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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
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Organization Now Larg' est Protestant Group,
 Dallas Pastor Says

ATLANTA, Ga, May 1S.- (By As sociated Press.) Declaring that any, thing that savored of union oi church and state is spiritual adultry, , Dr. George W. Truett, pastor of the First Baptist church of Dallas, Tex. this afternoon said that the Baptist doctrinal belief in religious liberty has caused such growth of the denomina. tion in recent years that it is now the largest non-Catholic religious denomi, nation in the world.
 Dr. Truetts address was made at an inspirationaI mass meeting of delegates to the Southern Baptist convention, the formal sessions of which closed last night.
 He declared that from now on all state churches and those which lean to. ward temporal power and rights will find that going more and more difficult He said that the main distinctive doc. Urine of the Baptist denomination is re. igious liberty and it's hand-mate civil liberty. Accompanying these. he said, is their corallary,. tie separation of church and state. :
 The meeting was held to give impetus to the closing months of the 75-million campaign in which $21, 1000, 900 remain yet to be raised. Dr. Truett was ore. ceded, by Dr, M. E. Dood, pastor of the First Baptist church of Shreveport, La, who emphasized the necessity for em. phasis to be laid on the money question by churches, citing biblical authority
 The convention came to an end to. night when 8 mass meeting addressed by home and foreign missionaries was held
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
RUM RING TRIAL
 ENTERS 4TH, WEEK
Defense Expected To Fin: ish Tuesday, And Case .
 Reach Jury Saturday Z

MOBILE, Ala, May 1S.-(Special Leased Wire.)-Trial of g persons on charges of conspiracy to violate the na- tional prohibition act enters into its fourth and perhaps last week tomor- row with the convening of federal court at 10 o'clock The defense's ''inning, ? which occupied ali of last week, is 'ex- pected to conclude not later than Tues day and perhaps tomorrow.
 When the defense rests the rehuttal of the prosecution will begin. This is not expected to consume much over a day, after which attorneys for the govern ment and defense will argue the case before the jury. Two days at the least is expected to be taken by this argus ment and the charge of Judge Erwin to the jurors before the case goes to them is expected to be quite lengthy. !
 It is, not anticipated that the F jurymen will begin their deliberations earlier than Saturday and there is con siderable speculation on how long it will take the jury to agree on n yer dict for each of the 52 defendants. A separate verdict will be rendered for each of the men on trial.
 Sheriff Cazalas and ", H. Hol- combe, deputy sheriff, legislator, for. mer sheriff and politician, who are two of the defendants, are expected to take the witness stand in their own behalf Monday. After they testify practically all of the prominent men on trial will have been on the stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
.PRESBYTERIANS
 TO TAKE ACTION
 ON 4 PROBLEMS
Alleged Taint Of Modern. ism Termed Crisis By
 Commissioners

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 1S.-- (By Associated Press. )-Four major propositions will aserb the bulk of at tention in the sixty-fourth general as sembly of the Presbterian church ir the United States tomorrow, following recess over the weekend.
 The four propositions are:
 Charges of unorthodox biblical crit. icism of modernism in the foreign mis. sion field.
 Withdrawal from the Federal Coun- cil of Churches of Christ in America.
 Withdrawal from the council of Pres byterian and reformed churches in the United States.
 Eligibility of women to executive committees of the assembly.
 Dr. Thornton Whaling of Louisville. moderator of the assembly, predicted the questions would be solved satis- factorily without too much fireworks. y
 The alleged ''taint of modernism" in the foreign mission field has given the . foreign missions committee much study and debate, since Saturday noon. No one could predict when its report would be ready.
 Problem Termed Crisis
 This problem is described by some commissioners as presenting crisis in the foreign mission work and by others as being merely q question of biblical interpretation and not in any way serious.
 The facts before the assembly deal with certain charges against teachers in the Ranking Seminary of China, mis- sionary school conducted comparatively by protestant denominatio includ- ing Presbyterians, Methodists, Chris tians and others. Members of the North Kingsu mission of China. Presbyte- rian mission, have lodged vigorous charges against certain teachings in the seminary alleged by them to be contrary to the doctrines of the Pres byterian faith and have asked that the Presbyterian church in the United States withdraw it's support from this seminary. On the other hand, the mis- s:onaries of the mid-C China mission, also a Presbyterian institution, oppose any withdrawal,
 Irregularities Charged
 Among the doctrinal irregularities lodged against teachers in the Nank- ing seminary, according to those who have heard the charges are The each ings that Moses was not in fact the author of the Pentateuch, the first five book of the Old Testament; that the story of Creation in Genesis was not inspired that there are two books of Isaiah instead of one; that the book of Daniel is history and not prophecy and was written by some one later than Daniel and after the events which it relates had transpired.
 On the question of withdrawal from the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the assembly apparently is divided. The organiza- tion is an association of large number of protestant denominations for the announced purpose of cooperative Christian work in the United States.
 Secular Activities Charged
 There has been an insistent demand and the Presbyterians withdraw from the council, based on the contention that the council has entered the field of secular activity, has attempted to protrude it's influence into industrial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
FUQUA CEREMONIAL
 TO BE HELD TODAY
Louisiana Governor To Take
 Oath On Capitol Lawn '

BATON ROUGE, La, May 1s.- Henry L. Fuqua of Baton Rouge will be inaugurated governor of. Louisiana at noon tomorrow, succeeding John NJ. Parker.
 The oath of office will be adminis- tered by Chief Justice Charles A. O'Neil of the Louisiana supreme. court on the lawn of the state capitol.
 A parade in which political, civic and military organizations, sailors of the United States battle cruiser Richmond, Confederate veterans, members of the supreme court, legislators and thousands of citizens of Baton Rouge, New Orr leans, and other cities will participate, will precede the inaugural ceremonies.
 The inaugural ball will be held to- morrow night in the executive mansion. o. H. Simpson of New. Orleans will take the oath of office as lieutenant governor in the senate tomorrow morn- ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
By CHARLES M. M'CANN By Leased Wire To The Age Herald. ]

tBy Leased Wire TO Jne Age-Herafu.l LONDON, May 1S.--A government has waived the wand of entertainment, and with all the colorful machinery, of ritual, moving in ordered scheme, a twentieth century fairy tale comes true Monday.
 James Brown, laborite member of parliament, and his wife who is a for mer mill girl, speRt Sunday quietly in their two-room, white-washed miners cottage in the village of Ann Bank in Ayrshire, Scotland.
 His wife prepared the Sunday din- ner, as Brown, in his shirt sleeves, got water from the back yard pump. Then the couple went to church.
 Becomes "King"
 Monday, James Brown, as the king s personal Representative at the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, be- comes to all intents and purposes the king of Scotland, with his white-haired wife as queen.
 The miracle is due to Premier Mac Donald. When the general assembly meets at Edinburg, representative of King George is chosen to sit in Holy rood Palace. Premier Macdonald recommended the miner for this high honor.
 Brown will put on his Sunday clothes when he goes to Holyrood. Mrs. Brown will wear new dress-.'if it arrives" 1" They will De accompanied by their son, John, who will act as private secre- tary," and the village parson, who will be personal chaplain"
 Two of Mrs. Browns spinster sisters will be maids of honor. The party, will board the train Monday and start for Edinburg along the purple pathway of romance.
 A roaring salute of 21 guns will greet them at the Edinburg station.
 At Holyrood Palace the queens own seventh hussars will mount guard as the royal flag is hoisted above the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
|EX-CASHIER Ht
 ! NPAY RUlEA
Pay Roll Padding Chart Tn Macon Indictmezs
 Arrested Tn Atlanfa

MACON, Ga, May 18.--James
 ard, former cashier of the S0s Sf a Railway freight Sffice, is in jail SEss tonight charged with being parsy ff the embezzlement of $S3,370O4 fg4s6 the Southern railway following his AZ rest in Atlanta yesterday on an indict ment returned recently in criminal court here.
 Jointly named fin the indictment is Howard l.. Jones, formerly chief clerk in the Southern railway shops here, who disappeared last February.
 Leonard gave up his position with the Southern railway last July and re gently became connected with the Att lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail way in Atlanta.
 The indictment charges that ficti- tious names were added to pay rolls at the Southern shops here and that Leon ard protected Jones in turning the cheeks into cash, which is alleged to have been converted to his own use. e----------------
 Time savers--the railroads, the tele- graph, the telephone, the wireless and Age Herald Want Ads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
By CHARLES M. NE'CANN " Leased Wire To The Age-H Herald. )

A<LNoUtA -~~-0 LONDON, May .18.-Houses to rent at 8 week =
 Two and a half million such homes to be built.
 The government and municipal authorities to provide subsidies making the miracle possible.
 These are the outstanding features in the gigantic housing scheme now be- ing prepared by laborites.
 Health Minister John Weathley be. gins final conferences Monday pre- paratory to introducing the scheme in parliament within the next few weeks
 If the bill incorporating the plan is defeated in parliament the labor gov, ernment is likely to resign, thus fore ing a general election.
 The 2,5O0,O00 buildings provided bJ the plan would be workingmen's houses They would be built by municipal authorities throughout Britain in thu next 15 years. .
 Double Subsidy Planned
 In order to enable the authorities tC let the houses at small rentals, th' labor plan calls for government sub sidy of $45 annually for 40 years, anC a subsidy of S22.50 annually from tn local authorities.
 Under the plan conferences woult be held at the end of five years to re wise the financial provisions of thu housing scheme, if it were necessary t do so in view of experience gained 1T the first building work.
 To Handle Pr0fiteers
 A special provision in the bill enables the government to deal with profiteer ing in building materials if necessary
 Government officials claim that thu plan will solve finally the long stand ing housing problem here.> Conserva lives claim that the scheme would prov an unsupportable burden for Britain and eventually would cost the govern ment $125, 100000 annually and tn, municipalities $62 100000 annually.
 Estimates of the cost of the schem, made by the conservatives vary be tween $3,000, ,O00,O 900 and $6,5OO, OO0, 900.
 The government hopes to pass tn, bill before the August recess. It il still too early to predict whether it will pass then, or ever. The conservative heatedly oppose the plan, while thu liberals are likely to examine thu IinAnc1al PROVISIONS most crlIlcauy The fate of the bill depends on the at titude taken by the liberals.
 The conservatives say they would welcome the resignation of the gov Iernment and the general election, which lit is expected, would follow defeat o the measure
 Laborites, liberals and conservative are all most active in their constituen cies at the present time, preparing fol what is regarded as an inevitable gen Ieral election within the next few months.
 The labor plan is the third shousin, scheme brought forward in Britain ir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
CooIidge-C congress Contest
 To Be Shifted To CleDeland
Good Old-F Fashioned F Family Quarrel Certain Un
 less Somebody Quits, Says Clapper

promise and farm relief, will be domi- nant in the Cleveland convention. They will in all probability, control the feso- iutions committee which drafts the plat form. Usually a group of senators write the platform and force it through the convention.
 One Side Must Give
 Thus, it will be seen that either the President, or the course of a large num- Der of regular republicans in Congress, will have to be condemned if the plat form says anything at all.- Even the agile language of seasoned platform writers cannot reconcile the Coolidge bonus veto message with the declara- tions of pro-bonus republicans. Friends of the President will struggle to keep the word bonus out. The congressional bloc will seek to put it in So it will be with the other controversial issues.
 President Coolidge is giving much thought to the question. He will sub init memorandum of suggested de- clarations,4 in e the hope that the policies he has espoused will be ap- proved by the convention regardless of their untimely fate in Congress. He hopes that the convention will recog- nize the incengruity of asking him to run on a statement which does not square with his announced policies, and that it will accept the White House proposals. On the other hand, sena- tors and congressmen up for reelection want to temper these declarations so that they will not appear in ridiculous contrast to their party's announced pc sition.
 The situation is one to test the gen. eralship of the Coolidge forces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
TENNESSEE LEAD
 OF M'DOO E 6ll
Lacks 282 Votes Of Hav- ing Majority In State
 Convention

NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 18:- With returns missing in only eight small counties that cannot affect the result, McAdoo was leading Underwood by 611 votes in the state convention. The totals now stand McAdoo, T54 ; Underwood, 143; uninstructed, I,124..
 According to these figures, NcAdoo lacks 2S2 votes of having a majority in the state convention. McAdoo carried the Second. Third, Sixth and Eighth congressional districts while the First, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth sent their delegates un- instructed Underwood failed to carry any congressional district. The missing counties are Johnson lin the First district; Bledsore and Meigs in the Third; Fentress, Morgan and Hardin in the Eighth. The vote by districts was as follows
 First--McAdoo, 59; Underwood, 8 uninstructed, 91.
 second-McAdoo. 149; Underwood, none; uninstructed, 4. Third-McAdoo, 164; Underwood, 20; uninstructed, so.
 Fourth-NfcAdoo, 49; Underwood none; uninstructed, 153.
 Fifth-M -McAdoo, 25 Underwood, ,42; uninstructed, S5s s1 sC
 Sixth-McAdoo, 15S; Underwood none uninstructed. 6S.
 Seventh-McAdoo, none Underwood, 27; uninstructed, 146. ~
 Eighth-McAdoo, 150; Underwood, none; uninstructed, 5.
 Ninth-McAdoo, none; Underwood 45; uninstructed, PAP. th--McAdoo, none; Underwood none; uninstructed, 160.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
Fairy Tales Come True
 At Hands of MacD Donald
Scotch Miner Now To Reign As King For Period
 Of Church Assembly In Edinborough

palace, signaling that Brown has there taken residence.
 The suite of the miner and his wife will include Marchioness Ailsa and Lady Victoria Bruce, who will be Mrs. Browns ladies in waiting. Then the lord treasurer of Edin-
 burg will offer Brown the key of the city.
 To Attend First Banquet Monday night the couple will 4t- tend their first banquet. Mrs. Brown will wear the first of a dozen gorgeous
 gowns, which are awaiting her at the palace, while her husband will wear q new gold-lace cooked hat, sword and the uniform of lord lieutenant of Ayr shire--to which office he has been ap-
 pointed by Marquis Ailsa. The ap- pointment was made so that he could wear the uniform instead of his ordi-
 nary clothes during the glittering days to come.
 There will be a splendid levee at the palace Tuesday and thereafter Brown, with his wife, will proceed to St. Giles cathedral to open tue general assembly of the church.
 He will go in gold state coach. There will be wigged outriders and brightly clad pages. The royal gurad hussars will accompany the coach, and
 the highest dignitaries of all Scottish cities will be in the procession. Thereafter for ten days James Brown and his wife will move through dream world There will be a succession of pageants, levees, and garden parties, at which the couple will be either hosts or
 guests of honor. Throughout these days Brown will be called by the title of lord high commissioner, and his wife will be your grace,
 Then they will return to their cot tage in Ann Bank again, arriving in time for Mrs. Brown to do the week.
 end baking again as she did Friday be fore preparing to enter the brief ven. fure into glory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
NEGRO BADLY CUT
 IN NEIGHBOR SCRAP
Not Expected To LiveW Wounds
 In Stomach

Ed Arnold. negro, 2247 Alley c, was at the Hillman hospital Sunday night, probably fatally wounded, as the re- suit of a neighborho0d cutting and brick throwing .affray, in which the other principal beligerent was Gus Mckenzie, 2246 Alley 0. Arnold was seriously wounded in the stomach with a knife yielded by Mckenzie. Hos pital authorities did not expect him to live until morning. The affair was precipitated, according to neighbors, by ArnoId's beating his wife and McKen- zie,s objection thereto and verbal inter cession. Arnold. then. according to neighbors, used bricks, and Mckenzie retaliated with a knife. Mckenzie es. caped and has not been apprehended. Detectives H. E. Morris and w. B. Hnltnn are on fhe case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
WINS NOVEL MATCH

CHICAGO, May 18.-A hovel match between a baseball player and a golfer was played at the Green Valley Coun- try club here yesterday. G. H. Acker. man, the baseball playeE, wished to test his skill against J, F. Simmons the golfer. Simmons used his golf clubs while Alderman was permitted to throw a baseball into the air and bat it from the tee and through to the greens. On the greens Alderman had to make the regulation butts and he practically held his own.
 Though Alderman got some good wallops Simmons out-distanced him and won, by a comfortable margin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19

and political spheres, which, the argu- ment holds, is directly opposed to the Presbyterian theory that the church is singiy and only a spiritual institu- tion.
 A similar contention, but one con- fined more to differences within the denomination, is back of the proposal to withdraw from the Council of Pres byterian and Reformed churches in the United States.
 The champions of women in the as- sembly expect to have difficult fight to retain the provision which permits women to be members of the executive committee. A law was passed at the last general assembly opening the ex- ecutive committee memberships to the women of the church. Since then many Presbyteries have protested this action. The opposition is based principally on the contention that women are not eligible to vote in the general assembly and therefore cannot be eligible to it's important deliberative committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
IN TIE AIR TODAY
Copyright. 1924, for The Age Her

tCopyright, 1924, for The Age Her
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 WIGS, Jefferson City, 40 meters, D. fn., central standard time. Mis- souri state prison orchestra.
 KSD, St. Louis, 546 meters, 6:30 D. m., central standard time. Pro gram from the Grand Central thea Ire.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
EXIT NTTT,ES

Mules, once familiar sights pulling road machines about over the vari- ous highways and byways of the coun. ty, are now almost no more.
 With the recent purchase by the county of four road tractors, the mum. ber of these machines now being oper. ated was brought to 10. The tractors recently purchased cost $0,OOO, and were Rumley makes. Only few ami
 malls are now left on the roads and it is predicted that even they will bs displaced ultimately by motor-driyeH apparatus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
STRUCK BY TRAIN

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 1s.-- Nolan Hughes, g, textile worker of East Chattanooga, was killed sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning when struck by a train on the South ern railway track between ooltewah discovered shortly before 1 o'clock this morning and was later removed to Cleveland, Tenn. Hundreds of persons attempted to identify the body and finally Ernest o. King of East Chatta- nooga, identified the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
LEAVES HOSPITAL
Brown Not Seriously Injured; Gives
 Name As Buster Jackson

.bFOWIEg NOE SbtIUUSEy NuJUEbus WlVtz
 Name As Buster Jackson
 A man who was at the St. Vincef s hospital Saturday night, unidentified, but declaring his name to be Buster Brown" was released Sunday. morning, after injuries he had received in a collision between his automobile and a nonthside street car, proved to be not serious. Before leaving the hospital, he gave his name as Buster Jackson of Oyerton Mines. It was at first thought by hospital authorities that the man was suffering from a slight fracture of the skull, but an examina- ton revealed only severe lacerations on the head and shoulder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
Houses To Rent At S2a Week Is Plan Of British Laborites
Government And Municipal Subsidies Expected
 To Make Miracle Possible

the last few years. Lloyd Georges government scrapped it's own scheme as impossible and Meo expensive. This
 prograN was to have been made pos
 sible by an annual governmental sub
 sidy of $500 for each house. Although 1t was operated only short time it
 now costs the government S3s, 500, 900 year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
COMFORT FOR FEMININE SMOKERS

A silver cigarette case that is slight ly different is striped in bands and has a handle made of braided silver strands The tassel is also of the braided silver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19

LONDON-The grass grew long on the zoo lawns when flock of rare geese became temperamental and re- fused to eat it any more. The zoo authorities sprayed various drinks on the grass until they found something the geese liked and now the grass is short again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
HERE AND THERE

CHAUNCEY, N. Y.-Five young prisoners of the state feformatory are at large in their nighties. They es- capped from a dormitory window thusly clad, early Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19

NEW YORK-Hattie Walters, store detective, guarding the perfume counter of a large department store here, knows her smells Somebody swiped a large bottle of expensive perfume and when Hattie learned of it she just followed the scent right out into the street, where the alleged shopiifter turned out to be Rose Bergson, IS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19

NEW YORK-Brooklyn, flappers took the Chamber of Commerce's paint up week" seriously and school authori- ties are having a dickens of a time. Numerous vanity cases have been con- fiscated. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19

DARMSTADT, Germany-Somebody has, stolen the cornerstone of St. Eide. Illus Catholic church here and the police can't even find out how it moved away. The stone was blessed before a huge Easter Sunday crowd by the Bishop of Mayence.