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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
Value Of Loot VariOusly Placed At One And
 Two Millions AIRPLANE ESCAPE BY GANG IS TINTED Craft Seen To Land Near
 Scene Of Hold
 Up ATTACK IS BOLDEST IN TRAIN HISTORY Gas Bombs Used To Sub due Crew-One Man
 Shot

CHICAGO. June 13.-The same dar- ing band of super-criminals that has been connected with a long series of major crimes in Chicago and other mid. western cities planned and executed the S1 ,OO0, 900 robbery of a Chicago. Mill waukee and St. Paul mail train at ROnd0ut, H., Chief of Detectives Michael Hughes declared late Friday night.
 Emerging from room in which four of ChicagO's underworld kings and eight others. some their henchmen, were being questioned. Hughes said he believed men who had connection with the big robbery were in custody.
 (By Associated PreSs.)
 CHICAGO, June 13.-Search for four auto loads of bandits, who last night, held up a crack mail train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway a few miles out of Chicago, forced mail clerks from their cars with gas bombs and escaped with more than 40 pouches of registered mail, tonight was ex- tended throughout the country. Postal officials expressed the opinion that the bandits had eluded the eordon of posses spread about the scene of the robbery. .-.--a,ss
 The value of the loot obtained re- mained undetermined tonight, esti- mates ranging from $100.000 to more than $2,000.000. 4. E. Germer, chief postal inspector said he did not believe the bandits obtained more than $100.- GOO but officials of the federal reserve bank at Milwaukee said Liberty bonds valued at $150,000 consigned to that institution were missing and federal bank officials here said that the loot included about S75,000 consigned by the Chicago banks to national banks through the northwest. Some investi- obtained cash and bonds valued at more than $2,000,000 passing their opinion on the fact that much esatern mail is usually on the train.
 Gang Arrested
 Acting on tip that the perpetrators of the robbery would be found in a restaurant, detectives late today raided the place and arrested a dozen men in- cluding: Dean O'Bannion, Louis Alterie and Earl Weiss, all alleged beer runners. O'Bannion. Alterie and Weiss were seized few weeks ago in raid on a brewery here.
 In addition to the dozen seized in the raid, four other suspects were uu- der arrest here and one man was be- ing held at Waukegan, while posses of deputy sheriffs and detectives con tinued to scour the country for miles around Chicago and to patrol the roads leading to the city.
 Hint AirplaneS Escape
 A theory that the loot may have been cached by the bandits and then carried away in an airplane was held by some officials today after an airplane was seen to land about two miles from Rondout, H.. the scene of the robbery. A check-up of local hangers revealed
 Continued on Page TwO)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
PRESIDENT OF ROAD
 UNDER INDICTMENT
Discrimination In Car Distribu-
 tiOn Charged To Cody

ALEXANDRIA, La, June 13.-The Glennmora and Western Railway com pany and William N. Cady, it's presi- dent, were indicted by the federal grand jury here late yesterday for alleged dis criminations in the matter of distribu- tion of cars for loading lumber in favor of the ". NJ. Cady Lumber company. The lumber company was indicted on IA counts for alleged receipt of the dis crimination and MT. Cady, as president of the lumber concern. was named in each of the counts. The Glemora and Western is a line g miles in length operating between Futile and Lecompte, Louisiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
WOMAN REMINDED
 OF I3TH EVENTS
Mrs. John Steele Born And
 Married On Jinx Day

NEW YORK. June 1S.-Today is Friday, the 18th.
 Which reminded Mrs. John Stelle, floor clerk on the thirteenth floor of the Waldorf Astoria, of the following {:
 She was born on the 18th.
 She was married on the 18th
 She was employed at the Waldorf Is years ago and has been on the 18th floor ever since.
 She opened a new savings account and the bank book was number 1913 and there are 13 letters in her name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
GIRL GETS 20 YEARS
 FOR MAYS SHAVING
Mary Turner Threatens To Go
 On Hunger Strike

ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, June 1s Mary Turner of this city, convicted of second degree murder for the killing of Charles M. Green, local blacksmith. was sentenced to 20 years at hard la. bor in circuit court at Clearwater to- day by Judge M. A. MeMullen.
 The woman, who has eaten little in the past few weeks, threatened a hun ger strike, and declared that she would never serve the sentence. Following an impassiond statement to the court that her attorney had not properly de- tended her case, she tainted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
SON or LEGISL.ATOR

ASHEVILLE, N. C., June 13.-The body Of Ensign Marcus Erwin, one of the. three naval officers who lost their lives in the breech flare-back aboard the United States steamship Mississippi, will be brought to this city for burial He was the son of Mir. and Mrs. Marcus Erwin of this city. MT. Erwin was an attorney and is the democratic nominee tor representative from Buncombe county. The ensign was graduated Annapolis last June.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
TERM IN PRISON
 ASKED BY WOMAN
FOrTAer Sunday School Teacher
 Admits Theft Of $6,4OO

NEW YORK, June 13.--Janet John son, 42, former Sunday school teacher, pleaded guilty today of having stolen $6, 400 from an egg company, for which she worked, and asked to be sentenced to jail, as she would not return the money.
 T have some of the money left, but I certainly will not return it. I don't mind going to prison" she said.
 The judge sentenced her to three years in prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Cloudy Saturday and Sunday probably scattered thunder showeEs. Georgia: Cloudy.
 Mississlppi: Cloudy.
 Tennessee: Local thundershowers,
 Complete weather data will be- found on Pare 1s,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
lBy Associated Press. ,

TSN'T tt c "Crand and Glorious Feel A ing" to krorO that on your entire Saturdays shopping not q rOomun in to'0n has bought single article ct Io'Oer price than you have paid?
 Read the grocery advertisements.
 CT Take The AseHerald this morning-nnake your entire Saturdays shopping list from its columns It has the very last prices for the day.
 Read the department store advertisements T You can fill every need from The Age-Eeralds Read the clothing advertisements
 CT You time since your list shows you just ex- actly what to get and where o get it.
 Read the shoe advertisements
 T It is the most satisfactory way of buying. q Read the miscellaneous advertisements that cover U all lines.
 Let each day take of itselfI
 GH The AseHerald is delivered every morning into of Bnmns hams worthwhile homes-t's great to print morning paper in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
IRISH ENVOY NAMED

Prof. T. A. Smiddy To Be Minister
 To Washington
 Press. 1-Prof. Timothy A: smiddy '$ of Cor Ehas been appointed minister Tl.n. ipotentiary of the Irish Free State at Washington, it was announced in the Daily Eiveann today by Desmond Fitz- gerald, minister of foreign affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
NEEDY AIDED IN CHICAGO.
Feast for "Outcasts'' Feature Of
Days Generous Spirit.

CHICAGO, November 2I.-Good
cheer for all was Chicago's Thanks
giving spirit.
Provision was made from the city's
bounty for the inmates of orphanages
detention homes and penal institu-
tions. the friendiess and the wanderer.
Thanksgiving day services in many
churches were directed to those away
from their homes.
Typical of the spirit was THE Feast
of the Outcasts," served especially,
hosts announced, ito cheerless, home
less, penniless men. tramps, hoboes
and buns" Similar dinners and en-
tertainment programs were arranged
by welfare organizations for various
institutions and the poor
Needy war veterans and disa bled
former service men were cared for by
committees of the American Legion
Auxiliary in hospitals and sana-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
NEW FRENCH ENVOY DIMES
Daeschner Guest at American Dim
ner in Paris.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, November 27.-Emile Daesch-
ner. recently appointed French Am
bassador to the United States to sue
coed Jules j. Jusserand, came in con-
tact with an American gathering for
the first time last night when he ate
turkey and cranberry sauce with the
American Club at a Thanksgiving
eve dinner.
The new Ambassador was a guest
OF honor. together with Marshals
Joffre and Foch, Gems. ManEin and
Gouraud and Capt. Georges Pelletier
D'Oisy, the aviator. who recently made
flight from France to Japan.
Tribute to Jusserand.
NJ. Daeschner in an address paid
tribute to the career of NJ. Jusserand.
He said that 1usserand was one of
the great diplomats whom 1t was
difficult to initiate. but that he would
make it his principal aim to do what
NJ. Jusserand had been doing for %
years toward Tightening the bonds of
friendship that had existed between
the two republics since the days of
Lafayette and Washington.
The first thing he did when he
learned he had been named Ambas-
sador to Washington, said NJ. Daesch-
ner, was to look up the great repub-
lie on the map. He was impressed
by the vastness of the country, as
he already had been impressed by
the ardor of American boys, who had
never been out of their country, TO
cross the sea to defend France
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
PLEADS FOR nation
/, TO RESORT TO GOD.
Canon De Vries, at Cathe-
dra! Service, Sees Much
Cause for ThankfuIness.

America should be thankful today
for the spirit of God and His work
which prevail among the people OF
the nation. Rev. DIR. William L. De
Vries, chancellor of the National
Cathedral, declared today at Thanks
giving services held at the Cathedral.
Taking as his topic "Our Country"
DR.. De vries decried the crime and
lawlessness that Is spread as an open
States every day, and said the
THANKSGIVING celebration must be ac-
companied by prayer and effort that
God may become the dominant force
In the life of the nation. only
through God can we reach that state
Of spiritual life wherein we are at
one with the aims of the Creator"
I'VE should be thankful today DIR,
De Vries said. because we are free
from all foreign control and influence.
We govern ourselves. We are not
governed by a chosen and expert few
as were some of the nations of
Europe before the war"
DIR. De Vries said the men who
fought in the war should not be dis
couraged because we have not OBJ
tanned all we fought for. If Germany
had won the war we might have been
forced to bow the knee to govern
HIcut uICldtcu ny ueT, ne dQQ6Q, ana
would probably not enjoy today the
self-government we now have.
The young men of the United States
are the finest body of men the world
has ever seen, DIR. De Vries said, quot
ing as his authority European ply
sicians who examined the American
soldiers during the war. And their
idealism is one of the finest things in
the life of our country today" he
added. DR.. De Vries said he had travel
ed extensively In the United States
during the last few years, visiting ~
of the 48 States. Travel, he said, i'm
parts an invaluable spiritual asset to
the traveller In this country, because
Of it's bigness and It's resources
Concluding. DR.. De Vries called on
the American poole to observe
Thanksgiving day in a spirit of faith
and hope that right will prevail. ever
holding the ideal of the Creator be-
fore them for guidance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
Prize PEACE Plan
T0BE CHOSEN SOON
$25, 900 Award Offered by
Part-Time Resident of
Washington.
By the Associated Press.


AUGUSTA, Me, November 27.-The
plan which has been selected as that
best calculated To promote world
peace by educational methods in the
$4,000 prize contest instituted by
Raphael Herman of Washington.
d. C." viii be made public, together
with the name of the author. on De-
cember 8, 1t was announced yester-
day by Dr. Augustus o. Thomas,
president Of the World Federation OF
Educational Associations
Mr. Herman is not a resident or
citizen of Washington, but is
wealthy business man of Detroit.
Mich. who spends part OF his time in
the Capital each year. He was char
acterized today by persons prominent
In educational work here as a person
intensely interested in education and
Tor that reason had offered the SIS, 900
prize. Until recently Mr.. Herman
vigorously protested against publica-
ton of his name as the donor of the
prize, DR.. Thomas is quoted by
friends here as saying, but later he.
permitted his identity to be revealed
as selection of the best plan was
about to be accomplished.
Came to U. s. in 1890.
Mr.. Herman was born in Germany,
December is, 1855, and came TO
America in 1890.
He engaged in business in New York
State, was actively identified with the
Pan-Amertcan exposition in Buffalo
In 1901, and from 1895 to 1908 pub
lished the Acetylene Journal He
was president OF the National Acety-
lene Association from 1900 to 1902,
and assumed the Office of president
and treasurer OF the Diamond Power
Speciality Company of Detroit in
1905, which offices he apparently
holds today. He also is president
and treasurer of the Power Efficiency
Corporation and the Calorizing Cor
poration of America. He was an or
ganizer and trustee until 1912 Of the
Detroit tuberculosis Sanitarium,
member OF the Detroit Board of Com
merce and American Museum of
Natural History, New York. He is a
thirtysecond degree Mason and I'M
married
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
ZIONISTS TO CELEBRATE.
Will Hold Meeting at Wilson Nor
NAL Monday Night.

In celebration of the success of
the Zionist drive for membership in
this city a meeting Will be held at
the Wilson Normal School, Eleventh
and Harvard streets, Monday night.
The speaker of the evening will be
Emanuel Neumann of New York City.
who is the national director of the
Palestine Foundation Fund. Five
million dollars was raised in the
United States under the direction of
Mr.. Neumann.
On the program Monday will be
several numbers of music. Delegates
to the National Council of the Pales-
tine Fund will be named The dele
gates will attend the meeting in New
York next week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
ACTORS GIVE UP HOLIDAY.

So anxious are Government actors
to make, Uncle Sans Follies" a sue
cess they are giving up their holiday
in order to attend today's rehearsals
at the President Theater. A rehearsal
OF Special numbers will be held this
afternoon at o'clock and the entire
cast will run over the show tonight.
Brooke Johns. who is directing the
show; asked members of the cast to
volunteer to turn out despite turkey
dinner and Everything" The Federal
girls agreed and the director says
this is happy Thanksgiving day for
MIN. All members of the cast. Johns
says, have shown cooperative atti-
1ude in preparing the show. The cast
now comprises so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
than half domesticated.

than half domesticated. 1t is still es-
sentially a wild bird. 1t roams the
fields in f1ocks, feeds upon insects
and stray grains during the late
Summer and Fall months and only
seeks the shelter of the barnyard
when the food supply fails. Young
turkeys seem to distrust man and all
his works. and each generation of
turkeys has to be tanned. The birds
do become quite docile under careful
management. but the hen turkey for
ever seeks the wild in which to steal
her nest and rear her young. Testi
mony is not lacking that it costs less
to raise turkey than any other
fowl, and to the ultimate consumer
in the Thanksgiving and Christmas
period they cost more than any other
fowl. so that somebody makes a good
profit on the annual product.
The turkey is doubtless one of the
oldest birds in America and always
occupied an important place in the
domestic life of the Indians. The
value of the turkey from the Mas
saSoit Indians. Columbus found it in
the West Indies. CorteZ was Toasted
upon turkey in Mexico and Peru. The
Maya people embodied the turkey in
their oldest hieroglyphics and the
scientists of the Smithsonian, delv-
ing among ruins in Arizona, found
a mummifed turkey, and the remains
of nearly all the cliff and cave dwell
ers in the Southwest give up the
bones OF the turkey. 1t was staple
food among the red men from the
earliest times, as it has come to be
In civilized lands around the globe
Benjamin Franklin desired to max e
the turkey the national bird, but was
outvoted by others, who seemed to
find a truer connection between the
bald eagle and the indomitable spirit
of the American republic. 1t may be
the screaming eagle better suits the
ways OF war and poets dreams, but
the turkey occupies specially warm
place in the affections of the Amer
lean people. At Thanksgiving and
Christmas time he is king of birds,
and will SO remain to the end of time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
Father of Coolidge Prefers Chicken
To Turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner

today she didn't expect to cook
much In the way of sweets. since
she didn't eat them herself and the
colonel nsver cares for more than
enc dessert at a meal.
The two will DO tbs only per-
sons to eat the homestead's din-
ner. The colonel said today that
II Is moro than 10 years since his
son spent that holiday with him.
The village will have no COM
munity observance of the day. One
resident said yesterday:
Last year we were all loggin',
this year there amt much to do
but clean up"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27

supplemented in our day by a 'declara-
ton of dependence The solidarity
of the world, he declared, which must
come, must find it's root in a sense
of our dependence upon God"
Also of outstanding Importance was
the 1890 o'clock service at Gunton-
Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church,
Sixteenth and Newton streets north
west. The sermon was preached by
the pastor, Rev. Bernard Braskamp.
A musical program appropriate to
Thanksgiving day was rendered by
the choir.
Other Church Services.
Every church in the city held special
services in the morning, and many in
cluded evening services in the days
program. Among them were Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal South.
Douglas Memorial Methodist Episco-
pal. Eastern Presbyterian. Ingram Me
mortal Congreg ational. Keller Memorial
Lutheran, Ninth Street Christian, st.
Paurs English Lutheran. Epiphany,
Luther Memorial, Episcopal Church OF
the TRANSPORTATION. Washington He
brew Congregation, Mount Pleasant
Methodist Episcopal. Church of the
Ascension. All Souls Unitarian, Church
Of Our Father, Universalist Rhode
Island Avenue Methodist Protestant.
Memorial United Brethren, Bethany
Baptist. lexington Presbyterian, Lin
coin Road Methodist Episcopal, St.
Paurs Methodist Episcopal. Foundry
Methodist Episcopal, Shiloh Baptist
Institutional, Church of the Covenant,
the four Christian Science churches.
Metropolitan Baptist, Church of the As
cension, Wesleyan Pentecostal and
Holiness Church. colored.
.r--- Wv -vYy-a~~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
81 Ships to Be Salvaged.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
REVAL, November THE Estho-
MAN government contenpIates the SAL
wage Of 81 war vessels and commercial
carriers sunk during the war off the
Esthonian coast. Included are l6
Russian. one German and one Eng
lish warship. The work will begin
next May
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
Grange Meeting Date Changed.

COLLEGE PARK, November 27.-
Dates for the annual meeting OF the
Maryland State Grange at Salisbury,
originally set for Tuesday and Wed
nesday. December 8 and 10, have been
changed to December II and H. 1t has
been announced by the State master,
Z. John Black of Rosslyn The finally
completed program for the meeting
includes two-day session, opening
at 9:30 o'clock December H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
Col. Daniel J. Carr Retired.

Col. Daniel j. Carr, who has been
attached to the United States Signal
Corps almost continuously since July
20, 1880. first as an enlisted man and
then as commissioned officer from
May 20, 1898. has been placed on the
retired list of the Army on account of
age. He served during the Spanish
War and the World War and reached
the grade of colonel in December,
1913. Recently he has been on leave
of absence at 1903 Varnum street, this
city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
ny the Associated Press.

PLYMOUTH, VT. November 81
Col. John Coolidge. father of the
President, yesterday made prepa-
rations for a simple dinner In his
farmhouse here today, confessing
he mover was much of IL hand to
make great OF Thanksgiving"
Never having liked turkey, he
bought from a neighbor, yesterday
morning, a chicken, which he him
self plucked and dressed.
Miss Aurora Pierce, his house
keeper who has prepared his
Thanksgiving dinners for eight
years, will fricasse It, She said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
Noted Russian Poet Dies.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
REVAL, November i.-Valerius
Brjussow. the Russian poet, died re-
Gently at Moscow, 81 years old. He
was considered one of the most prom
inent representatives of modern Rus
sian literature. He was a member of
the Communist party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27

women whom 1 have ever known, who
today are eager to know the mind of
Christ, eager to do in the world the
will OF Christ and to conform in
their lives TO the pattern Of Christ"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27

forums. Vaudeville acts and enter
tainment programs augmented regu-
lation Thanksgiving dinners served
in the house of correction, detention
home and State penitentiary at State
willie, Ills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27
PRESIDENT LEADS
NATION IN THANKS
FOR GREAT BOUNTY

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-27

It's in handy shape-easy of
reference as you tour along
and adds to the pleasure Of
autoing by. being always sure of
your road. t
No matter whether you tour
much or little, you will want this
auto Route Distance Atlas"
in your car for ready reference.
The Washington times., 1924-10-11
CATHOLIC j. AND
maryland TO
PLAY

Both the University Of Maryland
and Catholic University football
teams have the opportunity today
of wiping out the sting Of defeat,
which both suffered last week.
Maryland win entertain the boys
from Richmond University in the
Burd stadium, and since Coach
Byrd's proteges lost last week to
Washington and Lee, they are
more than anxious to take the
Virginians into camp. Captain
Pugh is out Or the baclxfield. with
broken ribs, but the team as n
whole is In good shape, Il
Out at the Catholic University the
two defeats which the team has
thus far sustained. without a vic
tory, have In no wise. caused the
shedding Of any crocodile tears.
Catholic u, Is staging what is aptly
termed a comeback on the girdlron
and the two teams which wiped
them in the dust were among the
leaders in the east Holy Cross and
the Marines.
The G. u. boys lost BY q narrow
margin to Holy Cross, and they
fought all the way with the Marines,
finally coming out on the zero end
OF q five touchdown game. BY no
means are they Respondent, and
they hope to take the Western
Maryland team for . game.