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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
WASPLOT VICTIM,
 CANDLER CRIES AGAINST ENFIELD
Tells Court He Was Forced To Sign Check
 At Pistols Point

DECATUR. Ga., March 7.-Walter T. Candler. Atlanta capitalist, did not attempt an attack on Mrs. Clyde By field, but was a victim of a plot by her husband, Clyde k. Byfield, to extort money from him, according to Candler's s testimony late today in the trial of Mrs. Byfield's S100,000 damage suit against him for alleged attack upon her on board the steamship Berengaria, bound for France ill 1922.
 ] A verdict is expected in the case late tomorrow. When court recessed late today it was announced that jury ar- guments would begin early tomorrow and would probably be concluded during the early afternoon. Hear Medical Experts The defendant took the stand after the defense had read many dispositions to the jury, put up ,a medical experts and more than score of character wit nesses.
 Byfield threatened to blow my br lins Odt," Candler testified, If I did not sign check for 25,0O0," three minutes after he had said he and By field had a fight in Mrs. Byfields stateroom. The defendant stated that Byfield had the check already filled out, and when "I told him that was the best friend he had he roared at me Write that check Write that check Write that check 7"
 Mir. Candler said he had gone to the Byfields' stateroom to inquire as to the condition of Mrs. Byfield, as she had been drinking more champagne than was good for her, and that he believed MT. and Mrs. Byfield were both in the room. He denied that there had been anything improper in his conduct, stat ing that such a charge was 'abso- lutely false"
 Caught At Last"
 ''Ah, ha, I caught you at last" Can dler stated that Byfield informed him as the latter rushed into the room. five been suspecting this for six months; now you've got to pay" the witness continued to quote Byfield's al- legged remarks.
 He accused me of attacking his wife. He pulled out a check" continued the witness, and demanded that I sign it."
 He knew he did that; she knew he did it, even if she said she tad not" the witness exclaimed. II would not have signed the check, but Byfield was yell ing at the top of his voice, so I signed to hush his mOuth." Candler stated.
 Candler testified as to Byfield thrash ing his wife while, he said, she was in bed, until T hit him on the nose and he quit. The next morning Candler said that he, again went to Mrs. By fields room and T tried to pacify her She was crying. She told me that By field had taken all her rings and that she was without funds" Candler stated. He added that ''I promised would see her through, that I would stand by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08

Election Returns
 For Readers of The Age-Herald

To meet the universal desire for prompt and accurate returns on Alabama's presidential pref erential primary next Tuesday, The Age-Herald will flash bull letins on a large screen to be erected at Second avenue and Twenty-first street, opposite The Age-Herald building. Returns from state, county and city will be bulletined as rapidly as re- ceived.
 Birmingham and Jefferson county election officers are re- quested to telephone the results of their boxes immediately upon finishing the count. Their CO., operation will be of greatest as- sistance in compiling the totals and learning the outcome promptly.
 To aid the election officers in telephoning results, The Age Herald requests that it's tele- phones be not used Tuesday eve- ming to ask for information. The full capacity of the wires will be needed to accommodate cleo tion officers and correspondents sending in their results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
PATRICK MORAN, VETERAN PILOT, DIES IN FLORIDA Great Manager Strikes Out In His Final
 Contest SUFFERED GENERAL
 BREAKDOWN MONDAY Miracle Man Of Baseball Victim Of Nephritis--Wife Present
 When Death Comes

ORLANDO, Fla, March 7.-Patrick J. Moran, veteran pilot of the Cincin- nati National Baseball club, died here late this afternoon.
 Moran's death was due to acute neph- ritis, commonly called Brights disease. He was unconscious for some hours pre- ceding death.
 Mrs. Moran and her two children were at the bedside. They reached here this afternoon at 80 o'clock. Jack Hen dricks, coach of the Reds, was also at the bedside when death came. Moran arrived here last week and Monday suffered general breakdown. Four physicians were ill constant at tendance.
 He became unconscious last night and was kept alive by the use of stimulants and the administration of water under the skin in the attempt to rid bim of poison. -4 Tom Moran, brother, left Boston this morning for Orlando. Hendricks took charge of the training period of the Reds on Moran's break down. He was in the room last night when Morgan lapsed into unsciousness and remained at the bedside until the end.
 Moran went to the Reds in 1919 at time when they were in need of a manager. He had signed with John J. McGraw as coach of the New, York Giants, but was permitted to assume the managership of the Reds. Moran pi- loted the team through a successful year, winning the worlds championship. Funeral services will be held Tues. day at Fitchburg, Mass, Moran's birth place. The body will leave here at :10 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, accom-. panied by Mrs. Moran and her two sons. Ivey Wingo and George Harper representing the Cincinnati club, will go as far as Jacksonville, where it is planned that Moran's brother will join i Mrs. Moran.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
BULLET PROOF PLANE
All Steel Airship. Successfully Tested
 By British

LONDON, March 7.-An all-steel air plane, designed to be imperviOus to shrapnel or machine-gun bullets, has been constructed and now is being severely tested at the Royal Aircraft station at Farnborough, Hampshire.
 Armor-plated, and the wings are of
 Details of the new airplane are strict ly withheld. Air force officials say it is armor-plated, and the wings are of sol i'd steel, but that it is not the last word in bullet-proOf aircraft, and further ex- periments are being carried on in labo- ratOries and workshops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
GESTURES COPS SHAVE

CHICAGO, March "A bandit, giv- ing his name us George Harris, 16 years old, was probably fatally shot last night by Detective Sergeant John w. Klaske, when he attempted to rob a barber shop in which the officer was being shaved.
 Klaske held up his hands but began when the robber was rifling the cash register. The bandit fled but later dragged himself to the county hos pital and was arrested and identified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
HUNT FOR ROBBERS Yeggs Burn" Way Into Bank And
 Steal S4.OOO

Police and county authorities were searching the countryside here Friday for robbers who burned" their way into the Exchange bank of Nortonville, near here, and escaped with $4,000.
 All means of communication with the outside world were severed by the ban dits who used an acetylene torch to gain entrance to the banks safe. The rob bery was discovered Friday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
lMISTRIAL ENTERED I w OIL FAKE CASE
Bryant Jury Stands Nine To
 Three For Acquittal

SHREVEPORT, La, March "A mistrial was entered in federal circuit court here today in the case of J. c. Bryant, prominent weGt Arkansas man, charged with using the mails to de- fraud in the selling of alleged fake oil stock in the promotion of the Burl; Rurnett-C Claiborne Oil company. The spry stood 9 to for acquittal
 z After being out all night the fore man of the jury reported to Federal Judge Rufus F. Foster they were hope lessly divided and the court ordered the jury discharged after poll was taken.
 c. c. Nix, indicted with Bryant, en- tered plea of guilty last Tuesday. A third defendant, F. W. Bilyeauk, is n fugitive from justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
2 SERIOUSLY HURT
 M TRAIN CRASH
Wreck On c. & o. Puts Several
 Cars In Ditch

MOUNT STERLING, Ky, March Two trainmen were reported se- riously injured and others badly hurt as result of the derailment of Ches- apeake and Ohio passenger train No. P between Olimpia and Salt Lick, east of this city late today. The train was eastbound from Louisville.
 \ special train was being made up here at 2 80 o'clock this afternoon to take doctors and nurses to the scene of the wreck. The entire train with the exception of one sleeping car was reported to be in ditch. Wrecking crews have been ordered from Ashland and Lexington.
 The cause of the derailment is not known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
HALT COMRINATInNs

WASHINGTON. March 1.-Two orders forbidding wholesale tobacco dealers from combining and co-orerot. ing for the purpose of fixing prices. ; were issued today by the federal trade commission.
 One was directed against members of the Cincinnati Wholesale Tobacco as sociation, and the P. Lorrillard Co, while the second named the Wholesale Tobacco and Cigar Dealers association Tof Philadelphia and the American To- bacco company. Commissioner Van Fleet dissented from the majority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
SUCCEEDS MAGRUDER
Rear Admiral E. w. KittelIe To R,
 port At New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, March 1.-Word was received at the Algiers naval sta tiOn today that Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, formerly commanding destroyer squadrons of the battle fleet, would arrive here next Tuesday from Galveston to command the Flights naval district and the naval station at Algiers succeeding Rear Admiral C. P. Ma gruder, who was transferred to the com mand of the E:'ht cruiser division of the navy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
HENDRICKS IN CHARGE
Coach And Assistant Manager To Sue
 ceed Dead Chief

CINCINNATI, O., March T.-Jack Hendricks succeeds Pat Moran as man ager of the Cincinnati Nationalist was announced here tonight following re- ceipt of news of the Red leaders death.
 Hendricks managed one major league club, the St. Louis Cardinals, several years ago and has piloted many pen nant winners in the minors.
 He joined the Cincinnati club this season as coach and assistant manager.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
sS.OOO HAIRCUT!
Model Sues Because She Must Weal
 Hat

CHICAGO, March 7.zz4Five thousand dollars for a haircut are asked by Miss Helen Hausen in a suit against Mrs. Finkelstein, operator of a beauty 'col- lege. Miss Hansen alleges that as n result of haircut, donated by Mrs. Finkelstein when Helen served as a model for the' class studying the shin gle bob" in the college, she is compelled to wear hat all day at her work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
THE WEATHER

! Alabama: Fair Saturday; Sun. day rain and cooler. s Georgia: Flair and somewhat colder Saturday.
 Tennessee: Fair Saturday. b AIississippi: Fair and cooler.
 (COmpIete weather data will be found on Page 13.).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
WALTON IN SENATE RACE

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 1.-J C. Walton. deposed governor of Okla homa, has announced his candidacy for the United States Senate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
CHEW IS CONFIRMEp

WASHINGTON, March 7.+The nomination of Joseph c. Grew of New Hampshire to be Secretary of State, was confirmed today by the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
D H. McDUFF,

Henry Porter, Jr., Friday afternoon announced that a limited number of good seats were yet available for both performances Saturday. Indications were that two capacity houses would witness what is expected to be Birming- hams most sensational exhibit of many years.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
Publicity Forces
Fine Of Ku Kluxer
After Sedition Trial

MERCER, Pa, May 25.-The jury
who convicted Tony Kovacovich OF
Sedition for daring to talk organiza-
ton Of the steel slaves we're deadlock
ed for six hours before arriving at
their verdict and had it not been for
community prejudice aroused by the
Ku Klux Khan and the steel and coal
barons Tony Kovacovich would have
been acquitted.
1t is alleged by the steelworkers in
Farrell that all but one of the seven
Serbian stool pigeons who testified
against Kovacovich have been ar
rested in the past for bootlegging and
gambling. The Commonwealth GER
tainly picks strange bedfellows when
its honor is at stake.
Due to the publicity given by the
defense and thru the DAILY WORK
Err. the Kleagle of the X. X. X. in
Mercer county, who decorated the
roads leading into Mercer with large
xxx letters when the Kovacoyich
trial was on. was arrested and fined
$500 for violating the state highway
law. The Kleagle was arrested
AFTER the jury was thru its work.
The signs were on the highway all
during the trial yet the law and order
brigade made no effort to arrest this
hooded patriot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26

he says in part
"The fact is that for several years
we have been going along smoothly
filling out the postwar demand for
sundries such as new housing, rail
road equipment, automobiles and
many other essentials and non-essen-
tials. That demand has to an appre-
ciable extent been satisfied.
1.-THE first point to consider is our
manufacturing equipment. In this
score there can be no question that
in many lines we have too much ca.
pacity of production for the demand
at hand. Ever since the war it has
been a great problem to keep our
plants fully and proftably occupied"
Lacking large foreign market, he
says, our highly geared plant produc-
tivity becomes at least temporarily a
sort of incubus.
Under-consumption.
This article reveals tardy recogni-
ton in the business world of a situa-
ton which The Federated Press has
been emphasizing for more than a
year. No analysis of Industrial future
is worthy of serious attention which
disregards the fact that we have ex-
banded our productive capacity with
out a corresponding increase in the
ability of consumers to absorb its
products. AS result the point has
been reached where prosperity in this
country has no secure foundation
without larger foreign market than
we have been able to secure during
IA period when the competing indus
trial nations were seriously handi-
capped
The industrial system which turns
over the entire increment in produc-
ton resulting from modern technology
to the absentee owners is evidently
approaching a deadlock. There must
be a big increase in consumption or
a decrease in production either thru
periodic shutdowns or reduction in
working hours. If recurrent depres-
sions are to be avoided there must be
less emphasis on returns to capital
and more on returns to the millions
of producer consumers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
Swiss Insure School Children.

BERNIE, May U.s. Switzerland is
the first country to inaugurate govern
ment insurance of school children. In
some cantons it is voluntary and in
some compulsory. The canton Vaud
was first to insure its children. The
government of the Canton Basel re-
Gently insured against sickness and
accident all pupils in the public
schools, from the kindergartens to the
higher grades of the industrial schools
other cantons and municipalities have
taken steps In tho same direction. In
this, as in the other forms Of govern
ment insurance, the premiums are
paid jointly by the children and the
government. II is reported that bill
for insurance OF school children
against sickness has been introduced
in the Portuguese Senate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
ITzPATRICK'S
FARMER
PARTY QUITS
June IL Convention Only
Hope OF Workers

In signed statement, issued at it's
Offices in the Loop district, the John
Fitzpatrick "Farmer-Labor Party OF
the United States" has officially de-
clared it will hold no national conven-
ton this year and will take no or
ganized ps.rt in the coming national
Champaign.
This statement, signed by John
kirkpatrick, member of the national
committee; David A. McVey, secre.
tary of the Illinois branch and chair.
man of the Cook county branch !;
Charles F. Wills, vice chairman, IL
linois branch and Robert M. Buck,
editor Of the partys official organ,
follows the Chicago Federation of
Labor's decision to return to the non.
partisan political policy of the Com.
pers' oficialdom.
June 18th the Only Hope.
The great June 18th convention at
st. Paul. where thousands of dele
gates will gather from farmers or
CARNATIONS labor political organiza-
tions and local unions, now remains
the only possible machinery for or
ganizing political battle front Of the
appropriated workers and farmers OF
America.
Lack Of response from the labor
movement is given by the Fitzpat-
rick organization as the reason for
calling off their own national conven.
ton, which had been scheduled for
July 4th at Cleveland. Lack of funds
followed the lack of response.
June 18th Attacked.
The usual attack on the Commun-
lists was utilized in order to assail the
June 18th convention of workers and
farmers. The abdicating political
group complains that the Communists
want to "kidnap" the st. Paul move
ment. A general attack on the June
18th movement is made. The c. p.
p. A. is also attacked. 1t offers no
hope" they say.
Their own complete bankruptcy is
shown in the apology that they are
giving up their convention in order
not to further confuse the situation. "
LaFoIIette, Perhaps.
They intend, they say, to endorse
the independent political policy of
LaFollette, should that candidacy de-
velop."
The "Farmer-Labor Party of the
United States" will not disband, the
statement adds, but will bide its time
for the future.
A similar statement is made by the
Cook county branch of the organiza-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26

too stingily the country has de-
creased its capacity to produce
without a corresponding in
crease in the demand for pro-
duction.
These are conclusions drawn from
e. d. Kings analysis Of tire present
business depression published in The
Magazine Of Wall Street. He pictures
the situation in the major industries
briefly as follows;
Steel Declines.
Steel--output tending to decrease,
demand less than a year ago, will
continue to decline gradually. (Since
this was written the drop in pro-
duction from over 80 per cent to less
than IS per cent of capacity is re-
garded as the most rapid and specta-
cular in the history Of the Industry
'Coal-output about so per cent Of a
year ago, demand poor but likely to
increase. Other mining output I'M
changed, demand slightly less, con-
tinued decline in demand expected.
Rubber goods-slight decrease in pro-
duction, demand considerably less,
will decline further. Shoes-output I'M
changed, hand to mouth buying,
should increase. Automobile-sharp
decrease in output. slow buying, fu-
ture demand below 1923. Textiles
sharp decrease in output, demand less,
future unsatisfactory. Construction
materials---output same, decrease in
demand, likely to decrease further.
Electrical equipment-output same,
output same, demand slightly less,
will decrease. Furniture = output
same, demand same, will decrease.
Typewriters-output slightly less, de-
mand same, will decrease.
High Productivity.
Petroleum and sugar are the only
products for which King predicts an
increase in demand before autumn.
Analysing the way in which abnormal
conditions blinded us to the situation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
ARIEL STEEL
WORKERS TRIALS
RESUME June e
Organizers Face Steel
Trusts Hirelings

MERCER. Pa, May 25.-The Far
relI sedition trials will resume at the
June term of court, starting June 23rd.
The Commonwealth Of Steel and Coal
is making ready to satisfy the lust Of
the coal and steel barons for the
scalps of more militant steel workers
who have DARED tell the steel
slaves to organize.
The next steel slave to be placed
on the block will be Andy Kovacovich,
a countryman of the convicted steel
work, Tony Kovacovich.
viii Pinehot Speak?
Is the American labor movement
prepared to see these steel workers
sacrificed for believing that workers
could organize in the Commonwealth
of the u. S. Steel Corporation? Will
Gov. Pinchot stand by with folded
arms and let the constitutional rights
of these Woodworking steel workers
be trampIed in the dust by the barons
who rule his state.
This is a LESSON for those in the
American labor movement who be-
lieve in the quack remedy of Com
pers of electing to office the friends"
of labor. The trials of the Farrell
steel workers charged with sedition
for wanting to organize the steel
workers charged with sedition for
wanting to organize the steel slaves
demonstrates the weakness. POLITICAL
ly speaking, OF the Gompers' left hand
squeeze to the friends" of labor.
Defendants BIacklisted.
John Radias, Tony Mirich, Andy Du-
gan, John Sarich and Andy Kovaco-
vich, the steel workers yet to be tried
cannot secure employment in Farrell.
Blacklisted, indicted and bounded by
the police is the lot of these rebels and
it's only the help coming in from the
outside world that gives them the
courage to wait their turn in the mas
ters' court.
Serbian stool pigeons who testified
against Tony Kovacovich spend their
spare. time trying to incite the de-
PENDANT steel workers and their SYM
pathizers into committing acts Of vio-
lence against them. One of the stools
boasts that he soon will be wearing
police uniform. It is alleged that
only good bootleggers can apply for a
position on the Farrell police force.
Chief Leyshock's endorsed Cos
sacks invaded a dance held under the
auspices of the National Creation So
Iciety recently in Farrell looking for
reds" Leyshock continues his me-
thods of terrorizing the workers. This
keeper of the Red Trunk" where all
the alleged "seditious" literature is
stored is a half-baked individual who
cannot be held entirely responsible
for his many childish prsnks. The
steel workers view Leyshock with
much amusement. Many patronized
the jitney he drove before he was
elevated to the Office Of the w. J.
Burns of Farrell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
Want More Machines
And Less Workers
Says Senator Nicely

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Sen. Nee,
ly of West Virginia, Democrat, in a
speech on the immigration bill, de-
clared that, "At the present moment
there are at least 100000 working
men and women in the United States
who are idle, for the sole reason that
there is no demand for their labor.
There have been times in the past 3
years when 100000 of our toilers
could find no employment, and when
100000 of them in desperation were
forced to beg or starye.
"In our steel industry, for example,
with all mills modernized and running
at capacity, it would be possible for
two-thirds of those now on the payroll
to produce all Of the iron and steel
for which we have q market. The
iron and steel workers are under the
constant apprehension of unemploy-
inent for approximately five months
per year.
1.-THE bituminous coal industry az
fords a most impressive example of
overmanning and overdevelopment.
AS now equipped, our mines, work
ing full time, can produce billion
tons Of coal year, while there is a
demand for only half a billion tons.
Four hundred thousand men, out OF
the 650,000 now engaged in mining
coal, could produce all that it is pos
sible for us to consume.
"The boot and shoe industry cap
able of producing 75S,0OO,00O pairs of
boots and shoes year, has demand
for only 325,000,0O0 pair; It is more
than so per cent overmanned. The
brick making industry has $4,000
workers. when our annual demand
could be supplied by 5000 men. us
ing modern machinery.