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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-19
Regular $5. .OO Models

Yes. we are going to undersell everyody on New
 Fall Hats-by offering actual $500 hats for $275
 there are all wanted. cOlors and combinations in fine velvets, etc.-off-the-face style - poke shapes and tricornes-large and small head sizes decidedly the best values in town this season. at
Evening star., 1924-02-21
CARROLL APPOINTED
i, AT HAvRE De GRACE
Coolidge Sends Nomination as Post
\ master to Senate-0ne Vir-
f.. ginian Named.
'1s OTHER STATES ARE ON LIST
Widely Scattered Offices Filled by
-
Executive Action.
1s OTHER STATES ARE ON LIST

President Coolidge yesterday after
moon sent to the Senate the nominal
tion OF Harry A. Carroll to be post
master ut Havrc de Grace. Md.
At the same time he sent the fol-
lowing nominations of postmasters
to the Senate: -.
= Observation-Disclosures, David G..
SnodgraSs.
1 AIabama-Marion. Jethro D. Den
mis-: Madison, Ora 3. Wann.
ADMINISTRATIONS John NJ. Gar
rett
cslifornia-Ccntervill Frank, T.
Hawes; Oakland. John F.. Conners.
Holorado-Elizabeth Alice A. Blaz-
er: Fowler. Ben II. Glaze: Rifle, John
L. Munro.
Connecticut--East Haddam, Mar
shall lmmons.
pelaware--ocean View. George w.
Mitchell.
kansas-Lcnora. Joseph " Barbo:
Mont2Zuma. Nora J. Casteel
Ecntucky-M McRobertS. Sam H. Fish
er; WeekabI='y. Fred Hail.
Maine kittery. Thomas T.. Wilson
Michigan Sawyer. .Icns. I'll. Wester.
characterization, Charles q. rarl-
son; Morgan. Francis s. Pollard
saint flilaire, Selma O. Hoff: Under
wood. Alfred Gronner.
Observation-Disclosures, Melvin J. kel-
ley.
New Yorh-Dovcr Plains. Elmer c.
,Wyman; -tu Sable Forks. Medose j.
Robert.
> ohio--Ashland. Arthur L. Won Os-
dali: Ashley. Edward NJ Barber;
Bremen. Elizabeth a. krizer: Degraf.
Andrew l.. Erunson; Hopedalr. Eliza
beth L.. Grim: Jrwctt, Bayard T.
Thompson; Morrow. Glenn Couden:
New Lexington, La Bert Davie; West
jefferson, Rufus \. Borland; Brad
ford. Charles T.. Eniesly
br"s"n-Iiillsboro. Fred G.. Holz-
ndgtl.
Oklahoma Rolf. John j. Jones
l'ennSyl observation-disclosures Hook Harry
T. i'"t"-= Nind-ap. N3ithaniei Sha pin
;. Ten n. .<st".-i-u,-y- Thomas w viii
HamS: Manchester, Alfred V. Euycc.
Evening star., 1924-02-21

me tn pillow" Beck, always inter-
esting and capable, gave a sound
reading Of the role Of the count.
Rupert Brooke's 'Lithuania" follow
ed. 1t was exquisitely done by Ar
thur Rhodes and Joe Hutchison, in
the only two roles that seem to de-
serve notice. Brooke. a poet of the
first line, wrote in "Lithuania," what
is probably q poor play. Mr.. Bell
acted himself in "Lthuania," and Miss
Josephine Hutchinson stays in your
memory as q fascinating savage who
took "Lithuania," and kept it!
Color, scenic and dialogic, stand
out in elizabeth Tudor" James Rey,
nolds has dramatized the famous
"chess incident" Of whitehall, and
employed Leicester. Drake. Penn
broke. Anna Woolsley and a few court
attaches to fine advantage. The
beauty of the spoken words, as Rey-
nolds wrote them. lies in their di-
rectness, unadorned. He has con-
ceived superb play, fiery, fashioned
adroitly. and particularly suited to
the talents of Anne Ives, who does
Elizabeth very nicely.
Evening star., 1924-02-21
HOLDS STOCK GAMBLING
NOW NATIONAL VICE

Gambling i'll stocks and commodi-
ties has become a national vice, Sena-
tor King, democrat, Utah, declared
yesterday in the course of a speech
advocating a searching inquiry into
the operation of all exchanges.
Senator King had referred to the
Senate judiciary committee a report
by District Attorney Banton of New
York giving the result of an analysis
of 100 failures in brokerage firms and
outlining remdeial legislation.
Stocks and bonds transferred in
one year upon the stock exchanges,
Senator King said. represented two
thirds of the aggregate capital value
of every commercial organization in
the country. while the transactions
last year on the New York exchange
were two and one-half times the to-
tai capital value of firms listed on
that board"
Evening star., 1924-02-21
REPORT ON SHENANDOAH.
Board Says Repairs i'll Recent
Escape TO Be $4,000.

Tho naval board Of inquiry which
Investigated the recent escape of the
l.. :. =. Shenandoah from her moorinr
mast at Lahchurst, y. J.. reported to
IN" department yesterday that repairs
10 the dirigiblc will require ten
weeks to complete and cost $4,000.
TIL" question of responsibility for the
accident was not taken up by the
board.
The board recommended that the
bailoonctS holding the helium gas
within the outer shell Of the ship be
Debated in order that complete exam
lnation Of the structural damage sus-
tainCd when the mouring ring and
nCSc plat" pulled out could be made.
The department has approved that
course aud the heiium will he purified
and stored until the ship is again
ready for use.
Evening star., 1924-02-21
of the merchant marine COM

member Of the merchant marine COM
mittee.
Inquiry into the aircraft industry
was suggested by Representative
Nelson of Wisconsin, eAder of the re-
publican insurgents, whose original
resolution provided that it should be
handled by the House patents COM
mittee, of which Representative Lam
pert, also a Wisconsin insurgent, is
chairman.
position Of Mr.. Nelson and the four
democratic members, asserted that
the aircraft Investigation, II conduct
ed, should be in the hands Of spe-
cial committee. Later Mr.. Nelson de-
clared he had not determined whether
he would press for House authoriza-
ton of such an inquiry, as he be-
lieved it should be handled by the
patents committee.
Evening star., 1924-02-21
49 STUDENTS STRICKEN.

By the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, February 21.--Forty-
nine students at Lincoln Memorial
University, Harrogate. Tenn, are
suffering from typhoid fever, accord
ing to word received here yesterday.
The southern division Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, Atlanta, will send
a representative to the University
to render any assistance needed
in caring for the patients, Mrs. N.
f. Logan, chairman of the health
committee of the chapter here, was
advised today.
Evening star., 1924-02-21
ADJUSTMENTS
Rams Head Players New
Bill y.

Director General Ball of the Rams
Head Playhouse, quite topped ex-
pectations last nikht when he offered
surely tho finest trio Of short plays
he has presented since the Rams
Head came into being.
"A Door Must Be Open or Shut"
the first OF the three. proved a
charming dialogue. by the late AL
fred de Musset. Caroline Peter and
Walter Beck were the players. Miss
Peter, winsome, at times radiant, and
certainly a stunning creature in a
fastidious white frock, sparkled her
way into favor. She has a good voice,
beauty. surety; arrogance mixed with
simplicity. Supposedly IL hoity-toity
marQuise she ordered Beck to "gim-
Evening star., 1924-02-21
FIGHTS OCEAN RATES.

Opposition to the increase OF 10
cents per hundred pounds in the east
bound ocean freight rates on certain
farm products, announced by the
north Atlantic steamship lines as eff
fectiVe March 1. has been declared
by Secretary Wallace of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
According to the Associated Press
the increase, the Secretary declared
would be detrimental to American
agricultural producers, especially at
this time, and to business in general.
Mr.. Wallace believes the increase
wholly unwarranted, and indicated he
was moving to protect the agricul-
tural interests and relieve the situa-
tion.
Evening star., 1924-02-21
SHIPS AND AIR PROBE
MEASURES FAVORED
House Rules Committee Votes to
Report Two Resolutions for
Investigations.

Investigation Of the Shipping Board
and Of the aircraft industry is recon-
mended by the House rules commit
tee. which voted to favorably report
two resolutions, each calling for a
special committee Of seven members.
to be appointed by the Speaker.
The resolution proposing an inves-
tigation Of Shipping Board activities
was introduced by Representative
Davis of Tennessee, o democratic
Evening star., 1924-02-21

elizabeth Tudor" is a veritable
Babylon OF color. The scene in
Whitehall eXudes Elizabethan pig.
ments. And the costumes prove Mr..
Reynolds claim to artistry-the real
thing! BY the way, he also designed
costumes and scenic appointments
for the other two plays.
Evening star., 1924-02-21

By finishing second among all con-
testants in tile Cincinnati boat races,
Mrs Ethel I1anley of Muscatine,
Iowa, becomes the champion woman
speed boat driver of the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
BILLS DENOMINATION
FIXES LENGTH OF LIFE
DOLLAR BILL WEARS OUT IN
A YEAR, WHILE $4,000 BILL
LIVES FOREVER.

Down in the tropics, where native
workmen often carry paper money
tucked inside their shirts, against
their bare skins, its life is very short.
The average American paper dollar,
circulating right here at home, seldom
wears more than a year; $40 bill may
last four years, and a $4,000 bill-for
painfully b vious RESPONSIVENESS
wears out To make sure that all pa
per used is amply stout, it is put
through a testing machine. One piece
| saw was folded, unfolded and re-
folded l,400 times before it broke,
writes Frederick Simpich in The Sat
urday Evening Post.
1t costs Uncle Sam practically as
much to make 81 bill as it does to
make a $40 or a $4,000 note-about
IS cents each, they told me at the
treasury. So, even if it we're practical
bic to use gold, and even if we always
had enough, it would cost more
through loss by abrasion to use it
than to use paper. At that, some 5000,
100000 in gold is in circulation, or
theoretically so-for most OF it is kept
in the vaults OF banks.
Every udg Olu paper lllOllCg IIONSo
i'll a steady stream to the treasury,
and new bills move out More than
$1,000,000 a day is destroyed, and OF
course an enormous amount must be
kept on hand to meet new demands.
In one small cupboard about three
feet square | saw $642, 100000 in pa
per money-said to be the most val
liable pile anywhere.
Our 81 bills, being used the most,
wear out soonest Many OF the twos
turned in have one corner torn off
proof that gamblers and others still
believe a s. bill is unlucky, and that
only by tearing off a corner is the
hoodoo broken.
"A $40 bill" says Frank Thiel, as
sistant treasurer, will last on an aver
age less than four years. Just how
much paper money is lost or destroyed
and never returned for redemption is
difficult to estimate One guess says
that it is not more than one-quarter OF
l per cent"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

1t was 3 O'Clock OF clear, crisp
winter morning, and ringing gong
had alarmed to life the palatial home
in the center OF a California orange
grove. Two minutes later three men
emerged from a door to seize waiting
torches, and lighting them as they
ran. they disappeared within the shad-
ows OF the long dark lanes between
the rows OF trees writes George b.
Bowers in Pennsylvania Grit.
The scene was strange and weird.
But the ringing gong was neither a
fire nor a burglar alarm. 1t was a trap
set to foil Jack Frost From the dist
ant snow-capped mountain peaks he
had let loose gentle waves OF cold to
roll down the slopes into the valley
to set ringing the gongs that warned
its jewellers OF his coming
Thermostats located in the 4O-acre
grove had recorded falling tempera-
ture that set ringing the gong in the
owners bedroom. He with his helpers
had hurried out with torches to light
the smudge- pots filled with crude oil
already Tor just such an emergency.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

When we were taught that warm air
rises, our teachers did not state an
exact fact. Warm air never rises OF
its own accord but only when forced
up by colder and heavier air displac-
ing it. Air OF high attitudes is always
cooler than that OF lower, but it re-
mains high because it is still lighter
and rarer than the light warm air at
the earth's surface If nature had not
wisely made this provision there new
or would be any pleasant summer
months
Although the air surrounding the
mountain peaks is colder than valley
air, it stays in place because the low
land atmosphere, although lighter in
itself, is saturated with water so as to
make it even heavier than the cold
above, hence both the cold and the
warm remain in place. But in winter
the mountains are snOW-Capped, and
the air grows colder and rolls down
the slopes to displace the warmer air
wherever the valley jewellers take no
measures to prevent it. If the cold
air from the mountain peaks was not
kept out the valley orange groves
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Jack Frost Rings Bells of Warning to California Growers

would be frozen or even totally de-
stroyed.
In California the orange growers
do not let the cold air from above dis
place their warm air; they make it
heavier than the invading cold air.
The snudgepots warm the loWland
air, FIJI it with heavy particles OF burn
ed oil and water evaporized by the
burning oil and the dew of the sur
rounding vegetation, making it heav-
Ter and able to withstand the pressure
OF the cold, crisp air over it. The
warm, lower and moist air remains,
the lighter cold air cannot displace it.
The thermostat connected by wires
with the gong in the bedroom had
been set to permit contact when the
temperature had fallen to 80 degrees
Fahrenheit, so as to allow a margin
OF time in which fires could be lighted
and the lower air heated and saturat-
ed to give weight to sustain the pres
sure OF the increasing volume OF cold,
heavy air rolling down the mountain
slope This is the way that electricity
has been used to ioil Jack Frost in
California
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
RELATIVES SOUGHT
FOR WOMAN'S RICHES
AGED WANDERERS DEATH RE-
VEALS SHE HAD SECURI-
TIES IN MANY BANKS.

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Nation-wide
search was started today Tor relatives
OF Jane Mccullough, an aged wan
derer." who died here Friday. 1t is
said her effects have disclosed that she
had a fortune in stocks and bonds de
posted in various banks from Los
Angeles to New York.
Body Unclaimed.
The woman, friendless and suppos-
eddy penniless, died in a hospital. The
unclaimed body was turned over to
the Pennsylvania Anatomical Society
when discovery OF what is reputed to
be the record Of a fortune was made.
John A. Freyvogel, member OF
the society, said records among the
woman's effects showed apparently
that she had placed stocks and bonds
in banks at Los Angeles, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Wilmington, Del, New
York and other cities. kilograms
were sent to the police OF those cities
asking aid in the search for relatives.
Personal letters revealed that the
woman was a native of Wilmington
and that she was also known as Jane
Chalmers and Elizabeth Agnew. The
letters disclosed that she had been
travelling from place to place for the
last 10 years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
HOW BOIL WEEWL
FEEDS ON COTTON
ATTACKS PLANT AS SOON AS
UP AND EATS LEAVES UN-
TIL SQUARES APPEAR.

When the weevils come out OF Their
winter quarters they go quickly to the
nearest cotton, upon which they begin
to feed. The feeding may take place
on the seed leaves or regular leaves Il
any have developed. The insects are
usually found in the extreme tip OF
the plant Ii feeding happens to take
place at the point where the two seed
leaves branch the plant frequently
dies but feeding elsewhere has little
effect on the growth Of the plant.
Feeding continues in these places until
squares appear Then the principal
food is the squares. As long as the
plants have an abundance OF squares
(which have not been punctured the
developing bolls are practically Tree
OF injury. but with the increase in the
number of weevils in the fields and
the puncturing OF a majority OF the
squares the insects begin attacking
bolls.
1t is necessary for the female wee
wills to obtain food IRON the squares
before they are able to develop eggs
AS long as they have nothing but
leaves to eat, as is the case every year
in the spring they show no tendency
TO lay eggs.
After beginning to lay eggs the
female weevil obtains practically all
of its food value while it is gnawing
holes in the squares in which to place
eggs. The male weevil, however, re
mains on a square for some time,
punCturing it over and over until it
begins TO become dry.
Weevils regularly take moisture
from dew or rain drops on the leaves
and other parts of the plants.
The first sign OF the injury OF cot
ton squares by weevils is what is call
ed faring This is the spreading out
ward of the three leaf-like divisions
OF the shuck enclosing the square. At
about the same time that the square
flares it turns yellow in color These
flaring and disclored squares are cas-
ily seen in the field How soon
flaring occurs depends on the size Of
the square and the climatic condition,
Sometimes it takes overnight but gen
orally not Tor two or three days after
the egg has been placed in the square
Practically all squares which have
been fed on or have eggs placed in
them drop to the ground. Usually
it is about a week from the time a
squares receives an egg until it falls
In tests in cages it has been found
that the weevil greatly prefers Sea
Island or Egyption cotton to any Of
the upland American varieties, but
among the latter no special choice is
shown. The greater yields from some
varieties under boil weevi1 conditions
is due to more rapid fruiting
The boil weevil is sometimes found
on plants other than cotton II is
often observed in olra blooms 1t has
never been found placing eggs in okra
pods and efforts to force it to do so
have failed In one laboratory ex-
pertinent a weevil developed in the bud
OF a wild plant related to cotton, but
in thousands OF observations in cases
have been found OF the development
OF the WeeUl in any plant other than
cotton.
When placed in bottles the weevils
will feed on various fruits, but this
is only due to starvation and prob
ably never occurs under natural condi-
tons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Woman Flyer Hurt in Leap
From Auto to Auplane
Mabel Cody Falls so Feet When Rung
Of Hanging Ladder Breaks.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla-M e
Cody, stunt flyer, received serious in
iuries when she fell from an airplanC
to which she had just leaped from a
speeding automobile at Pablo Beach
Fncar here
She succeeded in Selling the ladder
hanging from the plane, but lost her
hold 50 feet up.
Miss Cody was taken to hospital
unconscious, but it was said her in
jurics would not prove fatal Witness
es said the rung OF the ladder to which
she chung broke The automobile was
travelling about Is miles an hour and
the plane about 90 at the time OF the
accident which was witnessed by sew
eral thousand persons.
Miss Cody's home is in Newport
News, Va.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

The peach crop is considered safe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
OYSTERS ON HUMAN SKULL
IS DUG UP AT BILOXI

The schooner Mona, fishing for a
local packing company brought to
Biloxi, Miss, part OF human skull
upon which oysters had propagated
and had grown to remarkable size
The skull is believed to have been
that of person drowned some years
ago, says the New Orleans Times
Picayune. Fishermen dug it up with
oyster dredges near Dead Mans Is
land. 1t was brought to the city with
a cargo of oysters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
USES ARMY OF CIVILIANS;
544,671 ON u. S. PAYROLLS
Nation Has Reduced Force of EN-
ployes by $1,000 Since War.

The army OF government civilian
employees numbered 544,671 at the be
ginning of 1924, having been reduced
.373,0S9 since the armistice.
The number is still 106,6l5 more
than on June 80, 1916, before the Unit
ed States entered the warld war, &C
cording to civil service commission
statistics.
The postoffice department employs
294.226 persons, or slightly more than
81 per cent of the total. That figure
does not include 36,63S clerks at fourth
class offices, because they are not paid
by the government, nor 10000 mail
Lmessengers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Blueberry Being Grown
In Southwest Georgia
Thousands of the Bushes Have Been
Transplanted in Several Counties.

Transplanted in Several Counties,
The blueberry, which resembles
very closely cultivated huckleberry,
has found a place in the diversified
agricultural program OF southwest
Georgia.
An initial investment, approximate
ly 21,000 BURBERRY bushes have re-
Gently been transplanted in four coun-
ties in the section around Cairo, Ga,
it is said and if the industry is found
to be profitable it is likely that south
west Georgia will, in few years, rival
the big BURBERRY section OF west
Florida.
Lowndes county leads in the num-
Der OF bushes transplanted to the pres
ent time according to w. H. Spivey,
a west Florida grower, who has been
experimenting the transplanting of
bushes at Cairo. There are, it was
stated, 5000 bushes in Lowndes, 1000
in Grady, 1000 in Colquitt and 1000
in Mitchell Other counties are giving
the industry trial on smaller scale.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Ouch! Aching Joints,
Rub Rheumatic Pain
Rub Pain right out with small
trial bottle of old
"St. Jacobs OIL"

Rheumatism is pain only.
Not one case in fifty requires inter-
nal treatment. Stop dragging! Rub
soothing, penetrating St Jacobs Oil'
right into your sore, stiff, aching
joints, and relief comes instantly. "St.
Jacobs Or is d harmless rheumatism
liniment which never disappoints and
cannot burn the skin.
Timber up! Quit complaining! Get
a small trial bottle of old, honest "St,
Jacobs Oil" at any drug store, and in
just a moment you'll be free from
rheumatic pain, soreness and stiffness.
Don't suffer! Relief awaits you. st.
Jacobs Oil" is just as good for SCI
atica, neuralgia, lurnbago, backache,
sprains.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
RICHLAND NEWS PASSES TO
CONTROL OF NEW EDITORS
Editor Brown Retires to Give Entire
Time to Ministry.

The Richland News ANNOUNCES that
on April 1st it passes into the hands
OF Messrs. Banes and Son. of Kanka-
kee. H., who have leased the office
and outfit for one year with the privi-
lege OF purchasing it at the expiration
OF year if business results satisfac-
torily
Editor NJ B. Brown, who entered
ministerial work some months ago, re-
tires from the newspaper in order to
give his full time to the churches he
is serving as pastor.
Messrs. Banes and Son are expert
enced newspaper men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
MRS. !. P. WILLIAMS DEAD;
PRESIDENT OF RAILROAD
Was Chief Owner of Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida Railway

Mrs. Cora B. Williams, widow OF
the late J. P. Williams, died in Allan
ia after being in i'll health for some
time.
Mrs Williams was president and
principal owner OF the Georgia, Flor
ida and Alabama railway, running
from Richland, Ga, to Carrabelle,
Fla. What effect her death will have
upon the future OF the road is not
known 1t is understood that the bulk
OF her estate will be inherited by her
sisters.
The peach crop is considered safe