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Seward daily gateway., 1924-09-05
NOTICE OF APPLICATION U. s. Non-Mineral Survey
 No. 142O.
 Sorio1 No NE11o


 Serial No. O5418
 United States Land Office. Anchoraoe Alaska. N' In the matter of the application of Wilbur J.. Erskine, for leave to en- ter as Soldiers Additional Home stead tract of land situate on the northeast shore of the north arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island. Territory of Alaska ,and containing 21.03 acres.
 Notice is hereby given that Wilbur J. Ersklne, a citizen of the United States, whose Post Office adress is. .Ko- dlak, Alaska, as assignee of James M. Wyrick, a beneficiary under Section 23O6 or 1907, United States Revised Statutes has filed application to en- ter the lands embraced in U. s. Non- Mineral Survey No. 1420, which are situated on the N. E. shore of the N. E. arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island, in the Territory of Alaska, Lat 57' 46' 30" N., Long. 153' 23t 3Ou w., containing 21.03 acres, and more par ticularly described as follows, to-wit:
 (Mag. Var. 230 45r E.)
 Commencing at Corner 1, whence U. s. L. M. No. 1420 bears s. AT 2O' 16" E. 9.96 chs, thence meander- ing mean high tide line N. 75o IT W. 1.29 chs, N. 87' 12' W. 4.74 chs, N. 53o AT w., 1.39 chs. N. 36' 40, W. 3.27 chs, N. 84' 50' W. 4.98 chs, N. 52o 58' W. 261 chs. N. 22o 43, w. IFS chs. to Cor. 2; thence N. 7.57 chs. to Cor. 3, thence E. 1872 chs to Cor. 4; thence s. 15.27 chs, to Cor. i, the place of beginning.
 Any and all persons claiming any portion of the above described tract are required to file in the United States Land Office, at Anchorage, AL aska, their adverse claim or claims during the period of publication, or within thirty (30) days thereafter.
 Dated this 1 day of May, 1924.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register U. s. Land Office. First Publication, Aug. 7,.-1924. .~-e-s Last publication Sept. 13, 1924. Dly
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TACOMA GIRL ASSESSED
 $2,000 FOR FAILURE TO
 FULFILL MARRIAGE PACT

TACOMA, Sept. 5.-A man was awarded $2,0OO in a breac of prom ise suit when Judge M. L. Clifford warded that sum to John Petropdl- ous, in superior court. The judgment was entered today and petropulous had sued Clara Stevens, alleging that he had given her presents worth $1,- 900 on her promise to mary him.
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Fresh cigars and tobaccos at Schal- lerer's Alaska Shop. #
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William E. "Pussyfoot" oJhnson, whose one glas eye bears witness to his sacrafice in the cause of prohi- bitiOn.
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Nothing definite has been receiv- ed about the Yukon.
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Eaton Crane & Pike Stationery, at Schallerer's Alaska Shop. If.
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BELGIAN CROPS HIT
 BY HEAVY DOWNPOUR

BRUSSELS, Sept. 4.-Rain, which recently has been pouring relentless ly over Belgium, is described today as almost a disaster for Belgium wheat and oats particularly as the wheat crop is short. Official statis- tics show the sowing tis year only one-fourth of wat it was in 1923. Belgian farmers ave turned from the grain growing to that of sugar beets and other export crops.
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Suits made to measure. See Ur- bach. If.
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.'oin r,.e Chamber of Commerce.
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JOHNSON RAPS ECONOMY

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-In a primary election statement issued on Saturday last, United States Senator Hiram Johnson vigorously criticised Governor Richardson's policy of eco- noy which he said was "crippling and destroying the humanitarian institu- tions of the state" and urged the no- imitation Tuesday of progressive can didates for the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
Troops To End Rums Rule
 Urged By New Jersey Judge
Death Declared Undisputed Penalty For Betray
 CTS Of Runners

"It is possible that this investigation may lead you into channels of personal danger more or less enveloped in an atmosphere of official corruption," he said.
 But the fact of this danger, the fact that men had been murdered for threat ening exposure of "hideous system" and that other witnesses were being guarded in jail to save their lives should he an additional incentive, he added, to track down the guilty.
 Like St. Paul at Ephesus," he ex- horted, increase your strength to com bat the wild beasts that surround us.
 Martial Law Preferable
 "If it is to be conceded that we can not succeed in this struggle and that hereafter ours is to be a government of official corruption, identified with the black flag of piracy. in which mur der is the logical penalty for exposure, then the time has come for you and the prosecutor and this court to retire from our posts by a confession of ineptitude and request the President and the gov ernor to enforce martial law on our waterfront as the only alternative to statewide anarchy"
 shall we consent, the court asked, Ito be ruled by outlaws, thugs and pirates, or shall the constitution and the law still guard our lives, our homes and our sacred honor? This simple inquiry is the only issue that confronts us. Shall this diabolcal trade and its satel- lites play the part of Sicilian vendetta in our American life and go unwhipped of justice?"
 Meanwhile, as the grand jury, spurred on by Minturn's words, gets busy in Jersey City, the city fathers of Weehawken are attempting to give all officials there clean bill of health. The policemen will not be suspended, and the elawyers of the rum runners scout the possibility that the prosecutor will be able to prove anything against any of the participants in the $50,OO0,- GOO plot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
HOUSE ADOPTS INTERIOR BILL
 OF $23S,000,0OO
First Piece Of Annual Supply Legislation Is
 Sent To Senate
(By Associated Press. )

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The house today cleared from it's legislative path way the first of the annual supply bills that for the interior department, ant then took up the agricultural approprl ation measures, carrying SS0,0O0, ,OO( for road construction. Before adjourn ment. it had concluded general debate on the agriculture bill and was wei along on the reading of the measure under the fiveminute rule.
 As the interior bill carrying total of S23S ,000,0 0,000, moved toward q ina vote, d ma ajority of members. chleiis western republicans and southern dem ocrats. stood fast against determined effort of administration leaders to elm inate m amendment to provide tor con tinuance of 39 land offices in western and southern states.
 No sooner had the bill been sent to the senate, than senators from states yitally interested in reclamation made n move to retain the provision for the land offices, and to eliminate a section, approved by the house, to do away With the office of surveyor general. Several senators also announced their intention of procuring substantial approprla- tion for the Spanish Springs reclama- tion project in Nevada, which failed in the house.
 With the project coming up again, several senators supporting it have ap- pealed to Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, who will be ill charge of the bill in the senate, and say re is inclined to favor thpr OrOOOSa1
 More than third of the agricultural bill had been read when the house ad- journed, and not an amendment had been offered Items approved included S1,44O,000 for agricultural experiment stations; $1 ,30S.540 for farmers co-ope- rative demonstrations S1,3O0,0OO for cooperative agricultural extension work; S2,343,192 for weather bureau activities SS,3S5, 156 for the bureau of animal industry, the bulk of which is to be used for meat inspection and for the eradication of various diseaSe $ among livestock, and S3.834 ,63S for the bureau of plant industry. The agri- cultural bill will be taken up again Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
3 INSURGENTS
 REFUSE TO AID
 NEW PARTY PLAN
Brookhart, Ladd And Fra zier Say They Will
 Remain G. o. P.
Neased Wire To The Age. .Herald.)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-If the pro posed third party desired by Senator La Toilette is born it will be without the aid of the other three senators, who with him were recently excluded from the republican caucus in the senate Senators Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier in face of their rough treatment by the regular republican organization, are all opposed to a third party, and insist that they are and will continue to be repub. licans.
 This was learned in a canvass of the situation made by the United News fol. lowing the exclusive information that ii is Senator La Follette's hope that a third party will be started in time to put complete congressional and state tickets in the field in 1926.
 No Changes In Policy None of these three senators will at tend the conference of La Toilette lead CTS to be held here Friday. This Is no change of policy on their part, for though they supported the La Toilette tended none of the meetings of the con- ference for progressive political action.
 q am opposed to a third political party and even if I was not. would not regard the time as propitious for forming one," said Senator Ladd of North Dakota. T have always been republican in spite of what some of my colleagues in the senate seem to think. And I intend to be one until something better comes along."
 This view is held by Frazier of North Dakota. and Broakhart of Iowa.
 Norris of Nebraska, also one of La Follettes most loyal supporters, still re- tains his place on the republican roll and is not expected to consider leaving the party. Senator Wheeler will re- tain his democratic utilization.
 Discounts Losses
 None of this is news to La Toilette, however, and he already has discount ed these losses. He believes that they will be offset by advantages of an inde- pendent party organization. Further more, though these senators would not be on his party roll, they would be friendly, and would give him various sorts of unofficial aid. The fact that they cannot see eye to eye with him on the third party issue does not mean that there has been any break in their common desire to advance progressive proposals.
 La Toilette is of the opinion that the time for a formation of vigorous mi nority party has arrived. Whether he can sell this idea to the other progress sives will be indicated with fair cer- tainty after Fridays conference of lead CTS. If they support him. it is almost certain that the general progressive con ference in January will vote to take the vital step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10

greatly restricted. It may make it's de. cision only after public hearing and to quote the language of the amend ment, "only in case where the route via the applicant rail carrier or rail carriers is longer than via the route of some other rail carrier or carriers be- tween the same points"
 Exceptions For Emergencies
 This situation is one where railroads may justly appeal for exceptions, and it has nothing to do with the main is sue-the struggle between rail carriers and water carriers. The Gooding bill gives specific permission to authorize temporary exceptions to the rule in the case of a public emergency such as drought or disaster. Finally-this is probably its most drastic clause-it pro- vides that after six months following its passage, no carrier shall charge more for a short than for a long haul except by an oder of the commission in com plaince with these new provisions of the act In brief, it wipes out the past i; revokes the old exceptions from the re- strictions of the fourth section which nave been granted to the railroads for d whole generation long.
 The Gooding bill brought a hearing where the shippers of the south and the intermountain states on one side, the railroads and the Pacific Coast shippers on the other, ventilated their. views. The senate, by non-partisan vote of "A to B, passed the measure. Warren of Wyoming was the only far western senator who voted against it. Al the next session of congress, it comes up in the house. And there's going to be a fight.
 Tomorrow: The. Railroads Join Battle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
WARRIOR RIVER
 VICTIM OF RAILS
(Continued From Page One.

ported Col. T. O. Ashburn. chief of the Inland and Coastwise Waterways Serv- ice, except to stifle the Warrior barge line-it is highly probable that they are not remunuerative to the railroads"
 Then, last year, an action of the railroads themselves precipitated a crisis for this system. At laSt, the Panama Canal is working smoothly as a channel for the coast-to-coast trade. At rates which a railroad cannot meet on canal terms. coasting steamers are carrying from the Atlantic factories to the Pacific consumers such slow freights as bulk steel, steel products and staple dry goods. Naturally, the com peting railroads want that trade. So the seven great transcontinental lines joined in a petition for relief from the fourth section on westbound shipments of about fifty staple commodities. They asked, in effect, for a lower rate be tween Chicago and such Pacific Coast points as Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisco, than between Chicago and Salt Lake or Reno or Spokane.
 Perhaps, take it all in all, the inland communities of the south have suffered most from the exceptions or violations or whatever you wish to call them, of the fourth section, interstate commerce act. But the intermountain country the region between the Rockies and the Sierra-has ever been the liveliest kicker Spokane especially has been fighting the railroads on this issue for twenty years. Spokane and Boise, Salt Lake and Reno Sante F eand Fresno rose up against the railroads. With them, the future of the canal is a real issue. Already, they declare, they can- not use the canal for eastbound ship ments of their produce and must depend solely on the railroads, because of the excessive rates to Pacific tidewater But that is another story. The situa- tion created by this application affects them just as vitally.
 Cheaper For Longer Haul
 Freight from Chicago to San Fran cisco, Portland or Seattle, hundreds of miles further on, will, if the applica- tion be granted, go through for a dollar a hundred, whereas if it is dropped off at their freight yards, it will cost them a dollar and quarter or dollar and a half hundred. They see the range of action for the Pacific Coast jobbers showed up to their city gates and the range of their own iobbers correspond ingly reduced. With coal and raw ma terial at hand they see their chances of establishing factories and attracting in dustrial population marred or blighted
 The interstate commerce commission took under advisement the applica tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
UNDERWOOD WINS.
 lST SHOALS TILT
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 clared the amendment went further than the water power act.
 Senator McKellar admitted he had drafated the amendment from the water power act, but declared it was neces- sary to assure a uniform rate from Mus cle Shoals power in interstate distribu- tion. A vote on the amendment is ex- pected tomorrow.
 Smith To Withhold Bill
 Senator Smith, democrat, South Car olina, announced he had decided to withhold his proposed new Muscle Shoals bill and instead offered an amendment to the Underwood bill. He declared he was the author of the orig inal Muscle Shoals bill and his amend ment would carry out the initial plan.
 The Smith amendment would require the government to maintain Muscle Shoals until it had been demonstrated that a satisfactory marketable ferti- lizer can be produced and standardized.
 Several amendments to the Under wood bill were presented by Senator Harrison. democrat. Mississippi. These would require the completion by the government of Dam No. 3, raise the time limit from to 10 years when the government corporation would escape operations until notified by congress to proceed in event the interest on bonds was not being earned; change the rental required of lessee from 4 per cent of the cost of dam No. 2 and the hydro electric units to per cent of the total amount already expended by the government plus the cost that would be spent for dam No. 3; strip the sec retary of war of powers extended under the Underwood bill to lease the prop erty and place the leasing in the hands of an organization committee, which also would organize a government cor poration if the government should operate the property.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
CUMMINS SEES END
 OF RAIL BOARD ROW
Announces Hope Of Compromise
 In Controversy
fBy Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The possi- bility of settlement of the controversy over the Howell Barkley bill to abolish the Railroad Labor board and set up new machinery for adjustment of labor disputes was discussed with President Coolidge today by Senator Cummins of Iowa, ranking republican member of the senate interstate commerce commit tee.
 Ut is my hope that through some compromise we can end this contro- versy," Senator Cummins said after his conference. "I have discussed the mat ter with representatives of railroal la bor and of the railroad executives, and I am hopeful that an arrangement can be made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
By RODNEY F. BUTCHER IIeased Wire to Age-Herald,)

NEW YORK. Dec. 9. - Whatever prohibition has done to the rest of the country, it has created an extraordinary situation in New Jersey.
 Indictments of officials, charges of d "trail' that led to Washington and other phases of the prohibition phenom- ena have been followed now by the vivid words of judge who tells grand jury that martial law would be prefer able to what he terms the present rule of rum.
 Supreme Court Justice Minturn of Hudson county drew this picture Tues day:
 New Jerseys position as the inlet of rum row has brought about a condition where wild beasts" surround such a few conscientious public officials as are left: where death is the undisputed pen alty for those who tell of the nightly operations of the rum runners where grand jurors must be warned by court that they may be in personal danger, and where martial law is preferable to the existing state Of anarchy.
 Urged To Find Slayers
 Justice Minturn, who remembers when Jersey was known to the rest of the country for her mosquitoes rather than her booze smugglers, spoke with emotion as he addressed his December grand jury. He urged the jury to find the murderers of Frank DAggstino, one of the rum runners who was murdered in connection with the operation of what is alleged to be a $50000,0O0 ring.
 He was thinking, too, of the discovery the other day that most of the members of the Weehawken police force were leaving their posts nightly to supervise the unloading of booze cargoes. Eleven policemen, including couple of con- missioners, have been indicted. Scores of additional indictments are expected to follow Justice Minturn's charge to the grand jury, in which he demanded a complete expose of New Jerseys rum running.
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under the administration of the late Bishop John c. Kilgore, of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, south, who for years was its president and the present president. Dr. w. P. Few. Mir. Duke, and his brother, B. N. Duke of New York, have been heavy contributors to the development and endowment of Trinity.
 That the board of trustees of Trim ity will change it's name to Duke uni versity that it may receive the sum of $6,000.000 to be paid out of the trust fund for erection of a university. is regarded as virtually certain. President Few was quoted in dispatches from Durham today as saying that he re- garded the compliance with the terms of the trust as certain and Joseph G. Brown of Raleigh, chairman of the board of trustees of Trinity, was quoted as saying the board would be called to- gether as soon as officially advised of the creation of the trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
LURE OF COAT
 LEADS GIRL, 16,
 TO SELL BOOZE

\ TLANTA, Ga, Dec. 9.-Re- "A spending to that ever-present
 desire for beautiful clothes prompted Miss Freddie Beasley, l6 years old, to try her hand at boot logging. she told judge of the city criminal court here Tuesday.
 q was broke and wanted a new coat, she said. "A friend told me where I could get load of whisky, so I decided to try to sell it and buy the coat"
 Officers gave a three mile chase before they captured her automobile and five gallons of liquor. A fine of $50 was imposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
OFFICERS ELECTED
 BY MINE WORKERS
President John L. Lewis Is Can
 didate ROr Reelection

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 9.-In- ternational and district, officers from president down were voted for by the United Mine Workers of America. The result will not be Known until all votes are mailed into headquarters here. All officers will begin terms April 1, 1925. John l.. Lewis, international president; Philip Murray, vice presi- dent and William Green, secretary treasurer, are candidates for reelection.
 President Lewis has only one oppon- ent, George voysey of Vernon, Ill.,, Arley Staples of Christopher, H., op- poses vice president Murray and Joseph Nearing of reserve mines, Nova Scotia is contesting Mr. Green. Three places on the auditing and credentials com mittee and three positions as tellers also will be filled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10
CROWDS ATTEND
 WALKER TRIAL
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TOm dSc Ou6. bought stock in the oil company. Stock sold in this state ran into thou sands of dollars, records of the. company show.
 Against the governments contention that conspiracy existed and that false statements concerning the company's financial status were sent through the mails, the defendants claim they acted in good faith and failed in direct con- sequence of the countrywide financial crash in 1920.
 Many Witnesses Here
 Both siles have scores of witnesses from all sections of the country, includ- ing famed geologists, expert account ants, financial leaders from New York, and other persons of prominence, com ing here to testify, and attorneys in the case agree that the trial will last at least two weeks.
 The four defendants sat with their attorneys and calmly took notes from testimony of witnesses throughout Tues day. At times they smiled and chatted with each other, always conveying the impression they were confident of ac- quittal.
 The bankrupt company had its home office in Dallas, with brokerage offices in Birmingham and Indianapolis. It was capitalized at $10,000,000 and claimed assets of $5,000,000, consisting of oil wells, refineries, tank cars and other holdings. The defendants assert they made material progress until 1920, when the bottom fell out of the oil mar ket, forcing the concern into bank ruptcy.
 T. H. Aldrich, Jr., a Birmingham director in the company, was the first witness Tuesday, He detailed numer- ous transactions of the company, said the 1920 crash" caused the failure, and admitted he approved both of the divi- dends paid by the company, saying he believed they were justified.
 Oates Testifies
 w. c. Oates, examiner of the Ala bama Public Service commission, who described the company's operations in this state at length; Joe Hutchison, an auditor of Wichita Falls, Texas; c. F. Miller of Birmingham; w. J. Brady, former bookkeeper of the company, and J. A. Kilman of Dallas, testified during the day. Kilman told how he purchased stock at varying prices, having paid $9O for some shares and $S5 for others.
 Expert accountants from several cit ies, who checked the company's books after it failed, will be the chief wit nesses at Wednesdays session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-10

of the transcontinental roads. It sent out M A. Patterson, as attorney-ex- aminer to investigate. He reported against the application of the railroads However, the commission has not yet rendered it's decision. Perhaps it is waiting to see what will happen to the Gooding bill.
 For the intermountain region had not waited the decision of the interstate commerce commission before acting. At the last session of congress. Senator Gooding introduced bill amending the long-and short haul clause of the fourth section. By the measure, the inter state commerce commission retains the power to grant exceptions to the long and-short haul rule; but that power is