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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
CALLED SAVIOR OF
 WORLDS LIBERTY
POincare Says Wilson Repre-
 sented Victorious Peace

PARIS, Feb. 3.---(By Associated Press. )--Premier Poincare issued the following statement on the death of former President Wilson:
 France can never forget that it was under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson that the United States accom- plished the prodigious task of saving the liberty of the world and the future civilization in bringing to the defenders of justice her immeasurable assistance. The French people well know what high and generous motives inspired this man. so passionately idealistic, and with what notable language he always spoke of their country before stricken down with his fatal illness.
 His characteristic features. as they appeared to us on December 15 1918, will also remain engraved on the minds of the French people. 1 well remem- Der the acclaimations of the Parisian popula tion when he arrived at the sta tion in the Place d'Auppine and when l accompanied him through the Avenue Du Bois de Boulogne and the Avenue des Champs Elyseyes amid enthusiastic throngs.
 Tt was indeed an image of liberty loving America and victorious peace. Whoever lived those hours of patriotic exaltation will always retain it in i'm perishable memory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
Recommended MOUies

Motion pictures recommended by the national better films committee to be shown here this week. are as follows:
 Trianon-"Anna Christie" mature au- dienees
 strand-"The Aeayi,tal." young people mended, juveniles. For Saturday matinee "A Prince There Was" young people. Capitol-"Homeward Bound" You Cant Fool Your Wife" "cireus Days" juveniles
 Rialto-'L. ing Lies" Odeon-"F!shting Blood." No 3. smashing BarrierE" Royal-"Cops."
 west End-"Niee People" especially young people; "Homeward Bound" "Jus' Passing Through" You Can't Fool Your Wife" Robinson Crusoe."' No. T.. juve- niles: %Hqckleberry Finn" juveniles, "Pauper Aiillionares," young people The Green Cat" young people; Main Street." siren Call"
 North Brmingham-"Fighting Blood young people; The strangers ganquet" "Pauper Milionaires," young people:
 Franklin" Strangers Banquet" "rhs Green Cat" young people; Man
 Beiie-"Takihg chances.' young people Fourth Aiusketeer." "Pauper Million aires, young people; -ovey Dovey.'
 Avondale-"Fury," especially rscorn- mended; If Were Queen" ''R6binSon's
 Freiie-"The Can of the wnd." ssps- eieily reeommendsd: Stormy strs.'
 chimpion~"only Thlrty Eight" ''sa- fDGnbar-"FishtinS Guide"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
WILSON COINED
 MANY SAYINGS AS PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Feb. I.-Wilson will rank with Roosevelt as a maker of phrases which have moved the world. Some were seized upon by : his political enemies and used ' against him, but others raised the hopes of lowly peasants in the heart of Europe and of many of his own countrymen as have the words of no other man of modern times.
 Here are the Wilson phrases which have been graven in the lan- guage of the twentieth century:
 "Watchful waiting"
 Too proud to fight"
 Make the world safe for democ- racy."
 "Pigmy minds"
 Breaking of the heart of the world"
 "Pitiless publicity"
 Open covenants openly arrived at."
 ''The little group of wilful men,"
 "The fourteen points"-the name given to his peace program.
 May I not"--his favorite method of beginning letters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
DICKEYfE DEADy
 M'lVTYRE HELD
Shooting Occurs On Avenue E Sunday Afternoon As Auto
 mobiles Meet

Joe Dickey, a railroad man of 33 Commerce street, Inglenook, was shot to death late Sunday afternoon on Avenue FInear Twenty-second street by his brother-in-law, it is alleged, Lee Mcintyre, operator of q chain of meat markets, as the outgrowth of family snarl which began in the Mcintyre home in West End, Saturday night. His heart pierced, Dickey died be- fore hospital could be reached. Mo Intyre is held in the county jail charged with murder. Coroner J. D. Russam and police authorities have under way | searching investigation. a5 With Dickey's wife, MT. and Mrs. 0. H. Groner and Mrs. Stella Stay, were riding with Mcintyre in his new Packard automobile, when they over took a car in which Dickey was riding with his brother, Houston Dickey, Ross Simmons and Henry Harper. sd According to police officers, Mcintyre waved down the Dickey car and asked his brother-in-law if he had not been "dodging the law" 7 Dickey is said to have replied that he had only been out of jail . few hours. Police say he had been arrestsd for an alleged attack on Mrs. McIh- IyTes HIS ulUtucI-Au1AuW anu SAO AooSnSh of Mcintyre.
 Dickey left his car and walked to McIntyfe's. car. where a heated a'ref- ment is said to have followed. Finally witnesses say, Dickey invited Mcintyre to fight it out" ,S..-... ,"Lay your. gun aside and step otlt,'' Dickey is said to have asserted. s2 Without replying, witnesses state Mcintyre drew . revolver and fired Dickey staggered back toward his car. crying, "he. got me-" and collapsed icn the pavement.
 Simmons and Harper, who were with Dickey, declared that Mcintyre then invited them to step forward, saying {: Make a single move and I'll kill you, too"
 Occupants of the Mcintyre car. h. terviewed by Motor Scouts S. T. CoQb and M. V, Hairless, said Dickey, caught Mcintyre by his shirt and tried to dt&g him from his car. When Mcintyre was examined at, the police headquarters the entire front of his shirt was found to Do tofn.F
 Used the Same House
 Investigators learned that Dickey lately had been living in the McIntyte home. He and his wife are said to have ndd several Quarreis whlcn were ell. maxed Saturday night, when the police say, Dickey attacked her mother.
 Sunday morning he was arrested 4n charges of assault and battery. Late in the afternoon his brother, Houston. ac- ccmpanied by Simmons Harper, went to jail and posted bond for him. While riding shortly afterwards they were overtaken by the car which McIntyfe was driving.
 In his cell Mcintyre declined to dis cuss the shooting, declaring his case was entirely in the hands of his attor- neys, George Frye and the firm of Gib- son and Davis. A formal inquiry into the shooting will be conducted Monday by the coroner. Dickey's body is held by Liee l.oy pending the outcome of the invesfi- eoeAOh. .s.ts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
WHY WOOD WAS 1
 NOT SENT TO WAR
Letter To Editor From Wilson Explains That Pershing Did
 Not Want Him

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. B. Major General Leonard Wood was not given a command in France primarily because General Pershing did not wish him to have one and secondly because President Wilson, though crediting Wood with unusual ability" thought him ,"apparently absolutely unable to submit his judgment to those who are superior to him in command"
 This answer to the question raised during the war and frequently called up in the subsequent years was answer ed today when the Springfield Republi- can considering that Mir. Wilson's death gave it the liberty, made public a per sonal letter to the editor of the news- paper written by the President June 5, 1918.
 | MT. Wilson's letter was a rejoinder to an editorial of the newspaper calling attention to General Woods abilities and popular following and observing, in substance, that if it was not the admin istration's purpose to send General Wood to the battle front it should make that decision only on adequate grounds. Claimed He Was Victim of Prejudice Friends of General Wood had charged he was a victim of political prejudice and at about that time civilians return ing from France had reported that General Woods brief tour of inspection of the other. side during which he was wounded by the bursting of a gun, had threatened dissension between him and General Pershing.
 At any rate, few days after publi- cal tion of its editorial, the Republican received from Mir. Wilson the following letter which was made public today:
 The White House, Washington, June 5, 1918.
 To the editor of the Republican:
 "I hope you will not be surprised to know that I subscribed almost in it's entirety to the enclosed editorial from the Republican. am keenly aware and keenly sensitive to the implications which will be drawn out of the fact that I am not sending General Wood to the other side, and I want personal friends like yourself, upon whose approval de- pend for my encouragement to know why I am not sending him.
 Pershing Did Not Want Him
 'In the first place, I am not sending uIHf DcCdust UtileTd1 bdlu that he does not want him, and in the second place, General Pershing's dis inclinaton to have General Wood sent over is only to we'll founded. Where ever General Wood goes there is contro- versy and conflict of judgment. On this side of the water we can take care of things of that sort, because the fight ing is not being done here, but it would be fatal to let it go an at or anywhere near the front.
 II have had great deal of experi- ence with General Wood. He is a man of unusual ability, but apparently un- able to submit his judgment to those who are superior to him in command. l am sorry that his great ability can- not be made of use in France, but at the same time, am glad to say that it is being made very much use of in the training of soldiers on this side of the water, task for which he is eminently well fitted and which he is performing with diligence and success.
 :" With sincere regards,
 Faithfully Yours,
 (Sigred) Woodrow Wilson"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
POMERENE, 6I, IS 4
 CLEVELAND LAWYER
Dome Prosecutor Former Ohio Governor And U. s. Senator

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 3.---Atlee Pomerene, named by President Cool idge to be prosecutor in the Teapot Dome cases, has been a member of a law firm in this city for about a year. lie entered on this partnership after his defeat for the Senate by Simpson D. Fess. Prior to this relationship he made his home in Canton, Ohio, where he had lived for many years.
 Mir. Pomerene was graduate of Princeton in 1884. He made his law studies in Cincinnati, and was a grad uate of the Cincinnati Law school.
 He was elected governor of Ohio in 1910. In 1911 he was elected by the Ohio general assembly to succeed Charles F. Dick in the United States Senate. He served two years in that body. He is 61 years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
BAKER PRAISES HIM

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 3.-Newton D. Baker, wartime Secretary of War under former President Wilson, said:
 He had mind richly storied and disciplined to almost perfect precision. He had prophetic vision of the need of the world for peace and order based on understanding and upright dealings and he had courage, both physical and mental in a degree rarely equalled, even in great men.
 He was a bit impatient of slow heads and fiercely intolerant of bad hearts but he was a considerate, help ful and loyal chief of those who saw him literally carrying the weight of the world. We know that his single purpose and desire was to. sacrifice himself to serve his fellowmen." M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
DEATHS

xx-,u,. M Hury-Funeral services for Mrs. Willie M. Hury, 42, wife o1 W. H. Hury of the Domestic laundry who died at 6 o'clock Saturday nlsn' at the residence at Hazel Heig nus will he held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Llge Loy .,', unue, saiinn .aM ing parlors. Interment will follow in Elmwood cemetery. She is sur vived by her husband, three sons Eary Hury, Cecil Hury and George Hury: two sisters, Mrs. l., E. BodeS and Mrs. E. G. Crowder. Pailoearers will be H. J. Hury, T.. A. Browns, A H. Rodgers. l.. F. Bodey. lsiac Price and H. H. Rodgers.
 Jsmea R. HaIe-Funeral services fol James R. Hale. 67, who died at l;2t o'clock Sunday morning at a loca inffrmary, will be held at o'clock Sunday afternoon from Johns chapel with pr. J. A. Bryan officiating. In. torment will follow in Elmwood ter, Mrs. l.. D. Hurley, and a son Julian S. Hale of Mobile; two nephews, A. D. Hale and A. L. Hale of Birmingham.
 J. II. Cooper-Funeral services for J H. Cooper, 62, who died at local in. firnary Saturday night, will be held Otau from the residence. 14o0 North Thir- tieth street. Interment will follow in Elmwood cemetery, with Johns in charge.
 John E. LasaIle--Funeral services foI John B. Lasalle who died Saturday afternoon at the residence, 1433 Eff teenth avenue, south, were held at o'clock Sunday afternoon from the residence, followed by interment in Elmwood cemetery, with Johns in charge.
 Mrs. Sarah \. McCurIey-Funeral serv- ices for Mrs. Sarah A. McCurley, 79, who died early Sunday morning at the residence, 40 South Nineteenth street. will be announced later by Ridout.
 William Fay MOrrls-Funeral services for William Fay Morris, who died Saturday at the residence, will be held at 10:3O o'clock Monday morning from the West End Catholic church with Lige Loy in charge. Mrs. Willie NJ. Hury-Funeral services for Mrs. Willie M. Hury. who died Saturday at a local infirmary, will be held at 2:30 o'clock Monday after noon from Lige Loy's chapel. Byrum F. TidwelI-Remains of Byrum E. Tidwell. 23-months-old son of M- and Mrs. D. O. Tidwell. who died al the residence, 3606 Avenue C, late Saturday night, were sent to Albright Sunday by Echols & Angwin for in. torment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
RECALLS PROPHECY Former Cabinet Member Says Will. son Never Doubted Success

son Never Doubted Success
 RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 3.--"Wood- row Wilson died in the serene confi- dence that the covenant of nations would bring the world the permanent peace" Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy in the war Presidents Cab inet, said when informed of MT. Will sons death.
 "On the occasion of my last visit to Mir. Wilson, he said: We must never doubt that the things we stood for will come He added, And I will make this concession to providence, that they may come in better way than the way we believed best
 When America recovers itself and the covenant of peace has become inter- national law the world will understand the lasting debt it owes to Woodrow Wilson," continued Daniels. Indeed, even in the present debate, there is a trend toward his ideals in every nation in the world.
 "ln our own country it is now seen that his prophecy of the chaos that would follow the rejection of the GOV enant has been fulfilled. That cove nant will stand as sure as fate and the day is not far off, as General Smuts said, when all the free peoples of the world will gather around it.
 Not until he was stricken did Pres ident Wilson ever lose battle. Every measure that he proposed as President. up to the tragedy of his sudden illness at Wichita, became a law. His record for accomplishment was unparalleled in the annals of the American govern ment and attested his masterful lead ership.
 If he had retained his health would he have won victory for his covenant l believe he would have made or fought way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
WHY AMBULANCE MAN
 WANTS HIS CIGARETTE
Spends His Days Handling The Injured And Dying Whi
 He Chucks Death Under The Chin

foorward, regardless of his own per sonal safety.
 On Lookout
 Curves, street intersections, alley ways and the main thoroughfare must be watched. A child skating in the street takes a not;on to cross in front of the rushing car, woman bent on catching the inbound street car for town, or a man deafened by the wor- ries of the days business walk leisurely across the path. The driver, alert, swerves in time to avoid serious ac- oident.
 Some realize his errand and aid his right. to the road, others break, the law that gives him the right of way, endan- gering themselves and the injured per son at the end of the run. It, is this minimizing minority that is responsible for the deaths of some people who might have been saved.
 At last the end of the run is reached. Even as the driver pulls the emer- gency brake in place, his assistant has clambered into the patients department and rolled the invalid cot to the door. The driver dismounts and srasps the end as it rolls out. Tenderly they place the broken form in restful po- sition on the cot and hoist him into the carriage. y
 Hospital Run
 The drivers assistant hooks it stout ly in place and closes the doors. Again the engine whirs and the rapid trip to the hospital begins.
 Besides, the traffic which becomes doubly hazardous with the patient, and the passage of time, which is always valuable, other responsibilities Crowd themselves on the driver. He must give his own signals, as the assistant is in the back safeguarding the patient and giving him what comfort he can. He has to avoid bumps that might af- feet the condition of the Injured man. He must make curves at a high speed, but in such a way his patient won't be thrown from the cot.
 The hospital is reached at last, the patient is placed on the operating table under the care of able surgeons. Often in serious cases this does not end their duty. Surgeons require their aid in holding delirious patients and helping with other details of the operating room, losing many precious seconds.
 The first chance he gets he calls his office, to find whether the other am- balances have been called out in his absence and if there are other calls for him to make. Nothing in view, he makes his way at moderate rate of speed back to lis ambulance shed. He backs his car into piace to be in readi- ness for the next call, but then his trip is not over. The gas tank must be looked into and the oil for the engine replenished if they show signs of get ting low. Last, clean sheets and pillow cases must be put on the cot, in readi- ness for the next call.
 The driver gets his cigarette and col lects his badly jared nerves for the next cry of "HelpH'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
AMERICAS GREATEST MAN Such Is Tribute To Wilson By W.
 G. McAdoo

SUNSHINE, Ariz., Feb. 3.-Wood- row Wilson was described as perhaps the greatest man America has pro- duced," in a statement made here to- day by William G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury and Director General of the railroads, when in- formed of the wartime Presidents death in Washington.
 "Woodrow Wilson always will be one of the most commanding figures of human history" said Mir. McAdoo. Judged by accomplishments and achievements, taken all in all, he is perhaps the greatest man America yet has produced.
 He was a rare combination--a charming companion, ripe scholar, Christian gentleman, consummate leader, superb statesman, dauntless figure, a noble idealist, a lofty soul, and a genuine lover of mankind.
 He made q matchless contribution to his time in the fields of politics, economies and letters.
 He was the champion of peace, of human brotherhood and of world order.
 Out of his sacrifice and sufferings, borne wit:i superb dignity and with sublime courage, the good he has sought to do for humanity will inevitably be realized.
 His example and his work will in- fluence the destinity of civilization for centuries to come.
 Woodrow Wilson, the man, is dead but Woodrow Wilson, the apostle of peace, the lover of mankind, will live forever"
 MT. and Mrs. McAdoo, who left their home in Los Angeles on Saturday morning for Washington on receipt of Mir. Wilson's illness, will continue their journey to the national capital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
FATAL SHOT CLIMAX
 TO AkL-NIGHT DANCE

CHICAGO, Feb. 3.--Ons man was shot and killed and six others were seriously wounded at the annual dance of the Truck Drivers and ChAuffeurs union early today, when four intruders opened fire with sawed-off shoteuns and pistols into the crowd on the dance floor. William Noonan, g, was in stantly killed. More than 50 shots were fired and scores of women were slight ly injured in the ensuing panic.
 Police said rivalry on the part of . teansters' union was perhaps the cause of the shooting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04

Give me a cigarette, somebody, I am trembling like leaf?"
 This request, made by an ambulance driver who has just returned from an emergency" call, can be heard any day in the drivers rest room of any of Bir. mingham's ambulance stations. To one used to driving casually through the downtown streets and the suburbs of the city under ordinary conditions, this case of nerves seem utter foolishness.
 But is it? Follow the routine of the ambulance driver through his long 36. hour shift. During that time he is held waiting, always in hearing of the two telephones that face him, no matter which room he enters. They are all connected on the same line, and when the office phone rings, the rest room phone rings and the one in the sleep ing quarters. t.4,
 The Call
 They do ring! The nearest man grabs for it. Some one has been STuSHeu LuC WuCclS Ol dH duLO- mobile, a train, an industrial accident, or maybe Little Johnny has Topped his foot off with the new hatchet. It is all the same, he needs the ambulance.
 The driver and his assistant race for the door and one swings in on either side of the waiting ambulance. The starter is pressed, the motor whirs and the race for human life begins.
 Through the loop district the drivers are blessed by having the right of way cleared for them by-experienced off cers and traffic signal lights. It is after he has passed through this zone that the nerve rackins trinl begins. He can't afford to delay, three seconds may meanthe life or death of the broken form waiting at the end of the route.
 Knows Streets
 He knows all of the short cuts and takes advantage of his knowledge. The route to the victim and the nearest hospital is traced indelibly on his mind as soon as he hears his location. But then he has the unstable traffic situa- tion to deal with.
 Down the avenue car backs across his path. His assistant, who is hold ing the siren, reaches and clangs the bell as the driver swerves madly to the side. Around the corner, turned on two wheels, one car is passing another. Brakes are applied and released as the huge carriage slides through a hole barely big enough to accommodate it.
 First to the right, then to the left, any way to avoid collision and to get to the mangled form waiting at the end of the run. Dodging truck here, a touring car there, and team of horses yonder. Ever fighting, rushing on- ward with but one object in view. The same aim that prompted the good Sa- maritan over 2,O0O years ago urge him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
PLACE WITH IMMORTALS
w. J. Bryan Points To Wilson's
 Great Problems

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. 3.-William Jennings Bryan in n tribute today to Woodrow Wilson, declared that The cannot be denied place among the immortals; his failure to abolish war cannot di mthe glory of that effort.
 As the nations mourn the passing of former President Wilson it will be able to make a more accurate measure ment of his relative place in history than was possible during his life time" he continued.
 "No President except Washington and Lincoln was ever confronted by problems as grave and no President ever brought to their solution greater intelligence, patriotism and courage tO these he added, sympathy with the masses.
 His first administration brought victory and embodied in law more eco homie reforms than were ever secured before in the same length of time. Dur ing this administrations also our ra- tion was linked to three quarters of the world by 30 treaties that made war al- most impossible between the contestins parties.
 He led the nation through its great est war and mobilized its vast re- sources more quickly and more ef- ficiently than such a task was ever ac- complished by another executive in any age.
 His efforts to abolish war by con- federation between nations was as noble an effort as was ever made by man and his failure to accomplish his purpose cannot dim the glory of that effort.
 He cannot be denied a place among the immortals. His substantial accom- plishments will live long after his mis- takes are forgotten"
 HIRAM JOHNSON'S COMMENTS
 CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-All Americans are deeply shocked and all alike grieve at the death of former President Wilson, said Senator Hiram Johnson here today.
 He was able, firm and courageous Whether we agreed or disagreed with his views, his unstinted and whole