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New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
$500 Foot Parachute
Drop Lands Him in Tree
Lieutenant Black Tries Stunt
After Leaving Hospital just
10 Get Fresh Air

Lieutenant Edward c. Black, of the
army air service, who received severe
ourns few weeks ago while "bomb-
ing New York from an airplane, was
clScn rged yesterday from the hos
pital q Mitchell Field, l.. l. The doc
tor told him that when he had got
wnif of fresh air he'd be as good as
hev.
In pursuance Of this advice. Lieuten
ssnt Black got his friend Lieutenant
Lucas V. Beau to take him up $500
seet IN an airplane so he could step
or or into the fresh air with parachute.
he was whirling gaily earthward when
a cross s-current caught him at an alti-
woe Of 700 feet and blew him toward
the ocean.
- With an ambulance and Lieutenant
Seau's airplane in hot pursuit, Lieu
tenant Black drfted seaward. gradually
ascending Within sound of the
breakers the parachute eddied past
r,ee rree and the airman seized branch.
ihere ne dangled until the ambulance
caught up with him, fifteen minutes
ssate-, his tangled harness preventing
0'm from descending.
u, m as geod as new. Doc said
Black. "but Pm full up with fresh air,
fsnd ss,d If you've got ladder in your kit
Iii come down."
The doctor got a ladder.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Wife's Oriental Code
Delays Cruelty Charge
Appeals to Lax Marriage Laws
of West Only After Long
Abuse. She Saws

Mrs. Carolina Sodero, of 2276
Eightieth Street. Brooklyn, who began
action in the Supreme Court in that
borough yesterday for a separation
from Casar Sodero, asserted that she
would have done so long ago only for
the fact that she is an Oriental and
was RELUCTANT to take advantage of
what she regards as the lax marriage
laws of the Occident. She had been
treated cruelty for long time, she
added.
my husband was exceedingly jeal-
GUS" she said in her complaint, "and
his Jealousy took the form of untrue
accusations. These were accompanied
by terrible beatings, generally with a
cane. At other times he would throw
plates, cut glass. bric-a- -brac, or any
thing else that came to his hand.
Il was brought up in the Orient, and
we women there are educated not to
break home and family ties, no matter
what the provocation may be-"
Justice Van Siclen granted Mrs. So
dero $50 week alimony pending trial
of the action and $500 counsel fees.
Her husband is musician. They were
married in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1906
He denied Eer charges
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Effort to Carry
Fare Fight Into
Schools Halted
Petitions Circulated bv
''Welfare League Are
Found by Ettinger and
Are Ordered DESTROYED
City Officials ''Indorsers':
All but Hylan Repudiate
Docliment; ''Man's Bat
tie, La Cuardia Comment

DR.. William L. Ettnger. superin-
tendent of Schools, discovered vester-
day that an organization called the
Public Welfare League and Student
Aid Society had sent to the public
schools copies of a petition protesting
against the fare grab hill' and 'imme-
dlately notified all public school prin~
cipals to forbid its circulation among
their pupils.
Mrs. Rae Dymond, of 294 Montauk
Avenue, Brooklyn, secretary of the or
ganlzatlon, according to the informa ton
IN the petition, was not at home yes
terday. 1t was said that she was ir
Albany fighting the traction bills Four
Of the five public officials whose names
were appended to the petition as in
dorsers repudiated the document. The
nth was Mayor Hylan.
Assails "Traction Trust
Copies of the petition were mailed to
the principals several days ago. 1t is
addressed to the Legislature. and its
purpose is said to be "To prevent the
traction trust from raising car fares in
New York"
"We are against the fare grab bill"
part
1--WE, the undersi igned. students of
the seventh and eighth year of grammar
schools, and including all high school
students of New York, respectfully re
quest that the Legislature use all
proper means in its power to oppose
the passage and vote against the in
creased fare bill. By cooperating with
US you VIII OBTAIN your rights. Com
mlttee Secretary, Mrs. Rae Dymond,
294 Montauk Avenue, Brooklyn. n. "
Names affixed as indorsers are:
Hon. Mayor Hylan of New York
OF Board of Aldermen; Hon, H. John
son, United States Senator; Gustave
Straubenmuller, Associate City Super
intendent, Board of Education; Arthur
S. Somers, Board of Educatlon"
Reputation of the document was
forthcoming yesterday from all those
purported to have endorsed and ap-
proved" it, with the exception of Hon.
Mayor Hylan" Newspaper men who
communicated to the Mayors secre-
tary the substance of the petition were
informed that he was tied up"
Mans Fight" Says La Guardia
This rs not children's fight. it's
a mans fight" declaimed Mr.. La
Guardia. who called attention to the
fact that his initials were f. H, not
Hon. H."
Corporation Counsel O'Brien said he
was quite certain that Senator John
son knew nothing of the petition Sen
ator Johnson was not in the city when
the petitions were sent out
At the Office of Superintendent
Ettinger It was made known that AS
sociate uperintendent Straubenmullel
and Mr.. Somers denied all knowledge
of it.
Most school principals, it was learned
had thrown the petition in the waste
basket even before they heard from
the superintendent
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Norwegian Steamship Hauled
Off Mud Flats Continues Trim

The Norwegian American liner Sta
vangerfJ ORD, which went ashore on the
mud flats off Red Hook. on the Brook
lyn shore. yesterday. was hauled into
deep water later in the day and pro-
ceeded on her Nay to Bergen, Norway.
The vessel, which carried 225 passen-
gers, worked on to the shoal while NOV
ing out of her pier. Captain Irgens
assured his passengers that there was
no danger and that the vessel would be
hoated at the next high tide When re-
leased from the mud d p m survey
showed that she was not damaged, and
she proceeded on her course, passing
out the Narrows at 6 20 p. m.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
" Woman Kills # Children.
Wounds 3; Ends Life

LOWELL, Wyo.. March ll.-Mrs
James Waters. wife of prominent
ragcher in the Big Horn BASIN, last
night shot and killed three, Of her chill
dren, wounded three others, one NOR
tally. and, reloadtnc the revolver, killed
herself.
One of the wounded CHILDREN died
this morning. The other two will live.
according to physicians.
MIS-. Watters's husband was visiting
neighbor when the tragedy occurred.
The children, whose ages ranged from
five to twelve years, were in bed at the
time.
When the husband returned home,
shortly before midnight, he found all
doors to the house locked and all win
dow shades drawn. Mrs. Waters fired
nine bullets, according to officers
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Fights for Pickford Decree
Film Stars Attorney Insists Di-
vorce Was Beyond Attack

MINDEN, New, March 11.-District
Judge Frank P. Langan has under con
deration to-day a brief filed by Mary
Pichford's attorney which contends
that the Attorney General of Nevada
was without authority when he filed
IN action to have set aside the divorce
granted to Mary Pickford from Owen
Moore.
The brief contended that the state
was represented at the trial by the
court and that the courts action !.
granting the decree was conclusive
and final The brief also said that the
Attorney General had failed to disclose
anything in the Nevada laws counte-
nancing the theory that the Attorney
General had the right to review di-
vOrce cases.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Hamon Left 81, 200, 600:
WidosU. Children Get All

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. March II
Jake L. Hamon had net estate in
Oklahoma Of approximately s1,200,000.
debts and inheritance tax deducted. ac-
cording to the report Of y. ". Gore
Assistant State Auditor. which was
made public to-day
Mrs. Jake Hamon and the two chill
dren received 100000 each from the
estate in Oklahoma. the report shows.
Outstanding debts were 1857 1851.
and the inheritance tax on the estate
was s42. 900, according TO the report.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Baseball and Ice >
Ameyica's Greatest
Institutions .

Lives there a fan with ear SC
dull,
Who cannot hear, whilst here
the lull,
Babe Ruth, in Shreveport, srnite
the hide
So far he doesn't have to slide;
And ear attuned, who hearetll
not, j..
AS crowds stream in the Polo
lot,
The Stevens horde, with ice
cooled pail
Cry out their pop and ginger
ale?
Be sure tie ice for your ''bucher" is
pure knickerboCker Ice--made from fl
tered zcafer-deirvered IN dean a.aqo7s
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Ex-Empress Suffers Relapse
When Told of Brothers Death

DOORN, Holland, March 11.-When
former Empress Augusta Victoria os
Germany was apprised to-day of the
oeath of her brother, Duke Ernst
Gunther of Schleswig H Holstein, she
suffered another severe heart attack
The physician attending the former
Empress considered her condition at
the time of the dukes death, late in
February, too serious to permit her to
be informed of it
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Jew Heads London Council

LONDON, March II (Jewsh Tele-
graphic Agency - Major Percy Sim
mons, noted as a municipal reformer,
has been elected chairman of the Lon
don County Council. This is the first
time a Jew has been elected to the
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

ject Of much of the testimony In the
presence of the jury. Clare Smith
Hanion rearranged the furniture as
il had been on the day Hamon was
shot.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
II. E. Bursum to Succeed Fall

ALBUQUERQUE n. NJ. March H.
anvernor tbs. I Meehem announced today
ssnited States Senator, TO succeed A. b.
rail-. Bursum is Republican national
COMMITTEEMAN for New Mexico. His
nome is in Socorro.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
.AcxNzaM aMIAassteH
POOR RICHARDS DAY

From the New York Herald.
 The Sons of the Revolution have set about to make a holiday of Franklin's birthday. The governors of the states are to be petitioned for that purpose. No one will gainsay that the day which cradled Franklin, January IT, 1706, is one to be remembered.
 It is awkward, however, that the great n- ventor, philosopher, statesman and patriot was born in midwnter. The season is already well sprinkled with holidays If he had seen the light in April or August the temptation to celebrate the event on links and tennis courts would be irresistible But that would be showing fn- appropriate regard for Franklin, whose extreme sporting dissipation was evening of chess, and even that gave him qualm of conscience over wasted time.
 Here is thought Make January IT the kind of holiday that would have suited Benjamin himself. Let everybody work double or triple time, wear old clothes, put couple of dollars in the bank and mediate prayerfully on his personal shortcomings. That would be a true holiday la Poor Richard it would be much honored in the breach, probably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
WORLDS MOST POPULAR WOMAN

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 Easily the most popular woman in the world, if one may trust the consensus of European opinion, is the beautiful Rance of Pudukottai. Royelty elsewhere may have been shorn of much of its pristine glory-not so in this province of Madras.
 The 100000 natives of Pudukottai are deso- late because their fair ruler apparently prefers the gay French resort of Cannes to her home in India.
 Recently petition, signed by thousands of her loyal subjects, was addressed to the Rance, imploring her to forsake the gayeties of France and return to them.
 The natives beg their gracious ruler to "lend the beauty of her countenance to Pudukottai so that it may no longer be forlorn." In support cf their plea they urge that "even the moon and stars are weeping for the return of their sister, the beautiful Ranee."
 Before her marriage to the rajah six years ago the Rance was Miss Fink, daughter of an Australian banker. Her honeymoon with the rajah was a triumphal progress around the world, in course of which they visited San Fran cisco. The charming Melbourne girl, who is well remembered here, certainly seems to have won the hearts of her subjects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
QUIET CHRISTMAS

"The past Christmas the quetest in the history of Birmingham, according to records at the city jal,' said Chief of Police Fred McDuff, land think the fewest arrests ever made at this time or the year were made. While every one seemed to have good time there were comparatively few law violators, which is a splendid recommendation for this city. Talks were arranged for our patrolmen before they went on duty and Dr. J. A. Bryan, Dr. w. R. Hendrix and Dr. Robert N. Simpson talked to the different shifts as they went duty. Com missioner W. B. Cloe of public safety de- lighted over the orderly manner in which Christmas was observed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28

rejected design doubtless thought it properly represented the spirit of the times, it is bit too early to advertise to all and sundry that the sword is broken, It may be dinted, it may not be as brightly furnished, nor as handsome in hilt and scabbard as it was when the Ger mans were shouting the Teutonic equivalent of "On to Paris" but it is not broken. There is, in fact, disposition in some quarters to sharpen the old blade and lay it by for future use.
 In time the sword, which is only a symbol and has no practical value in modern warfare will be discarded, as symbol, along with battleships, submarines and poison gas, but that happy era has not arrived yet and while are hoping for the best, it is wise not to stamp misleading designs our silver dollars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
TAXES ARE DUE

"only few more days remain in which prop erty owners may make payments of their taxes and avoid the penalty which goes into effect at midnight Saturday" said James F. Hawkins, tax collector for Jefferson county, yesterday.
 Most of the big taxes will probably be paid within the next few days. only about 50 per cent of the $7,000,0 ,000 due having been paid to date. However, we expect to receive the major portion of this amount before the last day of the year expires, as many of the large corpora tions wait until the last day before mailing their checks On the last day of last year the office received approximately $1500,000 in taxes.
 Most of the public utilities of the district yet to make their payments. Approximately $500 ,000 is due from these companies alone, of which little more than fourth has been paid so far, but we will undoubtedly receive this amount in full before the expiration of the pe- riod of grace, as the extra penalty imposed for delinquency amounts to something in the case of amounts as large this"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
APPRECIATES VISIT HERE

q glad to get chance to look over a great industrial city like Birmingham" says J. P. Montgomery, land so when my brother, W. A. Montgomery, who lives here, invited me over for the Christmas holidays I accepted with pleasure. I am head agriculturist in the Pinoa A. c. R. High school, the government and the state putting up fifty-ffty on my salary. It is a Smith-Lever school, which means it is open the year round. It is situated in country where the brown loam lands predominate, and being broken just at present much is being done in the way of terracing. have to give at least 65 days of extension work during the 12 months In my trips I always take along lot of boys from the school so that they may get practical experience. Being graduate of the Agricultural and Mechanical college, I am licensed to conduct register of merit milk tests, and this gives chance to instruct my boys in dairying"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
NEW SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
 ARE ATTRACTIVE

The new treasury savings certificates issued in denominations of $25, $1OO and $1,o00, are attractive investments. They are sold at $20, $50 and $500, run for five years and will yield interest at the rate of 1-2 per cent compound ed semi-annually. Their additional attraction is that they are redeemable at any time be- fore maturity and in that case yield about 1-2 per cent interest.
 Here is fine investment security yielding good interest rate and at the same time so elastic that the owner, if pressed for cash, will not be forced to sell it to broker at discount. Uncle Sam will pay him back his money on demand with 1-2 per cent interest
 These treasury certificates have been so cor related with the other forms of postal savings that the smaller amounts created by postal saw ings and the purchase of $1 treAsury savings stamps may be converted into them.
 The certificates have been placed at the post offices and are available to the public, They ought to prove very popular with men and women of small means desirous of a safe in- yestment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

'The Christmas spirit has been universal in Bessemer the past week." said Mrs. J. Fred Robertson. "The Saturday Christmas tree at the Elks' ball, from early morn until late into the night, dispensed at least $1,50o worth of food, warm sweaters and flannel underwear.
 "It is wonderful to give of one's means, to feel ones spinal cord quiver, ones heart aglow, one,s tears to start at the picture of gratitude from the poor-deservng and otherwise. But the charity that investigates the individual case and starts man or woman, boy or girl, on the road to independence and sef-respect, beats them all.
 "Such seemed the spirit of the men and wom- en who worked with the Elks, the real con- munity spirit of good will cheer and universal friendliness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
RELATIONS OF PIG IRON
 AND IRON PIPE

It was cheering to be able to record the Sheffield after months of idleness and the movement of more than 5000 tons of cast iron pipe to the Pacific coast cities via Mobile. Pig irons greatest friend is pipe, because more iron goes into pipe than into any other field of con sumption.
 The Age-Herald understands the relations between pig iron and pipe and between pig iron and steel products, the relation between raw materials and the finished product It knows that they depend on one another. The pipe maker, who in communication in Mon days Age-Herald, suggested that this paper is inclined to ''boost" pig iron more than pipe is in error. The Age-Herald knows no favorites and avoids playing one industry against an- other.
 So far as cast iron pipe is concerned, The Age Herald has had more to say about it this year than about pig iron, because pipe has been going in quantities to the Pacific coast, while pig iron has been slow-moving and went to a new level of production in July.
 Both pipe and pig iron have had rough sled ding this year in the tremendous decline Tn prices. Iron that sold at SAP is bringing SIT. High pressure pipe that sold at STA is bringing $34 Sanitary pipe that was bringing s100 is selling at $40. sIt has not been easy to adjust overhead expenses to the declining prices, no easier for the pipe than the iron producer, and vice versa. Steel mills have gone through the same trying times.
 It has been doubly satisfactory to chronicle the simultaneous blowing in of an idle blast furnace that makes pig iron for pipe and the shipment of large tonnage of pipe made from the iron. Each hamburger of better times in 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
M EN, WO M EN
 A N D T HIN c $

Monday night the chimes were distinctly heard at my home in Forest Park, on the hill which adjoins Mountain Terrace, distance of at least two miles from the Highlands Methodist church.
 It brought to me memories of my boyhood days, for Christmas morning when lad, awoke in the Charng Cross hotel London, to the melody of tuneful bells, and at the time it seemed to me about the most beautiful music had ever heard.
 | Birmingham is indeed fortunate to have set of chimes tuned so that while not being too noisy for the near by ones, yet are clear enough to be heard for some miles around. The donor, whoever he or she may be, certainly has added to the pleasure of many and given distinction to the entire city by their timely gift
 The history of chimes is an interesting one, but it is not my purpose to even here and now outline the story, for it would take my readers too far afield. Latin students will remember the lines in Virgil's Georgics and those not fa- miliar with the dead language will recall Dry den's translation:
 With lifted arms they order every blow
 And chime their sounding hammers in row"
 Buying for this Christmas a set of Groves Dictionary of Music I find the following: "A bell is said to be chimed when she is swung through the smallest part of circle possible so as to make the clapper strike; or when sepa- rate hammer is fixed apart from her and she is struck by it." The information was what was looking for but it was surprise to me to learn that bell was referred to as "she." It seems rather g reflection on the female sex to make "her" out of bell because the tongue" is the most important part about it.
 There a confusion in the minds of some between carillons and chimes. When the bells stationary and are struck by ham mers instead of tongues the set is more prop erly called carillon. Carillons sometimes con- sst of from 40 to 50 bells the smaller bells rising in chromatic succession while the larger generally limited to such fundamental passes the tonic, dominant and subdominant. chime is a set of bells so arranged and tuned as to produce musical intervals melo- dies when struck rung successively. The set of bells is commonly called chimes. They are usually hung in the tower of a church and properly number from five to twelve. Long fellow has the beautiful and suggestive line, ''Wth their strange, unearthly changes, rang the melancholy chimes, in his Belfry of Bruges; and Shakespeare, who never overlooked any thing in Henry w, says "We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow"
 And Birmingham has a wonderful set given by no one knows who in honor of the memory of beloved Bishop Mccoy, the sanctity of whose life will in the years to come be membered in the purity of the bells they wait over the Magic City their message of cheer tuned to the old gospel hymns which he loved so well. Many tired man and discour- aged hearing them will think of him and be heartened for life's duties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-28
PARASITES OF THE MOVIES

From the New York Times.
 D. W. Griffith has a grievance against certain kind of competitors-he calls them "leeches upon the industry" and "feeders on the mother film" The epithets are suggestive When ambitious manager takes up a popu- lar success of the past, lavishing his resources upon creating and advertising his production these parasites rush in with mediocre produc- tions and reap harvest not of their own sow ing. Thus MT. Griffith, in order to protect himself and his public has been obliged to re- name his version of "The Two Orphans" calling it Orphans of the Storm" The d'Artagnan of Douglas Fairbanks had similar crop of rivals, the "Three Musketeers'' becoming some dozens.
 When MT. Griffith urges that continuance of this practice will prevent the featuring of "the old classics" his case is more questionable. It may be doubted whether any one, least of all the rank and file of movie audiences, is deeply concerned that the classics shall be flea tured.' It being reduced to dumb show they in- evitably suffer a sea change which is soma- times undeniably rich, but is always lamentably strange. The adorably romantic and boyisa d'Artagnan becomes, so to speak, Douglas Fair banks. There is one glory of the drama and another glory of the novel, and the place for both is where one can hear the masters lines or read them.
 MT. Griffith is on frmer ground when he pleads the ethics of his profession. Deception never benefits the public" This is fact of which the public is thoroughly aware If thee cheat me once," said the Quaker "it is thy fault; if thee cheat me twice it is my own.' The industry that is a prey to leeches will, drop by drop, he bled dry Even the most exuber- ant mother film should have the privilege of feeding only her own children. Peculiarly per tinent is Mr. Griffiths remark that, especially at this time," the industry of those who profess to amuse the public should be sensitive to sug- gestions for betterment."