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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
MANY ARE SLAIN Escaped Vessel Brings Tale Of
 Wild Disorder

MOBILE, Ala, March 19.-Ihe nrSt detailed account of the recent revOlu- tionary disturbances in the republic of Honduras brought to the United States was obtained today when the Hon. duran steamer Ellis, operated by the United Fruit company, arrived in port after a sensational escape from the rebels who seized her and who now control all the Honduran ports.
 Captain w. H. Fagen, master of the Ellis, himself refused to divulge any information on the disturbances in the Central American republic because of the fact that his ship is a Honduran vessel. Information, however, was ob- tained that the revolution is proving the most serious of any Honduran revo- lutions in the last half century and has recently entailed tremendous loss of life and property.
 The situation was described in brief as follows:
 More than POO persons have so far been slain in the warfare.
 All the ports of the country, Tela Puerto Cortez, Puerto Castilla Geiba and the others, are in the hands of the rebels.
 The rebels are rapidly gaining con- trol over the entire country and already are in control of all the important cities.
 Tegucigalpa, the capital, has been half razed to the ground by fire as the result of fighting and rioting.
 The Ellis, which is owned by the United Fruit company, was seized by the rebels and held until the ship sue ceeded in making a sensational escape, by what means was not learned.
 Many Flee
 Refugees. including many of the fed eral officials, are fleeing to the port of BarriOs in Guatemala, and that city now contains several hundred natives of Honduras who have fled to escape the daily terrors in their native land
 It is presumed that the presence of one American gunboat and two de- stroyers along the Atlantic coast to protect American interests played some part in the escape of the fruiter. Since the vessel is owned by an American company and operating for them she could claim a certain amount of pro- lection from the American vessels al- though she flies the Honduran flag.
 The Ellis is the first ship seized by tuc TcDtlSy WHICH lS e4plhlUeu Dy IHe fact that she flies the Honduran flag. All the other ships sailing in and out of Honduran ports are under foreign flags and have so far been immune from trouble.
 Streets Lined With Dead
 The rebels have seized the banana wharf of the United Fruit company in Puerto Castilla, it was learned. Con siderable fighting has taken place in many of the ports, notably Ceiba, from where one refugee in Barrios came with the report that the streets were lined with the dead. Among the escapes made from Honduras was that of federal governor in the republic who succeed in reaching Barrios from San Pedro by a motor launch one night despite the fact that heavy gale was blowing and his launch was almost wrecked in the storm.
 The revolution is raging over the election of the president of the re- public, the rebels fighting to put their candidates in office.
 The Ellis will not return to a Hon. duran port, it was learned. She will operate out of Barrios until the present revolution subsidies,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
ENVOY HERRICK
 PROFITS INV FRANCS
French Paper Praises Action In
 Trusting Market

PARIS, March 19-"A foreign ann bassador, an old and tried friend of France, at the time when our franc was at the lowest and German hopes at the highest, threw $200,0O0 on the market in lump, buying the equivalent sum in francs" writes Stephane Lau- same in Le Matin, referring to Amer ican Ambassador Myron T. Herrick
 ''As it turns out, he has today real ized a profit of 1,50O,OOO francs and he will also be able to make his govern, ment, which has just bought an em- bassy building in Paris, sharer in the profits. The moral is that the franc brings luck to its friends, but plays sad tricks on those who fight it-Or who deny it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
WILL HAYS SUMMONED
 TO TELL OF COP. FUND
Walsh Hears That Sin clair Made Up
 1920 Deficit
tBy Leased Wire To Ase-Heraldl

OBy Leased Wire To AEe-Herald)
 WASHINGTON, March 19-Will H. Hays, former Postmaster General and former chairman of the republican national committee, was subpOenaed Wednesday night by Senator Walsh of the Senate public lands committee, and is expected to appear Saturday.
 The subpoena was issued after re- ports had been brought to Walsh that Sinclair of the Sinclair lessee of Tea pot Dome, contributed large block of stock to Hays and Attorney General Daugherty to wipe out the deficit in the republican campaign fund.
 The information appeared so well authenticated that Walsh immediately issued the subpoena. He did not di- vulge from whom or what source he received his information.
 When Hays appears he will also be asked regarding the rumor of an oil deal at the republican national conven- tion in 1920, and also as to whether he has become connected as an attorney with the Sinclair interests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
W. CAROLINA COP.
 FAVORS COOLIDGE
Harding Platform And Present
 Administration IndOrsed

RALEIGH, N. C., March 19.-North Carolina's delegation to the republican national convention was instructed for Calvin Coolidge by the state convention in session here late this afternoon. The delegation has a voting strength of 24
 John J. Parker of Charlotte was elected by the convention as national republican committeeman.
 The convention indorsed unequivO- cally the administration of the late President Harding in its platform and the administration of President Cool idge; went on record as favoring the Mellon plan of taxation; favored the repeal of all war taxes except those necessary to make provision for extra ordinary charges resulting from the war; approved a policy of restrictive immigration and bespoke a continuance of the tariff policy of the republican party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
DUST SOVIET ENVOY
China Alleges Insult In Recognition
 Ultimatum

LONDON, March 19.-The Chinese government has ordered the soviet en- voy in Peking, L. NJ, Karakhan, to quit China, says n dispatch to the Daily Mail from Picking.
 This action was taken, the dispatch adds, because NJ. Karakhans notes to the Chinese foreign office was insult ing, one of them amounting to an ulti- matum, it giving China three days to recognize the soviet government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
LARGE CITIES HELP
 SWELL MAJORITY
Completed Returns Assure Former Secretary Con-
 trOl Of Convention
ATLANTA BALLOT
 IS 1O,5O1 TO 2,S15
Underwood Carries Baldwin, MuscOgee And Twiggs
 Counties

ATLANTA, Ga. March 19.-(By the Associated Press)-William G. McAdoo's majority over Senator Oscar Underwood for the Georgia democratic presidential preference reached over whelming proportions shortly after Il o'clock tonight when returns had been received from all except seven of the 160 counties in the state.
 These gave McAdoo 22S certain and 89 additional votes indicated in the state convention, Underwood 51 cer- tain and IT indefinite indicated out of total of 412 convention votes.
 Ahead From Start
 The former secretary of the treasury took the lead in the first returns and gradually increased his advantage as additional counties reported. Early in the evening it was evident that he had swept the state as county after cOun- ty swung into his column.
 Atlanta, Macon, Savannah and Au- gusta helped to swell the McAdoo ma jority. He carried his home county of Cobb by big vote, captured the home county of the late Senator Thomas E. Watson by a small majority, according to incomplete newspaper returns, and took Chatham, the home of Senator Underwood's state campaign manager. The former secretary recently spoke in these four cities.
 Underwood Counties
 Senator Underwood carried Baldwin county, where McAdoo spent his boy hood at Milledgeville. Muscogee, in which Columbus is located. also went for the Alabamian. Twiggs county. which held primary some time ago, and declared for Underwood, again registered their choice for him today.
 One comparison of the popular vote was seen in Fulton, of which Atlanta is the county seat where in 2S out of the S6, precincts McAdoo received 1O.S 6O1 votes and Underwood 2,815.
 The election assumed the proportions of landslide for McAdoo. Counties in the northern part of the state re- ported for McAdoO early in the after noon and they were followed by others from all sections of Georgia.
 No accurate estimate of the popular vote can be obtained at this hour. Geor- gIa operates under the primary on the county unit plan. the candidate carry ing county getting the delegation to the state convention.
 The convention meets in Atlanta April 23 to elect delegates to the na- tiOnal convention in New York city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
GOAL EXCEEDED
 BY METHODISTS
Over Ten Million Dollars Sub
 scribed For Superannuates

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March 19.-Over subscription of the ten million dollar super-annuate fund of the Southern Methodist church, was announced here today by Dr. Luther E. Todd, secretary of the board of finance. The Memphis district of the Memphis conference, Dr. Todd said, had Oversubseribed it's $73,- O25 quota by $25,OOO. Churches in Kansas City and in West Virginia, Mis- sOuri. Kentucky. North Carolina. Ten nessee, California, Arizona and Okla homa were also reported as over sub scribing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
FRISCO VETERANS
 BUREAU PROBED
Investigation, Yet Unfinished,
 Involves Director Grant

WASHINGTON, March 19.-An in- vestigatiOn is being conducted into the administration of the district office of the Veterans Bureau at San Francisco in charge of Major Louis T. Grant, Director Hines announced today.
 The director said certain newspaper articles refleeting on the reputation of Grant in connection with alleged smuggling" operations had been looked into and that it had been found he had been given an unconditional par don" for certain Offenses.
 Emphasizing that he would reach no definite conclusions pending a thorough investigation of the situation, Mir. Hines said he was not disposed to act hastily in the matter because of favorable views toward Grants work held by the veterans organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
DEPUTY IS SHOT

PARTON SPRINGS, Fla. March 19.-Deputy Sheriff J. Wilburt Cooper was shot and instantly killed here shortly after midnight when an un- known person fired shotgun from the sidewalk through the front screen door of a cafe where Cooper and a dozen others were seated. Seven buckshot entered CoOper's head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
SPINE IS INJURED;
 VICTIM OF HAZERS
Twenty-Four Kansas High School
 Students Suspended

ATCHISON, Kas., March 19.-Ad- hitting to having hazed four freshmen Tuesday night, twenty-four upperclass- men of the high school here were sus- pended late Wednesday afternoon.
 An investigation by school authOri- ties disclosed that the "freshies" were man-handled Alfred Harwi, son of Frank Harwi, the president of the AtchisOn school board, and one of those hazed, was forced to remain in bed Wednesday. His spine is injured. The. other three students attended school in spite of their bruises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
MOB SEIZES NEGRO
 AND RIDDLES BODY
TruSty Taken From Officers As
 They Attempt Escape

CORDELE, Ga. March 19.-A mob of from 90 to 75 citizens last night fOrcibly took John Hays. negro trusty. from two guards and riddled his body with bullets after stringing him up to a tree at COney bridge. The officers were attempting to escape with Hays into Bibb county following his arrest on a charge of attempted attack upon the small daughter of Deputy Warden Henry Cox at the county farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
PRINCE KWACHO DEAD
Is Victim Of Epidemic Of Spinal
 Meningitis

TOKYO, March 19.-Prince Hiratada KwachO, head of one of the collateral branches of the imperial Japanese fam fly, died tonightcOf spinal meningitis.
 The prince was the fourth of his line and the second son of Prince Hiroysau Fushimi. He succeeded his father in the headship of the house when the elder man withdrew in 1904, although he then was but ? years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
DARDEN IS HEARD Tells Of Efforts To Gain FoOthold
 In Teapot Dome

WASHINGTON, March 19.-After lifting the lid of another box of rumors, those having to do with "oil deals" at the Chicago republican convention in 1920, the oil committee turned back today to the lease of Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair and the efforts of independents" to enforce claims there.
 The gossip about the Chicago con- vention was related to the Senate in vestigators by Tiffin Gilmore, deputy secretary of state of Ohio and sup porter of Major General Leonard Wood in the 1920 campaign. He stated that he had no first hand information about the gossip" with which he asserted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
RECOVER AIRMENs BODIES
Crew Of Burned Dirigible Found
 In Iananese Forest

TOXIC, March 19.-The bodies of all the crew of the SS dirigible which caught fire and burned today in north east Japan, were recovered tonight. The body of the commander was found in the wreckage of the craft earlier and tonight the remains of the four members of the crew were recovered.
 Apparently they jumped from the burning craft as it plunged downward into a forest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Rain, followed by clear ing and cooler Thursday; Friday fair.
 Georgia: Rain Thursday. Tennessee: Rain Thursday.
 Mississippi: Rain and cooler Thursday.
 (COmplete weather data will be found on Page 1O.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
DORMITORY BURNED
$50 900 Damage Done At Kansas Negro
 University

KANSAS CITY, March 19.-The Four-story dormitory of Western uni versity, largest negro school in this part of the country, was partly de strOyed by fire early today with a loss estimated at $S0,OOO.
 All of the 1O2 boy students asleep in the building escaped without injury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
SHOOTS IN DELIRIUM
Tennessee Postmaster Kills Himself
 While III

] SHELBYVILLE, Tenn, March 10. Allen Stallings. 67. postmaster at Unionyille, this county. for several years, while deliriOus from an attack of pneumonia, shot himself through the head with a pistol. which was kept under his pillow, late Tuesday. Death was instantaneous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
Ne1t Saturday Is Gift Day
 At s6W0nt-Ad" Corner

Martha Washington candy needs introduction in Br mngham. It is everywhere synonymous with purity and quality and the hundreds and hundreds of people who have sampled it at Want Ad Corner during the past few weeks agreed that certainly lives it's Every Saturday for the past several weeks hundreds of people have by The AgeHerald office to leave their Want Ads and their FREE box of this favorite  Next Saturday The Age-Herad will again give Martha Washington candy FREE with every want ad brought Want Ad Corner Second avenue and Twentyfirst for The Sunday AgeHerald and paid for the time of insertion. There will be full hafpound box for every fresh from the factory, consisting of the highest quail ity of fruits and There hun dreds of ways in which AgeIerald Want Ads you Write the things you have for sae rent swap that you buy into attractive ads and bring them in to downtown office Satur- day-vvith every ad half pound of candy abso- lutely FREE Look for the sign. Want Ads at the main entrance of The AgeHerald Building and turn in the first office to the right-no steps climb and no long walks.
 Main 1900
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-20
GIVEN LIFE TERM
Kentucky Woman Convicted Of Poison,
 ing Daughter

LAWRENCEBURG, Ky, March 19. Mrs. Fannie Tipton, 56, charged with the murder by poisoning of her daughter-in-law Mrs. Jessie Thomas Tipton, IS, bride of a month, was found guilty by a circuit court jury here tonight. Punishment was fixed at life Imprisonment.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-22
BRAZIL ASKS INSPECTION
 OF HER NATURAL WEALTH
South American Country Invites Brit ish Mission of Financial and
 Economic Experts

Rio De Janeiro, Feb. 22.-For the purpose of promoting more favor able opinion than Brazil at present enjoys in foreign financial circles, the government has invited British mission of financial and economic ex- perts to visit this country.
 The uneasiness over the Brazilian financial situation, as indicated by low quotations on Brazilian bonds and falling exchange. in the opinion of the Brazilian government. is not justified by the economic conditions and vast resources of the country.
 The foreign mission was invited to enable first hand investigation by ex- perts chosen by the foreign investors themselves. It is the confident belief of government officials that when the true conditions are thus reported to the foreign money markets, confidence in Brazil and it's future will be restor- ed.
 \ British mission was chosen be- cause British capital predominates in foreign investments in Brazil.
 One of the semi official declarations concerning the visiting mission esti- mated Brazls total production this trial, at 100000 contos of reis, or slightly more than one billion dollars at tho present exchange.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-22
DECLARES
 QUAkES POSSIBLE
Says Earthquakes Have Been
 Forecasted and Mill Be m Future

Santa Clara, Cal, Feb. e2.-Earth- quakes not only Kill be predicted in the future. but actually have been forecast in the past, said Father Jerome s. Ricard, s. J., director of the University of Santa Clara obserya- tory, in answer to an assertion made in Washington recently by Dr. Thomas A. Jagger, Jr., government scientist, that continued study of seismological data will enable scientists to send out warnings of the approach of tremb- lors.
 Father Ricard. noted as weather prophet. is known as 'the Padre of the Rains and his theory of the re- lation of sun-spots to the weather has attracted wide attention.
 Earthquakes" he contended. were first predicted by Marchand, French man, 25 years ago, by means of sum- spots. Unfortunately he died with out perfecting his system. and as us- ual his idea was greatly ridiculed.
 ''We took up the same idea here at Santa Clara and tested it until 1914. Our findings were that a sun-spot crossing the central meridian, or hap pening in the vicinity, east or west al- way synchronized with accounts of earthquakes somewhere on the globe given out by the press. Professor AL bert Porta, of this observatory, became inbued with the findings and con- tinued the study until his death last year,
 IDap Sa's al ,nJ Father Ricard to resume the study or predicting earthquakes.
 Of the attitude Of the public and even of the scientific world toward the theory advanced by Marchand, the I"snit astronomer said: Tt is hard for the layman, professed physicist though he be, to sec Il casual nexus. or connection, between sun-spots and earthquakes. or sun-spots and weath- CT. But this proves only the limita- tion of the human mind and its great ignorance even among scientists
 According to Father Ricard, Mar chand was not the only astronomer to hss l.ae ieIat.on between earthauakes and sun-spots. Some time before 1900 Hugh Clements in London held ffmly that earthquakes were caused by the joint action of the sun and the moon On this idea Clements explained the great earthquakes, particularly the disastrous Lisbon tremblor.
 Father Picard also announced that he had begun tho study of the possi- ble relation of the moon to tho dircc- lion of storms. If 1t is found. he ex- plained. that the moon has influence on atmospheric tides capable Of in. ,lucing barometric rises and falls along certain lines Of tho earth. the new study should aid in long-range fore casting.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-22

public mind is troubled, perplexed, excited. There is general want of confidence and corresponding un- rest. The depression will not last. Hope will revive and confidence eventually return but not as a result of the lowering of our standards.
 Many prate of service of democra- cy, and in the name of this much abused shibboleth, would seek to popularize all learning by relaxing the tests of toll and ,self-denial; but if we believe in democracy and do not wish to exploit it we should resist such proposals as the greatest dis service to democracy that could pos sibly be rendered. Democracy will justify the faith of its true believers by it's striyings for better and higher things
 Dr. Moore declared that the tend ency in education was away from the over emphasis which, for the last quarter of century, has been placed upon the physical sciences, and back toward the classics. He defended the value of the ancient languages parti- cularly Latin and Greek.
 The speaker referred to the popu- larity of the radio as an example of the tendency in certain quarters to popularize things of transitory inter- est as opposed to the more permanent values of cultural education.
 Its efficiency in the transmission of sound for purposes of instruction and amusement is evident" he said. but if applying the test of relatiyity, We undertake to estimate its value in imparting useful knowledge in raising ideals, in stimulating and eleyating the conception of public service and in otherwise ministering to mans spiritual needs, it is by no means clear that the quick broadcasting of sound is necessarily to have an advantage over earlier and less speedy methods"
New Britain herald., 1924-02-22
PRESENTATIONS WAYS.
 NOT IMPROVED UPON.
Present Generation Adds Little,
 John Bassett Moore Says

Philadelphia, Feb. 29.-The present generation is not improving upon the precedents established in the years made illustrious by the achievements Of Washington and his contem- poraries, said John Bassett Moore in an address at the University of Penn sylvania Washington Birthday eNer- eises today.
 Dr. Moore, who is Vhe only Ameri- can member of the permanent court of international justice was one of six to receive honorary degrees from the university today. He received the degree of ILL. D. A similar degree was given to Judge Charles NJ. Hough of the United States court in New York and Richard F. Mellon, banker or Pittsburgh, President Frank Aydelotte. of Swarthmore college and President John H. MacCracken Lafay- cite college were recipients of the de- gree Of doctor of letters, and Clarence II. Fisher, director of the uniyersitys expeditions to Egypt and Palestine, received the degree of doctor Of science.
 Dr. Moore after pointing out Washington's achievements in the in- ternational sphere, said that if arbi- tral agreements arc made today there is q disposition to hedge them about with limitations and to emasculate them with exceptions and if. the award is against us. to question its justice or even it's validity"
 such things said Dr. Moore. may imply either q change Of attitude towards tho method or want Of in the administration or like. certain popular comnstibles, blend Of both. But. no matter which t may be. tho explanation reflects state of mind just now prevalent and by no means confined 10 any particu- lar subject.
 Probably no one within the sound of my voice is altogether satisfied with conditions as they exist. The
New Britain herald., 1924-02-22
BOY IN TOLLS. SEEKS DEATH.
Arrested and Lecturcd at Fathers
 Request, He Drinks Poison.

Albany. N. r.. Feb. a2.-After be- ing arrested and lectured in police court at his fathers request, Ray mond Sharpe, r years old, of Rens- selaer. yesterday drank quantity of poison and was taken to q hospital. The police said Sharpe told them he took the poison because "he couldn't get along"
 Early today the youth walked into the lobby of hotel here and placed an empty vial on the desk, remark ing:
 i've just drank this"
 Police found him on the street a short time later.
 John Sharpe, Raymond's father, a short time ago received threatening letter from his son demanding money. He turned the letter over to the police with the request that the boy be arrested. lectnred and dis charged. This was done and the at tempt at suicide followed.