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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-06
FAVORABLE REPORTS ON TWO AMENDMENT
 BILLS ARE GIVEN
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censes to the use of the highway department in the construction of public roads and highways and in ad- dition makes a special appropriation of s5o.000 from the convict funds. There is proviso which will reduce in the same amount as is received by the highway department from oth-, CT funds.
 Convict Labor Provision
 Permission also Is given by the bill for the use of convict labor in the construction of public roads and bridges in any county in Alabama. The constitutional amendment pfo- posed in the first of the companion measures is further reinforced by the declaration in the act that the high way commission must spend at least s250,o 900 of the bond issue in the con- struction of roads and bridges in ev- cry county.
 The provision of the present law. which requires the construction of roads which connect county seats with county seats. is carried into the new act
 In addition, the bill accepts the fed eral appropriation for public road and bridge construction work and as- sents to all provisions which are made by the federal Congress.
 The third bill creates state bond commission which will be charged with the duty of arranging for the sale of the bonds. This commission will be composed of the governor the chairman of the highway commis- sion and the attorney general and all members will serve in this ex-officio capacity without extra compensation This bill will not become effective until the voters have ratified the con- stituticnal amendment, which will permit the sale of the bonds.
 Brief House Session
 The house was in session only three quarters of an hour Wednesday afternoon. No bills appeared on the calendar. but committee reports were received. which will place the meas ures before the house for final action Thursday,
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marked decrease in the number of cases.
 "Don't you believe for time pro. hibition law violations will continue to increase" Inquired Senator Ster- ling, republican, South Dakota, who has been pressing for an early vote in the Senate on the anti-beer bill.
 No I don't" the Attorney General replied. He predicted, however. that civil cases would continue to in- crease in number. repairing services of additional judges.
 Advocating creation of IS judge ships, Judge John E.. Slater of Co., lumbus O.. member of the commit tee, which studied the needs of the federal Judiciary, said cour. conges- ton was resulting in great delay in hearing of cases
 'sThe longer cases are put off. the fewer convictions are obtained" he said, adding that under the present law no method existed flor mobiliz- ing the countrys judicial force for the clearing up of the mass of court busi- ness anywhere but in the southern New York district"
 Judge John c. Pollock of Kansas City informed the committee that ap- proxirnately 150000 cases were pend ing in various federal courts. He pre- dicted court congestion In New York would not be relieved for 10 years and Chicago for five years.
 Tt is a denial of justice" he de- clared, when a man, thrown In jail. can't get a trial for six months or year, or where a civil case Is not set tied for four or five years"
 Others who participated in the dis cussion before the committee were Judge W. I. Grubb of Montgomery, and William H. Haywood, of New York, and Charles F. Clyne of Chica- go. Chairman Nelson announced he would appoint a subcommittee to hold further hearings.
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SECOND ASSEMBLY. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
 COMES ID A CLOSE.
Net Results Apparently Give General Satisfaction, and Intermediate Results
 Are Compromise
By Associated Press

Geneva, October 1.-The second as- sembly of the League of Nations ad- journed at 6 o'clock tonight after re- electing Brazil, Belgium. China and Spain the four temperament mem- bers of the council.
 President Van Karnebeek, summing up the work of the session, said that those who had expected from the league miracles that would trans form the world sucGenfy into q para disc would be disappointed, but pes simists who had predicted dissolution of the league would be confounded by the result of the work accomplished He dwelt upon the importance of the international court of justice and also upon the various technical or ganizations set up by the assembly as real progress toward the kind of in ternationalism the league was or ganized to bring about.
 Opinions of a majority of the dele cations regarding the work of the league are divided, but the net results apparently give general satisfaction. The assembly has done less than ar dent league members like Lord Rob- ert Cecil thought 1t ought to do, but more than conservative delegates, such as A. J. Belfour. believed it could do. The intermediate results are regarded as a satisfactory com promise by both groups.
 Attitude of Delegates
 The attitude of the delegates to- ward the Washington conference on limitation of armaments varies ac- cording to the Mutation of the diff ferent countries. The small states say that 1t is for the large nations to make beginning in this direc- tion; hence Washington is the proper place for such g beginning, since there all the greatest armed nations will be gathered together. There is also considerable skepticism, but most of the delegates are hopeful. The delegates of the nations more or less directly interested in the results of the conference are reticeut. In some of the delegations the idea prevails that as an outcome of the Washing ton conference some International or ganization may be formed which would be apart from the League oi
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ships should be created, although as a temporary relief measure IS would suffice.
 Commenting on prohibition law vio lations and the part they have played in increasing federal court business, the attorney general said he did not agree that the prohibition law con- tribGted to the cong estion, to federal court dockets to the extent the pub lie has been led to believe."
 T think the peak in the number of cases growing out of violations of the Volstead act has been reached" said MT. Daugherty, adding that when the public realized the law was going to be enforced, there would be a
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Representative Alexander ol reiis offered a resolution which called TOT the recess of the legislature uhtii November 1, after the highway, poll tax and port amendments hao been acted upon. However. the house ue- clined to suspend the rules TOT .ne consideration of the resolution anu IL was referred to the rules commit tee.
 Representative J. Lee Long, spoNes, man in the house for the Taxpayers league. said he regretted to oppose the resolution, but under an agree ment of members who desire changes in the tax laws he would be forced 10 oppose any measure until some actlon is taken to relieve the taxpayers oi what he called their burden. lie saio certain members were pledged to firht all bills until there Is some thing done to abolish the tax ao- juster. ,..+iva Eaul,, who was detained because oi illness. MT. Long offered resolution calling upon the Alabama members of Congress to do everything in their power to bring about some interna tional- for disarmamen. This resolution was adopted withou. a dissenting vote of the house atter rules had been suspended.
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Nations as at present constituted. Some apprehension Is expressed over the possibility of such a rival or ganization.
 The question of the registration of treaties as provided for by Article XVIII of the covenant, which it is proposed to amend. has been post poned until the next meeting.
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PROHIBITION FAILS TO PUT STOP TO
 LAW VIOLATION
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the committee, which would author ize creation of IS Judgeships. two to be assigned as judges in each of the nine districts. These judges, he said. should be able to make a great hole in our overloaded dockets."
 Power in Community
 With chuckle the chief Justice re- marked that a district judge is a power in his community"
 "He Is apt to become a bit indif- ferent." he declared and to think people are made for courts. not courts for the people,
 With a comment that after all judges are human the chief justice said there was need for annual su pervision of their court activities Legislation before the committee which the chief justice approved would provide for the annual meet ing of the nine senior federal circuit judges with the chief justice and At torney General, at which reports would be made as to the state or court business in each circuit.
 The chief justice said he did not appear before the committee as spokesman for justices of the su- preme court. but solely to outline ms personal views.
 Attorney General Daugherty. de clarnng the county probably mas neglected the federal Judiciary more than any other branch of the govern meut," said he was convinced the plan for creation of IS additloha' federal district judges was the liiose economic, practical and immediate that Congress could accept. Event ually, he said, 30 additional judge
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Relieves W ROOFING COUCH

The old notion that whooping cough must run it's course is pass ing out. People now- adays know that L~V, promptly used, saves the child weeks of suf- fering.
 This letter from MT. R. H. Arnold, 449 N. Garlan d, Memphis, Tenn, shows what you can expect from the use of L-V:
 "I am pleased to tell you I used L-V for whooping cough with my children and it worked like a charm. : In just three or four days the whoop was gone and in a short time the cough left. Recovery and recupera- tion was rapid, and in a short time they were even healthier and stronger than be- fore contracting this disease !"
 Most good druggists handle L-V-ask yours
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- THE WEATHER
By Associatec Press

Washington, October 5.-Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi: Fair Thursday and Friday.
 Georgia: Fair Thursday and Fri day; warmer Thursday
 Tennessee: Warmer Thursday.
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EASTLAKE THINKS
 WIFE KILLED BY
 MISS SARAH KNOX
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OhC thorities at Colonial Beach and Fred ericksburg, it Is said, had made little either, contentlng themselves with gathering evidence upon which to base their case. It was different however, after they arrived in Rich mond, and neither made any effort to conceal their fright, the woman. though, bearing up far better than the man.
 Eastlake was in a pitiable condi- tion when he emerged from the room in which he had been grilled by Ser geant Toler, his knees sagging and his voice trembling appealingly when he was able to speak at all. The ac. cused nurse, however, was as defiant as ever and gave what Sergeant Toler pronounced as the most remarkable exhibition of nerve" that he had ever experienced In all his police career. Her eyes blazed with anger and, whenever she was questioned by Toler. the tone in which she replied as well as her facial expression, plainly indicated that she viewed him as her arch enemy. But Eastlake was meek, wore a hang dog expression and weakly answered all questions.
 Why do you think Miss Knox had any reason to be- jealous of your wife?' Sergeant Toler asked East lake.
 In Love With Him
 s-4Well," replied the prisoner, "she was head qver heels iu love with me, and l was married and that made her jealous of my wife, suppose"
 ''As 8 matter of fact, Eastlake, don't you know that this Knox wom- an killed your wife and that you were present when the deed was done"
 The murder was comitted, all right and I think the Knox woman killed my wife" the former navy man responded, but I have no personal knowledge of who did it.
 Were you In love with Miss Knox?' asked Sergeant Toler.
 NO, sir" said Eastlake q was In love with my wife, and I had been trying to get rid of her ever since last June. But she bounded me. She threatened me with exposure. I owed her S550 and my wife owed her S100. But l was trying to break away from her and letters l wrote her and that she wrote me will prove it. I had known her fiveyears. She often lent me money"
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Carnotite ore. from which radium is produced in this country. is ob- tained from a desolate mountainous region of Colorado and Utah. scores of miles from railroad.s A gram of radium Is obtained from 800 to 600 tons of ore.
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British college has recently com nleted an industrial chemical lao- .oratory in which medium scale man ufacturing operations will be con ductad not in the usual glass appa- ratus of the laboratory, but in metal apparatus such as is used In prac- tical plants.
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waterspout recently measured from a British ship in the Indian ocean was 4,600 feet high to the base of the overlying cloud. The column tapered from 800 feet wide at the Junction with the cloud to 15O feet wide at the sea.
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, John Harrison. the inventor of the marine chronometer, received re ward of 10000 pounds from the Brit
 ish government for his inven tien.
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prime necessaries. No other substance has been found that is equally suitable for money. Nearly all of the worlds coined gold is locked up in vaults for use only as Q basis for paper currency, but silver circulates everywhere.
 The silver is made into bricks, known commercially as bars" of 1000 to 1,200 ounces, each one being stamped with figures indicating it's weight and "fineness''-i. e., degree of purity. These figures are always abso- lutely reliable (the credit of the re- finer being back of them), and on that basis they are bought and sold.
 Nearly all of Mexico's output of sil- yer comes to market in this country. mostly in the shape of ores, which can. be refined here more economically. The bars we export are known on the London market as "cake" silver. Thence great quantities of the metal are shipped to India and China. In the latter country the bars are chopped into pieces, called "taels," which circulate as money, by weight
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There is an odd sort of affinity be- tween silver and gold, They go to- gether. Never is there an important deposit of silver that does not contain some gold. The famous Comstocl1 silver lode, in Nevada, has yielded great quantities of gold.
 For the matter of that, however, sil- yer seems to be on very friendly terms with other metals. Our leading silver State. Montana, obtains two-thirds of it's silver as a by-product of copper re- fining. Utah and Idaho get most of their silver from lead and lead d-zinc ores.
 Peru and Chile produce, from mines in the Andes plateau, a great deal of silver but Bolivia is far ahead of any other South American country in the quantity of its output. Canada did not contribute much until. only few years ago, the Cobalt deposits were discovered. From that source during the present year about 3O,OO0, 900 ounces will be derived
 Millions From One Vein
 Much of the ore in the Cobalt dis trict averages $500 in silver to the ton One vein, 12 inches wide and 2S6 feet long, but of great depth, yielded no less than 10, 100000 ounces!
 Production on such a scale seems well-nigh fabulous. But it is conserva- lively estimated that Mexico since the year 1521 has produced more than five billion ounces of silver. The owner of the famous Quintera mine, in the Al amos district, on the occasion of his daughters marriage lined the bridal chamber in his palacio with silver bars, and paved the road from his house to the church with bricks of the same precious material. Before the confiscation of ecclesiastical wealth in that country Following the over
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dooryard 10 draw water. and let the bucket go down "by the run" Look ing after it, she saw to her astonish- ment, that there was no water in the well; noting but a black chasm, in which dangled the bucket.
 Rushing back to the house. she cried: What did [ tell you? I knew the men who dug that well were talk ing no pains with their work"
 What is the matter?" asked her husband.
 Matter? Matter enough. The bot tom has dropped out of the we'll"
 Bottom dropped outl" exclaimed her spouse.
 Yes; and Pm not one bit surprised. I knew when saw the men putting the bottom in the we'll that 1t would never be of any account"
 Silver Nuggets Non-existent
 One occasionally reads of the find ing of a big nugget of silver. But there is no such thing. The metal is found native" and pure in only one form that of wire silver" which curiously resembles fine wires tangled together. Often it looks like moss. Sometimes it occurs in considerable masses, the minerals with which it was originally associated having been dissolved out and washed away
 Silver is so extremely ductiIe that an ounce of 1t can be drawn into a wire three miles long. It Is better conductor of electricity than copper by 25 per cent.
 Egg-yolk contains an appreciable quantity of sulphur. mineral which readily combines chemically with silver. When ones egg spoon turns black 1t is because a thin outer film of the metal has been converted into sulphlde. Silver has also an affinity for oxygen, and hence readily tarnishes; but the so-called "oxidized silver" ia really nothing of the sort. It has a coat of eopper-silver alloy deposited on it's surface.
 This inclination of silver to combine chemically with other clements ac- counts for the fact that the white metal, as it occurs ordinarily in na- ture, is unattractive to the eye. The silver ore of the Comstock Lode was at first rejected by the miners (who were looking for gold) as an '1nfernal blue sand" supposed to have no value whatever.
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throw of Spain's authority), the walls of many of the churches were covered with sheets of pure silver and the altar railfngs were made of it.
 The greatest find" of silver ever made was the celebrated Big Bonanza, solid mass of ore, nearly half silver, 800 feet wide. extending across the Comstock Lode. Ut seemed to go down into the very bowels of the earth; and to this day no bottom to it has been found, or is likely ever to be found, for the simple reason that the heat at depth of 1,500 feet or so is so great as to defy further exploration. Men working there can do so only with the help of continual shower of cold water from above.
 In 1492 (the year of the discovery of America), the worlds total production of silver was only 1,511,050 ounces In 1901 1t was 2S,746,922 ounces. In 1861 1t was 40,401,5S3 ounces. In 1875 it was over 6S,O00,000 ounces. Then came a great rise in production, the output in 1895 passing the mark of 15O, ,0Oo,O00 ounces.
 Indispensable As A Money Metal
 Silver has become one of the worlds
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ing the fact that the metal has today a commercial value of only 56 cents an ounce. Up to date it has purchased 5,000,000 ounces at dollar.
 The cost of mining silver is so high at present, however, that most of the mines have been closed down. To produce 1t even at dollar an ounce most of our silver is a by-product of copper mining, and the price of cop per is very low.
 These conditions are temporary The low price Of silver in the open market is largely due to slack trade between India and China and other countries When 1t wakes up, silver will rise.
 Our Rocky Mountain system is con- tinued by the Sierra Madre through Mexico, and by the chain of the Andes to- Cape Horn. This backbone of the continent throughout it's length is full of silver. It contains supplies of the metal that can never be exhausted
 Silver Clike gold) seems to be a volcanic product, At all events, it was originally dissolved in solutions which were belched up hot from the bowels of the earth. AS these solutions, per colating through rocks, cooled, the metal was deposited in cracks and cavities-not, of course, in a pure state, but mixed with other materials. Sometimes it Is found mixed with cop per, sometimes with lead, sometimes with zinc, sometimes with sulphur Gas a sulphide), and sometimes Gas in the wonderful deposits of the Cobalt Dis trict, in Ontario). with arsenic.
 Curiously enough, there is always about ten times as much silver in the world as gold. Ten times as much of it is taken out of the ground and ten times as much is at present in the possession of mankind.
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Rooms Filled With Silver

Now and then a lucky prospector strikes big chamber" of silver ore. Once it was a cavity in the rock, and in the course of ages percolating water has brought the metal thither bit by bit dropping 1t, so that the hole is filled with the precious stuff. A stroke with the pick, and To! a room full of silver. One such chamber in the Eureka Consolidated mine (Nevada) [, few years ago, yielded $16, 900.
 Some of the ore bodies struck at Creede and Aspen (Colorado), were even richer than the Big Bonanza. For instance the Molly Gibson mine yield ed a good deal of material worth 12.- 900 to the ton. When it is considered that a ton of ore is represented by only 3 cubic feet, one gets notion of the high concentration of silver wealth.
 story is told, by the way. of young matron's adventure In Virginia City, which town is built directly over the mines of the Comstock Lode. One morning She went to the well in her
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where he represented Australia in swimming, diving, boxing, football and phases of horsemanship and skill with the sword.
 His entry into pictures marks the departure from Australia of one of its foremost ranch owners. He is fancier and breeder of blooded horses and the proprietor of thousands of acres in the celebrated bush country where he raises cattle and sheep.
 Snowy Bakers famous thoroughbred Arabian horse, Boomerang, will support his master in pictures. Boomerang is noted for his great speed and his remarkable skill at jumping. With his owner riding, the high-spirlted animal