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ZBYsZKO MEETS LEWIS

CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-After much beef ing over terms, Stanislaus zbyszko and Ed Strangler Lewis signed articles of agreement Monday to meet February 26 in the stock yards pavilion.
 The strangle hold will be the only one barred. The two wrestlers so far have not agreed on the referee. Zbys- zke wants a heavyweight, while Lewis favors one in the 145 pounds class, fearing that the presence of another behemoth might deflate the air cush- ions in the mat.
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PROBAsCO HEADS

BELLEAIR HEIGHTS. Fla, Feb. IS. Scott L. Probasco of Chattanooga Country club, led a field of 70 golfers here today in the annual Washington g birthday tournament. He had a score of IT. Hugh Halsell of Dallas, Texas. the senior champion, took 83 strokes, while George Morse, Vercont champion and recent winner of the Stone Crab championship, went around in S5, much above his average play
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BETTER LUCK WINS :

SAN DIEGO. Cal, Feb. 1s.-Better Luck, sold to the international stable |ate Saturday afternoon by e. Van
 bchlock, won the speed handicap at 5H |urlongs, the first stake of the Tijuana
 Ineeting. Dominique, belonging to Ed yard Arlington of New Yorw, was sec Pnd, and Lit, carrying the colors of Commander J. K. L. Ross, was third. The time was 1:05 2-5, four-fifths of a |econd slower than the track record. Twelve horses started. The. race was worth $5,475 to the winner
 EXterminator showed that he had re- turned to good form by easily winning | purse just previous to the stake, run hing the mile and 70 yards In l:44 S-5.
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Florida To
 BeGuest Of !. Many Mines
Players Starting South To Training Camps For Open
 ing Of Spring Work
By wEsTBRooK PEetER (lsased Wire te The Aee- H erald)

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-In the Florida Peninsula and in other scattered local ities of sunny disposition and southern exposure, the grocery business will be- gin to feel a springtime stir of trade before the end of this week and the lazy air will be furrowed by the first fungoes of the baseball season.
 From a hundred places of hibernation where,i 1t is understood they subsist on roots and herbs and dried berries dur ing the winter, the players and appren- tice players of the major league ball clubs will start by day coach on the combination trains for the Macvo trains for the mainline stations. Then they will acquaint themselves again with the softness of the Pullman seat and the luxury of the napkin and three kinds of spoons on through trains, converg- ing toward their training points down south. It is, in a manner of speaking spring again.
 It is the beginning also of the dawr of hope for the west, a section of tho country which is portrayed in stricker and sorrowing pastures because nt western team has won a pennant sine, the Cleveland Indians outlasted tho Yankees in 1920.
 West In Distress
 It may not be generally known, but it ID hSNCA kACACoc d AdSS tAat hio A0AiuA has been a terrible thing for the west Baseball club owners say that the griev. ing territory beyond the Alleghenies can not stand another season of exclusion from the world series and there may be community suicides off the municipal pier in Chicago, Eads Bridge in St. Louis and other convenient fixtures In other cities, if ambition Is again denied this year.
 Florida, a very hospitable but in- cautious state, invited the teams both of the major and several minor leagues to train there this spring and nine big teams accepted. They will be quartered within fifty-mile circle on the peninsula and will consume the surplus, food within a radius many times that wide as 1t is well known that a ball player in spring. after his long period of subsistence on dried apples and canned milk. can eat at least a mile of sausage for breakfast, a planked whale for lunch and a barbecued COW. smothered in spring lambs for dinners.
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RICE AND cOLBECK WIN

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 1S.-E. Rice and w. Colbeck of Chicago became double champions of the international bowling early tonight The Chicago pair had total of 1,2s6 and won first prize of $150.
 The singles title went to O. Swanson of Minneapolis. He had a score of 704. His prize was $100.
 Emil Matak of St. Paul won all events honors with a score of 1880. The prize uau e60
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PREP TOURNEY LARnE

CHICAGO, Feb. 1s.-Entries are pouring in for the national inter scholastic basketball tournament to be held at the University of Chicago the first week in April.
 Crack teams already entered are those representing schools at Holyoke, Mass; Jamestown, N. Y.; Portsmouth, Va; Kansas City, Kan; Kansas City. Mo. {: Lead, &. D.; Tulsa, Okla; Texarkana, Tex; and Toledo.
 Efforts are being made to induce Passaic, N. J., High school authorities to send their team here. This five has won 1s4 consecutive games.
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MISS COLLETT LnsEs

MIAMI. Fla. Feb. 1s.-Mtss Glenna Eollett, woman's open golf champion of |923, and Miss Dorothy Klotz, runner ip in the national tournament, were defeated here by Captain H. c, c. Tip Jet and T. w. Palmer, 3 and l. The hatch was played on the Miami Beach tolf course and was attended by one If the largest galleries of the season Captain Tippet and Palmer entered the
 hatch under a handicap of six bisques ut all of these were taken by their
 vomen opponents in the first nine koles, which were finished with the komen each two down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-19
UP TOTHE MINUTE
HOWARD WINS IN FIRST
 GAME OF CITY SERIES
Bulldogs Down Birmngh.m-Southern Five By Count Of 38 To 27 In Opening Game Monday Night
 On Athletic Club Court

cient and run smoother. However. in \ the second half the Howard five out l. played them by a bigger margin and Avere ringing goals from all distances and angles.
 Wells . Star
 Wells played a good floor game for Hayward and rang up a couple of pret- ty A'ield goals in the second half that sweA'ed his teams score. Barfieid play ed a. good game at backguard. game after going in for Stevenson and McDolA nan also played good at center. Levie as tower of strength for the Panthen on the defensive, but went out before 6ne first half was over with four per Nonal fouls.
 The seoN'nd game of the series will be played laAr in the week.
 Lineup sA1d summary:
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WISCONSIN LEADS.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.--wisconsin head ed the Big conference basketball per- centage column today, following Chi cago's defeat by Iowa and Wisconsins victory over Illinois.
 Michigan, by winning over Perdue, held fourth place with one game neces- sary to tie Chicago and Purdue for sec ond place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-19
MORAN rn PLAY

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Feb. 1S-(Spe- cial Leased Wire) )-The Morgan school team of Petersburg has accepted a challenge to come here and pay the Central "" team and the Huntsville nigh team in one night. The games have been set for Tuesday night and basketball fans, are expecting it to be. a great occasion,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-19
JACKSON CASN
 TO BE CLEARED

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Feb. 1s.,-Georss A. shaughnessy. district attorrAey, an- nounced today he is going to trace down all rumors of perjury in tA G trial of the case of Joe Jackson aeaintst the Chicago club of the American la ague resulting in a verdict for JacA sen, which was set aside by Judge Joh n J. Gregory, who heard the case.
 Jackson and Oscar Happy" FeA sch were arrested on the courts orders \ for perjury and are now at liberty unA CT bail.
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HAUGEN WINs JUMp

BRAIR, CLIFF MANOR, N. r., Feb
 s-Anders Haugen. captain of the United States Olympic ski team which |ecently returned from its unsuccessful luest at the winter sports tournament It Chamoinx. France. won the eastern |tates ski jumping championship at an |ttempt at Briaf Cliff lodge with a Joint score of 133.
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G0ODwATER WINS

GOODWATER, Ala, Feb. 1S.-(Spe- cial.l-Goodwater High school girls basketball team defeated Coosa County High school team here yesterday by a
 score of z21 to 5, and thus gave local team entry into the tournament at Monteyallo Thursday, Friday and Sat
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PLAN OLYMPIC TRYOUrs

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 1s.-Olympic tryouts for southern division candidates will be held at Grant field here on June z, according to announcement today. The division comprises the states of Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
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INTEREST IN DOG DERBY

ASHTON, Idaho, Feb. 1s.-Such ten- sion prevails over preparation for the American dog ,,derby, to be run here February 22 that aarmed guards are patrolling the Kennels where the racers are quartered. $N,
 The best dogs in Canada and Amer iea are entered for ethe event.
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CITY LOOP TO
 PLAY AT B. A. (,

The games of the Birmingham Bas- ketball association, which, according to former announcement, were to be play ed in the Phillips High school audito- rum, will not be played in the Phillips High school but will be played, as for merly, in the B. A. c. Wednesday night beginning promptly at 7:45 o'clock. The first game of the evening will be that between the Phillips High and Wood lawn High. /
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1Nciciee-ETNln NDTakeN. Timekeepers-Bains tHoy Sard), Jenkins (Birmingham-S -Southern).
 life of halves, % minuths.
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MAY CLOSE BOUTS

NEW YORK, Feb. 1s.-Negot tiations for the proposed return woFid's' heavy weight battle in New York About June 1, between Jack Dempsey aud Tom Gib- bons may be completed tofaorrow at a conference between Promoter Tex Rick ard and Jack Kearns. manager of the title holder.
 7 Several weeks ago Rickard announced he had arranged the match, but Kearns has not yet signed articles. although it is understood he and the promoter are in agreement on terms. Eddie Kane, Gibbons manager, already has accept ed terms on behalf of the St. Paul boxer, who stayed the limit with the champion at, Shelby, Mont. last. July.
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Card
 For Shelby ] k Not Right
Rickard Says Promoters Did
 Mot Have Right Fight, 4 |. And Paid Too Much

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CLINTON BEATS RENNER

PITTSBURG, Feb. 1s.-John L. Clin- ton of Pittsburg defeated Emil A. Rem ner of Youngstown, Ohio, in the open ing game of the national class A 1892 balk line billiard championship here to- day 300 to 112.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
LIVE
STOCK LOSS HEAVY
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
CAUSES LOSS OF $2,034,437
THROUGH SLAUGHTER.

The sum OF $2,034,437 has been lost
TO live stock owners of California
through the slaughter of 1926 ami
mails in the fight to stamp out the
foot and mouth disease in the state.
In addition, industries allied to the
raising of live stock, such as dalrying,
forage. feed and grain and agriculture,
have suffered losses aggregatlng nun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
A report by the state department
OF agriculture says that up to April
II .378 herds OF animals had been de-
stroved. OF the animals killed 2?,4H
were cattle, 1924 hogs, 1887 sheep
and $40 goats.
Fruit Growers Alarmed.
Fruit growers are anxious lest the
movement of their products be further
curtailed because OF the epidemic
Virtually every western state mas
imposed an embargo on Californla
agricultural products, and there seems
to he no disposition to relent, al
though the federal government urges
that restrictions be llghtened.
California is a divided common
wealth because of the epidemic: Sew
en- northern counties have decided to
extend an embargo line cutting them
selves off from the rest OF the state
bv freight and other embargoes'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
SOUTH is FIGHTING
A POISONOUS PEST
CATERPILLAR THAT STINGS
WITH ITS HAIRS CAUSING
INJURY TO HUMANS.

Texas and other southern states are
continuing their efforts to destroy a
species of caterpillar that is causing
much damage to vegetation and injury
to human beings F. c. Bishop, of the
department OF agriculture, Washing
ton, D. c., has been sent to aid the
states in the fight.
The first named state is hardest hit
by the scourge. The caterpillar is de-
scribed by Mr. Bishop as being yell
lowish brown and having short hairs
that act as singers. They are known
in different localities as Italian asps," "
"possum bugs" and 'puss caterpil-
lars"
Sting Causes Swelling.
When the short hairs of the cater
pillar in question COME i'll contact with
human flesh little pressure is applied
by the pest and the hairs are broken
off These are poisonous and cause
swelling and in some cases paralysis
for several days.
In San Antonio, Texas, schools have
been ordered closed during severe cpl
denies of caterpillar poisoning. The
pest has reached as far north as Vir-
ginia.
In Mexico and New Mexico a spe-
cies of caterpillar that deposits pois-
onous excretions in the range grass is
playing havoc with cattle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
HAS N. YORK
CAMPAIGN MANAGER
WILL MAKE A
CAMPAIGN FOR NOMINA-
TION FOR v. PRESIDENT.

WASHINGTON, D. Civilian
d. Upshaw, member of congress from
the Fifth Georgia district, and con
spicuous in the house as dry advo-
cate, is a candidate for the vice presi-
dental nomination at the national
democratic convention in New York.
A New York Upshaw club has been
formed with ?. Varnum Stephens, Of
5 Beckman street, as chairman. 1t is
said that a number OF New York citi-
zens have petitioned Upshaw to enter
the contest for vice president
Moved by a commanding sense OF
loyalty to the great moral issues be-
for the people OF America" said Rep
resentative Upshaw, and with deep
gratitude to friends and forces all over
the nation, whose generous initiative
for many months has linked my name
with the democratic nomination for
vice president, I feel that I ought to
go far enough to say that | would ac-
cept the nomination if it were tender
ed me and would regard this high hon
or Supremacy in terms of service"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
BATTLE OF BEER HAS
BEGUN AT WASHINGTON
MODIFICATION OF DRY" LAW
IS DEBATED. BOTH SIDES
ARE LINING UP.

Fifty-nine bills have been introduc-
ed into the house of Representatives at
Washington, D. c., all seeking the
same end-making the manufacture Of
beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content
legal. The forces for and against mod
ifcation of the prohibition law, known
as the Volstead act, are lining UP for
the fight.
The house judiciary committee has
already heard number OF those IN
terested in modification. They repre-
sented .the American Federation of
Labor, the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment, the Constitu-
tional Liberty League of Massachu-
sets, and the Moderation League, Inc
The delegation for these organizations
was headed by Julian Goldman, an at
torney of Boston, Mass.
Mr.. Goldman Speaks.
mo law ever written into the stat
utes of the nation has been 50 univer-
sally fiouted and scorned," said Mr.
Goldman, referring to the Volstead act,
and speaking before the house COM
mittee.
w. H. Stayton founder and head of
the Association Against the Prohibi-
ton Amendment, said that the Vol
stead act promoted discomfort and
red" agents were finding the United
States a fruitful field in which to work
because of this discomfort.
Declaring that 2.75 per cent beer
would give the working man a good,
palatable, nourishing beer that had
warmth in it," Samuel Gompers, head
OF the American Federation OF Labor,
added that near beer is not good nor
James O'Connell president of the
metal trades department of the Amer
lean Federation OF Labor, said that
prohibition was colossal joke" and
is creating total disregard for law
that is appalling. :"
Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the
Anti-SaIoon League, and other advo-
Gates of strict prohibition will be
heard within a few days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
GEORGIA HAS FEWER
CONVICTS IN THE PEN
REPORT OF PRISON COMMITS
SION SHOWS 918 SERVING
TIME FOR HOMICIDES.

During the year 1923 the prison
population OF Georgia dropped 489 or
from 1864 to 3,165, according to the
annual report of the state prison COM
mission just made public
Prisoners in custody on January
of this year ranged in age from II to
70 years. There was one eleven year
old boy, two we're twelve years old
five thirteen years old. IS of IA years
and IS of IS years. Only one was 70
years ole, but nine were 70 or over
The largest NUMBER. 1913, were "a
years OF age, and practically half of
the entire list were in their twenties
With the exception of editors the pris-
on population of the state is composed
OF persons from most every walk Of
life, including BARRIERS, bankers, law
yers, preachers, brick masons, chauf-
feurs, policemen, clerks, tailors and
taxi drivers.
Murder led the causes of commit
ments, with 9l8. Burglary came sec
ond, with COL There were 363 COM
mitments for manslaughter, PAS for at
tempts to murder, 10 as accessories to
363 for larceny, 153 for rob
berry. 80 for forgery and Is for shoot
ing at another. There were l07 crimi-,
nal assault cases and 81 attempted
assaults. Whisky making
landed o. behind the bars and bigamy
caught 80.
More Married Men Than Single.
According to the report, Of these
prisoners 100 were married and $50
were single About 68 per cent OF the
prisoners could read and write and
only IS per cent are illiterate:
One man was serving his thirteenth
term, and 173 are serving third terms,
while 486 are second-termers and 2,447
are in prison for the first time.
Fulton county leads the list with
524 of the men and women in the pen
itentiary Chatham is second, with 10Y.
DeKalb sent 40; Bib, "a; Muscogee,
90; Terrell county has II prisoners in
the penitentiary; Richmond 50 and
Lowndes 40. Long and Dade counties
sent up one convict each. /
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06

Experiments are under way TINS
sorinq at the plant introduction gar
dens of the U. S. department OF agri-
culture at its Station at Bell, Md, to
mate available for American cultiva-
t ti,%SN two strange plants from Para ara
lots lots, wv one containing a glusocid 200
quay ~ sweet as cane sugar and the
the the forming the basis for a partlcu!t,,
larly invigorating tea winch mas Sta ne III
effects. say the Washington otaI, LII
< The latter is the yerba mate, pIo oD
ably the most mysterious ana roman man
tic plant in new world history. II oIlg
;nallv was used by the Paragg 1;,,il
indians in making a ceremonial drill me-
# was adopted by the Spanish anu
Portuguese and many attempts were
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
Queer Tricks Were Played By Tornado
That Swept Large Section Ofthe South

picked up in the bed in which he
lay and hurled far into the road,
where he was found, still between
the covers, without scratch.
Near Warm Spring, Ga, a ne
gro woman was carried 200 feet
holding to a bed and landed with
out being injured
At Union Springs, Ala, a baby
was killed when the home crash
ed in. The child was blown a mile.
Also in Alabama a mule was
blown in a well, a farmers stack
of stove wood was blown all over
his farm, a turkeys head was cut
off and one man walked back
home after being hurled quarter
of a mile through the air.
At Macon, Ga, w. ]. Shelley's
shoes and socks were either torn
or blown from his feet, leaving
only rag circling one of his legs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
Plant Very Expensive.

The present effort seems TO prom
Use better Success, according to officials
OF the bureau OF plant introduction.
Several thousand healthy plants have
been secured at Bell, and it may soon
be possible to distribute them. All yer
ba mate now on sale in the United
States is very expensive, due to the
methods OF culture and transportation.
It's IMPORTANCE lies in the fact that it
is valuable as a stimulant for people
who cannot drink tea. DIR. George F.
Mitchell, Of the department of agricul-
ture bureau of chemistry, has taken
much interest in the Introduction of
mate. At one time during the war it
was considered by the German army
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
POTATO ASSOCIATION
MEETS WITT, SUCCESS
ABOUT 20 COUNTIES IN THIS
IMMEDIATE SECTION WILL
ORGANIZE THIS SEASON.

According to reports coming from
headquarters of the Georgia Sweet
Potato Growers Association at Val
dosta the first week of their member
ship campaign has been far more sue
cessful than even the most optimistic
official had expected. 1t is said that
an acreage equivalent to approximate
1y $4,000 bushels has been signed up
the first week
Sign-up work has been done in four
counties, including Lowndes, Lanier,
Brooks and Colquitt. Preliminary
work has been done in several others,
and much interest is being. shown in
the movement to organize the growers
throughout south Georgia. Interested
people have made inquiries even from
north Georgia.
Plan of Promoters.
The plans are to cover some fifteen
or twenty counties of this immediate
section of south Georgia at once, after
which a permanent organization meet
isg will be held and permanent Off
GERS elected. There will be a director
from each county, elected by the
members OF the particular county.
These directors will have complete
control OF the business affairs of the
association
The movement has attracted the at
tention of the market bureau chief at
Washington, and he has promised to
send a marketing expert down in May
to give any assistance he can render
1t is understood that the federal de
partment at Washington is advocating
organization of southern sweet potato
growers, because they recognize the
fact that this is the only way in which
sweet potato growers can ever hope
to promote this industry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
IS PER CENT OF SCHOOL
CHILDREN ARE DEFECTIVE

More than rs per cent OF the
school children of the United
States have mental or physical de-
fects, DIR. Herman /. Norton, di-
rector of health education in the
public schools at Rochester, N. Y,
declared in a recent address.
He quoted a survey of 100000
children to prove his statement. OF
that number, he said, 100000 had
bad teeth, 100000 to 100000 had
fallen arches, defective spines or
joints, 100000 to 100000 were
suffering from malnutrition, 5,000,-
900 had poor vision, 100000 suf-
fered from deafness, 100000 had
or did have tuberculosis, 100000
had heart trouble and 100000 were
mentally defective
DR.. Norton urged the necessity Of
teaching hygiene and health meth
DDS in the schools of the nation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06

A check-up of the tornado toll
over the south, in which a hun
dred met death, several hundred
wer 81 ;Tred and immense prop
erty S'so.lNARy done, brings in
the usual grist franks
played by the wind,
laughs with grim tragedy.
At Anderson, S. c., the wind
picked up street car and laid it
ON its side in yard so feet away,
probably fatally injuring one of its
occupants.
A fve-months-old infant and the
mattress on which it lay was
whirled through the window OF its
home in Florence and deposited in
an open field a hundred yards
away. The child was not hurt.
A similar incident occurred at
Opelika, Ala, where a man was
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06

led to number of petty wars among
the Spanish colonies and in one case
little kingdom was set up, governed
in such fashion that no outsiders
were allowed to enter lest they dis
cover the secret of growing the plant.
4 number of explorers who did ven
ture into this area were kept in prison
for many years.
It's culture still remains much OF a
secret A number of unsuccessful Ell
forts have been made to introduce 1t
into the United States. Several years
AGO several plants were distributed by
The botanic garden there and were be-
inc cultivated successfully in a num-
her of sections when it was found that
thew were not of the right species.
made to monopolize its culture. These