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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
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The First National Bank
Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
INSURANCE STOCKS
MISCELLANEOUS sra6x.
WALL STREET BRIEFS

Directors Of the National supply COM
pany today declared a stock dividend OF
10 per cent and the regular quarterly
dividend OF rs cents in cash. The com
pany is engaged in the manufactures or
oil drilling machinery and supplies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24

You may be riding by train or autos
mobile through a community and, see
a humble, little bungalow being built.
It looks to you a cramped, puny house
and you may remark to yourself that
you are glad you are not the one who
is going to. live ins such small place.
Yet that modest bungalow may be the
joyous realization Of years of dream
ing, scraping and saving. To the cou-
pie, building it it probably.sis a yerita-
bic castle, "a glorious fruition of long
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24

round is not. partic-
ulafly inspiring?
Candidly, I rather
think we all are oc-
casionally. overtaken
by at least little
spells of this kind.
What's the rem
edx?
/ wonder il the
following may not
help to tone us up,
to buck us up and
to give us a broader,
cheerier view Of the
worth whileness of
what we-and other
people - are. doing
day by day?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24

Foreign buying of American copper
will quickly follow the fIStation Of loan
to Germany in ths country because Ger
many has not taken its normal copper
James j. Godfrey. president of the
Mother Lode and Kay Copper companies.
declared today. Copper consumption in
this country is only equal to production
at this time and any decided. increase in
foreign demand Will create shortage Of
the metal. as a number Of producing
mines have eurtailed operations because
Of the recent low price of copper,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24

An active campaign of consolidation
with other railroads in the southwest has
not been undertaken BY the Missouri
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24

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The Colorado statesman., 1924-07-19
WASHINGTON

Harry II. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot
dome, under indictment for contempt
of the Senate in refusing to answer
questions of the oil committee, will ask
the District of Columbia Court of Ap-
peals for special appeal from deci-
sion recently sustaining his indictment.
The Wyoming e Colorado Short
Line Railway Company applied to the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
authority to construct n 3S0-mile line
from Casper, Wyo., southwest, to the
Colorado Utah state line. The new line
would traverse an unserved cattle ter
ritory, oil and gas sections, iron and
coal fields and lumber region.
Twenty-one hundred income tax re-
funds totaling $4,000, provided for by
the new revenue law as % per cent
reductions on 1923 incomes, were
mailed out recently by the Treasury
Department. Acting Secretary of the
Treasury Winston announced that
sixty days would be required to make
the total refunds, totaling 1,05S,00O,
which aggregate sum of $16,000,000
Forest fires of the past in which
there was heavy loss of life and prop
erty include: 1871, Peshtigo, Wis, L.
100000 acres devastated and 1900
lives lost; 1881, Michigan, 100000
acres burned over and 13S lives lost ;
1894 Phillips, Wis, 300 lives lost /;
1894, Minnesota and Wisconsin, mil
lions of acres of timber burned, 400
lives lost, and the following towns dew
astated: Hinckley, Sandstone, Barron
EFT, Perley, Clayton, Shell Lake, Cum
berland and Granite Lake 1910, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon, several hun
dred lives lost; 1918, Cloquet, Mimi,
$30,000,0o0 of timber and property de-
stroyed and 400 lives lost.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas was
expelled from the fashionable Chevy
Chase Country Club at Washington as
n result of an exchange between him
and DR. James f. Mitchell, prominent
surgeon, ON the golf links few weeks
ago.
Governor Bryan of Nebraska, the
vice presidential nominee, announced
that he had no intention of resigning
his position as governor. Such step,
he said would be unusual and unnec-
essary. He declared however, that he
would withdraw his candidacy for re-
election as governor.
The Colorado statesman., 1924-07-19
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIoN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
WESTERN

Three guests at Aldrich lodge, a
summer resort about twenty-six miles
from Cody, Wyo., are dead and sew
eral others sick as a result, doctors
believe, of eating ripe olives. The
dead are Mrs. Paul Ache and Paul
Ache, Jr, wife and son of promi-
nent oil man of Pittsburgh, Pa, and
a Yale University student named GIL
lespie.
Mrs Vera Goyle of Oakland, Calf,
burned to death in an airplane which
crashed to the ground in the foothills
east of the city and Dewey Ward, pi-
lot, was badly injured. The crash of
the plane from Il height of 200 feet was
witnessed by about 800 persons, lnclud-
ing Wards wife and small child Spec
tators had removed Ward from the
plane, when the gasoline tank explod-
ed and flames prevented the rescue of
Mrs. Goyle.
Decision against the Washington
Water, Light and Power Company in
the $1,0O0,000 suit in equity brought
against it by the Equitable Trust Com
pany of New York and the Guarantee
Bank and Trust Company of New York
and others, was announced by Judge
J. Stanley Webster in Superior Court
at Spokane. Under the decree the
several properties of the power COM
pany will be sold as separate units
under the mortgages held against
them.
Charles w. Doris of Long Beach,
was indicted by the county grand jury
at Los Angeles on two counts on first
degree murder. The indictment
charged Doris with murder on June
30 of his wife, Therese Doris, and
Henry ID. Meyer, wealthy Pasadena
resident. The man and the woman
were found slain in Doris Long
Beach apartment. Doris, arrested in
connection with the deaths, claimed
that Meyer first killed Mrs. Doris and
then committed suicide.
Three hundred and twenty-five thou
sand four hundred and eight dollars,
reported to be the largest judgment
ever awarded in the Bozeman District
Court, was taxed against Richard T.
Ringing, prominent ranchman and
Snowman, by a jury in Bozeman,
Mont, at the conclusion of the suit of
Hans Biering and NJ. S. Cunningham
against Ringing. The plaintiffs had
sued for $546,000 as damages for an al
legged conspiracy on the part of the de-
fendant to force the plaintiffs out of
the Southern Montana Livestock Com
pany.
Evening star., 1924-06-01
Losses in Sponges.
THE prodigality that characteri

THE prodigality that characterizes
the waste of the sponge resources
is viewed with much concern by the
bureau of fisheries. 1t is said that
thousands of commercially worthless
small sponges are gathered and
thrown away, and that if such
sponges were permitted to stay only
six months longer they would add at
least 100000 to the total value of the
annual output of hte Florida fisher
les In one case a dealer stated that
some fishermen had brought him lot
of sponges for which he paid only IS.
and that If they had been left only
six months longer they might have
been worth fully s400.
Sponges have enemies as we'll as
other denizens of the sea, and they try
as best they can to protect them
selves. One of these parasites is a
long sea. worm. which gets into the
outward flowing canals of the
sponges. 1t makes for itself kind
of paper tube in which to live. and
resembles paper when dried. 1t gets
into the sponge by boring up through
the base attached to a rock. Some
OF them measure as much as two feet
| long and almost dam up the outgoing
/ canals.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

really be a snake in his room. The
window looked out on emptiness.
| His room was several stories above
the ground. There was a stern set
expression on Squiffys face as he
climbed out of bed. 1t was the ex-
preston Of man who is turning
over new leaf. starting a new life.
He looked about the room for some
implement which would carry out the
deed he had to do and finally pulled
out one of the curtain rods. Using
this as a lever, he broke open the
topmost of the six cases which stood
In the corner. The soft wood cracked
and split. Squiffy drew out a straw
covered bottle. For a moment he
stood looking at it as man might
gaze at friend on the point of
death. Then. with sudden determine
| tion. he went into the bathroom.
| There was crash of glass and a
gurgling sound.
| Half an hour later the telephone
bell in Archie's room rang.
Il say. Archie. old top" said the
voice Of Squiffy.
| "Hullo, old bean. Is that you?"
| Il say. could you pop down here
! for a second? I'm rather upset"
| Absolutely. Which ROOM"
-Four forty-one."
I'll be with you eftsoon, or right
speedily"
Thanks. old man"
What appears to be the difficulty?"
I'll tell you all about it when you
come down."
Archie found Lord Seacliff seated
on his bed. An arresting aroma of
mixed drinks pervaded the atmos-
phere.
Il say-what?" said Archie, inhal-
ing.
That's all right. I've been pour
ing my stock away. Just finished
the last bottle
But why?'
! II thought I saw a snake"
"Green?"
| Squiffy shivered slightly.
| "Frightfully green"
| Archie hesitated. If Squiffy We're
going to reform because he thought
| he had seen an imaginary snake. bet
| ter not to let him know that the
snake was real one.
Dashed serious" he said.
"BaIly dashed serious agreed
Squiffy. I'm going to cut it out
| Great scheme,"
You don't think" asked Squiffy,
that 1t could have been a real
snake?"
! Never heard of the management
| supplying them
Evening star., 1924-06-01

stant, his strange headgear began
to move. and there reared itself from
his hair the squat. diamond-shaped
head and puffed neck of loathsome
serpent
Ugh" said Squiffy.
lie closed the book and put il
down. His head was aching worse
than ever. No fellow could read him
self to sleep with this sort of thing.
Blighters ought not to write it.
His heart gave a bound. There it
was again-that Kissing sound. And
this time he was sure il came from
the window
He looked at the window and re-
mained staring, frozen. over the sill,
with Il graceful. leisurely movement.
green snake was crawling. As it
crawled. il raised it's head and peered
from side TO side, like a short sighted
man looking for his spectacles 1t
hesitated Il moment on the edge of
the sill. then wriggled to the floor
and began to cross the room. Squiffy
stared on.
1t would have panied Peter deeply.
for he was Il snake OF great sensi-
bility. if he had known how much
his entrance had disturbed the occu-
pant Of the room. He himself had
no feeling but gratitude for the man
who had opened the window and so
enabled him to get in out of the
rather nippy night air. Ever since
the bag had swung open and shot
him out onto the sill of the window
below Archies, he had been waiting
patiently for something of the kind
to happen. He was snake who took
things as they came, and was pre-
pared to rough il bit if neces-
sary. but for the last hour or two
he had been hoping that somebody
would do something practical in the
way of getting him in out of the cold.
When at home, 'he had an elder
down quilt to sleep on, and the stone
of the window sill was little trying
to a snake of regular habits. He
crawled thankfully across the floor
under Squiffy's bed. There was pair
Of trousers there, for his host had
undressed when not in frame of
mind to fold his clothes neatly and
place them upon a chair. Peter looked
the trousers over. They were not an
eider-down quilt, but they would
serve. He curled up in them and
went to sleep. He had had an ex-
citing day and was glad to turn in.
After about ten minutes. the ten
sion of Squinty's attitude relaxed.
Reason reasserted itself. He peeped
cautiously under the bed. He could
see nothing.
X x X X
CQUIFFY was convinced He told
- himself that he had never really
believed In Peter as a living thing.
1t stood to reason that there couldn't
Evening star., 1924-06-01

"HILE this conversation was in
progress Lord Seacliff was en-
joying a refreshing sleep in his room
on the fourth floor. Two hours pass
ed. The noise of the traffic in the
street below faded away. Only the
| rattle OF an occasional belated cab
broke the silence. In the hotel all
was still. Mr.. Brewster had gone to
bed. Archie, in his room. smoked
said to reign.
At 2:30 o'clock Lord Seacliff- awoke.
His hours of slumber were always
irregular. He sat up in bed and
switched the light on. He was a
shock headed young man, with a red
face and hot brown eye. He
yawned and stretched himself. His
head was aching a little, The room
seemed to him a trifie close. He got
out of bed and threw open the win
dow. Then. returning to bed, he
picked up book and began to read.
His book was THE Adventures of
Sherlock Holiness. and the particular
story which he selected for perusal
was the one entitled The Speckled
Band" He was not n great reader,
but when he read he liked something
with a bit of zip to ii.
SQuiffy became absorbed He had
read the story before, but a long
time back, and its complications were
fresh to him. The tale. it may be re-
membered, deals with the activities
of an ingenious gentleman who kept
a snake and used to loose IL into peo-
peoples bedrooms as a preliminary to
collecting on their insurance. 1t
gave Squiffy pleasant thrills, for he
had always had a particular horror of
snakes.
Suddenly another sound became
audible very gentle. soothing
sound, like that of a small jet of
steam escaping continuously from a
kettle"
Lord Seacliff looked up from his
book with a start. Imagination was
beginning TO play him tricks. He
could have sworn that he had actually
heard that identical sound. 1t had
listened again. No. All was still
He returned to his book and went
on reading.
1T was a singular sight that met
our eyes. Beside the table. on a
wooden chair, sat DR.. Grimesby Roy
lott, clad in a long dressing gown.
His chin was cooked upward. and his
eyes were fixed in a dreadful. rigid
stare at the corner of the ceiling
Round his brow he had a. peculiar
yellow band, with brownish speckles,
which seemed to be bound tightly
round his head.
"I took a step forward. In an in
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Il thought it went under the bed"
We'll, take look
Squiffy shuddered.
Not me! / say. old top, you know,
I simply can't sleep in this room. 1
was wondering if you could give me
a doss somewhere in yours"
Rather! I'm in five forty-one.
Just above. Trot along up. I'll tidy
up a bit here and join you in a min
ute"
Squiffy put on a dressing gown and
disappeared. Archie looked under the
bed. From the trousers the head of
Peter popped up with its usual ex-
preston of amiable inquiry. Archie
nodded pleasantly and sat down on
the bed. The problem of his little
friends immediate future wanted
thinking over.
He lighted a cigarette and remained
Evening star., 1924-06-01

for a while in thought. Then he rose
An admirable solution had presented
itself. He picked Peter up and put
him in the pocket of his dressing
gown. Then, leaving the room. he
mounted the stairs till he reached the
seventh floor Outside room half
way down the corridor he paused
From within, through the open tran
som, came the rhythmical snoring Of
a good man taking his rest after the
labors OF the day. Mr.. Brewster was
always a heavy sleeper
There's always a way" thought
Archie philosophicalIy, IF a chappie
only thinks of it"
His father-in-law' snoring took on
a deeper note. Archie extracted
Peter from his pocket and dropped
him gently through the transom.
Copyright. 199il
Evening star., 1924-06-01
A Radio Slot Machine.

nNE of the curious inventions to
come before the patent authorities
at Washington is a penny-in- the slot
wireless receiving set The receiver
is equipped with special apparatus
which gives advance information as
to the immediate availability of wire
less entertainment and posts a warns
ing twenty seconds before another
coin II duA.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
Tots Wolfe Frocks, S6c

FIFTH FLOOR.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24

the contractors, who are building
the great tunnel, is advertising for
cook who can play the piano,
jazz the saxarhone and find time
to wind the Victrola on the side.
I'VE want music" shout the
drillers and muckers, when they
gather around the camp after their
shifts in the tunnel. Despite heavy
SHOWS and zero temperatures, the
crews drilled through solid rock
Of James Peak, some fifty miles
west of Denver, on the Continental
Divide, having made splendid prog.
ress on the long bore.
At the east portal, the water,
or pilot, tunnel has been driven a
distance of more than 1900 feet.
In the tunnel proper. the bore ex.
tends a distance of more than 1000
feet. From the west portal, work
men have advanced nearly 500 feet.
The Moffat tunnel will be a little
over eight miles in length when
completed. 1t IL one of the greatest
engineering undertakings of the
Rockies. 1t is expected that four
years will be consumed in the drill
ing operations. When finished, the
tunnel will cut down the mileage
between Denver and Pacific Coast
approximately 173 miles, eliminate
numerous steep and dangerous
curves now encountered in the rail
road trip from Denver to the top
of the world"
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
Lemon Dishes, 75c

FIFTH FLOOR
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
U. S. JEWS ASKED TO AID
SCHOOLS OF "FALASHAS"

Rabbis throughout the country
will appeal for funds for the $50 900
drive for restoration Of the schools
of the "F'alashas." a recently dis.
covered tribe of Jews in Abyssinia,
at the Passover services tomorrow
night at 6 o'clock. ;,
DR.. Abram Simon, former prcsi-
dent of the Board Of Education,
and president of the Central Con:
ference of American Rabbis, has
issued an appeal to the Jews OF
the country to help in maintaining
the five seminaries in GERMANY and
Austria, which, for lack Of funds,
may be forced to close their doors.
These institutions have been train.
ing Rabbis.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
BO1BED-HAR TEACHERS
DENIED CUSTOMARY RAISE

NEW CASTLE, Pa, April "a
The dove Of peace is fluttering over
the controversy between the school
board and certain teachers here
with regard to the matter Of bobbed
hair. Twenty-Five teachers received
contracts for the coming year at
their old rate of pay because they
had their hair bobbed.
If the hair is kept "up'' by hair
nets when bobbed the customary in
crease Of 500 year will be paid.
Most Of the teachers involved nave
signed their contracts, being in.
formed that II they did not do so
Monday their places would be de.
clared vacant. Criticism by
parents, who believed that bodied
haired school teachers were not Sc
curing the proper respect from
their children caused the contro-
VerSy.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
CLAIMS
SHE STOLE TO
AID BOY
Charge of Grand Larceny Is
Placed Against Alleged
Church Robber.

Casting off the cloak Of mystery
which had surrounded her identity,
Mrs. Catherine Fennel Northrup,
held at the House of Detention as
a church robber, told the police, 1t
is said, that she had stolen to help
her son, a student in a Southern
military academy.
IT will never tell you where my
son is" Mrs. Northrup Is said to
have sobbed out to Detectives
Richard Mansfield and Bernard w.
Thompson after grilling.
II don't want him to know that
his mother was thief"
A charge of grand larceny was
placed against her yesterday, when
Catherine Keane, 1907 Biltmore
The Washington times., 1924-04-24

street northwest, identified IA purse
which was stolen from her at st.
Matthew's Church Ash Wednesday.
The purse had contained $40, police
say.
Mrs. Northrup, according to the
police, is the mother Of an eleven
year-old boy, who is attending a
school in North Carolina. Her hus.
band, Mrs. Northrup told the police,
was. In the consular service of the
Government.
Search of the woman's apartment
revealed seven purses, the detectives
said.
Mrs. Northrup caused a sensation
eleven years ago, when, arrested
for church robberies under the
alias of ''Fitzhugh," her friends con-
tributed $4,000 as a retainer's fee
for an attorney.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
SETTER SIPHoNs PUT OUT
PARIS BOULEVARD FIRE

PARIS. April 24-Boulevard stroll
ers had a moment or two Of excite
ment when fire broke out among
the gaudy cloth posters Of one Of
Paris's largest and most popular
motion picture houses next door to
one of the best known Of the bou.
levard cafes.
The fire department rushed a
formidable force to the scene, but
the fire fighters found on their ar
rival that the alert walters on the
threatened premises, Selling settler
siphons, had done all that was
necessary not only to prevent tns
blaze from spreading, but to quench
1t completely.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
RADIO MESSAGE SAVES
LIVES OF FOUR BOYS

NEW YORK, April 24.-Racing
down New York bay, forty miles an
hour q police boat arrived in time
to save four Staten Island boys
from drowning off Sandy Hook.
Radio was the medium used to in.
form the police Of the impending
disaster.
The boys, swimming about an
inlet at Point Breeze made their
way to flat-bottom boat and
padded It out in the bay. A sudden
gale swept up and carried them
toward the ocean. Huge waves
broke over the little boat and It be-
gan to sink.
An observer at Sandy Hook
flashed a radio call for help, and
after a fifteen-minute chase police
saved the boys just IN the boat was
alnking.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
TUNNEL B0RERS
YEARN FOR
MUSIC
Workmen at Moffat Camps
Want Cook Who Can
Emulate orpheus.
BY international News Service.

DENVER, April "a. = They are
looking for a modern Orpheus up
on the Moffat tunnel. where an
eightsmile bore is being drilled
through the granite heart of the
Rocky Mountains, for a railroad
tunnel.
with the arrival of spring it APP
pears that the heart of the work
ingman. as well as that of Youth
tondly turns tc soft fancies and
thoughts ephemeral.
30 the grizzled workmen are de-
handing music, and ''Bill' Morris.
10y, IN charge of employment for
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
Bungalow Aprons,
Z0c ~

200 aprons of high-count
percales and ginghams in
stripes, checks. floral and con-
venttonal figured effects. Slip
or and shoulder closing styles.
Trimmed with bindings, pip
ings. collar and cuffs of con-
trasting fabrics. Pock- 10
cts and sashes. Friday tOC
THIRD FLOOR .
The Washington times., 1924-04-24

The child of a drug addicted
mother is an addict at birth, and
experiences an addict's torture il
not given the drug, either through
nursing or otherwise.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24

Dainty frocks for 2 to years,
of voile, in blue, green or white.
Several styles. Trimmed with
picot ruffles and finished QQn
with SASH Friday. CCV
FOURTH FLOOR.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
Botiste, I0c Yard

Flesh colored batiste OF fine
sheer quality, especially desirable
for dainty lingerie. Fri 100
days price, yard. ....... 1ON
STREET FLOOR
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
Week End Case, 1929

Made of black enamel over
sturdy wooden frame; nicely
lined and fastened with two
catches and lock. Light weight,
1S-in. size. in all an ideal case
and exceptionally low CT 90
priced WAO6O
FIFTH FLOOR.
The Washington times., 1924-04-24
Boys TOpcoots, $3.z5

Fancy tan and grey tweeds
In four styles, double breasted
and belted, with two flap pock-
cts. Broken sizes go HE
Fridays price. ....... OO0 u
FOURTH FLOOR