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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
FLYERS BATTLE
 GALE BIS MILES
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COntinued From RSSe UneD ports that conditions are unfavorable for the airmen's next hop. In view of this situation, American army and navy officers will confer at Reyksayik be- fore planes are completed for embark ing on the difficult journey.
 The airmen were brought ashore soon after their planes came to rest near the breakwater,
 We will wait here to see what the Gertrude Rask reports" Smith said when he reached the pier. .'If the Rask is unable to land supplies at Angma- salik it would be impractical but not impossible to fly there. The situation now is indefinite pending the outcome of our conference with the commanders of the convoy patrol.
 "Our flight to the United States will be continued" the young flight com mander promised under any circum- stanceS
 Tuesdays flight was not difficult" :" he said. We ran into nub of dust storms, one of which apparently was composed of volcanic dust"
 Such storms frequently arise in the wastes of the interior of the Iceland.
 It is believed that narrow coastal strip of water fringes Greenland at Angmagsalik and that the fliers could alight there between the pack-ice and the shore.
 Smith, Nelson and their mechanics are the guests of Councilman Thors- tienson, prominent citizen of Reykja- vik. The councilman has placed a modern, concrete house at the disposal of the airmen. Approximately enough the house is on the peak of a wind swept hill.
 Tuesday night the fliers called upon the premier.
 Between Hornafjord and Reykpavik, the airmen sighted ferty glaciers. Due to the gale, they averaged about 60 miles an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
SHIPPING BOARD
 PLANS TO PROBE DFFERENTIALS
Rates Held Discrirmina- tory Against Gulf And
 South Atlantic

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-A reso- lution was adopted today by the Ship ping Board calling for an investigation by the board into rates and differen- tials from gulf, south Atlantic and north Atlantic ports of the United Kingdom, Baltic, Scandinavian, Con tinental European, Portuguese, Span ish, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Black Sea and Levant ports.
 Present differentials adopted by the steamship conference four years ago are regarded by many as discriminatory against the gulf and south Atlantic ports. the board stated. These diff ferentials were put into effect when rates were materially higher than they are now. As illustrating the changed rates. the board cited the 1920 rate of $f.821a on cotton from gulf ports to the United Kingdom, compared with the present rate of 621a cents.
 Notwithstanding the pronounced drop in rates, the differentials from southern ports have remained the same on most of the commodities moving in these trades, the differential in the case of cotton being 25 cents to all continental European and Mediterrean- can ports, and 20 cents to the United Kingdom.
 The shipping board today adopted a resolution directing the Emergency Fleet Corporation to apply at once a rate of 20 cents hundred pounds on flour from gulf to United Kingdom ports.
 Commissioner Frederick I. Thomp- son, author of the resolution, explained the action was due to the recent low ering by foreign steamship lines of the rates on flour outbound from North Atlantic ports from IS cents to 10 cents a hundred pounds, which created a differential of eight cents against southern ports whose rate was g cents, and which was considered dis crimination against both interior ship pers using the gulf ports and the whole gulf range. The resolution makes the differential five cents as it was be- fore the cut in rates from North At Iantic poFts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
PILOT AND NOVICE
 KILLED IN CRASH
Both Are Pinned Beneath Plane
 In Ohio Accident

! CLEVELAND, Aug. 5.--Harold A. Kufberg, 2S, one of the best known airplane pilots in the country and who during the World war, as a lieutenant in the British Royal flying corps, bag ged IA German planes, and Henry Bunker, 34, of Hudson, Ohio, were killed tonight when a commercial air plane, in which they were flying. went into a nose dive and crashed 2,000 feet near Hudson tonight. MT. Bunker was a pupil in Mir. Kullberg's plane 50 built that men in both seats could control it. Kullberg lost control of the machine when the stick at his seat broke. Bunker was unable to right the plane quickly andJis swerved into Q nose dive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
HEAT IN CHICAGO
 IS FATAL TO FIVE

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Fivc deaths at- tributable to the heat, several prostra- tions and an accident in which three women were seriously hurt was Chi cago's record today as the thermometer climbed from the lower seventies in the morning to 92 at p. m.
 Relief came to the sweltering city to- night in the form of heavy electrical and rainstorm that at times almost as- sumed the proportions of a cloudburst, sending the temperature down IS de- grees in less than an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
DR. ILL SMITH
 SERIOUSLY ILL
Washington And Lee Head Is Reported In
 Grave Condition

LEXINGTON, Va, Aug. 5.-Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of Wash ington and Lee university here, is in grave condition" at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, friends here were advised today.
 Dr. Smith was brought to his home here Sunday from a Rock Springs, Wyo., hospital, greatly improved, it was thought, from injuries sustained July IS, when an automobile in which he and his two sons were making q tour of the west, went over an em- bankment. He suffered a relapse in the day, however, and was rushed to the Baltimore hospital. He is said to be suffering of concussion tc the brain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
FRENCH TO URGE
 WAR DEBT MEET
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(COntinued From Page One.) would be followed soon by another con- ference at which the question of can cellation of inter-allied war debts would be- discussed. France from the start has been in favor of cancella- tion and one of her spokesmen said there was a growing hope that her ef- forts would be seconded soon by Pre- mier Mcdonald.
 M. ClementeI, the French finance minister, discussed the question with Mir. Macdonald and it is understood he found the British premier syma- thetic. It is learned that M. Clemen- tel sought to obtain assurance from the premier that his views had under gone no change since his correspond ence on the subject with M. Poin- care. In this correspoA lence Mir. Mac Donald is understood to have said that the question of inter-aIlied debts is closely interwoven with the Goldman reparation question.
 With the reparations question well on the way toward solution through the inauguration of the Dawes plan, France now is pressing for a barley to consider the debt question. The Brit ish government has been reported as sympathetic toward the French views on cancellation of war debts within certain well defined limitations, which, of course, would have to take into ac- count Great Britain's obligations un- der former Premier Baldwin's settle ment of Great Britain's debt to the United States.
 Americans Silent.
 Since the question of war indebted ness to the United States is considered a delicate politcial question in that country, none of the American dele gates attending the conference tonight would venture an opinion on a sub ject concerning which the American Congress laid down very definite in- structions in which the American debt commission had to circumscribe its dealings with Premier Baldwin in ar- ranging the British settlement.
 It is therefore taken for granted here that the British settlement with the United States will serve as a pre- cedent in dealing with the war debts Of other nations to the United States. at least until the American Congress shall again express itself.
 In American circles tonight it was said that with the United States engag- ed in a president campaign it was m time to indulge in any prophecies as to what will be the position of the United States if the debt questions become the question of early discus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
2 ARKANSAS WOMEN
 FLOG REGENT BRIDE
Victim, F, Tells Police She
 Knew Neither Of Assailants

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Aug. b- County authorities said tonight they had been unable to ascertain the iden- tlty of two women who enticed Mrs. Frances Edwards, 17, to q thicket inst outside the city today and flogged her. The victim of the flogging remained in hospital tonight.
 Mrs. Edwards told the authorities that she knew neither of her as sailants. Neither did she know tbe cause of the fogging, she said.
 She said she was waiting for a street car when two women drove mn in automobile and invited her to ride She accepted, she said, but instead of proceeding to town, the automobile was driven to a thicket outside inc city. There, she declared, the women forced her to remove most of her cloth ing and flOgged her, one of them usine a whip and the other club.
 Mrs. Edwards said she finally made her way to a suburban store and telephOned police headquarters. She was not seriously hurt although her body was marked with painful lacera- tions. Mrs. Edwards was married re- gently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
10 BARNS BURNED
 DTDNIN QT0DM UUNIlVU DlUNll
Hundreds Of Cattle Are Killed And Crops Laid
 Waste

KENToN, O., Aug. 5.-Crops were levelled. ten barns were burned and hundreds of cattle were killed in a rain, wind and electrical storm whcih cut a five-mile swath through Hard in county during the night. Telephone lines were down in many places. Trees were uprooted and damage to the onion crop was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
3 WORKMEN KILLED
 IN FURNACE BLAST.
Six Others Reported Hurt At
 Gary, Ind, Plant

GARY, Ind, Aug. 5.--At least three workmen were killed and six others were seriously injured in a blast furnace explosion late last night at the plant of the Illinois Steele company, it was learned unofficially today.
 Property damage estimated at more than S1,OO0,O00 was done by the ex- p'osion which was caused by the i r4lition of furnace gas prematurely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
w0ODRUM SEEMS SAFE
Virginlan Has Lead Of 2,22O Vote
 Over Whitehead

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 5.-Returns up to 10 o'clock from the Fifth and Sixth Virginia congressional districts where primary elections were held to- day indicate that Congressman Clifton A. Woodrum has been nominated to succeed himself as representative of the Sixth, and give Joseph Whitehead lead over his opponents in the Fifth of 2,22O votes.
 With returns from Roanoke and Lynchbufg complete, Campbell county nearly complete and scattered returns from Bedford and Roanoke counties, unofficial totals give Woodrum 4,I01 and Lambeth 1860 in the Sixth district race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
FOUR FACE CHARGES
Flaming Circle And KIan Meet In
 Street Clashes

MILESH, O., Aug. 5.-Four percons are to face charges today as a result of arrest in connection with street clashes between several hundred supposed mem bers of the Knights of the Flaming Cir cle and the same number of alleged Ku Klux Klan members here last night.
 While no one is said to have been in- iured seriously a score of combatants are reported to have been bruised and beaten during the melee, which was quelled by local police, aided by Trum- ball county deputy sheriffs sent here from Warren when Sheriff John D. Thomas was appealed to for aid. The city was quiet this morning. The out break was the result of bitter anti-klan feeling here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
REPORTED IMPROVING
Dr. Smith Reported To Be Making
 Satisfactory Progress

BALTIMORE, Aug. 5.-Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee university, who has been a patient at Johns Hopkins hospital here since last Sunday, was reported today to be improving. Dr. Smiths wife, who is in attendance upon him, said that from the assurance she had received from the physicians, he was making satisfactory progress. He was better today than yesterday, Mrs. Smith added,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
VOTE lS HEAVY
 IN PRIMARIES
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lCOnt1nued From Page UneJ Baker, 2O,664 Miller. 9,o29 and Lloyd, S,431.
 Ideal election weather and spirited contests with the injection of the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition issues into the primary brought out an unexpect- cdly heavy vote.
 The reporting precincts in both con tests were virtually all rural, the city districts not having reported, owing to heavy voting and difficult ballot to count.
 Marked local sentiment was expect ed in St. Louis in the race of Miller and Nations for governor and attorney general, respectively, on the republican ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
RECTOR IS SHOT
Receives Bullet When Driving Past
 Two White Clad Men

EAGLE LAKE, Tex, Aug. 5.-The Rev. F. NJ. Johnson, Jr., Episcopal rec tor, was shot through the arm last night while driving past an automobile occupied by two men clad in Ku Klux Kan regalia, it was learned today. A small calibre steel bullet passed through the flesh and bone of his arm and lodged under the skin. The rector said he has been outspoken against the Ku Klux Klan, but said he knew of no enemy in or out of the organization who would want to take his life and that he believed it to be a case of mistaken identity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
TO APPEAL TO SMITH
Js- Reports Rough Treatment At
 Klan MeetinR

hIdW NICoIIIIB
 POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Aug. 5.- Simon King, wealthy Jewish hotelman, who Was evicted from Ku KIux Klan meeting at the Hudson River Driving park last night, said to day he would ask Governor Smith to review the treat ment accorded him by state troopers.
 The unwelcome guest at the klan meeting charged that the troopers mauled him and refused to return to the exposition hall to arrest men whom he charged assaulted him during the scuffle preceding his eviction. King has also asked District Attorney Rem yolds to investigate.
 King claims he was one of numerous Poughkeepsie business men to receive invitations to the klan gathering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
SIX ARE KILLED
 ASTRAINSRASH
 CARS AT GRADES
Automobile Turns Turtle And Two Others
 Are Victims

ANDERSON, S. C., Aug. 1.-Two persons were killed instantly and two were injured when Blue Ridge passen- ger train No. 2, running from Anderson to Belton, struck and demolished an at- tomobile at Shirley's crossing, three milse east of this city.
 The dead are:
 Fred Cox, 19, white; James Delph, negro The father and a brother of the negro who. was killed, were both in jured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
DAM THREATENED
Water Rushing Through Hole And
 Homes Endangered

FONDULAC, Wis, Aug. 5.-Fears are felt here today that the big dam at Campbellsport will break before the rush of the flood waters. A hole ten feet square appeared at noon letting loose thousands of gallons of water. Homes in the path of the water are en- dangered. The dam at Long Lake gave way this morning and the dam at West Bend is expected to go out any moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
FOUR ARE KILLED

Pennsylvania Express Hits Car At A
 Grade Crossing
 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5.---Four persons were instanly killed today when a Pennsylvania Express from Long Island Branch, N. J., to Camden, N. J., struck an automobile at a grade crossing at New Lisbon, N. J., accord ing to a report received at the head quarters of the railroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
CHTART TS EIECTEn

PANAMA, Aug. 5.-(By Associated Press.) - RodOlfo Chiari, popular liberal candidate, was successful in the recent election, the returns giving him a large mapority for president of the Panaman republic over General Quin- teFo,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
K IS BRANDED
 INTO FOREHEAD
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VOUNUIHUOU ETULl o5O UHIOJ struck out with my elbow and hit one man in the stomach, and kicked another in the legs, and slipped away from them.
 "At first they wanted to give chase, but I guess the sight of me running was too funny for them. Anyway, they all roared and let me escape. San Souci expects the scars on his forehead and arm will heal away within few days, and not prove permanent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
 EIGHT.INCH HAIL
Stones Weighing Pound Damage North
 Dakota Crops

ALICE, N. D., Aug. 5.-Hail meas uring eight inches in cirmference and weighing one pound fell here Sat
 urday night, doing considerable dam age to crop, fruit trees and poultry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
FOUR GIRLS INQUIRED

TaiIboard On Picnic, Truck Collapses
 At Atlanta
 ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 5.-FOur girls were injured, one probably fatally here today, when the tailboard of pic nic truck on which they were riding to a suburban outing collapsed, hurling them to the pavement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
Two KILLED As OAR WREcKs

Two Others Injured As Automobile
 Turns Over
 TULSA, Okla., Aug. 5.-Mrs. Anne lia Whidbee and her daughter, Mrs. H. E. Hall, were instantly killed and two other daughters of Mrs. Whid- bee were seriously injured this morning when their auto turned over on sharp curve near here.
 The party had started on a vacation tour and were en route to Kansas City
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
LIVESTOCK KILLED
46 Head Of Prize Cattle Lost When
 Tightening Strikes

SIOUX City, la, Aug. 5.-Forty- six head of prize cattle belonging to John Toop, farmer living near Han of lightning during an electrical storm yesterday, according to word reaching here today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-04

These emergency units include individual
colorcd containers for gas, oil and water
Fastens on the running board-.ls rust.
proof. Containers nre durably finished In
baked enamel. Price complete with lock
type holding rack $500.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-04
CATHOLICS WAR
ON SCANT DRESS
Campaign Against Bare
Arms and NeCkS

ROME July t-Campalgns against
hlrc arms aud bare nrgka amongst
Catholic women attending religious
functions are NaginE thru numerous
italian dl0Uesea
rope Plus ~ has already 81.
pressed himself dcrisiyely Itccoiy.
Ing in audience % number 81 the
noble Indies Of Roman arstocracy.
Ills Holiness urged that womcn's
dress conform 10 the demands Of
modeaty ana propucty.
An osprcias appeal has been made
By Cardinal Ia Fonaine. patriarch
of Venice. who addressed the Catho-
lic women Of his diocefe asking them
10 Use unusual care In their choice
of dress for bathing Venice being
"a great bathing resort. The cardinal
patriarch alrn sent "a message 10 the
diocesan federation stating that 10
regretted seeing girls and women Ia
Christian temples attending 60 par.
iiclpato at tho sacuments "drcHncd
more like paEuns than Chrihtiana.f
MonaiEnor GaFEia. bishop ~ BrrH.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-04
Lighting and Eyes
Cause of Accidents

NEW YORK. July Faulty light.
Ing and poor eyesight arc today the
major factors in one out OF every
eight accidents" Il Is asserted by
r. L. Simpson. engineer OF the Trav.
elcrs' Insurance Co. Hartford. Conn.
in n report to the eyesight conscr.
walton council OF America. which Is
carrying on nationwide campaign
for better vision In education and in.
dustry. Fully ss per cent OF Amer.
lean workers have defects OF vision,
according to the report.
In prehistoric times. Simpson
points out, tho safety OF both man
and beast depended upon acuteness
OF vision. The only natural aEen,
producing glare was the sun. but
8 with the introduction OF gas and
= electricity as Illuminating agents. the
eye has been forced TO contend with
new perils.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-04
LABOR LEADERS
UPSTAGE
British People Voice CON-
plant Against Leaders

LONDON. July t-somc OF the
British labor leaders have become
considerably unstage since they got
in the government and can wear
knee breeches 20 the king's court
and hobnoh with the nobllity-aecord,
ms 20 complaints now being voiced
IN no uncertain words by some Of
the labor rank and file.
I'VE once worked side by side with
these birds-but look az 'em now
Running around with dukes and
wearing fancy pants 20 noble parties,
and turning up their noses az us :"
That's about tho sum and sub,
stance Of some OF the observations
floating around in lahordom these
days.
For example. az a recent meeting
OF coal workers here. u. II. Jones.
president OF the national federation.
got all worked up over the fact that
Frank Hodges. labor leader. had
played a game OF golf with the Duke
OF York.
II must yield 10 the temptation"
said Jones. ''of criticiElng ono time
fiery representative OF the proletariat
who has been falling over himself
10 play golf with real live duke.
Not that ! object 10 the man
playing golf with the duke. he con.
tinued. what | do object 20 Is the
hypocrisy OF the whole thing. one
Of tho most damnahle features In
public life Is the hypocrisy OF public
representatives. and We are paying a
heavy price In permitting this 20 so
on without some protest,
Jones said that IL Is all n mistake
for working men TO have assumed
that ''once tho labor party Is In
power. the millennium will have ar
rived In fact. IL was his opinion
that the labor party had cut a sor.
~ figure" in parliament and he de-
piored the tragic failure OF trade
union leaders who claim tho ability
to lead their people TO the promised
Canaan"
mot labor leaders and labor
parties. but only Christianity can do
that" Jones declared. THE prob
lens are greater than Il Is possible
for any political party TO solve. ]
am convinced that the Christian so.
luton Is the only solution Of our
social and economic troubles-and
that day is coming when trade
union leaders will not be afraid to
say that in public"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-04
IRRIGATION HAS
ITS BAD POINTS
Agriculture Expert Says Soil
Is often Spoiled

PORT COLLINS. Colo. july A.
Belief that tho millions Of dollars
spent on irrigation OF arid lands OF
the West may accomplish no permR-
nent good unless drastic measures
arc taken 20 enforce proper methods
% distribution OF water has been eN.
pressed Dr. Charles 4. I.ory. prcsl.
dent OF Colorado Agricultural col.
lego.
''In some OF the older irrigation
districts" DR.. Lory said. water has
drained tho natural salts from the
soil. profoundly affecting SIS char.
aeter. II also has caused an Increase
in a bacterial flora which takes nitro.
gen from the air. giving an excess
to the ground"
Nitrogen. DR.. Lory explained, In
proper quantities Is beneficial 60 the
soil. but applied in excess may steri.
llzo Il.
No satisfactory means OF combat.
ting this soil sterilization thru ex.
ecsslve and improper irrigation has
been found. Or. Lory said, He pointed
out that hundreds OF thousands Of
acres OF reclaimed hands turnout tho
West have actually deteriorpted from
year 10 year and will eventually
become worthless under present care.
Much OF tho Greeley potato region
has become unfit for this crop, due
10 long years Of Irrigation. DIR. Jory
said. and Rocky Ford cantaloupcs,
famous turnout tho country for their
quality. arc being infested with dia.
case. due to over.lrrigation. Lory al.
legged.
Figures presented by Or. Iory
warned some farmers that unless
they find some means OF correcting
present irrigation procedure. much
OF the plains region OF Colorado and
other Western states may within a
few generations again he tho stamp.
ing ground OF buffalo. antelope coy.
otes and rattlesnakes. making their
homes on deserted farm property.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-07-04
Irrigators' Meet
to Unity Program

uon leaders n oregon will meet az
klamath Falls September 2. 5 and
3. 10 adopt a definite unified state.
Wide program for reclamation degsl
opmruts. according 10 plans made
here by tho executive committee n
thr irrigation conErefs