davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
FORT CALLS OFF
 UNDERWOOD QUIZ BY GRAND JURY
Investigation Termed Use less If Senator De-
 nies Charges

The possibility of grand jury inves- tigation of the alleged statements made by Senator Oscar W. Underwood in political speeches in Maine, disappeared Tuesday when Judge William D. Fort stated that if the alleged attacks upon Alabama and Jefferson county had not been made there was nothing to inves- tigate.
 When the grand jury was empaneiled Judge Fort instructed the jury to in- vestigate the statements, in which Senator Underwood is averred to have told of the criminal activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Jefferson county and Ala bama.
 ''If Senator Underwood denies having made the charges, grand jury investi- gation would be useless inasmuch as we only wanted to know whether such con ditions as are alleged to have been charged by the senator actually exist in this county" Judge Fort said.
 'In charging the grand jury only asked that the jurors make such inyes- stigatians as would he neesssnrE to de termiiie whether such conditions exist in this state and county. Should if have been true that Senator Underwood made such statements before persons of another state, we only wanted to let it be known they were unfOunded."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
POSTPONE RETURN
 OF SHENANDOAH
Storm Conditions In East Cause
 Delay In Trip

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 21.-Reports of storm conditions in the east will postpone the departure of the navy diri- gible, Shenandoah, until Thursday morning, it was announced late Tues day by Lieut.. Commander Zachary. captain of the ship. Ehe next leg of the dirigible's fight will rake her to Fort Worth, Texas.
 The Shenandoah made a ground landing at North Island at II 40 a. m., Tuesday after lowering over the city and ocean for nearly eight hours. At first the ships pilots were unable to see the landing field because of the mist. Late a sun broke through the clouds. which expanded the dirigible's gas, making it necessary for Com mander Lansdowne to have a quantity of helium released before discending to the field.
 It had been tentatively planned to loose the Shenandoah for her eastward flight eastward Wednesday, but reports of storm brewing in eastern states caused the postponement ordered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
GAS AND PEPPER DISPERSE MOB
 IN KHAN AEFRAY
Walton's Former Secre. tary Scheduled To Ad-
 dress DetrOiters
(By Associated Press)

DETROIT, Oct. 21.-Hurling tear gas and bombs and red pepper, police riot squads tonight dispersed a mob estimated at between 1000 and 10000 persons, gathered in the street in front of the Arena Gardens auditorium where Aldrich Blake, former secretary to J. c. Walton, deposed governor of Okla homa, was scheduled to deliver an ad- dress on "The KIu Klux Klan Kraze."
 Police were called when it was re- ported that the mob was preventing persons from entering the auditorium. The crowd was described by police as Ku Klux Klan spmpathizers.
 After the mob had been driven into side streets number of them staged a demonstration for Charles Bowls, in dependent candidate for mayor police report. The only casualty reported was an unidentified man struck on the head by bomb. He was stunned but not otherwise injured. Police remained on guard at the auditorium throughout the evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
PLANS
 s25O,OOO SUNDAY
 SCHOOL BUILDING
Southside Baptist Begins New Unit Early Next
 Spring

In line with the expansion programs of other Birmingham churches the Southside Baptist plans to construct a $25O, 900 Sunday school building ear ly next spring, it was stated Tuesday bg pr. F Dillard. The unit will be situated back of the present church building at Eleventh avenue and Nine teenth street, Dr. billiard said, with the proposal to Incorporate in it a gym nasium, social rooms and other modern features.
 The building plan was adopted by the congregation recently because church quarters are inadequate to meet the increasing needs of space. Drawings have not yet been submitted, but com mittees from each of the church de- partments have been appointed to work out financial and building problems with the idea of pushing the work with all possible dispatch. The committees and subcommittee will be headed by ". A. Watts.
 Auditorium of the new building will seat around 4,000, which with the church hall also to be enlarged to a seating sapacity of 2,200, will give the congregation ample room for various meetings. Although not officially de- cided it is said probable that the de- sign and material for the structure will follow the general plan of the church. The Southside Baptist now owns 90 feet on Nineteenth street with a depth of PIP feet which allows plenty of room for the new addition. j
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
GETS $5,OOO PRIZE
 FOR BIG FAMILY
Quadruplets Help Family Of
 Ten To Get Award

PARIS, Oct. 21.-The "big family" prize of 25,0O0 francis has been awarded by the French academy, at former Premier Poincare's request, to DevOuste Dubrenie, whose family has been strug- gling against the high cost of living with ten children to Ssed. The children inc cIude quardruplets-twO boys and two girls-born in the war. M. Poincare, who was then president of France, King Albert of Belgium, King George of England and the Empress of Russia were their godfathers and godmother.
 NJ. Poincare inducted the academy and the multimiIlionaire founder of sev- eral score such annual prizes to waive families in which the parents are under forty years of age. Dubrenie is 56.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
EIGHT NOW DEAD
 IN SHIP BLAST; INQUIRY ORDERED
Four Sailors Succumb To Injuries Received In
 Tragedy
cBy Associated Press.)

NORFOLK. Va, Oct. 21.-The tleath list in the powder explosion on the scout cruiser Trenton off the Vlr- ginia Capes, increased to eight today with the death in the Naval hospital here of two of the sixteen injured taken there. Two others are not expected 10 survive the night and a third IS sald to he in A precarious condition. The deaths today were:
 Melvin Franklin Seaman, seaman second class, Brooklyn. N. H.' and Joseph Cohen, seaman, first class, New York City, Arthur James McCormlcK' Charlestown, Mass, and Franklin D. Jeffery, Lynn, Mass, seaman were the men not expected to live throughout fine night. John UzzolinO, of Newark, N. l.. also a seaman, was the thlrd man reported in a critical condition.
 Those previously reported dead are Ensign Henry Clay Drexler, Bethany Beach, Del; Roland Phillips Hanson solder. Iowa, seaman; Bernard Beverly Byam, Bristol, Conn.,, seaman; William Alfred Walker, Mayo, $. C., seaman Bennett Williams, SOutheaston, Mass, seaman, and George Robert Cholister' A1ercnunlSNAl1e, AN' O'1 SS"Ar-'
 Three experts from the navy ordnance bureau at Washington have been ordered to Norfolk by Secretary of Navy Wilbur to assist in an investiga- ton to be conducted aboard the Tren- ion in an effort to determine the cause of the explosion, which occurred Tn the forward turrent yesterday 1t was announced today after navy officials here declared they were unable to find the slightest clue to the cause for the accident. They declared the records of the navy showed no parallel disaster.
 Seek Cause Of Blast
 The only theory advanced in com municGtions to the department from here was that the powder charges might have caught on some object while being hoisted into the turrent and might have been exploded by friction. Officers aboard the ship were emphatic in their declarations that all safety precautions had been observed, and that apparently the explosion could not have resulted from a defect in the cleo trical equipment.
 The ordnance experts to be sent from Washington are Commanders Harvey DelanO and Garrett Schuyler and Chief Draughtsman G. A. Chadwick.
 The board of inquiry will be com posed of either five or seven naval officers to be named by Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully, of the battleship Wyoming, commander of the scouting fleet, and will be chosen from the of ficer personnel of the ships of the fleet now in Hampton Roads, it was announced. It was indicated that the
 (COntinued on Page p.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
Fund or $75O, 900 Ls Democrat Limit,
 Committee Ls Told
Existing Deficit Of $48,- 900 Reported By Treas
 urer Gerard
(By Associated Press)

NDy kASSUCAhDCu EC6o)
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-With a total of $548,440 in contributions in hand to date the democratic national committee expects to conclude the pres ent campaign on a maximum outlay of $160, 900, the senate investigating com mittee was told otady by Clem l.. Shaver, chairma. d James W. Ger ard, treasurer.
 Expenses thus far have aggregated $597 ,119, according to a statement put into the record by MT. Gerard. Of this sum $461 ,801, has been paid, the state ment shows. There is an existing defi- cit of approximately $4S,000, on the basis of this showing and Chairman Shaver said he anticipated q deficit at the end of the campaign unless con- tributions came in more rapidly.
 At previous hearings officials of the republican national committee testified to expenditures of $1,700,000 with an estimated maximum by election day of $3, 100000. John M. Nelson, manager of the La Toilette independent organ ization told of collections aggregating $190, ,000, expenditures of $155,000 and said he expected to wind up the cam paign on a total cost of $250,000.
 A Short Hearing
 The examination of MT. Shaver and MT. Gerard consumed less than an hour and as no other witnesses were avail able the inquiry was adjourned until late tomorrow when the La Toilette charges of a republican "slush" fund will be investigated further. Only three of the five members were present today Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, chairman and Senators Caraway, Ar kansas and Bayard, Delaware, demo- crats. The absentees were Senators Jones, republican, Washington, and farmer labor, Minnesota.
 When MT. Gerard placed the max imum budget at $75O,000, Chairman Borah asked him about a recent state-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
jUNkERS OPENLY PLAN RETURN OF KAISER
STUDENT BODY
 SENDS THANKS
 TO AGE-HERALD
T1DITOR of The Age Herald.

TDITOR of The Age-H Herald. E The student body of the uni
 versity desire to express to The Age-Herald heartfelt apprec- ton of its obvious fairness in deal ing with the regrettable misunder- standing that occurred between Mir. Carter and Mir. Miller. The simple fact is that there had been an agree ment in advance between the cheer leaders of the two institutions that the time between halves should be equally divided. When Mir. Carter understood that seven and one half minutes had expired he appeared on the field.
 Our gratitude to The Age-Herald is accentuated in view of the fact that unfriendly, unfair and seeming ly biased statements have been made in another paper regarding the mat ter.
 J. M. BURT president U. of A. Student Body.
 Tuscaloosa, Ala, Oct. 20, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
WOMAN'S DEATH
 STILL M DOUBT
Her Heart Stops, But Doctors
 Send For Paris Specialist

PARIS, Oct. 21.-A peculiar path ological case is reported from Lille. A surgeon had placed young Mime. Mar quette, wife of a wealthy cloth manu- faeturer under chlorofOrm. preparatory to an operation when he discovered that her heart had ceased to beat.
 He declared her dead and all prepa- rations were made for the intermen; when a member of the family remarked that the usual signs were lacking, the face retaining its color and the limbs lacking the rigor of death.
 Other physicians were called, but none was able to say for certainty whether the young woman was really dead or merely in trance. An emin- ent Paris specialist has been summoned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
I5.OOO NEW YORKERS
 CHEER UBER ALLIES
ZR-3's Commander HOnOred By
 Theater Crowd In Gotham

NEW YORK, Oct. 21,-An audience of 15OOO cheered the playing of Deutschland Uber Allies" last night at local theater where the officers and crew of the ZR-3 were guests of the management. There was no trace of un- friendliness when Dr. Huge Eckener, commander of the huge dirigible on ner trans atlantic flight, made a speech in German.
 When the spotlight was turned on the box where Dr. Eckener and his staff were seated. he arose and told the crowd that all misunderstanding between Germany and America was a thing of the past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
NEWS FROM TODAY'S WANT ADS

Southside investment, $60,OO0, Office boy wanted.
 Five room bungalow for $2.65O. Dandy five room home in Avon wood.
 Corner lot. close in. with four dwellings.
 Five shares Alabama Petroleum stock. Two cows found
 Barber shop wanted. Ns Corner lot paying over per cent. Ss.50o.
 Improved lot paying $62.bo with splendid enhancement.
 Waitress wants work. Wonderful values in used cars. Technically trained engineer wanted.
 Insurance stenographer wants position.
 Good quality coal for s5.76. Partner wanted-small invest ment necessary.
 Six room house. acreage, six miles out, for rent.
 Insurance salesman sought. California bungalow in Norwood for sale.
 Si5 cash and small monthly pay ment will buy lot.
 Old clothes bought and sold. :, Room, with or without board, in all sections of the city. siOO down and balance on easy terms will buy good cottage. Turn to pages 14 and 1s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22

ment issued by the democratic national committee that at the outside $1 ,50O,- GOO would be raised.
 T am not in charge of the conduct of the campaign, Mir. Gerard said, add ing that he was assured that the com mittee would spend $1,500,000 If they gave it to us"
 Both the former ambassador to Ger many and Mir. Shaver said they knew of no organizations except the national committee were undertaking to raise any substantials funds for the demo- cratic campaign. Mir. Gerard said there were organizations like the Young Mems Democratic clubs and women's organizations but that the national com mittee had contributed to them.
 Responding to inquiries as to funds raised by state committees, the national treasurer said he had no specific knowl-
 (COntinued on Page 2).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
ELECTION CAMPAIGN
 IS MAPPED MOnarchists To Wage Open War In Coming
 Ballot FRENCH AND JEWS OBJECT OF ATTACK Meeting Called To Lay Plot For Political
 Coup DAWES PLAN SAFE,
 MARX DECLARES Present Cabinet Possessed Of Power To Fulfill Obliga-
 tiOns, He Says
FRENCH AND JEWS
 OBJECT OF ATTACK
DAWES PLAN SAFE,
 MARX DECLARES
By ERIC KEYSER Heased Wire To Age Herald)

BERLIN, Oct. 21.-Ger- many is heading into a general election in which monarchism for the first time since the debacle of November, 1918, boldly challenges German re- publicanism.
 Confident that $20O,0O0,OO0 of foreign money soon to be in- vested in Germany is an ample guarantee that S auctions would not be taken if Germany were swept back toward a monarchy by vote of the peo- pie the nationalist leSders have dropped all pretense about their actual aims.
 Heretofore the wealthy, reactionary junkers who lead the nationalist party have half-heartedly cloaked themselves as mere conservatives, but this disguise has been discarded.
 To Dust Indignities
 Our aims" the junker election mani- festo proolaims, include purifying the nation from the. spirit of November, 1918. Likewise we would cleanse the nation of the spirit which subject it to foreign nations in a posture of undignl- fled pacifism.
 "Our party remains as hitherto, monarchistic.
 "We are more determined than
 ever to build Germany free from
 Jewish and French domination and
 from the domination of democratic
 capital"
 The socialists replied with an election blast belittling the junker chieftains as outgrOwn leaders.
 Such frankness of purpose as is ex- posed in the nationalist manifesto seems likely to create parliamentary cleavage too wide for the numerous minority party blocs to straddle. It is even pos sible that the issue thus dragged out into the open may assist the German people to elect reichstag with a stable majority definitely committed to a principle so important that the majority would not crack and disintegrate un- der the first opposition assault.
 Sensitive to Change
 Nationalists pride themselves on pure Germanic descent. They despise the. Jews who are so powerful in their country. They are sensitive to the changes time has brought in Germany's prestige.
 In Berlin this week will convene a great war council of reactionary, mon archistic politicians. An effort will be made to induce all opponents of social ism and the Jews to send representa- tives to the cOnclave. The conferees will lay plans designated to return Germany to her old glory and kaiser to the throne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
VIOLINIST, S4, SENT
 TO THE POORROUSE
Aged Hungarian Begs Magis-
 trate For Shelter

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-Eighty four year-oId Joseph Tartar, who once led a crack Hungarion regimental band, went to the workhouse today because he was cold, hungry and friendless.
 Bad investments wiped out his for tune, he told Magistrate Corrigan, and he had eked out living playing on street corners. One night his last prized pos session-a Stradivarius violin-was stolen. Then he begged and the police got him.
 Please send me to the workhouse for the winter" he pleaded with Magis- trate Corrigan. Surely some one there will have an old violin for me to play with"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
OLD SPANISH GRANT
 TO BE RESURVEYED
Property Wanted For State
 Docks Property

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21-A resurvey by government engineers to identify and relocate an old Spanish grant of land close to Mobile, Ala, was ordered today by the interior department. The state docks commission of Alabama desires the land, but private engineers and sur veyors have not been able to define It's original linel The land originally was granted by. the Spanish crown to Bar telemore Laurent in 1796, was confirmed by the Spanish government in 1907 and by an act of congress in 1919 to John Forbes and company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
TRAIN HITS HEARSE.
 INJURING TWO MEN
Driver Of Funeral Auto Is Ex.
 pected To Die

BRISTOL, Tenn, Oct. 21.-Harri- son Thompson, driver of a motor hearse belonging to David Rhodes, undertaken, was probably fatally injured 12 miles north of this city today when the ma chine was splintered by a Norfolk and Western passenger train at a grade crossing. Rhodes, occupant of the driv- CTS seat, was also injured, suffering a broken arm and several bad bruises.
 Thompson had an arm and a leg broken and internal injuries that are ex- pected to cause his death. A caskel that was being transported in the hearse was torn to pieces by the impact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
AUGUSTUS THOMAS
 QUITS tCZARDOM'
Producing Managers Association
 Ceases To Exist

NEW YORK, Oct, 21.-The Produc- ing Managers association today is technically non existent. By q unani- nous vote the members decided to dis solve because of conditions which have recently arisen" In the passing of the organization is involved the ab- dictation of Augustus Thomas, the play wright, from this throne as "czar" of the theatrical profession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
GLOBE FILTERS LAND
Round Would Planes Continue East
 ward Flight

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. 2l.-Ihe world circling airplanes, which lett NIedford, Oregon, en route to San Diego, arrived at Mather field, east of Sac ramento this afternoon. The aviators were guests of honor at banque and dance in Sacramento this evening. The fliers expect to continue east from San Diego, visiting San Antonio, New Or leans and finally Dayton, Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
NEW CHARCOAL GAS
 FOUND SUCCESSFUL
Stockholm Scientists Produce
 Fuel At Low Cost

STOCKHOLM Oct. 21.-Expire. ments in the use of charcoal gas instead of oil as a motor fuel for automobiles, boats and even trains, have been carried out successfully by the Scapia-Vabis works in MalmOe, it is announced to- day.
 The gas, derived, from ordinary char coal, and produced at only a fraction of the cost of gasoline or alcohol, can be carried in containers conveniently placed in motor cars and can be piped via a generator to the motor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
GEN. BUTLER FINDS
 HIS COPS CLEAN
Philadelphia Safety Director In-
 poets Force

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21.-Direc- tor of Public Safety Smedley D. But Ter, said he found every policeman spick and span while motoring to his office today. He found fault with the appearance of some of the man yes- terday.
 "You've got to be doggy to do your work" he said "We never will get anywhere with force that does not take pride in it's personal appearance. A good cop must keep himself all shined up."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
MRS. GREEN PLANS
 INSANITY DEFENSE
Arkansas Grand Jury Returns
 First Degree Murder Indictment

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct. 21.-An indictment charging murder in the first degree was returned by the Pulaski county grand jury today against Mrs. Winona Green, 24, who, has confessed to the staying of her father-in-law, J. R. Green, here August 17, and to the killing of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Lena Green, near Fisher, Okla, September %. Mrs. Green recently was arrested at Pueblo, Colo, and returned here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
MARX OPTIMISTIC
Foreign Pledges Are Safe, Chancellor
 Believes
 (D,v Ac.oUSoAa5 E1u.o.N

(By Associated Press)
 BERLIN, ct. 21.-The dissolution of the reichstag and the advent of q new parliament in no way endanger the full fillment by Germany of the London agreement on the Dawes reparation plan, Chancellor Marx told the Asso- ciated Press today.
 Although the political complexion of the new reichstag is wholly conjecturai at this hour, the chancellor is convinced that the election which has been off cially set for December 2 will return sufficient number of supporters of the Dawes plan and of the foreign and m- ternal policies of the present govern
 (COntinued On Page TwO)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
ANDERSON YERDICT UPHELD

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 21.-The court of appeals today unanimously upheld the conviction last spring of William II. Anderson, former superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league of New York state, for third degree forgery. Anderson is now serving q term of from one to two years in Sing Sing prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
CAMPAIGNS FOR HUSBAND

LONDON, Oct. 2I.LLady Diana Duff Cooper, actress, is now actively participating in the election contest and has a method all her own in trying to induce the women electors of Oldham to vote for her husband, Alfred Duff Cooper, D. S. O., conservative candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
Colder Weather Friday

Indications point to cold or much cooler weather for this weekend This comes as good news to shoppers throughout the Bir- mingham district and assures merchants CO., operating with The Age-Herald in Bargain Fridays perhaps the busiest weekend so far this season.
 The Age-Herald battery of advertising men report that Birmingham, Bessemer and Ens1ey merchants are going to extend them selves in competing for the patronage of Age Herald readers. New names offering extra specials" will appear in the list on first page of
 THE AGE-HERALD
 ''Your Newspaper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Generally fair Wednes- day and Thursday; cooler Wednesday. Mississippi: Generally fair. Georgia: Fair.
 Tennessee: Fair.
 Complete weat aer data will Do found on Page 1k.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
WHEAT RmI. REIECTED

WHEAT BILL REJECTED
 MELBOURNE. Australia, Oct. 21. The legislative council today by vote of 17 to 13, rejected the bill passed by the legislative assembly October If. providing for a compulsory wheat pool,
Shoshone journal., 1924-01-04

''fp if HlfNNf lfenrh mHl0n
n'elNn fniNfN ~ NH hW aau fsi
iNppN NHNlf H.a'nAl ins ofp0ls Dl
~ NlN lff AI.0l aO|nl s0s
NsifN N'Hli lY f.Q4aDa NJ
hNs'''4H'Ns % I4.Wg lp hY ,anff