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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
CRIME LESSENED
 BY PROHIBITION,
 KANSANS ASSERT
Citizens Laud Law After A Years Without A
 Saloon

{, TOPEKA, Kans., July 26.-".The victory message to the world" is the title of a circular being broadcast by a number of Kansas organizations and signed by a number If widely known Kansans. It purpoIts to set forth the Kansas view .'afteF forty-four years of prohibition.
 The list of signers is headed by Henry J, Allen, former governor of Kansas; Governor Jonath than NJ. Davis, Attorney General c. P. Griffith, and Victor Murdock. -s
 Kansas was the pioneer state in the United States to prohibit ths liquor traffic by constitutional amendment, and it, proclaims the success of this leg islation which forever; barred intoxi- eating liquors from the states bouns daries,H the statement says.
 Drx Since 1880 ia "City and county officials, enforce ment' officers, state officialr,i men and women of the professions, in each of the 105 counties, testify to the success of the 21-wOrd legislative enactment which 1880 made Kansas a dry state
 "'The manufacture and sale of in-. toxieat ting liquor shall forever be pro-
 
 for medical, scientific and mechanical purposes ssfs
 Kansas views on prohibition sum marked through the expression of her peace officers are: @
 "No repeal or modification is need ed, wanted or considered. Ease of enforcement grows with en- forcement.
 Officials and privat- citizens are agreed that prohibition is the states best business asset. e.
 Many crimes that are common il communities that tolerate liquor are absent from Kansas. FN
 Kansas children grow to maturity without the taint of intoxicating liquors.
 Enforcement Easier "Accruing benefits of prohibition have made law enforcement easier from year to year.
 ''An awakened public conscfenca has aided Kansas in reducing the number of prohibitory violations every year.
 Conviction of Violators is easier now than at any time in the past, due to the years of proof that intoxicating liquor is a criminal and social detfi- ment to any community.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
PANAMA TOLLS
 BREAK RECORD
Receipts Increase $6,7S2,- 548 Over Last Fiscal
 Year

NEW YORK, July 26.-The tenth fiscal year of operation of the Panama Canal which ended June 30, broke all previous records, according to official publication, the Panama Canal Record issued today.
 During the twelve months 5,64S ocean going sships. 5,230 of them com mercial vessels and AIS United States government craft, passed through the inter.oceanic waterway. Total tolls col Iected amounted to $24,291, ,492, or a monthly average of $2yO24.291. The to- tai cargo passed through the canal was 27,21S,92S long tons, a monthly aver age of 2,26S,2 tons. .
 Compared with fiscal year, 1923. the figures were as follows: Transits, an increase of ,263 vessels. or SIS per cent; Panama Canal net tonnage, an increase of 7,543, ,092 tons. or 40.5 per cent tolls, an increase of $6, T82. .458, or 3S.7 per cent; cargo carried, an increase of 7,426, ,S35 tons, or 37.4 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
DOLLAR | RAIL COMBINE
 IACCOMPL
Van Sweringens Obtain
 Nickel Plate, c. & O.,
 And Pere Marquette

s S E
 CLEVELAND, July 25.-The Sunf day News Leader tomorrow will say
 The Van Sweringen railroad merged is next door to an accomplished factI It is in fact accomplished. What rez mains to be done is detail.. ,.f .ss
 Four systems, Nickel Plate, Chesa peake and Ohio, including the Hockin1 Valley; Erie and Pere Matduettek operating over il 900 miles of line ans with total balance sheet footings oN upward of one and a half billion dol lars will within few weeks bN brought under unified control wiAh Cleveland as headquarters. g.3+~
 Put into the picture also Cfeveb lands new ST, 900, ,000 union statibd and terminal, for o. P. Van Swerimreif says he expects to see the steel g6in& upon the central section of Athe depoX on the public square within a fev2 weeks. .iA.1
 Who is the 0. Ps Van, SweriY,pp,l who swings billion dollar railroad rsyst tems and builds $77, 900. 900 terminals
 The whole country is asking 2 tn ! question, & ' Taken for Granted
 Here in Cleveland we take yfhe> Yarl ,Sweringen brothers, Orris F. and Mantis J., for granted. ists
 They gave us Shaker Heights. Sfines1 large residential area in the JJnitee' States they gave us rapid transit tdI the heights; a $75,O00,OO0 railroad terminal and threw in a billion and B half dollars worth of railroad properl ties that now confess their home is| Cleveland. ts- 1--e
 In financial circles they do not hesi tate to link the name of Van Swerin. gen with those of Hill of the gree t| northwest and Hartman of the south west. J. R. Mutt, president ofstbe Union Trust company of Cleveland says: 1aas ffs
 .In less than five years, o. P!yan| Sweringen will be generally recognized as the 'country's leading railroad ober1 ator." "
 Whether the Van sweringen name| will be a greater name in railroad shis- tory than Hill or Hartman ia stii in| the future. o. P. Van SwerineerS ';s oung-46--and just besinning. M. Tl IS A. Both were born in Wooster.
 Nickel Plate First
 The first Van Sweringen railroad purchase was the Nickel Plate in INJ6 then doing the unprofitable frei9htI hauls Of the New, York Central to lesye the main four to six-track system cIear ar for the big money. -
 The next Van Sweringen purchase was two more similar lines strung out m the territory around Lake Erie the Cloyerleaf and Lake Erie and Western. These were. welded into the Nickel Plate system. s -.'
 His next was a real railroad--the Chesapeake and Ohio. carrying cantroI of the Hooking Valley, both notable among the coal carrying system of cen- tral territory east of the Mississinni
 Pere Marquette and Erie afe an- other story. o. P. Van Sweringen ,has a aeknowiedged ownership of upwards of lOO.0OO shares of Pere Marquette and the gossip of the financial district here IS that it is around 10000 shares.
 On Erie, no Van Swerfn9en stS ta. ments have appeared, but the sfate. Aents in the financial district sa re Tsos- tive and authoritative. 1t is TiTis itha Van SWeringen merger. Els
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
CHURCH MAINTAINS
 SUMMER PROGRAM
Illuminated Cross Will Feature
 Sunday Night Service

Under the leadership of Rev. James M. Wigley,- pastor, and Rev. Otis E. Kirby, assistant. pastor, the congrega- ton of the Sixty Street Meth odist church is carrying out full pro gram of church activities during the summer. 44 .-t
 As a special feature of the service Sunday night, an illuminated cross will be used for decorative purposes Special music has also been arrenged Electric fans, have been installed and cunning ice water provided,
 The Rev. Mir. Kirby recently returned to Birmingham from the western tour of the Glee club of Birmingham-South ern college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Triumphs As Fa- nous Thief Faces
 GuillOtine
By JOHN O'BRIEN

PARIS, July 26.--For two deter mined years Albert R. Shattuck, New York millionaire, pursued from one land to another the French apache, Aphonse Mourey, intent that justice get it's due for the. crime Mourey had comElitte in imprisoning the Shattuck family and robbing them of jewels valued at $15,- GOO. Always it was justice-or ven geance, by a less polite term-that Shat tuck sought as he spent thousands of dollars in his relentless man-hunt.
 Then he found his man. Mourey, the trusted, butler whose innocent, per fectly correct uniform hid the soul of a bandit, was captured in Paris suburb, found. guilty of half dozen crimes, and sentenced to the guillotine. At the end of his trial, his VOW for vengeance cer- tain. of fulfllment, Shattuck has found that the quest for justice led only to pity. He wrote President .Doumefgue of France today, pleading that the apache's life be spared.
 Shattuck could not carry through His quarry in his hands, mercy tri- umphed over lust for revenge and as a result of the millionaire's letter, com mutation of Mourey's death sentence is expected to, follow. '--,e T. rs =
 Mourey, with other servants acting as accomplices, turned upon their eni- ployer in 1922, forced him and Mrs. Shattuck into a wine vault at the point of pistols and knives, locked them be- hind the air-tight1 doors, and proceeded to strip their Washington Square man sion, of all it's valuables. < :. Unloosening the. hinges of the doors with broken pen knife and. escaping just when suffocation threatened to overcome him, Shattuck began his hunt for NIourey-to the Indies. Africa and Europe. French gendarmes finally cap tured the apache in villa. outside Paris, after a battle in which Mourey killed two of the police, The trial ended this week, Mourey was convicted and sentenced to the guillotine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Men Made Me Do It,
 Sobs WieIder Of Tar.
Mrs. Shanks Declares She Beat Girl At Demand
 Of Mob

ciled. Mrs. Shank, at least, is trying to make up" Occasionally, as she talked in the little cell today, she patted, Dofo- thy on the shoulder. Once she slipped an arm about her, waist.
 Sisters under the skin--" a jailor murmured, but it was bruised, scared and burning skin through which the common instinct of womanhood was called to show itself through Dorothy.
 Mrs. Shank no longer thinks that Dorothy was intimate with her hus- band, Lloyd Shank, but. according to her story, believes that she herself was the victim of mob which used the charge involving her husband as an ex- cuse to make her attack an innocent girl. e
 Afraid Of Tar
 The woman is afraid she will be tarred and feathered herself when she gets out of jail, she declares, for one of the men whispered a threat to her on the night of the hearing.
 You'll get a dose of the same thing if you squeal, the man hissed in her cdr, according to Mrs. Shank, who now says this was why she took the blame upon herself at the time. ~ Mrs. Shank does not expect to be out of jail, however, until the grand jury takes up the case in September. She claims that her husbands family, which she thought was friendly, has now turned against her.
 Meanwhile, Dorothy Brandon may be able to exact Some retribution for her hniSf-ea ffneuf She intends fa file hna1vv damage suits against members of the mob. All of them are farmers of wealth, or sons ofarich land owners, and law yers here say Miss Brandon has excel lent chances to collect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

FREDERICK, Md, July 26.-Little Dorothy Brandon, the girl who was tarred and feathered by 50 q. 60 stall warts of Myersville, Md, was, the vic tim of a male mob's yiciousness and not of a jealous wife, according to Mrs. Mary Shank, who is being held for her part in the attack oH Dorothy.
 Declaring that she stripped, beat and tarred pretty bob-haired Miss Grandon only because mob of Myersville men threatened her with ."the same dose" if she refused, Mrs. Shank, who was pre- yiously declared to have led the mob because she was jealous of her hus- bands attentions to Dorothy, now in- sists that she was as much a victim of the mob's passion as the beaten girl. "The men made me do it." she sobbed again and again to the girl victim, who is still in hysterical condition as re- suit of the treatment she received at the hands of the leading citizens of the small town where she came to spend vacation among the fields and hills of free outdoors. s
 Sits Side By Side
 The two women sat side by side in the Frederick jail. Mrs. Shank is held in 5000 bond, facing sentence of ten years imprisonment. Miss Brandon is held in $500 bond as a material witness, both for her own safety and for fear that she might flee the county in terror of further attacks. Mrs. Shank claims that her own safety has also been threatened, both before and after her arrest.
 Meanwhile. each one of the 17 men who were arrested charged with parti- cipation in the crime have furnished bond and gone free.
 In jail Dorothy and the Shank woman apparently are to some extent recon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
SURVEY IS MADE
 FOR NEW HIGHWAY
Would Connect Fayette With
 Tuscaloosa Line

FAYETTE, Ala, July 26.-(Spe- ciai)-The board of county commits sioners is having survey made for a new highway running south from here by way of Newtonville to the Tusca- loosa line. The right-of-way is being cut, and a force of hands with i'm. proved road machinery will begin grad ing at once. This road will intersect a like highway running out from Tusca- loosa by way of Moores bridge.
 Take Test.-There were only 17 teachers to take the state examination held here last Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
BUILDINGS BURNED
 AS WATER BACKS UP
Construction Progresses Rapidly
 On Wilson Dam
lNIuscIe Shoals Rureau.

SHEFFIELD, Ala, July 26.-A number of buildings were burned at lock 6 and along the old canal by of ficers in charge of construction at Will son Dam Friday, to make room for the rising waters of the Tennessee river. Construction has now reached the stage when considerable territory is inun- dated.
 Rev. Turner To Speak.--Rev. Her man L. Turner, pastor of the Columbia Avenue Presbyterian church, will de- liver a sermon to the congregation of the First Avenue Presbyterian church in Birmingham today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
DEATHS

Hilda Lee Disney-FuneraI services for Hilda Lee Disney, l5-months-old daugh- ter of MT, and Mrs. Mitt Disney. who died at a local ipfirmary late Saturday afternoon will be, held in Cordova, Ala The body wa sent to cordova Sunday by Ridout.
 Mrs. Isabelle Brown GoOdwin--Funeral services for Mrs. Isabelle Brown Good win, age 62, who died Saturday morn be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon Burial will follow in Elmwood cemetery, with Johns in charge. She Is survived Sy %in n'I A. AP0Sa% R Goodwin. SiT So F Goodwin. c R. Goodwin A, L. Goodwin and J. T. Goodwin; four daughters, Mrs. R.. J. Acton. si5i NIT: Mrs. F Fred Acton. Acton Active paii- bearers will be. the following grand sons: c. P. Hall, B. E. Hall, Rupert Hall, Carroll Hall, Thomas Hall, and Charles B. Hubbard, Jr.-Funeral ssEv- ices for Charles B. Hubbard, Jr., infant son of Mir and Mrs. Charles B. Hub bard. Sr., who died Saturday morning at the residence 3120 Avenue B. will be held at il o'clock Sunday morning from Bells funeral parlors. Burial wtll follow In Oakland cemetery, with Bell of Fairfield, in charge
 Mrs. C. H. AIurrah-The body of Mrs. c. at the residence, 231l Avenue G. Ems ley wil be sent 10 Silurla, Ala, sun day by Echols and Angwin for burial. Bessie Viola McLane-Funeral services for Bessie Viola McLane, age years, who died Friday at a local infirmary, were held at Union City cemetery Saturday afternoon. with Echols and AngVvin in charge. % Mrs. Frances Victoria slSinner-Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Victoria skinner, age 65, who died Saturday aft ernoon at the residence in RosedaIe. will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the residence. Burial will follow in Union Hill cemetery, with Johns in chargV 's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
PRTNCIPAL NAMED

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 26.-. Especial. )-Miss Catherine Collins Gardner. of Troy has been elected prin- cipal of the preparatory department which will be established at the Wo- mans college with the beginning of the scholastic year. <t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
MILLER.POPE

SELMA. Ala, July 28.-( Special. ). Miss Mamie Lee Pope and Taylor Mil Ter, both of Selma. were married on Thursday at the home of Mrs. G. R. Beers on Church street, the ceremony being performed by Dr, J. S. Frazier, presiding elder of the Selma district, before a company of 25 relatives and sclose friends. There were no attend
 ants. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
The ......... First National Bank Of Birmingham, .A;a. 2.

Statement June SOth, 1924 ;,
 RESOURCES
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

Mrs. C. H. Murrah-The body of Mrs. c. H. Murrah,. age S., who died Friday lev wil bS sent to SiluriA, Ala, Sun
 day by Echols and Angwin for burial.
Evening star., 1924-09-06

mac River west along the river back
to the University. Here, out of 500
permits, IS per cent were houses of an
estimated value of $4,000 or less.
From Rock Creek Park at Piney
Branch parkway to Spring road. Rock
Creek Church road, Park place, Michi-
gan avenue, First street, College
street, Barry place, Florida avenue,
Waterside drive, Geological Park,
Rock Creek Park west through the
park to Piney Branch parkway. only
a small amount of construction took
place, 100 permits having been grant
ed, So of the total. Here only % per
cent Of the total construction was
$4,000. or under Al per cent up to
$4,000. and 81 per cent $4,000 or
over.
In the territory south of Wisconsin
avenue between r street. Thirty-fifth
street. Volta place, Georgetown Uni
versity and the District line 256 per-
mitS were granted. 81 per cent of
which We're for houses of an esti-
mated value of more than $4,000.
There We're also 81 apartment
houses erected last year. according to
the survey, which contained a total of
1,197 apartments. BY far the large
majority of these structures were
built in the northwest. None were
built in the section from North Ridge
road between Anacoslia river and the
District lines and the section south
of Wisconsin avenue between r, Thir-
tyfifth street. Volta place, George
town College and the District lines.
Evening star., 1924-09-06
BIG CONSTRUCTION YEAR
is OUTLOOK FOR DISTRICT
Record for July and Aug gust Shops Huge
Increase in Volume Ouer Same
Period in 1923.

There is every prospect that during
the present fiscal year the National
Capital will see one of the largest con-
struction periods in its history, notwith-
standing the fact that the same period
last year showed q decrease in build
ing operations of some $4,000. 600. The
present fiscal year has started with Il
boom that has jumped it far i'll advance
of the record last season.
July and August. the first two months
of the present fiscal year. show up al
most $4,000. 900 ahead of the CORE
spending months last year. In last July
and August construction here amounted
to S7,104.S75; this year it totaled
s9,9I3,400, with a steady stream Of per-
mits issued for the first week of Sep
tember.
Record for July In ID. G..
In July building in Washington took
the rank Of sixth among the large cities
of the Nation and showed an increase
of 143 per cent. In a review made of
2S of the large cities throughout the
country q total increase of s3,946.325
was shown in July. OF this total Wash
ington showed a gain of s3,S55,444,
leaving only gain of less than 100000
to be distributed among the q other
cities. Many of these other cities
most notable in this class was Balti-
more, which reported a decrease for
July over the corresponding period of
the year before of S640.000
During last month 7S3 permits were
granted with an estimated value of
s3,434, ,04s. OF these structures 1874 were
brick. 134 frame, concrete and tile.
Three buildings were razed.
Construction Last Month.
Two hundred and thirty-six new
dwellings, were erected last month
in various sections of the city BY
far the greater portion Of this con-
struction was brick, with frame dwell
lings running second. Garages took
second place in the number built.
there being 193. the majority of which
were constructed of metal. The
buildings were placed throughout the
city as follows: Northeast, S62335;
Evening star., 1924-09-06

Small House
To Set in Lot
A Design of Spanish Type,
for Any Locality.

Architects. real estate agents, civic
authorities and home makers, know
that nothing spoils the beauty of
street or depreciates it's value more
than an ugly house. Whoever builds
house along interesting lines raises
the value of the whole street He be-
comes, in a way, public benefactor.
1t is impossible for any one to build
unto himself alone, for whatever he
erects upon his lot has wide infiu-
ence for good or evil. 1T is not easy
to design small, inexpensive house
that is beautiful to look at, though ii
can be done and has been done many
times.
The cheapest way to build house
is in the form of a pure, uncompro-
missing box. The moment a wing or
porch is added the price is increased.
Yet if man who builds cheap.
square box ever expects to sell it, he
soon finds that he spoiled every chance
because no one will buy such an alb
surd looking affair. Therefore, 1t
would have been economy to have
spent little more money in order to
have made the house a little more at
tractive. And If one expects to live
in a house one certainly doesn't want
bors and guests offended by the ex-
terror appearance of ones home any
more than by a crude interior.
The house we are showing this
week, though designed along the lines
of the old Spanish mission, would be
suitable for building in any COM
munity, East or West. To give variety
and interest to the house, the living
room and porch were extended into
a wing which decidedly increases the
picturesque quality of the silhouette.
Building on a wing of house ac-
complisheS another important point:
Namely, that of proper ventilation
and light. In this case the living
room has been given a three sided
exposure to the light which permits
cross draughts and makes for cheeri-
ness and charm.
A study of the floor plan shows that
by extending the living room much
better arrangement OF the dining
room and kitchen has been nrade pos
sible. The kitchen is now at the
corner of the house, which allows it
double exposure of sunlight and
gives it a cross draught to carry
away the odors of cooking. BY plac-
ing the dining room and kitchen to-
gether at one end, the three bedrooms
can occupy the entire front part of
the house with a large hall passage
way between to give the needed Sc
clusion.
The second story is only large
enough for a maids room and bath
and small sewing room. beneath
the caves is a large space for storage
of trunks, bedding or unreasonable
clothing. The plan shows that an
opening has been made from the
stairway to the hall. If, however,
the mistress of the house does not
like the maid to pass through the
front hall when going to and from
her room, then the stairway could be
boxed up and the entrance to it be
through the opening into the passage
way. BY this plan the maid could
come up the stairs directly from the
kitchen door.
Still another variation would be to
use the third bedroom, which is sit
uated in the center of the house. for
a maids room and to install. in place
of the two closets indicated, shower
and closet and place a washstand
Evening star., 1924-09-06

porch, bright, airy basement, laundry
trays, coal bin, hot-water heater and
boiler. Cement front porches, with
ornamental iron railing, beautiful
lawns 'artistically planted with ever
greens and hedge.
Evening star., 1924-09-06

small details that add immcasurabIy
to the interest Of "a house. The roof
has no overhang and therefore some
such treatment is necessary to give
character TO the whole.
The arch motif is repeated again on
the porch and in the chimneys. The
porch can be left so that the sunlight
can stream into the room. or it may
be sealed over if preferred The little
terrace that runs around the wing
adds a romantic Spanish note and
from this terrace one should step
into a small informal garden.
Since the prices of material and
Dor vary so materially in different
localities, VIC do not attempt to give
an estimate as to the cost but suE-
gcst that YOU consult your local
builder. who can give you detailed
information as to the costs of your
exact needs to be installed in this
design.
For information as to the procuring
Evening star., 1924-09-06

with running water in the corner of
the room nearest the main bedroom.
This would leave a suite of rooms in
the second story for the children's or
nurses rooms. Thus the floor plan
could be altered very easily to suit
the needs of different individuals.
The house is hollow tile and con-
crete. The roof should be of tile,
though 1t could be made of shingles
If the cost had to be kept down. To
prevent the monotony of a large fiat
wall space, the three windows across
the front of the house have been
slightly indented. This slight dc
preston adds greatly to the dccora-
tive quality of the house and permits
Il curved treatment of the peak and
caves of the roof.
All around the outer edges we have
indicated by dotted lines a border
that should be of rougher texture
than the rest of the house, simply to
give quality and finish. 1t is such