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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
$IO.OOO 'ADMISSION'
 PAID BY RADIO FANS
Kansas City BrOadcaster EM
 poets $1OO,OOO Fund

KANSAS CITY, Mo, April B. Ten days ago local radio station broad. cast an invitation to those listening in to purchase seats in the invisible theatre" and in this way help defray the expense, To date $1O,O0O has been received from 1, 800 fans in virtually every state. Canada and Mexico, in ad. dition to S0.0O0 requests for further information. The contributions are from $1 to $100, the average being S5.
 The station expects to raise $1O0,000 to be held in trust to pay for its pro- grams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
BIG RICE MILL BURNS
Lake Charles Plant, Destroyed, Said To
 Be Worlds Largest

LAKE CHARLES. La, April B. The milling plant of the Lake Charles Rice Milling company, said to be the largest of it's kind in the world, to- gether with 10000 bags of clean and rough rice, was destroyed by fire today with an estimated loss of $75O,OOO, all of which was covered by insurance.
 J. A. Foster. treasurer and manager of the company, said the fire probably would be felt in the rice market.
 "I believe the company was the largest holder of rice stock in the coun- try" he said, 'and this loss of 10000 bags, with the present acute shortage, will no doubt affect the market"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Showers and probably thunder storms Friday night and Saturday; mostly cloudy; not much change In temperature. Tennssee: Showers. Mississippi: Showers and probably thunder storms.
 Georgia: Showers.
 Complete weather data will be found on Page 14.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
ASK NATIONAL PARK
 FOR YORKTOWN, VA.
Secretary Weeks Forwards Com missions Report To Congress

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Secre- tary Weeks sent to Congress today the report of the National Military Park Commission recommending the estab- lishment of a national park at York town, Va. and requesting an initial appropriation of $100,00O for the pro- ject.
 The park would include the larger part, if not all, of the HOO acres com prising the battle-ground and part of Yorktown itself. Congressional ap- proval will be sought to give the com mission power to develop the project.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
Saturday Is Last Day of Free
 Candy Offer At Want Ad Corner

Tomorrow free halfpound box Sunday AgeHed If have advantage of this
 
 toying for the several weeks has lasted won't
  goodbye and goduck box of the famous Martha Washington candy attraction Want Ad lar one for several weeks and The that cannot be continued indefinitely But the while least, this the it the of bountifu who Ad printed in to be Herald will Martha Washington 
 No trouble find the look for the sign Want Ads and Twentyf first office the right
 Main 1900
 calls Ad Department southt puinSst paper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
GERMANS WITHHOLD VIsAs
Hope To Curb Foreign Buying By
 PrOfiteers

BERLIN, April 3.-The German government has ceased issuing pass port visas for the next two days, prior to introducing new passport regulations intended to halt gay tourist junkets by the profiteer class.
 It is estimated that some 10000 Ger mans are now abroad, mostly on pleas ure trips. They are scattered along the French and Italian riviera, and are making merry in Rome and Venice. The government has decided that they are a bad advertisement for tn couu- try, and plans to keep them at home hereafter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
c. A. MUNN DIES
Was Editor And Publisher Of Scientific
 American

NEW YORK, April 3.-Charles Allen Mum, editor and publisher of the Scientific American, died at his home today after a brief illness.
 Mir. Mum was 64 years old. He was graduated from Princeton in 1881 and had long been identified with the pub lication.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
CONTEMPT IS CHARGED
Alleged To Have Approached JurOl
 During Trial

MOBILE, Ala, April 3.-A bench warrant for Arthur Sirmon, well known man about town, was ordered from the federal court today by Judge Robert T. Erwin charging contempt of court in that SirmOn approached a juror in con- nection with .the trial of Dan Jemi- son in United States court Wednesday, Sirmon was arrested and will be tried later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-04
HOTEL IS DESTROYED
COney Island Bathing Pavilion Also
 Goes Up In Smoke

NEW YORK. April 3.-Fire today destroyed the Whitney hotel and bath ing pavilion at Coney Island and dam aged a portion of the new board walk. The loss was estimated at more than 'S1OO. .OOO
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
Old Days In Americas

hit. Miss Flossie Dunn's "Mam-
mics Lii Baby Boy" and "The
Bugle Song" by Miss Charlie Winn
Baisden were among the best of
the evening. The "tableaux mou-
want and figures plastique" in
which Miss Matte Ansley, Lucy
Mid Cobb, Georgia Lee Hawkins,
Bessie Wheeler, Floyd McEhoy,
Minnie Nicholson, Emory Foster,
Charlie VIM Baisden and Helen
Huntington took part, proved a
beautiful finale to the entertain
ment. The graduating exercises
take place at the opera house to-
night, and the graduates are Misses
Matte Ansley, Winnie Stone, Nora
Burke, Susie Lingo, Matte Gamer
on, Georgia Lee Hawkins, Lucy
Mid Cobb, Nettie Lockett, and
Messrs Roland Harper Harold
Davenport, and Harry Dunn.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
RETURNING STUDENT
MEETS WITH SURPRISE

ATLANTA, June 16.-Gormar
Conrad, fresh from year at River
side Military Academy and return
ing to give his family a surprise,
was himself confronted with one Of
the greatest surprises Of his life.
Conrad entered the apartmtn whore
ne lived on Piedmont Avenue, and
was startled to find himself facing
an array of pistols, and was profit
ly asked to put 'em up" which
command he ,obeyeg The police
were called and when they arrived
Conrad explained his mission al
the apartment and showed his KEY
which his mother had given him
He then learned that his mother
had moved to the floor above that
day and that the strangers in his
former home trought him to be a
burglar.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
Monday, no paper published.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. June
16, 1894.)

THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
From The Times Recorder. June
16, 1894.)
A delightful german, rendered
in honor Of visiting young ladies
win be danced at the Americas
Club this evening after the school
exercises at the opera house. Cards
band viii furnish the music, AID
the affair will be in all respects a
most enjoyable one.
Misses Mamie Dudley, May ard
Mabel Mckenzie, three of Ameri-
Gus fairest debutantes, will leave
today on a short visit to Miss Clif-
ford Napier at her home near For
syth.
The entertaia ment 1t the opera
house last night by pupils Of the
Jackson erect was oroughly en-
joyed. Hiss Jazzee Mckenzie gave
% recitation Legend Of the Brce-
enz." Miss Bessie Warren recited
."Polly" while Master Cliff Clay
told How Salvador Won The
Race" The tent scene from julius
Caesar in which Charlie Harold
took the part Of Brutus and Frank
Burke that Of Caesiug, proved d
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
Hard Times and
Human Nature

How much easier it is to COM
plain than to smile. To most
of us, the present winter is al
ways the coolest; this summer
the hottest. IF the time be
spring, it is the wettest or the
dryest. In the fall we complain
of the early winter or 'cuss
because summer hangs on.
Every night read your
Old Days in Americas a
friend said to us recently. /
have been surprised at the con-
sistency of the season. When
| think this is the dampest
spring in a generation, find in
old days that usually the
spring is wet. After all, one
year is very much like another.
We have never seen good
times. It's always hard times.
Most of us thought business
could be better during the years
of 1918 and 1919. After they
Iwere gone, we termed them
good times" but not while they
were with us.
The editor of the Claxtor
Enterprise recalls some of the
hard time of the past, in these
words
Every time we hear hard
times" We can't help but think
of the time when soap wrappers
were worth saving along with
.'Schnapps" tobacco tags when
every time you bought five
cent pack of cigarettes you re-
ceived two 1-eent coupons as
a bonus. In those days cotton
was T IL cents pound oftener
than it reached nine, and the best
lob in town paid $4,000 a month.
Who said ''hard times"
Life was never a bed of roses
and never will be. We reap as
we sow. Make the best of to-
day and you'll be more fit to en-
ter the battle tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. June
16, 1914A

(From The Times Recorder. June
16, 1910
The Americas Epworth League
of First Methodist church will u
represented at state convention of
that large body, which assemblies
this week at Waycross. The Ameri-
Gus representatives selected are
Misses Emmie Morgan, Madge Nc
Afee, Messrs. Thomas Marshall,
and Joseph Bryan.
Miss Lorene Turner has gone 20
Rochelle upon visit of a week at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. Rogers.
Mrs. ]. w. Stallings. and Mrs.
| W. G. Slaughter, will leave tomor-
row for Mrs. Slaughter's former
home in Baltimore, where they will
spend several weeks delightfully."-
as guests of their mother, Mrs. j.
B. HURT.
Eugene Bailey left last night
for St. Simon Island where he will
put in his vacation studying the
sad sea waves and anatomy.
The condition of little Hazel
Prather which during four days
Icrday and strong hope of her ulti-
has been regarded improved yes
mate recovery is now entertained.
Miss Emmie Morgan has gone to
Thomasville to spend two days
with her sister, Mrs. Charles Smith,
prior to going to Waycross to at
tend the state Epworth league CON
vention.
Just as the congregation was
leaving the Presbyterian church
Sunday at the conclusion of the
morning service, the pastor, Rev. j
w. Stokes united in marriage Miss
Nina Kaylor and Dr.. Tyson r.
King The bride an attractive
young lady residing near Desoto,
mas many friends in Americas
where she is well known. as has Dr..
King, a popular druggist Of Lees
burg.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
Lost Inventions of the
Past

Some remarkable mechanisms
were invented by the alchem-
lists centuries ago. Albertus
Magnus, after 80 years work.
made brass man that talked.
An old man listened to the bah
BILE of the brass man. decided it
was the devil, and smashed it
to bits with his staff. So per-
ished the first phonograph.
Baptista Porta, delving in
Black Art, apparently discover
ed the secrets of artificial refrig-
Grafton, for "on a summers day,
when all complained of the heat,
he would freeze his guests with
cold air in the room"
Two tremendously important
inventions-and all went to
waste.
You admire the deliberately
equipped motorcar with kitchen
and beds, in which people take
long gypsy tours. The forerun-
ner, long ago, was the coach of
famous Samuel Moreland. 1t
carried travelling kitchen. for
it had a fireplace and CRATE, with
which he could make soup, broil
outlets and roast an egg, and
he dressed his meat by clock
work" The earl's home was
fitted with similar mechanical
comforts.
At about the same time, at
the Academic des Sciences, in
Paris, fat and equity inventor
would bid adieu to visitor and
point to his legs to show the
impossibility of conducting him
downstairs to the door. Yet
the astonished visitor, related
Isaac Disraeli, never failed find
ing the inventor waiting for him
outside with a broad grin.
This inventor apparently had
the first elevator. He enjoy
ed it nightly, but kept the Sc
cret to himself.
That was the way with near
ly all wonderful discoveries of
the brilliant period in history
dominated by the alchemists.
They considered their discover
les as exhibitions of private mag
&c, satisfying their vanity. 1t
rarely occurred to them to put
their discoveries into the hands
of the people for making life
burdens easier.
The desire to help humanity
was a rare phenomenon in an
cient times. and even up until
about a century ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
RECOVERING

When the World War ended
there was a lot Of talk about it be-
ing centuries before the world
would recover. Looks now as il
most Of the material damage vii
be repaired in one generation.
Recovery is taking place amaz-
mgly fast. The income Of all the
people of the nations that fouplt
IN the war was about 90 billion dol
lars IN 1913. Their income row il
over 81 billions year, measured
N the same coin--pre-war gold do
lars, And income is a mirror Of
production human toll.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
THE SOUTH GAINED

The South was the ony section
of the country where building
during the past month showed
an increase over that of April
1928. Fifty-five southern cities
gained 8 per cent. This compar-
ed with loss Of 10 cent on the
part of 100 cities in the central
west; with a loss of 2 per cent.
reported by 81 Pacific western
cities; with a loss Of II per cent.
in the eastern section, after the
New York city record has been
eliminated from the eastern to-
tal.-Industrial Index.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
HEN IS STILL USEFUL

Electricity has become a fac
tor in the poultry business. 1t Is
said there is one hatchery in this
country with capacity of a mil
lion eggs, with electricity acting
the setting hens part. No power
plant, as yet, has taken over the
business of laying eggs. So the
hen still has a little something
to cackle oveE.-Eatonton Mes
senger.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16

TUESDAY. SEE WHAT 81 WILL
DO ON MONDAY AND TUES
DAY. EVERY ITEM QUOTED
HERE is AT A CUT PRICE.
81 will buy l yard 40 inch all
Silk Crepe de Chine, all colors.
81 will buy 2 yards regular 75c
White French Organdy, AZ inches
wide.
81 will buy yards full stan
dard Press Bingham, regularly 25c
yard.
81 will buy 10 yards yard wide
Unbleached Sheeting, full yard
wide.
81 will buy yards 40 inch coli
ored Voiles, sheer and pretty.
81 will buy - Mems Fine CAM
brio Handkerchiefs, regularly
II lie.
81 will buy "a Mems Sheer
Lawn Hemstitched Handkerchiefs,
full size.
81 will buy 1 Ladies' White or
Colored Blouses, 1924 styles, value
$500.
81 will buy 8 pairs Ladies' Silk
Stockings, black or brown, SOC pr.
value.
l will buy E. & W. Dress
Shirt, made of good Madras, value
$1.50.
81 will buy 7 pairs Mems and
Children's 25c Socks, all colors.
81 will buy 10 Ladies' Ribbed
Vests, all sizes, actual value zoe
each.
81 win buy yards So inch Per-
Gales, light or dark styles, Gold Seal
make.
81 will buy 4 yards regular Soc
Japanese Crepe, colors guaranteed.
81 will buy heavy Turkish
Towels, bleached white, size 22x44
inches.
81 will buy l real Duplex Win
dow Shade, complete with Harts-
horn guaranteed spring rollers.
81 will buy yards regular 81
yard heavy White Basket Weave
material
81 viii buy dozen Maxine-El-
hot fine Toilet Soap, value $1.50.
81 win buy l yard best Imported
japanese Pongee, full width, reg
ularly $1.25.
81 win buy 2 Boys Blouses,
white, khaki or fancy patterns, all
sizes.
81 viii buy 2 yards heavy Mer-
cerized Table Damask, 81 inches
81 will buy % cans Lighthouse
Cleanser, You know it sells reg
ularly at &c can.
All the above will be on sale
here Monday morning at 8 o'clock.
One, two three or up to five dol
lars may be purchased at one time.
None sold to dealers at the above
prices.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
FARMERS COTTON
Prohibition
Enforcement

The Baltimore Sun quotes the
press agent of the Woman's
National Committee for Law En-
focement as saying:
The greatest danger to prohi-
bition comes from the Eastern
and Middle Atlantic States, ow-
ing to the great foreign popula-
ton and lawless wealthy groups.
The grave danger to prohi-
hilton comes from the failure of
federal enforcement, not from
any particular group or ge-
ographical section. Illicit booze
can be bought as easily in the
States on the Canadian border
as in the States along the Allan
tic.
Whisky comes into this coun-
try from North, East, South and
West. 1t is also manufactured
in quantity in every State. Fail
ure to comply with the 18th
amendment is not confined to
any particular State of section.
Edward Howe, an old-time
prohibitionist has this to say of
Kansas, an interior State:
In the days of license 1 knew
almost no women who would
take a drink of liquor. They
were mainly active temperance
workers, trying to save the men,
but since prohibition was adopt
ed the number of women who
drink is much larger than Mr..
Bryan imagines. / have personal
ly seen hundreds of them at it,
and 1 am not much of a sport.
State prohibition was a good
thing in Kansas, but national
prohibition did not make Kansas
dryer: it made it wetter.
The ordinary white mule
(moonshine whisky is very COM
mon in almost every community,
because it is so easily made. /
know women who have their
cooks make it as they put over"
oatmeal for breakfast. There is
something about national prohi-
bition that has demoralized the
people so far as white mule is
concerned. 1t has demoraliZed
the enforcement officials. | am
no rounder and am not a drink
ing man, but / can buy beer and
whisky almost any day any,
where.
The law CAN be enforced.
Under State prohibition, there
was less drinking, less liquor
made and sold. 1t is clearly up
to the Federal government to
enforce this law as rigidly as it
does the laws governing the sale
of narcotics, forgery of United
States bonds, the white slave
traffic or counterfeiting.
Under the Republican admin
istration there does not seem to
be any real desire to enforce the
liquor laws, and there lies the
trouble.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
THOUGHT

He that tilleth his land shall
have plenty of bread.-PrOy'
2saO.
Toll and pleasure, in their ma
lures opposite, are yet linked to-
gether in a kind of necessary con-
nection.-Livy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
THE CHAMPION TYRE

The wife of a minister in Wese
Virginia has been married three
times. Her maiden name was
Partridge, her first husband was
named Robin, second Sparrow,
the present Quail. There are
now two young Robins, one Spar
row and three Quail in the fam
lily. One grandfather was a
Swan, and another a Jay-but
he's dead now and bird Of Para
disc. They live on Hawk avenue,
Eagleville, Canary county, and
the fellow wro wrote this is
Tyre, and a relative of the fam
ily.-Pearson Tribune,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
wHY SOME PEOPLE FAIL

WHY SOME PEOr lie
One Of the main reason why
some people never get on Their
financial feet is because they
spend what they expect to make
before it is made and often they
fall short Of their expectations.
The only safe course is to earl,
your money first and then spend
Il afterwards. Sandersvivlle
Progress.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
BLAST

Our bodies are puny, but, aided
by our inteIlects, we do the work
of race Of giants. On the western
shore of Great Salt Lake, railroad
builders recently literally moved a
mountain by touching an electric
button. Half a million cubic feet Of
rock and dirt were torn loose and
scattrede. 1t was equivalent to
throwing into the air a 1O-story
builling 1000 feet long.
This certainly is no country for
a loafer. And the day is not far
off when the man who won't work
won't eat. Parasites will be weed
ed out.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16

Another world war in fiv.
years predicts a French general, so
we had better start passing the
bonus for it now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16

1t must be awful to be a doctor
and get called to the bedside Of
somebody who already owes you q
big bill,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16

Texas Rangers have sent the
Prince Of Wales wild pony and if
he doesn't look out this will be a
horse on him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
6e:FA i1o1;1
w lVGE0
A. bsAbcrt Apple

SCENT
Everything is going wrong. The
latest is that flowers are losing
their scent. Scientific cross-breed-
ing by florists, to increase the size
and color of blossoms, is at the ex-
pense Of the perfume. The plant
energy that naturally wocld go to
make fragrance is used Up by art,
ficially stimulated growth.
Nature always exacts her penalty
her price.
The loss of floral fragrance
alarms botanists. There are 1890
species of cultivated flowers, but
only 42O have an agreeable odor
OF the 30S varieties of violet.
only 13 emit perfume.
IcoBwEBS
Some forms of wealth are be-
yond price. In the liquor coIlec-
ton that was left by the late j. p.
Morgan, are bottles of Napoleon's
brandy and a cognac made in 1875
Even a prohibitions might be tempt
ed to sneak a drink from such q
treasure.
In our large cities are plenty of
gunner who would commit murder
for one bottle of the 1895 cognac.
HoNKERs
Motor vehicle owners in the Uni
ted States paid over All million
dollars in taxes last year.
There are only 100000 miles Of
surfaced highways in the whole
country. So auto and motorcycle
owners in one year pay more thar
$1,000 taxes for every mile of gooc
roads.
I The hole made in the American
pocketboek by autos reminds Us o.
one of the craters on the moon. Bu
the auto is easily three-fourths {
necessity, only one-fourth a pleas
ure device.
| 1t is cheap at any price, consider
ing the time it saves.
| Time, after all, is the thing of
greatest value among our many
forms of wealth.
"GAs"
Forty years ago, kerosene wa.
the main byproduct of crude oil.
Around refineries, men drew off Z
barrel ofgasoline to wash a pair o
overalls, and dumped it out. Tier
came the auto.
This year, refiners say, 9177 mi
lion gallons Of gasoline will be pro
duced in the United States. Thi.
will be fifth more than in 1929
How long, at this rate Of increase
until the underground oil reserve.
viii be exhausted?
The future fuel, and probably
within your lifetime, will be alcoho
or electricity sent by radio from
central stations.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16

Students of medicine are in-
creasing in this country. t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-16
THE STANDARD

DOLLAR DAYS MONDAYS AND
TUESDAY. SEE WHAT 81 WILL
DO ON MONDAY AND TUES
DAY. EVERY ITEM QUOTED
HERE is AT A CUT PRICE.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-08-31
RUSSIANS SEEK
TO TAKE ISLAND
Ship Dispatched With
Orders to Capture
Inhabitants
(By The Associatel Press)

SEATTLE. Wash, Aug. 30.-A vessel
named Rob October. flying the Russian
flag, armed with six-pound cannon and
carrying a company Of Russian infan-
try. is bound through the ice from Pc
tropalovsk, Kamchatka Peninsula. for
Wrangell Island. off the northern shore
Of Siberia, northwesterly from Bering
Strait, with orders to take all inhab-
itants prisoners. seize an shipping and
establish Russian ownership Of the is
land in the name Of the Soviet govern
ment. Lieut.. Col. 4. r. Broome. flight
advance officer for the abandoned Brit
ish world encircling expedition, declar-
ed on his arrival here yesterday.
Colonel Broome gave this information
TO United States naval officers. Wran-
gell is owned and claimed as American
territory and at least one American.
Charles Wells, is reported marooncd
there with party Of l3 Eskimos. Col
onel Broome also said the American
schooner Herman of San Francisco
with Capt. Louis Vance and crew Of
American sailors, going to the rescue
of Wells, may be taken prisoner by the
Soviet forces on Their arrival.
Wells was left on Wrangell Island
BY Harold Noice, when the latter went
last year to rescue survivors of the ill
fated Stefanson expedition and found
the only survivor, Ada Blackjack, whom
he brought back to Seattle.