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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
lAUCHERTY HAS BEEN FIRED, IS BANKERS CLAIM Attorney General Asked To Step Out, Says
 Vanderlip DECLINES TO REVEAL
 INFORMATION SOURCE Stands On Statement, However, Says Financier When Asked
 For Details

NEW YORK, March 2.-Rresident Coolidge has asked for the resignation of Attorney General Daugherty, but has not received it, Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, declared today in an address at the Heights Free synagogue.
 Asked to elaborate on his assertion or to tell from whom he had obtained the information, Mir. 'yanderiip was un- communicative.
 q will stand on that statement, that's all" he told newspaper ruen.
 NIT. Vanderlip added in his speech, however, that he had sent word to the President, but did not know whether or not his communication had been re. ceived, that Daugherty should not be allowed to resign if the resignation was to be accompanied by "whitewash. ing" letter.
 MT. Vanderlip said new political party would be formed if the President did not Ego through" with the present investigation in Washington wherever it leads and purify the federal govern ment."
 "There will be one plank in its plat. form" he said, land there will be two words in that plank-'be honest"
 Declaring that the men in the news paper field have gone soft in their ca. pacity for hard Investigating service ''this beipg especially true of the cor. respondents at Washington" Mir. Van deriip suggested the formation of a "citizens' federal research bureau" to conduct investigations. The data accu. mulated would be sent to the news papers of the country, he said, land most of them will print it, because they will fear that somebody will, and then they will have been left"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
ADVOCATES SAY BONUSBILL WILL
 PASS OVER VETO
Seventy Votes In Senate And 355 In House Are
 Depended Upon
By E. B. M'DoNALp l nasAd MlHa tn Ina Ana. heIaldl

WASHINGTON, March 2-Pass sage of q bonus bill over q presidential veto is predicted on the basis of polls made by proponents of adjusted com pensation just as this question is being taken up in the House of Representa- tives.
 Bonus friends count 70 votes in the Senate and 355 in the House on the question of overriding a presidential veto. Opponents of the bonus challenge these figures. but have not advanced any polls of their own.
 Representative Longsworth of Ohio, the majority leader believes there may be slightly less than the 355 votes claimed, but he admitted that his poll showed not more than a subtracted handful. Representative Garner of Texas, democrat, believes there are even fewer than so votes against the bonus.
 Judging from the vote on the bonus last year." Garner said, Il can count only B votes against it. Many of those who voted against it last year are not in Congress now, and the incoming members nearly all are favorable. l should judge that the House would encounter no difficulty at all in pass ing the measure over veto."
 Claims of the bonus forces are dis puted in the Senate by such opponents as Shoot, who have been conducting ~quiet campaign of organization against the measure.
 The American Legion claims to have 70 pledges in black and white to pass the bonus over veto. SiXty-two are Ill that are needed. But Shoot scouts this claim. He maintains there is just a comfortable majority in favor of ad- Justed compensation in the upper house.. and that it could not pass over veto.
 Senator Capper of Kansas, leader in the pro-bonus movement, supports the claims of the legion. He predicts the vote. in the light of a poll he made re- gently, would be Fl favOring passage over veto.
 Meanwhile, bonus legislation will oc- cupy the time of the ways and means committee this week, and Representa- tive Green of Iowa, chairman of the committee, feels confident that meas ure will be reported to the House by Saturday. The form this bill will take is all-important, for it Is expected that the House will pass it substantially as reported.
 A vote on the bonus measure whiSh will be reported will not, however, he taken by the House until after the pas sage of Muscle Shoals and immigration Legislation. According to estimates Of party leaders, these two bills will oc- Cnpy at least three weeks, and it proba bly will be more than q month before the bonus bill gets onto the floor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
PLANT ON FIRE AT
 NORTH BIRMINGHAM
Lumber Company Suffers Heavy Loss By Morning Blaze

Fire originating in a store room of the North Birmingham Lumber com pany at Thirty-fifth street and Thirty second avenue, at 1 o'clock Monday morning, for a time threatened the en- tire plant and caused damage variously estimated at between $40,000 and $50,0O0.
 The fire was still burning briskly at 2 o'clock, but was thought to be prac- tically under control, according to re- ports from the scene of the conflagra- tion.
 Firemen were directing most of their efforts to saving the plant of the Ameri- can Radiator company, immediately Rd- joining the burning lumber yard. Sev- eral lines of hose played continuous stream of water on the roof of the plant.
 Danger existed that several large drums of gasoline stored in the lumber yard, for use of company trucks, would explode, reports said. Several streams of water were used to keep these drums from absorbing too much of the in- tense heat.
 Three downtown fire companies an- swered the call, bringing into use a dozen or more lines of hose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
PALESTINE WILL
 BEDESCRIBED IN
 LYONS LECTURE
Scientist, Howard Alum nus, To Visit Birming-
 ham During March

Dr. David Gordon Lyon, native Ala bamian, alumnus of Howard college, leader of the most important modern excavations in Palestine, professor at Harvard university and scholar of worldwide reputation, will come back to his alma mater in March for series of lectures.
 Dr. Lyons lectures will be based on his observations while exploring Pales- tine as leader of Harvard university's expedition to Sumaria in 1907 and 1908.
 The first two lectures, Ancient Palestine as Revealed by Evaporation" and "The Palestine of Today in Its Relation to the Bible," will be delivered in the college auditorium on March 12 and 13. The third of the series. "The Holy City and the Future of Palestine" will be delivered on March 13 at Tenn pie Emanu-El, at the request of Rabbi Morris Newfield.
 The Excavations | In his first lecture, Dr. Lyon will give an account of the work of Pales- tinian excavations, with a detailed ac- I count of the excavations made by liar yard university in 1908-10, at Sumaria. capital of the ancient kingdom of l Israel. s q is The second lecture will deal with tue saetnKa shietnrs fepeex xHglEs sasaan, climate. customs and manners of the l people in Palestine.
 The lecture to be delivered at Temple Emanu-El will give history of the Canaanite city, Jerusalem; dispatches from it's chief official to the Pharaoh, Amenhotep ", about 1400 B. O.: "The City of the Great King" Solomon's | Temple and the Jewish temples of Egypt Jerusalem in prophecy and poetry; Identification of the city by Herod the Great; Jerusalem and Rome {; l the New Jerusalem :" great changes now in progress; Zionism, its aims, methods and prospects.
 Use Illustrations | All the lectures will be illustrated with lantern slides, many of which were made from photographs taken by Prof. Lyon during his residence and travel in Palestine.
 Prof. Lyon, who is native of this state. has a brother and other close relatives now living in Colhrene. Lowndes county. He was graduated from Howard college when it was at Marion, studied afterward at Harvard university and finally took his doctor of philosophy degree at Leipsic, Ger many. Being recalled to Harvard, he filled the chair of Semitic languages, particularly Assyriology, for 40 years. He is the founder and curator of Har- yards Semitic museum.
 An account of Dr. Lyon's excavations in Palestine while leading the Harvard university expedition has recently been published by the Harvard university l press. & Dr. Lyons lectures at Howard will beNgiyen in the college chapel at 10 o'clock on March 12 and 13.
 He will also speak to the Rotary club at luncheon on March 12. His lecture at Temple Emanu-El will be given on the evening of March IA. -.s'..|
 Dr. Lyon will include Montevallo and other towns in Alabama in his lecture | tour,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
POLITICAL BLACKMAIL
 ATTEMPTED BY REED,
 CHARGES w. G. M'ADOO
Not A Genuine Candidate, Is Scathing Denun-
 Reform Which He Advocated, Is Declaration

which I can not control make it i'm possible for me to get to Missouri be- fore the county conventions on March 5, and say the things which I would like to say to the democracy of Mis- souri,"
 Discussing Senator Reeds history as a democrat, the McAdoo epistle con tinues:
 He is the man who because of his disloyalty to the democratic party, was in 1920 thrown out of the democratic convention of his own state of Mis- souri when he sought to be delegate to the national convention.
 He is the man who was repudiated by and denied a seat in the democratic national convention at San Francisco
 ''He is the man who was denounced by the legislature of South Carolina a few weeks ago as a traitor to the dem- ocratic party.
 Denounced As Egoist
 ''He is the man who throughout the last democratic administration permit ted his personal egotism and selfish ness to assert itself in opposition to many of the principal measures and policies upon which the success of that administration was staked.
 "He is the man of whom Woodrow Wilson wrote in 1922, to those who have closely observed MT. Reeds ca reer in Washington, he has shown him. self incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. He has re- peatedly forfeited any claim to my con- fidence that he may ever have been supposed to have and I shall never will lingly consent to any further associa- tion with him.,
 "He is the man who cannot point after years of service in the Senate, tO single constructive reform which he has advocated or aided. "He is the man who bitterly opposes the present widespread heartfelt desire of the American people to cooperate with the other nations of the earth to work out in common cause the prob lem of world disarmament and world peace"
 Other charges contained in the let l ter are that Reed fought women's suf- | frage and tried to prevent the enact ment of the federal reserve act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
TWO HIRAMS IN MICHIGAN RACE
 FOR PRESIDENCY
California Son Says Trick Worked On Him By
 Coolidge

WASHINGTON, March 2.-Presi, dent Co0lidge's supporters were charg ed directly tonight by Senator Hiram Johnson of California with the re sponsibility for the placing of a man named Hiram Johnston on the primary ballot in Michigan as candidate for President.
 "This is simply a trick" said Sena- tor Johnson. which would disgrace the meanest kind of petty politics"
 The California senator, whose name also is on the Michigan presidential ballot, denied that he had abandoned his campaign for delegates from New York state, and charged that the "sys- tenn now controlling the republican party" is seeking to prevent a fair ex- pression on the presidential nomination il the primary states.
 T have not abandoned New York and don't intend to-" he said.
 Ut took me two supreme court de- cisions to get on the ballot in the independent republican column in South Dakota.
 'In North Dakota Senator LaFol- lette has withdrawn as a candidate. but notwithstanding his positive dee laration, every effort is still being made to put his name on the ballot.
 Called Trick
 'In Michigan the Coolidge people, I am advised by telegram, found a man named Hiram Johnston and have put his name on the primary ballot as a candidate for president. This is simp- ly a trick which would disgrace the meanest kind of petty politics. Strange, isn't it, if the Coolidge people are so certain of success they resort to such methods? The fact is. t6ey know they are beaten wherever the rank and file have chance freely and fairly to vote. I ask only fair contest before the members of the republican party, and they are using every expedient to avoid this.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
RENOWNED DIVINE
 DIES IW NASHVILLE
Editor Of Gospel Advocate Ex-
 pires At Age Of 94

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March D. The Rev. E. G. Sewell, aged 94, retired minister of the Church of Christ and one of the foremost leaders of this de- nomination in the south, died at his home in this city today from infirmities incident to advanced age. Mir. Sewell was widely known as an author as we'll as a minister.
 He had been associate editor of the Gospel Advocate since 1870 having still held this post at the time of his death. He became minister T2 years ago and until few years ago served actively in his chosen calling. Tue funeral services will be held here Monday after noon with burial in local cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
PACE OF NATIONS INDUSTRY GROWS,
 SURVEY REVEALS
Particularly Heavy In crease In Output Shown
 Tn Steels

WASHINGTON, Mar. Z.-Ihe ln- creased industrial and trade activity with which the current year continues to be well maintained as characteristic of the country's business condition, the federal reserve board said, today in it's February survey of business. Finan- cial and commercial interests, the re- view said, generally view the future with confidence and are shaping their policies accordingly.
 With the increased business activity there was larger volume of bank cred it, the statement said. The volume of commercial loans, which decreased con tinuously after October, began early in January to increase, and the trend was marked in the first half of February when these loans were about $3I2,O00,- 900, or approximately 5 per cent above the level of 1923. The growth in loans, however, was largely offset by de- crease in investment holdings with the consequence that total loans and invest ments of banks in the larger centers was only about $125,000,0OO larger than year ago. Expect Production Gain
 During the last half of 1923, pro- duction declined and even after the sharp recovery of January and early February, the rate still was about per cent below the high point of last May, but board officials said there was no reason to believe it would contin- ue lower.
 Distribution of commodities at whole sale and shipments of merchandise in. creased as did the output of manufact- urers. This increase was sufficient to place the general level for the two months of 1924 above the average for 1923, and, taken with the changes in production from late 1923 and the movements of prices, reflected the ex. tent and character of the. recent, busi- ness establishments. s. 1 The boards private index of con 1ditions shows that general commoditS production in January was almost on a level with that of 12 months before. The output of basic materials increased about per cent over December when production was lowest after a steady decline of seven months dura- tion.
 Steel Output Heavy
 Steel industries showed particularly large increases in output, which at the end of January was as large as at any time in 1923. Unified orders in Decem- Der, after nine months of downward tendencies, turned upward. The demand for steel to meet railroad requirements cnotinued large and there was distinct addition to the call for steel from the automobile and building industries.
 An unusually large production for this season of other building materials was taken to indicate an undiminished volume of building.
 The board measured the increase in wholesale trade at about II per cent ov- CT December, which places it at a level somewhat larger than a year ago. Re- tail trade was shown by department stores and mail order houses to have been larger also than at the beginning of 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03

SIT. LOUIS, Mo, March 2.--Charg- ing Senator James A. Reed with an at tempt to subject him to species of political blackmail,' William Gibbs McAdoo, in a letter to c. c. Oliver, his Missouri chairman, declares that Reed is traitor to the democratic party and not genuine candidate.
 The letter, made public Sunday, re- fers to recent speeches of the Missouri senator in which he criticized McAdoO s connection with the oil interests and says that Senator Reed is angry be- cause McAdoo is campaigning in his native state.
 "Here is a real patriot who resorts to the most glaring disregard for the truth in his personal attacks on me because I would not stay out of Mis- souri," McAdoo says.
 Refused To Submit
 "On January "A, last, Mir. Sam Fordyce, representing Senator Reed, called on one of my Washington friends and said if l entered Missouri the sen ator would contend against me, espec- ially in Georgia and California. I re fused to submit to political blackmail, the letter continues.
 My refusal to submit to such politi cal blackmail was promptly followed by Reeds move on the floor of the Senate to compel the committee on public lands, investigating the republic an oil scanadl, to introduce into the record wholly immaterial and irrele want testimony having nothing whatever to do with the scandal, for the sole purpose of dragging my name; without justification, into the oil inquiry. In this way, he is cooperating with the republican party, to divert attention from the graft and corruption involv ing the members of the present repub lican administration, and is thereby giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the democratic party.
 Courage Is Questioned
 Has Senator Reed the courage tc come out and say for. whom he is thu stalking horse?" McAdoo asks. "Wil he tell the voters to whom he intends to trade the democratic delegates o1 Missouri, whom he seeks to take tt the New York convention pledged tt dc his political will?
 q deeply regret that circumstances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
2 HURT AS PLANE
 FALLS INTO POND
6-I Crashes 75 Feet Near Moore
 head City, N. C.

MOOREHEAD CITY, N. C., March 2.-Lieutenant Commander A. E. Montgomery and Machinist Mate Christianson are in a local hospital suf- fering from injuries received when their plane, the 6-1, fell 75 feet into shallow water in the sound opposite here at i :25 o'clock this afternoon. Lieut.. s. F. Flick was uninjured. The machine was one of three observation planes which left Hampton Roads, Virginia, for Miami. Fla. early today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
WOMAN DIES WHEN
 1ATRPLANE PLUNGES
Wing CrumpIes As She Attempts
 Loop 1,20O Feet Up

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March D. Mrs. Bertha Horchem, member of an air circus, was instantly killed this afternoon at the municipal flying field here when the left wing of her plane crumpled when she went into loop at height of 1.200 feet.
 The plane crashed to the ground 20 feet in front of the hangar and into the edge of the crowd of 3,500 specta- tors.
 Cyle Horchem, the husband and owner of the circus, collapsed as the woman's body was removed from the twisted wreckags, and was in a serious condition at late hour Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
LOHENGRIN BANNED
 AT JAZZ WEDDING
Ragtime Parade To Altar New
 YOrk's Latest

NEW YORK, March. 2.-For the first time in the history of New York, jazz has superseded Lohengrin and Mendelsohn at a wedding ceremony.
 To the rollicking tunes of a ragtime wedding march. Robert Harry Wagner and Miss Katherine Josephine Bott, both of Jersey City, danced down a ball room floor here just at midnight Fri day, and were married at a special altar by the Rev. William G. Klett of Brooklyn.
 The nuptial knot was tied amid the enthusiastic plaudits of 2,O00 hilarious spectators. There were a score or more in the Friday party. all keeping in snappy jazz step during the ceremony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
INCOME SHOWS JUMP
American Smelling And Refining Com
 pany Makes Profit

NEW YORK, March 2.-An in- crease of S3,O06,4 ,43S in net income of the American Smelling and Refining company over the previous year was revealed in the 1923 annual report, made public today. Total income was S20. 0.154.9 .914. compared with $15074.215 in 1929. and after deductions for gen eral expenses. taxes. interest and de
 preciatiOu. there was available for div idend>, Ss.924,5S1. Dividend payments for the year amounted to $5St9.SO6 leaving an income surplus of $3, ,10I, ,775.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
HUERTA'S AGENT TELLS COOLIDGE v. s. AIDS DESPOT

WASHINGTON, March D. Pleading with President Coolidge for justice in behalf of Mexico's birthright of national sovereignty" Juan Manuel Alvarez Del Castillo, agent of Adolfo de la Huerta, today sent telegram to the White House declaring the revolution struggles against the tyrannical despotism of an exaggerated bolshevism."
 Senor Del Castillo. in appealing to the Humanitarian feelings" of the chief executive, declared that once he knows the truth your adminis- tration will cease definitely helping, favoring and assisting the govern ment of Obregon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
KILLED IN WRECK
Auto Strikes Street Car In Business
 Section Of Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 2.-One man is dead and another injured as the result of an automobile accident in the business section of the city shortly be- fore last midnight. The auto, alleged to have been driven at an excessive rate of speed, struck street car and turned SSp SSs5 aSTanee DOsa %es sntS %RSer 9sd tns one of the two injured, died early today at hospital. His brother. John Ross Smith, aged 24, was seriously injured but is expected to recover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
RUM YACHT CAPTURED Crew AbandOns Boat After Being
 Fired On

NEW YORK, March 2.-After a nine-mile chase early today, during which the craft was the target of ma chine gun fire from police boats. the power yacht Monon was abandoned by her crew at an East river pier and was captured by marine police. who said they found large cargo of liquor aboard. The yacht, valued at approXi- mately $lO0,000; was said to carry licenses papers issued to Edward l.. Smallwood of Great Neck, N. Y.
 Federal and police forces had been looking for the Monon for week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
CINCINNATI IN NEW ORLEANS
Mississippis Finest Craft Brings Many
 To Mardi GraS

NE WORLEANS, La. March D. The steamer Cincinnati, of the Louis vile and Cincinnati Packet company, the largest and finest vessel to ply the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in more than half q century, arrived here to- day with 321 passengers from the north and east for the Mardi Gras carnival
 The steamer, equipped with apart ments, suites and rooms with bath, wLich will be used as hotel by it's passengers while here, and sister ship, the hull of which has been laid, are to be placed in the passenger service be- tween Pittsburg, Louisville and New Orleans, according to the owners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Fair and warmer Mon day Tuesday cloudy and warmer. Tennessee; Fair and warmer Mon day: rain Tuesday. %sF
 Mississippi: Rair and warmer. Georgia: Fair Monday and Tues day.
 tCOmplete weather data will be found on Page Q.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
DEMOPOLIs HAS FIRE

DEMOPOLIS. Ala.. March. 2- Special )-There was small fire at the residence of C. S. Reynolds this morning. It was extinguished with small loss,
 H. R. Bright, secretary of the Com mercial club, has urged tobacco plant ing from some time and a god many farmer will try the experiment this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
NECROES ARE JAILED

JACKSON. Miss. March 2.-~Robert and Bob" Hunter, negroes, father and son. charged with the killing of Blu ford pysdall, of Canton. manager of a plantation near that place, yesterday, were lodged in the Hinds' county jail here tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-03
LINDSEY's MOTHER DIES Was Former Resident Of Jackson
 TAnDacCaa

DENVER, Col, March 2-Mrs. Letita Ann Lindsey, 79, mother of Judge Ben R. Lindsey of Denver's juvenile court, died at hospital here early this morning. Mrs. Lindsey came to Denver from Jackson, Tenn, in 1871. with her husband, Laudy Trostall Lindsey