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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-01-17

! Awarded Wilder Medal for Developing
Orange That Can Remain on TIRE,
for Several Years and Maintain IL
Juice and Flavor-Also Perfected
Cherry Currant - Latest Achieve
| ment Was Perfumed Grapefruit
Started Chinese Republic Movement
| Leu Gin Gong, internatie ally known
horticulturist, president of a "Chi
nese republic" and holder of the Wilder
| medal. awarded by the United States
| Department of Agriculture, is at his
home at De Land, Fla, dependent upon
the generosity of friends, feeble and
broken, with a heavy mortgage upon
his home. which for many years has
been one of the show places of central
Florida. ~
Friends in De Land are supplying
his sustenance and have taken charge
OF his business affairs in the hope of
clearing up his debts. Leu resides on
his estate with Fanny a mare
which for 20 years base been his pet
and sole companion. He lives virtually
the life of a hermit and during the
last 16 years has visited De Land, the
nearest town, but four times.
Produced Gong Orange.
Leu has numerous horticultural ac-
complishments to his credit, but the
best known is the Leu Gin Gong or
ange, perfected in 1887 by crossing the
Mediterranean sweet and Harris Lane
varieties and for which he received the
Wilder medal. The tree of this vari-
ETY. will thrive in climate too cold
for others, while the fruit will remain
on the tree several years and maintain
its maximum amount of juice and fla
vor
In 1890 Leu investigated the grape
fruit and produced cross of the COM
mon Florida grapefruit and the tri-
foliate orange. The fruit is of superior
quality and the tree can stand from
10 to Is degrees lower temperature
than ordinary varieties. Leu's last
citrus development resulted in the
'perfumed grapefruit, which will per-
It is cross of the pomegranate and
grapefruit.
y Perfected Cherry currans.
Leu also perfected the cherry cur
rant in Massachusetts, cross Of the
ordinary currant and the grape. In
other fields, he produced an apple that
npened in July, late peach grown
under glass with the fruit ripening in
a salmon-colored raspberry
and tomato plant that grows to a
height Of Is feet.
Leu was born on a farm near Can
ton, China, in 1859, arrived in San
Francisco in March, 1872, and went to
New England, where he was employed
by Solomon Burlinhame Of North
Adams, Mass. He was adopted by an
daughter Of Mr.. Burlinhame
in 1874. r. -
Two years later Leu was elected
first "president" of the "Chinese repub-
lic," at meeting under large chest
nut tree in cow pasture near North
Adams. held in connection with the
celebration to commence
rate the one hundredth anniversary Of
The signing of the Declaration of hide
oendence.
r. Chung. one of the members Of
he movement. who met with Leu, was
ordered to China with the news and to
aunch campaign. Chung died before
he reached China, and the movement
ended there. although some of the
principles laid down by Leu are said
o be Incorporated in the laws of the
present Chinese government.
When Leu's mother died the Bur-
inhame property near North Adams
vas left to him, and per cent of the
emainder of the estate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17

Ancient doors turned on pivots and this construction may still be found in the Far East.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
CRENSHAW CASET TO BE TRIED FOURTH TIME.
Negro Is Charged With Murder Of
 Aged Woman

GREENVILLE, Ala, April 16.- Especial. )-The fourth trial of Jake Crenshaw, the negro. charged with the brutal murder of Mrs. Foster Gafford, at her home near Green vile two years ago, was opened in the Butler county circuit court here today. The case has attracted great interest in this section of the state.
 Mrs Foster Gafford was left at CT home alone one Sunday afternoon in May, 1921, by her husband. Foster Gafford. and two of his stepdaugh- ters. Upon their return later in the afternoon she was found lying in a pool of blood with her head al most beaten to pulp.
 Duel Powell, a negro. who resided in the Gafford neighborhood, was arrested charged with the killing on the ground that he had a difficulty with the deceased woman, who, it is said to have had him arrested for selling intoxicating liquor to her husband. Powell was kept in the Montgomery county jail for several weeks but was later released after Jake Crenshaw, the defendant in the trial. was arrested in a suburb ot Birmingham.
 From a venire of 50 special jurors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
bONAR LAW MAKES GOOD PROMISE ID LOWER TAXAT |ON
Treasury Heads Offers Bill Slashing Income Of
 Government

LONDON, April 16.-Premier Bonar Law has made good on one of his most important campaign pledges the reduction of taxation. Important decreases in taxation were announced Monday by Stanley Baldwin, chan cellor of the eXchequer, when he pre- scented the 1923-24 budget to the House of Commons
 The reductions which will bring greatest relief to the burdened Eng lishmen are:
 1. Cut off 50 per cent in the cor poration tax after June 30.
 2. Slashing Of sixpence off the in- come tax
 3. Reduction of the beer tax by a penny a pint.
 In addition to these three big items, it was also announced that there would be substantial reductions in the rates of inland mail, parcels post and telephone service.
 Pay off Debt.
 The chancellor stated that, accord ing to his estimate, the revenues for the coming year would aggregate S52,650,000 pounds and expenditures S16,616,000, leaving surplus ef 36.000,000 pounds Baldwin stated that the 1921-22 surplus of 101,- 0eo,0 pounds would be used to pay off the national debt.
 Baldwin opened his speech-whicf was an explanation of the mass ot figures in the bill he introduced-by declaring that unemployment hac been progressively bettered during the last financial year.
 The chancellor stated that al though the debt would be reduced during the ensuing year there vii
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
TO GIVE "kLL-PEST' TO BOOTH VISITORS
Pittman Chemical Company Will
 Exhibit GermicideS

One gallon of "Kill-Pest" and a big sprayer will be given each day by the Pittman Chemical company to a visitor to their booth. Each Vis- itor to the Pittman booths will be presented with a coupon. Kill Pest" is an ideal germicide and is in wide use as a means of ridding premises of mosquitoes, flies, reaches and household pests of all kinds.
 Enormous quantities of this Bir- mingham manufactured product are being shipped to the United States government, to the state of Alabama. and it is being widely used by all the big manufacturing corporations of the Birmingham district. Descriptive literature explaining the various uses of "Kill-Pest" will be passed out daily. and an attendant in charge of the booth will make daily demon strations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17

and 50 regular jurors the twelve members of the trial jury was drawn late this afternoon.
 The delay in the empanelling of the jury was occasioned the defense asked the trial judge, Judge A. F. Gamble to relieve them from mak- ing a showing of the evidence of several witnesses who were to tes- tify in the case but had not been brought to court. The state con- tended that the showings should be made and this required some time and the court recessed for this period. The defense is being rep resented by C. P. Beddow, Rosdick Beddow and B. F. Ray of Brming- ham. The case is being prosecuted by Solicitors Poole and Rokers.
 The defense through c. P. Beddow requested the court to allow the jury to make trip to the scene of the killing in order that the jurors could get correct lay of the land and surroundings in their minds To this request, Solicitor Poole ob- jected, but the court granted the request and the twelve men accom- panied by the trial judge, court stenographers. members of the sher- ifs force, and the five attorneys in the case made the trip returning in the early evening.
 The first witness in the case will be called at opening of the court tomorrow morning.
 Pressure under which carbon will lquify is about 15 tons to the square
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
RED DIAMOND BRAND
 SHOWN BY DONOVAN
Hot Tea And Coffee To Be Served
 Free During Week

Red Diamond coffees, teas, spices and extracts will constitute the display of the Donovan Provision company. and visitors to the Dono- van booths will be treated to sam ples of this famous brand of goods. H6t tea and coffee will constitute part of the daily menu of good eats so bountifully provided during the entire exhibit.
 Red Diamond" has become a household word in Birmingham and over the south. Strangers and vis- itors will be given an opportunity to see just how good this famous brand really is. Numerous details of manu- featuring and packing methods, as we'll as blending and testing of cof- fee and teas, will be explained by eX- nerts in charge of the booth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
WOOD TO BE SHOWN
 BY WOOD COMPANY
Newest Effects In Finished Decora-
 tiOn Displayed

Everything in wood will be shown by Wood in one of the most complete displays of the entire exhibit Lum Der for building purposes, whether it be a house, hotel or a chicken coop. is speciality of the Wood Lumber company, who will have on exhibit various kinds of material suitable for many kinds of work, including inside an doutside finishing, and material for fancy purposes of every descrip- tion.
 All the newest effects in finished fancies for home decoration as well as heavier lumber for the larger jobs will be ready for inspection when the doors of the exhibition open. EX- perienced Wood men will be glad to explain useS to which the different grades of lumber and finishing prod ucts are suitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17

Ancient Greeks cultivated three varieties of cabbage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
"BECCO" BRAND CHIPS WILL BE GIVEN AWAY
Beck Candy Co. To Pass Out Delec-
 table Samples

Everybody in Birmingham is we'll acquainted with "Becco" brand po- tato chips. but the Beck Candy com pany will pass them out just the same during the exhibit, as re- hinder that Birmingham manufac- lures the finest potato chip on the market. During the seven years of the Beck Candy companys existence the demand for this popular food ar ticle has increased until it is now sold by dealers all over the country and is in use in homes practically everywhere.
 "Becco" brand chips are available C in several convenient size packages, all of which will be on display dur ing the exhibit. Factory representa- tives will be in attendance to explain how the chips are made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
JOE'S GINGER ALE IS ON HAND IN DISPLAY
Thirst QuencHer Claimed As All
 Year Round Drink

As a thirst quencher. Johannknecht extra dry ginger ale will prove US merits during the course of the ex~ hibit. Just ask for Joe's," and ginger ale revelation awaits you. Bottled in Birmingham under the most sanitary and approved condl- tions. Joe's ginger ale is now one of the favorite year-round beverages. Hundreds of bottles attractively ar ranged will attract many visitors to the display. Bottling methods and sanitary equipment used at the fac ebry will be explained by representa- tives in charge of the booth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
"SLAGTEX" BRICK TO BE EXHIBIT FEATURE
Birmingham Slag Co. To Have In
 tereSting Booth

One of the most interesting and instructive exhibits of the big show will be that of the Birmingham Slag company. who will have on display quantities of the several products turned out by this big Birmingham institution. "Slagtex" brick, in pop ular demand everywhere, will fea- ture the exhibit, while crushed and screen slag, in use for finer work, and Premier" sand construction ne- cessities will be exhibited also. Just how these products are turned out and the materials from which they are manufactured will be explained to visitors in detail. Miniature fin ished work, showing the various uses to which the products are adapted,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17

still be plenty for our grandchildren to deal with"
 The external debts, on March 31. 1922, he said, was 1,o9o, 100000 pounds and on March 31, 1922, was 1.155.- 652 .000 The apparent increase, he stated was more than accounted for by the addition of the three years in arrears interest or the American debt
 Actually, Baldwin said the exter- nal debt has been reduced by 209,- 19S,000 pounds. The only important external debts still remaining, he told members of the House. was the sums owed to the United States and Canad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
ghamade Made Anywhere On Earth
GEORGE w. WISE DEAD
Cotton Mill Superintendent Succumbs
 At Age Of 79

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. April 16.- Special. )-George w. Wise, for many years superintendent of the Dallas cotton mills in this city. and the oldest active Mason in Madison county, died last night at hls home here after an illness of several weeks, aged 79.
 He had been resident of Hunts vile 32 years and previous to that was associated with the late T. B. Dallas in Nashville.
 He is survived by his widow, six sons and daughter, Mrs. J. K. Mitchell of Memphis, Charles Wise of Memphis, Louise. George, Grantland, Clarence and Robert Wise of Hunts vile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
GENERAL BEACH COMES
Army Officer Will Make Inspection Of
 Wilson Dam

FLORENCE. Ala. April 16.-Gen. Lansing H. Beach. chief of engineers of the United States army will ar rive in Florence next Friday en route to Washington from New Orleans, where he Is attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
 General Beach comes to Florence for an inspection of Wilson dam and also for a conference with Col. Hugh L. Cooper. consulting engineer for Wilson dam, who will arrive here from New York on Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17

will be on display at the booths O. the company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17

Pressure under which carbon will liquify is about 15 tons to the square inch, according to experiments.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-11
CONNECTICUT QUITTING
"TOWN MEETING" PLAN

HARTFORD, Conn; June IL
The old-fashioned town meeting
form of government is passing IN
Connecticut, where it originated
and during the present year the
populous towns of Torrington ana
Milford will become cities.
Torrington, in population. ranks
ahead of many cities in. the State
because of it's huge manufacturing
plants, while Milford, a purely sum.
mer resort town, with many miles
of shore front on Long Island
Sound, believes its $4,000 additional
summer residents would prefer
city government.
With the two new cities, Connect
cut will have twenty-five with that
form of government. Greenwich,
home of many wealthy New York
ers, now becomes the most popu-
lous town in the State as well as
the richest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-11
GEYN IS
AMAZED THAT
GIRLS DRINK
Novelist Shocked, That Flap
pers Are Still as Wild
as Ever.
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

NEW YORK, June 11.-Mrs. Eli
nor Glyn, = whose romances OF
tangled passions and true loves
and others have shocked many peo-
pie, was shocked herself today.
Just back from Europe, the novel
ist came imbued with the idea that
here as abroad, as she claimed, the
flapper and the younger genera
ton in general had finished with
wildneSs.
The novelist whose books many
parents hide from. their daughters,
was Mortified when told by re-
porter that the general impression
here was the girls of the younger
generation wouldn't permit their es-
corts to put. soda in their WHISTLES
because they want it straight.
Mrs. Glyn, dressed in a gray
gown, gray hat and gray shoes-a
study in quiet elegance in star
Ting contrast to her gay attire OF
few years ago-recoiled in amaze
ment.
''Oh, can't believe it," she said.
Il am for everything modern, but
it is up to the mothers to see
such things don't go on
She was told the mothers didn't
find out because the girls ate pep
Dermints on the way home.
II can't bear to, believe it," she
said with a near sob. "Those beau
tiful flowers-soiledg'
She shifted the talk to censorship.
"The public is the best Judge of
what is good or bad" she declared.
we need no laws about it,"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-11
AUTHORS SHOW
|. WHAT s WRONG
.|N|THF|LNS
Each Writer Tells Motion Pic
, ture Congress How to
Make Movies.
By ELSIE MCCORMICK,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

=
+ NEW YORK, June lift there
is anything the matter with mo-
ton pictures, the producers ought
to know what it is. For two days,
while the first International Con-
gress on Motion Picture Arts was
in session here, members of the
Authors League ladled out advice
at. such "a rate that If they were
being paid by the word, the pro-
ducers would now be on the way
to pawn their last collar button.
b The diagnosis varied all the way
from Fthe. suggestion, of Otto Kahn,
the banker, made at last nights
banquet, that the producers need
more romanticism in their make-ups,
to DIR. Henry Van Dykes remarks
that. screen OSCILLATION should be
curtailed because no human beings
could endure kisses SO numerous
and so lengthy.
"Manslaughter, and one of the
speakers, complained that film
heroines are all mems women.
Eighty per cent of the moving
picture audiences are women" said
Mrs. Miller, why not create a few
heroines for them--at least a few
who are not virtuous morons or
snaky vamps? Put few women in
positions of authority at the studio
and they will produce the types
that the feminine part Of the
audience wants"
Peter B. Kyne, who attended the
session, but was not on the pro-
gram, had emphatic ideas of his
| own on the shortcomings of the
films. THE producers need more
human intelligence, more artistic
ability, and 2 per cent of the
courage Of a sick jack rabbit" Mr..
| Kyne said. Making pictures is
| the most conservative business in
| the world, not excluding banking.
1t has been ruined by the confer
ence system, by calling in abo1V
three times more cooks than are
necessary to spoil the broth. Each
company should be under a one
man control, man with the cour-
age to pick what appeals to him
personally, without always gum
shoeing after the public taste"
Irwin Wheeler, who represented
the motion picture exhibitors, de.
clared that if the word "love" ap.
| PSSAto III AI1C tlIIC VI d picture,
or his patrons stay away. People
are less and less inclined to the
sentimental and the sex stuff u
he said. There is an increased de-
n1and for fewer fearful heroines
and more Virile Stories
Elmer Rice, author of "On
Trial and THE Adding Machine, "
was one Of the most severe critics
of the industry to speak at the ses
sion. The process of making a mo
ton picture today is not artistic ut
all" he said. 1T is a mechanical
process. Motion pictures are made
in the same way that automobiles
are made. The parts are standard
lied as the parts in a cheap auto
mobile are standa rdized; they are
assembled in about the same way
and the final product looks very
much the same"
One Of the interesting announce
ments was Ellis Parker Buffers
statement that Adolph luxor, film
magnate, had established a yearly
prize of $4,000 to be given to the
author of the best photoplay writ
ten within the year. s,. 49,.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-11
Washington Woman Was Unable
To Sleep Or Rest Well Until
She Took HypO-COd

Mrs. II. J. Burnside, of 900 &c"
Et. n. E., writes: Il needed some.
thing TO build me up. / was in a
general rundown condition, and
felt weak and tired all the time.
My work seemed drudgery to me,
and ! had no strength and lacked
energy. l could not sleep or rest
well, and would get up all tired
out in the; morning. My appetite
was poor, and 1 was losing weight
every day. One day / read about
Hypo-Coda and what it was doing
for others and 1 decided to try. it
myself. 1t has worked wonders
with me; it has built me up and
I now feel stronger than ! have for
o long, long time. My appetite is
good again. and / now enjoy a good
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-11
Science Was Confident

Medical science in 1914 entered the war with
a confident smile on its lips. Medical men
had accepted the long disputed theories-knew
all about bacteria They had every little bug
catalogued and classified. They knew his hab-
its and his methods. They knew that so long
as cleanliness prevailed no microbe could get
in. Every hospital was immaculate, not germ
anywhere. Having fully applied their ounce
of prevention they announced: "Bring your
wounded, there will be no infection in this
war;" And oh what a grim disillusionment
was theirs!
The wounded came in untold numbers Never
in the history OF warfare had there been so
many, or such wounds. Though the hospitals
and frst-aid stations were indeed sterilized and
aseptic, the same could not be said for the
cut and torn soldier. For weeks he had been
tramping over a terrain long known as the
worlds battle ground. For centuries the germs
of former wars had been lurking there, ready
to fasten on the PROSTATE soldier of the next
war. The soldiers had been inoculated against
most Of the germs that they were likely to
swallow and so long as they kept whole they
were comparatively safe from microbic attack.
But let the soldiers skin be broken and the
horror of infection burst upon him in pesti-
Dental fury. A simple scratch from barbed
wire barricade in the morning developed into
a pus pocket by evening, blood-poisoning
fever in another day, and amputation or death
within week.
bullet Or shell fragment or bayonet thrust
would gather some tetanus germ or gas gang
rene bacteria or other dread microbes as it
passed through the clothing of the soldier and
would deposit them deep in the vital parts of
his body-there to multiply and breed gallop-
ing putrefactions while he lay on the field or
in shell hole waiting to be picked up by the
litter bearers.
The surgeons were quite right. There could
be no infection from within the hospital medi-
cal science had taken care of that, but the
wounded soldier had become infected at the
very instant of his injury. Poisonous germs
had eaten well into him long before he could
be brought to their aseptic Ravens. They
had provided the ounce of prevention but had
not even the fraction of an ounce of cure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-11

fection-now less than one per cent died from
that cause. Thousands upon thousands who
walk the world to-day uncrippled. unafraid,
owe lives or limbs to the wizardry OF the
Little Sugeon. and his co-worker, the chem
ist. - =, s4.s,s
Is there greater Mar, story than this1 i
there anywhere in the archives Of history or
in the folios Of fable the recountnent OF . con-
quest over so numerous and overpOwering an
enemy7 Ask any veteran Of the World War
who was hospitalized after the discovery OF
the Carrel-Dakin solution and he will tell
you what was the greatest single accomplisllr
ment in the war,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-11
CHILD BROWNS IN TUB
WITH 6 INCHES OF WATER

NEW. YORK, June 11.-Marion
Ortiz, year-old daughter of Mrs.
Helen Orth, the Bronx, drowned In
six inches of water in bathtub
yesterday when her mother alb
scented herself from the bathroom
for a few minutes.
Mrs. Orth went to get clothes
for the baby. When she returned
little Marion was lying lace down
ward in the water. The mother
carried the child to a neighbor's
house and called a physician, but
the latter found the child dead.