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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
DEMOCRAT DRIVE S903,90S;'
 s6l,OOO BALANCE.
National Committee Bor- f rowed $12O,OO0 From
 New York. Bank

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The demo- cratic national committee filed today with the clerk of the house report showing total campaign contributions or $845,5 from July to November ~, inclusive.
 The committee also reported a loan of $120,OOO from the New York TrHst company which made available for the campaign a total of $965, ,52O.
 The report listed total expenditures for this period at $903 ,908, and showed a balance of $61 ,612.
 Contributions received at the New York national headquarters were $780, l22.73; at Washington $31 ,311.S2, and Chicago, $9,602.50, the report stated, listing in addition, as miscellaneous re- ceipts. $3,72O38 from the New York office, $20, ,715.45 from Washington, and $47.5O from Chicago.
 Ryan Gives S55, 900
 Expenditures by. the New York office were placed at $633, ,452.99; by Wash- ington, $216, ,305.22, and Chicago $54- 15O. The balance of $61 ,612 was ac- counted for by computing the $12O,OOO loan among the assets.
 Contributions of more than $100 amounted to $685., ,902 The largest single contributor was John D. Ryan of New York, who gave a total of $55,000 in two installments of $25,000 and one of $30,OOO.
 Other large contributions included Thomas L. Chadbourne, New York, $20,- 900; Jesse H. Jones, Houston, Tex, 5000; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, New York, $21 ,000; James W. Gerard, New York, $10,00O; Francis P. Garvan, New York, $10,000; H. H. Lehman, New York, $8,O00; Clem L. Shaver, Wash ington, $7,500.
 Many Give $5,OOO
 D. H. Heinemann, Charoltte, N. C., $5,00O; Samuel Untermyer, New York, $5,000; Herman H. Davis, New York, 5000; Cleveland H. Dodge, New York, S5,000; Arthur Sachs, New York, $5,- 900; George Brennan, Chicago, $5,0O0; w. |; Clayton, Houston, Tex, $5,000 and Hugh 0. Wallace, Washington, S5.00O,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
FORBES TO SHARE. IN sSOo,OOO GRAFT,
 SAYS MORTIMER
Government Shifts Attack To Gutheil Case In
 Chicago Trial
(By Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-Government counsel today shifted the testimony in the conspiracy trial of Col. Charles R. Forbes and John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor, from veterans hos pital contracts to the Gutheil case. Thompson, since 1919, had been suing in the court of claims for $800,OOO more than the government paid him for the salvaged steamer Gutheil, raised from the Mississippi river at Baton Rouge, La., declaring that the governments S7OO,OOO award was insufficient.
 It was testified by Elias H. Mortimer, that Thompson sought Mortimer's aid and then the assistance of Forbes was di- rector, and Jesse Smith, Attorney Gen. eral Daugherty's friend.
 Woman Testifies
 The government brought Miss Caro- lima Kisser, a Western Union Telegraph operator in San Francisco hotel, to identify messages received by Mortimer and Forbes from Thompson relating to a deposition in the Gutheil case to be taken at Los Angeles. Then govern ment counsel took turns in reading a review of the case sent by Thompson to Forbes for the information of the Los Angeles counsel and several thousand words of dispositions in the case.
 Mortimer testified that Thompson offered $1O0,O00 for a settlement of his $500, ,O0O claim, which was to be divided between Mortimer, Forbes and Cramer.
 The originals of the telegrams to San Francisco, which were addressed to Mortimer, according to his testimony, were among the papers taken from his home in Washington by Colonel Forbes and Mrs. Mortimer. ..
 Let Bids Personally
 Reverting to the. hospital contract conspiracy charge, Mortimer said Forbes told Thompson, his business as- sociate, James w. Black, and Charles F. Hurley, Seattle contractor, that he would let the bids personally and no other contractors than Forbes friends would be allowed to bid.
 Mortimer said Forbes told them that the veterans bureau would build hos pital at St. Cloud, Minn., and Hurley suggested that, A. H. Stem, St. Paul architect, be engaged to draw the plans. Forbes agreed to see Stem about it.. Mortimer testified. The contract for the hospitaly at Livermore, Cal, was to be only to friends of Forbes, Mortimer said.
 The government opened its testimony today with Daniel A. Gerber of New York, president of the Northeastern Construction company, on the stand. He described his bid on the Northamp- ton, Mass hospital foundation and it's rejection by the veterans bureau be- cause he would not cut the time of con struction from 120 to 60 days. His bid of $133, 5000 was $34,0OO lower than the bid of the Pontiac Construction com pany of Detroit, it was shown, but the Pontiac company offered to do the work in sixty days and got the contract.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
claimed: What can this mean? What can this mean?

claimed: "What can this mean? What can this mean?"
 Later Dr. Edwards sent for associates of the medical staff of the hospital and quizzed then, as to the meaning of his arrest. He was advised not to make any statements. until he retained an attorney.
 It is held by the police that the series of incidents described by Edwards could not have taken place. They say that the blow which killed Mrs. Ed wards was delivered with the electric iron which she had used the day before to iron clothes for CT children.
 Surgeons at the hospital who exam ined the wound in Dr. Edwards left palm were unwilling to admit that. it was fired by an intruder. On the other hand they seemed to think that it was self inflicted. It was stated that pow der burns were apparent, although this would have been true had the shot been fired by a burglar.
 Inquiries at the Employees hospital Tuesday afternoon found the entire staff utterly depressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03

the death penalty while five voted for life Imprisonment.
 Sylena Gilmore, negress, was the first person to be discharged during the week. She was charged with murdering her husband, but a verdict of mot guilty was returned by the jury in Judge George Shoots court early Tues day afternoon.
 The fourth case to be decided resulted in a sentence of 10-years at hard labor in the state penitentiary for Henry Williams, negro, when he was found guilty of highway robbery in Judge Forts court late in the afternoon. Will Hams, according to the testimony, held up Joe Johnson, negro, and took $11.5O at the point of a pistol.
 Trial of Henry Hagood, negro, on the charges of murder of Clayton Jones started before Judge Heflen and is expected to go to the jury early Wednes- day as is the case of James Washington on charge of murder of James pickrell, being heard before Judge Shoot.
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left side of her face was caved in though the skin was unbroken. Neighbors Awakened
 Neighbors of the Edwards family were awakened at an early hour by the frantic cries of Dr. Edwards. He told them horrible story of how he was awakened by man trying to chloro- form him and how he was shot in the hand as he fought the supposed intruder. Powder marks in the physicians hand were visible.
 q chased the trespasser to the kitch- en door and fired three shots at him. Then I screamed for help and two of my neighbors answered." These neigh bors, Walter Buck and Robert Brown, rushed into the home and found Mrs. Edwards dead. They say Edwards knelt over her form and cried: 70 God, they have killed her."
 Edwards, before his arrest, talked freely of the shooting, but appeared to find it difficult to control his grief. He said he could not tell whether the intruder was white or cOlOred, as he was blinded by the rays of flashlight.
 The only physician at the Employees hospital who seemed inclined to accept Dr. Edwards version of the killing was Dr. R. E. Johnson, his close personal friend.
 q don't believe he is guilty" Dr. Johnson said over and over. We at- tended meeting of the medical society in Birmingham together Monday night and Dr. Edwards was normal in every respect when I left him late at night. We were to have gone to Montgomery together Tuesday"
 Investigation Made
 Mir. Brown, one of the neighbors who hurried to the Edwards home after the physician sounded the alarm, said the little bungalow fairly reeked with the odor of chloroform. He and M,r. Buck sent a hurry call for the police and for Dr. Noland, chief of the T. c. L. medical service and others. Upon their arrival a minute investigat tiOn of the house was conducted. Meanwhile, Dr. Edwards drove his car to the hospital, where Dr. Noland dressed the wound in his left hand. Edwards then went to an undertaking establishment, where he selected a casket for his wife's re- mains, then returning home, where he remained until it was decided to re turn him to the hospital for treatment
 Throughout the day, he muttered his story about the attack and cried aloud for his wife.
 Chief Anthony and J. L. Spindle from the sheriffs office, officials of the hos pital and investigators for the Tennes- see company found it impossible to rec oncile the statements of Dr. Edwards with the physical facts they uncovered. It was discovered that the window screen was not cut from the outside. but was tempered with from the inside. Some thought the tear was made by a bullet while others thouglf it was made by some blunt instrument from the in side. The physical difficulty of enter ing the room from the eight-foot win dow ledge was also hard to reconcile.
 Following the investigation confer ence was held by officials from the various departments and it was decided to place Dr. Edwards under arrest. A warrant charging murder was sworn out by Deputy Coroner Grove of the Besse- mer office. It was given to Deputy Ed Wall of the sheriff's office. Entering the room MT. Wall informed Dr. Ed wards that he was charged with murder.
 My God! My God" Edwards ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
ANTAGONISTS NAME
 EDUCATION HEADS
Bishop R. E. Jones New Orleans
 Elected To New Board

CHICAGO, Dec. 2-The new Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal church, authorized by the recent general conference, has been organized, accord ing to an announcement today. Dr. W. S. Bovard, of Chicago, was elected general secretary by the conference. The personnel of the new board includes the following:
 Bishops Robert E. Jones, New Or leans, and Ernest Richardson, Atlanta Fla. Laymen: J. I. Conklin, Miami, Fla. Minister: Willie J. King, Atlanta, Ga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
FATHER COMES HERE
Is President Of Dallas County Farm
 Bureau

SELMA, Ala, Dec. 2.-(SpeciaD- J. Lit Edwards, president of the Dal- las county farm bureau and prominent planter, went to Birmingham Tuesday afternoon accompanied by T. o. Smith, Jr, a relative by marriage, to be with his son, Dr. George Edwards, whose wife was killed at Fairfield Tuesday morning. Sympathy is felt in Selma for him.
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|DR. EDWARDS
 TO EXPLAIN ALL
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left side of her face was caved il though the skin was unbroken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
CLANTON MAN IS NOMINATED
 v s. ATTORNEY

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. D. (SpeciaD President today nomi- mated Grady Reynolds of Clanton to be United States attorney for the mid dle district of Alabama, Reynolds has been serving for some months under a recess appointment. There is appar- ently no senatorial opposition to his confirmation.
 MT. Reynolds is the son of Probate Judge Reynolds of Chiffon county, prominent republican leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
JUDGE ARMSTRONG DIES

BOHEMIAN, Mont, Dec. 2.-Francis K. Armstrong, former judge for the ninth judicial district, died here early this morning. Judge Armstrong was born in Rockford, N. C., March 6, 1S49. He was a resident of Bozeman for the last 45 years and for many years oc- cupied that district court bench.
Evening star., 1924-06-08
ADVICE ON WEDDING PLANS
Etiquette Should Provide Substitute Brides and Bride
orooms allure Carry Out Regular Program.

namely that the sameness about same
has spoiled many a budding life Of
happiness was it not for the same
ness in regards to same. So without
selling no book in regards to eti-
quette, why have thought out the
following few idears as to how a
wedding should ought to be conduct
ed and carried on SO as to make 1t
conclusive and at the same time a
little different, because the trouble
with most June weddings who I have
heard of to date is because they
seem to lack originality, or as the
french has 1t roriginality.
In the 1st. place it don't never seem
to Of occurred to the parents who
was running the wedding to have a
substitute bride or groom as the case
may be. How many times do you
read on the front page of newspapers
where a bride or groom was disap-
pointed at the church door by the
failure of the party of the I'd. part to
arrive, most of which is charged to
either infidelity or bachelor dinners.
If I was running the wedding I
would hire a extra bride and groom
so as IL neither of the stars showed
up or both, why I would have some-
Evening star., 1924-06-08

body else on hand to get marred and
people could go home and say they
seen it. Suppose the original bride
shows up and the original groom
don't show UP, why II she goes ahead
and marries the substitute or utility
groom she is probably getting all
the best Of it because she has got
man that don't forget his engagements.
Or vice verse.
On I'd. thoughts 1t would be a great
idear to not allow the original bride
or groom to show up at all because
marriage is suppose to be great
adventure and how can you nave
greater adventure than have 1t with
somebody you never seen and don't
want to see?
Now in regards to the wedding OBJ
seauies. 1t has always been etiquette
to throw rice and old shoes at the de-
lighted couple and ! might say IN
passing that this custom come down
from the old days of Euripides and
Mother Hubbard and these people
was marred in a house that was just
sub let for the summer and had pre-
yiously been lived in by a chinaman
and his wife who wanted to get rio
of remnants Of their larder which
consisted of rice and old shoes. So
they throwed them at the bride and
groom and the last named picked
them up and took them along because
they had the same tastes.
But now days most people that
gets marred Is not chinaman ana
their wifes SO 1t is my suggestion
that If you have got to throw any
thing at a bride and groom Is TO
throw them a juniper berry and pr.
of new shoes and be sure the last
n1lned is "a At. By the time bride
and groom picks up all the rice that
Is throwed at them. the latter has
genally always spoiled.
Now how about the honeymoon?
I suppose the etiquette guide tells the
boys and gals to go to Niagara Falls
or abroad or 1000 and no hundreds
islands. Well in the 1st. place the
U. s. and Canadian govt. has just got
together and decide 1t that Niagara
is getting spoiled and If steps amt
taken, why they won't be no falls left
don't say it in SO many plain words,
but the more honeymoon couples that
glares at Niagara Fails why the more
libel they are to get spoiled.
So in a spirit of patriotism would
suggest that for a couple Of decades
that wifes don't take their husband
| to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon
and 1t seems to me in the I'd. place
that when a couple is starting out
on their nuptial seas they should
ought to see the worse first SO I
would suggest a honeymoon trip on
the Chicago river or the drainage
canal or the N. Y. subway.
If they have got to go on q train
why 1 would insist that the groom
goes up to the brakeman and says
where is the smoker and when that is
pointed out, he turns to his wife and
Evening star., 1924-06-08

the deck and foamed on the barrier
of the cabin rise.
I stripped and went forward to
meet it. l could have danced in it
for joy. Oh, the joy of sail! Steam
and motor made swift the path of the
ship, but they had in them no conso-
nance with nature. They were blind
and deaf to the wind and wave, which
were the very life Of the schooner.
They brought no sense of participa-
tion in speed as did the white wings
of the Marara, nor of kinship with
the main They were alive those
swelling and careening sheets OF cam
vas that swung to and fro with the
mind of the breeze, and cried and
laughed in stress Of labor.
The rain blanketed the ocean, the
vessel heeled over to starboard until
her rail was salty, the jibs pleaded
for relief, but man was implacable.
For hours we held our course, driving
in the obscure night toward the home
of the wondrous diver, the man with
out a nose, Mapuhi, the uncrowned
king of the Dangerous Isles.
But When the moon llt tne TOdu W
Takaroa she lulled the wind. The
eleven knots fell to seven, and to five.
and at midnight we drifted in II
zephyr.
is IL u X
A LII next day, with half a gale. we
sailed past atolls and bare reefs,
groves of palms and rudest rocks,
primal strata and beaches Of softest
and whitest shnd. The schooner went
close to thes'I Islands, SO that 1t ap-
peared I cood throw my hat upon
them; but dSNanres here were decep-
tive, and SuDpose Wa were never
less than housana feet away.
Yet we were near enough to hear
the smash of the surf and to see the
Evening star., 1924-06-08

Frederick O'Brien, one OF the
most successful OF all the inter-
prefers of the South Seas. de-
scribed last week how, In making
a voyage through tho faumotu
Archipelago. the small boat on
which he and his companions were
attempting landing was over
turned in the surf. Mr.. OBrien
was plunged beneath u coral reef
and penned under the water. un-
able to find his way out. He was
eventually rescued by native,
whom in frantic alarm, however,
he mistook for a shark.
This is the second of series of
four extraordinary articles de-
scribing the experience of Mr..
O'Brien in the South Seas. The
vessel upon which he had sailed
from Tahiti was the schooner
Marara, or Flying Fish, command
ed by Capt. Jean Moet. Among
the passengers who also figure in
this series are Capt. Meets wife
Virginia, Lying Bill, McHenry,
Kopcke and brown pup, Chocolat.
Evening star., 1924-06-08

The waterspout was yet miles dis
tant, but rushing toward US, as we
made slow starboard progress from
our previous wake. The daylight
faded; the air seemed full of water.
The sailors were again prone, and We,
at the calm though sharp word Of
Moet, pulled over the companion
cover. j shrank behind the house,
and McHenry. tucked his head into
the bend of my body. while Kopcke.
on his knees, held on to the traveller.
"Sacramento" said Moet, as IL to
himself. Maybe she no can meet
zat.'
= y u X
WITH pounding heart. but every
sense alert, 1 watched the mad
drive of the sable column. The Ma
rara was now in smooth water-the
CLASSY circle of the Puahiohio-and
so near was the terrifying, twisting
mass of dark foam and spindrift that
it seemed impossible we could avoid it.
Every inch the master, Moet alone
stood up. Chocolat was huddled
whimpering between his feet. l saw
the captain pull up the straps that
held the wheel when in light airs we
drifted peacefully. and attach them
so that the helm was fixed.
There was a dreadful roaring a
short way off and nearing every sec
ond. The spout was bigger than any
Of the great trees I had seen in the
California forests, and from it's base
leaden tower of hurrying water
seemed to wind in spiral stream to
the clouds.
She's going to drop" said McHenry
in my ear. Now hold on, and we'll
see who comes out of the bloody
wash
The roar was that of a blast fur
mace, and so close, so fearful, 1 ceased
to breathe. Capt. Moet crouched by
the steadfast wheel, his hand on the
spokes. Forward, I saw two Tahi-
tians with their palms upon their
ears.
Suddenly the Marara hee1ed over
The rail was in the water, and
Kopcke, McHenry and 1 tangled
heap against the rail, as we strug.
gled to keep our heads above the
IOdHl. Il dT IlcT anu ldI tHCE GHe
schooner listed. 1t was certain to me
that we must meet death under 1t ir
another instant. Meets feet were
deep in the water, and now the wheel
held him up. We clutched madly al
the stanchions of the rail as we
choked with the salt flood.
Came the supreme moment. The
waterspout rose above us on the port
bow like a cliff, solid as stone. A
of judgment day.
Then the wall of water passed by a
hundred feet to port. In another
breath the Marara gained her poise
and was on an even keel. The peril
was over.
"Mais, tonnere de Dieu" cried Moet
excitedly, "zat was a cochon ov, wa
tairespouse! Zere air many in zese
latitude. Some time 1 see seek, seven
playin' round at wan time. sink we
make ze sail and take wan drink
uueeck. Eh, Virginie, lei! Donne-moi
un baiser, little cabbage! Deed you
pray 'ard?"
Over his petit verre the captain sad
to me, confidentially, moi, I was al
mos become a bon catholiQue again.
They are fearsome spectacles AT
their best, these phenomena Of the
sea, comparable only in awe-inspirine
qualities to the dread composants OF
st. Elmo's fire. those apparitions OF
flame which appear on mastheads and
booms on tempestuous nights, as II
the spirits of hell had come to well
come the sailor to Davy Jones
locker.
.Waterspouts I had seen many timea,
they were common In these waters
Evening star., 1924-06-08

To the editor: No doubt every
body has heard of the book
called Etiquette which who
ever wrote same has been ad-
vertising same in all the newspapers
and periodicals so I won't be violat-
ing no confidence when 1 mention
same. Well it seems that on acct. of
this being June when the most of the
weddings Is suppose to come off, why
the publishers of Etiquette is run
ming a special advertising campaign
with view to telling brides and
grooms how to conduct their we'd
ding without violating the rules of
good usages.
Well l amt read Etiquette on acct.
of how much 1t costs in the 1st. place
and in the I'd. place we only got
5 TT. book shelf and where would we
put it and in the 9Th. place l was
broughten up in a 1st. class family
where etiquette was their middle
name SO why should L spend money
on trying to find out details which
knowed a long vile ago.
But it seems to me like this month
of weddings was a good time to say a
few words in regards to what 1 have
observed in regards to weddings,
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Uniaue Horse Photos.

EROM q seat suspended fifty feet
L above the ground, an osteologist
of the American Museum of Natural
History took photographs of a trot-
ting horse speeding below. In this
way he obtained accurate records of
the motion of the spine and muscles
in action. These records are being
used in mounting the bones of Lee
Axworthy, the champion trotting
stallion of the world, so as to show
him in the gait with which he made
his record of 1.58A.