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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
FAMILIES MOVED
 FROM WAR ZONE
 IN KENTUCKY
Tension Is Renewed As Snipers Fire Upon
 Guards At Mines

PINEyILLE, Ky, April S-Tension was renewed at the mining camp of the Liberty Coal and Coke company at Straight Creek tonight and indications were that new crisis in Bell county s "mine war" was approaching. Inter mittent firing into the camp from ad- jacent mountainsides was heavier last night and today there was desultory exchanges of shots between the snipers and national guardsmen.
 Women and children from the fami- lies at the camp began an exodus to- day to Pineville and other points of safety outside the war sector. This movement followed night during which occupants of houses at Straight Creek were reported to have sought shelter under floors and behind heavy furni- ture from rifle bullets that struck the buildings. e}sr.
 Groups of feminine refugees, some carrying babies and leading older chil- dren, were to be seen this afternoon on roads leading from the camp. -'
 Woods surrounding the camp were burning fiercely tonight. Reports of the origin of the fire conflicted,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
PRIZE WINNING
 ] WRITER ' PRAISES
 THE EAGE-HERALD
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towns resources and in the men who conduct it's business.
 To the state, The Age-Herald means eniiebtenment and prosperity. Be- cause, by preaching good roads, diversi- fled farming, better educational faciii- ties, new policies for new conditions Gin fact, leading the state in all lines of progress), this trusted paper has pre- pared the minds of Alabama people to receive these new ideas and make them a reality.
 The Age-Herald has raised the price, not only of land, but all other prop erty, by proclaiming to the world the states resources and opportunities, bringing men and money to the state which means buyers.
 This paper means an open forum where the people of the state, like one large family, may discuss any question of interest to the public. It also means champion in any, just cause. And by it, the state is kept posted upon na- tional issues, world: politics, financial, industrial and all the rest of the in1- portant happenings of the world. :.
 Its columns and columns of free pub licity supporting every movement for the. public good is q priceless boon to the state in which it is located. In a word, it is, by far and away. the states greatest asset.
 Reminiscence is beguiling pastime, and in viewing The Age-Heralds mag nificent new building, it's ideal equip ment, the wonderful machine, whose ca pacity is .96 900 printed papers an hour, one can but compare this (the descend ant) to that little Jones Valley paper born in Birmingham in 1845-with it's little outfit of type and it's Washing ton press.
 Looking back over these. years and trying to comprehend the many decades of remarkable, definite. service rem rendered towards building bigger, broader city, state and Southland, try ing to picture this paper through all the changing, growing, strenuous years of it's existence, one is overcome with a sense of admiration, appreciation, al- most of reverence, for the people who put brains, heart and soul into. the work of directing this paper through its amazing achievement.
 With all this past and present record in mind, and believing in the high pur- pose that governs the, conduct of it's ture of this favorite paper with warm ture of thi sfavorite paper with warm expectancy in ones heart, and a vision of still more magnificent. achievements in ones mind. .E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
PLEASED BUYERS
 CITED BY CREAGER
Texas Land Fraud Committee
 Hears Defense

WASHINGTON, April S.-The de. fense" in the special Senate committed $ investigation of alleged land frauds on the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas had turn at bat today. s ,5
 What were described as voluntary affidavits from contented land pur. chasers in that section, editorials from Houston, Tex, newspapers and other documents were placed in the record by George A. Hill, Jr., counsel for R. B. Creager, republican national committee. man from Texas, named as implicated in the alleged frauds, for the purpose of discrediting allegations set up by the other side in the inquiry.
 Senator Heflin, democrat, of Ala bama, committee. prosecutor" and his assistant in the inquiry, James K. Page, Kansas City attorney, both assailed the line of evidence put forward by MT. Hill today as having no possible effect on the truth of any fraud committed three years ago when the post office investigations were started. Rush D. Simmons, chief of the division of post office inspectors, witness again today, agreed to this contention.
 At the outset Mir. Hill charged that many of the letters from persons stat ing they had been defrauded could be traced to the solicitations of J. Nj. Col lins of Kansas City, whom he described as former land agent" in the Rio Grande valley. t%+s
 Hill declared that the letters reply ing to Donaldson's questionnaire were written in June, 1921, by persons who had bought land in 1918 and 1919. when agriculture was in q highly pros porous state.
 Ed Luenk in the Rio Grande, one of the signers of the dffidavits read, declared he Believed a man could make twice as much per acre for his efforts if he is willing to work as he can in the middle west farming states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
CONFIRM MARRIAGE
 OF MISS SlNITHER,

Officials of the marriage license bu- reau of the Jefferson county probate office Tueuday confirmed the reported marriage of William Vernon McMillan, IT,, of Atlanta, to Miss Merle Smither, star of Blossom Time"
 The records show that the couple were married March 9 by Rev. F. R. Stephenson. It was known that the marriage license had been issued on that date, but no confirmation was found of the actual marriage. The certificate was returned by the offici- ating minister Tuesday morning
 Miss Smither played the role of Mitzi in the performance, which was pre- scented at the Jefferson theatre in Bir- mingham during the week the couple were married. It is understood she continued with the show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
SHOWER OF TELEGRAMs
Senators Flooded With Nuisance ITa,
 Protests
(WashingtOn Bureau)


 WASHINGTON. April S.-Each senator today received an average of 100 telegrams protesting against the report of the finance committee re- taining the sO-called nuisance tax on telegrams and long distance telephone messages.
 In all, $500 telegrams were received. No voice. throughout the United States. was raised in defense of the action of the committee.
 In the House, the bill was passed. eliminating the tax on telegrams and long distance telephone messages. The Senate committee restored that tax. The bill was so reported today. Instantly, protests from all sections of the coun- try came to Washington.
 The offices of Senators Underwood and Heflin of Alabama, Harris and George of Georgia, Smith and Dial of South Carolina. were flooded. It was propaganda because practically all of the messages were identically word cd. "
 The southern senators it is stated for mally. oppose the inclusion in the tax bill of an extra /fenalty on telegra ms and long distance messages. Speaking for the south, Senator Underwood said tonight:
 Anything to raise money in time of war is excusable. In time of war. there IS no nuisance tax. Unnecessary. tax ation, however, which simply irritates. IS Tn time of peace, a nuisance taxa. ton: The south as a rule, the demo- cratic party, as rule, opposes the tax on telegrams and long distance mes saRes" as '-''''
 The sentiment was echoed by -Heflin. Harris, George, Smith and Dial aII of whom were interviewed. " v,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
TEAPOT INQUIRY
 IS NEARING END
Investigation To Be Con-
 cluded During Week, ,. Walsh States

WASHINGTON, April S-whils Senator Dill,. democrat Washington, was. renewing his assault on Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, in the Senate today in connec- tion with the oil leases, Senator Walsh, ,. democrat, Montana, the oil committee prosecutor, was planning to end the long inquiry.
 Senator Walsh said he hoped to close the investigation this week, as examina- tion of the seven witnesses now under . subpoena would not consume much time.
 Senate process servers still are seek ing to serve subpoena on William Boyce Thompson of New York, former chairman of the finance committee of the republican national committee but they have been unable to locate him.
 Witnesses subpoenaed for tomorrow include William H. Miller, Columbus, Ohio, former assistant attorney gen eral of Ohio, and J. F. Baughan, Har- lingen, Texas, friend of the late Jake l., Hamon, republican national com mitteeman from Oklahoma. They will be. asked regarding gossip of oil deals at the 1920 republican national conven- ton.
 H. W. Ballard, Jr., Los Angeles, summoned last week, will not be called to Washington as result of tele- gram which the committee received from him today asking for $250 for ex- penses. cs stsa
 In returning to his attack on Roose- welt, he drew contrast of Mir. Roose- .yelt's testimony regarding the oil lease and statements he made in & recent letter to New York which was read recently.
 Replying to Senator Stanley, demo- crat, Kentucky, Senator Dill said MT. Roosevelt would be recalled before the oil committee and questioned as to his knowledge of the organization of the Mammoth Oil company which operated Teapot Dome, and whether he charged anything for his services in connection Nwith the organization of that or any otlier Sinclair company, f
 Senator Pepper, republican, Penn sylvania, broke in to inquire whether Senator Dill brought any charges against Mir. Roosevelt upon which he desired the Senate to act. Senator Dill replied that he made no charges, but presented ''the facts to let the coun- try draw its own conclusions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
Eliot Blames Republicanism
 For Unprecedented Collapse
Unqualified Entry Into League One Of Edu-
 catOr'S 5 Planks

NEW YORK, April S.-Citing re- publicanism as chiefly responsible for an American moral collapse of un- precedented depth, President-emeritus Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard Univer- ! sity, clashes with Senator George Wharton Pepper, of Pennsylvania, in an unpremeditated debate in this weeks issue of Golfers.
 The veteran educator arraigns the re- publican party for its failure to follow the Wilsonian precedent of legislative achievement and calls it to account for its acts since the refusal of the Senate to accept the League of Nations.
 The cumulative effect of three years of republicanism, according to Dr. Eliot, are represented by present scan- dals in Washington and in the inability of a republican secretary of the treas ury to carry through Congress sin dispensible measures of tax reform"
 A New Leader Wanted
 Dr. Eliot concludes that what is wanted is, "a leader with a new plat form"
 He suggests the following as likely blanks:
 1. Entrance into the league with acceptance of all obligations.
 2. Tariff chiefly for revenue pre- pared for congress by disinterested ex- perts who could suggest alterations as necessity arose.
 3. No cancellation of debts due the United States, but moratoria and easy terms where requested.
 4. Adoption of the merit system of promotion from the bottom to the top of the civil service, with an esti- mated saving of one billion dollars yearly.
 5. Unlimited government assistance for education, fights against disease, floods, famines and other evils which beset humanity.
 6. Inclusion in the platform of the traditional American doctrines of eco
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
YOUTH IS HELD
 AS RESPONDING
 NAVYPAY CLERK
Prisoner Identified As B. R. Brown, Who Skip
 ped With $112,0OO

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April s. A youth identified as Lieutenant Erwin B. Brown, United States navy pay master, who disappeared with $112,000 in government funds from Mobile, Ala, March 10, was found last night in Golden Gate Park here, apparently a victim of amnesia.
 The man taken into custody had 1900 in his pockets. He talked in- coherently and under persistent ques- tioning became violent and had to be subdued. He is under guard in hos pital detention ward.
 Identification of the youth as the missing paymaster was made by Lieu tenant Commander James K. Nelson, of the twelfth naval district, who had seen Brown on several occasions. The description of Brown and the appear ance of the prisoner tallied even to a small scar on one of the fingers and a tattooed figure of a girl on the left shoulder.
 In an apparently lucid moment the prisoner was quoted as saying:
 "If I'm identified, then what's the use of talking"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
WOMEN VOTERS
 HOLD SESSION
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Continued From Page One) ers' league should be invited to this city next year.
 Will the new auditorium be ready 2" asked several women.
 Its hard to say" came the reply from several parts of the room. "The city commission says it needs another $200,O0O."
 After the laughter abated, it was voted toNlet the state officers of the league decide the question after trying to ascertain "when, if ever," the audi torium would be ready. It was sug gested that no other building is ade- quate to house such great conven- tion.
 AllgOOd Opens
 C. F. Allgood was the first candi- date to whom three minutes were al- lotted
 'Im for anything the ladies went, ,'' he began, and the crowd roared. He went on: I'm for democracy. The court house is not an issue, for the people will decide that. I'll follow the wishes of the people. I figure Tn qualified for a seat on the board be- cause l always have listened to my wife"
 s. R. Batson stressed "good roads as the most important issue in the race.
 w. B. Copeland, of the present board reminded the women he had voted for every health measure that had been introduced. He favored the Wilson park court house site and said he would rest his candidacy on his pre- vious record.
 Next was c. F. Dodson. who fStored better, wider" roads and promised to always follow the wishes of the peo- pie. He gave his qualifications as good, hard, common sense" R. M. Acton answered Ives" to everything except the Ketona matron query, and said "that would have to be investigated
 T do not oppose the Capitol park | sit" said Lacey Edmondson, of the present board, but I want a popular referendum. My road building policy IS matter of record. 1 am familiar with county affairs and believe I am qualified to serve another term"
 Thomas E. Huey, another member of the present board, came out strongly for the Capitol park court house site and said that in view of the present doubt as to legality of referendum on the question at the May primary, il was uncertain if the issue would come to vote.
 Claims Seniority
 -Four years of intensive study and deep interest in county affairs, believe, qualify me for another term I'm interested in all the health and educational measures you advocate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
WILLIAM IS SEEKING
 SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Committee To Handle Issue With
 City Commission

Efforts. to get the present open ditches through the business section of Wylam supplanted with storm sewer system will be made by a committee appointed by the Merchants and Busi- ness Mems association at their regu- lar semi-monthly meeting Tuesday. The committee will appear before the board of city commissioners and ask that steps be taken to get this work under way at once. .-a7
 The commfttee was named after ine troduction of the subject at the meet ing by members who characterized the ditches, not only as a health menace, but menace to public safety. Rev. |. l.. Hearn, pastor of the Wylam Baptist church, asked that similar ditch be converted near the church property in order that work may com mence on the new structure.
 A committee appointed several days ago to approach the express compan- ies in regard to deliveries. made their report, which carried the announce ment that both. the American and Southeastern companies would install delivery system within the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
NEBRASKA FOR COOLIDGE.

OMAHA, Neb., April S.-Senator Hiram Johnson of California, who car ried the Nebraska presidential prefer ence primary in 1920 over Gen. Leon ard Wood .aR Gen. John J. Pershing by more than 10000 votes, was running behind President Calvin Coolidge when 103 precincts out of 1886 had been re ported tonight on today's preference race for /. the republican nomination. The vote: Coolidge, S.SSS; ; Johnson, J,555.
 William c. McAdoo was leading in the field in the democratic presidential preference race in which the voters had to write in the names, as no one was formally entered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
G.O.P'.LOSES HOPE
 FOR MELLON TAX
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(Continued From Page One) per cent on incomes below $4,000 and 6 per cent on incomes above that s per cent. respectively.
 The Longworth Plan
 The Longworth plan provides nor nal rates of per cent on incomes un- der $4,OOO, per cent on incomes be- tween S4,OOO and $S.Oo0 and 6 per, cent above that with a flat 25 per cent cut in the surtax rates of the present law.
 Other principal tax reduction fea- lures of the bill reported today and also approved by the House are:
 A 25 per, cent reduction on income taxes of 1923, payable this year.
 A 25 per cent reduction on earned incomes.
 Reduction or repeal of many of the miscellaneous taxes.
 The finance committee approved the reductions in miscellaneous taxes voted by the House with the exception of those on telegraph and telegraph mes sages, bowling alleys and pool and bil- Hard tables and drafts and promissory notes all of which were voted into the bill with the rates of the present law The exceptions allowed by the House in the jewelry tax we're cut down by the Senate committee to apply to arti- cles> selling for less than $25 instead of $40. The committee today approved the House action exempting musical instruments.
 Estate Increase Eliminated
 The increase voted by the House in the estate tax was eliminated by the finance committee as was the gift tax imposed by the House. New tax levies were placed in the bill by the commit tee voting rate of 10 per cent each on radio and Nah Jongg sets. Two treasury proposals agreed to by the House and aimed to check deductions and bring about $G0,000,0 additional revenue annually are eliminated in the finance committee bill.
 These. were proposal to limit capi- tai losses which might be deducted from gross inconIes to 1211a Ter cent, and an other to limit deduction of interest pay ments to the amount by which they exceeded incomes from tax exempt se- curities.
 The committee also cut down from $20,0O0 to $10,000 the maximum amount of which the special reduction of p per cent on earned incomes might be made. The higher maximum was fixed by the House.
 The formal vote to report the bill to the Senate Chairman Shoot said, was 9 to [. the democrats voting in opposition because the Mellon income rates were included "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
SILHOUETTES OF
 STATE CAPITAL
fsrATE CAPITAL BUREAU)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April S. The state highway commission today received an invitation from Florida citi. gems to attend the celebration to be held at Florida Town, Pensacola, May l, to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of work on the big bridge on the old Spanish Trail connecting Santa Rosa and Escambia counties, Florida, A barbecue will be held on that day, with oratory. The Alabama commis- sion may be represented.
 State Superintendent of Insurance Frank N. Julian, leaves Wednesday for Philadelphia, for an examination of the Heralds of Liberty, an Alabama corporation which has it's main office in Philadelphia. Mir. Julian will attend April 14-16 the spring meeting of the convention of insurance com missioners at Pinehurst, N. O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
WARD TO ADDRESS
 WOMEN'S SESSION

Dr. J. A. Ward will address the auxiliary of the Jefferson County. Medi- cal association at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday at 12 80. Dr. Ward will take as his subject ''The Re. lation of Scienctific Medicine to the Cults
 On this subject at Howard college short time ago, Dr.. Ward made strong impression and on the invitation of the ladies of the auxiE- iary he has consented to repeat the lee ture Wednesday. Coueism, Christian Science and other so-called methods of drugless healing will each receive their share of discussion in the lecture.
 An attractive musical program, in, terspersed with tidbits of humor. will round out the social features of ths monthly, affair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
COOLIDGE TAKES ILLINOIS LEAD Early Returns Showed Californian A
 FavOrite

CHICAGO, April s.--In the presi- dentiai primaries here today, Johnson took an early. lead over Coolidge, the results showing for a time that the Chicago vote would go for the Cali fornian.
 At II o'clock when 1 1.295 precincts had reported, Coolidge had taken tn lead with 91.66s votes to Johnson's s 1891. A total of 5.t,6S precincts are to make returns.
 In 1850 Chicago precincts in which McAdoo boiled 50,S92, friends of Mayor Dever of Chicago wrote in his name for 1868 for the presidential nomina- ton and supporters of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York gave him vote of I .0S4. a-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
LIGHT RATS { WOULD FORM
 DEATH ZONE

LONDON, April 7.-wars of the future can be fought with invisible rays which create a zone of death in which everything ex- piosive or inflammable will ignite, and even metals will be reduced to molten mass.
 That, is the declaration of H. Grindell-Matthews, scientist, who claims to have invented a ray protector already, effective over short distances. At the present stage of his experiments, Grindell- Matthews has succeeded in extending a ray until at a distance of GA feet it explodes cartridges and gun powder, ignites substances, and kills mice and shrivels plants.
 The ray can light oil lamps at this distance, and paralyze auto mobile and airplane magnetos, he says.
 Grindell-Matthews claims that at an expense of 5000 pounds he could create 50-mile ray barrage about London which would absolutely prevent an at tack on the city by air.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09

homie and political individualism, freedom, sanctity of contract.
 Pepper Makes Admission
 Elsewhere in the magazine Senator Pepper admits the Veterans Bureau tragedy" something in the Department of the Interior which ''yerged on crime" and the 'Daugherty blunder." :"
 However, Senator Pepper, insists that "the political party that develops and elects such man as Calvin Cool idge, has the strongest kind of claim on public confidence" and demands a fair valuation. of the achievements of the Harding administration.
 Pepper charges that hungry politi- clans and angry intellectuals are seek ing to pool their partisanship for campaign purposes"
 He attributes the anger of the i'm tellectuals ''to the failure of their foreign policy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
GIRL ITO FACE JURY

MOUND CITY, Kan, April S. Trial of Arlene Scott, pretty 19-year- old school teacher, and her uncle, John Scott, will start April 22 on charges of murdering the latter's wife. Au, thorities contend Scott killed his wife after a love affair, with Arlene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
REPORTED GAINING

John A. Lewis, candidate for the board of revenue, was reported recov- ering Tuesday at his residence, 3705 Twenty-seventh street, north, from bHdises received Monday night when his automobile was hit by a south bound North Birmingham street car at Twentieth avenue and Twenty street.
 According to reports, Lewis backed his car onto the track when the engine stalled. The street car hit the auto broadside. ,D70