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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
ARMY BARRACKS GAYEST PLACES
 IN THE COUNTRY.
2S-Cent Meals Contain Everything From Soup
 To Roast Turkey

WASHINGTON, Dec 25.-Mothers of the country need not worry about the "poor soldier boys in cheerless army posts" this year. There aren't any
 Elaborate Christmas preparations were made by the war department and from reports reaching here, the army barracks from coast to coast are about the gayest place in the country today. Everything from religion and music to roast turkey is provided.
 Following an old army custom the of- ficers and their families are eating at the company mess with the prlvates. Commanders of each post are going the rounds, rewarding the company COOKS, who have "set up the best feed.'
 The cooks are the heroes of the day. They are allowed by the government to spend exactly twenty-eight cents and nineteen one hundredths per day per soldier. Before you turn up your nose at that, just read this sample menu served today by the cook of the head quarters company, District of Washing ton:
 Oyster soup, crackers, shrimp salad, celery, olives, pickles, roast Vermont turkey and gravy, chestnut dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, asparagus on toast, mince and lemon pies, cocoanut layer and marble and fruit cakes, pine apple ice cream, apples, oranges, ba- nanas, grapes, bread and butter, assorted candies and nuts, cigars and cigarettes, coffee and cream, blue ribbon beer.
 The miracle of providing such meal for few cents is explained by whole sale buying in bulk and by the foresight of the cooks in saving bit here and there during the year in preparation for the "big feed" After the feast the soldiers are gathering aroung the com pany Christmas tree and, with the band playing, every fellow from ranking of ficer to buck private is doing his Gs+pp+D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
BANDITS HOLD JP
 CROSS-COUNTRY BUS
Frontier Robberies Duplicated
 By Georgia Highwaymen

CARTERSVILLE, Ga, Dec. 25.-A duplication of frontier hold-ups with big motor bus substituted for the stage coach of yore, today had local authori- ties seeking two masked bandits who last night perpetrated the robbery.
 The bandits escaped with a gold watch and $35 after stopping a cross country bus at a lonely spot on the Dixie highway. As the bus came to q standstill, one of the men entered and deftly relieved the driver, the only passenger, of his watch and money while the other man covered him with a revolver. They then entered an auto mobile parked beside the road and sped away in the darkness. Two men ar rested by Barlow county authorities last night were released after q close examination, for lack of evidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
CHRISTMAS BRINGS
 DEATH TO 2 BOYS
Boat Overturns While They Are
 Hunting

BURLINGTON. N. J., Dec. 25.- Santa Claus brought death to 6-year-old James Major and his brother, William, Jr., who is one year older.
 A shotgun was among James, pres ents Christmas morning. With Will liam, James went to the Delaware river, near his home at Edgewater, and pushed off in q canoe for shot at some wild duck.
 Shouts from the river attracted the boys father. He saw his sons trying to chamber aboard their canoe which had been overturned by an ice floe. There was no other boat near and while the elder Major looked on, Will liam and James sank from sight.
 The river is being dragged for the boys bodies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
FRENCH SENATE DEFEATS HEREOF IN RAIL BALLOT
Ministry Not Expected To Resign, Despite
 Government Setback
fRy Associated Press. ]

PARIS, Dec, 25.-The amnesty bill came back from the senate this aft ernoon and was the cause of Premier Herriot's government being defeated by Il votes, question regarding an amendment bringing out 154 votes against the governments 143.
 As the government had not made the vote a question of confidence, M. Her riots defeat did not presage tho resig- nation of the ministry. The remain ing clauses of the bill were voted and the measure now returns for the sec ond time to the chamber.
 The defeat of the government today was brought about by the presentation of an amendment to reinstate the rail- road strikers in their positions. The government wanted the companies forced to reinstate the men, but the senate re- fused to alter its stand that the rein statement be optional. It is on the question of railroad men that the two houses are divided. The chamber voted that the employees that were let out in 1920 shall be granted amnesty and tho companies compelled to reinstate them
 The railroad companies previously had promised Premier Herriot to use their good will in behalf of the dismissed men and the premier had accepted the promise as sufficent. NJ. Peytral, minister ofNpublic works, however, was unwilling to allow the phrase eff re- instatement occurs" to appear in the bill as giving the companies the right to refuse reinstatement. This phrase had been inserted by the senate when the bill first came before 1t. When the measure went back to the chamber, that body decided to eliminate the phrase. Consequently, when the bill came back to the senate today, the sem ate voted to reinsert the phrase, and thus send the amended bill back to the chamber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
NEW YORK PRISONS , FULLER THAN EYER
Twice As Many Confined As In
 1920

ALBANY, N. r., Dec. 25.-The world is becoming worse, or else, per haps the law is becoming more efficient in putting behind the bars it's viola tors Nearly twice as many persons have been received by New York penal insti- tutions in 1924, as were received in the last presidential year. 1920.
 Figures compiled by the state com missioner of prisons show that the num- Der of commitments to the various in stitutions for the year ending in June was 11,602, of which 12,3G1 were women. The report just has been com pleted
 The average daily population of these institutions was 11,2S3. Commitments exceeded any year since 1917, when 129,352 were committed,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
ALBANIA CABINET
 IS NEAR CRISIS Tirana Believed To Be Seriously Menaced
(By Associated Press. |

ROME, Dec. 25.-Reports regarding the Albanian situation received here continue confused and contradictory. The one given most credence is that Premier Fan Noli's government is in a critical condition. Tirana is believed by observers here to be seriously men, aced. Premier Fan Noi is said to be continuing his accusations against the Jugo-Slavs as the responsible clements in the uprising. The revolutionary movement, however, is somewhat com plex, since Albanians, Serbs and Rus sians are all participating.
 The Jugo-Slav government has an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
BELLEAU SERVICE HELD
French And Americans Honor Fallen
 nnu nhhnNs

PARIS, Dec. 25.-A combined Tram co-American service was held in Belleau Wood this morning in memory of the Americans who fell during the war. Julian $. Wadsworth, director of the association for preserving the memory of Chateau Thierry, made an address, as did also the Catholic vicar of Bel leau. The French government was rep resented and many members of the clergy were nreSent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
4 MOURN AT GRAVE
 OF OLD MINSTREL
M. H. Hall Was Author Of Where Cotton Blossoms Grow
(By AssOcited Press.

DENVER, Colo, Dec. 25.-Milton Henry Hall, two decades ago one of the best known of the blackface min strel comedians, and the man who wrote, Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Crow" and the Cuban Star March," was buried here yesterday with only four mourners at his grave.
 The last twelve years he has spent as dishwasher in Denver hotel, and when he died Monday there was none at the hospital who knew of his early career. To them he was just a dish washer.
 Not until he was buried, did his iden- tity become publicly known. At one time Hall was an intimate friend of the late Lew Dockstader and Al G. Fields.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
EX-CHILEAN DEPUTY
 ORDERED BANISHED
Ugalde Convicted Of InstigatiOn
 Of SeditiOn
(By Associated Pressl

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 25.-Pedro Leon Ugalde, former radical deputy, was yesterday convicted by a court mar tial of plotting % subvert public order and instigate Sedition among troops. He was sentenced to three years banish- ment.
 The military prosecutor had recom- mended that the penalty, if Ulgalde was convicted, be haniShnent. He explained that the law under which Ugalde was tried dated back to colonial times, was entirely obsolete and should be revised This law provides for the death sen tence upon conviction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
BUSINESS MAN, 82,
 DIES IN TENNESSEE
T. H. Payne Was Pioneer Citizen
 Of Chattanooga
(By Associated Press. )

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. 25.- T. H. Payne, S2, pioneer citizen and one of the leading business men of this city, died here this morning after an illness of two weeks.
 Mir. Payne was president of T. H. Payne and Company, one of the lead ing stationers and office supply houses in the south. He was q veteran of the civil war, having enlisted in the Union army from his home in Ohio. He took up his home here immediately after the war. At one time Mir. Payne with z. c. Patten, ST., owned the Chattanooga Times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
CYRIL IS ASSAILED
 BY PRINCE COUSIN
Relative Of Late Tsar Is Visitor
 To United States
(By Associated Press.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Prince Ser gio Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchten. berg, nephew of the Queen of Italy, cousi nof the Duke of Duchess Cyril and of the late Tsar Nicholas of Russia, came here today on the Italian ship Duilo for a two months visit with Er- nestn Fabri, of New York.
 Criticising the Duke Cyril for his pretensions to the Russian throne, Prince Romanovsky said his cousins claims were without foundation.
 The prince, whose mother was the third daughter of the king of Monte negro, has been in Italy since the so- viet regime in Russia came into power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26

He was a supporter of General Wran- gels white army
 The Grand Duke Cyril was on the side of the Kerensky government which opened the doors of Russia to the bol- sheviks," said the premier. HIS is bas- ing his claiu on tradition. Tradition alone most certainly cannot rule Rus sia now. There must be organization
 Tradition alone these days has noth. ing to do with government. The man who conquers or overthrows the soviet regime should be the one appointed tsar of all the Russians. And it will take unprecedented courage for a. man to put Russia on it's feet again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
BANKER ACCUSED
France Charges He Spread Alarmist Re-
 nnrts

PARIS, Dec. 25.-The government IS not confinins it's efforts in expressing false communist reports to the expulsion of undesirable foreigners. It was learned today that action had heen taken against banker of Nantes who is declared to have recently sent cir culars to some fifty of his clients warm ing them that conditions in France were critical. Then Amiens was in the hands of the communists and a railroad strike was imminent. The banker, is off cially charged with propagating alarm ist reports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
SHRINERS TO AID
 HARDING MEMORIAL
Rochester Temple Starts Fund
 With $4,576 Check

MARION, O., Dec. 25. - Every Shriner in the United States will pay $1 to the Harding memorial fund, it was revealed today by Hoke Donithen. secretary of the fund with the receipt of check for $4,576 from Damascus temple of Rochester, N. Y., as Christ mas contribution. The check repre- sents payment for the entire member ship of Damascus temple
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26

nounced that its action in closing the Albanian frontier at its most import. ant point was for the purpose of cir. cumscribing the present Albanian move- ment and to prevent 1t taking on an in- ternational aspect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
EMBARGO ON POTATOES

LONDON, Dec. 25.-The business of government stopped in England Thurs day for four-day holiday except for the ministry of agriculture which issued formal looking document placing an embargo on American potatoes because of the Colorado beetle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
CHRISTMAS PARCEL
 PROVES TO BE BOMB
Attorneys Left Hand Is Blown
 Off

GLENDALE, Cal, Dec. 25.-A bomb in the form of Christmas package received by Ernest M. Torchia, an at torney, exploded here early today, blow ing off his left hand, driving frag- ments into his body and injuring one eye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
GAS WE'LL STRUCK

DUNkIRK, \. T., Dec 25.-The largest gas well ever struck in the Sheridan fields came in today with a daily flow of more than 100000 feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Sewing thread 7for 25c!

John J. Clark's Best, 6 cord sewing thread for hand and machine use. White No. 40 to No. 100. Black No. 40 to No. 70. Seven to a customer is the limit. But think of that, 7 spools for 25c!
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Hats for tiny tots
 l-2!

From infants to children of 7 years-any hat of felt, velvet, duvetyn, polo cloth. Plain, or feather trimmed. From severest tam for small sonny to fussy feath- cred chapeau for the little miss, at a saving of 1-2.
 Second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Suede pumps
 $5!

Your Christmas m ey will double it's buying ca pacity if you spend it for pumps of suede in beige, light brown, fawn, gray. All wanted strap patterns. Turn soles, with high and medium Louis heels. This lot includes a number of growing girls pumps with low heels.
 Pick out your size and come early. Today ONLY. No slipper in this lot was less than $8.75, and most of them were $10.75 and S12.50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Gotham girdles
 $3.95!

All elastic or sections of elastic and brocade. Many models, but not all sizes in every model. These girdles sold to $15. Hurry down for your size today and Saturday at $3.95.
 Second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Boxed linen handkerchiefs
 I-3 Jess!

Our remaining stock of holiday boxed linen hand7 kerchiefs. Three to a box. Formerly 59c to $2.95 a box. All at a saving of Is.
 Third
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Boys hats
 69c!

Plush,' chinchilla, leather trimmed, polo style - all the best.shapes. Many for merly as high as $3.75 will go to early purchasers at 69c.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26

Heavy ribbed, part wool, and all wool. Sold origi- nally to $3.75. To clean up broken lots, 95c.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
La Vogue corsets
 I-3 off

Well-known Modart make all at one-third saving on he regular price. Just fcl' coda. and Saturday.
 Second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
To $6 cOrsets
 SI.49!

L., J. & L. and Rengo makes. Specialized for to- day and Saturday clear ance at $1.49.
 Second
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Boys Overcats
 ,S2.95!

Just 38 medium weight o'coats in serges, tans, and blues. Belted styles - some knit coats, sizes to 8 years. Mothers who want to save and save greatly will come early for theirs. Originally priced at $12.50.
 Main
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Babies and girls coats reduced
 7-3!
WOmen's fleece lined undies
 3 for $l!

Two piece undies, high neck, long sleeves, ankle length. w arm ly fleece lined. Think of three gar ments for $1!
 Third
The Washington times., 1924-12-15
]. s. AIDS PLANS
TO SHOOT"
ECLIPSE
Scientist Takes Greatest Pre-
cautions to Get Photograph
10000 Feet in Air \
BY LLOYD LEHRBAS I
International News Service.

If all goes in the Heavens az
scientists predict, there will rot
be another total eclipse Of the
sun for 24O years henceY-so Pro
lessor David Todd, Of Amherst Col
lege, will take no chances when he
attempts to photograph the suns
corons during the eclipse on Janu-
airy "a.
He's going $4,000 feet in the air
in an airplane, above all atmos-
pheric dust and most OF the atmos-
pheric mass and where the sun
will be in sharp relief against the
dark background.
He's going to have his camera
wrapped in cotton-covered rope as
insurance against all Earring.
The camera will be "oiled" with
alcohol, as oil might freeze at that
altitude and cause the shutter TO
stick, and color screens will be
used to dampen. the sunlight, which
is from three to five times stronger
there than on the ground.
The pilot is: practicing now SO
that he can shut off his engine
and glide away from the sun In a
straight line at the precise moment
Professor Todd selects. .
The photographer Is practicing
taking as many sure negatives as
he can in q few fleeing moments.
All Of which il revealed in orders
sent to McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio,
by Major General Patrick, chief Of
air service. requesting the fullest
cooperation so that this chance of
couple of lifetimes shall not be
flivver-and the scientists have
to wait $40 years more.
The Washington times., 1924-12-15

$5O,OOO,OOO rum running scandal
when it meets tomorrow, according
to United States Attorney Winnie.
Winnie said David ]. Allen, recently
dismissed purchasing agent of the
Atlanta penitentiary, had ignored his
invitation to appear before the grand
jury and give his version Of the trip
he made to Weehawken with Alfred
(Breeze) Ransom, prohibition agent,
on truck selling expedition.
Ransom has been subpoenaed to
tell his story before the Federal
grand jury,
The Federal prosecutor denied as
sertions by Samuel Wilson assistant
superintendent of the New Jersey
Anti-Saloon League, that politics
would influence him in his investiga-
ton of the liquor scandal.
The Washington times., 1924-12-15
GIRLS HELD AS BURGLARS;
$4,000 LOOT RECOVERED

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Police
headquarters have announced the
recovery of loot valued at 5000
as the result of the arrest of two
young men and two girls who, the
police said, were responsible for
at least a dozen burglaries in
homes Of this city, one Of which
was committed in the home of
Doctor Alexis Carrel, internationally
known surgeon and Nobel prize
winner in 1911.
Tie loot taken from the home OF
Doctor Carrel consisted of clothing
and jewels valued at $1,000, accord.
ing to the police.
The Washington times., 1924-12-15
s3,34S,9OO Spent On
Disabled War Vets
This Year

Cost of the administration Of
the world war veterans act, for
the first eleven months of this
year was $3,348,9 900, Director
of the Veterans Bureau Frank
T. Hines announced today. Dur
ing this period a total of
15.400 cases were acted upon,
$500 Of which were tubercular.
The number of veterans re-
ceiving disqualification from the
bureau increased 4,637 over the
same period last year due to the
provision Of the act providing
for adnittance to Government
hospitals of veterans of all
wars since 1897.
The Washington times., 1924-12-15
ORDER OF WEST PLANS
NEW YEAR EVE DANCE

An informal dance will be given
by the woodrow Wilson Lodge. No.
S1e, and the Independent Moses
Monteficre Lodge, No. 2SS, OF the
Progressive Order Of the West on
New Years Eve at Odd Fellows
Hall.
Grandmaster Samuel Epstein, OF
Chicago, and Grand Secretary Nor
r1s Shapiro viii be the honor
guests of the evening.
The Washington times., 1924-12-15
13|ND|CTM ENTS
DUE IN RUN
PLOT
r@' ts7t
Prosecutor Denies Political 10
fIuence in Probe Of $5o,ooo,-
600 Liquor Ring
InternationaI News Service.

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 15.-Thir.
teen indictments for conspiracy and
violation of the Volstead law will be
returned by the federal grand jury at
Newark, investigating New Jerseys
The Washington times., 1924-12-15
Wrist
Watches

EveRy attractive
shape awaits your
selection. # o m o u Q
BulOva wrist watches
make most acceptable
Rifta.
Evening star., 1924-02-10
transmitting station on the giant
dirigible Shenandoah, which kept the

transmitting station on the giant
dirigtble Shenandoah, which kept the
munication with the big ship during
her sensational gale-driven flight up
the Atlantic coast in January. The
Army. which proudly boasts that its
In advance of the radio wizards en-
ployed, by the leading manufacturers
of radio products in the development
of improved apparatus, has promised
an exhibit to prove its claim.
Officials of the government depart
ments, including President Coolidge
and members of his cabinet, are ex-
pected to take an important part in
the elaborate and unique entertain
ment features OF the show. tentative
arrangements for which already have
been made.
Efforts are being made by the COM
mittee in charge of the show to have
the President speak on the subject
or radio on the opening night of the
exposition. which will be broadcast to
the nation through a chain of high
powered broadcasting stations scat
tered across the continent and linked
together by telephone lines. Secre-
tary OF Commerce Hoover. Secretary
of War Weeks. Secretary of Navy
DENLY: and Chief Radio Supervisor
Terrell, as well as the master radio
minds Of the bureau of standards. are
to be urged to participate in the show
program. -
Besides the government exhibits.
the secrets of the modest appearing
laboratory of G. Francis jenkins
noted Washington inventor, whose
creative genius has given to the
, world tue motion picture machine and
the even more remarkable apparatus
which transmits pictures by radio.
, VIII be revealed publicly for the first
time at Washington's show.
Il hoc
offers to exhibit at radio shows in
other sections of the country the re-
markabie machine which makes it
possible for pictures. movable or
stationary, and even great panoramas
/ or transpirinS scenes, to travel on
the radio waves. A conspicuous place
IN the show auditorium will be as
signed Mr.. Jenkins for the display Of
his radio Photography apparatus
The whole apparatus is comparable
TO camera with lens in Washington
and Its Photographic plate in Boston;
with this difference, that the one lens
Evening star., 1924-02-10

In Washington may put it's picture
on ten, one hundred or a thousand
photographs plates in as many differ
ent cities simultaneously. and at dis.
tances limited only by the power of
the broadcasting station.
Other Washington inventive gen.
iuses are coming to the show with
radio inventions that never before
have been seen at similar exhibits in
New York. Chicago. Philadelphia,
Boston and other large cities For
instance, the first coin-controlled ra-
d1o receiving set ever created will be
on display. This device, the inven-
tion of d. j. Richardson, will reveal.
for 5 cents. what the ether waves are
saying. 1t presents a number of
other vending machines in that it
assures prospective patrons that it
is In working operation before they
deposit coin in the receiver.
Robert Lawrence. who came into
radio fame through the broadcasting
WCAP. the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company station, is direc-
Tor or the entertainment program.
Unusual stunts" never before at
tempted at other radio shows are
planned by Mr.. Lawrence.
Convention Hall. the scene of the
big event. will be wired throughout
Tor the public speech amplification
system. Amplifying horns will carry
the program features to the most
remote corner of the big auditorium,
and therby preclude crowding any
one point.
Unlike previous radio shows, the
Washington exposition will prohibit
all private demonstrations of radio
sets in the booths. This plan was
adopted in order to avoid a bedlam
OF noise which would result from
NJ RI Irn1e
tion at the same time. Each exhibit
tor however. will be assigned a GER
tain period in which to demonstrate
his products without interference
Evening star., 1924-02-10

from other exhibitors. His demon
stration will be designed to form
a part of the. entertainment program,
and therefore will be more elaborate
and interesting than a simple exhi-
bition Of the merits of the set to turn
a deaf ear to local broadcasts and
pick up distant stations.
Washington's radio dealers have
taken more than so per cent of the
available space for exhibits A num-
ber Of nationally known manufac-
turers Of radio products also have
reserved space. Alfred L. Stern, di-
rector of the show, predicts that
every inch of the $4,000 square feet
Of floor space will be contracted for
long before the date for the opening
of the show.
The first radio show in Washington,
which is destined to be an annual af-
fair in the future. will be held under
the auspices of the Radio Merchants
Association of Washington, of which
William p. Boyer is president. Fred