first sensation in the trial of A men on riot charges growing out of the Ku- Klux Klan demonstration at Lilly, came this afternoon when Judge Thomas B. Finletter ordered tipstaffs to clear the court room following a tumultuous demonstration when George A. Marks, witness said he had been a K. K. K. all his life.
 When he took the stand counsel for the state asked:
 Do you belong to the Ku Klux Klan?"
 "Yes sir," Marks replied.'T have been klansman since was born"
 As though touched off by the press ing of an electric button whistles and cheers, handclapping and stamping of throughout the crowded courtroom.
 The court pounded with his gayel for order and instructed the bailiffs to clear the room of the demonstrators, adding:
 No Theater
 "This is no theatre"
 More than 150 men and women and a few children slowly left while court proceedings wers brought to stand- still.
 J.. D. McBroom of Gerry, one of a number of persons injured in the clash testified he fell in at the head of crowd of men, women and children and heard a number of girls yell 7
 Boys, get your guns and kill them"
 At another point in his testimony he declared he heard cries:
 "Hurrah for the klansmen."
 Was Attacked
 Finally, noting that he was a stranger, he said several men in the crowd attacked him. They struck him with clubs and one man placed a gun against his breast and threatened to kill him. Tn a tussle McBroom said he gained possession of the gun and tried to fire on his assailants, but the gun jammed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
WITHLONDEN OUT. TIDE IS TURNING HARBORD'S WAY
Hoover And Curtis Also Advanced Into Strong
 CT Positions

CLEVELAND, June 10.--Frank o. Lowden has succeeded in eliminating himself from serious consideration for the vice presidential nomination and as a result the party leaders are making a determined eleventh hodr effort to agree on a running mate for President Coolidge.
 The immediate result of Mir. Lowden's s removal from his place at the head of the long list of possibilities was to ad- vance into new positions of prominence the candidates of James G. Harbord, a former deputy chief of staff of. the army and now head of the Radio Cor poration of America; Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and Charles Curtis of Kansas, republican whip of the Senate.
 In addition, several of the originally discussed possibilities, including Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, were given a new boost in the hope that with q broken field there might be dark horse selection.
 Two Conferences Held
 The whole situation was discussed for nearly three hours late in the day at a conference in the quarters of Sec retary Weeks, attended by most of the members of President Coolidge's cabinet who are here. leaders of the Senate and House and chiefs of several state dele gations. Another discussion of the same matter took place in the suite of Frank w. Stearns, personal representative of President Coolidge, and several pow VOWS took place >tonight.>
 The last hope of those who had been virtually hoping against hope for two days that former Governor Lowden might reconsider his declaration of Sunday that he would not accept the nomination went glimmering today when a sealed letter arrived from the former Illinois governor with instructions that it be opened and read should his name be presented to the convention. It be- came known that the letter was flat notice of declination.
 <HarbOrd Tide Rising
 A rising tide for General Harbord became noticeable after the conference and after delegates to the convention which are members of the American Legion had indorsed the leader of the marine brigade at Belleau Wood. It lacked definiteness, however, because many of the delegations remained to be sounded out.
 Participating in the conference in Mir. Weeks quarters were Secretaries Mellon and Wilbur, Postmaster General New, c. Bascom Slemp, President Cool idge's secretary; James w. Good, west ern Coolidge manager; Assistant Sec retary Roosevelt, Senator Reed of Penn sylvania, Representative LongwOrth of Ohio, Senator Wadsworth and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
COTTON EXPERTS
 TO MEET MONDAY
To Prepare Key Standards To
 Use In Settling Disputes

WASHINGTON, June 10. = Euro pean and American cotton exports will meet here next Monday at the invita- tion of the department of agriculture and prepare "key" sets of the universal cotton standards for use in deciding all disputes. One set will be placed in reserve in the vaults of the Bank of England, and another in vaults here.
 Each European cotton exchange maintaining an arbitration board will receive a ''key" set as will exchanges at the 10 designated spot markets and the principal arbitration committees in this country, and the New York cotton exchange. Representatives of the Euro pean exchanges will include Liverpool, Manchester and Bremen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
KIN OF R. E. LEE
 MAY BREAK WILL
Mind Of Mrs. Wertheimer Enfeebled By Liquor
 Is Claim

MILFORD, Pa, June 1O.-Testi- mony that she was suffering from chronic alcoholism when she signed her will August 3, 1916, today was being given In behalf of relatives ofs Mrs. Mary Lee Wortheimer, widow of Ar cher Harmon and wife of Leo W. Wertheimer, New York lawyer, who filed a petition in the Pike county or phans court requesting that letters testamentary be granted Wertheimer be revoked. The petition alleges that 15 years excessive use of intoxicants enfeebled her mind and, that her hus- band used undue influence over her. Mrs. Kertheimer died March 13, 1923.
 The contestants claim kinship with General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Army of the Confectionery, and were related to Mrs. Wertheimer as follows {: John Nj. Lee, Greenville, Miss, half brother; John s. Lee, Durant, Miss, half nephew; Carrie $. Lee, Memphis, Tenn, half niece; Sarah B. Ford, Memphis, half niece; and William H. Lee, Jacksonville, Fla, half nephew.
 Estate Left to Husband
 Mrs. Wertheimer, who left her en- tire estate to her husband and appoint ed him her executor, traced her line age direct to General Lees father, Light Horse Harry" Lee of Revolu- tionary fame. She was a native of Kentucky. Her first husband, Archer Harmon, was said to have accumulated more than a million dollars as a rail road builder.
 Witnesses at the hearing yesterday included Dr. R. G. Barckley of Mil ford and Dr. Cobe of Port Jarvis, N. Y, who attended Mrs. Wertheimer for some time prior to her death, and Will liam H. Lee. Both physicians testi- fled their patient suffered from chronic alcoholism.
 Mir. and Mrs. Louis Chatillon, sub- scribing witnesses to the will, testified that they did not see Mrs. Wertheimer sign her name to the paper which is being contested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

on the radio set installed in his home.
 Mir. Coolidge did try out the set for few minutes after the scheduled opening of the convention but the friends who operated the contrivance for him could not 'get" Cleveland at all.
 I've had several invitations" {" MT. Coolidge stopped his narrowing long enough to say. One was to go to Washington en route to Cleve- land and to see my grandson grad uate at Mercersburg, Pa. But there is too much to do here and I shan't accept any of these. invitations
 The father of the President put the reins about his shoulders chuck ed to his horse and went on with his narrowing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
John Coolidge Too Busy
 To Attend Contention

, PLYMOUTH, Vt, June 10.--(By the Associated Press. )-The spring planting is the farmers first duty, according to John c. Coolidge, the Presidents s father, who said today he had refused an invitation to the re- publican convention in Cleveland. The invitation was received this morning from the republican na- tional committee.
 Telegram received, thanks" his answering wire read. T cannot see my way clear to go to the. conven- tion."
 The farming had been backward, Mir. Coolidge said. He had his oats and wheat and grass seed planted, but the potatoes must go in next. He was busy all morning with the harrow and he doubted whether he would even have time to listen in"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
SEEK TO ENJOIN
 CHURCH OFFICERS
Petition Filed Against Christian
 Science Directors

BOSTON. June 1O.-A petition ask ing that the board of directors of the Christian Science church be temporar- fly enjoined from holding hearings to- morrow on the standing of two mem. bers, William H. Taylor and Nellie H. Taylor of New York city, was heard by Judge Lowell in the United States district court today.
 The petitioners asserted that com plaints had been filed against them be- cause they were followers of Mrs. Au- gusta E. Stetson. They asked that the directors be ordered to furnish them with particulars as to why Mrs. Stet- sons teachings were, as alleged, ''con- trary to the tenets of the mother church"
 The plaintiffs said that the directors inteded unlawfully to take summary action to affect their membership in the church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
PHONED PHOTOS BEAT AIRPLANE BY MANY HOURS

AI1w YORK, June 10.-Pictures
 taken at the republican na-
 tional convention Tuesday at 12:30 (eastern daylight savin g tinel, were transmitted by telephone to New York and 25 copies were ready for distribution at 2:54 pm.
 The photographs were received by the American Telephone and Teie- graph company at 12 AZ, were trans mitted in five minutes actual send- ing time, and two hours and 34 minutes after they had been taken were ready for publication.
 An airplane bringing the same photographs was not due to arrive here until z pm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
GARDEN,O EDEN NOW CLAIMED
 FOR ALABAMA

TT UNTSvILLE, Ala, June 10. H Alabama now is laying claim
 to have the original Garden of Eden, and some evidence to sup port such an assertion has been ] discovered in the mountains near here. A rare wood, commonly called ..-chitum wood" has been discovered on the slopes near here.
 The only other place this wood has been discovered, local botan- ists say, is in the Holy Land. Ac- cording to tradition it was this same kind of wood from which the Ark of the Covenant was fash toned.
 It has been proposed that Ala bama include q sample of this wood in the exhibits at the South ern exposition in New York city next February.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
BOMB EXPERT HELD
Raid on Aparament of Japanese Dis
 closes Many Formulas

Hald on Aparament Of Japanese DlS'
 closes Many Formulas
 NEW YORK. June 10.-Dr. Asamu Terada, Japanese physician and ex. plosive expert, whose apartment was raided last night by police who said they found many formulas and dia- grams for making high explosives, to- day was being held in $500 bail on a charge of possessing a revolver in vie- lation of the Sullivan law, a state statute forbidding possession of con cealed weapons.
 Teranda, who said he was graduated from a medical college in Osaka, and studied at the Hopkins Medical college, denied that the formulas and diagrams were for construction of bombs. They had been written down in 1916, he said, and had no relation whatever to the Japanese exclusion act He explained that since he was inter ested in explosives. he naturally en- gagged at times in making formulas.
 He was arrested as a result of an anonymous letter received by police two weeks ago. Neighbors informed the police that an unusual number of Jap anese were visiting Dr. Terada's apart ment. After watching the place sev. eral days, police decided to investigate
 Dr. Terada waived examination when arraigned in a magistrates court and was held for trial in special sessions.
 Mrs. Ann Healy Terada, white wife of the doctor. said in an interview that she was "a patriotic American" She declared that her husbands diagrams had no harmful purpose, being merely the outcome of his studies, but sht added:
 If I were to talk it would merely fan the flames. Perhaps I will have something interesting to say later"
 Dr. Terada is Mrs. Terada's second husband. They have been married sever years and have on child. A child by Mrs, Terada's first husband, who wa. also Japanese, lives with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
TREASURY SURPLUS
 TO BE $35O,OOO,OO
Will Exceed Estimate Despite
 Cut In Tax Rate

WASHINGTON, June 9.-The gov ernment will close it's books for this year June 30, wIiE a surplus of be- tween $350,000,000 and $4O0,O0O, 900, Director Lord of the budget bureau today informed President Coolidge.
 The estimates, Director Lord said, took into account the p per cent re- duction in income taxes payable this year. Larger customs receipts and a greater return from miscellaneous in- ternal revenue taxes accounted for the increases over the estimated surplus of $329, 100000 which was counted on last November,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
and David Mulvansy republican na-

and David Mulvane, republican na- tional committeeman from Kansas.
 Some of those who were mentioned, in addition to General Harbord, Sena- tor Curtis, Secretary Hoover and Bev: eridge, were Judge Kenyon, Represen- tative Burton of Michigan. Representa- tive Sanders of Indiana, Charles G. Dawes and Governor Hyde of Missouri.
 The situation, it was agreed rather generally, had not reached the point where it was considered necessary to make a request of President Coolidge that he abandon his hands-off policy and indicate his choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

perience and history, and the people will surely repose their trust in those principles and in that party organiza- tion which has played so pre-eminent a part in the upbuilding of the nation and in the prosperity and happiness of all it's citizens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
KILLED OVER QUARTER

GRAFTON, \. D., June 1O.-After a dispute over difference of p cents in payment for a small painting iob Ole Dahlen shot and instantly killed Hakon Helgeson here yesterday and then fatally wounded himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
CABINET ANNOUNCED
New Japanese Government to Be IT
 augurated Today

TOXIC, June 10.-Personal of the new Japanese cabinet, headed by Wis count Takaski Kato, and composed of representatives of the three parties op- posing former Premier Kiyoura, was announced tonight. The new govern ment will be inaugurated tomorrow morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
HEADS RANKERS

FLORENCE, Ala, June 90. D, Kennemer, manager of the Tennessee Valley bank of Scottsboro, was elected president of the. Tennessee Valley Bankers association at it's annual meeting here. Miss Flora Gardiner, of Decatur, was named secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
TO-REMODEL SHTPS

WASHINGTON, June 10.-Imme- diate conversion of an initial group of F shipping board cargo vessels to Die sel propelled types is planned by the board. s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
SORDID MOTIVES SEEN IN ACTION
 OF TOXIC GANGS
Manufacturers Backing
 Boycott Move To Less en Competition

TOKYO, June 11.-(By Associated Press)-Three of the men who, on Saturday night, held demonstration at the Imperial hotel, breaking up a dance attended by Americans and other foreigners, as a protest against the American exclusion act were sentenced to three days in jail. Two others were fined ten yen each. They were charged with disturbing the peace.
The Winslow mail., 1924-12-19

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