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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
Traffic In the Northwest
 Tied Up By Record SnoW

2e-Bured a record Minneapolis rail and vehiculsr traffic pazed fo eighteen hours.
 South Dakota Montana and parts of Wisconsin he O. blizzard of the traffic crpped-at standn in sections small towns being completely isolated.
 Street wasa an absolute sandstil all day that turned residential districts
  
 of night with fur blowing blocking and streets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
WILLIAM 5. KENYON LOOMS AS DAUGHERTY'S SUCCESSOR
Coolidge Is Warned By His Advisers That The
 Progressive Bloc Must Be Placated

no chance on such treatment of his candidate for Attorney General. After all that has happened, it would be serious disaster if he should name a man for Attorney General who could not stand the test of the insurgents.
 Limited Choice
 So, Coolidge is limited in his choice at the outset to someone who will be accepted without opposition by the progressives. Kenyon was a progressive leader when he was in the Senate. His appointment would go through without question from the insurgents. Some of the regulars would not be particularly pleased, but they would not fight Ken yon.
 Coolidge has been slow to bid for progressive strength. He made no over lures to the insurgents in his message to Congress, he refused to compromise with them on the tax bill. He has never, by utterance or official act, shown any sign of bending to their wishes. This has made his course more difficult than it would have been other wise. Progressives have scanned his every act and every appointment and have succeeded in thwarting him time and again.
 The situation has reached climax now. Coolidge stands at the same crossroad where Taft stood at the time he definitely broke with the insurgents and pledged the regular organization to policy of outright conservatism. The result was the progressive defectior which gave the presidency to the demo crats. Coolidge has been, warned that he must move cautiously or he will precipitate a similar defection, with equally disastrous results.
 The feeling here is that he will not burn all bridges behind him by attempt ing to name an Attorney General who would arouse the hostility of the group which now holds the balance of power not only in Congress but in the ap- preaching election. That is why Ken yon is regarded as the most likely choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
YOUNG GIRL HELD
 AS RUM RUNNER

ATLANTA, Ga, March 29.-Miss Billie Roberts, young 18-yearOld girl, was held at police Headquarters today charged with violating the state prohi- bition law. Officers raided her home late yesterday and found six gallons of corn whisky, they said.
 According to arresting officers, Miss Roberts was bottling the spirits and selling them. She admitted that she often drove to the mountains of north GeorGia and brought carloads of liquor to Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
ACTOR GIVES AWAY 7
 $25O,OOO REQUEST
Left Fortune By Mrs. Wilson, He
 Assigns It To Her Sons

NEW YORK, March 29.-The $20O,. GOO left by Mrs. Edna Wilson of Philadelphia to Ogden M. Hoagland, who was the popular "Jack Henderson" of the stage a decade ago, has been as- signed by him to the two sons of his benefactress, it was learned when her will was offered for probate here today. When she died at Philadelphia last De- cember it was discovered that codicile of her will bequeathed $250,000 to Hoagland as "a token of my apprecia- ton for his friendship at time when most needed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
REACH AGREEMENT
 ON RAILROAD TAXES

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 20.- A compromise agreement by which the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway is to pay taxes on an. assess nnent of S24,OOO,OO0 for each of the years 1920 to 1924, inclusive, was reached this afternoon at meeting of the state board of equalization.
 Prior to 1920 the assessment of the road was approximately $15, 300, 900. I. assessment for 1920 and subsequent years Las been in litigation, the rail- way enjoining any highway assessment for the years 1920, 1921 and 1922 and paying for these years on the basis of the previous assessment.
 The agreement today ends the litiga- finn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
STREETS RAGING TORRENTS Houses Swept Away And Thou
 sands MarOOned In Maryland

CUMBERLAND, Md, March ZS.- The most devastating flood in the his tory of Cumberland and this section of the Potomac valley was sweeping the region tonight. As the flood waters of Wills creek and the river raced through the city streets, unconfirmed reports of casualties heBe and in nearby villages were circulated. But all lines of communication were affected and efforts to verify such rumors were fruitless.
 Bridges were washed out, houses car ried away and railroad trains stranded on hills by the rapidly swelling streams. The waters here continued to rise to- night with no sign of abating. More than half the city was inundated, and hundreds of persons, unable to reach their homes before the waters flooded the office buildings in which they worked, were marooned in these struc- lures in the downtown section. Power lines were down and the city was in darkness. The first report of casual ties came from persons marooned in a river front building. They reported that when the Western Maryland bridge collapsed three men went down with it. A number of casualties was reported from the town of McCool, 10 miles up the Potomac.
 Houses Swept Away
 The rise of the waters here was so rapid that automobiles were abandoned in the streets and residents fled from their homes with no thought of furni- ture and personal belongings. Ob- servers reported the Potomac clogged with debris and merchahdise, and a number of houses swept away.
 When it became evident that the flood would reach record heights, a number of business concerns dismissed employees. Many others remained at work and during the afternoon when they attempted to leave they found the streets flooded and water creeping into the first floors.
 A few men yentured out in skiffs, but their efforts to remove some of (csnsIsusd sa Rsss TSs. csluns TvsS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
STRIKING SHOPMEN
 TO GET OLD JOBS
Frisco Gives Former EmplOyes
 Of 1922 Invitation To Return

CHICAGO, March 29.-Manage- ment of the Rock Island lines has promised, according to Charles J. Me Gowan, vice president of the railway employees department, to place in it's shops men who struck in 1922 and who now desire reinstatement, as rap idly as conditions permit.
 The shopmen are given 80 days from March 26, to file applications for re- instatement. |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
GEESE ENDANGER
 RECORD FLIGHT
Buffalo -To-New York Trip Made
 In Two Hours, 2l Minutes

MITCHELL FIELD, N. r., March 20.-Riding with & favorable wind, Lieuts. NJ. l.. Elliott and Homer B. Chandler made record flight of SIS miles from Buffalo in two hours and 21 minutes yesterday. The distance requires 10 hours by train.
 Serious accident threatened the plane when a flock of 800 Canadian geese which they met near Binghamton, N. r., suddenly broke from "V'' into a circular flying formation and com pelled quick work by the ayiators to avoid damage to the propeller by con tact with the birds,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
NATIONAL PARK SITE WILL BE IN| SOUTH
Survey Not To Be Carried Be
 yond Pennsylvania Boundary

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Indi- cations that the proposed National park to be located in the Appalachian noun tains will be laid out in one of the southern states, were seen in an an- n6uncement today by the Appalachian National park commission that its sur yey. for a site would not be carried beyond the southern boundary of Penn sylvania. T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Generally fair Sunday and Monday, colder. - Georgia: Fair and colder.
 Tennessee: Cloudy, much colder. Mississlppl: Generally fair.
 CoTnpIste weather data viii Do tonna on Pare n,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-30
COURT HALTS HIGHWAY BOARD; \ FLOODS. RAGE THROUGHOUT EASY

7 SECTIONS v [ IN THIS ISSUE { Be sure yon get them all! Your copy of The Age Herald today, if com plete, should contain the following sections:
 General News, slnancial
 Local News, Want Ads
 State News, Sports, Autos
 Society. Clubs, Fashions
 First Comic Section
 Second Comic Section
 Magazine Section Be sure yoM get the cona- plete pdpeTrad tbnt yon egdnine tt cdrefaslly. YoN'U De res0Grded.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Woman Believed Slain
BY Co1Uicf She Befriended

Los Angeles, Cal.-With her head
smashed by hammer blows and bull
let wound in her heart, Mrs. c. r.
Hum, sixty years Of age, was found
murdered on the threshold of her home
by the owner OF the Bungalow court
in Pasadena, in which she lived. Mrs.
HUM came to Pasadena from Chicago
about a year ago. Her father is said
to live in the Illinois CITY, Mrs. Hunn's
eight-year-old adopted daughter, Vir-
ginia HUM, told the police man who
dined with her mother later quarreled
with her, struck her several blows
with a hammer and then shot her.
Police announced they are seeking
Harry Corners, forty-five years old, an
ex-convict befriended by Mrs. HUM
while she lived in Illinois, as her
slayer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
u. S. GOVERNMENT
MARKET QUOTATIONS

Washington.-For the week ending
September IS, 1924.-FRUITS AND
TABLES-Northern sacked round
white potatoes weak in Chicago at
midwestern yellow onions ranged SLIP
@2:5o sacked per 100 pounds Sl,5oW
l75 + O. at New York and indiana ma
$1.25 @1.50 sacked per 100 pounds in
Chicago. Northwestern greetings $3.50
Oils per bushel basket Illinois and
Chicago. Colorado alberta peaches.
steady in Chicago at $2.50W2.75.
LIVE STOCK-Chicago hog prices:
$500 to $40. Medium and good beef
steers $6.75 to $1,000; butcher cows
STEERS ana hef s45 si 70 s s. light ee and
medium weight veal calves. $3.50 to
$11.75.
90 score, New York, 37A; Boston. 50;
Chicago, 81; Philadelphia, 3SA. Clos
ing prices at Wisconsin primary cheese
markets September IT: single daisies,
2oA l9nghorns a1es square PRINTS rs 70
SI.32@L471k. No red winter wheat
St.. Louis, Sl41@l,4s; ,l Kansas ,s CITY
Chicago, $1.30: st. Louis, $1.27; Kansas
City, $119@124k No. 2 yellow corn:
Chicago, $1.10 Ollie; Minneapolis. $1.14A
@114% No. mixed corn: Chicago,
$l.l4 "a ~ I.Io, minneapolis, ~1.1o " ~ -
No. yellow corn Chicago, $1.14@
LIS; Minneapolis, $1.13A @1.13%; st.
Louis, $113. No. white oats: Chicago,
46A @4S Minneapolis, ASH @451s; st.
Louis, 4S@49. No 2 white oats: Kansas
City, 49R. No. 2 white corn Kansas
City, $1091s. No white corn: Chi
cago, $114; St. Louis, S1.15.
HAY-Quoted September II: No. 1
timothy: Chicago, $4,000. No. | al
falfa. Kansas City, $1,000. No. prai-
RE: Kansas City, $1,000; Minneapolis.
$3.50.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
GEN. LII ADVOCATES
WHEN ARMY REVOLTS
Chinese General Flees From
His Provisional Capital.

Shanghai. The Third Chekiang,
army has revolted, General Lu has
abdicated his position as tuchun Of
Chekiang and Shanghai is threatened
by the Kiangsu troops. All these de-
velopments took place in few hours.
The Third army Of General Lu had
been left in Chekiang province to de-.
fend it against Fukien troops and
when the revolt came General Lu abd1-
Gated and fled his provisional capital,
HangchoW
He arrived in Shanghai with two
battalions Of loyal troops and his agent
explained that his abdication came as
a result Of an agreement with Fukien
and Anhwei provinces, whereby the
two provinces agree not to attack Che
kiang in return for his abdication.
The final battle between the Chekiang
and Kiangsu armies will be in the
Shanghai district.
General Lu was told that the revolt
ing Third army had joined the troops
Of Fukien province and the combined
army was marching on Hangchow, his
former headquarters. Lu himself de-
clares the revolt was caused through
bribery of his forces by the Kiangsu
forces.
Aviators from Mukden, principal
city Of Manchuria and the headquar-
tiers of General Chang, military leader
Of the Manchus, bombed the eastern
extremity Of the Great Wall.
The first bombs were dropped at
Shankaikwan, the point of mobiliza-
ton for the troops of General WI Pei
Flu, commander Of the central govern
ment's troops. Shankhaikwan is the
dividing line between Chilli and Man
churia and contains u gate in the
Great Wall known as "the first gate
of the realm"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
U. S. STEEL QUITS
PITTSBURGH PLUS
Decides Not to Fight Trade
Body's Order-Public
Sentiment a Factor.

Washington. Compliance with the
order Of the federal trade commission
abolishing the Pittsburgh plus system
of quoting prices of rolled steel prod
ucts was announced by the United
States Steel corporation.
A formal note of compliance was
filed with the commission by the cor
poration and its various subsidiaries,
which were respondents in the case.
In taking this action the steel man
ufacturers abandoned their original
intention to carry the case to the Unit
ed States Circuit Court of Appeals
and thence to the Supeme court OF
the United States. In the notice of
compliance it is stated that the va
lidity of the order or the jurisdiction
of the commission is not admitted
The inference given is that public
sentiment against the continuance of
the system under which prices have
been quoted on a Pittsburgh basis
plus freight from Pittsburgh to desti-
nation, even when shipments are made
from less distant point, has become
so strong as to make it useless to
continue the fight further.
The action Of the steel corporation
brings final victory to the middle west
ern interests which for five years have
fought for the abandonment of prac-
tice which they held to be discrimi-
nation against consumers throughout
the West and South.
The commission issued its order
nearly two months ago. The period Of
sixty days given the respondents in
which to give notice of compliance
would have expired on Saturday.
Western farmers will be among the
beneficiaries of the order. 1t was said
the practice added $30,O00,000 to the
annual cost of steel products used in
eleven western states.
Chairman Huston Thompson of the
commission said he was greatly pleased
with the action of the United States
Steel corporation and other companies
in the case.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Pastor Held in Jail
After Poison Kills Wife

Mount Vernon, Ill.-Rev. Lawrence
M. Hight, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Ina, II miles to
the south, slept in the county jail here
by order of a coroner's jury which
investigated the sudden death of his
wife last Friday.
BY direction Of the cOroner's jury
the county officials exhumed the body
of MILFORD Sweetin, who died five
weeks ago under peculiar circum-
stances and who, with his wife. was
i member Of Reverend Hight's con-
gregation
Mrs. Hight died as result of arsenic
poisoning, according to report tele-
graphed from Chicago by DR.. William
D. Mentally. Psychologist and former
coroner's chemist there.
Mrs Sweetin has left the county and
gone to Pinckneyville to ~ home of
her brother, Joseph Williams.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
LAWYER MADE.
LEGION LEADER
James A. Drain of Washing
ton, D. c., Elected Com
mander at St. Paul.

st. Paul, Minn.-The most impor-
tant national convention in the short
but dynamic history of the American
Legion came to an end shortly after
James A. Drain, Washington %. Co
attorney, had been elected command
ant for the coming year. The new
skipper was made a unanimous choice
before the first ballot had been count
ed. Over 10000 veterans attended
the convention.
Jim Drain has only one slogan,
For God and Country" in his man
ner. For God and country in peace
time, just as the Yanks were for God
and country in 1917.
Drain is d picturesque figure. His
right hand is missing. 1t was shot off
in an accident while he was hunting.
Despite the handicap, Jim Drain went
overseas with the Yanks. He was the
only man in the great army who had
but one hand. He's been buck pri-
vate, and he's been a brigadier gen.
eral.
what work is ahead Of me?" he
asked. my whole mission can be told
In three words, For God and Coun-
try the first words Of the preamble
of the legion's constitution. For God
and country without partisan politics,
without intolerance in religion, max
ing the care of the disabled comrade
our first concern. Second, care of
the orphaned children of our fallen
comrades.
Were going to make one of our
big labors the getting out of the voters
on election day."
Commander Drain is ffty-four
years old. He was born in Warren
county, Illinois. He will move to In
dianapolis shortly.
When George Berry Of Tennessee
nominated Father Joseph Lonergan
of Durand, ILL.,, a Protestant depart
ment chaplain seconded, saying, Hell
will hear Lonergan and upon hearing
will tremble" Indiana put up the
name of the Rev. Stewart Long, but
withdrew it, and Father Lonergan was
unanimously elected.
Father Lonergan went overseas. He
was i'll the Eighth division, later with
the Twentieth engineers, and finally
with the Three Hundred and Forty
third infantry. He saw the fire and
the slaughter in the Argonne forest
and was near the buddies in other
battles.
resolution was passed creating a
peace committee and instructing it to
take up the matter of everlasting
peace during the coming year and to
make q report at the Omaha coven-
ton next year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Former Mrs. Cdruso'
ii Has Second Daughter

New York Gloria Caruso, daughter
of the late Enrico Caruso, has half
sister, Jacqueiine Dorothy Ingram.
Jacqueline was born to Mrs. Dorothy
Caruso Ingram at private hospital in
Madison avenue. An hour later son
was born to Mrs Migrants cousin, Mrs.
Henry Roberts Benjamin, who will be
an heir to his great-grandfather the
late Henry III. Rogers, one of the
founders of the Standard Oil. His
grandmother, Mrs. William Eyarts
Benjamin, died two weeks ago, leav-
ing $3O,OOO,OOO estate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
$4,000 See Legion Chief
Wed Former War Worker

st. Paul, Minn.-After band of
3,7OO pieces, representing every state
in the Union. had played wedding
march Erling Maine of Winnebago,
Mimi, and Ruth Masters of Truman,
Mimi, were married before $4,000
spectators at the state fair grounds
here, IS Legion chaplains officiating.
The bridegroom is commander of an
American Legion post in Winnebago
and the bride was war worker. 'TND
Of Names brothers were killed in
France. Practically every merchant in
Minneapolis and st. Paul had a con-
tribution in the collection of wedding
gifts which filled freight car. Omaha
won next years convention after a
hard fight. Fort Worth made bril-
liant struggle. The vote was SIP to 40.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
NetO Arms Farley to
Be Called BY League

Geneva The League of Nations pro-
tocol on arbitration and security has
virtually been agreed upon, and so con-
fident do the leading statesmen feel
it will be ratified that the so-called
''big twelve" of the present assembly
Of the league decided to recommend
the convocation of a great interna-
tional conference on reduction of arm
ament in Geneva on June Is, 1925.
The United States and all other
countries not now members of the
league will be invited to participate
in the conference.
The present plans are that 10 ma
lions must ratify the protocol before
the arms conference can actually be
held.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Supreme Court Faces
Full Docket October 6

Washington. When the Supreme
court of the United States reassembles
October for the beginning of its
fall term its members will find full
docket awaiting them.
On September there were 637
cases awaiting consideration, or 101
more than had been docketed during
the last term. This large Increase is
made up principally by the number
of Volstead law cases which have been
appealed from the lower courts, in
volving alleged false arrests and inn
prisonment. There also are number
of cases involving appeals in tax mat
tiers from treasury regulations, inter.
pretations and rulings.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Thirty-FiDe Bodies
Recovered From Mine

Kemmerer, Wyo.--Thirty-fve bodies
have been recovered from the SuElet
mine which was wrecked by an explo-
sion. Four bodies are believed yet to
be in the mine.
A number of the victims were found
sitting in cars, where they were about
to ride to the surface for dinner.
Some were on their hands and knees,
many with their hands over their eyes.
Death was believed to have been in
Simultaneous in most cases.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Exchange Suspends
InsolUent Brokers

New York.-The firm of Day &
Heaton, traders in Wall street for half
century, was suspended from the
New York stock exchange after the
announcement from its Offices Of a
defalcation by George r. Christian, one
Of the firm members, of a sum so
large as to make it impossible for the
company to meet its obligations.
That the defalcation of Christian
caused the failure was made public
later by counsel for the brokers in a
letter addressed to E. Ell. Simmons,
president of the exchange.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
French Premier Attacked
by Mob of Communists

Paris.-A determined attack upon
Premier Herriot was made in Mar
settles when 200 Communists, swing
ing sticks and canes and shouting
Amnesty" rushed upon him. The pre-
mier was. rescued from the mob few
minutes later when the police arrived
and dispersed the gathering.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Detroit Capitalist Gets
Jail Term for Speeding

Detroit Mich. Russell A. Alger, Jr.,
Detroit capitalist and grandson of the
late Russell A. Alger, one time secre-
tary of war, was sentenced to five
days in the house of correction and
fined $1OO on charge Of speeding.
appeal the case.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Cost of Fuel Increases
IS to rs Cents Per Ton

Chicago.-Coal operators have noti-
fed Chicago retail dealers that the
cost of fuel has been increased % to
Is cents per ton. Southern Illinois
coal will be raised % cents, while
West Virginia Pocahontas will go up
rs cents.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Girl Burns to Death in
Auto at Filling Station

Hammond, Ind-Miss Harriet Yea
ger. sixteen, of Hammond, was burned
to death when an automobile in which
she was sitting caught fire while it
was being filed with gasoline. At the
filling station it was said that the gas
oline became ignited by the over
heated engine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25

Wellston, Motive armed and
masked men entered the Wellston
Trust company in this st. Louis sub
urb before the opening hour, held up
the officials and made their escape with
about $4,000 in cash and currency.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
President ReUie,Os Marines

Washington President Coolidge left
his desk long enough to review the
marines who passed through Wash
ington on their way to Quantico, Va,
for maneuvers near Frederick, Md.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Hundreds Killed by
Earthquake In Armenia

Constantinople.-An earthquake de-
stroyed 1O2 villages and killed hun
idreds of people, says a dispatch to
the Turkish government from Ere
rum. Armenia. The Red Cross has dis
patched aid
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Hold American in Piracy

Paris.-Jerome Max Pfaff, a nat
uralized American, was arrested here
charged with piracy in the holding up
of the freighter Mulhouse and robbing
her of cargo of more than 1000 cases
of champagne and liquor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-25
Pope Praises American Orde,

Washington.-A letter from the pope
praising the society was read at the
opening of the convention of the Holy
Name Societies of America here. An
address was delivered by Cardinal
O'Connell, archbishop of Boston.