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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-19

tbefore his death told friends he
was leaving a fortune. lie never l.
told where the money had been
left, and interest in It's hiding
place died out after while. The re-
cent appearance of strange visitors 10
West Plains and subsequent discovery
OF floors torn up in the old homestead
started gossip flowing again.
Freshly overturned piles Of earth
found in the Rogers yard recently
and mysterious lantern lights fash
ing through the vacant house at night
gave West Plains additional thrills.
Now it's Va town-wide search for
buried treasure with everybody tax
ing a dig on the side"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-19
PROTEST CUTTING DOWN
GIANT SYCAMORE TREE

The American Forestry Association
today called upon the people of Glib
son county, H., to file with the asso-
citation protests against cutting down
a giant sycamore tree near Mt. Car
mel, Ill.
The association has been asked both
by Richard Lieber, of the Department
OF Conservation OF Indiana, and DR..
Robert Ridgway, an ornithologist, OF
Olney, ILL.,, TO take up the fight of the
citizens OF the two States to save the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-19
STORY OF BURIED GOLD
STARTS TOWN TO DIGGING
Search for Fortune of Dead
Man Grows Interesting,

SPRINGFIELD. Mo, Dec. 19.-The
little town of West Plains is having
the thrill OF it's existence in a search
for buried treasure. Unidentified
persons digging in the yard and gar
den of the home of the late ''Uncle
John" Rogers, a quaint old character.
who left a small fortune, started the
treasure seekers on the trail of hid
den gold.
Rogers died FIVE years ago. and just
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-19
TEACH HOUSEWIVES HOW
TO Use ELECTRIC AIDS

Talk about the marvels of electric
ity to the average woman. and while
she'll listen attentively, she's inclined
to be skeptical. That is, until she
has seen for herself what it can do.
One visit to an electrical shop. one
demonstration of the wonders that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-19
Santa in NeU Form
Brings Electric Aid
To Household Labors

"Meny Chrismas-an electrical merry ChrIStmas!'
The twentieth century electrical Santa Caus-who is
Just as invisible and mysterious the genial, jolly,
whskered old soul whom all orthodox children met in
the oldashioned times-squeezed down the chimney
cot into the house in other way in keeping with
his nature bringing with him the Christmas gift for cher
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-19

Itree. II Is on the ground surveyed
for a levee along the Wabash River.
but there Is no need OF destroying
this tree, the association says.
The tree is the last of twelve giants
that were all within a half mile OF
each other at one time. This tree
10 about $50 feet high and has a cir
conference of about twenty-five feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09

the Lyric theatre. Next to him in Ala bama comes former Gov Emmet O'Neal, the Nebraskan declared. The Lyric thea Ire was crowded to the doors by Cal houn county people, many of whom had come from a distance to hear the fa- nous orator He was greeted with 'an outburst of applause as he appeared on the rostrum, and time after time during lis address the audience answered him with loud cheering
 The speaker was introduced by Capt, II. M. Ayers, who in a few words told the audience that the distinguished vis- itor did net require an introduction, as he was already well known to Anniston- ianss and that his national prominencet was an introduction in itself to any American audience. Mir. Bryan. in open ing his address referred to his visit to Alabama two years ago, saying that at that time he learned the value of good roads after travelling over some of the highways in this state. He recalled an address made in Anniston in 1885, and said he was gratified to bet greeted by an audience today that much larger than that of twenty-five years ago. His first speech in Alabama was that made here in 1895, he said.
 There was a time,' the speaker said, when the democratic party was looked upon as the whisky party. That time has passed. Four southern states were the first to ratify the eighteenth amend ment, and four democratic states in the north followed soon after. The repub- licans and Wall street sought to brand the democratic party with the vile name of liquor, and now. after the demo- cratic party has succeeded in writing into the constitution the eighteenth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
NOT IN. TEN. YEARS HAS STATE SEEN so
 MUCH BITTERNESS
Continued from Page one)

Adoo have been entered in the list of candidates for delegates. Unlike other states Alabama will not express a choice in the primary Its delegates will go uninstructed and with the full right to support any candidate they choose on the floor uf the convention.
 One of the interesting contests for honorary party place about which has been said is that for democratic na- tional committeeman from Alabama to succeed A. G. Patterson. The candi- dates for this position are F. w. Bar rett- of Birmingham, editor of The Age-Herald, and W. T. Sanders an attorney of Athens.
 PATTERSON AND KENNEDY
 A. G. Patterson and Sam P. Ken nedy. candidates for president of the public service commission. have made q land shaking campaign throughout the state and both clam to be winners. Mere fire has been put into the Pat terson campaign due 10 the support of d large number of business men throughout the state who have made fight against MT. Kennedy the ground that during the time he has been president of the commission he has favored the corporations and has failed to fight for ths maintenance of state-made rates before the interstate colnmerce commission
 Mir. Kennedy has answered that he has done everything in his power to maintain the states rates and has fur nisned reports of his activities to show that he has not failed to repre- sent the people and shippers.
 Probably one of the most important charges made against Mir. Kennedy has been that he has not devoted much time to the work of the comm ission, bu; has given his attention to his pri- vate affairs while receiving salary of s3.500 from the state.
 MT. Kennedy has answered that he haa held more meetings of the com mis sion than have ever been held by his predecessors and that all businessH coming to the commis sion has beerF' looked after He has also contended that a majority of the matters com ing to the commission have been handled without the nc cessity for pGb- lie hearings.
 Reports would indicate that MT. Pat terson backed by the various factions primary Tuesday with an advantage over MT. Kennedy. The opposition has been unable to obtain any infor- nation detrimental to MT. Patterson. He has never held rublic office and the one charge against him has been that he was receiving the support or the state administrat on.
 WALLACE ELECTION ASSURED
 John H. Wallace, Jr.. generally IS expected to receive a large majority for reelection as state commissioners of conservation. Reports indicate that little opposition to him has developed. Mir. Wallace has made no campa .gn except through the mails He has been head of his department since it was created in 1907 and the general opin- ion in the state is that he should be cor tinued in the office. His opponent is A. l.. Kimbroigh. warden of con vict fam No. 4, who has been very active in making a campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
BEACH STEAMER TO PREVENT SINKING
 AFTER COLLISION
By Associated Press

New Orleans. May S.-The Mexican Fruit Companys steamer San Ramon, o9" tons, was rammed and badly dam aged at the Mandevilie dock late today by the tank steamer Dannedaik. 2.500 tons. owned by the Sugar Product Company. inbound from Cuba with a cargo of molasses.
 The San Ramon was cut loose from the dock and taken in tow by tug and beached in shallow water off Chalmette point to save it from sink- ing.
 The Dannedaik was coming up the river and in turnig to avoid running down a steamer of the United Fruit Company. backing in the stream, was caught in the current. due to the present high water in the Mississippi. and swept bow on into the San Ramon. lylng at the dock. A great gap was cut in the (sde of ths San Ramon and the dock demolished for a distance of 10G feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09

amendment forever safeguarding the homes of Americans against the destruc- tion and ruin of liquor. the same forces are at work to bring back whisky and the saloon.
 These forces have their supporters in the democratic ranks, and among them there is none greater than your senator. MT. Underwood. He has fought for the brewers of this country, neglecting the people whom he represents. Senator Un- derwood never voted for a referendum on the liquor question until that was brought up in Washington to decide whether the District of Columbia should by a popular vote settle the matter. He did not believe in the initiative and ref erendum for New York and other states. The right to get drunk was too sacred a privilege for the voters to decide upon, except in the District of Columbia.
 On the liquor question your senator stands with one-fourth of the democrats. He has made more trouble for the cause of prohibition than any other democrat in office. He belongs with such men as Senator Hitchcock of my own state and Senator Hardwicl1 of Georgia. Two of these have already been disposed of by the voters. and you are given the oppor- tunity to rid the party of the other.'
 The speaker declared that any man who wishes can get beverages of one half per cent alcoholic contents. The prohibitionsts do not want to take his alcohol from the thinker. he said, but de- sire only that he have it in a form that will not be harmful to him.
 "All we ask" he said, "is that if man wants a pint of alcohol, let him take it and mix 1t with 199 pints of water That will be nearly barrel full He cannot get drunk on that"
 Mir. Underwood is man of great per- sonal charm, the Commoner said. But a man of charm can do the people more harm than one who has less personal magnetism. he told the audience. The United States Senate has all the men of charm it needs, and there is also plenty or brains in the Senate, MT Bryan de- clared. What is needed there is men who have hearts, he said.
 If Senator Underwood is again elected a million dollars will be forthcoming from the brewery interests to carry the San Francisco convention for the vets, Mr Bryan told his hearers. But I will be there to protect the party from these in- ternecine forces,' he declared. My state has chosen me a delegates at large to the convention. I will be a member of the resolutions committee, and I will stand guard and say to the liquor inter- ests, They shall not pass"
 Referring to the race for the short term. Mir. Bryan said that former Gov ernor O'Neal has as bad a record in the state as MT. Underwood has in the Sem ate. He said that in his campaign for the governorship MT. o Neal promised the people he would not restore the saloon, but once he was elected he forget his promise and whisky was sold again. vote for O'Neal is a vote to ruin the home, he said. MT. O NeaPs platform has been loaned Senator Underwood in the latter's race he asserted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09

Bryan said. T am in a fight to save my
 party and to put a prohibition plank in
 the San Francisco platform. There's go-
 ing to be fight and I am going to be tEere on the committee on resolutions
 and every delegate to that convention has got to answer ''yes' or no on roll call
 on the question of prohibition. "O'Neal and Underwood stand for the
 same thing" he said, They want to bring back crime and misery to this country with my party.
 They shall never disgrace my party
 by making it the liquor party, and SdMR- tor Underwood has stood in the SeniA., Tor years as representative of the liquor interests. For ten years he has led the liquor traffic and it does not matter who or what a man is when it comes to thls question. If he was my worst enemy
 would vote for him ifAhe was dry in preference to my best friend if he were ! wet"
 No man has record more damning than Senator Underwood, he said, and Emmet O'Neal is what l would call an abridged edition of Senator Underwood. want the democratic party to sweep the country in November and do not want prohibition to be the issue, for
 there are other matters l want to see before the people,"
 He then spoke of the League of Ma
 tions and said that while Europe was racing chaos on one hand and return or monarchy on the other he believed this
 country should stand out and realize it's possibilities and lead the world. In conclusion he said:
 Vote for MT. Musgrove for first choice, as I believe he stands the bet ter chance of election, and vote for MT. Weakley for your second choice. In the short term race vote for Mir. White and
 other dry candidates. See to it that Ala
 bama, first to vote at the democratic convention, sends her delegates with the
 greatest of watchwords, they shall not
 pass"
 During MT. Bryans speech the lights
 were tampered with and several minutes he spoke in utter darkness until the lights were restored. His speech was interrupted for about fifteen minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
SAYS PROHIBITION IN-DANGER

Gadsden, May 8.-(Special) )-William J. Bryan, speaking before a capacity house tonight pillored Senator Oscar Un- derwood and Emmet ONeal in scathing denunciation of their anti-prohibition sen- timents and activities, announced that he believed in a League of Nations and that 1t ought to be established with the United States in it, concluding with the stste- ment. "I want plank in our platform at San Francisco that will drive every profiteer out of the democratic party and into the republican party and I want our party to win and put them in the peniten- tary."
 MT. Bryan based his right to come into Alabama at this time on the grounds that prohibition was in danger in the election of O'Neal and Underwood.
 Alabama has been entered from the outside by the liquor traffic and in any fight that effects my party I'll be there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
Escaped Murderer Is
 Surrounded By Posse
By Associated Press

Eufaula. Okla. May S.-Lester Clark. who escaped from the Mcintosh county jail here this morning after shooting to death the jailer, Jack Hunter. was reported late today surrounded by posse of 150 men in a thickly wooded section along the Canadian river. six miles southwest of here.
 Clark is an alleged draft evader and vas being held for federal officers from the state of Washington. He shot Hunter through the heart when the jailer opened the door of his cell to give him his breakfast.
 Clark is said to be armed with one or two automatic revolvers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
BAY ANNETTE TO GET
 BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL

Montgomery. May S-tSpecial.)-Bald- win County High School will be located at Bay Minette This announcement was made today by Spright Dowell. state su- perintendent of education, following an 'agreement between the state board of education and the citizens of Bay Mi rette. A building will be constructed which will meet the approval of. the state board and will cost not less than s40,oco. Ten acres of land in the heart of the town has been donated to the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
BRYAN VERY BITTER IN HIS ATTACKS ON
 OSCAR UNDERWOOD
Says Alabamian Is Most Dangerous Democratic Foe to Prohibition
 Cause
By JOHN B. FITZGERALD

Anniston. Ala. May S.-tspecial)- 7 Senator Oscar o. w. Underwood is and has been the most dangerous democrat ir public office to the prohibition laws of the country, >Wiiiam Jennings Bryan declared in an address this morning at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
For the Good of
 the Community

TSBirmingham an isolated community so auto A matically self-sufficient and sef-providing that 1t can afford to ignore the rest of the world in the matter of it's upkeep?
 Or is it city which lives on the money which it receives from afar for the products of it's mines, mills and manufactories?
 A ship has left or is about to leave the port of Mobile with 5000 tons of cast iron pipe made in works at Bessemer, Birmingham, Anniston and Chattanooga. It is the second cargo of the same size going the, same way within month. The destination is Pacific coast points via the Pan anna canal, return cargoes to consist of canned goods and the like from California The money we get for the pipe pays for the canned goods
 Very recently 800 tons of Birmingham water pipe went to Batavia, Java. Money received for this pipe will purchase Java coffee tea, sugar, indigo, cocoa.
 They are now loading at Jacksonville 5000 tons of cast iron pipe, manufactured at Birming- ham and Bessemer for Tolxio in Japan In re- turn for that S200,000 worth of converted Red Mountain ore and Jones Valley coal and lime stone Alabamians will be enabled to wear silk
 A lot of steel hoops and ties have been shipped to India. These products find their way to many foreign countries from which Alabamians re- ceive what they in turn require both in the way of luxury and necessity.
 The cotton ginning machinery built at East Birmingham and Avondale gins cotton wher- ever cotton is grown The Munger patent is as well known in Egypt and southern Russia as in Alabama and Texas.
 Four Birmingham m chine shops and structural steel works are sharing an enormous regular business with Cuba in the building of complete sugar mills house and machinery
 During the war France purchased hundreds of lathes from the Birmingham Machine & Foun- dry Company.
 A cargo of 1000 tons of Cahaba field and Cor ona coal leaves the port of Pensacola for Italy and France twice monthly. More would go but for the car shortage and the lack of coal storing devices at Pensacola Mobile and New Orleans
 The wire mill products of the Gulf States Steel go to as many as thirty-tWo different countries. %. L. Bum, general manager of the traffic bu- reau, said Birmingham shippers will be more than ever interested and more acutely feel the need of the Warrior for far afied movements when the increased rail freight rates are in op. eration, because the greater the rail rate the more desirable the 20per cent rail and water diff ferential via the Warrior
 The general sales agent the Gulf States Steel following personal and udious visit all principal cities declares that South American merchants have lots of wish purchase practically everything that made in the Birmingham district and especially seek DIRECT DEALINGS with man ufacturer.
 Birmingham has begun to think in of sips Birmingham steel composed the ship that carrying Birmingham steel products Rotterdam and that ship which is transport Birmingham steel shapes to Yokohama and other Japanese points,
 The vision of the Birmingham citizen which fails embrace
New-York tribune., 1920-10-02
Load-Line Bill May
Drop Coastwise Ships
Gommittee Urges Provisions
Apply Only to Vessels in
FOREIGN Trade

A step that viii probably facilitate
the passage of the loadline bill
through Congress was taken at meet
ing held in this city yesterday:
The bill was passed by the House at
fhe last session, but opposition was
met from the coastwise interests, who
objected to the application of an arbl-
trary loadlne for vessels in that trade
and the measure is still pending in
Senate committee. Meanwhile foreign
nations have been accepting certificates
kssued by classification societies here.
A general load-linc committee has
3been appointed by the Department. OF
Commerce, with Admiral Taylor chief
constructor of the navy. as chairman,
10 cooperate with naval architects, ship
operators and underwriters to investi-
gate the whole subject. Subcommittees
pave also been appointed for the At
tantic Coast and Gulf, the Pacific Coast
and the Great Lakes. The Atlantic
Coast and Gulf committee met ycster-
day at 1l3 Pearl Street under the
sehairmanship Of Professor George X.
MoDermott, of Cornell University.
1t was decided to recommend to the
fentral committee that the pending bill
'be amended so as to include American
vessels engaged in foreign trade only
This would temporarily eliminate
coastwlse vessels from the operation OF
the measure and thus end the opposi-
ton Of the coaStwise interests.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-02
Decision Reserved i'm
Brooklyn Gas Rate Case
Final Argument Made on the
Constitutionality of the
EightY.Ccnt Law

Judge Charles NJ. Hough, in the
United States District Court yester-
day, heard final argument on the re-
port of Gordon Auchinloss, special
master in the equity suit instituted by
the Kings County Lighting Company,
to have the state gas rate of 1906, as
amended in 1916, declared unconsti-
tutionai.
Samuel Moran, in behalf of the gas
company said that it supplies gas in
the Goth and 3lst Wards in Brooklyn,
and that since 1915 the consumption
of gas in that section has increased
100 per cent. He said that at the pres
ent time it cost the company not less
than S1.2o for 1000 cubic feet for gas
sold, without any return upon the capi-
tai employed. He is seeking to have
Public Service Commissioner Lewis
Nixon and State Attorney Charles D.
Newton cnjoincd from enforcing the
s0-cent gas rate law.
Deputy Attorney General Wilbur
Chambers objected to Auchinloss's re-
port and to the granting Of the injunc-
ton. He said that evidence on which
the special master based his report in
favor of the gas company was not
based on original data but on entries
made in books used only for the pur-
pose of the suit. He said that the
company had not supplied the twenty
two candle power gas required by law
and that it was therefor not entitled to
the relief it sought.
Judge Hough reserved decision
New-York tribune., 1920-10-02
shipping Board Orders
Charters Filed Here
J. > and Foreign Concerns
""s' Present Copies at the
New York Offices
- 80" ."e T''oNNe's Washington Burco,

,o" fhe T'f6aNes Washinofon g,..,,.
"AehiNGTON. Oct. 1.-The United
se"'es sh'rrmg Board to-day an
'. nouhceo that it has adopted a new
r"''ng requiring that copies or All
~l'e'S or contracts for carrying
"'soes made on all American and
~ st'e'Sn vessels hereafter be depos;ted
AZ 'he boards Offices. as Brnadwa,,
~" tI iork City. In it's announcement
IN order to accomplish further the
act ~'pVse ~ or the new merchant marine
No. ."e united States Shipping Board
Co.. @uopted a new ruling reouirinr
oepies ~ OF all charters or contracts NJ
a,,a seh'nent made on all American
cha ha .orelgn vessels to be filed with Tho
49, ring executive of the Shipnino
Oo"ra' .a1,a' 40 Broadway, New York Citv.
me Shipping Board has tho o.
tttpe'arion of the customs division ~
sne treasury Department. The nro.
eseu1re VIII be as follows: Two cert;-
Iu copies OF each charter made on all
o",pp'ng Board vessels, privately
az nto "a american and foreign vessels.
".v 70 DC Med with the charterinr ey,
cIa..vc ~ at New York, at which time tho
. ch.g hs,.ng executive will issue at once
"ato e"ar.er' ming certificate in dupli-
so1 :; sa'u certihcate showing that YES
cato =" oraer Tor clearance, and dupli-
rendered to the Collector at t;noe vas
sci applies for clearance
=. Inc former procedure of bav;nc
cnarters approved by the charterinr exs
bou1 tous've of the Shipping Board has
peen discontinued. nos
New-York tribune., 1920-10-02
Firms Hired to Wed Russians
Ruse Enables Women to Leave
the Country

NIRORG, Finland, Aug. '31.-Hiring
Finnish men to marry Russian women
to enable the latter to get out OF Rus
sia has become popular and lucra-
,iv, business in the border towns
south of Viborg The Firms exact a
high price, but the method is unfail-
ing.
1t makes a Finnish subject of the
woman and is recognized as lawful by
the two countries, which have assumed
diplomatic relations. Endless trouble
ensues, of course, if the woman thus
freed Of Russia refuses to part with
her pseudo husband.
These newly married couples come
ont of Russia into rajokc, the from
TIER town. not more than thirty miles
from Petrograd with the daily exodus
of Swedish and Finnish refugees