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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Fake Benefactor Arrested
 After Alabama Swindle
I. T. Williams Mulcted Money From Bereaved
 Persons, Say Postal Men

PORTLAND, Ore, Dee. 7.-J. F. Williams alleged to have preyed upon the sorrows of mothers and fathers. will stand trial here in federal court for using the mails to defraud.
 After q three-year search, postal em- ployes and inspectors captured the man whom they charge with answering ad- vertisements which sought to locate missing relatives, using them as means of obtaining money. Williams was arrested in Chicasha, Okla.
 Postal authorities declare that Will liams operated in many states, mulct- ing bereaved parents and other rela- tives of missing people with letters Ill the following vein:
 T am caring for your son. He was in ured so that he cannot write you himself, when he is well ne can come back to you. but he must have money.
 Details Varied
 The details and circumstances varied in different cases, it is alleged. but the method was the same. Many grief stricken parent Is said to have sent the man money, sums ranging from SoO up, according to investigators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
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PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 9


 WEEI Boston (303) Big Brother club; 6:3o musical; talk; 7;30 musical; program from WEAF.
 wGR Buffalo (319) music; S9 Everready hour.
 WMAQ Chicago News (447.5) organ; s:3O orchestra: book review; 8:2o Clara LaughEn. $40 talk: $50 lecture; 9;lo musical.
 WLs Chicago ts45) 6:ao organ; 7-1o:15 entertainers farm program. orchestra 10:40-12 music review.
 XIV Chicago (536) 6:35 bedtime; ' concert; 7;So-8:5O stage review. musical; 10 at Home.
 VOL Chicago 44s) 7-S concert. quar- tet; 1o-2 Rainbo Skylarks;
 WLW Cincinnati I423) 1ood2 od music. nus
 WAX Cleveland News (39o) $50 bed time story; concert.
 WFAA Dallas News t476) s;SO violin ist. choir; II organ.
 KNX Hollywood (3s7> music; 1O-1
 WDAF Kansas City Star N1D s-7 School of the Air; 11;45 Nigkthawks. cert; 8:sO children; 10 clax icai 12 or
 WHAs Louisville CourierFTimes NOo) 1909 concert. (5O0) bedtime: S;3O drama league play; II Addy Britt. Dick Finch.
 WCAY Milwaukee (266) 9:15 band. ser
 WCCO Minneapolis-st, Paul (410 e:3O
 CKAC Montreal 425) 6:sO orchestra 7:3O entertainers; 9:30 orchestra.
 WHN New York (S6O) movie critic; 6:10 employment broadcasting; S:3O or chestra dance; 1O:3O music; 11:30 or
 WEAF New York (492) 6:3o orchestra 7:2O John F.. Hill; 7:30 Gold Dust Twins s National Carbon company; trio; 9:30 orchestra.
 WOR Newark (4O5) 6 music; 615
 KGO Oakland (s12) concert: 10 Gin derella," instrumental trio; 12 dance, SO , losist
 WOAW Omaha (526) Advice to Love- lorn; 6:25 program, church orchestra 1O.3O wowl.
 WDAR Philadelphia tse5) 6;3o talk; I
 WEI Philadelphia (395) talk; Icon WCAE Pittsburgh. (46c) 6:3O Uncle ! Kaybee; 6:45 special: 7:3O concert; en- 1 tertainers; 9:S0 entertainment KGW Portland (4s2) 10 lecture; 1o:3C
 WKAQ Porto Rico (36o) 11-12:so jazz band, talk, musical 1 KPO San Francisco (42S) 6:3O orches | tra 7:30 children; orchestra: 10 SO | prano. pianist: II xlyophone. marimba WGY schnectady (aSo) s:45 drama | talk orchestra program; S15 Sir Esm'
 KFQX Seattle (23S) 9:15 bedtime: Il i orchestra: II concert; 12 orchestra. WBZ Springfield (3S7) 6:O5 story; 63 orchestra; 7;3o program ,.>
 KSD St. Louis Post Dispatch (546) concert; 9 program, address. WRC Washington (469) dramati talk; 7:3O talk; politics; SEQ concert 9:15 orchestra.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Kansas City Doctor
 Invents New Truss
New Discovery Hsals Rupture
 Without An Operation

A new discovery which, experts agree, has no equal for curative ef- fects in all rupturs casas, is the lat est accomplishment of the well-knownI Hernia Specialist, Dr. Andrews, 689S| Koch Bldg, Kansas City, Mo. The ex- traordinary success of this new method| proves that 1t holds and heals rup-| ture. It weighs only a few ounces. Has no hard gouging pads, no elastic belt, no leg straps, no steel bands, and is as comfortable as a light garment It has enabled hundreds of persons to throw away trusses and declare their rupture absolutely healed. Many of these had serious double ruptufes, from which they had suffered for years. It is Dr. Andrews ambition to have every ruptured person enjoy the quick relief, comfort and healing power of his discovery, and he will send it on free trial to any reader of The Age Herald who writes him. He wants one person in each neighborhood to whom he can refer. If you wish to be rid of rupture for good, without an opera tion, take advantage of the doctorS free offer. Write him today. Tho coupon below Is convenient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
NEW TREATMENT
 CURES ASTHMA
Startling Evidence Reveal. Speedy Cure by Simple
 Home Treatment

A new home treatment which many former victims of Asthma declare is unequaled, has been perfected by D. J. Lane at St. Marys, Kans. This new treatment, which is easily used at home, has won the highest praise from men and women who stated they had suffered for years and had tried everything. MT. Lane has so much confidence his new treatment will cure that he will send regular $1.25 bottle free of all charges, to any suf- ferer who writes him. He does not ex- pect any pay for the treatment until it has cured, and then only the small price of SIPS.
 If you suffer from Asthma, take ad- vantage of his free trial offer. Simply send your name and address to D. J. Lane, sO3 Lane Bldg, St. Marys, Kans., and he will immediately send you, all charges prepaid, full sized bottle.- Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
SKELETON FOUND: SOLVES MYSTERY
Woman's Body Found Near New Orleans Af-
 ter Long Search
(Ry Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec, T. The finding today of woman's skeleton. clothing and other articles half buried by fallen leaves and weeds in thicket 15 miles north of the city, partially un- raveled mystery which has puzzled the police for four months. Whether the woman was murdered or committed suicide, the police and Coroner O'Hara had not determined. A bullet-pierce'i handle of mans umbrella was found near the skeleton
 When the discovery became generally known. Julian Delhom went to the scene and identified the clothing, a comb. shoe and wisp of hair tangled in gold barrette as that of his wife, ho disappeared from their home Aug. X. He also declared that an unsigned note, reading. "How much I love you, you will never know" was in his wife s handwriting.
 The skull indicated the woman had been shot near the right eye and the bullet had emerged from the back of the head, the coroner said. A close search of the immediate vicinity failed to disclose the weapon with which she had met death-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

One case, however. was slightly diff fcrent Mrs. Eleanor. Crum of Washou- gal. Wash, near here, advertised in q magazine for her brother, H. Hutchi- son. She received an answer from a Fred Moore of Graham. Tex, with the usual explanation employed by Will Hams, it is alleged, and asking for money. Mrs. Crum did not have time to send the money before she received a letter from her brother in. Los Angeles. He had seen her advertisement.
 Start ProbS
 Mrs Crum laid the case before pos tal authorities who soon found out that F'red Moore was none other than Will lioms, and he was arrested and jailed in Graham, but escaped after beating tha jaler unconscious. A short time afterward he is alleged to have sent letters from Westport, Ore, to Mrs. Myra Purvis of Mobile, Ala, who ad- vertised for her son. obtaining S75 from her. When arrested in Oklahoma Will liams is alleged to have been heavily armed and to have been regarded as a dangerous criminal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
PRESIDENT TAKES
 SUNDAY VOYAGE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-President and Mrs. Coolidge, with a few friends. were aboard the Mayflower tonight about 40 miles down the Potomac from Washington. The President and Mrs. Coolidge drove to the navy yard imme- diately after attending church serv- ices and the Mayflowcr soon afterwards set sail down the river. Arriving off Quantico, Va. the yacht dropped anchor for the night, prepared to make an early morning run back to Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

He is cigar store Indian. Some where knocking about in the back of my bean is an indefinite memory of hay ing seen him on some mean street down. town. holding out d bunch of cigars with one hand and brandishing tomahawk with the other. l can narrow the dis trict down to about four square miles, but that is continent in lower New York Anything else might be found there
 But he is probably the only cigar store Indian at large in Greater New York. And that fruity variety of humans known as collectors are hot on the trail of cigar store Indians. One of them sold at huge price-over $10.0O0, as 1 rec ollect it at auction not long ago.
 Gastronomc tastes are changing on the east side streets. l have not seen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

one hot corn boiler tnlS Iull. III othVi days there were plenty of them A boiled ear, q swipe with butter brush, and sprinkle of salt was regular per formance for thousands Of cltlzens. Popcorn is losing it's grip, too, and the baked potato carts have been driven out by roast chestnut vendors. Waffle wa gons still do lively business among the school children, but above and beyond all the hot-dog merchants thrive and multiply Many a hot-dog man on the street makes more money than the store in, front of which he stands.
 Col. Samuel G. Blythe, the Master of Monterey, has written to call renewed attention to the wash-room pirates in New York. One of Colonel Blythe friends, being overcome by a yen for cleanliness, hung his coat and vest upon hook in d hotel washroom.
 Tn came nice old guy he reported to Colonel Blythe. lon crutches. Then he slipped and fell.'
 Colonel Blythe's friend helped him to his feet. A friend of the nice old guy on crutches helped himself to the con- let, which was in the inside pocket of us COdI- ou IuquiiJ hC AcaAhCu thol this is a frequent occurrence in our | great city.
 After this" he reports, "when they tumble I'll let 'em lay" Another scandal has been reported in the dark-b lottery. Each afternoon approximately 500,000 of the colored brethren-that being practically the en- tire colored population of Manhattan takes shot at the bank-clearings gam ble. Winning numbers are made up by taking the second and third digits of the daily bank clearings and the third digit of bank balances.
 "The cheapest ticket is a dime" I'm told. Agents canvass the entire col ored population daily
 Those who are in touch estimate the daily takings at close to $100,000, most ly profit. The operators are Cubans.
 At last I've got line on the cost of murder. There's nothing doing for less than $500, if the victim amounts to anything. If he does not, his pumping off may be procured for as little as $50.
 Il went downtown,' recently arrest ed man told the police, land got prices. But l could not pay what the boys asked. So had to try it myself"
 Gen. Bingham, who for hectic period was commissioner of police, once star tied the town by his statement that murder could be hired, just as one can hire man to carry a trunk. Nova.
 days it's a commonplace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
DOCTORS AFFIRM
 SHERMAN PLOT
Memphians Say Woman Palmed
 Off Baby On Husband
(By Associated Press.)

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. Two Memphis physicians have made affida- wits as to their knowledge as to the alleged plot of Mrs. Charlotte Patton sherman to deceive her husband, Rog- CTS $. Sherman, wealthy attorney of Tulsa, Okla, into believing that she had become mother in the hope of affecting a reconciliation with him, ac- eording to story in The Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 One physician is said to have ad- mitted that he procured the child, with in half hour after it was born to an unmarried Arkansas woman. Another, it is said, admitted that he was the attending physician for Mrs. Sherman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
DEATHS

Mrs. MarilIa F. Coats-Funeral services for Mrs Martlla F Goats. 63, who died sunday morning at the residence, 2Ol Fort y-eighth street, EnSley. will be held Tuesday afternoon at Pelham, Ala Burial will follow in the Pelham ceme- tery with Bell of Fairfield in charge. She is survived by her husband, Marion r. Coats,
 Mrs. Dora Caroline Lantzncster-Funeral services for Mrs Dora Caroline Ldnt|- hester, who died Saturday at the resi- denoe 1898 Pearson avenue, will be held al .;3n o'clock Monday afternoon from tie residence. Burial will follow in ElmNuod cemetery with Ridout in naarse Su" is survived by three sisters, uts. F. W. Wallace end Mrs. Fannie l.1ln,, S.ullh of Birmingham and Mrs ''-Io ptkare of HaHsas.
 yre. Mary .iugustu Bunch Funeral scrv- r-- for Mrs. Mary Augusta Bunch, 15. lao died Friday at her residence in EU'aw. were held at 3 o'clock sunday afternoon from Jonhs' chapel. Burial followed in Elmwood cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
LIGHT BRIGADES LAST SURVIVOR EXPIRES A Y 87
lRy Associated Press.

HEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa, Dec. '.-
 Ellis H. Cutting, believed to
 have been the last survivor of the Light brigade on it's charge at the battle of Balaklava during the Crimean war, died here today after being stricken with paralytc stroke, the second during the past month. He was S7 years old.
 Mir Cutting joined the British army when he was 16 years. old and took part in many campaigns lie often told the story of how he was standing close by Lord Raglan when the order was issued that sent the Light brigade into "the valley of death.- Occasionally he inti- mated he possessed information which might clear up d disputed point in history regarding the fatal order. but never made it public.
 After many years as railroad engineer, Mr. Cutting was auto matically retired and lived with his two daughters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08


 portation. So. too, the Great Lakes have kept and built up their own traffic: partly because their coasts are international, partly bcause thelr transportation system was strongly en- trenched when the railroads arrived. and partly because powerful commercial ln- terests wanted them used as water waterways The same commercial forces have kept in operation our few but active eastern canal system, such as that of New York state. Yet even in the east. the railroads have won by an overwhelming score,
 They have the inland waterways about where they want them-all but the Panama Canal At last, after years of bad luck with slides and war, the canal is beginning to fulfill one of the purposes for which Roosevelt and Its other creators intended ito furnish slow but cheap transportation ot bulky and impprishable commodities between coast and coast. The transcontinental railroads, which have always carried on guerilla warfare against it, seem to have massed for an assault Hence, presumably as preparation for rate war, the application for relief from ! that fourth section of the interstate commerce act which forlids a railroad to charge more for a short haul than for long. Hence, on the other side, the Gooding bill to amend this fourth section so as to make this kind of re lief difficult or impossible.
 The struggle now joining has made some odd antagonisms and strange DO litica! bedfellows. It has lined up Spokane against Seattle. Fresno against San Francisco. Sante Fe and Phoenix against Los Angeles. Chicago against Pittsburg. It has combined the United States Steel corporation with certain western radical senators and congress men, the independent steel producers with. the transcontincntal railroads, ! Chicago with San Francisco. Most of these are vitally and personally inter eSted parties to the struggle, fighting not for or against the canal but for their own pockets But the larger issue is the survival of the canal as coast t-to-coast waterway. And that interests every American.
 Tomorrow: The Way of q Railroad with a River.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
GILLESPIE ACCEPTS
 COLUMBIA POST
Louisville Pastor Becomes Theo-
 logical Seminary Head
(Ry Associated Press)

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 7.-Dr. Richard P. Gillespie, pastor of the First Presbyterian church announced tonight he would accept the presidency of the Columbia Theological seminary. recent ly offered to him. The seminary, To- cated at Columbia, S. C., is to be re- moved to Atlanta. Ga. within a short time, Dr. Gillespie said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
CANAL BUSINESS ROOMS
Atlantic. Gulf, Pacific Port Shipping
 Via Panama Increased

Atlantic. Gult Pacific Port Shipping
 Via Panama Increased
 WASHINGTON, Dee, 7.-Freight shipments between the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacifi" coasts by way of the Pan anna canal totalled l2,1S2O72 tons for the fiscal year ended June 30, as com pared with total Panama canal freight tonnage of all kinds of 4,9JO,000 tons for 1922
 The figures, made public today by the shipping board, disclosed that the number of vessels in the intcrcoastal trade last year totalled 2."0o, while in 1922 the number passing through the canal in both directions was l,l93. Foreign vessel, ar" prohibited by law from the iNtercon|,al service.
 The figures showed that California petroleum constitutes more than 11 per cent of the cast-bound trade. Iron and steel, coal, sulphur, tin and vari- ous ma1fdfactures made up the prin- , cipal items of Westbound traffic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08

and claims he did not know q the hos until the following day, when he tool steps to have the birth certificats which he had signed, revoked.
 Sherman ha1 filed an applica ton fo1 divorce, and it is said that the affi1 dayits will beyused in his case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
PAGEANT PRESENTED

DREW, Miss. Dee SpeciaD- As a fitting culmination of the observ- ance of "Education Week" by the facul- ty and student body of the Drew High school. pageant Mississippi One Hun cred Years Ago" was given hy the grammar grades at the chapel exercises Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
When You Feel a Cold
 Cornino On

Take Laxative PROMO QUININE Tab lets to work off the cause and to for tify the system against an attack of Grip or Influenza. A Safe and Proven Remedy. The box bears signature of E. w. Grove. 30c.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
BANDITS KILL 1T
 w MEXICAN TOWN
Seven Seriously Wounded By
 Tapalpa Outlaw Marauders
(By Associated PresS)

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 7.-Eleven un- armed civilians were killed and seven seriously wounded when 70 bandits sacked the town of Tapalpa, in the state of Jalisco, today. The principal stores and residences of the town were footed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
Manhattan Days And Nights
 By Herbert Corey
By Herbert Corey

NTEW YORK, Dec. 7-He's lost fear Hopelessly lost And cannot ask the Bureau of Missing Persons to put
 his description the air along with the others of the nightly broadcast from the Municipal Radio station because some one might find him. And find him myself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-08
1,147,58f,854 QUERIES
 TO BE PROPOUNDED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-The de partment of agriculture is about to undertake the pleasant little chore Of asking 1,l47 4S5l questions It IS starting a census of all farms in the country and is sending out 15OOO to 20. GOO enumerators who will ask IFS questions of G,44S,343 farmers, covering everything from the number of hogs in the pen to the number of notes III the bank.
Evening star., 1924-11-02
Latest Income Tax Provisions
Reveal Interesting Features
Facts of Great Value in Making Ne1t
Returns Explained for Taxpayers
Both In and Out of Spotlight.

educational, for prevention of cruelty
to animals These gifts can only be
made when used in accordance with
he special provisions.
Gifts must be made to an organized
corporation or fraternity, and can
only be made when the purpose there
Of is as indicated There are provi-
sions surrounding gifts which may be
readily understood by inquiry at the
bureau in the event of intention to
give
The small storekeeper or farmer may
take 90 per cent of the profits as his
salary and call it earned" income.
Time will be granted in preparing tax
statements if asked in advance OF date
due also in the payment of added taxes
discovered by the Bureau OF Internal
Revenue.
Inheritance taxes are lessened by a
credit not to exceed 25 per cent for
estate taxes that may be assessed
against an estate bv any State. After
providing for $50, 900 estates on which
there is per cent tax, the tax in
creases steadily to 4o per cent on any
thing above s10.000,000
What You Will Pay.
Unless there is another change in the
income tax law at the coming session
of Congress the individual taxpayer liv-
ing with husband and wife, with the
$4,000 exemption, will pay about as fol-
lows:
Evening star., 1924-11-02
BALTIMORE PRODUCE.
Special Dispatch to The Star

BALTIMORE, November 1.-Current
receipts of native and nearby new laid
eggs continues extremely light and
the market is practically bare of de-
slrable hrst stock, with values show
ing another sharp advance, closing
today at 55 cents dozen for eggs in
free cases, an increase Of 5 cents a
dozen over last Saturday While there
are fair offerings of Southern, West
ern and cold storage eggs, there is a
scarcity of the strictly fresh article
and with good and constant demand
for this sort the limited offerings
from day to day are quickly cleaned
up, but prompt shipments and careful
grading are necessary to bring ton
quotations.
An increasing demand is noted in
the live poultry market for turkeys,
but liberal shipments are not ad-
visable as the warm weather is
against any big demand. Birds must
be fat and weigh at least eight hounds
to meet with ready sale, and shipment
of small or poor stock not advisable
young turkeys, eight pounds and over.
will bring 40 and ~ pound; smaller
35 to Ss, while large old birds sell
mostly, IS to 40. Receipts of both
young and old chickens have been
more than ample for trade wants this
week, and as a consequence the mar
ket rules easy and values a shade
lower. Large springers and fat old
hens both sell. "a and rs, but medium
young bring 23 and "a, while old sell
as low as 20: small old hens and Leg
horns sell. II and 1S; Leghorn spring
ers, Il and %, and small, poor and
| thin young chickens, IS to 20.
Old roosters plentiful at Is. De-
mand for large fat ducks fairly
good, but under ample receipts the
market rules easy at 21 to "a. but
small and poor are slow sale at II
and IS. Guinea fowl and pigeons in
good demand and market rules steady
at IS and IS each for large young and
40 and so each for small of the
former and 80 cents a pair for both
! young and old Of the latter.
| New white potatoes have been in
more liberal receipt the past week
and as consequence the market
rules easy and values a shade lower
than last week. Demand light and
centered entirely on No. well
graded stock at LOO to 1.25 per 100
| No. stock will bring about half
| price, but not much in demand.
Market for sweets and yams rules
| firmer under only moderate receipts
and fairly good demand for No.
| stock at 1926 to 3.75 a barrel for the
| former and $50 to 400 for the lat
ter. No. stock sells owly at $50
to 200, while bushel baskets bring
LOO to 1.35 as to quality and con-
dition..
Demand for native and nearby gar
| den trucky fairly good, and market
rules steady at the following quota
tions: Green beans, 2.25 and 2.50
hamper; wax beans, 100 and zoo
hamper beets, 400 and 500 hundred
l broccoli and kale, S5 and Is bushel;