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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
FUEL SHORTAGE NOW IMPBR
 WORLD 1GHT Fortnight's Delay In Ice land Is Cause Of New
 Situation lAyIATORS FEELING EFFECTS OF STRAIN Ice On Greenland Coast Makes Landing A
 Problem
By Assoeihted Press. ]

ON BOARD THE U. S, RICHMOND, REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 0.The fort night delay in the American army ayiators' world flight, due to uncertainty as regards ice conditions in Greenland and several nishaps, has brought about a fuel shortage in the naval patrol which is f .urti1 CT complicating the flight situation.
 Rear Admiral Thomas F. Magruder admitted this fact when his flagship, the Richmond, put into Reykjayik this morning with spare parts for the planes Of Lieutenants Smith and Nelson, A further delay in the flight, owing to weather or other causes, would neces- ajtate re-fueling the patrol vessels at Rosyth, Scotland, or elsewhere.
 Iee Causes Trouble
 Flight Commander Leighton who re- turned to Reykjavik on board the Rich mond alter having made an air recon naissance along the Greenland coast in one of the planes of the cruiser ReIigh, reported to Adimral Magruder that the entire coast in the vicinity of Angmagsalik is unsuitable for landing purposes owing to. ice. The harbor 20 miles north of Angmasalik, reported last week by Lieutenant Schultz, was found in be impraeticable.
 When the Richmond came to anchor here this morning q gale was raging and Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant Nelson and Lieutenant Crumrine of the air service had difficulty to board her for n conference with Admiral Magruder. The conference was a lengthy one. The admiral presented to the ayiatOrs the difficulties of the situation from the naval viewpoint, layin9 sfES Ss fyss tga fue ecaFeitg.
 en nhnf nfil pniifls out that sTas poasjble for biiiSeif and Ilieutenai1k Nelson to mhka the re- maindar of the flight without delay. barring accidents and with q little rest between the hope to Labrador.
 Itaiian On Hand
 lieutenant LOeatelii the Italian aviator, came on board the Richmond during the conference.
 Later Lieutenant Smith saids
 q am suffering over this delay as much as anybody else There is no fun in waiting around for q chance to finish the flight. am as ansxious as anybody to get back to America, and will move quickly when we start"
 The suspense is seriously affecting Lieutenant Crumrine, according to his friends. They say the officer has been on the point of a nervous breakdown during the past few days.
 The prospect of a fresh start on the journey tomorrow morning appeared this evening to have heartened the entire group.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
MAN HELD ON FOUR
 FORGERY CHARGES
Walter Baker Alleged To Have
 Passed Bad Checks

Walter BalSer, 1SO115 Second ave nue, north, Birmingham, is in the coun- stS jail, being held on four charges of forgery. Bond, fixed at $1,0OO on each chArge, has not been made.
 Baker was brought from Ensley in ferior court, where he was taken Tues day following his arrest while attempt ing to escape unnoticed from the Bank of Ensley. He was trying to have a check of $500 cashed when the cashier became suspieoua@and had the sigma tuFe examined It was while the cheek was being examined that Baker is said to have attempted his escape.
 Baker forged the name of ". l.. George, it was said, who at one time was his employer Three times be- fore within the past month, Baker has cashed checks with Georges forged name totaIing more than $1.000, 1t Is understood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
CLOSES
 MEET OF UNION
 AT BIRMINGHAM
McElderry Again Chosen Head After COntrO-
 versy

The majority of office holders of the past year were reelected at the secret session Wednesday of the Alabama di- yisioa of the FarmerS Educational and Cooperative Union of Amreica, in clos ing a tw0-day convention in Judge Denson's courtroom, Jefferson county courthouse.
 The entire morning was devoted to election purposes, because q faction arose, it was said, upon the presentation of G. q. McEfderry for q second term as president, demanding his. defeat and mining ". s. Cox as the logical man. In the end McEiderry triumphed.
 Ehe alkefcation nsade nscesearx q Na fha lr a been
 tl 0gnlI. kefS had t0 Ee aslsad 70 postpone their addresses until aftern0oa
 Officers of the Alabama division of the union for 1924-l25 are: e. z. Alc@ Euderry, Talladega, president secoasl term J. O. Hicks, Centefville, vice president. second term Mrs. b. A. Painter, Birmingham. secretary -treas- urer. third term; ". o. Washburn, Falkyille, do0rkeeper, and ". s. Cox, chaplain. The executive committee Is composed of M. A. Peek, Mrs. ". B. Edmundson, third term; L. 0. Cox, R. c. Hicks, second term, and Duvan Dob bins. This committee will meet Sep tember IS, at the office of the Ad- vance, Birmingham newspaper, devoted to farm interests, at which time they will outline the work of the union in Alabama during the coming year. The committee, will hold monthly meetings throughout the year as usual.
 Principal speaker of the day was Charles s. Barrett, Union City, Ga, president of the national union, who described the activities of the union in other states, and urged that the organi- zation be made more powerful in Ala barna, where it's influence is said to be less than in any other state. He spoke briefly of the coming national convention in November in Oklahoma City, Okla, and asked that all who possibly could attend. to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
SEARCH
 FOR FLOCCERS 5. IN HIIRD CASE
Fairfield Man In Bad Condition After
 Whipping

5Hs4-
 Fairfield police Wednesday night were looking for five men who are d. leged to have taken Clarence Hurd, age 30, 14S Belrosa Terrace, from his home Monday, night and fIogged him until he is in a critical condition. The matter was reported to the police Tuesday, and announced Wednesday afternoon.
 A partial description of the members of the nogging party was furnished by Hurd, and with this in his possession Chief A. A. Anthony expects to soon ferret them out.
 Hurd was seized by two of five men who drove to his home Monday after noon in Ford automobile, he told p6- lice Wednesday, He was playing with his children in the front yard when the man came to him and told him lie was uider arrest, Hurd stated.
 Covered With Revolver.
 When he raised an objection, the third man leaped from the automobile and covered him with a revolver Bund- linz H0rd into the automobile, they drove him to . thick woods near Edge water, handcuffed him to tree, stripped him of his clothes and are al legei to have beaten him unmerciful- " with heaxq strap
 number have line Son y0u, waE all the answer Hurd could get out of the HoggeFs Is q red, son for the whipping, according to hii story to police. He has no idea of what they referred to, Hurd told the chief of police.
 Mir. Hurd is married and has three children He is employed by the Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany and has been a resident of Fair field for two months. So far as is known, his conduct has been unFe- proachable.
 The victim has been confined to, his bed since the attack, in great pain from the laeefations on his back. His flesh is beaten black and blue from his neck to his waist, and his condition is con sidered critical by his physician.
 "We will make every effort to locate the criminals" Chief Anthony said. Mfr. Hurd will be able to recognize them, as they were unmasked, and he had a good vie wof their faces, All of my officers have been given a de scription of the men, and orders have been issued that all fitting their de- scription De picked up and questioned" !"
 Hurll intends to prosecute. the Hog gers to the full extent of the law, he kaid s1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
} PARTIES PICTURED BY DAVIS Democratic Nominee Takes Issue With Speech
 Of Dawes SAYS DEMOCRATS ON MIDDLE GROUND Declares Republican Par- ty Is Ultra Con-
 servative PAINTS LA TOILETTE
 AS TOO RADICAL. Plans Made For West Virgin ian's Western Campaign
 Tour
PAINTS LA TOILETTE
 AS TOO RADICAL
Plans Made For West Virgin ian's Western Campaign
 Tour
tny I'M wlts 6 Ths Ass.HsraIal

tBy Aseased Wire t0 Imo Age Herntdt
 NEW YORK, Aug. 20. An idea of how John w. Davis will picture the democratic party as the "safe, but fiberap medium for government was contained in his comment Wednesday on the acceptance speech of General Dawes at Evanston.
 The nominee was comment ing on Dawes definition of the positions occupied by the three groups in the presidential raee,
 The repubifean party, Davis said, Occupies the ltra-conservative posi- ton, with the K.a Toilette group on the extreme left while the democratic party remains in the center.
 Claims Middle Course
 That expression, it is indicated at dem0cratic Headquarters here will play pfominenk part in providing the text Tor Davis campaign speeches. He will so before tho Yotets with the claim that the republicans are reac- tiene and dan serouslF conservative
 ii de0safe that the ndepaSlent Ms kta N Fa A aG a ii e enaocFatS as tie followers QE . middle course.
 This attitude on the part of the demo- crats was reflected further in a state mene hy Joseph P Tumulty, former seefefary to President Wiison, Com mienting on Dawes address and his reference to radicals, Tumulty said |:
 ssrhe real, rcd in America is not the man who stands on the street corners and hurls his vain anathemas at government itself. The red agita- tors own blatancy in the antidote for the very thing he breaches and against which he declaims." !"
 Tumulty Comments
 .srhe heal red" TumultS continued, was the government official who be- traysd the confidence Of the people .'by prostituting the favors of the gov ernment and transferring them for purposes of personal gain to special groups"
 Davis and his advisers are now dis cusslng the towns which the candidate will visit on his western tour. Omaha, Des AFoines, and Denver are practical 5 N agreed upon. After Denver, it has been suggested Davis swing into Kan sas. Although nothing definite has been decided, Witchita, Salina or To- peka arc mentioned as possible points for speech-making, and also St. Louis and Kanzas City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
NEWS FROM TCDAY'S
 WANT ADS

s1ee. eoe loan wanted on 100 duplex houses.
 central Park hoass only ssoO
 down
 offles work wanted by young mar
 rieQ man. TWO eonnscting rooms for rent in
 Ensley Fifth Ave corner for sT6Ooo. Pointer pups for gale sfea1n shcvels for sala. sawins. ahd embraidering vented. Boy familiar with city wanted to
 drive Ruick truck sonthsido investment ss,ssO. .savs sz6o on chevrolot coupe only
 one month old. s1,s0o mortgage For sale. owner yin sactipce new west End
 bungalow. sS Hudssn speedstor, 6 tires and load ed with extras, for sS5O 4 bargain in a Packard Eight. only driven z,boo miles. Finahciai executive wanted Lady wanted who is experienced 10
 erganizinE aayings bank eiuhs. Twb nicely furninhed bedrooms
 wanted. 4 number of apartments and houses
 for rent.
 g-room bungalow in Woodlawn
 Highlands for Ss,o0o. 3-story bualnesa building for rent. High caiibrs ksaisaman wanted. Csse doine st sJo business month
 for sale.
 Hardware clerk vented, Late model Chevrolet touring, sl00. Insurance salesman wanted. six weiders wanted at once. Turn to page lB.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
CONFESSION OBTAINED BY POLICE Started Flames Just To See Fire Engine In
 Action LUNACY BOARD.
 TO EXAMINE HIM Was Once Sent To Asylum For Incendiary-
 Fires
 ---- POLICE CLEAR UP
 STRANGE BLAZES Had Overpowering Mania For
 Sight Of Burning
 Buildings
POLICE CLEAR UP
 STRANGE BLAZES
(By Associated Prsss.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-A self-styled "Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde"-an unassuming youth of 26-blandly confessed to the police today that he had caused more than 100 incen- diary fires on Manhattan Is- land in the past few months "iust to see the fire engines m action"
 "It was a lot of fun," he ex- plained with a smile, Ito stand in front of a burning house and know that the people run ming from the place so madly didn't know that the one who had made all the excitement was right there looking at them"
 Sanity Questioned.
 The prisoner, George c. Gustow, for mer bank clerk, was held for examina- tien by a lunaey commission. It VIII be his second experieTlce with alienists, for he was incarcerated in Blooming- dale and Aiiddletown asylpms from 1915 to 1919 after his arrest for series of ineendiaFy fires he started as a boy of 14 4gears.
 ustows arrest followed months of work by police and fire officials, who sought him as New Yorks worst fires bug"
 The authorities had no clue to the pyromaniac's identity until Gustow was seen at an Amsterdam avenue fire yes- tertlay and recognized as a man with a limp" who had been seen to leave the flaming building just before the blaze was discovered.
 Taken to a police station, he ad- .mitted authorship of two letters to Fire Marshal Brophy in which he had written that ''the man who is setting all these fires is person of dual per sonality and very shrewd person. He will never be caught"
 Mania For Fire.
 It was to this dual personality" which he attributed to an attack of spinal meningitis which he suffered in 1914, that Gustow credited his fearsome mania for the sight of blazing build ings and the subsequent excitement caused by the arrival of fire apparatus and fighters.
 The mainia overpowered him at odd times, he said.
 Gustow told the authorities earnestly that he never caused a fire which re- suited in death. He explained that he craftily started his blaze and in un- tenanted dwelling or lofts or in such places in tenanted houses that all oc, cupants would be certain to escape the consequences of his acts. W
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
DAWES CHARGES
 TOBE ANSWERED
 BY LA TOILETTE
But Senator Is In No
 Hurry To Refute Red Flag Talk
Ry RAYMOND CLAPPER

(IIeased Wire To Tho Age. Herald
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.4La Fol lette is biding his time and refuses to be provoked into starting his campaign prenaaturely by such attacks as Dawes made in his acceptance speech.
 The Wisconsin senator went about his business as usual Wednesday, re- fusing by word or intimation to reply to the charge made by Dawes that he Is heading an army of radicals who want to overthrow the Constitution.
 It was decided that Senator Wheeler, the progressive vice presidential candl- date, should make ms first big speech on Boston nosnnl6a on Labor Day. La Toilette will make public . mes sage to labor on the same day bat will York later in September.
 Is old Hand
 La Toilette is an old hand at poli- tics and he believes that elections usually are determined by the swing public opinion takes late in September and early in October, Coolidge is practicing the same strategy as La Toilette. He intends to keep quiet for month yet and then break forth with a few set addresses, some out of town perhaps and some oyer the radio we'll spaced to produce n cumulative effect as election day nears
 Davis has decided upon an earlier start and is expected to hit the line hard in Q speech at Seagirt, N. J., Friday. Yet even Davis will not at tempt to make q continuous speaking tour between now and election as Cox did four years ago.
 ks. hief ceptance speech for he has created a Toilette. There is considerable differ ence of opinion as to whether he used good judgment in that attack.
 LR FOIlette's Case
 Friends of La Toilette regard the charge that he is heading an army of radicals bent on overthrowing the Con- stitution as ridiculous in view of the fact that his most ardent supporters are Gompers and the heads of the American Federation of Labor. long known for their bitter hatred of social ism, the Russian soviets and other ex- treme radical groups. The orthodox trades unionist, represented by the A. F. of L., is insisted, is an conservative in his political views as the run of re- publicans and democrats. He is for the Consultation, and wants to preserve the republican form of government. He only desires to stop abuses and prevent privileged groups from using the gov ernment to their own exclusive ad- vantage. He believes that the govern ment's function is to serve the whole people, not the large business man alone.
 If Dawes believes tIlt the carpen- ters, bricklayers, printers and other mechanics who carry union cards, are a menace, the La Toilette people are glad to have him say so. They believe that if Dawes will continue to attack them in this manner, they will gain thousands of votes It isathe kind of abuse upon which they thrive.
 There are sharp issues between the Coolidge-Dawes and the La Toilette Wheeler ticket, but the preservation of the Constitution is not one of them, the La Toilette people say. They are confident that a misrepresentation of their position will react in their favor when the public gets the full facts in tho course of the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
A Sign of the Times

TWENTY years ago no would have thought of N tering to the housewife to sell merchandise the husband was the head of the house and the ofca sop ping guide and it was he who directed the household in all its buying activities. Then there Woman's Realm to tell the wife of the special offerings in her sphere But today all that has changed, and it is the woman who does approximately all the shopping for the home.
 And she knows that her, page-The Womans Real1--is conducted FOR WOMEN by a woman who searches the choicest shops for their best offerings and that she always depend it to tell her when and where to do her buying Exclusive shops in the downtown districts and
 the leading stores in the suburban centers vie with each other in offering their latest and best values Wherever you live and whatever you need you find it next Sunday in The Woman's Reslm-t is vertible shopping directory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
Radio Stations Asked
 To Pause And Listen
 For Signal FromMars
Astronomers All Set To Try Communicating
 With Planet When It Comes Nearest To Earth. 2 Dark Areas On Celestial Neighbor Thought
 To Be Vegetation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.--The Ma tionai Association of Radio Bradcast- CTS has agreed to silence all radio send- ing stations under it's control at in- tervals for 36 hours beginning midnight Thursday in order to provide better re- ceiving conditions should any signals reach here from the planet Mars, ac- cording to Prof. David Todd, noted astronomer, who has been here working on the plan.
 The plan calls for fiye-minute silence periods from the 50 to 55 minute of each hour.
 Sending stations all over the world have been asked to join in this listen ing schedule and Professor Todd be- Iieves that the majority will do 80, especially those controlled by American concerns.
 Do you think that we will be able to pick up Mars?' Professor Todd was asked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
WORKhfAN Is KILLED

S SFLORENCE, Ala, Aug. 90 Walter Wiley, 36, employed as riyeter on the new Shoal Creek bridge in this eomnan- ity, fell 20 feet to his death yesterday afternoon shortly afterb4 o'clock when a part of the false work on the bridge on which he was working, came loose as he took hold of 1t. He was rushed to a local hospital suffering q concas- sion of the brain, but died before he
 could be taken to the operating table.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21

Nobody can tell" he replied. "It is a big gamble but it isn't going to cost anybody anything"
 As result of the unique sugges- ton by this famous astronomer, several million radio sets will be tuned in listening for a, signal from the nearest in history has such an experiment been celestial neighbor of the earth. Never performed. When the listening period begin, Mars will have swung within 34,600,0O0 miles of the earth, mere stone's throw as heavenly distances go. Not in century will the two planets come so close together.
 Whether there is life on Mars now is question, Professor Todd said.
 Without doubt the planet has been inhabited in the past by rational be- ings," he said. Tt shows every evil
 Continued on Page Two.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
THEFT OF JEWELS
 FROM MRS. MORS LAID TO M'COY
$5,OOS Worth Found In Possession Of Pugi- a
 lists Sister
lRx Associated Press.l

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.-Two hard blows landed today on the de- fense of Kid Mccoy, ex-pugilist, in- dicted yesterday for the murder here August 12, of Mrs. Theresa w. Mors, the woman with whom he was living.
 McCoy's sister, Mrs. Jennie Thomas, delivered one of them. The police were responsible for the other.
 Mrs Thomas turned oyer to inves- tigators $5,000 worth of jewels which she said Mccoy gave her after the death of Mrs. Mars. and which Albert A Mora. ivarcnd huefand of the dead w61lIlfis aseinres were stolen roln heS body.
 Police ifiyessigators announced that they had torn to shfeds the stfoy of Daghiar Dahlgren, dancer and eighth (divorced) wife of the ex-fighter, who earlier volunteered a statement that tended to obsolye him of Mrs. Mors death. ~
 Dagmar Tells Story
 The dancer said she has been spy- ing on Mccoy and Mrs. Mors. saw Me Coy leave the Mors apartment the night the woman died with bullet in her head, saw Mrs. Mors turn off her light, then saw heavy set man enter, heard an argument, then shot, and finally the hasty departure of the heavy set man. D.
 Officers working on the case, after investigation asserted they could find no corroboration of the Dahlgren story and that 1t apparently was an effort on her part to help her ex- ,..sGL 1xa1fr fr. faot
 The day also marked the aFraign- ment of Mccoy on the charge of mur- der, three charges of assault with intent to commit murder and four chrages of robbrey.
 His attorneys obtained postpone ment of the plea until Monday, but before they could be heard, Mccoy, in reply to the reading of the mur- der charge, shouted:
 T did not"
 Seven More Charges
 The seven lesser charges against the former prize ring attraction, were the outgrowth of a shooting affray staged by him the morning following Mrs. Mors' death, when he held hp several persons and wounded three.
 Until yesterday Mccoy has had a cell to himself in the city jail Last night, following his indictment and until his trial, his quarters are in the county jail "tdnk," which he shares with score and half other prison CTS.
 Since his removal to the tank" there has been no recurrence of the antics that brought alienists hurrying, to his cell yesterday and resulted in their statement that he apparently was .'shamming" insanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
CRASH OF PLANE
 IS FATAL TO TWO
Machine Drops l,OOO Feet Into
 Creek

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 20Q- Steven Bromley, IT, seronautical engi- neer with the national advisory conn mite, was instantly killed and De- France, American ace, major m the re- serve service and general aeronautical engineer With the advisory committee, iaceired injuries that may prove fatal when their JN-6, training airplane, dropped to the waters of Back river from an altitude of little more than 1000 feet late today at Langley Field.
 Bromley who was making his first flight, died from c broken neck and DeFrance is injured about the head and body,
 The water, on which the plane landed, is about three feet deep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
GERMAN SOLDIER
 TURNS UP ALIVE
Had Spent Nearly 10 Years In
 Prison

BERLIN, Aug. 2O.-Bernhard Jan tos, former German soldier who was believed to be dead, is back home after having spent nearly ten years in Siberia as prisoner.
 JLntos says there is still larger number of German was prisoners in Siberia, especially in the district of Tomsk. These men have not been able to communicate with, German gov eFnIient representatives and are unable to leaving the country owing to lack of funds and poor transportation facil- ities.
 The government will take steps to re- patriate the men. 4