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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
TURKS GOT EVIDENCE Intelligence Department Had Photo graphs Of All Guilty Greeks

While we were shepherding our terri fled charges (the Greek and Armenian refugees at Smyrna) to the pier, re- peatedly saw small squads of Turkish soldiers moving about and attentively scanning each little knot of shrinking refugees. At intervals they would pause, and wall would so up from the Greeks. A prisoner would be taken and marched away, writes Mark o. Prentiss in the Atlantic Monthly.
 It was heartbreaking to see a man torn from his family whose cries and pleading were in vain. There never was any undue violence in these ar- rests, but it all seemed very mysterious. Not until I was on my way back to Constantinople, did I learn from the son of great Turkish pasha what it all meant.
 Three years before, when the Turks had been retreating while the victorious Greeks were advancing from Smyrna, each unit of the Turkish army had had a staff photographer attached to it, and as the Turks were forced back and back and back, these men one by one dropped off, donned civilian clothes and went into business as village photographers. When the Greek troops came into the village, these apparently innocent pho- tographers were allowed to ply their trade.
 The proud Greeks, officials and civil ians alike, had their pictures taken for the folks back home. But the meek photographer kept copy, on the back of which he wrote the story of his Greeks behavior.
 Gradually an enormous collection of photographs of Greeks guilty of atroc. ities was built up in the files of the in telligence department at Angora and when, in due course of time, the Turks were. victors, Greek offenders-or those whom the Turks regarded as such could be identified and confronted with their deeds and the evidence against them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

Why are dealers willing to make such liberal terms on used cars and do they really sell most of their used cars 1 at cost. is question that is often asked by those who are not familiar with the automobile situation The answer to this is one of the easiest things in the world. To anyone who cares to do just, a bit of Investigating the answer is self evident.
 To begin with it is well to get the actual point of view from which the dealer conducts his business. and be it remembered for once and all that no regular automobile dealer is in the used car business nor did he ever start to selling used cars as a business. His business and the source from which he derives his income is first, last and al ways selling new automobiles. He only handles used cars as sort of by then only as he is forced into it by business necessity.
 Much of the new car selling is to people who already have car, which is either old, out of style, or unsuited- possibly too large or too small, or a touring car when it should be a closed car or a closed car when it should be a truck. When they come to the dealer to buy new car they always bring the one they already have with them. and on the dealers ability to accept this car as part of the payment on the new car hinges the 'yes" or mo" of the sale. So it is up to the new car dealer to be able to accept and dispose of used caks as a part of his new car business. On each car that he accepts there is an allowance of from probably one to several hundred dollars. This speedily runs up huge investment in used cars and becomes real prob- lem to the dealer who is anxious to liquidate this investment and also make room on his sales floor so that he can continue to accept used cars from his new car prospects.
 Not only does the investment become real menace, but there is also the question of space, and space in city the size of Birmingham means rents rent piling up month after month on cars which are steadily depreciating in value. It is this combination of room and investment that makes the dealer willing to meet the buyer more than half way on any used car he wants to purchase. Many of these cars can scarcely be told from new-they look like new and run like new Others are more worn and old. but in either case they are put in running condition and offered for sale--not at n profit, but at cost or cost plus actual expense in reconditioning and handling Ere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
PAINTERS WHO STARVED
Story Of Nineteenth Century Masters
 Is One Of Neglect And Poverty.


 Again and again I am asked by peo- pie who know nothing about art, but know what they like" what there is to admire in the pictures by Van Gogh. two of which have just been acquired for the British nation.
 I only run the risk of being laughed at if I say that Van Gogh did not paint a mere chair, but the soul of the chair, and that it is impossible to ex- plain it to those who do not feel the passion with which that wonderful Dutchman realized his conception of the real nature of inanimate objects as we'll as of living beings, says the Con tinental Edition of the London Daily Mail.
 The wonder to me is not that there are people willing to pay $15,000 and more for one of Van Gogh's pictures, but that this practical recognition of his greatness was delayed until after his death and that he was allowed to spend his life on earth in sordid pow erty and neglect and on the verge of starvation.
 But such is the story of the masters of the nineteenth century, and more particularly of the impressionists and Ntheir immediate precursors, Jean Fran cois Millet, the painter of the world famed "Angelus," is notable instance. One of his biographers tells us that 'his days were darkened by diversity and hope deferred, the gaunt specter of want lowered ever about his home, and was only driven from his threshold by almost superhuman efforts, while sick ness and suffering were never long ab- sent from his pillow
 Even more tragic than the story of Millet's life is that of Meryon's and Monticelli's. Meryon's whole career was a heartrending struggle against diversity, ending in starvation and madness. When he had completed his wonderful Paris set of etchings he vainly tried to find purchasers for it at $5 a set. In 1910 an impression of one of the plates, "L'Abside de Notre Dame," sold for $3,200, and $1,OO0 is about the average price paid by col lectors for a single impression of a plate from the Paris set.
 Monticello lived in such proverty that he had to go round the cafes of Marseilles to sell small masterpieces for $2.50, disposing of them only with difficulty even at that price, and died, half mad, in destitution."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
GO-HPSYATI0Ef
 SHOW INCREASE
New Place Ready For Business
 InSNortb Bfmfnghamra
 5 n Wsek i As E

Go-Zip filling stations are sprouting along Birmingham highways like mush- rooms overnight. Simultaneously with z the announcement of J-6regorya John. ,sston, president Of the General on cor poration that the North Birmingham Go-Zip station at Twenty-sixth street and Twenty-ninth avenue would be ready to give service in a week, George Blinn, vice president of the company announced that construction work has begun on a station being built by him at First avenue and Fifty-eighth street Woodlawn. A site has also been obtained by sMr. Rlinns with q 265 foot frontage at Roebuck, just outside the city limits, where another Go-Zip station will be erected.
 The stations at North Birmingham and Woodlawn followed the same archi. tectural design and conform to the same color scheme of red and white. : The WQodlawn station will be one ef < the most costly yet. erected in B1rming- ham it is stated, and will be equipped with wash and grease pits in addition to all accessory filling station service features.
 Much interest has been aroused among automobile owners in the report of the Picard laboratories, certificate of analysis on gasoline, used in Co., Zip manufacture. At the request of Mir. Johnston, a complete distillation was made by the bureau of Mines method on a sample of gasoline drawn from the storage tanks of the General Oil corporation at Avondale. D. O. Picard in his report to Mr.. Johnston on the outcome of the tests asserted that "this is an exceptionally high grade gasoline and ranks among the very highest in quality that we have ever examined. "Mr. Picard also points o6t that gasoline used in making Go-Zip is of higher standard than the 1918 or 1919 government specifica- tions for motor gasoline. Government specifications of 1918 require that a 20 per cent distifiation be obtained when gasoline is heated to a tempera- tuse of 221 degrees Farhrenheit. A 20 per cent distillation of Go-Zip gasoline was obtained at a temperature of only 194 degrees. Under government specifications of 1918 45 per cent distillation is required at temperature of 275 degrees, and under those of 1919 a 45 per cent distillation at 284 degrees. Go-Zip gasoline produced a 45 per cent distillation at 237.S de- grees. Throughout the entire table, figured by advances of five per cent, from to 95 per cent, gasoline taken from the Go-Zip tanks and used in the manufacture of the new motor fuel, showed distillation, far below the tenn peratures required in government specia fications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

159o to the maker. Just to get our formulas exact. We could save that extra on commercial runs =.
 We machine the entire surface of crank shafts, as was done on Liberty Airplane Motors. The extra cost is $6o0,0o0 per year. But the results are that perfect balance, that ab- sence of vibration.
 Every Studebaker car is Timken- equipped. The Specialist and the Big-Six have more Timken bearings than any car selling under $500 in America. The Light-Six more than any competitive car within $l,o0o of its price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
LORD GREENWOOD .CHIDEs US
Our Alleged Belief In National Im. munity From Sin Annoys Biographer

munity From Sin AnnOys Bi0srapher
 It is we'll that Americans cherish fondly high traditions derived from far back which will yet carry their people onward and it is well that men in other countries should gladly recog- nize-as they have not always-what is greatest in America, writes Lord Charnwood in The Observer (London) i.
 But certainly the greatest obstacle to foreign respect for America-to be candid, a standing subject of foreign derision-is the insensate persuasion still prevalent there of special im- munity of America from sin, whether in national dealings with other nations, or in any other matter. Nor can it well fail to be a degrading influence, going far to frustrate what truly is good in that country.
 A short time ago, gathered for as solemn an act of devotion as ever ex- pressed peoples life, the king, the prime ministers of the empire, and a crowded congregation representative of it, sang these words, taken, be it ob- served, from the most robustly patriotic of our poets:
 If, drunk with sight of power, we
 loose
 Wild tongues which have not Thee
 in awe, z For frantic boast and foolish :.
 word
 Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord! There has been one great American who thought and spoke like MT. Kip ling. It was Abraham Lincoln.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
GRADS" FEED STUDENTS

A college town in western New York, where nearly everybody goes to the in- stitution, presents some startling in. congruities. About a third of the res taurants are run by college graduates. and it is a common thing to see an ad in the papers like "Eat at. Bugs Bur gess" Restaurant, A. c. Burgess. '16, manager, says the New York Sun and Globe.
 One one street is an ice cream parlor whose proprietor has just received his degree of doctor of philosophy. Pro- fessors come in and discuss the winter habits of the bastidiospore, while the proprietor stands by in white apron. Of course no customer can interrupt such discussion, but must wait until the Ph. D. is through before he orders his nut sundae.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
BALLOON CORDS :. /,
 ARE ECONOMICAL
Birmingham Dealer Calls Them Good Business Investment
 For Owner

'So far. Firestone balloon gum dipped cords have appealed to most car owners, through their desire for greater comfort and safety in driving" says McCor- mack Brothers, local Firestone distribu- tors.
 "While the most striking character istics of these tires are safety and comfort. l believe that the day is not far off when the economy of these tires will be recognized as one of their chief advantages. From my own ex- perience I think they are real busi- ness investment that pays for itself in the course of very few months. 'Their pronounced cushiOning quali- ties, which result in such supreme comfort. naturally protect the car from wear and tear. Upkeep and re- placement expenses are lessened. Car depreciation is reduced.
 Although the carcass of the bal loon gum-dipped cord is necessarily thinner and more supple than the standard tire in use today, carefully kept records show that these tires re- turn just as long mileages. Punctures and blowouts are no more frequent. <Ahu NduoCo VI tAAC. ot v entirely removed.
 ''To make the flexible balloon gum dipped cord durable and long wear ing, Firestone employs the well known gum-dipped process, which has proved so successful in giant truck pneu- matics and in regular Firestone passenger car tires. By means of gum-dipping, the cords in body of the A-I A~I with rubber and thus protected from internal wear. This gum joins the component parts of the tire into a strong, inseperable union. Gum-dip- ping has actually made the balloon cord practical for everyday use.
 Two million miles of tests already conducted prove that by no means must the car owners sacrifice motor ing economy in order to obtain the many advantages of balloon gum dipped cortls.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
Don't Buy q Fine Car as1fu y0u see the leaders

Studebalers hold the top place in the dne-car field today. Last year, 145,00o people chose them against all rivals. They paid $200, ,000 for them.
 For 72 years the Studebaker name has stood for the utmost in quality. It will never stand for less.
 Today there are assets of $90,000,O00 staked on the Studebaker cars.
 Don't pay $1 ,00o or more for a car with out knowing what Stakeholder offers. You will find here some scores of advantages. Learn what they mean to you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
Other costly extras

Our bodies are finished with 1e operations, including IS coats of paint and varnish.
 We use real leather upholstery. The cost is about $2S per car over imitation leather.
 That Chase Mohair upholstery in closed cars is made from the soft fleece of Angora goats. A velour or worsted upholstery would save us up to $100 per car.
 The many extras on our large closed cars would cost much if you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

-, 38H10 oSOkCo OI ways which it excels any rival car.
 That is why, in the fne-car field. the Stakeholder leads. The demand has almost trebled in the past three years. These cars have become the sensation of Motordom. On some ot these models we have never yet been able to meet the demand.
 We spend money lavishly. We build without regard to cost. But in our quantity production, we still bring costs to bottom.
 You should learn what these things mean to you before you buy car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
$50, ,OOO, ,OOOinblants

We have invested $50,- 000,0c0 in modern plants and equip Inent. $s,00o,000 in drop forge plants. $10,000,0 900 in body plants -as the only way to do Stakeholder coach work.
 These plants are equipped with 12,500 up-to-date machines, many of them very expensive.
 But consider the alternative. Profits to other makers. We save up to $2oo on some bodies by build ing them ourselves. , 1870 extra on steel
 On some steels we pay bonus of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
LEARNING FROM DAD

Teacher-If four quarts equal one gallon how much is a pint?
 Bootlegger's Son-Four dollars New York Sun and Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

Our Department of Re- search and Experiment employs 125 skilled men. It spends vast sums in analyses and tests.
 Our Bureau of Meth ods and Standards fixes every formula, every re- quirem ent. It makes 500,000 tests per year to maintain our high stand ards.
 We make 30,000 in- spections on every Stude- baker car during manu- facture before it goes out of the factory. We ern- ploy 1,200 men to do that.
 Those are heavy costs. But remember how they are divided by 150,000 cars per year. They form but a trif1e per car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
Are We Extravagant? Here are some costs on Studebaker cars
 Would you have as them dozvn?

bought them. The nickel-plated bumpers, the extra disc wheels and cord tires, the steel trunk, the co,lr- tesy light, etc. Extras to oar men
 We pay the highest labor scale. Then we add extras to it.
 Men who are with us five years or over get 109o of their years wages in an anniversary check. Those an- niversary checks last year cost us $l,300,000.
 After two years all employees get week of vacation with pay. That cost us last year $225, ,00O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS

The three great essentials of success. .ful business, a successful manufacturer said recently, knowing how to find facts; how to know facts, and how to use facts-Nation's Business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
MANY US. CARS TO AUSTRALIA

Australia is the leading export mar ket for American motor cars. The val ue of the cars exported direct to Aus tralia in 1922 was $23,000,0OO. In ad- dition. considerable exports were made by Canadian branches of American manufacturers. The total population of Australia is less by 100000 than that of New York city, not including any of it's suburbs-Compressed Air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

v Y TE are lavish on Studebaker NAk cars. For some features we pay three and four times what they need cost.
 Here are some of those costs which affect you. Tell us-would you want any one reduced?
 Our prices on high-grade Sizes run from $e75 to $2685. They stand at bottom in the fne-car field, despite these extra costs. All because the de \ mand requires 150,000 cars per year. But they could be lower if we cut these costs. Would you have Us do it?
 Engineering-$5OO,OOO
 Our engineering departments cost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

OAu eI11PloyeS who f0~ tire get pensions. Our cooperative department costs Us $2,ooo,ooo per year.
 All this to keep men with us while they grow more and more efficient. To make them happy, SO they do their best.
 This is all paid by peo- pie who buy Studebaker cars. But we figure that each such dollar saves us five dollars. Don't you agree with us?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
The NtnlOSt in car VaIue

The object is to give you the utmost in car value. You will find we do that if you make com. parisons. In any Stude- baker model, you will
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-11-03
Copyright Public Ledger

Ell asesinato de Jacques Henri, rico
propictario de Britannia, habia va preo-
cupado {. la policia local durante dos
neses. cuando Sc decidieron a solicitar
IA ayuds de M. Canler Jefe de la fuer-
"a policiaca de Paris q. estaba en- dicha
pobIaci6n pasando unas /vacaciones La
primera manifestation de NJ Canler,
en- Ell sentido de que una mujer estaba
complicada EN- el crimen les sorprendlo
aun mas que ell descubrimiento mismo
i del ca.,iver
Sclamente por ell hecho de que Henri
habia sidc asesinado, su cuerpo des-
cualtizado, cosido en- sacos, y echado
al rio. la policia local sostenia que 81
criminal debia ser un hombre. Pues ,
argumentaban ellos, 'fera impossible
que una rnujer actIase de esa manera'
Cuandc una mujer desea matar apela
a metodos mas sencillos, no trataria
dc ocultar ell cadaver como sucedio
en- ell caso de Henri.
"Examinad los 1nismos sacos'', con-
tinuo diciendo Canler. "jOs fijais CO.
mo estan cosidos? No estan amarrados
como hubiera hecho un hombre, silo
cosidos con aguja. Ningun hombre usa
hilo y aguja cuando lin pedazo de cor
don puede descmpefar Ell mismo papel
Ello indica Ia complicated de una mu-
jer en- este crimen. Buscad a la mujer
que pGt,iera salir ganando con la muer-
te de Fenri-bien por celos por otro
motive mas s6rdido--, v por 10 menos
t5ndreis I'm testigo que os podra da.
preciosos informes. -
Las deducciones de Canler no podian
ser mas correctas, pues al iniciar una
nueva investigation la policia descu
brio que la sonora Henri, que Sc habi1
ccnducido como un cordero durante Ia
nvestigacion preliminar, era verda
= deramente una hiena y tenia una fuer
"a sobre hrmana. Despues de ruda lu
cha, IL mujer no pudo contenerse y con
feso que habia dado muerte a su es
poso impulsada por los celos, y uuC
luego habia tratado de destruir la evi
dencia echando al cadaver al rio, 'To
do 10 Cual'', dijo ell juez que intervinC
en- ell case, "hubiese permanecido Ell
Ell misterio, 81 M. Canler no Sc hubies5
dido cuenta de qua una mujer habis
intervenido en- Ell crimen, algo que para
los deinas detectives pasaba inadver
! lido
Ell MISTERIO DEL PAPEL
SECANTE
Reinaba gran exclraci6n en- Capel
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-11-03

Court, en- Shorters Court en- otros lu.
cares cercanos a las oficinas de la Lon
don Stock Exchange Co., pues Arthur
I. Day de la vieja y acreditada firma
Day s. Sons, agen5es de accdones. te-
MIA que iamentar la desaparicion de ST.
msnssjero, quien Sc habia escapade
NADIA lnenos que con cincuenta mil Ii,
bras esterlinas.
Day segun pudo averiguar ell ms
pector Andrews Lansdowne, de Scot
land Yard, cuando comenzo a invest
gar Ell case, era modelo de honradez.
No oDstante, Lansdowne estaba SECURE
de que ell ladron habia salido de In.
glaterra donde podria disfrutar de su
dinero, vivir lhjosamente.
A pesar de todo, Lansdowne sospe-
! chaba de Day, hizo en- su casa un mi
nucioso registro, pero sin resuEtado al
guno. A pesar de sus esfuerzos no con-
seguia pista alguna, hasta que Sc fij6
Ell un pedazo de papel secante que es-
| taba en- el escritorio de Day
] Al poner Ell secante frente un es-
pejo, ell detective no pudo leer NADIA,
sino unas cuantas rayas, pero luego,
NJ fijarse con mas detenimiento. fue-
ron surglendo letras.
Hay una M may1scula'', dijo Ell,
t'y luogo una r: ''Pero al final. no Sc
puede distinguir 81 ese rasgo es I'm pun
to una s. "Be' ell resto de esa
palabra es ininteligible. "C'' o "O",
una "T'' con un punto un boron
despues ''F'', y luego dos 1etras que
no sc distinguen. Algo que Sc parece
q una IT, Y gracias Dios ell n1mero
de Ia casa esta claro, Gas. Pero la di-
-eccion es tan dificil de descifrar como
el nombre. FB...k Square,.
IHub:ese usted con esa sola pista
descifrado ell misterio Y encontrado al
mensaiero desaparecido?
Ell nlsector Lansdowne 10 hizo.
| " I'D. CoNoCERA sU METoDo
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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-11-03
LA ALIANzA EN- RIO PIEDRAs
Flo Piedras. Oct %. 1a2

Rio Piedras, Oct. 90, 1924.
Sr. Director de
Ell MUNDo,
San Juan.
La aianza triunfara en- esta pobla-
ci6n por una mayoria no mas de 200
votos, 81 los senores que dirigen la
campana desplegan toda sus activida-
des ell dia de las eleccionts.
UN ELECTOR CAPACITADO.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-11-03
iPUEDE listed RESOL VER---
La pista del papel secante?
UNA De LAS HAzANAS DE Los DETECTIVES MAS CRAyDES
DEE MUNDOl

Ssrdica te Eeclusivo para Ell MUNDO).
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-11-03

Reinaba gran exclraci6n en- capel