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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
REVUES LOSE OUT IN POPULAR FAVOR HITCHCOCK'S IDEA
Famous Comedian Recalls Carrying Spear Here in
 Opera Company

Musical comedies will predominate on New York's theatrical menu this fall with decrease in revues readily apparent, Raymond Hitchcock, comedian known well to America and London, told an Age Herald repre- sentative Sunday night Mr. Hitch cocok reached Birmin gham Sunday afternoon, to appear at Loves BiJou theater all the week.
 "Zeigfield's FollieS' will be the only show in the nature of revue which will continue to draw crowds, In my opinion" Hitchcock said.
 MT. Hitchcock was struck by the difference in Birming gham since his first trip here.
 Tt was in 1890" he said. q was with the Carlton Opera company, a member of the chorus. BirminG Gham citizens probably noticed the fellow who carried a spear across the stage in the third act. That was l."
 He has been here on other occa- sions, with his own companies. Bir- mingham Is one of the three cities in i tour. Atlanta and New Orleans being the others. He said Loew's were discussing construction of a new theRter in Birmingham. discussion of which, however. has been going the rounds for some years. It seems the
 
 this time.
 The famous figure in "Hitchy- Roo" is going into the movies with Mrs. Sidney Drew after this trip, he said. He termed 1t vacation, his second appearance in vaudeville.
 If I decide not to enter the movies I am going back to the legitimate stage" declared Hitchcock. q have made one appearance in the movies and was not successful. l feel if do no better this time I will re-enter the legitimate field
 There Is such a difference you can hardly expect an actor to be an art ist on both screen and stage"
 MT. Hitchcock was taken on an auto tour of Birmin gham Sunday afternoon by Harry Portman, man ager of Loew's Bijou. He was much impressed with changes since his last visit some three or four years ago.
 For the first half of this week other unusually meritorious acts have been provided, including humorous one-act comedy novelty playlet, The Rought-Neck," by Homer Miles and company, also some character comedy bits by Jack Layton and Frank Burke, the comedy features being augmented by Robb and Whitman in a laugh provoking slit, Back to School Days" while the whole bill Is rounded out by Hazard and Spellman. known as the Unison Dancers"
 The Last Moment" J. Parker Read production, to be presented by Goldwyn as the screen feature for the first half of this week, is de- clared to be one Of the screens best thrillers of the year, supplemented by splendid character acting. Among the stars of the cast are Doris Kenyon, | Louis Wolheim and Henry Hull
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
Brandon Seeks Way Out Of Leasing Problem
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU |
 THE AGE-HERAllD Moptponery Ala, July 22 ]

Governor Brandon is looking for a way out. He is making study of suggestions regarding the solution of the convict lease problem. It be- came known Sunday that the gover- nor has realized that some definite step must be taken by the Ieglsla- ture for the ending of the system and has requested his advisers to work with him in devising plan.
 Although the information, which came from an authoritative source, did not indicate what plan Is being given most serious consideration, 1t was thought that the governor may propose the leasing of coal mine and the working of state convicts there under the complete supervision of state employees and without the presence of any person employed by the coal interests
 This plan has been worked in the past. Governor Emmet O'Neal took over a mine in Jefferson county under contract and worked state convicts under state supervision. Ge dellv- cred the coal mined to the owner Of the mine at the mouth of the mine under an agreement as to the rate to be paid the state for each ton of coal mined. This system was aban- aoned by Gov. Charles Henderson.
 The statement also was made Sun day that the state convict depart ment now has authority to contract for the construction of state roads with convict labor. This authority it contained in the general highWay law of 1919. It gives the state high way department the same right to let contracts for road construction to the convict department as it has to let contracts to private individuals.
 The suggestion was made Sunday that the state convict department take over one of the smaller con- tracts and use 100 or more state con- victs, who have proved their trust worthiness, and use them under the honor system In road construction, This would permit the state convict department to make the profit on road construction which would be made by individualA who obtained the contract.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23

convention, assembly, committee, president, or anything else it may choose The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be re- garded,"
 |. 6. Citizens Not Sore.
 "The persons of our citizens in Russia are for the moment safe from harm. No assurance eXsts, however, against a repetition of the arbitrary detentions which some of them have suffered iu the past. The situation with respect to property Is even more palpable. The obligations of Rus sia to the taxpayers of the United States still remain repudiated.
 "We have no recent evidence, more over, that the policy of confiscating is by anw means at an end. The ef fective jurisdication of Moscow was recently extended to Vladivostok and soon thereafter Moscow directed the carrying out in that city of confisca tory measures such as we saw in western Russia during 1917 and 1918.
 What is most serious is that there is conclusive evidence that those in control at Moscow have not given up their original purpose of destroying existing governments wherever they can do so throughout the world. Their efforts In this direction have recently been lessened in intensity only by the reduction of the cash resources at their disposal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
BELLEAU WOOD IS DEDICATED TO
 AMERICAN DEAD
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the splendor of our soldiers sacrifice.
 In his letter President Harding said: "The memory of Belleau wood, like the memory of Yorktown, will always remain as an eloquent appeal for the perpetuatin of the friendship so long maintained between the French people and our country. It will always be an inspiration to Americans to know they are entitled to some measure of pride in connec- tion with their part in the world war, Just, as I trust, it will always be source of satisfaction to the French people that they were able to make so great and unselfish contribution to the struggle of America for inde- pendence."
 General Hnrbord Speaks.
 Major General James ]. Harbord, who. commanded the marines, spoke of this melancholy spot with it's tangle of wild wood, it's giant bould CTS, its mangled trees,-a tiny Ameri- can island, surrounded by lovely France, which American mothers will consecrate with their tears"
 This scared and shell-shot ground" he continued "by being at the spearhead of the German thrust  by the Marine brigade and their com rades of the second engineers and will be for all time a mecca for pill grims."
 He told how General DeGoutte, the day after the wood was captured ordered 1t renamed on all military maps as the wooded marine brigade" 1"
 Senator David A. Reed, of Penn sylvania, in his address, said:
 We Americans whose sons lie here; we Americans who left our comrades here, pledge ourselves to stand true to the cause for which they died. Our hearts stay with their bodies here in France and whatever may be the rumors of the day, Amer ic2 will stand faithful to that great cause"
 Sees America'S Entrance.
 Rear Admiral Philip Andrews, in command of American warships in the Adriatic, voiced his personal belief" that there is a growing feel ing among Americans at home that we will do something in Europe when we know Y hat is the right thing to do''
 A priest sent by the Bishop of dead. but suddenly his voice was drowned out by the whirr of low flying French combat airplanes that circled close to the tree tops, scat tering flowers, and maneuvered over head until the marines fired a salute and sounded taps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
PREDICTS S25 COAL

BOSTON. July 22-That the price of coal in New England will reach S25 ton next winter is the predic- tion of Representative Allan Tread away of Massachusetts following a personal investigation into the an- thracite situation. New England homekeepers will have tG pay this, he declares, unless profiteering by middlemen is stopped. Treadway believes the present situation is a permanen. emergency and he says he will take the facts he has obtained to President Harding IS soon as the latter returns from his Alaskan trip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
Brandon Looking For Wy Out OF The ConU Lease Poben

ments made to the newspaper Is based on the charge that the prose cution has been brought for political purposes.
 If he Is charged with doing a wrong to the nti-Saloon league, Anderson says, the fact that the league au- thorlties have never wavered in their support of him ought to remove him from suspicion.
 Andarson's defense during all the preliminaries to the actual trial has been based on an active offensive against the prosecution's good faith. He holds that the charges against him are part of the campaign to boom Smith for a presidential nomination; that the trial will be an attempt to eliminate him and the league as powers in state politics, and that 1t is just another phase of the long struggle between wet and dry forces.
 Hydroelectric development now under way in southern Italy will vi,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
HOME MELONS APPEAR
Crop Said To Be short At Hanceville
 But Prices Are Good

HANCEVILE, Ala. July 22.-(Spe- cial)-1he first two wagon loads of home grown watermelons passed through Hanccville Saturday On their way to Cullman. Farmers report the melon crop to be short this year, due to so much rain in thes bring and almost three weeks later than 1t has been in several years, but the price is said to be good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA NOT WOW
 POSSIBLE HUGHES.
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ed certain concessions. The socalled new economic policy permitted par ttal return to economic freedom. The termination of fOrcible requisition of grain has induced the peasantry to endeavor to build up production once more, and favorable weather condi- tlons have combined to increase the agricultural output How far the re- ported exports of Russian grain are justified by the general economy of the country is at least an open ques- tion. Manufacturing industry has to a great extent disappeared. The suf frage so far as 1t may be exercised continues to be limited to certain classes and even among them the votes of some categories count more than the votes of others. A new con- stitution has just now been promul- gated providing in effect for the con tinuance of the regime of the 1917 coup d'etat under a new title. The constitution, 1t is understood, con tains no bill of rights and the civil liberties of the people remain inse- cure. There Is no press except the press controlled by the regime and the censorship Is far-reaching and stringents Labor Is acknowledged to be still at the mercy of the state. While membership in official unions is no longer obligatory, workmen may not organize or participate in voluntary unions.
 Two Nations Friendly.
 There can be no question of the sincere friendliness of the American people toward the Russian people. And there is for this very reason a strong desire that nothing should be done to place the seal of approval on the tyrannical measures that have been adopted in Russia, or to take any action which might retard the gradual re-assertion of the Russian people of their right to live in free dom.
 ITO the department of state, charged with the conduct of our for eign relations in accordance with the accepted principles of International intercourse, the problem presents it. self necessarily in somewhat less general terms We are not concerned with the question of the legitimacy of a government as judged by former European. standards. We recognize the right of revolution and we do not attempt to determine the internal concerns of other states. The follow ing words of Thomas Jefferson, 1793, express a fundamentl principle:
 We surely cannot deny to any nation that right whereon our own government is founded-that every one may govern itself according to what ever form it pleases, and change these forms at it's own will, and that 1t may transact its business with foreign nations through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
SWALLOWS PLASTER

Prisoner In Despair Attacks Walls
 Of Jail
 LOS ANGELES, July 22.-The four blank walls of his cell drove Thomas Morgan, held on forgery charge here, to despair In his agony he attacked them with his teeth and Sunday receiving hospital surgeons removed from his stomach several square inches of plaster which he had swallowed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23
SLAYS HIS FAMILY
Man Cuts His ThOnt After Killing
 Wife And Two Children

COLUMBIA, Tenn, July 22.-Mrs. Oppir Dugger, S6 years old. her two children, a boy of four, and girl of two, are dead and Oppir Dugger, the husband and father, is dying in the Kings Daughters hospital here tonight as the result of a sudden fit of melancholia on the part of Dugger today.
 Dugger, according to the sheriff, who made personal investigation. used a razor to cut the throats of his wife and two children. and then turned the weapon upon himself in flicting wounds from which he is dying.
 The tragedy took place at the home of MT. and Mrs. William J. Jacob at Carters Creek. Mrs. Jacobs Is a sister of the slain woman.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23

Selling real estate over the counter in depac tment stores, long the GUS tom in London, is now being done in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23

Peat 1T om the bogs of Minnesota is being tried ont as Il substitute for coal in city office buildings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-23

Hydroelectric development now under way in southern Italy will cost nearly s20,000, 900.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-16

From nineteen they were already re-
duced to fifteen, two others were
wounded, and one, at least-the man
shot beside the gun - severely
wounded, If he were not dead. Every
time we had a crack at them, we
were to take il, saving our own
lives, with the EXTREMIST care. And,
besides that, we had two able allies
rum and the climate.
As for the first, though we were
about a half mile away, we could
hear them roaring and singing late
into the night; and as for the sec
ond, the doctor staked his wig that,
camped where they were in the
marsh, and unprovided with reme-
dies, the half of them would be on
their backs before week.
so" he added, "if we are not all
shot down first they'll be glad TO
be packing in the schooner. It's al
ways a ship, and they can go TO buc-
caneering again, ! suppose"
First ship that / ever lost, said
Captain Smollett.
l was dead tired, as you may fam
cy, and when l got to sleep, which
was not till after a great deal of
tossing, l slept like a log of wood.
The rest had long been up, and
had already breakfasted and in
creased the pile of firewood by about
half as much again, when l was
Weakened by a hustle and the sound
Of voices.
Flag of truce!" / heard someone
say, and then, Immediately after,
with a cry of surprise, ''Silver him
self"
And, at that, up l jumped, and,
my eyes, ran to a loop-hole
In the wall.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-16
MOUNTAIN HOME REPUBLICAN, MOUNTAIN HOME. IDAHO.

not only a piece of stout, seamanly
good feeling; il was good policy be-
sides, and showed our enemies that
we despised their cannonade
All through the evening they kept
laundering away. Ball after bail
flew over or fell short, or kicked up
the sand in the Enclosure; but they
had to fire so high that the shot fell
dead and buried itself in the soft
sand. We had no Ticochet to fear;
and though one popped in through
the roof of the lOghouse and out
again through the floor, we soon got
used to that sort of horse-play and
minded il no more than cricket.
"There is one thing good about all
this" observed the captain; tine
wood in front of us is likely clear.
The ebb has made a good while; our
stores should be uncovered. Volun-
teers to go and bring in pork
Gray and Hunter were the first
to come forward. Well armed, they
stole out of the stockade, but II
proved a useless mission. The mu-
tineers were holder than we faneied,
or they put more trust in lsraeIs
gunnery, for four or five of them
were busy carrying off our stores and
wading out with them to one of the
gigs that lay close by, pulling an
oar or so to hold her steady against
the current. Silver was in the
stern-sheets in command, and every
man of them was now provided with
a musket from some secret magazine
of their own.
The captain sat down to his log,
and here is the beginning Of the
entry:
Alexander Smollett, master; Dav-
id Livesey, ships doctor; Abraham
Gray, carpenters mate; John Ire
lawney, owner; John Hunter and
Richard Joyce, owners servants,
landsmen - being all that is left
faithful of the ships company-with !
stores for ten days at short rations, |
came ashore this day and flew
British colors on the Lighthouse in
Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, |
owners servant, landsman, shot by
the mutineers: James Hawkins, cab |
in-boy-"
And at the same time / was Won
dering over poor Jim Hawkins fate.
A hail on the land side.
Somebody's hailing us" said |
who was on guard.
Doctor! squire! captain! Halo,
is that your" came the
cries.
And l ran to the door in time to
see Jim Hawkins, safe and sound,
come climbing over the stockade.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-16
PART w
The Stockade


The squire was waiting for me at
the stern window, all his faintness
gone from him. He caught the paint
: and made it fast, and we fell to
loading the boat for our very lives.
Pork, biscuit, and powder was the
cargo, with only a musket and cut
lass apiece for squire and me and
Redruth and the captain. The rest
of the arms and powder we dropped
overheard in two fathoms and half
of water, so that we could see the
bright steel shining far below us in
the sun on the clean, sandy bottom.
BY this time the tide was begin
ming to ebb, and the ship was wing
ing round to her anchor. Voices
were heard family jhallooing in the
direction of the two gigs; and though
this treasured us for Joyce and Hunt
er, who were we'll to the eastward, IL
warned our party to be off.
Redruth retreated from his place
in the gallery and dropped into the
boat, which we then brought round
to the ships counter, to be handler
for Captain Smollett.
Now, men," said he, "do you
hear me?"
nGAC Nv do III clh9WOA AAOAAA
forecastle.
Its to you, Abraham Gray-it's|
to you l am speaking"
Still no reply.
Gray" resumed Mr.. Smollett, a
little louder, 81 am leaving this ship,
and l order you to follow your cap
tain. l know you are good man at
bottom, and 1 dare say not one of the
lot of you's as bad as he makes out.
l have my watch in my hand; give
you thirty seconds to join me-"
Come, my fine fellow" continued
the captain, don't hang so long in
stays. I'm risking my life and the
lives of these good gentlemen every
second"
There was a sudden scuffle, a
sound of blows, and out burst Abra-
ham Gray with knife-cut on the
side of the cheek, and came running
to the captain, like a dog to the
whistle.
"I'm with you, sir" said he.
And the next moment he and the
captain had dropped aboard of us,
and we showed off and given way.
We were clear out of the ship, but
not yet ashore in our stockade.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-16
CHAPTER XVII
Narrative Continued by the Doctor
The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip

Inc JOlly-bOdI AdSC LII
This fifth trip was quite different
from any of the others. In the first
place, the little galipot of a boat
that we were in was gravely over
loaded Five grown men, and three
of them-Trelawney Redruth, and
the captain-over six feet high, was
already more than she was meant
to carry. Add to that the powder,
pork and the bread-bags. The gun
vale was Tipping astern. Several
times we shipped little water, and
my breeches and the tails of my coat
were all soaking wet before we had
gone a hundred yards.
The captain made us trim the
boat, and we got her to lie little
more evenly. All the same, we were
afraid to breathe.
In the second place, the ebb was
now making strong, ripping cur
rent running westward through the
basin, and then southland and sea-
ward down the straits by which we
had entered in the morning. Even
the ripples were a danger to our
overloaded craft, but the worse OF
it was that we were swept out OF
our true course, and away from our
landing place behind the point. II
we let the current have It's way we
should come ashore beside the gigs,
where the pirates might appear at
any moment.
''I cannot keep her head for the
stockade, SIR" said to the cap
tain. 1 was steering, while he and
Redruth, two fresh men, were at
the oars. "The tide keeps washing
her down. Could you pull little
.stronger?"
mot without swapping the boat,
said he. "You must bear up, sir, II
YOU please-bear up until you see
you're gaining.
tried, and found by experiment
that the tide kept sweeping us west
ward until laid her head due east,
.or lust abOnt right angles to the way
we ought to go.
rate" said /.
"If it's the only course that we
can lie. sir. we must even lie it," re-
turned the captain. We must keep
nm stream. You see, sir" he went on,
- If once we dropped to leeward OF
the landing-place, it's hard to say
where we should get ashore, besides
the chance of being boarded by the
gigs whereas, the way we go the
current must slacken, and then we
can dodge back along the shore" j..
"The currents less already, sir,
said the man Gray, who was sitting
in the fore-sheets; you can ease her
off a bit,
quite as if nothing had happened,
for we had all quietly made up our
minds to treat him like one OF our
selves.
Suddenly the captain spoke up
again, and 1 thought his voice was
a little changed.
"The gum" said he.
81 have thought of that, said l,
Tor | made sure he was thinking of
a bombardment of the fort. They
could never get the gun ashore, and
if they did, they could never haul
it through the woods"
Look astern, doctor" replied the
captain.
We had entirely forgotten the long
nine; and there, to our horror, were
the five rogues busy about her, get
ting off her jacket, as they called
the stout tarpaulin cover under
which she sailed. Not only that. but
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-16
CHAPTER XVIII

Narrative Continued by the Doctor
End of the First Days Fighting
We made our best speed across
the strip of wood that now divided
us from the stockade, and at every
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-16

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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-06-08

Thompson, Dominick RAINY and Helen
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