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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
FORMER LEGION HEAD ATTACKS COOLIDGE
Awsley Accuses President Of Break. tng Harding's Pledge On Bonus

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-President Cool idge was accused of breaking the pledge of the late President Hard ing at a mass meeting of several thousand World war veterans here Sunday. The meeting launches a nation-w wide movement in promotion of sentiment for a soldiers bonus.
 The President, however, has let This shock troops, Secretary Mellon. take the brunt of his stand against the bon1s," one speaker said.
 A loud "Ouch!" greeted first ref erence to Mellon, and hoots and groans followed mention of the Sec retary of the Treasury as the great est living enenfy of the service men, by Alvin Owsley of Texas, past com mander of the American Legion.
 Silence greeted reference to the Presidents name in connection with the bonus.
 "The battle today is not in France 1t is In Washington" Owsley said. "The American Legion is the one great, clean, strong American force, rising above all partisanship, fight ing only for the ultimate good. Let Congress reflect on that.
 Many sinister influences are at work against the bonus. Men em- ployed in large lnstitutions-ex- serv- Ice men and men who were not In the army-have been told to be aglinst the soldiers bonus if they want to hold their jobs.
 ''I damn that with S:i my being.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
TRAIN HITS-AUTO;
 FAMILY OF 6 DIE
Car Thrown 30 Feet, Struck Again And Carried 50
 Feet Farther

BICKNELL, Ind, Jan. 13.-An en- tire family of six persons was killed. five of them almost instantly, when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by Chicago and Eastern Illinois train No. 92 at a crossing near here today. The ma chine was thrown 30 feet against an iron semaphore post and was hit a second time and carried 50 feet farther before the train stopped.
 The dead are:
 Claude Whittenmeyer. 34.
 Mrs. Lulu Van Meter Whitten- meyer, 34.
 Helen Whittenmeyer, 1S.
 Mady Whittenmeyer, s.
 Loren Whittenmeyer. 4.
 Charles David Whittenmeyer, 3.
 Mrs. Whittenmeyer was killed in- stantly and the others lived only 8 few minutes, with the exception of the baby, which lived an hour and half.
 The whittenmeyers. who resided near here, were en route to the home of relatives for dinner when the ac- cident occurred.
 A passenger and a freight train were approaching the crossing at the same time, according to wit nesses. Whittenmeyer, who was driving the car, waited for the freight to pass and then started his machine across the track, apparently failing to notice the approaching passenger train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
DR. PARKS STATES M0DERN|ST VIE Ws
Other New York Pastors. Dis cuss Controversy Disturb
 ing Episcopalians

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.--Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks. rector of St. Bartho- lomew's church, who invited Bishop William T. Manning to try him for heresy a month ago when the cita- tion for alleged heresy of the Rev became public. today defended the fundamentalist position and charac- terized the modernist movement as "a disease"
 Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant ex- plained at the Church of the Ascen- sion that he did not think. that be- case he was in the minority In his modernist advocacy that he should leave the church, and said the de- mand for his election was joke" Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie defended the Greek dancing at festi- vals of the Church of St. Marks. in the Bonwerie, recently criticised by Bishop Manning, as necessary to get people interested in religion.
 pr. Parks recently opened the sAac- trinai controversy M tho Protestant Episcopal church by going before his congregation as doctor of theology to denounce the proposed trial of Rev. MT. Heaton, and to protest against the pastoral letter adopted by the house of bishops at it's Dal- Idss LcAdS, meclluS, uSIDduOlnB dQ~ herence to the doctrine of the Virgin birth. Later, Dr.. Parks was one of the group who tried to bring about conferences to settle quietly the church differences.
 T am sure that an sensible peo- pie" he said in today's sermon, must agree that the fundamentalist is right in insisting that there must be some fundamental proof; some fun damental thought on which the Christian church is based. With out that the church drifts away from it's foundation cannot fail to dissolve. The troubles of the pres ent day churches would vanish If we believed wholeheartedly in the re- ligion of Jesus Christ"
 States Both sdes.
 "Of course," he added, "the diff ficulty is to decide just what Is fundamental. The ,rnodernist com plains that the fundarhentalist con- tefids that things belonging to the building, such as ornaments. con- veniences. the pinnacles and finish ings of the building are the founda- tons of the structure. Fhe funda- mentalists on the other hand, have declared from the beginning that to touch anything in the building will sooner or later lead to the removal of the cornerstone.
 ''The present modernist view Is not the fruit of the profound researches of theological scholars made in the
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
FARM LOAN BOARD OFFERS BIG ISSUE
$6O,000 In Bonds To Be Placed On Market At
 100 1-2 Today

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1S-The fed eral farm loan board, preparing to meet the late winter and spring de- mand for money expected to be made on the federal land banks. announced today that it would issue tomorrow S60,O00,000 in federal farm loan bonds.
 The bonds will be offered through federal land. banks. national farm loan associations and other distribu- tors at 100h with accrued interest from January 1. the date of issue. Maturity of the debenturcs will be fixed at 30 years with the callable privilege after 10 years or after January l. 1894. They will bear 1 s4 per cent interest.
 "The 12 federal land banks" says Commi ssioner Cooper of the farm loan board, have during the past year increased their capital to $43,597,320 and their assets to sS76.- 232,007. With this continued growth and continued evidence of their soli- darity. it is anticipated that the pres- ent offering of securities will be promptly absorbed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
CHURCH AFFILIATIONS OF CONGRESS SHOWN
Census Reveals Majority Of Legis-
 latnrs Belong To Same Sect

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-A canvass made by the board of temperance, prohibition and morals of the Meth odist Episcopal church to determine the religious affiliations of senators and representatives of this Congress definitely established that 76 of the 96 senators and 373 of the 434 repre- sentatives are members of some church.
 In making this encouragement to- day the board said that IT senators and 41 members of the House had been found to have no religious af- filiation, while that of three sena tors and 20 representatives had not been asctl tained.
 Of the Earious denominations, the Methodists led in numbers. with 96 in the House and 23 in the Senate Eighteen senators are Episcopalians, 14 Presbyterians, seven Roman Catholics, five Congregationalists three Baptists, two Mormons, two Lutherans, one Unitarian and one Christian disciple.
 In addition to the 9G MethodistS. members of House were divided as follows:
 Presbyterian. 59; Episcopalian, 56 i; Baptist, 45; Roman Catholic 3S; Con gregationalist, 26; Christian disciple, 16; Lutheran, 12; Jewish, nine: Uni tarian. four; Dutch Reformed and Quaker, each three; United Brethren Mormon Mennonite. Christian Scient- ist. Evangelical and Universalist, one each. The House tabulation took into account one vacancy,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
CAREW RIDICULES TAX PROPAGANDA
Writes Sarcastic Letters To Colleagues Who Allowed
 Their Names To Be Used

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1s.-The in volved mental state in which some members of Congress find themselves after several weeks struggles. with the ins and outs of the new tax bill was described today by Representa- tive Carew of New York. demo- cratic member of the ways and means committee. in a circular letter sent to constituents who had ad- dressed to him an identic appeal for approval of the Mellon plan.
 ''I certainly was glad" said the letter. ito receive this identic letter from you and a number of others. all mailed at the same time and place and many miles away from your home. and to learn that you were all devoting yourselves to the solution of these intricate, abstruse and per picking problems of taxation that Congress is trying to rationalize. and I was also delighted to find all great minds running in the same channel. and that you were all in identical phrase expressing approval of the Mellon plan and bill, which had not at that time been given out to the public.
 Tt was with special and great confidence that I told my colleagues who were then all dizzy trying to understand the reading of Section 201. Subdivisions l, 2 and of Secre- tary Mellon's bill. which. as you. Of course. know. differentiates liqui- dating partial and liquidating total incremetal dividends. and both of these again from primitive and oc- capital assets distribu tions. apply to the first the rule in Taylor's theorem to the second the integral. and to the last the differ ential. and to all as a prime factor the logarithmic abcissa with normal opponents into the parabolic func- tion--I told my colleagues. all in a complete state of hyperthropic mental coma and paralaxis, that we need work no more. as l was sure you would come right down to Wash ington and elucidate the whole for me P. D. Q. ct Q. U. F. D.
 Thanking you for all the help you have given us in your letter. which SO miraculously came from so many different parts of the United States al once. we all look forward to soon hearing from you all again on any subject you know less about, such as the bonus Taxistically yours.
 JOHN F. CAREw.
 "P. S.-The foregoing is not in- tended for you. but for the sub cellar propagandist who buncoed you into signing the letter. Please send tt 70 nlm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
SABBATH HALTS
 WAR M MARION
Nearly Dozen Liquor Raids Made, Netting Two Stills
 And M00nshine

MARION, H.. Jan. 1S-Khal<i-ela5 state militiamen attended church here Sunday and Bloody William son" county's ''booze war" stood at least temporarily suspended.
 Police and deputy sheriffs con- tinued the work of the Ku Klux Kian raiders with nearly a dozen liouor raids which resulted in the capture Of "o gallons of liquor and two
 Fifty soft drink saloons in Herrin are operating without bars. which were junhed by their proprietors after a warning that the federal gov ernment would lock up their places ii the owners didn't remove the for bidden pieces of furniture.
 Sheriff Galligan. still i'll with humps and tonsilitis. refuses to say when h" will request recall of the troops. The sheriff has won his fight to have Glenn Young. prohibition "rzar" "f the county, removed from leadership of Inc klan booze raids. which have been discontinued by fed eral order, but has So far met de- feat in his demand that some 200 iicrrin citizens. mostly klansmen who carry reVolverS on their hips ne diSarmed. The justices of the peacr who issued the sun toting per mits refused 10 revoke them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
ML:END0N READY
 ID. FORGE ISSUES
viaducts, Tidewater Line Question And Combined
 Building Coming Up

Three matters of city-wide interest and importance will come to heao at the city hall this week. according to D. E. McLendon. city commission president. ---
 No. 1 will be a conference between the commission and officials of the B. R., L. & P. Co. at which the city will flatly refuse to approve plans for curtailment of service on the Tidevater line. The city also will fight any move on the part of the company to junk" the tracks on this route.
 No. 3 will be the beginning of a final series of conferences between commissioners and officials of rail- roads entering Birmingham in con- .nection with construction of another viaducK and three <anderpassesa at downtown grade crossings. The commission plans to get definite ac- tion; on these projects shortly.
 No 3 will be the launching of a movement to renew conferences with the county board of revenue on the question of a joint administration building for the city and county. As plans for the proposed new court house, as tentatively drawn. do not contemplate a joint building, quick action is necessary If the commission and revenue board are to get to- gether.
 According to the general impress sion at city hall and the court house. a majority of both the commission and the revenue board favor a joint building. This, if true. means that a few conferences would produce def mite action which would end the long discussion over this question.
 Discussing the question of viaducts and uriderpasses, MT. McLendon said the railroads are fast completing sur veys, preparatory to holding final conferences with the city. He be- lieves the first definite steps to- ward starting these improvements will be taken before the end of the week. The city and all railroads ex- cept the Southern have completed plans.
 As to reorganization of the affairs of the street railway company. the commission head says the city will make a mistake if it allows the com pany to junk any part of the Tide water line.
 "I am ready to fight to a finish against any change on this route," the president said. The company may try to junk the whole line, but the commission and the public service commission will have a say-so in that matter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
cperience Uneasy Sabbath By Cleanup
DEMOCRATIC DRESS SUITS
 REPLACE BESPANGLED CARE
Much Useless Gold Braid Has Been Ripped Off, As Dplo mats Strive To Get Away From BelHop Effect By Alp bearing At Social Functions In Uniforms Similar Tc Full Dress Outfit Of Army And Navy Officers

But with the revival of the formal diplomatic parties the inroads of sim pier democracy upon the gold-oraidcd sristocracy of the past became ap- parent. At the New Years reception at the White House. the German ann bassador was present. but not in the splendor which Count Von Bernstorff affected when he was 8 popular fig ure here. Dr. Wiedfeldt wore . regu- lar full dress suit at the White House reception, the first one at which Ger many was represented since the war.
 The Austrian charge was similarly dressed, signifying the passing of a monarchy.
 Many of the other diplomats, with out entirely abandoning the bespan- gled garb, have ripped off consider able gold braid and tried to get away from the bell-hop effect by adopting uniform. which closely resembles the full dress outfit of army and navy officers.
 Even among those diplomats whose countries continue the elaborate uni- forms, there is a tendency to weai this regalia as little as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
INQUIRY INTO
 ID .bE LAUNCHED
United States To Make vig-
 orous Demands Upon The Chinese Government For
 Violence Offered Americans BANDITS APPREHENSION AND PUNISHMENT SOUGHT Little Expected From Author- ities At Pekin Who Are AL
 most Helpless In Dealing
 With Outlaw Element There

WASHINGTON. Jan. 13-Outrages upon Americans in China will be made the subject of vigorous instruc- tions from this government to Amer ican Minister Schurman at Pekin.
 The death of Rev. Bernard Hoff. Lutheran missionary, at the hands of Chinese bandits, and the capture of 10 Americans by Thibetan bandits will cause the United States to in struct It's representative at Pekin to make strong representation to the Chinese government. That govern ment will be asked to do everything possible to capture the bandits and punish them.
 But the long list of outrages since the wrecking of the Pekin-Shanghai express last May and the catpure of score of more Americans, has caused this government to expect little from the Pekin authorities who are almost helpless In dealing with the bandit generals who control the provinces.
 The United States has attempted along with the other powers, to strengthen the Pekin government to the point where it could police settle efforts have produced little result. After the capture of the Americana last May. the United States and other powers who had nationals on the bandit wrecked train, effected an agreement with the Chinese au- thorities for policing the railroad against future robberies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
By SOCIETY HOSTESS Written for The Age-HeraldD

NLeased Wire to The Age-kerald.)
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-In re- nouncing the black satin knickers made famous by George Harvey at the Court of St. James, Frank B. Kellogg, new ambassador to Great Britain, is conforming with a general tendency among diplomats to wear simple evening clothes instead of the gay plumage and gold braid which were almost universally worn before the war.
 Looking over a diplomatic gather ing here, such as the breakfast which Secretary of State Hughes gave to the Corps New Years Day, or the White House reception, one Is struck by the sprinklinE Of black evening clothes. Until the war. American diplomats were the only ones who did not wear a special uniform, Of more or less gaudy description, to formal affairs. The entire corps al Wash ington always turned out in an array of brilliant plumage not excelled at any high lodge function.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
COUE BACK; WILL
 TREAT BY RADIO
Auto Suggestion Expert Of Better Every Day Fame
 To Lecture

NEW YORK. Jan. 13--If users of the day by day formula are too indolent to repeat it to themselves consistently. they may talk the words into a photograph and there after get their daily treatment through that medium. Emile Coue, leading exponent Of conscious auto suggestion, declared on his arrival on the steamship, Paris, today.
 It was his only new message. he said, smilingly. It made no differ ence, he explained. how the formula was applied; its the subconcious mind that is to be reached and any method will do." He was the same smiling, gray. little man. soft spoken and unassuming. In spite of his daily contact with admirlng crowds he still was shyly diffident.
 M. Coue came again to lecture un- der the auspices of the Coue Nationa institute, the proceeds to be devoted to upkeep of the Coue institutes in New York. London, Paris and Brus- sels He will speak in New York on Tuesday, and later will appear in Chicago, Milwaukee, Louisville, St Louis. Kansas City, Mo-, Des Moines Salt Lake City San Francisco, Oak land. Los Angeles, San Diego. Hous- ton, Fort Worth and Dallas, Tex. and New Orleans.
 The Paris. buffeted by storms. was one day late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
MEETING MAY DEVELOP NEW PLACEMENTS
 Choice Of Convention City Is
 OvershadoWed By Possibility
 McAdoo May Oppose Two
 thirds Rule For Nomination NEW YORK AND CHICAGO ARE RIVALS FOR MEETING Underwood And McAdoo Leading In Race, But Favo-
 rite Sons And Dark Horses
 May Wreck Their Plans

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Demo- cratic leaders here to choose a con vention city and to discuss other business matters at the national com mittee meeting Tuesday found them selves tonight entangled in a maze of political discussion centerinS around the choice of a presidentia. nominee.
 Friends of William c. McAdoo were especially active and promised a demonstration for the party chief tain before the meeting is over- Supporters of Senator Underwood of Alabama were busy presenting his cause, and others with the interests of favorite sons and potential dark horses to guard lost no opportunity to bring forward their candidates
 The New York delegation. which will present the name of Governor Al Smith, will arrive tomorrow with Charles F Murphy. Norman E. Mack and other empire state wheelhorses. William J. Bryan. who today an- nounced the name of Dr. A. A. Murphree of Gainesville, Fla. for con- sideration, is also to be here as an interested observer"
 McAdoo Favors Western City.
 The McAdoo forces are expected to try to advance his cause in the choice by the committee of a convention city, and other ways. He is said to favor a western city for the con Vention.
 Homer s. Cummings of Connecticut. former national chairman. brought MT. McAdoo's name before the party chiefs tonight In formal statement. declaring choice of the former sec retary of the treasury was the Fog ical. desirable and inevitable"
 The issues of the coming cam paign are rapidly crystallizing around the two candidates-Mr. Coolidge, representing the reactionary influ- ences. and NIT. McAdoo, representing the progressive sentiment of tine country" said MT. Cummings. "It IS 8 natural alignment. and as these two men more clearly and perfectly embody these two conflicting schools of thought than any others now be- fore the public 1t Is logical that both should be nominated.
 "The democratic party has a pr,,- gram that Is the direct antithesis of this policy of reaction and hopeless floundering. More than any other man. Mr. McAdoo represents the great body of opinion of the democratic party"
 Hot Contest Promised.
 tOiitSSt AOI SGItCllOn or the con- vention city promises to be hotiy con- tested. with New York, Chicago and St Louis regarded as the leaders. Atlanta and Louisville are also ex- pected to submit invitations.
 san Francisco will present a strong invitation for the convention. ac- cording to lsadore B. Dockweiler, california national committeeman.
 We are going to get the conven. ton again for San Francisco" ha said.
 Mayor Henry W. Kiel and a large deIegation of St. Louis business men. Including James F. Smith, chairman or the St. Louis civic committee, ar rived today and announced that S, Louis was prepared to match tb, offer of any other competitor
 The Chicago bid is to be presented by bipartisan delegation, headed
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