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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
GERMAN SLAYER FORCE'TS NUMBER
 OF HIS VICTIMS
Hanover Excited Over Indifference Of Police
 Toward Case

HANOVER, Germany, July H. While popular indignation over the ale legged indifference of the police to the case of Frederick Haarmann, confessed mass murderer, is growing, the slayer himself is taking his situation with calmneSs and boise and is asking to be beheaded ms ] deserve to be-" Il don't remember the names of all my victims Haarmann told inter- viewers today. You see they came so fast that really did not have a good chance to get well-aequainted with them"
 Not Less Than Dozen
 He recalled having slain not less than dozen boys and young men and was quite certain there were many more whom he did not recall.
 As result of the alleged indifference of the police with respect to the in- quirieS of parents, whose sons are miss ing, a popular mass meeting was called at which the indictment was demanded of police Officials, who are believed to be in possession of accurate knowledge of Haarmann's wholesale butchery.
 Hundreds Inquire
 Hundreds of letters are arriving daily from all parts of Germany in which frantic parents report the suspicious dis appearance of members of their fam lilies and ask the police to search for possible traces of them among Haar- mann's belongings.
 The room in which the modern Giles de Retz" slaughtered his victims, is situated on the top story of q de- crepit tenement house facing the River Seine. The bodies of the slain per sons were thrown into this river, the bottom of which is now being dragged for further evidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
TREASURY TAKES SAVINGS STAMPS
 OFF THE MARKET
Rate Of Interest Paid Too High, Says Secretary
 Cannon

WASHINGTON, July 1.-The treasury today ordered suspended all sales of treasury savings certificates and stamps effective July 15. Acting Secretary Winston said the present money market did not warrant the treasury paying Az per cent interest on the savings securities when funds may be obtained at much lower interest.
 Further sale of the certificates, it was announced, will be held in abeyance until conditions have changed. Call money was quoted at 2 per cent in the New York market yesterday and it was recalled at the treasury that the last issue of treasury certificates of in- debtedness was floated at q rate of 2% per cent. The savings certificates bear Az percent compounded mi-annually over a period of five years.
 More than S4O0, ,O0O, 900 in treasury certificates now are outstanding. The first sales-in the form of war savings stamps-were made in 1918 but those have been retired and each subsequent year has seen new issue. Almost $100,000 of the issue of 1924 have been sold.
 Sale of the certificates was sus- pended in IS states last February 3 on account of the financial condition in some of the northwest sections. Obiec- tion then was raised to the federal gov ernment continuing to take money out of areas where banks ere failing a1.d conditions generally were regarded as poor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
HEARING COMES MONDAY
Injunction Seeks Prevention Of Isola.
 tiOn Of Fields

TUCON, Ariz., July 11.-Testimony in the injunction suit instituted by the cotton growers of Pima county againt tt the Arizona commission of agriculture and horticulture to prevent the destruc- tion of 1900 acres of growing cotton in the Rillito and Santa Cruz valleys, will be taken Monday at Prescott before a master in chancery appointed by the United States district court fo Ari- zona.
 The legal conflict had it's origin in an order issued by the state horticul- tural commission several months ago following the finding of seven isolated cases of infection by the Thuberia boil weevil, which entered the field from the Santa Catalina mountains several miles distant. This weevil, which is unlike the boil weevil that meraces the cot ton crops of Texas ant. the eastern states, has it's habitat in the wild cot ton of the Catalina mountains. Its habits are practi Silly unknown to en- tomologists and its propensity for adapting itself to cultivated cotton is also unknown
 Figuring on basis of profit received from last years cotton crop the farm CTS average agreed to accept $S5 an Snere as payment for their destroyed crop They decliLed to accept tEe states offer of $33.30 an acre and se- cured an interlocutory injunction in the federal court to prevent the de- Struction of their cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
FARM CONFEREES
 PLAN FEDERATION
Organization Similar To Labor
 Group Is Aim

ST. PAUL, Minn., July 11.-Al- though agreeing that farm relief legis- lation is necessary and that an organ ization similar in scope and power to the American Federation of Labor is needed to carry on it's work, members of the resolutions committee of the national conference of farm organiza- tion were unable to determine today how such central organization should be formulated.
 While the resolutions committee was in session several hundred delegates to the conference which opened a two-day session here today were meeting else where discussing different phases of the agricultural situation
 In the debate before the resolution committee of which William Hirth of Columbia, Mo-, is chairman, it was contended by several members that a central committee, formed of delegates from every state and representing all farm organizations should formulate any legislative action to be taken in the interests of agriculture.
 Some were opposed to this proposi- tion arguing that the central commit tee should be elected from the farm leaders and should act only in the ca pacity of mouthpiece for the organiza- tion now existing.
 Lack of cooperation among the ma. tional leaders has been charged by the farmers, according to Carl Gunder. san of Mitchell, s. D.
 If this conference is ever to ac. complish any definite action, all diff. ferences among the farm leaders should be immediately eradicated," he said We are on the right track and we must pull together"
 Defining the attitude which tn ( United States he saio, must adopt to, ward agricultural interests, Represent ative l.. J. Dickinson of Iowa, addres. ing the general conference stated that "the policy of this country must be ont of dual purposes-tO put agriculture on basis parallel with industry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
M'CHORD TO HEAR
 LUMBER RATE PLEA

On the plea of larger lumber firms of the district, represented by B. NJ. An gell,' traffic manager, Examiner Me Chord of the Interstate Commerce commission will hold hearing at the Chamber of Commerce Saturday @on lumber freight rates. Petitioners for the hearing ask annullment of the in crease on rates to the Huntington, w. Va, district which was granted carriers sometime ago, and then temporarily sus- pended pending the meeting here. Tap lines of the Mobile and Ohio Railway are affected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
ComingE Election To Test Country's ProgressiUisn1
Triangular Battle To Write Entirely New Chap
 ter In Political History, Says Clapper
goes forth at the moment to an able and and distinguished candidate. !

goes forth at the moment to an able and and distinguished candidate. \
 There is glee in the LaFollette camp and for good reasons--the Wisconsin senator has the lineup for which he has been praying. He has a straight out fight between two conflicting schools of economic and political thought. He is aligned against two conservatives, both men of spotless per sonal integrity, both men If ability, and both excellent representatives of the conservative school of thought. Like wise no one questions LaFollette's hon esty, his courage, or his capacity He is an excellent representative of the progressive school. So the fight mar rows down to battle over a political point of view uncluttered by personali- ties and red herrings.
 Predicts Tricks
 There will be an earnest effort by both of the old parties, especially by the democrats, to obscure this sharp line which marks the fundamental is- sue this year. There will ] all sorts of trick appeals to hold the progress sives in their regular grooves" But everyone will be reasonably well inform ed by next November, and the vote will reveal what proportion of the electo- rate desires to remain affiliated wit. the conservative view.
 Labor will go almost solid for La Toilette, according to all indications He will receive a heavy vote in the stricken agricultural districts, of the middle west in all probability. Both Coolidge and Davis will draw heavily in the business, professional and small salaried groups of the cities and in those agricultural sections which are of a more conservative tone.. s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
JAP MINISTER ON WAY HOME
 FOR CONFERENCE
Exclusion Not A Closed Matter, Hanihara
 Believes
By A., L. BRADFORD,

(By Leased Wire to Age-Heraio.J
 WASHINGTON, July 11.-Leaving Washington today, Masanao Hanihara, retiring Japanese ambassador here, re- turns to his country convinced that a more satisfactory disposition of the Jap anese immigration question must be arranged if trouble is to be avoided be- tween the two countries.
 Hanihara is not making any state ment for publication, but the serious ness with which the Japanese people re- gard the new American exclusion law is shown by the fact that the ambassa- dor is understood to believe that al- though the outward anti-American dem- onstrations in his country soon will end, such feeling on the part of the Japanese will continue under the sur face.
 Hanihara leaves w. ..ington later to- day. He goes direct to San Francisco where he will sail for Japan on board the Corea July IS. Officially, it is said, that Hanihara has not yet re- signed as ambassador and that he is returning to Japan on leave. However, the understanding here is that he probably vii! not return to Washing ton as ambassador.
 The future course of Japan in deal ing with the American question is ex- pected to be decided after conferences between Hanihara and the Tokyo gov ernment. It is believ; doubtful that any further important step will be taken by Japan before the electionI in this country but there is every indica- tion that Japan does not regard the question as a closed incideLt.
 The American government does re- gard the question as closed, showing what opposite attitudes are now main- tained by the two countries on this one disturbing factor between the two na fions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
FURTHER FUNDS
 FOUND MISSING
(Continued From First Page )

the $S70 receipt, but no receipt for the larger payment had been issued.
 Glasgow resigned at President Me Lendon's request shortly after the first shortage was uncovered early in the year. He has since been operating an insurance agency.
 Nothing but detailed and painstak- ing audit, conducted by an expert, will enable us to get at the bottom of things" McLendon said, in commenting on the new disclosures.
 "We will insist on a thorough audit, beginning immediately" Harrison and Dickson declared.
 The traction companys $5,969.39 voucher, investigation showed, was de- posted to credit of the city, but the company was never given credit for the amount.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
HUNTSVILLE MAN SUCCUMBS HERE
Dr. Howard B. BurwelI Dies
 After Four Weeks Illness

Dr. Howard B. Burwell, aged 43, of Huntsville, Ala, died at o'clock Friday night at the South Highlands infirmary, following critical illness of four weeks.
 The body will be sent to Huntsville, Ala, Saturday noon by RidOut. Flu neral services will be held at the resi- denee there Sunday afternoon.
 Dr. Burwell is survived by his widow ; one son, Bierne Burwell; mother, Mrs. Carrie D. Burwell, and brother, Ed win Burwell, of Huntsville, Ala.
 Before he began. the practice of med icine in Huntsville, Dr. Burwell was connected with the Alabama Fuel and Iron company at Margaret, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
BRITISH SQUADRON
 STARTS FOR CANAL
Round Of Entertainment Marks
 San Francisco Stay

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-The British special service squadron headed by H. NJ. S. Hood, the worlds greatest battleship, steamed from San Francisco harbor today after a four-day stay marked by round of entertainment. i
 The big British freighters started for for Panama Canal where the squadron will divide, the Hood, the battle cruiser Repulse and the Australian cruiser Adelaide, continuing through the Canal to Jamaica and the four light cruisers Dragon, Dauntless, Danae and Delhi, setting out for a trip around the Horn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
AUGUST 5 IS SET FOR GADSDEN COURT
Judge Crubb's Health, However,
 May Cause POstponement

United States district court will con- vene in Gadsden August 5 to try about 15 cases of that division of the north Alabama district, according to present plans as announced in the United States district attorneys office Friday. The docket. however, has not been set, and a jury has not yet been chosen, it was explained, because Federal Judge w. l. Grubb is in poor health, and postpone ment of the session may be necessary if his physicians forbid him to work. The cases to be tried are all violations of the national prohibition law, it was said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
IN THE AIR TODAY

(Copyright, 1924. The Age -Herald) IVY RC, Washington, 469 me WV ters, Tito Q p. m., D. 5. T. " Concert by 1.-the United States Army band. i,
 WIP. Philadelphia, 509 metres, [ to g D. m, F. s. T.-Comfort's Pnil- harmonic Orchestra and Veusaia 5 band. -
 -S3W, Chicago, 370 meters, 6 :5U D. m., to Il 80 0-Classic and popu- lar music, solos and orchestra.
 ESD, St. Louis, 546 meters, 5 p. m, c. s. T.-Missouri Theatre Dr. chestra and specialties.
 WEAF, New York, 492 meters, 10 D. m., E. s. T.-Semi-weekly program by Vincent Lopez and his orchestra.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
CAFE MAN FAILS
 TO PRESENT CASE
Greek Minister Not Informed Of
 GuntersviIle Outrage
Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, D. C.. July H. Martin Zukas, Guntersville restaurant proprietor, has made no complaint to Washington of treatment alleged to have been imposed upon him by the Ku Klux Klan, according to an official statement from the Greek legation to- day.
 Authorities at the legation expressed belief that Zukas, if he made any com plaint at all, addressed himself to the consulate at Atlanta.
 It is understood here that Zukas was abducted and ordered toIeave Gunters- vile by some unknown persons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
PAINT WAREHOUSE
 DESTROYED BY FIRE
Blazing Oils Give New Orleans
 Hottest Firx

NEW ORLEANS, July 1.-The Warehouse of the Utley Paint company, in North Miro street, was destroyed. with five double and two single resi- dences today, the flames having origi- mated in the warehouse. Two negroes were seriously burned. The fire, one of the hottest with which the local de- pertinent has had to cope in years be- cause of the burning of paints and oils. started while a negro laborer was stir ring a pot of boiling varnish. A can of naptha turpentine near the brazier exploded and the place almost instant ly became a blazing furnace. The oss had not been estimated early this aft ernoon,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
PRIVATE, 75, SEEKS
 WORLD WAR BONUS
Fooled Enlistment Officers He
 Explains Served Overseas

COLUMBUS, o. July 11.CIaim- ing to have been the oldest private to serve in the World war, George Wash ington Brooks has applied for disability compensation. Brooks is 75 years old.
 By convincing n recruiting officer that his age was AZ, Brooks enlisted in the army during the war when he was 68 years old. He served overseas and was wounded three times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
WOMAN HEADS MILL
Mrs. Bertha Sternberg To Succeed Her
 Husband

GREENSBORO, N. C., July H. Mrs. Bertha Sternberger, widow of E. Sternberger, who died May 27, was to- day chosen president of the Revolution Cotton Mills, this city, succeeding her husband. She is the first woman in the south, so far as is known, to be chosen head of big textile manufac- turing concern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
ELUDE CYCLONE

PRESTON, Minn., July 11.-Be- tween 45 and 30 persons, virtually the entire population of Airlie. six miles west of Pipestone, escaped serious in- juries or possibly death, when they packed into three automobiles and "eluded" small tornado which passed through the little town at 6 p. m., to- day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
RUSSIANS DEPLORE BOXING
Ring Game Is Degrading Sport, Say
 Communist Leaders

MOSCOW, July 11.-Boxing as a sport in Russia is in danger of disap- bearing. Several communist leaders have launched a campaign against pugilism, which they consider "a degrading sport" calculated to demoralize the Russian youth and the people. They propose absolute prohibition of professional box ing and public pugilistic encounters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
30 INJURED IN FIRE

MESSINA, Sicily, July 11.-Fire starting in a school here yesterday spread rapidly, destroyed a gymnasium, church, three houses and about 100 hutments Thirty sailors and firemen we're injured and 300 persons rendered homeless. The flames were mastered with difficulty by tiremen and soldiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
TYPHOID CASES INCREASE
ss4 Cases Of Fever Reported At Ha
 vapa, Cuba

HAVANA, July 11.-There are SS4 cases of typhoid fever in Havana to- day. according to figures compiled by the Secretary of Health, investigating IS new casese in the last 24 hours. Three persons died and three were dis charged as cured during. that time and 6.OS2 have been inoculated with anti-typhoid serum since the outbreak began some three weeks ago. Larger quantities of chlorine have been put in the city water for the last three days in an effort to kill the germs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
THE CRITIC
Where's dnddrg

ChiId-Where's daddy!
 Mother-Gone up to London, dear. to make money to buy us food every day.
 Child dissatisfied with meal)-He didn't make much yesterday, did he, num?-London Mail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
NIGHT FLIGHT LOSES THRILL

night flying of the air mail is taking much of the adventure OuI UI avl.., according to Charles Dickinson. presi- dent of the Aero Club of Illinois. The lighting system between Chicago ana Cheyenne, radio and other equipment has made night flying practically 100 per cent safe" he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
BARON scHwARzENsTEIN DIES

Once Held Germany Diplomatic Post
 At Tokyo
 BERLIN, July 11.-Baron Nfumm Won Schwarzenstein, former anbassa- dor to Tokyo, is dead on his Italian estate at Portofino, near Genoa. If you are woman, you'll want to know about The Woman's Realm watch The Sunday Age. Herald for the answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
GoMPERs IMPROVES

rLahor Head Receives Al Smith But
 Evades Politics
 NEW YORK, July 11.-Samuel Gompers, president of the Amreican Federation of Labor who has been con valescing here showed improvement late tonight, it was announced by his secre- tory w. c. Roberts. Governor Alfred E. Smith visited him during the after noon. Both said politics had not been discussed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
Join the Throl1g
 T O NIT E -. Edgewood Park

Special summer rates of $9.0O per day and up, Grove Park Inn; AshevilIe, N. C., finest resort hotel in the world; ; fireprOOf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12

If you arc . woman, you'll want to know about The WOman's Realnl-- watch The Sunday Age Herald for the answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12

If you are a woman, you'll want to know about The WOman's Realm watch The Sunday Age-Herald for the answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12

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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-02-28

ing all cotton Yet these figures show we only plant
ed IA per cent of our farms in cotton.
We are told must raise cows, hogs and hens,
sell to creameres and cheese factories our milk.
We do it and get 10 month cash for our milk and
spend $16 to feed the cow. DO cows pay?
We raise hogs, lots of Them and 100 pound hog
sells for Sc to 81 at the packing houses We must
feed - bushels Of corn to make 40 ind hog.
We hade II bushels to the acre at COS Of $18 an
acre SO we spend $18 to raise the to feed the
pig that we sell for ST. Do hogs pay?
We raise chickens 1t takes one bushel of corn or
its equivalent to raise chick II months. If we
raise our it costs us $3.50 a bushel-
though we can buy it for $125. We can sell the
hen for 75c to ST.. Do hens pay?
| The GAINESVILLE Agricultural College states it
costs them $4O.32 per acre to raise cotton Ny own
accounting shows my cost $50 an acre. Call it
average for the state of $50 an acre paying ST 25
a day for labor The State average yield was 50
pounds therefore cotton in 1923 cost 40c per pound
average. Over so per cent of the crop sold un-
der 30c and none this has sold for 40c Does
cotton pay?
Why doesn't all this product pay, like the pro-
duets OF the coal mine, the saw mill the steel mill
the cotton mill, the shoe factory the banks? Be-
cause all these organized and sell their products
at profitable prices. Does anybody believe that if
the railroad men, the carpenters the brcklayers the
coal miners, were not organized in binding unions
that any one of them could demand and get the wa
ges they re enjoying today? Then why ism it true
that the cause of the bankruptcy of the farmer is
individual selling and speculative pricing regardless
of costs of his products
The cotton farmers made more money with large
crops and 1Oc cotton than with small crops and soc
cotton. More liberal credits Lower freight Rates
Lower wages Of labor, won't put an additional dol
lar IN the farmers pocket Lower prices for the pro-
duets OF others won't help him. as he won have the
dollar to buy the Cheap things
min
at profit and he can pay high wages high freight
rates. and he won't need any liberal credits and he
can send his children to school and church and nav
his taxes and build good roads and ride in Ford
and we will all be happy
No man is well off unless his neighbors are also
well off,
For you 'City folks to accumulate money and
on credit build your big buildings and banks. while
the farmer works. produces and loses his home
means only short lived prosperity 1t can't en-
dure long with any one class of people getting more
than their share of the current produce. Your sal
Vation depends on building up the farmer to profit
able earnings and maximum production
Yours truly
Martin Amorous.