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The Washington herald., 1920-12-23
STOCKS FURNISH
ALL THE ACTION
ON LOCAL BOARD
Only Two Securities Are
Traded In-Bonds Are
Untouched.
A MELON is CUT
Security Savings and Com
mercial Declares Usual Quar-
terly $50 Dividend.
A MELON is CUT

Stock shares absorbed all the at
tention of local traders on the
Washington Stock Exchange yester-
day morning. The moderate ac-
tivity displayed was practically
equally divided between Mergen-
thaler Linotype and Washington
Railway and Electric preferred.
Prices remained firm throughout ex-
cept in the hrst two sales OF the
typesetter stock. aggregating 81
shares. when a decline Of Il point
was noted.
Railway preferred stock got go
ing Immediately after call and was
traded in to the extent OF 156 shares
at 501S. Except for the first trans
action of shares, the sales were
for 25 shares each.
After call Mergenthaler recovered
the loss suffered during the regu-
lar trading session. and was traded
In to the extent of 100 shares at
12O1s.
Carl Robertson Kurtz, local head
of the firm Stroud. Kurtz and Com
pany, yesterday announced the 40
tation of s4.o00.00O General Asphalt
Company 10-year s per cent bonds,
which are offered at 9Sh-
Mr.. Kurtz will leave this morn
ing for Florida on a trip which
will probably take ten days or two
weeks.
At a meeting Of directors of the
Security Savings and Commercial
Bank, held yesterday afternoon, the
usual quarterly dividend Of per
cent was declared. payable Decem-
Der 81 to stockholders of record at
the close OF business December %.
The books will close and remain
so until January IL.
The Seventh Street Savings Bank
will pay its regular semi-annual
dividend of 3 Y per cent to its stock
holders, December 81, 1880. accord
ing to the decision reached by the
meeting OF the board OF directors
held recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
German Representative Present at Reception
 to Diplomats In Paris
sy Associated Pres,

Paris, February 0.-(Iiavas.)-For the first time since the resumption of diplo- matic relations between France and Ger many pr. Wilhelm Mayer, the German charge daffaires, was present today at a reception to the diplomatic corps at the Elysee Palace.
 NBaron Keishiro Matsu, the Japanese ambassador speaking on behalf of the diplomatic corps, expressed it's ardent wish for the greatness of France. Presi- dent Deschanel, in reply, asserted that the government, parliament and people of France would lend all their aid in the effort to establish peace bring back an era of tranquility and respect for treaties.
 President Deschanel has received tele- grams from the heads of nearly all the governments, felicitating him on his as sumption of the presidency
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Small Sylacauga Blaze

Sylacauea, February 20.-(SpecialD IA fire catching from an open grate in q room of the Southern Hotel was discov- cred this morning about 30 a. m Small damage was done to the building by fire but water damage on the ground floor Of the building was considerable. The building was the property of S. P. Me- Donald and occupied by Henry T. Kel- ley as a hotel upstairs. Thompson s barber shop and Kelly's bakery were damaged by water. All parties damaged had insurance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

HOMES We have customers for homes in all parts of Birmingham; list your property with us: we win give results 2236
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

FOR bargains in real estate see me; if you want to sell list it with me. o. P. Hutcheson 419 American Trust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

WN-5-room, modern home, between the two car lines. N. sgd st. Near Gibson school. s3.000; easy terms E. F. Eborn. 3l5 Empire Bldg. Main 1197
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

WANTED-6 or 7-room house in East Lake or Woodlawn. have nice cash payment; like to deal with owner di- rect Address Y-9. Age Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
One-Cent Postage Approved
 Bv Associated Press

Washington, February 20.-One -cent postage for local or drop letters was ap- proved today by the Senatss postoffice committee. which incorporated the re- duced postage amendment of Senate Dial, South Carolina, and Senator McKelhr. Tennessee, democrats, in the postoffice appropriation bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
LEGAL NOTICES

Notice
 State of Alabama, Jefferson county. Estate of Josephine Lochrane. deceased. Letters testamentary upon the last will and testament of said decedent, having been granted to the under signed, on the 3d day of February, 1920. by the Honorable J. P. Stiles, Judge of the Probate Court of Jeffer- son County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims agains. said estate will be required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or that the same will be barred. IDOLINE LOCHRANE BILLIARD, LILLIAN LOCHRANE CONNORS.
 Executors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
DrS. DOZier & DOZier
Oldest established Firm of Medical Specialists in Alabama. Twenty five Years in Birmingham.

We treat scientifically and with wonderful success, all manner of chronic diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Lungs, Heart, Liver, Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys and all dis eases of the Skin and the Pel- v,c Organs of Men and Women
 We especially invite those who have any symptoms of Ap- penCicitis or Ovarian trouble, to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

LIST your property. city or rural with Fowlks R. E. & Ins. Co.. 223 Brown Marx Bldg. Main 35l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
City Officials Improying

Reports yesterday on the condition or Commissioner John R. Hornady and Sec etary Scudder Ryall were to the effect that both, officials were much improved and were row out of danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

operation uIih testimonials
  had o the knife trouble may be worth o so
  doctor failed to
   area reasonable. 2o2o Fir.tAv Birmingham. 1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

LIST your farm lands and city property with A. R. Dearborn & Co., 301 Jeffer- son Co. Bank Bldg Main l113.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE K
 HOUSES FOR SALE 100
SOUTH HIGHLANDS
 HOME

I have for sale and for immediate pos session one of the handsome homes of the South Highlands, east of goth street, close to Five Points The To- cation is all that could be desired very convenient to all the civic ad- vantages of Five Points, and yet as private and retired as Forest Park. Beautiful view of the city and noun tain. Beautifully finished in hard wood. Two baths, steam heat, large rooms, pleasant porches, spaciously designed and altogether quite an at tractive place. Lot is a large one, with about half acre of ground. House lends itself to remodeling in- to a high-class apartment. Offers fine opportunity in this respect. Owner has no longer any use for it as home, being too large for his present family. Price will be found much below it's real value.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
Park Bench Home for
Mother and Child DAYS

A green bench in the little park at
Amsterdam avenue and 136th street
was home" to Nellie Kelly and her
infant for five days and nights. They
slept on the bench because they had
no other place to go. Yesterday the
young mother, when arraigned in
Washington eHights court, explain
ed why.
Clad in rags and clinging to the
soft bundle that she carried in her
arms, Nellie presented a pathetic
sight as she walked somewhat
shakily into the courtroom. Her gar
ments were frayed and stingy, but
her baby was warmly clad. 1t was
blanket had served to protect it
from the dew, during it's enforced
residence on the park bench.
Nellie told straightforward story
to Magistrate Raphael Tobias. She
said that because she was unmarried
she had no home, no money, no
friends and that her relatives had re-
fused to assist her. AS she testi-
fled she frightened her fingers
around the little bundle and drew
lit closer to her, fearing that an at
tempt would be made to take the
baby.
Nellie's stay on the park bench
would liekly have been considerably
longer had not her presence attracted
the attentions of William Moore, of
charge of vagrancy against her.
Magistrate Tobias held the young
woman for hearing today, pending
an investigation. Nellie gave her
age as twenty-four. The baby is five
weeks old
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12

Whisky Men Lose
$4,000 to Swindler

CHICAGO.-Eighty thousand
dollars was paid by a group OF SIX
Chicago whisky sales promoters for
a few worthless slips of paper. To-
day three of the six rushed into po-
lice headquarters and cried for ven
geance.
They had been swindled while ar
ranging for distribution among sa-
loon owners of $50 cases of whisky
that had existed solely in the mag
nation of the operator of the conf
dence game and in bogus warehouse
receipts, bills of sale and federal per-
mits for removal. The six men paid
their $4,000 upon the sole security
of the valueless but official looking
sheets.
The three victims reporting the
loss were Harry Nadel, years ago an
investigator for the police depart
ment and now head of a secret serv..
ice bureau patronized by many or
the loop hotels; AL Powers, who says
Powers, and Rbert Fabbrini, sa-
loon owner. The three told Captain
Morgan Collins that they are en-
gagged in the "promotin" of whisky
sales. They said they have permits
Nadel, Powers AID Fabbrini drag
ged with them into the police sta
ton Samuel Listicki, an egg Gambler.
whose weekly wage never has been
above $35. Listicki, although locked
in a cell, tells a story that convinces
the police he was an innocent and I'M
knowing dupe in the hands of the
real swindler, who has vanished with
tho S21 000
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
Louisiana Farmers
Use Coad Method in
Fighting Boil Weevil

All reports indicate that the Louis
lana cotton crop will be the best in
several years, if the boil weevil does
not pick it before the farmer, ac-
cord1ng to officials of the American
cotton association. The government
demonstration of the success of the
Coal method of combating this pest
by calcium arsenate poisoning has
resulted in many farmers buying ma
chimes and stock of poison, and con-
testing with the weevil
In Po1nte Coupee parish the Amer
lean Cotton association has demon
strated its practical utility to the
FARMER in assisting him in installing
this method, and bringing about a
reduction in cost of twenty per cent,
oesldes procuring guarantee from
the manufacturer Of the services of
an expert throughout the cotton sea-
son, TO show the farmers how to SUD-
ply the poison. Hon. Sim. Parent,
chairman of the American Cotton as
ISOLATION parish committee, and A. B.
Curet, parish demonstration agent.
who is secretary Of the parish com
mittee, made the deal with the manu-
facturers, on behalf of the members
OF the association, and eleven power
machines, more than a hundred hand
bought.
Reports from Ponte Coupee parish
are that the crop is one Of the finest
in years, but the boil weevil has been
very much in evidence The fields
which are being poisoned, are Civ
ing promise of yielding their maxi
mum capacity.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
HOUSE ADOPTS
BILL CREATING
LAMAR COUNTY

BY a vote of 1874 to 40 the house
of representatives Tuesday passed
! the senate bill creating the new
| county of Lamar from portions of
Monroe and Pike counties, with the
! city Of GAINESVILLE as the county
| site.
The debate and vote in the house
were witnessed by a large audience
of interested citizens from both of
| the old counties who were both for
and against the bill. Representative
Holmes, of Monroe, and Representa-
tive Barrett of Pike, spoke against
| the bill on the ground that these
| two old and splendid middle Geor-
| gia counties would be seriously
crippled against their wishes by the
other reason than to satisfy the am
| bition of the city of GAINESVILLE to
| be a county site.
The debate on the Lamar county
bill occupied practically all Of the
bR o9se ord1ng s fesS0n IF the
o'clock and running until noon, when
| the vote was taken and the result
announced. The supporters of Lamar
county in the gallery greeted the
announcement with loud applause,
and it was necessary for Speaker
Holder to put forth most siren
uous effort to restore order in the
hall.
the Lamar county bill having been
| passed by the senate and the house
will now go to the people for ratiti-
cation or reflections: in the general
| election to be held in the fall in the
same manner as all constitutional
| amendments are referred.
Long County Taken Up
After disposing Of Lamar county,
the house took up the senate bill to
create the new county of Long, from
portion fthe county of Liberty,
with the town Of Willacoochee as the
county site. The bill was passed by
a vote Of 154 to 6. The bill before
| being passed was amended so as to
leave off a portion of Liberty county
which was originally proposed to be
| included in the new county, and the
| opponents of the bill, withdrew their
| opposition on a compromise basis.
At this point in the deliberations
| in the house, the joint investigating
committee of the house and senate
| presented it's report against DR.. Pc
ter T. Bahnsen, the state veterina-
rian, and Representative Williams, of
Worth, introduced a resolution di-
recting the commissioner of agricul-
ture' to discharge DR.. Bahnsen from
| his office, and name a successor to
take his place. The resolution was
referred to the rules committee and
| the house adjourned until 8 o'clock.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
IS BEING
USED ASCATSPAW,
HARDWICK SAYS

GREENSBORO, Ga, Aug. 10
Thomas w. Hardwick spoke in the
interest of his candidacy for COVER
nor here Monday at the noon recess
Of the city court, and it is estimat-
ed that his audience numbered $50,
who comfortably filled the courtroom.
In comparison with press reports
of his speeches in other parts of
the state, his address here was ex-
ceptionally temperate, as he made no
comparison of Clark Howell with the
negro, Henry Lincoln Johnso" He
said that Woodrow Wilson and Will
liam H. Taft could not take away
from the people with their pens the
rights won by George Washington
with the sword. ...-r
He denied that he had attacked the
American Legion and charged that
the legion was being used as cats
paw by the Atlanta post, which he
said was being conducted by Clark
Howell. Jr., and Trammell Scott,
who he said was a clerk in the office
Of Eollins Randolph, an Atlanta law
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
Bruce Barton Says Bible
Is Best Book on Business

CLEVELAND.-The Bible is the
best one volume book on modern
business, Bruce Barton, author and
journalist Of New York said at the
convention of the Federal Council
Of Churches of Christ in America
'The Bible has the greatest rec
ord Of craftsmanship ever written"
he said. ''St. Paul sold religion to
Athens when it was fearfully over
stocked with religion of it's own.
And he did it by making a survey of
the situation and utilizing condi-
lions at hand, just as a modern
salesman must do
THE great trouble with ministers
is that they do not know what news
, is" Mr.. Barton continued. "They
must learn to trust newspaper men
The things that Christ did were
great news. They would be great
news today. Peters release from Jail
by reason of the earthquake would
deserve headline today"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
WOODEN SHIPPING
TONNAGE HARD TO.
SELL, u. S. FINDS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Disposal
of more than 100000 tons of wood
en- shipping-406 vessels of various
types-built as a part of the govern
ment's wartime merchant marine
program is-one Of the most difficult
problems facing the shipping board.
Twenty-one of the craft, aggregating
$4,000 lightweight tons, were offered
! recently, but no buyers We're found.
Only l94 of these wooden craft are
now in operation. SeVenty-three are
tied up at various ports under man
aging caretakerS and 139 are in stor-
age yards. One hundred and seve.z
of those in storage" are finished
barges.
Officials of the board say that when
| the serviceability of the wooden fleet
| has been demonstrated little difficulty
| will be experienced in turning 1t over
| to private ownership at about $50 a
| ton. These vessels were built in an
| emergency, many of green timber,
| and some of them made poor show
| ings a year and two years ago, but
now that they have seasoned" Off
I GERS of the board consider them prac-
| ticable cargo carriers.
| Because of the bad record Of some
of the vessels operators have con-
| demned them all, officials declare,
whereas, the records of those now
| in operation show very creditable
performances. One wooden ship out
Of six orund trips across the Atlantic,
at sea 500 days and in port an equal
number, was laid up for repairs only
| twenty-five days.
To date, wooden and composite
ships, aggregating 1,948, $50 dead
weight tons, consisting of 322 cargo
ships, one tanker, lis finished hulls,
ten sailing craft, fifty-six hulls con-
verted into barges and twenty stand
ard barges, have been delivered to the
board. A total of ia of these yes
sells, aggregating 397,285 lightweight
tons, has been sold and twelve total
ing 44,546 tons have been lost at sea-
The total cost of the construction
of this fleet, estimated by the board
at $170 deadw Elk IT. ton; was a aL
$500, 900 tons now held by the board
| at $50 ton would yield fi135, 1000, 1000
Those already sold brought about
5000, 900, so that if the 406 remain
ing in the governments possession
are disposed of to private owners the
total loss through the wooden ship
venture would be something like
| -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
LEOPARD CA|VNOT
CHANCE SPOTS
Mr.. Dodson, the oliver
Tone. Man, Tells the
Treachery of CaIomeI

Calomel loses you day! Yea
know what caloc-z. is. It's mercury;
quicksilve'. Calomel is dangerous. Tt
crashes into sour bile like dynamite,
cramping and sickening you. Calomef'
attacks the bones and should never
be put into your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out ana
believe you need a dose of dangerous
calomel just remember that your
druggist sells for a few cents a large
bottle OF Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is a perfect substitute for
calomel. 1t is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring you up
inside, and can not salivate.
Don't take calomel! 1t can not be
trusted any more than leopard or a
wildcat. Take Dodsons Liver Tone
which straightens you right UP and
makes you feel fine. Give it to the
children because it is perfectly harm
less and doesn't gripe.-(Advt,)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
CIairVOYant's Family Is Sued

ST: LOUIS, Mo.-Suit to recover
$14,O59, which he says he paid in
the last six years to c1airvoyant
who promised to locate $4,000 in
gold in pot on one of his farms,
was filed in the circuit court by
Weert Bauer, seventy-eight years
old, wealthy retired farmer, who
lives in Alton, Ill.
The defendants are Mrs. A. Pe1in-
ski, who, Bauer says, posed as a clair
voyant; her husband, Joseph Pelfn-
ski, Joseph Pelinski Jr., Mrs. Mary
Cleary, a daughter of the Pelinskis
and William w. C1eary.
Bauer alleges the defendants en-
tered into a conspiracy to defraud
him, and told him Mrs. Pelinski
was a clairvoyant, and possessed of
supernatural power, and would tell
him where he could locate a large
amount of gold coin. He states Mrs.
Pelinski never had any supernatural
power and never told him where to
find the gold.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
FRANCE READY TO
COMBAT GERMAN
AID TO SOVIET

PARIS, Aug. 9.-France, acting
alone, if necessary, is on the verge
Of sending stern note to the Ger
man government, informing it that
France will act instantly and force
FULLY to enforce the treaty of Yer
sallles in its provisions for eastern
Europe as well as for the west anu
that France can properly take coer-
Give action along the Rhine, accord
ing to reports in the highest French
official circles.
The French government is declar-
ed to be convinced that Germany is
plotting with the soviets to nullify
the Polish boundaries created by the
allies last year and hampering all
allied efforts to aid the new republic
during critical period. The feeling
Is also ascribed to the French In
official quarters that efforts by GER
tain factions in Germany to provoke
an open quarrel between the two
countries is approaching a crisis.
Within the last several days all
supplies en- route for French troops
IN the plebiscite area of upper SiIe-
railway men and other workers. All
of the Sarre basin is tied up by a
strike and shipments for Poland by
way OF Germany have been side
tracked or wrecked.
The communist party of Germany
- ASpOA Ecu " nave OIu0fSu It's mem
bers in east Prussia to extend a
welcome to the bolshevik. Great
trouble has been stirred up at Dan
zig and the recent flag incident at
the. French embassy in Berlin re-
mains unsettled
1t is declared in official circles
that the. French government cannot
endure this state of affairs much
longer and that France must show
that the treaty of Versailles is
more than a scrap of paper"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
Man Falls Five Floors
From Burning Building
While Crowd Watches

NEW YORK.-A crowd of several
thousand which gathered when
smoke poured from the upper floors
of an elght-story loft building at the
northeast corner of Lafayette and
Walker streets shortly after noon
recently saw a man hang for nearly
five minutes from the ledge of a
tifth-f1oor window and then drop
through steel-framed glass canopy
over the buildings entrance, miss1ng
by a few feet a net which fremen
had hastily got into place. He suf-
tered. a fractured skull and internal
injuries.
AS the flames burned through the
fifth and sixth floors, licking up a
store of celluloid in the loft occu-
pied by the Universal Merchandise
company on the fifth floor, the noon
hour throng. of factory and office
workers looked for a repetition Of
the terrors of the Triangle fire. They
saw the man fall to the street and
looked for others to follow, but no
hce and f1remen soon learned that all
OF the 100 or more workers on the
upper floors had escaped, leavine
Be Finkel, twenty-one years
OLD, an assistant shipping CLERK
trapped in the rear of tho ff+b Hoon
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
Speedy Relief
From Habitual
Constipation

The liver is the largest and most
important organ in the body, and
when the liver refuses to act. II
causes constipation, biliousness:
stomach, bad breath. dysentery,
diarrhoea, pains in back and under
shoulder blades and under ribs on
right side; These symptoms lead to
colds. influenza or other serious
troubles unless corrected imme-
An inactive liver places an extra,
burden on the kidneys, which over
taxes them and causes the blood to
absorb and carry. into the system
kidneys have failed to eliminate.
you treat only third of your
trouble. and that is why you have
to take purgatives every few
nights. Calomel or other ordinary
you would treat your kidneys and
blood while treating the liver, you
would put your entire system in
order and freqent purgatives would
then be unnecessary.
DIR. w. l.. Hitchcock many years
ago recognized these important
research, compounded what is now
known as DR.. Hitchcocks Liver.
Kidney and Blood Powders, three
meQlclneS combined In one. This
was the Doctors favorite prescrip-
tion for. many years, being used by
his patients with marked : success.
It is a harmless vegetable remedy
that will not make you sick, and
you, may eat anything you like
while taking it,
Get large tin box from your
druggist or dealer for Csc. under his
personal guarantee that it will give
relief, tone up the liver. stimulate
the Kidneys to healthy action and
thereby purify the blood. If your
dealer will not supply you, it will be
mailed direct by the Hitchcock Med
lclne Co, Atlanta, Ca, upon receipt
of price.-(Advt.)