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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
R adiO Programs
Program For December 30
By Associated Press Courtesy Radio Digest


 WISE Atlanta (429) S-9 soprano. plan WEEI Boston (sOs) 6 Big Brother club 6;3O mandolin quintet; 7;15 trio; WGR Buffalo (s1s) s-s:sO music; s-1o XIV Chicago (5ss) s:s5 Uncle Bob: 2 concert 7;S0 stage review; 8 musical; s;So speeches s:45 musical; 10 at home. WGN Chicago (370) 6 organ; 6;3O con- cert program; 10 orchestra.
 WLS Chicago (346) 6:3O organ; luI- laby; 7:l6 contralto; farm program; g snist Saddler lecture aa 10 orchestra; 1915 vio- WMAQ Chicago (447.5) 6 organ; 6:3o orchestra; book review S:2O travel talk; WIS Cincinnati (42S) 10 orchestra. WBAy Columbus (42S} ' orchestra. WFAA Dallas News (476) S:So vocal. wv Detroit News (51s) 7sO News KNX Ho,Iywood t8sO music; 10 or chsstTa; Il features F orchestra.
 WDAF Kansas City Star GID 6-7 School of the Air; 11:45-1 Nighthawk WHB Kansas City GID s-s special KFI Los Angeles (4ss) s:45 organ: 10 hour.
 KHJ Los Angeles Times (Ss5) con cert; S:8o children; s;So talk; features; WILAS Louisville Times (4OO) 7:SO concert orchestra violnist.
 WMC Memphis (50D story; S:30 classical II frolic. WCCO Minneapolis, St. Paul (417) 6:16 talk; 6;3O concert orchestra.
 WOR Newark (405) orchestra; WEAF New York (4s2> 6 orchestra; T talk; 7;l5 John Hill 7:SO Gold Dust WIN New York (36O) 6:1O employ ; msnt; , S;39 news; S:S7 orchestra; vaude- WIZ New York (455) ''dogs;" 7:3O organ recital; s:15 Navy band.
 WJY New York (4O5) 6:30 Christmas carols; talk; S:30 baritone; talk.
 WNYC New York (526) :30 alarms: 6:35 sports; 7:30 program; 8 Strand thea ter; 9;3O strand program.
 kGO Oakland (S12) concert; 10 WDAR Philadelphia (s95) 6:sO talk WCAE Pittsburg (462) 6:3O Uncle Kaybee; 7:3O concert; orchestra.
 kGW Portland Oregonian (492) 10 lecture; 1O;S0 concert; 12 orchestra. WkBF Providence (2S6) 7:30 orches- KPO San Francisco (42s) g orchestra; 10 vocal, Instrumental; l2 band.
 WGY Schenectady (3SO) 6:45 drama talk; musical comedy; 1O:2O organ. KFOA Seattle (455) concert; 8:45 program; l0;30 musical; 12:O5 orchestra. WBZ Springfield (337) 7:3O basso sop rano; 7:50 trio 8:20 ensembe.
 KSD St. Louis Post Dispach (546) concert.
 WRC Washington t4ss) 6 children; 9:15 dance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
GREEN SCOUTS NEED
 OF SPECIAL SESSION
Treasury Surplus To Be Large,
 Says Chairman

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-A special session of congress is not necessary for the enactment of revenue legislation, Chairman Green of the house ways and means committee declared today in statement.
 Our treasury surplus for the fiscal year." he said, will be comparatively small but for the following year 1t probably will be large enough so that the income tax can an will be reduced along the lines proposed by Secretary Mellon and this reduction can be made at the next session if rigid economy prevails in our national expenses as it should"
 Shrould revenues for the present fiscal year be larger than anticipated, he asserted, another rebate could be made.
 The gift tax may need ''some amend ments," he added, but it already has demonstrated it's usefulness, and either the income or inheritance taxes are to be imposed with any reasonable degree of fairness the gift tax must be re- tained."
 Chairman Green said the income tax would never be on a sound basis "as long as we permit tax exempt securities to be issued, but a substantial reduc- tion in the maximum surtax would mitigate the unfair results rising from their existence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
(By THOMAS l.. STOKES) Leased Wire to Age-Heraldl

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-The pop ular wheeze about the rich getting richer and the poor getting children de- scribes the situation in the United States today, with the necessary ex- captions to prove the rule laid down by a welEknown song-writer.
 Coal miners have the most children, with other industrial workers and those doors, including farmers, ranking close behind. Bootblacks, for instances, have the largest families next to coal miners, while the bankers whose shoes they shine have just half as many children, on the average.
 Professional Class Exception
 The outstanding exception to the maxim is found among the professional classes, which include persons who have few children and less money.
 As class, they have the fewest chill dren, averaging two and three.
 These deductions are from a bundle of statistics gathered by the department of commerce, covering completed" fam lilies. The record covers families hav- ing children during the last year in which the father is between the age of 40 and 49, and gives the number of children during the entire married life.
 There were 107 ,209 children born to fathers between the ages of 40 and A years of age last year, and 66,764 to those between 45 and 49
 The figures show q great number of so-called 'old age" children, those born oftot tho fofhor ic yacf IE
 In the first class, between 40 and A, the highest average number of chil- drei in Q family, seven, is for coal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
NEW LAMP HAS NO WICK OR CHIMNEY
Most Brilliant Home Light KnOwn-Cost One Cent a Night

A new lamp which has no wick or chimney, yet, according to experts, gives the most powerful home light in the world, is the latest achievement of W. c. Fowler, 680 Factory building, Kansas City, Mo. This remarkable new lamp beats gas or electricity-gives more light than 300 candles, IS ordl- nary lamps or 10 brilliant electric lights, and costs only one cent night. A blessing to every home, especially on farm or in small town. It is absolutely safe, and gives universal satisfaction. No dirt, no smoke, no odor. A child can carry it. It is the ambition of MT. Fowler to have every home, store, hall or church enjoy the increased comfort of this powerful, pleasing, brilliant white light, and he will send one of his new lamps on free trial to any reader of The Age-Herald who writes him. He wants one person to whom>he can refer new customers. Take advantage of his free offer. Agents wanted. Write him today.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
JUDGE BUSINESSES
 PASCAGOULA SUIT
Sibley UphOlds Federal Reserve Check Collect
 ing System

ATLANTA Ga., Dec. 29.-Judge Samuel H. Sibley, in United States court here today upheld the Atlanta Federal Reserve banks so-called par clearance or check collecting system. The decision was made in suit in equity brought against the Ferderal Reserve bank by the Pascagoula Na- tional bank of Pascagoula and Moss Point, Miss.
 Sections of the federal reserve act and the Hardwick amendment were quoted in the decision as were rulings O. other courts where the par clearance system has been attacked.
 Referring to par clearance in some detail the court ruled: "The proceed ings of congress in adopting the amend ment (the Hardwick amendment) show that par clearance through the reserve banks was the issue dealt with. The addition of the clause was made with that intent and has effect to firmly establish it and give to the reserve sys- tenn and to the public whatever busi- ress advantage is clearing and collect ing checks may follow there from, as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
HUGE POPULATION SEEN AS MENACE. TO LIVING COSTS
Nation Soon Will Have 25O,OOO,OOO People, Says
 Professor Wolfe

CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-Persons living will see a population of 250,OOO,OO0 in the United States if the present rate of increase keeps up, according to Prof A. K. Wolfe of Ohio State university, speaking here today before the Amer ican Statistical association. But it will not keep up, in the professors opinion He is fairly certain the wom- en themselves, the potential mothers of the future, will take measures to pre- vent it.
 "Unless increase is quickly and greatly retarded, reaching the satura- tion point is matter of only few generations at most, not thousands of years as popularly supposed Professor Wolfe said. In the absence of an improbable revolutionary improvement in agriculture, we shall be pointedly confronted with the choice of reducing either our birth rate or our standard of living. A very essential part of the population problem is to get the people to set that they are confronted with a condition, not theory.
 Problem To Get Worse
 "Even if it could be demonstration that this country could support 50O,- 00O,000 people by eliminating waste and giving up meat, the standard of living would continue to fall and the problem of numbers continually get worse The only happy people would be the sword-rattling generals. Many of us today are victims of our un- thinking American worship of size and growth, without injury into the hu- man values involved"
 Professor Wolfe scores the optimists who believe that progress can work miracles. They rely on migra tion and invention. They see vast empty spaces. The state of Texas especially appeals to their imagination. Most of them have never been there.
 What are the fayts
 "Only inferior lands, limited in ex- tent. remain for settlement. Progress itself involves a paradox. It is incon' ceivabe that technical advance can maintain the pace it set in what Wal. lace called ''the wonderful century, and which Keynes thinks may prove tc have been a magnificent episode Tn the main, future improvements are tC be looked for in the fourth decima lace. There is limit to the degree to which cheapened manufactures car offset increasing costs in extracting raw materials from nature's resources which are being exhausted with whirlwind rapidity."
 Lauds Birth Control
 Taking up the opposition to britf control, Professor Wolfe declared: "It is a fault of population theory that it is man-made. Such attitudes never Count the vital costs of high birtf rate-the costs to the women of tho race. The very essence of economy ii to balance real costs against real in come. A valid population theory must take account of the way in which hali the race, hitherto practically ignored will calculate the costs-as against the atisfactions-of large families"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
WEEKS APPROVES
 RECORD REWARDS. TO GLOBE PLIERS.
President To Act On Gen
 erOus Promotion Sug- gestiOn Soon

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Secretary Weeks approved today a plan for re- ward of the army world fliers which would advance Capt. Lowell H. Smith 1000 files on the promotion list, and Lieutenants Wade, Nelson and Arnold 300 files each.
 The advancement proposed for Cap tain Smith would equal approximately 13 years of service in the line of cap tains and would place him among off cers of that grade whose names appear on the promotion list for majorities. The advancement in files given three lieutenants approXimates four years service and places their names high on the list of first lieutenants.
 Explains Proposal
 Secretary Weeks explained today that the advancements proposed for the oftl. cers and for Ogden and Harding would be the greatest ever given in peace time, and would be compared to the promotion given General Pershing il time of war.
 In addition the regular retirement provisions of the army could be set aside in the case of the six men, and they could be retired on their own re- quest at any time with the rank and pay allowance of the next higher grade than that held at the time.
 Sergeants Henry Ogden and John Harding, who hold reserve corps com missions as second lieutenants, would be appointed officers in the regular army in their reserve corps grades.
 To Award Medals
 All members of the flight squadron will receive distinguishtl service medals and would be permitted to accept deco rations offered by foreign governments.
 The plan was drawn up at the war department at the request of President Coolidge, to whom it vas submitted today by the war secretary If It re- ceived the Presidents approval 1t Will be transmitted to congress which alone has authority to confer the privileges racommendpd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
RECORD SUPPLY
 OF COTTON SEEN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The world cotton supply this year is prob ably the largest in nine years, totalling approximately 23.900,000 bales of 479 pounds each, estimates received by the department of agriculture show The estimates are from countries which pro- duce about 95 per cent of the world crop and which last year produced 19,- 100000 bales. The five year average for the pre-war period was 23,5S0,0OO.
 The American supply, based on of ficial production figures and trade esti- mates of carry-over cotton, is placed at 16000,000 bales.
 Consumption in the United States for the four months ending November 30 was 1,S1S,000 running bales of lint cotton, compared with 2,054,OO0 for the same period in 1923. The decrease, however, is more than offset, the de partment said, by increased exports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
BRUCE SCORES DEMOCRATS
Maryland Senator's Charges Refuted B
 Pat Harrison Of Mississippi

Maryland Senator's Charges Refuted By
 Pat Harrison Of Mississippi
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Two democratic senators, wrangling over their party's defeat in the recent cleo tion, entertained republicans and gal lery visitors in the senate Monday, when they got off the subject of party and began discussing the personal and political characteristics of each other.
 Senator Bruce of Maryland ignited the southern ire of Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, by declaring that the Democratic party had lost the "confi- dence" of the American people. He had prefaced this by a remark that the party in the elections had attempted to- "strad- dle horses going in diametrically oppo- site directions"
 "The wise thing for us to recognize at the present time is that we did lose the confidence of the people," Bruce de- clared. For then we will set out to regain it and believe we will re- gain it."
 Attacks Bruce
 Harrison, bristling up, answered that he would take no cOgnizance of a charge that the Democratic party had .oSI Ih0 eOhiiuehe0 oA ehe peopie when it came from senator "who can hardly call himself a democrat"
 "Any one who makes such a charge must be one who has record of serv- ice to the Democratic party" the Missis- sippi senator said, pointing out that Bruce had voted against a derocrat as chairman of the interstate commerce committee, had voted against the demo- cratic tax bill, and had opposed his party upon all important issues.
 The Maryland senator then accused Harrison of inconsistencies. citing the Mississippi senator's opposition to the child labor amendment and his change of position on the tax publicity section of the revenue law. Harrison who voted for the section, recently announced that he now favored it's repeal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
Coal Miners Most Prolific
 Federal Survey Discloses
Dentists And Doctors Lag In Number of
 Offspring

mine operatives and the lowest for architects, 2S. The highest average number of children living, 5.9, appears also for coal mine operatives. and the lowest average number of children liv- ing, 2.6 for actors and show men.
 Dentists Near Bottom
 In the class from 45 to 49, the high est average number of children, S.1, appears for foremen, overseers and in- spectors and coal mine operatives, and the lowest average for dentists, phy- sicians and surgeons, 3.3. The highest average number of children living 6.6. is for coal mine operatives, and the lowest 3, for dentists, physicians, and surgeons.
 Farmers had the greatest number of children last year. The average number is 6.2 to '.
 manual labor have the greatest number of children at an adanced age, the records show, although an exception here is found among jewellers, watch makers, goldsmiths, and silversmiths.
 Better Safeguarded
 While the professional classes have the fewest number of children, their children are better safeguarded, it is shown in the records. A greater number of such children are living than those of other classes. The greatest mortality is shown in the children of steno- graphers, typists, messengers and bundle and office boys.
 The tradition which has come down since the days of Jonathan Edwards, a minister himself, and one of min ister's eleven children, that the preach CT has the most children is exploded by goyernment records. The average number of children in minister's family in these days is between four and five,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
M'COY CONVICTED
 IN 'MORS KILLING.
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man, was finally brought to police headquarters and after a period of utter silence, talked freely, explaining Mrs. Mors' death as suicide, which he had vainly struggled. to prevent.
 McCoy's trial on four counts of rob- bery and three of assault with intent to murder, all growing out of the shoot ing orgy in the Mors antique shop the morning after Mrs. Mors was killed, is set down on Judge Crail's calendar for January 5, next, and the district attor- neys office announced that the state would proceed against the former fighter without delF :.
 Inasmuch as the penalty for first de- gree robbery by which the offender uses deadly weapon was from one year to life imprisonment and that for a deadly weapon, and four years for con- viction in the forthcoming trial may prove more serious for Mccoy than to- days conviction, particualrly if he should be convicted and sentenced to serve consecutive terms.
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|. s. TO PROBE
 POWER TRUST
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that Mir. Hearsts newspaper had at tempted to make it appear that Senator Underwood, in insisting on the passage of his bill, was not unmindful of the fact that his brother was an official of the Birmingham Electric company. Un- der the sub-head Under Same Control The dispatch concludes: ''The Bir- mingham Electric company controls the electric power of Birmingham. The power company buys from the Alabama Power company. The two corporations are distince enterprises, the only link between the two being the holdings of the Electric Bond and Share company. Both are controlled by the General Flee tric company of New York;"
 AImOn Satisfied
 Representative F. B.. Almon, return ing today from his district, in which Muscle Shoals is located, declared the people of his district are satisfied with the provisions of the Underwood bill. and hopeful that congestion in the senate would not make its passage impossible.
 Asked if the people generally were satisfied with the provisions of the bill Judge Almon says: "Yes, indeed. It provides for the same amount of fertii- izer, to be produced either by private corporation or the government, as was provided for in the Ford offer.
 If that did not satisfy them, they would be very hard to please"
 Senator Underwood, on account of continued illness, did not attend the senate session today.
 Over the telephone tonight, however. he declared himself in no danger, all though "very uncomfortable. He stated that he would not go to the capitol until after January 1. There is a gen. tlemen's agreement prohibiting actual voting during the holidays on any amendment or the bill itself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
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Aloderating Temperature Reported Over Most
 Of Country

CHICAGO, Dec. 29-The backbone of the third severe cold wave of the winter to attack the middle west was broken tonight while the mercury, which had been lowering in the minus section of the thermometer bounded up to the two-figure readings again.
 Although today found moderatiny temperatures over nearly the entire country from the Rocky mountains east ward, it still was below the seasonal normal.
 The latest cold wave left in its wake upwards of score of deaths for the entire country, damaged rail and wire communications in the west, 25 per cent damage to the citrus fruits on the Pacific coast, some live stock damage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
{ .PERFE('IS
 TO RE(i)Y.
Chattanooga Say New btt
 Aid Ind
CHATTANOOGA,

Ct1AI1 AJN'JOUH.
 A process has been
 chemists and engih ct4
 Copper and sulphur irpE q
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 which permits q profitable Tre,>~ ...-. the iron ore in the copper Ures ft.as mined and refined by them.
 This process, which is Icing IF stalled at Ducktown and Copper Hul. + G%- pected to increase the profss Gt the southern copper industry corA.jIer'hi9
 Copper ore miItd as' the IaeeAoWn and the Tennessee cocpauies tor dec ade has in it about 35 ger cent iron content. The ore which Is now being worked has only about 1.6 per ceit copper. Heretofore, however, processes for the recovery of the iron during the copper extractor had not been com mercially practicable. r
 The process which now is being used by the Tennessee Copper company is fiotation one. Sixteen cells have befn put in by the company for it. The ote is floated, the copper taken out and "a mineral separation process used. After the iron ore is separated it is put through wedge roasting process and is then centered and shipped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
Swiss Inventor
 Has New Name
 For Locomotive

ID ASLE, Switzerland, Dec. 29.-By ND his invention of hochdruck-
 donsationsdampf lokomotive, Prof. Kurt Wiessinger of the Zurich Neurological university, has demon- strated his capacity not only as an engineer but also as coiner of long words. His invention with the 37 letter name means high pressure condensing steam locomotive. It is claimed it will mean a saving of condensing steam locomotive. It is claimed it will mean saving . about 50 per cent of coal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
CHILD IS BORN
 WITH TWO TEETH

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 29.-The stork which brought Betty Jane to the home of Mir. and Mrs. J. J. Stock provided the child with two fully formed teeth. Physicians said the case was so unusual that they were not able tO give any explanation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
MEXICO NAMES
 v. s. AMBASSADOR
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 29.-Manuel C. Tellez, charge d'affaires at the Mex ican embassy in Washington, has been appointed ambassador to the United States. This announcement was made officially at the foreign office this eve ming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
SIOO,OOO IS ASKED FOR CORINTH OFFICE
Representative Rankin Of Mis-
 sissippi Seeks Appropriation

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-An ap- propriation of $1OO,0O0 to rebuild the post office at Corinth, Miss, recently destroyed by fire, would be authorized under bill introduced today by Rep resentative Rankin, democrat, Mis- sissippi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30

well as save the federal reserve bank from an expense in collecting its own checks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The latest earthquake in Japan was recorded plainly on the seismograph at George town university and a few minutes after the tremors ceased Father Ton dorf. in charge of the instruments, an- nounced that a disturbance of very pronounced intensity" had probably occurred in the Japanese earthquake area. He placed the quake at about 5000 miles to the westward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30

William A. Farrah-The body of William A. Farrah, 19. who died Monday morn north will be sent to Ashland Ala, Tuesday morning by Vice for burial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30

T. (. Williams-Funeral services for T. C. Williams. 64. who dies Monday night at a local infirmary, will be announced later by Vice.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-30
DEATHS

James Mckee TOsch-Funeral services for James Mckee Tosch, three-year- old son of Mir. and Mrs. w. M. Tosch, who died Monday at the residence, Tosch street, Tarrant City, will be held at o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the Springfale church. Burial will fol- low in Forest Hill cemetery with Mor- rison in charge. Besides his parents he Is survived by two sisters, Miss Margaret Tosch and Mrs. Roy Ingram; two brothers, Frank Tosch and Guss Tosch.
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sus.r of great lakes boats in ! m being caught in ice jams a c.raft were released during cold wave extended to the Aos I'd and eastern states to-
 near zero readings, al- r,.tures were moderating profit by use of Age
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