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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
MOBILE OFFICE TO HOLD SWAY OVER WARRIOR Operation To Be Directed
 By Captain
 Pickley COMPLETE PLAN
 IS PUBLISHED All Purchases Over $1,O0O To Be Open To Bid
Special Leased 1yire)

MOBILE, Ala., Aug. 10.- Establishment of the head quarters of the operating manager of the Warrior divi- sion of the Mississippi War rior service is provided for in the rules and regulations gov- erning the operations of the service, adopted recently by the Inland Waterways cor poration. Capt. E. V. Pickley, now stationed in New Orleans, was designated operating manager, with headquarters in Mobile, at the time of the first order, granting the di- yorce of the Warrior division from the Mississippi division. The auditor and disbursing off, ficer of the Mississippi War lrior service will retain offices 1 in New Orleans.
 The division of the services, provided for in Section 1 of the rules and regulations, reads: "This service shall be Ecomposed of two divisions, known as the Mississippi divi.
 Fae a rlioF division The Mississippi division will operate between St. Louis and New Orleans and will have charge of the operation of service in the port of New. Or leans. The Warrior division will operate between Birming.- ham and New Orleans"
 Duties of officers, fixing of salaries of officers and employees, making of contracts, purchase of supplies and the l Jelutions and duties of the advisory hoar6 arc fully provided for n the rulos and regulations governing opera- ti5n and the bytiaws of the Iiilabd Waterways corporation. -.--
 The traffic lnAMaeer for the servIce shall have cfflceH in New Orleans.
 
 service und other carriers, and all plans for the development md coordination of tile service wirh other carriers md with states. municipalities or public corporations; the solicitation of b"si ness, fixing of rates and divisions: and tile general HdpcrvlSiOn of general for sign and cOnime.c1rl agents will come under the supervision of the traffic manager.
 Operation, maiptenance and repair terminals, vessels and other trans portation facilities come under the su- pervision of the operating manager, with headquarters in Mobile. Super vision of freight movements and low schedules, employment and supervision of boat personnel, purchase of sup plies and materials as authorized by bylaws and rules and regulations of the service come under the direction of the operating manager.
 Each operating manager shall ap- point a purchasing agent, subject to
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
SLIPS 1000 POSSE MEN AND FLIES Brakeman Identifies Kill er--Had Known Him
 For Years FRIGHTENS NEGROES IN COLORED COACH Bundle Of Citizens Cloth ing Hurled Into Car
 At Oaklawn ADMITS IDENTITY,
 REPORTS DECLARE Seen Sunday Morning By
 Miner He Asked For
 Food |
ADMITS IDENTITY,
 REPORTS DECLARE

The sensational escape of John Milton, a slayer, from 8 Frisco passenger train as it slowed up for Palos, Ala, ear ly Monday morning was re- ported in detail to the office of the sheriff here.
 According to reports, 1il- ton eluded a thousand grim and determined possemen and deputy sheriffs combing the wilds of Jefferson county, boarded Frisco train No. 104 at Pratt City in prison garh. created a panic in the negro coach by admitting his jdantis ] lty. and leaped from the train lafter he had changed cit ing I rls ies b 5Efe Vic notified llaifAti' @ba,s. aj search for him was n. His tattered and iirty -tson clothing was Jeff on 9ot the train.
 He firseswas recognized by a brakeman. Trainmen and passengers undertook r. keep him under surveillance until Palos was reached and law of ficers could take him from the train. His identity was whis- pered about and negroes in the car became frightened. Passing Oaklawn, a bundle hurtled through a car window. Milton seized it and donned citizens clothing. It was plain that a determined and organ ized effort was being made lyg his friends to help him escape.
 Frisco passenger trair No. 104 left Birmingham for Mem phis at 12:17 o'clock Monday morning.
 As late as II o'clock Sun day morning, John Milton ne- gro ax slayer, was within g few miles of the spot wh he killed an eight-months-old in- fant and dangerously wound ed her mother.
 He appeared, asked for food, and disappeared ir o the woods, a phantom shadow.
 Late Sunday afternoon, deputy sheriffs and possemen declare, he appeared asain out of nowhere, with com panion, and fled int the woods at the approach o7 Q posse, to be lost in the [; sled undergrowth, which is oall,g beaten by more than a -Ao0- sand men.
 The companion, Henry Har- vey, was captured.
 Albert Gooden. negro, employe of mine No. f, said that Milton, with (COntinued On Page Two.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
50 UNITS ARE RAZED BY FLAMES Old Hickory, Government Wartime Properties,
 Are Destroyed LOSS IS GREATEST
 SINCE END OF WAR 45,OOO,OOO Pounds Of Pow der Is Destroyed With
 out Exploding 40 ACRES SWEPT IN HEART OF PLANT ConfIagration Spends Itself De-
 Spite All-Day Battle
 Of Bremen
LOSS IS GREATEST
 SINCE END OF WAR
40 ACRES SWEPT IN HEART OF PLANT
(By Associated Press.)

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 10.-Powder, machinery and buildings, valued at $28, ,000,- coo wartime prices, and at more than $2,0O0,000 at pres ent valuation, were destroyed in fire that swept clean a 40-acre tract in the heart of the Old Hickory powder plant at Jacksonville, Tenns near here, this morning.
 Approximately 45,O0O, 900 pounds of gun powder, stored by the United States govern Ynent as a war reserve, were consumed in the flames.
 The cost of manufacturing khis powder during the war, acgorlIing tC Krupp, United States ord- nance department officer in charge, was 50 cents a pound, making the total cost $22,- 300, ,00O.
 The present market value of the powder is approximately one cent 8 pound, making the total value $450,000, Major Krupp said.
 The powder had been stored here by the government as a war reserve. One-half of it was to have been used in road building, under the direction of the department of agricul- ture.
 Fifty factory buildings, owned by the Nashville Indus trial corporation, most of which were rented by the gov ernment for storage of pow der, were consumed in the con- flagration. The factory ma chinery was the property of the government.
 Greatest Loss Since War
 The fire was declared to be the great. est single loss suffered by the govern ment since the World war, and was rated as one of the most destructive incidents in the history of government munitions plants.
 No one was severely injured. J. D. Cook, government guard, who turned in the alarm at 5:20 a. m, suffered a bIistered neck from the, intense heat.
 At sundownJthis afternoon it was impossible to approach the area of the fire because of the intense heat. An official estimate of the loss, therefore, was impossible. All estimates were made from distance by government and private employees.
 The government office and all sur veillance records of powder and inyen- tories were destroyed. Although great importance was attached to the inven- tories, 1t iE believed that duplicates are
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
CAFE PROPRIETOR
 KILLS CUSTOMER
Charge Plot Being Made To
 Rob Him

COLUMBUS, Ga, Aug. 10.-Ed Hammock, 26, was shot and killed to- night in a River Road cafe, near here, by the proprietor, Georgia H. White. White is in jail facing a murder charge. The killing was the elimination of m altereation between the two, a few weeks ago, according to the police. Hammock was shot twice tonight, after be is alleged to have knocked White down with his fists.
 According to Whites statement in his cell tonight the altercation of two weeks ago was caused by the previous order to young white woman and Hammock, to stay away from his cafe, because he had been told of an alleged plot between the woman and Hammock 10 rob him, The recent fight occurred when White again ordered ths woman to leave the cafe, he said Hammock was with the woman at the time, ac- ,eording to White,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
EXODUS or LABOR
 ALARMS GERMANY
IndustrIalists Hint At Serious
 Consequences Of Emigration
(By AssOciatsd Pressj

DUSSELDORF. Germany, Aug, 10. German skilled workers are leaving the Fatherland in quest of better luck elsewhere in such alarming numbers that German industry is seriously jeopardized. This is especially true of the Ruhr valley,
 A conference was recently held here between representatives of the Prus- sian government and the Rhenish in- dustrials, at which this question was aired. The speaker for the industrials used the following unequivocal Ian guage:
 The emigration of German workers is reaching greater and greater prOpor- tions. This great majority of those emigrating consists of skilled speciality workers. In other words, it Is our most capable workers who are leaving their eountrya Is
 "German industry, which by It's na. tnre ia dependent upon capable special. ty workers as it's very backbone, is threatened with annihilation if emiera tion continues as at present"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
.DARROW TO REST HIS CASE TODAY IN FRANKS :
  Grove Ho shatter 'PoppycocA <Ssories Of
 Defense AIienists WEEK MAY SEE END MURDER HEARING Weeks Continuance To Be Ordered When Both
 Sides Finish
By H. H. ROBERTSON, | Aa.a.a VEirn 4n The ASa. KIerali

I
 CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-The glands and drams of Nathan F. Leopold, IT., and Richard Loeb, are relied upon by the slayers and their counsel to save them from the gallows for the murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks.
 Clarence s. Darrow, chief defense attorney, expects to put his last witness on the stand Monday and he probably will rest his case by noon. Through one of the most emi- nent and highly paid staffs of Ealienists ever assembled in any legal proceedings. Darrow has sought to convince Justice John R. Caverly that his two 19-year-old clients should not hang.
 States Attorney Robert D. Grove, it1 fall Monday that he believes will shat ter the fantasy -glandular structure of defense.
 1t is all lot of poppycock," Grove told some of his assistants during a conference Sunaay Rhysicia1ls la- foFaA nte That all ehildren aaxe anfa, fhr6aghout life, but many ehahge form, a.. tal fsfee And so far as the glands are concern ed--much of that is pure hypothesis and never could be established in fact. Gland conditions, such as the ones these doctors haze described, are common to the human race, just as much as ear ache and toothache!
 Demands Death Penalty
 "All the x-rays in the world, all the talk about king and slave, and all the sneers of these two young murderers will not satisfactorily explain away the fact that they coolly, deliberately and in full and complete possession of their senses, killed and kidnapped a young boy for money. The state will insist on the death penalty"
 During the closing hours of the ses- sion Saturday, Dr. H. s. Hubert had testified that Loeb's glands were unde- yeIoped and did not function enough. LeopAld's glands, he said, worked too hard. They oYer-functioned.
 The gland conditions of the two slayers, the physician testified, together with their abnormal mental states, drew them together in an association of crime. He showed x-ray pictures of the two youths, which he said con firmed him in his statement about their glands.
 Darrow will place no more physi- clans on the stand, he said Sunday. He expects to have five more witnesses, among them members of the Loeb and Leopold families. These will be used merely to identify certain exhibits, such as photographs and letters, which the defense has introduced.
 The state expects to put at least five physicians on the stand to con tradict the testimony of the defense alienists. The state alienists do not believe that either Loeb or Leopold is mentally disordered and some of them
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
OFFICERS ROUND UP
 NEGRO OFFENDERS
Liquor VlOlatOrs And Gamesters
 Lead Jail List

|. Odessa Johnson, 280S Twenty-ninth avenue, north Rachel Porter, 2S10 Twenty-fifth avenue, north, and Mary Gillian, 28O2 Twenty-ninth ave nue, north, negroes, were arrested and placed in the county jail late Satur- day night by Marshalls s. l.. Will liams and J. V. Walker on charges of violation of the prohibition law. Com plete home brew outfits with crowning machines for the beer bottles and nu- merous cases of home brew were con. fiseated by the officers.
 County officers arrested nine per sons on liquor charges Saturday night and captured 12 negroes charged with gaming Sunday m5rninG.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
ENGINEER HURT
 IN AUTO PLUNGE
Woman And Child In Car Es-
 Cape Injury

E. F. Hall, of 1725 Jasper street, Birmingham, was seriously injured near Sayre Sunday afternoon when an automobile which he was driving, plunged over 8 12-foOF embankment and was wrecked, He was hurried to Birmingham General hospital in an ambulance, Physicians said he had suffered a fractured right shoulder, a broken left collar bone and fractures of several ribs.
 A Mrs. Guffey and a child of Dera, Ala, who were In the. machine, were unhurt. The accident occurred when Mir. Han turned to speak to the child who was on the rear seat Hall Is an engineer, serving on the Alabama Great Southern railroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11

of a series on political conditions in the middlest west--the main battle ground of the presidential campaign-by Ray mond clapper, who has just spent month nthat territory:
 By RAYMOND CHAPTER Copyright, 1924, For The Age e-Herald)
 KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 10.- The presidential election will be decid- ed here in the tickle middle west, in all probability. The votes are here, but the candidates who wants them will have to win them. The whole election may conceiyably turn upon the outcome in the four doubtful states of Kan sas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Here are 40 uncertain electoral votes, enough to swing the election if the voting is at all close in other sections. They will go to the candidate who makes the best fight. No one will have them handed to him on 0 silver platter.
 One fact that impresses itself strongly after several weeks of first hand study out here is that this sec- tion, representing the core of the mid dle west, does not yet know how it will vote. It is waiting to see what the various candidates have to offer It has watched Coolidge in action for a year and rather likes him.
 Suspends Judgment
 It knows almost nothing about John w. Davis and is suspending judgment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
TWO DROWNED

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 10.--Two per sons were drowned in Dade county to- day, and the body of an unidentified white man wos recovered from the Tamiami canal,
 John I, Casper, Jr., was drowned in Biseayne bay when he leaped from a burning gasoline launch to escape the flames, Two companions on the boat chung to channel markers until they were rescued, The launch sank after the gasoline tank exploded, The flamei were started by a beck.firine motor,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
M SLAYER, RECOGNIZED ON TRAIN, ESCAPES
S28 900 900 Lost In Nashville Munitions Plant Fire
SHOES RIPPED
 FROM HER FEET BY LIGHTNING

~ 0LUMBIANA. Ala, Aug. 1O.--
 Especial. 1.-The residence of N Prof. J. B. King, principal of the city school of Columbianas was struck by lightning Friday and the roof torn off and chimpeys knocked down. Mrs. King was burned and bruised from the shock as was her sister, who was in the house with her. Mrs. Kings shoes were torn into shrends and her feet badly burned. This house was struck by lightning last year and badly dam aged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
9 DIE IN CYCLONE;
 5 OTHERS INJURED
Colorado Farmhouse Is DemOl.
 lshed By Big Wind

DENVER, Aug. 10.-Nins persons were killed and five seriously injured late this afternoon when q cyclone de- molished the farm house. of Henry Kuns, a farmer residing four miles east of Thurman, Colo. 1t was report cd at least two of those injured would die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
LOCATELLI IN SCOTLAND

Italian May Join American Airmen In
 Iceland
 STROMNESS, Scotland, Aug. 10.- If the American flyers are held up much longer in Iceland, they probably will be joined by Lieutenant Locatel- Ii, the Italian, who is flying from Pisa to New York.
 Locateli arrived here Sunday from BrOugh and planned to hop off for Houton Bay as soon as possible. Orig, inally LOcatelli had planned to join the Americans in England, but he was cheld at Rotterdam by engine trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
FORGED BACK

Boston IT Unable To Penetrate Maine
 Fog
 EAST PORT, Me-, Aug. 10.-Un- able to penetrate dense fog over the Bay of Fundy, and further retarded by rain squalls, the relief plane, Boston IT., en route from Bar HarbOr' to Pic tou, N. s., was forced to turn back and moor in the harbOr here for the night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
Rooms In Every Section of the City

It is no trouble to find the kind of room or apartment you want. If you are looking for place to live in Birmingham, let us help you find it. Our service is absolutely FREE OF CHARGE. We keep on file list of all our regular advertisers in every sec tion of the city and suburbs who have sleeping rooms, housekeep- | ing rooms, apartments, fur nished or unfurnished, and rooms with board-from Bes- semer to East Lake and from South Highlands to Norwood.
 You do not have to be a sub scriber to The Age HeraldI you do not have to be a resident of Birmingham; you do not have to do anything except come to Want Ad Corner" Second ave nue and Twenty-first street, and tell us just what kind of Q place you have in mind-if it's { in the city, it won't take us long to locate it.
 Main 49OO
 calls the Want.Ad Department of Athe south's 'pullingest' paper"
Putnam patriot., 1924-05-16
Victory

Tonight and Saturday. Priscilla Dean in "The storm Daughter '
 Sunday night. George Larkin in
Putnam patriot., 1924-05-16
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS ABOUT PUTNAM EEOPIE AND ACTIVITIES

Mir. and Mrs Richard Gibney. Far rows street. entertained recently their daughter. Mrs. John Gilligau and htfie daughter. of Middleboro. Mass.
 Mir. and Mrs Timothy Sullivan md daughters. Pauline and Jeanette of East Hartford motored 10 Putnam Sunday and spent the day with Mrs. SulIivan.z parents. Mir and Mrs. Al- fred Dumas of Chapel street.
 James J. Cbarron was elected an alternate Co the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus which will be held in New York in August, at the state convention which has been going on this week at the Hotel Garde in Hartford Mir. Charron and Francis F.. Sherlock were the delegates of the Cargill Council of this city.
 D. B. Gilbert, Stanley Shaw and Thomas Bell attended the mems con vention at Springfield. Mass, Satur- day and Sunday. There were about 8 .0OO men in attendance. Besides ad- dresses by several of the Methodist bishops there were those by Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Senator Fess of Ohio and Sherwood Eddy.
Putnam patriot., 1924-05-16
Congregational Church Note.
Rev. Simeon F. Cozad, Pastor.

Rev. Simeon E. Cozad, Pastor.
 Next Sunday morning service by the pastor. Subject, ''The Profit of the Utterly Absurd.
 Church school at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Y. E. Williams, superintendent
 The Mems Forum at i2 o'clock. Subject for discussion. The Teles phone Industry" by Mr Henry Lyon, leader.
 600 P. M, Y. P 8. C. r. meeting under the leadership of Kenneth Sharpe. Subject, sGod's Holy Day ,. What it is For and Why
 Thursday evening. May p, church night service under tbe leadership Of the pastor
 Junior choir banquet this evening (Fridayl at 5.30.
 Tuesday. May 20. Sunday achoni conference at the home of Mss liar riet Brown. Wilkinson street.
 Motion pictures discontinued for the summer The nice weather and the long evenings offer SO many ats fractions that t seems advisable ta discontinue this service. This has been n more profitable enterprise than perhaps any of Us realize. The at tendance has never been less than two hundred and on an average lt has been n great deal more. The services have been uplifting and inspiring as well as entertaining ii has brought many new faces into the church and has in- creased the circle of our friends.
Putnam patriot., 1924-05-16

Victor Morin. School street. spent Satnrday in Willimautic.
 David Cote. Woonsoeket, spent Sun day in town with friends
 Leo Benoit. Bridge street. was in Worcester Sunday with friends.
 Alexander Lavali,e. Sterling was in town this week on bushes.
 Napoleon Eueier, Lyon street, spent Friday in Providence on business.
 Arthur Provinesl. Van den Noort street spent Saturday ia Nillimantie.
 Miss Jennie Lavine, Bridge street. spent the weekend with friends tu Norwich.
 Edward Caros, Woodstock avenue, spent Sunday in Worcester with friends.
 Remi Beteau. Danielson, IS in town this week taking care of N. II. De laney's insurance debit.
 Mir. and Mir. jack Laehanee, boiies street, spent the weekend and Mon day with friends in Hartford.
 Mir. and Mrs. Nelson Young, Smith street, have as guests Mir and Mrs. Alexander Pelrin. Danielson.
 Morgan H. Delaney, Main street, is spending this week with his mother. Mrs. J. B. Taylor, North Hinsdale, N. II.
 Joseph VaiIleux. Smith street. en- teTtaiiisd his sister and husband, Ms. and Mrs. Xavier, Moosup, over Sun day.
 Mir and Mrs. Harold Linderson North School street. spent the week end with Mrs. Linderson's parents in Norwich.
 Robert Brow nlie. Bolles street, who has been seriously i'll the past three weeks Is able to be out for awhile each day.
 Miss Lea Labonte. Ballou street, spent the weekend with her aunt. Mrs Joseph Desautel, North Gros- venordale
 Norman Warren, Boston. formerly of this city. spent several days this week with his father William Warren, South Main street
 Joseph Belair. violin teacher, has opened a studio m the Victory thea tre building. in the rooms formerly us ed by Dr. Philips for offices.
 Peter Dumas. Monson. Mas. for merly of this city. spent Monday and Tuesday with his parents, Mr. ana Mrs. Frank Dumas, Providence street.
Putnam patriot., 1924-05-16
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