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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
BONUS BILL
REPORTED
TO SENATE
Committee Acts Favor
ably On House Insur-
ance Plan
FINAL PASSAGE
is PREDICTED
Simmons, However, To
Propose Amendment
For Cash Payment
REVENUE PROGRAM
ALSO SUBMITTED
Cuts Tax Receipts By $434, 720,-
600 For Year, Declares
Sm0ot
REVENUE PROGRAM
ALSO SUBMITTED

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Final
congressional approval of the legislative
fiscal program involved in the soldier
bonus and tax reduction bills was put
mp to the Senate today when the finance
committee sent the bonus measure on
the trail Of the revenue bill to the SEN
ate flo9r.
Republican leaders Immediately called
party conference for Monday to de-
termine which would be given priority,
while spokesman of the two. parties
promised early action on both bills.
No Vote Taken
The bonus measure was approved by
the finance committee as passed by the
House without the formality of vote.
At the same time Chairman Smoot
made public, report estimating the
revenue bill as framed by the committee
would cut taxes in the next calendar
year 1889, 444 below the amount of
revenue that will be needed to meet
government expenses.
This did not take into consideration,
Mr.. Smoot later declared, the S135,-
100000 which it is estimated will be
required to meet the cost of the bonus
bill next year. The apparent deficit"
which the revenue bill would cause, he
predicted, would be offset by increased
returns in government revenue as a
result of the proposed tax reduction.
Predict Passage
Despite the dispute over the cost of
the bonus bill and whether funds will
be available to pay for it, its passage
by comfortable majority has been
freely predicted. The bill, which pro-
vides for cash payments to veterans not
entitled to more than 500 in adjusted
service compensation and 2O-year en-
dowment life insurance policies to
others, passed the House by vote of
855 to "a.
i Senator Simmons of North Carolina,
ranking democrat on the finance COM
mittee, announced today he would pro-
pose an amendment to the bonus bill
from the floor to incorporate an option
for fun cash payments. This proposal
is expected to have considerable sup
port, particularly from democrats.
$434, 720, 900 Cut
The revenue bill as sent to the Senate.
floor would cut revenue receipts next
calendar year by $434, 720, 600, Chair
man Smoot declared in his report SUBJ
mitted today: The House bill, it was
estimated, would have cut revenue by
SAC, 100000.
Cost of the bonus bill has been vari-
ously estimated by government actuaries
at from $2,202, 100000 to $4,000, OOO,-
600 spread over 20 years, with an esti-
mated annual cost of about $780,
100000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
SCORES INVITED
TO TAKE FLING
AT FORD OFFER
Committee Declines To
Ask Friends OF Bid
To Appear
HEARINGS MAY LAST
INDEFINITE PERIOD
Fight OF Underwood And
Harrison Alone Can
Balk Adjournment
tWashington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, d. c.. April 12.-
The statement of Senator Pat Harrison
before the senate committee on agri
culture that Henry Ford did not .art
to consume valuable time in presenting
testimony in behalf os his offer foi
Muscle Shoals, has been construed
literally by the committee, it is lea rned
today.
At the same time, the committee has
not hesitated to invite those whose
positions of prominence may be cal
culated to give weight to their opposi
ton to the Ford proposition. Newton
d. Baker, who was secretary of wal
during the administration of the late
President Wilson, has been urged to
attend, and he has accepted. Governor
Pinchot of Pennsylvania has been
urged to attend, and he has accepted.
Pinchot "Conservationist"
Baker was one of the fathers of the
federal water power act, and his op.
position to the Ford proposal is based
on the fact that that proposition, in
certain respects, runs counter to the
technical provisions of the federal
water power act. Pinchot is regarded
as professional "Conservationist, .
and as such, holds that the government
should retain title and possession to its
every natural resource.
Others who have been invited to give
testimony against the Ford offer, or
who have asked to be heard, include the
Mississippi State Development Board
cotton mill operators of South Caro-
Carolina, the Business Mems associa-
ton of Tennessee, the American Flee
trical Engineers association, and the
Civil Engineers association of America
Representatives of each of the fore
going will protest against what, they
allege, will result in the concentration
of Muscle Shoals power rather than
its dissemination throughout the south.
In view of the fact that all these wit.
nesses will be in addition to those who
will express approval of the offers OF
e. III, Hooker and the Union Carbide
company, 1t is indicated that it will be
found to be ''impracticable" to con.
clude hearings within the week pro.
vided for in the resolution of Senator
Harrison.
Purpose Of Joker Clear
1t is recalled that the Harrison
resolution was amended by Senator
Harreld, republican, by the addition of
the parenthetical clause eff prac-
ticable." The purpose of the "joker,' -
suspected at the time of it's adoption,
is palpable at the present time.
The hearings will be initiated next
Wednesday. If they are not closed by
Wednesday week, Harrison will ask the
Senate to discharge the committee. 1t
is rapidly becoming apparent that If
the opposition does not carry its point
it will be the result of open fighting
against adjournment in accordance
with the promise of Senators Under
wood and Harrison.
If the Senate does not take favorable
action on the Ford offer before ad-
journment, the favorable action already
taken by the House would be
inso facto nullified and the situation
would be as it was in the beginning
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
GEN. WOODS
LEAVES AR MY
War Department Says His
His Resignation Is Eff
fective At Once

WASHINGTON. April 12.-Osborn
Cutler Wood. son and aide of Governor
General Wood of the Philippines, has
resigned from the army in which he
held commission as second lieutenant
and the resignation has been accepted
by President Coolidge.
No reason was made public at the
war department, which stated today
that the resignation was effective at
once. Lieutenant Wood several weeks
age, however, after he had made a
fortune estimated at 100000 by trad
ing in Wall street, said he intended
to resign and enter the diplomatic
service. No application has been re-
ceived as yet at the state department
from him for such service.
Lieutenant Wood was granted leave
of absence. more than two months ago
and left Manila for the United States
by way of Europe. Although his pres
ent whereabouts has not been announced
he is understood to be in this country.
He had been military aide to his father
since the latter assumed office in the
PhiliOuines, "
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
SHIP ENCOUNTERS
% WATERSPOUTS
ArOOstOOk Narrowly Escapes De-
structiOn Off Central America

SAN DIEGO, CAL, April 1.-THE
aircraft tender Aroostock, flagship of
Capt. Albert Marshall, commander of
the t. E. f. squadron battle fleet, mar
rowly escaped destruction in passing
through % waterspouts off the Cen
trail American coast, according to re-
ports when the Aroostook arrived here
yesterday.
Commander G. c. Dichman of the
tender said that when the Aroostook
was two days out from Balboa, bound
here, the first spout was sighted off the
starboard bow. There was an appar-
emily clear sky with a smooth sea.
"a great black cloud seemed to
sweep down on us from the northwest"
he said. Gradually more water spouts
appeared, until the Aroostook literally
had to dodge them. Several were SO
close that those on board could plainly
see huge tunnels of water being sucked
up from the sea-"
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DIV I,eased wire q Are-HeraIdl

tny AoASo0 WHITE TO ABo-nefUtuD
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April IL.
1t is nearly 20 years since Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw unclothed her soul before q
New York jury to save her husbands
life; nearly 20 years since Thaw and
his family repaid her sacrifice by dis
owning her. In those years, Evelyn
never really had a chance to get even.
She has gone down the line in the mean
time, through the cabarets and the sor-
did associations of night life in New
York, Hollywood and Atlantic City,
and through the fortunes of dope.
Evelyn will not say, of course, that
she is using the august court of COM
mon pleas, of Philadelphia as a whip
ping-post at which to punish Harry
for the way he used her after she had
sacrificed so much for him. The court
would not entertain her petition if that
were her stated object. Instead, Evelyn
asserts in a petition filed today, that
she Is interested only in the welfare
of her little son, Russell Thaw, who,
she says, is the son of Harry Thaw.
But, IL she succeeds in defeating
Thaw's attempt to have himself ad-
judged sane once more and to win his
release from detention, who. shall say
that Evelyn Nesbit must not taste the
sweetness of revenge?
Committed In 1917
Thaw has started court maneuver'
to have his sanity certified. If this
should be done, he would be entitled
to his release from an asylum to which
he was committed in 1917 for revert
ing to his old eccentricities of conduct.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
OCCASIONAL RAIN,
WEEKS PROPHECY
General Cloudiness, Normal
Temperature To Be General

WASHINGTON, April 12.--Weather
outlook for the week beginning Mon
day:
South Atlantic and East Gulf States
Considerable cloudiness. probably oc-
casional showers; temperature about
normal
West Gulf States: Considerable
clOudiness. probably occasional show
ers; temperature normal or somewhat
above most of the week.
Ohio Valley and Tennessee: Showers
at beginning of the week and again
after the middle of the week; temporal
ture normal or somewhat above most of
the week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
BEAVERS GUILTY
ON TWO COUNTS,
BOARD DECIDES
Atlanta Police Chief Is
Ousted AS Climax To
WOman's Arrest

ATLANTA, Ga, April 12.-Chief of
Police James L. Beavers, the storm
center of municipal politics here for a
decade, was found guilty by the police
committee early today for neglect Of
duty and swearing falsely and sum
marily was removed from office.
He was found not guilty of a third
count, which charged him with aiding
in obtaining evidence for a divorce case
in connection with the arrest of Mrs.
Asa G. Gambler, wife of the millionaire
soft drink manufacturer, here last Feb
ruary.
The committee governing board of
the police department, which filed the
charges, and before which Beavers was
tried, reached a. verdict shortly after
8 o'clock this morning, following an all
night session of the trial, which de-
veloped sensational testimony concern
ing Beavers connection with the
Gambler incident.
Immediately upon being informed of
the verdict, Beavers announced through
his counsel that he would seek a writ
of certiorari in superior court rein
stating him to office until his case can
be tried by the court.
The charges were filed against Beav-
ers March Is, by Ed H. Inman, chair
man of the police. committee, and he
was suspended from office the same
day. He specifically was accused of
failing to make periodical inspections
of beats as required by law, and swear
ing falsely to a pauper's oath to evade
court costs in former custer proceedings
against him.
The trial started last Monday night.
Pending the selection of Beavers
successor, the committee named e. L..
Jett, night chief, as acting head of the
department.
His Dismissal today marks the third
time Beavers has been deposed during
his eleven years as chief. He had been
a member of the force for So cOnsecu-
tive wears
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
ALLIED FARLEY
is NEXT MOVE
TOWARD PEACE
France Regards Debt
Problem AS DeciG-
ing Factor
BY JOHN O'BRIEN
" veasad Wire 70 The Are-HeraId,

(By Leased Wire to The Ago-HefaId.)
PARIS, April 12.-An inter-allied
conference on the various national
debts may be the next phase of prog
ress toward a settlement of the. finan-
cial and political problems of Europe,
in the belief Of most observers in
France.
Interest in such a conference has been
intensified by the three big develop
ments in the European situation this
week, namely, the presentation of the
experts report, its approval by the rep
arations commission, and the decision to
accept 1t by the German cabinet,
Premier Poineare, it is known, viii
insist that there can be no final repa-
rations settlement until the questions
of inter-allied debts and debts to the
United States are settled one way or
another.
France To Be Firm
Poincare's attitude is that France
must get 26,000,O00,OO0 gold marks
from Germany, plus enough to settle
the inter-allied debt to the United
States, unless these debts are otherwise
adjusted.
1t is believed this question probably
will be raised by the Germans them
selves in their reply to the reparations
commission because they undoubtedly
will demand that the total amount of
their debt be determined definitely be-
fore accepting the experts plan.r
Certain Of the allied experts at
tempted to discuss the inter-allied debts
at the outset of the Dawes committee
meeting, it is learned, but the Ameri-
cans fatty and vigorously refused to
allow this question to be injected into
their deliberations.
The prompt action of the reparations
commission in adopting the Dawes re-
port has caused widespread satisfaction
here. Authoritative sources emphasize
the acceptance as basis for solution of
the tangled postwar problems, but does
not mean that the reparations commits
sion has not the right to modify or add
to the plan. However, it is the French
belief that the acceptance means the
commission is disposed to follow the
main lines of the experts program.
If, as is expected, Germany submits
a written reply accepting the report as
the basis of Negotiation, the next step
will be submission to the various gov
ernmentS of such phases of the report
as the members Of the reparations COM
mission considers beyond their juris-
diction. These include the questions of
guages and penalties and that of COM
mon action in case of default by Ger
many, upon which latter point France
will insist.
Members of the commission predict
that a meeting of the heads Of govern
ments viii be held shortly after Ger
many's decision is announced. 1t is
pointed out that the French and Bel
gian governments must decide with re-
gard to REIMBURSEMENT of economic
control of the Ruhr and handing over
the Rhineland railways.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
ORATORICAL PRIZE
GOES TO OAKMAN
Defeats QuintOn In County Con-
test

OAKMAN. Ala. April 12.-Oakman
high school last night defeated Quin-
ton high for the county championship
in The Age Herald national oratorical
contest.
Oakman high was represented by
Andrew G, Day, who---showed a sur
prising knowledge of the constitution.
His grafton was both educational and
constructive.
The next contest in which he ell
cages is that of the congressional dis
trict final on April Is, which will be
held here. A great amount of inter
est has been manifested in The Age
Herald's contest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
10 MORE ARRESTED
IN LILLY KHAN RIOT
Arrests Now Total 40 For Fatal
Disorders In Pennsylvania

EBENSBURG. Pa. April ITO
tai arrests on charges Of murder and
riot growing out of the fatal disorders
last Saturday at Lilly, between towns
people and visiting Ku Klux Klans-
men, were increased to 40 tonight
when 10 residents of Lilly were COM
mitted to the Cambria county jail
Twenty seven men, said to be Klans-
men, had previously been committed
to Jail.
Each of the IS men waived pre-
liminary hearing before a justice of the
peace at Cresson and was held for court
without bail. A hearing will be held
Monday upon an application for a writ
of habeas corpus. Ten of the men
were at liberty on bail on charges of
melting to riot when rearrested.
TYenty-six alleged Klansmen were
arrested the night of the riot and were
denied application fora writ of habeas
corpus by the Cambria county court.
The twenty-seventh man was arrested
Yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
ORGANIZE SIGNAL CORPS

MOBILE. Ala. April 12.-(Special
Leased Wire. Reorganization of the
first and only national guard signal
CORPS committee in the state of Ala
bama began in Mobile today following
approval of the officers nominated for
the committee by Col. Hartley A. Moon,
adjutant general of the state of Ala
bama. The officers follow: Captain,
John T. Moore; first lieutenants.
Douglas @. Harris, W. e. Mickle and
Ben W. Martin; second lieutenants,
d. 8. M. Unger and George L. Barnett.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
To PROBE 81 BILLS
Complaint Made That New Series Tears
Easily

WASHINGTON, April 12-Because
the new 1928 series of 81 bills are
brittle and tear easily, the treasury de-
partment, in connection with the bureau
Of standards and the engraving bureau,
has started an inquiry to learn the
reason why.
Widespread complaint against the
new bills has reached the treasury.
Thousands of dollars a day in these
new bills have been fed into the mace
orator in the treasury building because
they are torn. Paper. money should
survive circulation a year at least, off
Gals say, while many Of the new dol
lars last less than q week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
MCCORMICK LOSES
ILLINOIS ELECTION
Unofficial Count Gives Deneen
4,O16 Majority

CHICAGO, April 12.-Former
Governor Charles S. Deneeu won the
republican senatorial nomination from
Medill Mccormick. incumbent, by 4,O16
votes, unofficial returns from. all but 10
precincts in the STATE indicate.
The missing precincts will probably
not be heard from until the official
canvass, beginning next week, is COM
pleted. Deneen received 355, 800 votes
and Mccormick '351, 1888 in SIPS of
the states 5,744 precincts, according to
checking and rechecking made by the
Associated Press before it's election
machinery was dismantled yesterday.
Neither the senator nor his opponent
have made any statement on the re-
turns to date, although campaign adj
visers of each believe their principal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
FOGS, SNOW HALT
4 WORLD filters
Sitka FOrecasters Have Hope
For Start Today

SITKA, Alaska, April 12-Winter
weather has again held up the sched-
uled departure of the four United
States army 'round-the-wOrld planes.
Fog, rain, snow, sleet and high
wind combined to keep the planes out
of the air today and securely tied up
in the shelter of the cover.
The planes have been ready for two
days to get away to COrdova, and, ac-
cording to weather fOrecasters tonight,
they may be able to make the north
ward hop tomorrow. .
Major Frederick Martin, commander,
said he and his men are in fine fettle.
ready to take the air at the first rift
in the weather blanket.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
cREAGER RECOMMENDS
Suggests W. H. Case AS Successor t
Falls SOn-in.LaW

WASHINGTON. April Zap
pointment of Walter Fl. Case as col
leetor of customs at FL Paso was recon-
mended to President Coolidge today by
X, Il. Creager, republican national com
mitteeman for Texas
The Ell Paso colleetorship was made
vacant recently by the resignation of
Clarence Chase, son-in-law of Albert b.
Fall, after refusing to testify at the
Senate oil investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
CAR RING BROKEN UP
Twenty Autos Recovered And Memphis
Man Arrested

NEW ORLEANS, April 12-With
the recovery of 20 autos in Mississippi
coast towns within the last few days
and the arrest of Ovid Madison of
Memphis, Tenn, in Biloxi after re-
volver battle, federal officials and pO-
lice here today believe they have broken
up wholesale automobile theft ring.
The cars, officials believe, have been
stolen mostly in Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi and disposed of to unsuspect-
ing purchasers in districts outside the
zone of operations of the thieves.
The investigation which federal ali-
thorities started six months ago has
led practically all over the two states
and resulted in many stolen cars being
recovered. Twenty-Five machines were
recovered in two garages at Mendenhall,
Miss, recently, it was revealed,
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to rebuke all Senate investigat-
ing committees and that it "an
insult" to the whole body, Sena-
tor Reed introduced the following
motion to erase the message from
the records Of Congress:
Resolved, that the communica-
ton of the President of the
United States of date of April
II, 1924, and the letter of the
Secretary of the Treasury of date
of April 10, 1924, be and they are
hereby expunged from the records
of the Senate"
The Reed resolution was not
inspired by the minority leaders,
Robinson, Arkansas, democratic
leader, said later. Other demo-
cratic Senate chiefs were frank
in saying they did not expect it
to be adopted or to be pressed
by party strategy measure.
By the authors assent the pro-
posal was allowed to lie on the
table. No official actor was
taken
The attack of Senator Reed
, if approved by the Senate, would
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
NEW REMEDY
FOR BLOOD POISON
DIR. White. Of Baltimore Given
Credit For New Treatment

NEW YORK. April 12.-Remakable
results have been produced in apparent
ly hopeless cases of blood poisoning bv
the use of newly discovered mercury
compound in the form of red dive.
the American Chemical society an.
nOunced today. DIR. A. c. White of
Baltimore was credited with taking n
leading part in the compounds de-
velopment.
The announcement said the new COM
pound was more effective than the older
inorganic mercury compounds, and had
a lower toxicity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
FARMLAROR SHORT

WASHINGTON, April IA short
aged on farm labor on April 1 was an
nounced today by the department of
agriculture. which estimated the supply
at 90 per cent of the demand. A year
ago the supply was So per cent Of the
deraand.
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WILLARD LEAVES s1,s55, 1888
Former Ambassador BequeathS Al
To Widow

FAIRFAX. Va, April 12,-The will
of the late Col. Joseph e. Willard, for
mer ambassador to Spain, who died
in New York last Saturday, was filed
for probate here today. The entire
estate, valued at 81 $50, 1851, was be-
queathed to the widow, Mrs. Belle L..
Wyatt Willard. who was named sole
executrix.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
THE WEATHER

AIabams: Fair Sunday, slightly
warmer in interior; Monday increas-
ing clOudiness.
Georgia: Generally fair.
Mississippi: Fair. slightly warmer.
Tennessee: Generally fair.
(COmplete weather data viii be
found on Page 81
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
DEAN KNOX DIES

GRANVILLE, o., April 12.-George
p. Knox, 81, dean of Denison university.
died at his home late yesterday of
heart disease. He formerly was direc-
tor of education for the International
Sunday School association.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-13
REED WOULD ERASE
COOLIDGE'S MESSAGE
FROM SENATE ROLL
Senator's Attack On President
Without Precedent In History

WASHINGTON April 12After asserting that the sent
yesterday the Senate by President Coolidge Secretary
Meln sdnnar nent deSiQn
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Since the Civil war, said Mr.. Roose-
velt's message, the democratic admins
tration had been untouched by govern
mental scandal, while the republican
ones of johnson. Grant. Hayes. Arthur,
Mckinley and Taft had been so married.
In an address bristling with refer
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