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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

C0W. Aug. 3.-The grim
 the dead NikoIai Lenine N neen made visible to his rs k on the anniversary oi K of the World war, a the first successful e whole body in mod
 crypt in the tomb un- dd uare of MOscOw was oI of a public ceremony in < with anti-militarist md ther. demonstrations on Try of the beginning of Iict. The body of the des found to be fully 4pri among the more isnafknt people this was at once ascrfbt some supernatural influence.
 Ienin's bod ies in a natural posture on a ble slab. It is clothed in a pla1 suit, on the coat of which is pinned the highest Rus sian. military dEcoration-the 'tor- der of the red banner" On the left lapel is a membership button of the all-Russian Soviet committee.
 Features We'll Preserved
 The features of the dead Russian leader are remarkably well pre- served.
 The soldiers with raised bayonets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
{. E. TOWNSEND,
 FORMER SENATOR, DIES IN MICHIGAN
Was Known As ROOse- velt' Spokesman On
 Rail Questions

JACKSON. Mich. Aug 2-Former United States Senator Charles E. Town sehd- 6S. dropped dead suddenly to- night at his home He was visiting with his family and Dr. L. J. Harris, a friend.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
OIL FEE CHARGE
IS DISMISSED
OVERWHELMING VOTE OF coNFI.
pENcE GIVEN BY SEN
ATE COMMITTEE
WHEELER EX0NERATED
REPORT ExoNERATING MONTANA
SENATOR ADOPTED BY
SENATE, Sc TO 5

ashlngton.-Senator Burton *.
Wheeler of Montana, indicted by fed
eral grand jury In his home state, was
given an overwhelming vote of conf-
dence by his colleagues in the Senate.
Sweeping aside two proposals to de-
fer expression us 10 guilt or innocence
until after the court trial, the Senate
adopted, 80 TO >, the majority report
of its investigating committee eNoncr-
uting :hc prosecutor of the Daugherty
committee of the charge of accepting
a fee TO practice before the Interior
Department after his election TO the
Senate.
Eighteen Republicans and the two
Farmer-Labor senator's Joined with
thirty-siN Democrats in favor Of the
resolution approving the majority re-
port submitted by senator BOrah, Re-
publican, Idaho, chairman of the inves-
tigating committee. The five opposing
the resolution were Republicans.
The proposals under which the Sem
nte would not have expressed Itself
us to guilt or innocence We're put for
ward by Senator Sterling of South Da-
kota, member of the Investigating
committee, and Senator Spencer OF
Missouri. That by Senator Sterling.
which specified that no question
should be raised as to Senator
Wheelers qualifications to sit In the
Senate. was rejected, IS To ).
Senator Spencer's resolution would
have limited the Senate to n state
ment that no facts had been devel-
oped in the inquiry which would dis
qualify Senator Wheeler from retain
ing his seat. II was rejected, SO to
s, all of those supporting 1t being Re
publicans.
The bnllOting came after nearly
three hours of debate, in which Sem
ator Sterling, author of minority re-
port holding that with the facts be-
fore 1t the grand jury was justified
in voting an Indictment, became the
storm center Of attack from both sides
of the chamber.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
Race War Staged in Virginia

Shenandoah, Na.-A race riot broke
out here few days ago, caused by n
fight between a trio of negroes and
Clement EScue, white man. Escue
was badly cut about the head and re-
ceived several knife wounds on other
parts of his body. Automobiles filled
with armed white men pursued the
three negroes. Emil Escue, brother
of Clement, discovered the negroes
hiding in n woods and opened fire on
them. The negroes returned the fire
and II running gunfight ensued until
the white mems supply of ammuni-
ton was exhausted. The white men
retreated under fire and one of them
was wounded. but not seriously.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
WHY DRUGGISTS RECON-
SWAMP-ROOT

For many years druggists have VI
with much interest the remarkable
maintained by DR.. Kilmer's Swan,
the great kidney, liver and bladder
sine.
1t is a physicians prescription.
Swamp-Root is a strengthenin,
cine. 1t helps the kidneys, li1,
bladder do the work nature intends
should do.
Swamp-Root has stood the test oi
1t is sold by all druggists on its nd
it should help you. No other kidnq
cine has so many friends.
BE sure to get Swamp-RUot AZ:
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to ts
great preparation. send ten cent.
kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y.
sample bottle. When writing,
and mention this paper.-Adyer.i,
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
Dull Man Good Cit;,.

! am often impressed with the
numbers Of dull people who 20,
well. The dullest man | knov
good citizen, n good husband al
ther, and n useful man. He isn>
to write, or make a speech, bu.
able to behave, and work. md
and be honest and polite; and
are the essentials. Hundreti
brighter men laugh at him. nc
whom get along ms well as he do
Is easy to behave. and work. A,
honest, and make n living. ho,
hard 1t may be to paint gre,.
ture. write n great book. or b.
great In statesmanship.-E. W. Il
Monthly.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
Farm Budget Bill Passed

"asiiinston.-In the rccord-breaking
time OF fifteen minutes, the Senate
passed the annual agricultural appro.
prlation bill. carrying total Of SGO.-
ooooo. AS passed. the bill sets aside
sZ'l3o'ooo for fighting various crop
pests, ss9l'ooo for the biological sur
Vey' $4,423,OOO for the bureau Of aRri.
cultural economies, $1,OOO,OOO for ac.
QUESTION of additional forest londs
@4oz'ooo Tor enforcement of the pack
ers and stockyards act, and s13OOO
zoo for federal highways.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
WASHINGTON

Forest fires which have been raging
in northern Montana are reported as
being under control. Favorable wealth
er and an absence of wind enabled fire
fighters to cOnfine the fires to areas
which had been partly burned over.
Reports from Whitefish and Kalispell
indicate that the fires, which have de-
stroyed several thousand acres of tim
ber have been checked and that no
more ranchers had been driven from
their homes.
After wandering in the Wilderness of
discord and dissension for nearly six
months, the turbulent SiXty-eighth Con-
gress has emerged into the sunny open
spaces of comparative harmony and Is
pointed toward certain adjournment
by June {.
A formal proclamation putting into
effect the new liquor treaty with Great
Britain was recently issued by Presi-
dent Coolidge after exchange of ratifi-
cations with Secretary Hughes and
Ambassador Howard, representing
their respective governments.
President Coolidge's bronchial cold
not only refused to yield to treatment
us expected, but grew worse, with the
result that he cancelled most of his en-
gagements and found himself unable
70 join with Mrs. Coolidge in receiving
at the second of the White House gar
den parties.
A composite plan for adherence to
the permanent Court of international
Justice with reservations was laid be
fore the Senate in resolution drafted
by Senator Pepper, Republican, Penn
sylvania, after two days OF consulta-
tion with his colleagues on the foreign
relations committee.
The federal grand Jury In Montana
was justified in returning an indict.
Iaent against Senator Wheeler, Demo.
rrat, of that state, in the opinion OF
Senator Sterling, Republican, South
Dakota, who submitted minority re.
port to the Senate in his capacity as
Il member of the special committee
which investigated the incident
Cyrus f. Woods, American ambassa.
dor to Japan, has rendered his resig
nation to President Coolidge and asked
TO be relieved of his duties at Toxic
as soon rs the president can conven.
iently replace him.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
Youth Kidnapped and Killed

Chicago.-kidnuped and held for a
$4,000 ransom, and murdered when
the kidnapers believed their plans
were about to miscarry, the nude body
of Robert Franks, 1i-year-old son Of
Jacob Franks, millionaire Chicago
manufacturer, was found in swamp
on the South Side with the head
crushed and the body stripped of all
means of identification. At the time
the body was found the parents, un-
aware of the fate of their son, were
awaiting a visit from the kidnapers in
order to turn over the money to them
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
French World Flyers Trip Ended

farls.-The ministry of aeronautics
OF the French government announces
that the flight of Capt. Georges Pelle-
nen Doisy has ended. The aviator
may complete his plan to fly to Toxic
with II new plane, but officially his
flight ended when he crashed at Shanc-
iai. According to the mnlstry's rul-
ing the Pars-Tokio flight should have
been done in one airplane and this no
longer Is possible in the case of Cap
tam Doisy. He declares, however, tnat
farls TO Shanghai in less than o
month is French record.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
Chinese Bandits Siay American

Peking.-The reported murder by
bandits near Nangwa, Fukien province,
of Jay Dnsmore, an American lum-
herman of Seattle, has been called to
the attention of the foreign office by
the American legation. Dinsmore it is
reported, was shot by bandits ard died
two days later. His body was taken to
Zoo Chow, Kiangsi province.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
" GS l. EhN

Cooler weather and scattered show
ers have been material aids to the fire
fighters in district No. ! of the forest
service, according to reports reaching
headquarters at Missoula, Mont.
John O'Leary, defendant in an al
legged bootle egging charge in Federal
Court. fired twelve shots in the crowd
ed court room mt Butte when called for
sentence. Using two guns, he APP
pcared to shoot without any particular
aim. The first eleven shots went wild.
He used the twelfth on himself, in
fllcting Il wound in the head which
will probably prove fatal.
Burglars entered the Great Northern
station at Belt, Mont, knocked the
dial off the safe with Il sledge, blew
open the safe with nitro and carried
away the entire cash contents-53 cop
per pennes-the agent having depos-
tied the receipts earlier in the day
and left only the 53 cents. There is
no cIew TO the identity Of the burg
lars.
ole Hanson, former mayor of Seat
tie. lecturer and prominent citizen of
Los Angeles. was freed of Il charge of
horse stealing when he appeared be-
fore Justice of the Peace Morton in
Pasadena on complaint of Clarence w.
Basten. Sierra Madre. The judge
ruled that u man cannot steal his own
property, after Hanson, to the satlsfac-
tion of the court, proved ownership of
the horse
Flames and smoke are belching from
the crater of a volcano, supposedly eX-
tinct for centuries near the Colorado
line in New Mexico, according to auto
mobile travellers reaching WalsenburG,
Colo. from the South. The eruption
is said to be from a cone near the
Ration pass. Tie travellers did not 90
near enough the eruption to ascertain
whether lava or ash was being thrown
from the old crater, but declared
smoke was issuing from a fissure in
the ground near Folsom, New Mexico.
Officials of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company at
Denver have received instructions
LA'Ai tliF -AAil'IlN'ili ItltIillbllt ant! tl-
egraph Company to submit license
blanks TO all owners of commercial
radio broudcasting stations in this ter.
ritory with view to eliminating in,
fringements on the cOmpany's patents
The blanks are being mailed ont this
week. a number of suits recently
were instituted by the company to
protect its patents affecting radio tel.
ephone broadcasting, and each decl
sion so far rendered has been in favor
Of the telephone company.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
GENERAL

Turning his back on the "Grea,
White Way" which cost him eighteen
years of his liberty because of the
murder of Stanford White, Harry X
Thaw has turned to the sober side Of
life and, according to his attorneys,
will devote himself to managing his
business affairs. When Thaw was
locked up for killing White his proper.
ty holdings were worth about S2JO. 900.
To-day, an associate member of his
counsel said, the same property Is
worth approximately $1.OO0,OOO.
The big dirigble Shenandoah, pride
of the United States navy recently
sue ccessfully completed its first test
flight since Jan. 16. when the big ship
was torn loose from its moOring mast
here during violent storm The ship
ctrcled around the field. and then bro.
ceeded to Lakewood and Toms river
at an altitude of 800 feet. Returning
to the station, the ship reached i'm al.
titude of l,2OO feet and ut times at
tained Il speed Of fifty-four miles IN
hour.
The L. c. Smith typewriter factory
at Syracuse, \. Y, was badly wrecked
by an explosion of unknown cause re.
Gently.
The federal grand jury in Newark,
n. j., which has been investigating
transportation of the Dempsey-C -Carpen-
tier fight films, returned indictments
against Tex Rickard and six other
men.
Major Frederick l.. Martin. com.
mander of n United States aerial squad.
ron encircling the earth, who was
missing for ten days on the Alaska
peninsula after crashing April 30 into
a mountain 100 miles north of Chignik
Alaska, has left Alaska aboard the
Pacific American Fisheries vessel
Catherine D., for BelIinghum Wash.
The price of gasoline in Omaha was
cut 3A cents to II cents gallon by
the Stan4ard Oil Company and the
Nicholas Oil Corporation, with state.
ments the reduction was made so
meet existing competition in Omaha. II
Their action was followed by state.
ment by City Commissioner John Hon.
| kins, who has been selling gasoline
at Il municipal station for II cents
that he could cut his price to - cents
Transmission of photographs from
/ Cleveland to New York over an ordi
nary telephone wire was successfully
accomplished recently by engineers Of
the American Telephone and Tele
| graph Company, it was announced IL
Cleveland, o., The test was the result
Of weeks of experimenting.
All action by Evelyn Nesbit and hel
son to contest the right of Harry X
Thaw, recently adjudged sane by Z
| jury at Philadelphia, to his freedom
was dropped when William A. Gray
their attorney, withdrew his motion fol-
! new trial.
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
FOREIGN


Dispatches received in CONSTANT
nople reports that further earthquake
shocks have been felt at Erzerum. Has
san Kale and Kars. Entire villages In
the nelghborhood of Hassan kala are
said 10 have been destroyed The lum-
Der Of additional victims is given as
100.
Ambassador Hanihara may be per
mitted TO resign" his Washington post
shortly, Foreign Minister Mntsui told
newspaper men in Toxic. The minis
ter's statement was made to n gath
ering of representatives Of the Japan
ese press after tOday's cabinet meet
ing, at which he admitted the subject
had been discussed. The statement
was the result of insistent Inquiries.
President AIillerand of France now
is the object of almost the entire at
tention of the radical and Socialist
press which, in the absence of indica-
tions as to how the three parties of
the successful coalition are going to be
able to profit from their victory and
what their program issgnlng to be, in
sistently demand that the chief magis-
trute of the republic give way to a new
man.
Several Polish police. frontier guards,
and Il priest. we're killed in Il battle be-
tween raiders from soviet Russia and
Poles at Krzywicze. near the border,
said dispatch received in Warsaw
from that place recently. Forty armed
men crossed the line armed with rifles,
machine guns and grenades. They at
tackled Krzywlczc, later l0oting the
town. They recrOSsed the border into
Russia.
An offer to set aside a lump sum TO
cover the pre-wur debts of the Russian
government to British subjects If a
long term loan could be arranged with
the assistance of the British govern.
ment was made by the Russian dele
gates ut recent session of the Anglo
Soviet conference in London. The
Russians said they would only cOnsid.
er the claims of those who held Rus.
sion bonds before March L., 1917.
Five men named in Free Stnte
proclamation as having been respon.
sible for the attack at Queenstown on
party of British soldiers March 81,
have sent to Dublin newspapers a
statement denying the charge and de
claring the government issued the
proclamation to justify ii in shooting
them if they We're captured. They
declare they have been ION the run"
for two years as officers of the Cork
Republican brigade.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger in a
copyright dispatch from Canton, China,
quotes DIR. sun Yat Sen, first prcsl.
dent of the Chinese republic. as saying
that he had been deeply moved by the
expressions of sympathy cmanatlns
from America at the false reports Of
his death. He also said that China,
harassed by other nations, may cause
another world war. The Ledger CORE
spondent said that he had talked for
an hour with Dr.. Sun at his lleadquar.
tprS
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30
Chocolate Grazing

The age Of chocolate drops. q
ing to n Detroit physician, is at
Men, women and children" he
buy more Of them every day.
to be a habit just like drll
Chocolate candy has an effect d
nerves. and II the habit is acq
a craving for the candy will b
every day. The effect Is scHt
dull and always mild. There Is
ing serious about the habit"
The Dolores star., 1924-05-30


Submitted to blood tests and stood
ready to give of their blood If neces-
ssry. Ill health and dcspondency were'
assigned as the reason for Barbee's
self-inflicted wounds.
Denver.-More than 2O,OOOOOO of
young trout have been liberated In
trout streams in all parts of the state,
many of which should be large enough
nov to come up to the size required
b.T the state fishing laws according to
an announcement by II. G. Parvin,
state game and fish commissioner.
Boulder.-Veyner Engstrom, 30 years
ord, an electrician employed at the
Boulder county tunnel, TWENTY-FIVE
i'iles west of here, was killed almost
instantly when Il gasoline tank from
which he was drawing Il can OF the
fluid, exploded. Engstrom had lighted
II match to see more clearly.
Colorado Springs.~-P olling tn @
heaviest vote ever cast in a special
election involving bond issue, Colo
rado Springs voted to issue 81. go 600
in bonds to erect, purchase or eouip
n municipal light and power plant
Inc forty-one precincts gave a major
itv or SS4 votes to the bond issue, the
vote standing 3,1TS for the bonds and
z,Ze4 against. An attempt to repeal
the present law prohibiting the show
ing OF moving pictures was lost over.
whelmingly. The vote in thirty.three
o"t or forty-one precincts stood 1862
against the repeal and 2,244 in favor.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-04-12
Eue enOrme.....
toousinuscisn d. Ia Ira. pss.,

a%w-
Ha sido citada para ell jueves II
del acutal la Asamblea de las Ca
maras de Concrete para tratar es-
tos asuntos. Ell lunes proximo Sc
reune la Secci6n de San Juan para
nombrar sus Delegates a la Asam-.
blea Magma. Los comerciantes de
San Juan no deben: dejar de asistir
a esta Asamblea Ola de Ia Secci6n
de San Juan) para insistir en que
Sc nombre una Delegation fuerte
que defenda nuestros intereses.
-Pero nos informan, insistimos,
que los aumentos 0 razonables.
iQue opina I'd. de. este, Sr. Vail
Spinosa?
Los Observation-Disclosures de
un 20R hasta un 275R. Figdrese
listed que limitan a 100 llamadas
mensuales a los telafonos de las ca
sas de concrete, cobrando cuatro
centados por cada llamada extraor-
dinaria. Cualquier telefono de un
SOAIA1duO sc utAAALd oV HcNES al uAn
como ypromedio. Esto implica Ell pa
go de 800 llamadas a .cuatro centa-
vos, 0 sea treinta y siete dollars
por cada telefono. Con la Tarifa
actual, csc mismo ndmero de LA
madas pagaria, mas 0 menos, ca
torce dollars. Los Colmados y, esta-
f~blecimientos de- concrete que tienen
tres Y cuatro telefonos, tendran que
pagan de $3.50 a $500 mensuales por
esta clase de servicio. Desde luego,
que ell negocio no da para ESQ y ten
dram que retirar todos los Apara-
tos menos uno. Ahora, imaginese
listed con Ell servicio brillante que
tenemos, ide que utilidad lie seria
un solo telefono para un Colmado?
Acabarfan con suprimirlo tambien.
Asf es que estamos frente al serio
problema de que una Comision de
Servicio Publico intenta p%rivarnos
| del uso de unos de los adelantos de
la ~ciencia moderna, que es ell tele-
fono. Els un problema muy serio ell
que tiene que ~afrontar la Asamblea
de la >Camara de Concrete ell dia II,
porque una alucha contra Ell Gobier-
no es titanica.
Dimos las gracias al senior Vail
Spinosa, por sus atenciones, dicien-
dole 81 ne tenia Inconvenience al
guno en- que publicaramos sus ma,
nifestaciones en- Ell MUNDO.
-Ninguno-nos dijo. Tenemos que
d~efendernos, Y la, .publicidad es nues-
ira arma mas fuerte, agrego nues'
! tro amigo.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-04-12
ALGO MAS SOBRE Ell CPTTFT
DELLA GALE SIERRA

En- la mafana del dfa de aver vi
Slto nuestra mesa de reduction una
comIsion compuesta por varios ~
baleros de Manatf, los cuales veniar
aeonpanando al venerable anciauo
Don Carlos Osorio Aguayo, padre
def Sr. Carlos Osorio, quien en- no.
ra infausta, hubo de descargar So
recover sobre Miguel Angel Rivera
en- Ia noche de antief.
FL afigido padre Sc mostraba ner-
vioso y no cuisines importunarle
con preguntas.
Sin embargo, hoy mejor informa-
dos, hemos de decir a nuestros lee
torres, que la familia Osorio es una
de las mejores familias de ManatI y
que tanto ell padre como ell hijo son
muy queridos en- aquelIa sociedad
que sabe apreciar los, gfandes m6-
ritos que les alderman.
Nosotros lamentamos sincersnen-
to 81 ineidente- que sumo a dos IA
miiias en- la desperation v Ell
llanto.
Segdn nos informa ell Sr. Osorio,
(padre) Ell Lcdo. Algeria Sc ha en-
cargado de la defensa de su hijo y
81 espera que la justicia resplandez-
A la bora en- que escribimos estas
lineas auR no sc ha fiajdo fianza al
agresor nj Sc ha terminate la am
plia Investigation que esta llevando
q cabo ell Fiscal Gomez, de la Segun-
da Seccion.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-04-12
-INFOR MACION GE T.
Sc coNs1DERA INNM1NENTE.
continuation de la Is. pag.)

rEE
acerca del nombre del estudiante
q. ha sido ~suspendido defnitivamente
y no %publicamos hoy la lista de los
estudiantes c~astigados por ser esta
demasiado extensa Y por no haber
tenido tempo material para conse-
guirla.
En- ell dia de aver, y entire todos
los estudiantes Sc ha producido I'm
verdadero revuelo y o muchos los
que desflan, constantemente, ante
las fatales listas para ~cerciorarse
de que sus nombres no aparecen en-
las mismas.
Hasta la fecha no sabemos cual
habra de ser la actitud que asumi-
ran los estudiantes respecto de esta
orden de Mr.. st. John, Y aun cuando
Sc cree que, no les quedara mas re-
! medic que acatarla, aver Sc nos in
form6 que muchos de ellos estaban
hacienda opinion en- el sentido que
era deber suyo protestar de que Sc
hubiera hecho una Investigation y
procedido a castigarlos sin haberles
dado a todos y cada uno de ellos
la debida oportunidad de defenderse,
puesto que en- la forma en- que Sc
han hecho estas averiguaciones es
l6gico suponer que hayan podido CO.
meterse lamentables injusticias.