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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
SESSION MUST PASS ON RIGHT
 TO CALL MEET
Methodist Conference To Decide ConstitutiOnali-
 ty Of Action

NASHVILLE, Tenn, June IA Whether the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, acted within their authority, under the discipline of the church, in calling a special session of the General conference to be held at Chattanooga, July 2.>to consider unifi- cation with the Methodist Episcopal church, is a matter to be determined when the session convenes, it is indi- cated in a statement made public here tonight by Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond, Va, one of the five dissent ing bishops.
 Bishop Denny maintains that para graphs 37 and 3S of the chapter of the discipline entitled, "Of the Gen eral conference" which have been in the discipline for 5S years and which authorize the bishops to call special conference, are illegal.
 These paragraphs, he said, "were not referred to the annual conferences nor did they, according to the records, re- ceive in the General conference the requisite two-thirds vote."
 Tt has been we'll and truly said" Bishop Denny continued, "that what goes in illegally is not in. Nor does any lapse of years make that consti- tutional which was not constitutionally adopted"
 Bishop Denny quoted the bishops as having stated in 1914 that while there had been ''some variations in practice, inadvertent as we must believe made without challenge and without debate" no part of the chapter empowering the bishops to call a special session of the conference should be legally open to amendment or change"
 He then stated that it has been sub stantially that the bishops are better qualified to construe the laws of the church than all the lawyers in the country. They have construed the law at a time when no prejudice darkened their minds, when no purpose to ac- complish their desires warped their Judgments, and they have pronounced paragraph 37 unconstitutional and yet by virtue of this unconstitutional para graph a special session of the General conference is called"
 Quotations which Bishop Denny pro- duced tended to show that the General conference is not an original body, self existent and independent. That it is the creation of another body larger and stronger than itself and does not pos sess original life or power"
 The present delegated General con- ference did not assume its powers, he said, the delegated conference had been in existence since 17S6 with plenary powers flor the safety and peace of the church" amended the constitution of the church for delegated General conference, he asserted.
 An unauthorized publication in the discipline ,"did not become legal be- cause published in the discipline for all those years, and. when the General and Annual conferences gave the mat ter careful consideration the error of years was eonstitutionally corrected" he said. 'As the delegated General conference did not originate nor assume r constitutional powers, it cannot en- !. rge nor change those powers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
And Herriot
 Were Both Professors
One Of Them Wears Overshoes And The
 Other Discusses Poetry Fervently

socialist compatriots had already learn. ed of his luncheon with royalty. The fact that literature and not.s politics had been discussed was all that saved him censure. :;,-
 American Clubs Move -:;i
 Both the American library of Paris and the American Women's club have decided to purchase buildings. The Women's club, which now has a thous. and members, has been given notice that it must quit the quarters it is now occupying on she Boulevard Males herbes and is considering buying 8 large private house in the, Arc de Triomphe quarter.
 The. American library, founded through the initiative of the American Library association has various offers of buildings which will provide more room than the present crowded one in the Rue Elysee. ss
 The school for training professional librarians opened last Tuesday with 50 students from various European countries who will be educated in the American library system. The Jibrary't department of information regarding foreign affairs will issue its first bibliographical bulletin on postwar settlements, soon for the use of students and special investigators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
2 SUSPECTS HELD
 AFTER KIDNAPPING OF. DETROIT GIRL
Police Are Puzzled By Two Mysterious Tele-
 Phone Calls

DETROIT, June 14.- Two myste. rious telephone calls tc the father oi Geni Corsi, [ years old, who was kid naped Monday, have puzzled police and have given the Case a twist that ii reminiscent of the Frank Kidnapping and murder in Chicago. Both messages told Edward A. Corsi, the father, mol to worry"
 Your child is in no danger and will come to no harm," Corsi was told by one voice over the telephone.
 Corsi had no chance to question the mysterious informant and was too up set to know whether the same person delivered both messages, which wers about an hour apart. Ne demand fol ransom has been made.
 Two suspects, James Fernando, >32 and Anthony ParAcarela, 31, are helt in connection with the case.
 The child was seized in front of hel fathers confectionery store Monday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
TRIAL
 OF EVANS ENDS IN ACQUITTAL
Alleged Klansman Freed By Jury Trying Lilly
 Riot Case

EBENSBURG, Pa., June 14.-Sam- uel Evans, alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan, tried on a murder indict- ment which grew out of fight between klansmen and the townspeople of Lilly April 5, was acquitted by jury here tonight. The jury deliberated one hour and 20 minutes.
 Evans was the first of IS alleged klansmen and 13 Lilly residents to be tried in connection with the killing of three Lilly men during the fight. In addition to murder and manslaughter charges, the defendants, who are said to be members of the klan, are charged with carrying concealed weapons. Dis trict Attorney Weimer, the prosecutor, after hearing the verdict in the Evans case, was undecided as to his next step, and he called conference of his asso- ciates to decide on a course of action in the other cases.
 The 31 defendants now under indict- ment were found guilty of affray and unlawful assemblage several days ago.
 The indictment against Evans named Frank Miasco as the victim of the fight. The state introduced testimony to show. that the trouble started after the k1an held a demonstration on q nearby hillside and when the robed men marched through the village to a special train. Near the railroad station, wit nesses testified, Miasco turned a stream of water on the klansmen. A number of prosecution witnesses said a com mand, "Halt--open fire" came from the ranks of the klansmen, while others said the first shots were fired from "be- hind Miasco.."
 The state closed its case during the afternoon and the defense produced only a few witnesses to tell of hap penings at the nozzle of the hose which Miasco held.
 Judge T. P. Finletter in his charge said the evidence was contradictory. Several witnesses, he added, testified that Evans had protected himself from the water. If that was true, the court said, Evans should be acquitted, but if, as other evidence tended to show, Evans, with others, was in commission of unlawful assembly, then he and the other defendants under indictment were responsible for all the acts that pro- ceeded therefrom,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
BEER RUNNERS GET .l5OO BARRELS May Be Sent To Prison For Violation Of
 Injunction

. CHICAGO, June 14.-Fifteen hun dred barrels of beer were recently snug gled out of the Standard brewery here while the brewery was being guarded by United States deputy marshals, and as result. Tetry Druggan and Frank Lake, alleged beer runners, are being sought to face a possible three-year term in prison. The brewery was un- der federal injunction at the time of the coup. Violation %f such an injunc- tion, according to legal precedent, puts the violators in coQtempt of court, for which offense they can be sent to prison wigiout a jury trial.
 The two alleged beer runners are said to have bribed train crew to shunt string of cars on the siding alongside the brewery. The cars were loaded with beer at night and moved to a point about three miles away and there the barrels of beer were transferred to a fleet of trucks and hauled away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

Unearthing g or Skull
 Ends CiDil War Mystery

ATLANTA, Ga, June 14.-All that is inspiring, romantic and tragic in a story of love and war, the undying love of young girl for her soldier husband, which caused her to follow him through many hardships in an alien land and the grief and sorrow of a true soldier which met defeat even in victory, were unearthed by 6 prosaic steam shovel in the heart of Atlantas down, town district yesterday, said story published today in the Atlanta Con- stitution.
 This romance of another day, more than a half century ago, was brought to light when a group of workmen excavating for a building came npon the skull of a woman buried scarcely more than three feet underneath the ground. A bottle was discovered nearby containing a bit of parchment which crumpled when brought to light but not before the name Prudence Bainbridge" was read by onlookers.
 The parchment crumbled and turn ed into dust but the legend which it contained was recalled by some
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who knew the story of sacrifice, love and devotion of this young. girl for her Yankee soldier husband.
 Prudence, aged 19,. followed her soldier husband through many cam paigns of the Civil war, successfully concealing her indentity, enduring all of the hardships of soldier and remaining at her husbands side cons stantly. Itrwas on Sherman's march to the sea that the strain of the rigorous campaign proved too much for her and she became sick with a fever which caused her to remain in Atlanta while her husband followed the. flag. ..tx..
 When he returned to Atlanta after a successful campaign, he found his loyal little wife had succumbed and the house where she had lived burned to the ground. After vainly search ing for her grave he departed with a heavy heart for his New England home. He returned once and made "a thorough search before his death in 1903 but to no avail. &
 The skull is in possession of W. J. Nally, the engineer in charge of the construction. .A
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ichthyologist of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
 Many Hardships Met.
 The explorers met hardships and dangers from the beginning, entering the jungle from the Atlantic side, along the Chucunaque river. About two months ago young attache of the Panamanian government, who was as- signed to the expedition, succumbed to exposure and disease, and two weeks ago, Prof. Baer died of fever.
 Many attempts have been made to penetrate the savage Darien region, since the occupancy of the Spaniards early in the sixteenth century, but all previous efforts have failed. The 1n- dians were treated so cruelty by the Spaniards that they swore eternal en- mity to the white man and all who ventured up the Rio Darien on the west of the Chucunaque on the east have been killed. A determined effort was made by the Germans, in the spring of 1908, with the Won Tueber expedition. Only one half-crazed man, who left the party before they reached the country of the Darien Indians, returned.
 Before entering the Darien, members of the expedition predicted that if the white Indians were found the discov- cry would be among the most impor- tant of modern times, in it's bearing on anthropological research into ori- gin of American racial cultures, which may profoundly affect scientific conclu- sions as to the origin and spread of modern civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
EXPLORERS FIND .UNCHARTED RIVER
 IN NORTH ALASKA
Groves Of Willows Pro- vide Fuel For Geolog-
 ical Survey Party

WASHINGTON, June IA. -- The story of an explorers life in the north ern Alaskan wilderness and the dis covery of uncharted streams is con- tained in a letter brought back to civilization by an Eskimo on the Geo. logical Survey party headed by Dr. Philip S. Smith and made public today by the Interior department. The ex- petition is exporting naval petroleum re- serve number four.
 In exploring the Colville river, the letter, written March 30, states that Dr. Smith found a river about 200 yards wide, which flows westward and then turns northward. The party plans to continue the river explora tions, but they must reach the coast in time to catch the last ship out of the Arctic ocean before the September freeze.
 Find Willow Groves
 The party has established a base camp at the head of the Unakserak river about 10 miles from the divide be- tween the Unakserak and Colville rivers, at latitude 67 :45 80, at an al- the party has discovered groves of WILLOW JFceS dS IdESc dS Iudu WEAoIS which they are using for fuel.
 The letters explained that the sup porting party of seven men and 120 dogs turned back March 16, and the main expedition was proceeding with three sleds and B dogs. The sleds soon will be abandoned, the letter says, and the journey continued in canoes on the Colville mver.
 The letter, which was written by Dr. J. B. Mertie, Jr., gives the follow ing description:
 Studying Astronomy
 During the summer the last three or four days, l have been engaged chiefly in studying astronomy and In making astronomical observations with the transit. have seven good observa- tions on latitude and azimuth, which check one another very we'll. Having my azimuth, I also have local time from transits of the sun. And that, with watches, and their known ratings, we are in a position to make a fair computation of longitude. l am also able to rate our watches from success sive transits of the sun, day after day, at this camp. Fortunately, too, the weather has been ideal lately for such work.
 "Such diversion keeps me very busy, and the days pass very quickly. Once in while, say once a day, when it gets too cold sitting in the tent, I warm up by cutting wood for a half hour or an hour All of us are we'll. None of us have been seriously frost bit ten yet, and I think tse most severe weather aof the winter is past now, SO, all in all, everything is going fine and the success of the expedition seems assured"
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PARIS, June 14.-(By Associated Press.l-Both Paul Painleve and Edouard Herriot, who have attained such marked prominence in French political affairs, recently, are men Of professional antecedents listen intelh- gently in a discussion of the Einstein theory, is a typical absent-minded pro lessor, except that he does not wear goggles and is not averse to taking a glass or two of beer in a lowly cafe in company with local politicians.
 While M. Painleve differs somewhat from the regulation type of pedagogue, still he carries the traditional sloppy umbrella, wears overshoes from time to time and his attire is not always i'm peccable.
 The irreverant Sorbonne under graduates love to recall one occasion when Dr. Painleve had been giving a long and painful blackboard demonstra- tion in trigonometry. When the bell rang for the end of the period, he dismissed the class, the ancedote runs, finished his chalk marking on the board and sallied forth into the Boule- yard Saint Michel Outside he thought of another demonstration, and reaching in his pocket, he produced a piece of chalk and was starting to draw on an imaginary blackboard when he was finally awakened by an irate yell--a deep, bass profundo from a large brawny man ahead: Hey. there, you, quit chalking up my back"
 Dr. Painleve hurriedly apologized for his abstraction, according to the stu dents, and made as graceful getaway as possible.
 NJ. Herriot, the other professor, was formerly an instructor of rhetoric in the Lyons high school. He is also a literary historian of unusual merit, but more resembles a typical member of the "boosters club" than the absent minded savant. For 20 years he has been the energetic mayor of Lyons. While he has drummed up trade throughout Europe for the silk for which the city is famous, he neyerthe- less continues to take an interest in literature.
 Recently M. Herriot accepted / a luncheon invitation at the home of Adolphe Brisson, noted critic, for the purpose of discussing Rumanian htera- ture. He was rather nonplussed when he found that the guest of honor was not nlnSelI, put queen MhIAc UI hu- mania. The democratic NJ. Herriot was about to seize his famous new 75 franc derby hat and depart when it was explained that the queen was not attending to regal business just then but was there as the honorary presi- dent of the Bucharest university ex- tension movement under whose au- spices NJ. Herriot had several times lectured.
 The explanations being satisfactory, NJ. Herriot then had sandwiches with Queen Maria and the Grand Duke Cyril and talked poetry fervently dur. ing the entire meal. When he appear. ed in the chamber next day, his radical
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
ESCAPES ASYLUM /
Reward Offered For The Capture Oi
 Young Woman


 JACKSON, Miss, June 13.-(Spe- ciaAl l-ReEard has been offered for ia. formation leading to the location of Bettie Fort, who left the state insane asylum at Jackson on Monday after noon, June g, by her brother, D. B. Fort of Cohay, Miss. Miss Fort, who was a patient of the asylum, is de- scribed as being being five feet four inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, age 26. has full face, dark blonde, bobbed hair, and is slightly sunburned.
 Doctor On HOneymOn-Dr. T. w Kemerer, bacteriologist, of the state laboratory, who recently succeeded Dr. Stingily, is. expected in the city shortly, accompanied by his bride, who was Dr. Mabel Claire Williams, of the UniverS eity of 3Owds - ... .S5., ., .. .s.st tS!E
 Job Faces GOvernOr-Gov. Fl. l.. Whitfield is learning that the job of governor requires some real strong arm, manual labor, as we'll as mental exer- else. He has settled down to what promises to be job of three days dura. tion attaching his signature to 5,S17 bonds and is. cheerful of being at tackled by writer's cramp before he gets through. These are the bonds of the $5,S16,500 issue provided by the recent legislature to redeem the short claim not issued by the bond improvement commission during 1922 and 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
scRUTrNIzED BY ALrENIsTs
Franks Slayers Hop and Skip to Build
 Insanity Defense

CHICAGO, June 14.--Nathan Leo pold and Richard Loeb. youthful kill CTS of Robert Franks, 14-year-old school boy, hoped, skipped and went through other motions in the prison laboratory" today under the eyes of noted alienists in. an effort to build up defense of insanity.
 Dr. Karl Nj. Bowman and Dr. H S. Hurlbuft, famous pyshciatrists, and other physicians noted for their work on mental disorders, have been retained by. the defense to prove that the mil. Honaire youths were irresponsible when they committed the crime. The phy, sicians are trying to detect mental and bodily disorders of nature that would show Leopold and Loeb did not and do not know right from wrong.
 In the meantime, the prosecution it working just as hard to show the youths are of excellent intellect, that they did know and know now right from wrong, ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
HOW TO SEE SUNS SPOTS
fidences Of Solar Activity May Be Observed With Opera Glasses


 A very small telescope, or even an rdinary field glass or opera glass, will .fford the reader a view of sun spots 1t time of solar activity.
 The safest way to observe them is to point the instrument at the sun and focus the eye piece until a sharp image of it's disk, several inches in diameter, is projected on surface of smooth white cardboard held at distance of from two to four feet. The spots can easily De distinguished from specks on the eye piece by noticing that they move with the suns image.
 At present we are just emerging from a period of solar calm, during which no spots have been seen for weeks at time. But a new cycle of activity has already begun, and a few spots are be- ginning to appear.
 The reader hardly needs be warned that if he wishes to look directly at the sun with his telescope, field glass or opera glass he must protect his eyes with the blackest of smoked glass, as the intensely bright image would other wise seriously injure them.-George FL lery Hale in Scribners Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
DEAF HEAR INSTANTLY
Amazing Invention Brings Im- mediate Relief To Those
 Who Are Deaf

A wonderful invention which en- sbles anyone whose auditory nerve is still active to hear all sounds as clear ly and distinctively as a child has been perfected by the Dictograph Products Corporation, Suite 1300-J, 220 w. 42nd Street, New York City. There is no waiting, no delay, no danger, but quick, positive, instan- taneous results-you hear instantly. So positive are the manufacturers that everyone who suffers from deafness will be amazed and delighted with this remarkable invention that they are offering to send it absolutely ire for 10 days trial. No deposit-no e. o. D.-no obligation whatever. If
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
CAN'T SHOOT CRAZY BIRDS,
 JUDGE SAYS
6GTHAT mocking bird thought

LETNHAT mocking bird thought
 he was a nightingale, Judge, /"
 declared Joseph P. Collins, Birmingham attorney, earnestly. "He was crazy, plum crazy. He didn't have sense enough to sing when he was supposed to-during the day-but every time there was a moon at night, he would unloose all the harmony and lack of it he had and neighbors all around were kept awake"
 Nevertheless, Collins was fined S10 by Judge Fred Woodward, sit ting for Judge H. B. ,Abernethy in the court of misdemeanor, Saturday, On a charge of murdering the song bird preferred by Tedd Cottrell, county game warden.
 Judge Woodward perused the statutes carefully and declared he found nothing in them making in sane birds less immune from shot guns than sane ones, and that Col lins, admitting the act, would have to pay the fine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
IN THE AIR TODAY

(COpyright. 1924, for Ago-Herald.) WTSD, ST. LOUIS, 546 metres, w 9p.m., central standard time
 Musical program from the Grand Central Opera.
 : WOS, JEFFERSON CITY, 40 meters, 8 p.m., central standard time-Union open air services with Missouri state prison band.
 WEAF, NEW YORK, 492 meters, 6 20 p.m., eastern standard time Musical program from the Capitol theatre, New York.
 WFAA, DALLAS, 4T6 meters, g p.m., central standard time-Riggs Memorial church choir.
 WLW, CINCINNATI, 309 meters, S:15 p.m.-Symphony or chestra, conducted by William Jopp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
ENGINEERS END SESSION

SAN FRANCISCO, June 14.-Busi- ness sessions of the tenth annual con- vention of the American Association of Engineers were concluded yesterday with installation of officers and selec- tion of Orlando, Fla, as the 1925 con vention city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
NOT FOR HER

Ardent Suitor-Sir, I want your daughter for my wife.
 Irate Father-Young man, go home daughter. Georgia Yellow Jacket.
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DROWNs WHILE SWIMMING

GRENADA, Miss. June 14.-Lacey Kilgore, 24. was drowned this after noon near Duck Hill while swimming. It is believed he, was seized with cramps.
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The First National Bank OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
 March 31st, 1924

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