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, 1922-06-21
S. Completes
Record Fleet

yards were requisitioned by the gov
eminent. The wood ship program had
reached a total of 1,0l7 boats at the
time building was reduced. OF this
number 42S were subsequently cam
celed, 474 completed and lis partially
completed.
When the Emergency Fleet corpora
tion adopted the plan of building fab
ricated ships and awarded contracts
for a total of 800 of 2.675,OOO tons.
doubs was expressed as to the success
Of this type of construction, which
was a radical change from the accept
ed methods. 1t was recognized, how
ever. that by having the hull steel
fabricated at bridge inc structural
shops throughout the country and
then assembled at the shipyards. a
considerable expansion of the ship
building industry was possible. The
experiment proved to be successful.
To the Atlantic coast goes the dis
tinction of having turned out the
greatest number of ships n the
largest volume of tonnage. On this
coast were built S4S vessels of $685.
1SS tons. The Pacific coast was. sec
ond with T59 ships of 5,254,150 tons.
The Great Lakes was third with 479
ships of 1,625.OO0 tons, and the Gulf
fourth with 1872 boats of $40, 1000 tons.
, 1922-06-21

figures, 100000. and according to the
estimate of the foreign investigators
more than half this number.
Following the SIMULTANEOUSLY
Turkestan highway. we ascended a
small valley of steep grade directly
west of Tsingning. Suddenly the
high road for a length of a quarter
of a mile dropped out of sight. 1t had
been cut as If chopped off with an ak.
leaving the ffty-year-old popIars and
cottonwocds with which it is lined
partly uprooted, like sentinels stricken
at their post.
at was in this Valley of the Dead
that the most ~arresting freak Of the
cataclysm occurred. Two sections of
the ancient, well-packed highway, ac-
companied by the tall trees which bor-
Sdered 1t, were cut from the line Of
road following the side hill. swept hun
dreds of yards over the stream-bed.
and set. intact, upon an angle on top
of the heap of loose loess."
, 1922-06-21
Women RenIace Men.

Seattle, Wash.-Encroachment of
women in jobs formerly occupied by
men is shown in a report just Issued
by the Seattle chamber of
In 1920. I'm the State of Washington,
there were 5S1 women BARRIERS, hair
dressers and manicurists; AS women
fishermen and ~oystermen; seven wom-
en- dairymen, teamsters and express
men; five women longshoremen; "a
women ,aborers In shipyards 261 build
ing laborers. 233 sawmill and planning
mill laborers and 90 lumbermen,
raftsmen and woodchoppers.
, 1922-06-21

with a long fringe hanging down the
back which she cover with a large
white scarf embroidered around the
edges and fastened to the. cap with
innumerable ornaments and strings of
coins.
Everyone is familiar with the cute
little white Dutch cap with its becom-
ing flaps on the side, and knows the
grace with which the Spanish lady
wears her mantilla.
The AlsatiaD woman wears a huge
bow of black ribbon on her head. Oc-
casionally you see a red or a plaid
ribbon and sometimes it is ornamented
with large bright flowers.
The women of the CANAL valley
wear a snowy-white starched cap.
The Herzegovinian women in Ra-
gusa wear fascinating long white lace
wells attached to tiny red caps which
they decorate during festivals with
bright yellow marigolds.
The Sandman farmer wear an en-
larged edition of the Scotch cap,
which serves him not only as a head
covering but as a lunch bag from
which he will take a loaf of bread Mt
o and on which he occasionally
sleeps at night.
The Wallachian farmer affects n
small derby. smaller than Charlie
Chaplin's well-known lid" which he
often adorns with a wreath of flow
ers.
The elegant Saloniki dame ear a
fla%t-covered frame that could scarcely
be termed a hat. Ii Is usually crowned
with an oval gilt plaque ornamented in
seed pearls, and invariably has a
fringed tail of dark green silk, also
ornamented with a similar plaque, in
which she keeps her hair.
But in enc particular the peasant
m of Russia has the advantage
of all of us. She wraps about her
head one of those soft beautiful Pers-
ian or cashmere shawls which is gen-
orally richer in texture and color than
any creation of a Fifty-seventh street
milliner.
, 1922-06-21
Last Ship on War Program Is
Finished and Turned Over
to the Government.
1000 ARE NOW LYING IDLE
2.s12 Vessels Built by shipping Board
In Last Five Years-New Liner.
Western World, Marks End Of
Plan to Bridge Sci.

Neutrality-suspicious. the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding corporation delivered to
the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
corporation the new liner Western
World, for operation by the Munson
line to South America, the greatest
shipbuilding enterprise in history was
brought TO an end.
From May "a, 1917. when the wood
en- cargo carrier North Bend, the first
vessel to be built under war contracts
was turned over 10 the government by
Kruse & Banks, North Bend, Ore, TO
May o, 1922, the shipping board con-
structed 2.312 SHIPS of various types
of 13,626,T1l lightweight tons. AT
present more than 1000 of these ships
are lying idle, due to the depressed
conditions in world trade and to the
inability of American shipowners TO
meet foreign competition
In announcing The end of the war
time program, which extended for
three and a half years after the armis-
tice because of the contracts entered
into during the war, the shipping board
MADE public some interesting state
ments showing the size of the great
feet.
Capacity of sss,s6s Freight Cars.
If all the vessels on the program
were placed in n straight line. stem
to stern, they would extend for 1853
miles, and If steaming a mile and a
quarter apart they would reach from
New York to Southampton. England.
The total tonnage is equal to the car
rying capacity of 3SS,363 freight cars
loaded 80 tons to he car. AS there are
approximately 2,S00,000 cars in the
United States, nearly o~ne-seventh Of
them would be required to load the
slips. For manufacturing the rivets
alone n steel rod three-fourths of an
inch In diameter and 81 800 miles long
would be necessary. This would ex-
tend one and a half times around the
earth.
The building OF the gigantic fleet
wns not confined to the United States.
Japan constructed 80 steel cargo car
riers of 24s.290 tons each, and China
four steel ships of 10000 tons.
The original program called for 3,2IO
ships OF 1S.407, 276 lightweight tons.
After the armistice all construction
was cancelled except when II was
found that the government would lose
more by giving up the project than by
completlnp them. This reduced the
program by 95S ships Of 4,770.562 tons,
which represented approximately so
per cent Of the vessels that were not
IS or 80 per cent finished.
1,ot7 Wooden Ships Built.
In August, 1917, 431 vessels under
construction in United States ship
, 1922-06-21
Drops Half Mile in
Log Chute; Uniniured

Snoquolmie, Wash.-Stepping
out to the edge of a snow-cov-
cred precipice to point out some
scenery to his wife and little
son, Howard Rupert, a sales
man, disappeared into loose
snow.
Mrs. Rupert quickly notified
men nearby, who looked for
Rupert. They were about to
give up the search on account
of darkness when the missing
man appeared. He declared he
had dropped into a loose snow
drift and falling through, land
ed directly into an unused log
chute to carry timber in summer
to the river far below.
Rupert said the chute was
filed with ice and that be to-
bogganed down into the valley
as such a high rate of speed ne
could not yell loud enough to
be heard. Loggers found he had
taken a ride of fully half u
mile in the ice-bound log chute.
Rupert was uninjured. but was
minus a large part of his wear
ing apparel.
, 1922-06-21
DECLARED SUPERIOR TO GOLF

team, of two or four, as n rule, has
one ballino. This is n little wooden
ball about the size of a baseball which
is rolled down the alley first. Wher-
ever it stops is goal for the
big balls which are pitched after it.
The game is to pitch them so that
they do not strike it out of position,
but stop as close to it as possible. OF
course if an opponent places the ball
well the game is TO use your first ball
to knock his out of place, and then
try to get your second shot into posi-
tion, says an italian enthusiast who
insists that golf is a stupid game if
n mas ever learned to play "boccie."
, 1922-06-21
Killed
by Earthquake

frontier province of China is only now.
through the reports of the relief In
vestigation expedition of which Mr..
Hall was a member. being made
known in any comprehensive way.
even in Chlna's capital and port cities.
Life Loss May Be 100000.
although the density of population
Is not more than ona-tenth that Of
Shantung or the East China plain. the
loss of life from landslides, collapsed
cave homes. and falling buildings, to-
gether with death from exposure OF
the unsheltered In mid-winter In this
high altitude, was, according to official
, 1922-06-21

ATS are as old as history,
says a bulletin from the
Washington, d. c., head
quarters of the National
Geographic society.
perhaps the origin of
the hat was the fllet,
which was in almost uni
versaI use among smooth
haired peoples to keep
back their stray locks.
We have made additions
, 1922-06-21

stick has a slight curve inward. The
v~ioloncello bow is a little shorter.
The double-bass bow has a large arch
and is shorter. The early bows were
sc crude that they added little to
the delicacy of tone. The earliest
improvement was made when a metal
band with teeth-like edges was In
troduced with the design Of Teguint-
ing the position and tension of III
hair at or near the handle. 1t was
reserved for Francois Tourte C747-
1889 TO devise the plan of keeping
the hair fat by means of q clasp,
, 1922-06-21
"FIDDLE BOWS"

The instruments of the string
choir" are all played with c bow.
nth occasional pizzicato, or 2lueking
of the strings, as required by the
music. A bow is an instrument of
wood and horsehair employed to set
the strings Of the violin or other musi-
cal instrument in vibration. As its
name implies, II was originally
curved. The violin bow is usually
about twenty-nine inches long and the
, 1922-06-21
Northern Italians Devoted to "5occie"
Sport Has Some of the Princi-
Piles of Curling.

The game of "boccie" is the national
sport of northern Italy. The crowd
follows 1t as our crowd follows base
ball. The people spend all day Sun
day after mass playing ii. There is
always betting on the game. Every
one with an estate of any size has a
course for ''boccie." On the private
courses, men, women and children
alike play.
Each player uses two wooden balls
, 1922-06-21

from time to time in both HORIZONTAL
and vertical directions until the cre-
atoms worn in New York and Paris
have come about, as well as the pic
turesque hats and caps worn with
various national costumes, for tickle
Fashion makes her influence felt
wherever people live.
In Persia the headgear worn proves
to the natives in identifying both the
residence and the social standing of
the wea-er The Kurds in that coun-
try wear a hat which looks like a
huge Inverted black coffee-pot bound
around with a gay silk handkerchief.
The Bakhtiaris, who live in the
mountains near the British oil fields,
wear a white felt hat that looks like q
preserving kettle.
The peasant or artisan wears q
| rough felt dome, the merchant or stu
dent the black pill-box, the porter a
skullcap, the police officer a white
lamb's-wool hat, and the ecclesiastic
a cushion-like turban.
In the Holy Land, too, the hat is in
dicative of the station of the wearer.
The Bedouin, the dweller in the
houses of hair" in the desert to the
south, east and northeast, wears a
large flowing scarf of silk or cotton,
called the "kefeeyah." bound round
bis head by a twisted rope of goats
or camel's hair, generally about two
inches thick.
The Turkish soldiers of Bagdad dur
ing the World a though they adopt
ed a uniform much like that worn
by British and American soldiers, re-
tanned the ~kefeeyah, which artists call
the most picturesque headdress worn
by men.
The fellah, or farmer of Palestine.
wears a turban consisting of four
parts, a small white felt saullcap. over
this another skullcap of white cotton,
which in turn is surmounted by a red
cloth fez with a large black tassel, and
about the whole a scarf or shawl.
Most of the Apostles belonged to this
class.
The third class in the Holy Land,
the merchants, artisans, teachers.
scribes. and governing officials wear
a turban similar TO that worn by the
farmers, except that the scarf is larg-
or. cleaner, and of lighter and more
delicate colors and materials.
An enormous chignoh made of
sleeps wool is worn by the nuns of
the Ta-Tshang Nunnery of Tibet,
which one traveller says lies in one of
the most desolate and wind-swept
spots imaginable.
Much of the charm of the Turko-
man of Transcaspia is due to his huge
and fantastic cap made of shaggy
sleeps wool, two or three times as
large as his head. which he perohes
at a cilaracteristically rakish and in
dependent angle.
The Arab woman of Oman wears n
peculiar headdress that to the Amer
lean mind suggests "blinkers," since
it fits around her eyes and down her
nose from its bridge TO its tip after
the fashion of football gear.
The Hindu womnn's dress is made
glorious by the sari, as distinctive a
touch in her attire as is the mantilla
, 1922-06-21
Got Poneeman,s Goat.

"It's a hard life" said the traffic
policeman. whats the trouble?"
asked the genial old gentleman. IT
had to call down a fashionable dame
just now for violating a traffic law.
The look she gave ne was bad enough,
u the way her poodle dog yawned
In my lace was positively insulting"
birmingham Age-Herald.
, 1922-06-21

and the screw and button for slack
ing or tightening the hair at pleasure.
Scientific American.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-07
BerlDyn-BrentlU0od Bills
Pass State Legislature

HYATTSvILLE, Nd. March g.
The, bills to incorporate Berwyn and
Brentwood have passed both branches
of the legislature and await now
only the signature of Gov. Ritchie
before being submitted to the voters
of the respective communities for
acceptance or rejection.
The Washington herald., 1922-03-07
LATE RECOVERIE
ELIMINATE EARLY
MARKET DECLINES
Motors and Equipments
Suffer Most as Stocks
Drop. :
HEAVY NOON TRADE
Supreme Courts Decision in.
Consolidated Gas Case
of Major Interest.
HEAVY NOON TRADE

NEW YORK. March s.-At IN.
start this morning sentiment in In.
financial markets was stIIl uncer-
tain and the reactions Of last Sat
urday continued. As the day wor.
or however. substantial recoveriey
set ~ and most OF the early Iosse,
were made good. In the stock mar
? the chief sufferers during the
period OF weakness were the motor
and equipment shares. a number Of
declines OF from 1 to . points being
recorded. Coinciding with the su-
preme Courts decision that IN.
New York S0-cent gas law Is IN
valid. q recovery started which
left changes irregular at the close
Consolidated Gas Jumped to a higl
price Of 1861, which was "a points
above the previous close. In the
bond market the .Gflt-edEed and
foreign Issues were firm. while the
more speculative Issues showed
signs OF profit-takIng. cfn money
held at az per cent until near In.
close when IL was raised to s per
cent.
Heavy Noon Trade.
There were more traders lean
ing over the ticker tape between,
1905 and 1920 than at any time
IN months. One of the news tIckers
had printed q hurried line TO the
effect that a Supreme Court deci-
sion in the Consolidated Gas Com
pany rate case was coming. Il was
two or three minutes later that the
decision was declared TO be favo--
able TO the company. Consolidated
Gas stock had closed on Saturday
at ss&. Around IL o'clock some
trader who had bought stock at a
low figure last week sought 20 take
profits by ordering a sale at the
market" The transaction was pu;
through at ss& and thereafter
there was no sale until the deci-
sion had been rendered. Then
large volume Of transaction was
recorded. The first sale after noon
was at 81. the second at ss.. and
by 1920 a price Of Io2h had been
reached.
Many Companies BeneAted.
The Supreme Court decision in
the Consolidated Gas case benefits
a greater number OF compan mics
than any decision that has been
handed down by the court in a long
while. 1t means that the consoli-
dated Gas Company will come INTO
possession Of about s13,ooo.eoo that
has been impounded pending a ana
settlement OF the case. In addition
to this 70 is estimated that the Con-
solidated subsidiaries have 81
500. 900 impounded. DisreEsrd ne
this latter sum. the decision re-
leases working capital to the Consol-
idated at the rate OF SIS a share
on the stock. Wall Street cons .c
cred all doubt about the curren'
dividend rate TO have vanished
The Washington herald., 1922-03-07
MPLETE DAILY RECORD OF STOCK AND BOND TRANSACTION
COMPLETE N. Y. BOND SALES
~, . Msss 3 sas. xssssek Essn.ss,

NEW of the
$sl0bo0
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
CHARGES UNFOUNDED,
 WITNESSES DECLARE
By AssocInted Pres.

Jackson, Miss. March l6.-Insur- ance company representatives, attor- neys and a member of the Mississippi legislature testified before House investi gating committee today in de- nial of charges made by Gov. Lee NJ Russell that a "pernicious" lobby, with a liberal use of liquor, had been In operation in Jackson to influence legislation favorable to certain fire insurance companies.
 The witnesses, which included j.. IT. Doyle, assistant general counsel for the National Board of Fire Gnsur- ance underwriters. w. II. Watkins, of Jackson. associate counsel for several fire and life insurance companies, and Sidney Mclaurin an attorney of Brandon. Miss. all. declared that. so far as they knew the charges made by the governor were upfounded.
 Likewise they declared they knew nothing except what they had read In the newspapers of the suit filed against Gov. Russell by Miss Frances BirlIhead, a former stenographer, or antitrust proceedings recently insti- tuted in Coyington county against a number of life insurance concerns. The governor had charged that the suit filed by Miss Birkhead was "fos- tered. aided and abetted" by certain fire Insurance companies in retalia- tion for antitrust proceedings insti- tuted by the state revenue agent and had indicated a belief that fire insur- ance interests had instigated the suits against the life insurance companies. The legislature since has ordered the latter suits abated
 The question as to whether Miss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. Joseph Mcconnell has re- turned to the city, after visit to friends in Anniston.
 Friends of Mrs. Frank o. Headley will be pleased to learn that she IS improving from her recent illness and will soon be out again.
 Mrs. E. M. Tutwiler. Jr.. who has been at the South Highlands mfr mary where she underwent an opera ton upon her throat. has returned to her home.
 Mrs. Margaret Proctor Smith, who has been the guest of her uncles, Mir. w. P. Ward and MT. George D. Ward. for several weeks will return to her home in Louisville, Ky, on Sunday evening.
 Miss Frances White of Lynchburg, Va. is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. L.. Burlington.
 Miss Mity1ene McDavid will arrive today from St. Marys on the Hud- son. Peekskill, N. r., to spend the holidays with her parents, MT. and Mrs. E. R. McDavid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
AGREES TO ABIDE BY TEN COMMANDMENTS
 LAID DOWN BY COURT

Urbana, H.. March 16.-Assan all formative to going to prison for 10 years for robbing a store of $500. Guy Robbins, a farm hand. today agreed to obey ten commandments laid down by Circuit Judge Sentel. The rules follow:
 Go to church or Sunday school at least once each day.
 Give up cigarette smoking for< one year.
 Stay away from mspool halls one year,
 Read books selected by the public librarian and report to the probation office what you have read.
 Keep employed constantly and ksep account of expenditures.
 Stay off strtets at night except on business.
 Keep all laws of state. oity or wil- lage.
 Drink no intoxicating liquor.
 Pay all costs in $5 monthly install ments.
 Report to circuit judge the first day of each court term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS

 The Clionian club Will meet this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Golden Rod tea room.
 The Amaranth club will meet to- day with Miss Florence Ballard at 2165 Eleventh avenue, south.
 The Current Topic club will meet this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. H. l.. Eberhardt. at the Nor wood Court apartments.
 The Twentieth Century club will meet this afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. ". K. Faunsbury at the home of Mrs. E. B. Pennington. 1124 Thirtieth street, north.
 The Junior Shakespeare club will meet this afternoon at 2;30 o'clock with Miss Anna Byrd Turner. at her home on Seventeenth street. south.
 
 The Quest club will meet with Mrs. B. l.. Guice this afternoon at 2:3o o'clock. Mrs. John l.. Parker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
Don't Let That Cold Turn Into "Flu"
Rub on Good Old MusteroIe

That cold may turn into Flu" Grippe or, even worse, Pneumonia. unless you take care of it at once.
 Rub good old Musterole on the congested parts and see how quickly it brings relief.
 Colds are merely congestion. Mus terole, made from pure oil of mus tard, camphor, menthol and other simple ingredients, is a counter-ir- ritant which restores circulation promptly and helps break up the cold.
 As effective as the messy old mustard plaster, it does the work without the mustard plaster's sting and blister.
 During the Flu" epidemic a few years ago Musterole was used in our training camps. The r. M. c. A, War Board sent thousands of jars to France for our soldiers overseas
 Doctors have been recommending 1t to their patients for years for colds. aches and pains.
 Just rub 1t on with your finger tips. You will feel a warm jingle as it enters the pores. then cooling sensation that brings welcome relief.
 Your druggist has Musterole: 35c and 65c in jars and tubes; hospital size s3.00.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17

There Is so much humanity stuffed down my neck most of the year that when summer comes I want to rest and enjoy life. There are three acres on each side, so no one can come nearer than that I like to have my friends up there with me, and there is plenty of music Gnd rest for them, but they have to forget all worldly things while they are there. never speak of the stage when am on my farm up at Peekskill, so l always get back to my work fresh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
NINE

service commission by the Louisville and Nashville railroad today.
 The petition recited the fact that the revenue from the office Is not sufficient 10 meet operating expenses and that a caretaker which the rail- road is willing to establish, can care for the needs of the station. The commission set the petition for hear iuu May
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17

Blrkhead, now in Memphis, will De summoned to Jackson still was in abeyance tonight, the committee an nounoing that no decision would be reached on that point until deposi tions obtained in Memphis by a sub committee had been considered by the full committee In executive session,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17
WORK ON nRIDGE

lGadsden, March 16.-( Special. J. The county has a large force of men at work on the landslide at Bruton's bridge, removing the dirt as it comes over the road. A large amount of dirt has been removed and 1t Is still com ing over the road. Just as soon as rains cease the county will erect break Of rock to hold back the dirt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-17

and happy and ready for another sea- son.
 And so as a winter eommedienne and a summer farmer. I am one of the real farmers you read about, who gets down to really, rightly. honest to-goodness work for l dig and hoe and rake and spade-and in over alls, too. Yes, don't look surprised, for it is true. and they are not the be-ruffled. be-ribboned creations. either. that once swept over this country like pink and blue sunset clouds--no indeed-y"
 -----.- will be leader and the subject will be Americanizatien.
 The Fenelon club will meet today at l o'clock with Mrs. Dan Martin, 14t5 Whitaker street.
 
 The Joycrofters will meet this aft ernoon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. Thomas Williams, 1917 St. Charles street. A speaker will address the club
 The Edgewood club will meet this afternoon with Mrs. T. J. Kidd, 3295 Norwood Boulevard.