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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
Hundreds Throng Term inal Station For Glimpse
 Of Stars

More than one thousand Birmingham movie fans were telling friends, sweet. hearts, relatives, and in fact, many utter strangers Monday night, that they had seen Thomas Meighan, and Lila Lee, their silver screen hero and hero. inc, upon their arrival at the Terminal station at 45 o'clock Monday after noon. Meighan and Miss Lee are here to take part in the filming of Jack Bethea's novel, Bed Rock"
 Street urchins, who sometimes beg for the price of admission to see their ''Tom," when a picture starring Meighan is being shown at neighbor- hood theater, vied with staid business men, matrons, flappere and screen struck young shieks in extending an unofficial welcome to Meighan and Miss Lee upon their arrival.
 Official Welcome
 The official welcome was headed by D. E. McLendon, president of the Bir- mingham city commission, Mrs. Me Lendon, Dr. C. B. Glenn, superintend- ent of schools, Gordon Erickson, man. ager of the municipal auditorium, and several members of the Birmingham Better Film committee, headed by .Mr. NJ. c. Shell. Representatives of civic organizations, and several well known clergymen also were seen in the crowd which greeted the arrival of the stars in the city.
 Police and station employees, aided by special troop of Boy Scouts, forced . a path through the milling crowd. so that Mir. Meighan, and Miss Lee could reach the waiting automobiles. In the great rotunda of the station Mir. McClendOn, on behalf of the city, pre- scented a golden key of the city to MT. NJ t;Shan' and Miss Lee.
 Informal Welcome
 Upon the stars arrival at the Tut wiler hotel, another informal welcome was held by the management of the hotel and guests.
 Edward Sutherland, who will direct the two stars in the motion picture version of Jack Bethea's novel, Bed Rock" asked Monday night, when work would start in filming the scenes in which Mir. Meighan and Miss Lee would appear, answer. Tomorrow morning, if weather conditions are right"
 With Meighan and Miss Lee in the cast for Bed Rock, will be Wallace Beery, sometimes called the screen s greatest actor of william parts, Frank Campeau, also well known in motion picture circle and on the stage, Larry Wheat, John Miltern, Gus Weinberg and about thirty other members of the Famous Players-Lasky corporations S Long Island studios.
 Sutherland started the filming of exterior scenes Monday morning near "Linger Longer Lodge," about seven miles from Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
OUSTED SENATOR'S CHAT WITH FOES
 AS GAVEL FALLS
Disciplined Progressives
 Cynosure Of Eyes At Congress Opening
By RAYMOND CHAPTER Leased Wire to Age-Herald)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. - Going through the same formalities as pu- cilists about to maui each other, con gress spent the first day of it's last ses- sion in a brief handshaking ceremony preliminary to three-month battle royal Outwardly there were polite smiles and greetings to cover the deep feeling between republican regulars and insurgents which is expected to break out on the floor before the week is over.
 Senator La Toilette, as leader of the group which holds the balance of power in both houses. was the focal point of all interest. There were rumors that he will filibuster against the appropria- tion bills and force an extra session in the spring. But the Wisconsin senator sauntered to his seat on the aj~le in the front row apparently unconcerned. He nodded greetings to other senators. One of his arch foes, Senator Jim Watson of Indiana, exchanged banter with him. Next to him sat another extreme con servative. Fernald of Maine, and they chatted in q friendly way while the roll was being called. Senator Burton K Wheeler, his running-mate in the recent campaign, came down the aisle and shook hands-their first meeting since election. Then La Toilette settled down in his seat and sat through the ses- sion, smiling sphinx. Afterward he shut himself in his office, as reticent as ever as to his intentions.
 Session Uneventful
 The short, 22-minute session of the senate was uneventful. Three new sen ators-Metcalfe of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, Means of Colo. rado, and Butler of Massachusetts were sworn in, filling vacancies left by deaths. Butler took the old desk by Lodge and once used by Daniel Webster, in spite of some hostile old guard sena- tors who had been muttering last week about keeping new senators in their place." and who said they would seat Butler with the new senators on the back TOW. But Butler settled down sol idly in his chosen seat, looked straight ahead through his steel trimmed glasses, and nobody ordered him to move. He seems likely to keep the seat by squat ter right Soon the presidents cam paign manager was holding court as senators with patronage requests in their inside pockets crowded around to congratulate him. However much some senators who were 1olled Dy Butler al the Cleveland convention may dislike to see a newcomer rise suddenly to power, Buffers close relations with the White House insure him of plenty of friends in the senate.
 A committee was named to notify the President and then the senate adjourned out of respect for its three dead mem bers-L0dge. Brandegee and Colt. Tues day the Presidents budget message will be read and on Wednesday the annual message will be sent to both houses.
 Quorum Is Called
 In the house there was 45 minutes of gabble while the quorum was being called. Several new members were sworn in. A resolution setting aside December 15 for memorial services fol Continued on Page TwO) ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
Dowager Queen Of Eng land Observes S0th Birth
 day With Relatives
(Leased Wire To T.,:e .:ge-Herald)

LONDON, Dec. 1.-Queen Mother Alexandra, the grande dame of the old world, and the only one of the pretty royal ladies of 50 years ago who retains the ermine of her exalted station, is celebrating her eightieth birthday. .
 When little Alexandra first kicked her pink heels in Copenhagen on De- cember 1, 1844, Napoleon's wrath still was Hitting among the chancellories of Europe, the American republic was q huddle of states east of the Mississippi river, and Prince Metternich was gravely enforcing his theory that re- turn to the "old regime" was the cure for the ills of Europe after infection with the liberty -equality-fraternity virus of the French revolution.
 A king, two queens, two heirs-ap- parent. a princess royal and lesser notables gathered at the queen mothers country home, Sandringham Monday to honor her, but their rank would mean little to Alexandra. She is used to kings. She is the eldest daughter of king. She married king. Her son is now king of England and q grand son the Prince of Wales, probably will climax her royal connections.
 The day before Alexandras anniver- sary, photograph of the fragile little woman was sent across the Atlantic from London to New York by radio. At the heighth of her beauty. when as the 1S-year-old bride of the Prince of Wales, who later became King Ed ward VII, Alexandra would have smiled 'at the suggestion of such thing.
 In 1901 the old queen died. Alexandra became the first woman of the empire. put she was no longer young. She was woman of 57. Nine years later King Edward died and the beautiful Danish princess that was, retired to the side line to grow old.
 She is human little old lady and
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
NEWS FROM TODAY'S
 WANT ADS

Two valuable bird dogs are offered for sale.
 Partner wanted with small capital. Gray coupe offered for only $40O. Five-room bungalow in Central Park offered for $4.00O; cash $200, balance like rent. 1923 Essex coach for only $775. Experienced timer wanted to take charge of shop. Experienced grocery clerk wanted, age 25 and 35. Household furnishings advertised for sale.
 Desirable lot on Milner Heights is offered for $4,25O. Modern 5-room house in East Bir- mingham advertised for rent. A store on Ave. G next to corner is offered for rent. $3O per month.
 High salesman for local territory Is sought.
 Two Stevens target rifles are ad- A young lady cashier-bill clerk Is wanted.
 An architectural draftsman is wanted by local firm. Salesman with light car is sought. Several shotguns are offered. Large corner on Ave G, with three houses, is offered for $3,5Oc. An auction sale of mules and horses is announced for Thurs day.
 Saleswomen wanted by downtown store to work from II a. m. to D. m.
 Experienced night watchman wants position.
 Grocery and market. doing good business. Price $1.S0O.OO. Six strong white apprentices. $s.5O per day.
 Turn to pages 14 and 15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
Kilby's Decision Not To Run For Governor Leaves Free Field KHAN LOOMS
 AS BIG ISSUE Drys, Labor And Farm Bureau Also To Be
 Factors . POWERFUL GROUPS
 FIGURE IN RACE Fight Between Simon-Pure Pro gressives And Conserva- ., tives Expected
(By Staff Correspondent,

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Dec 1.-Now that Governor Kilb' has voluntarily eliminate' himself from the race for gov ernor, new alignments will bs gin to form, and it is not to. early to make a survey of the field.
 A trip over the state by an Age-Her aid representative discloses that there is interest everywhere not only in the man most acceptable for governor, but also in the issues which are likely tC dominate the campaign. So that this seems a good time to state some oi the probable issues and te call the roll of eligibles as gathered from friends. |
 A Factional Fight
 In the first place, the. next race will probably be a fight between the Simon pure, progressive democrats of the state who believe in popular rule, the censerv ation of the states resources and theil orderly and business-like development for the benefit of all the people, as against the reactionary, stand-pat dem ocrats whose party ties are loose when selfishness for themselves or those they represent is involved. This demarka. tion will present many angles as con crete subjects are brought before the people. In t!.e next campaign several power. full groups of voters must be reckoned with. They will be factors which will help decide the fate of any candidate Here are some of them:
 1. The Farm Bureau federation; not in politics, but alert and united on anything affecting the farmers welfare.
 2. The dry forces determined to preserve and strengthen the pres- ent laws.
 3. The wet advocates, who do not call themselves such, but who seek less drastic prohibition.
 4. The labor vote, always un. certain in quantity, but strong in the cities. .-
 5. The woman voters, de. termined on welfare measures.
 6. The educational powers, an influential and compact body of voters.
 2. The industrial and manufac. turing groups whose ideas about taxation and privileges are so often in conflict with the mass of voters.
 6. The Ku klux Klan, highly organized and functiOning from high Jackson to the bay at Mo. bile.
 Now, the man who thinks the klan Is not functioning politically and other wise in Alabama, cannot have talked as this writer has talked, with exec utive spokesmen of the order in the state as far down as Mobile. And the klan is one of the groups which will have large influences in the next campaign.
 But how about a roll call of can didates? What will be the reaction of these groups to names now being put forward by friends? Here they are, arranged not necessarily in the order of their likelihood of success but al-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
THE WEATHER
t3l cN.cy>
 -' ]Ke6lf'5y>

A child tells the truth until 1t begins tells the truth when he begins to know better than to do worse.
 Alabama: Fair Tuesday and Wednesday.
 Tennessee: Fair.
 Mississippi: Fair.
 Georgia: Fair.
 Complete weather data is on Page 14). \
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
WESTERN RAIL MEN
 IGNORE WAGE BOOST
Southern Pacific Trainmen Con-
 tinue Vote On Strike

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-The decision of the railroad labor board in raising the wages of approximately 75,- GOO engineers and firemen on western and mid-western railroads 'does not affect the situation raised by the strike vote being taken throughout the South ern Pacific system," L. G. Griffing, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said today. The strike vote taken by the com pany's engineers and firemen includes all subsidiary systems as well as the main system.
 The Southern Pacific railroad will abide by the decision of the railroad labor board because the labor board are arbitrators responding the public interest" William Sproule, president of the company, said in a statement today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02

EXPRESS BUILDING BURNS
 NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1.-Fire early today partially destroyed the five story brick building occupied by the general offices and storage rooms of the American Railway Express company
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
SKELETON OF MAN
 DUG FROM GRAVE
Dissertation Attributed To Treas
 ure Hunting Vandals

MOBILE, Ala, Dec. 1.-Edward Colshon, superintendent of the Noble Satsuma farm, reported here today that the grave of John Kellogg on the Will son place at the intersection of Halls Mill road and Halls Mill creek, had been desecrated by vandals. The skele- ton of the man had been dug up from the grave where it had been buried since Jan. s, 1917. Scratched on the tomb are the numrals $50,000. MT. Colshon is of the opinion that persons searching for buried treasure committed the act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
PHYSICIANS ELECT
 DR. 4. 4. WALKER
Chosen President By Medical Society At Annual Meeting

Dr. A. A. Walker was elected presi- dent of the Jefferson County Medical society Monday night at the annual meeting held in the society's rooms in the old Medical college building. Other officers elected for the coming year are Dr. George w. Williamson, vice president; Dr. w. D. Hardy, secre- tary treasurer, and Dr. Cabot Kull, as Q mesnbefA of the board of health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
WOMAN ENDS LIFE
 BY SHOOTING SELF
ChattanOOgan Found With Pistol
 Wound In Head

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. l. Mrs. Mary Christian, wife of A. s. Christian, secretary of the Chero-Cola Bottling works, was found dead in her husbands office this morning by an employee of the company, who was at tracted to the office by a report of the pistol.
 She had been shot through the temple Christian had gone out of the office for Il few minutes leaving his wife alone. She had been in ill health for year. The pistol used was one kept in the office safe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
ASSAILANT SENTENCED
Vienna Factory Worker Sent To Jail
 EOr Shnntin1

VIENNA, Dec. Karl Jaworek. the young factory worker who last June shot and seriously wounded Dr. Ignaz Zeipel. former Austrian chancellor, to- day was sentenced to three and one-half years imprisonment. He contended his attendance at extremist meetings had led him to believe he could free the proletariat by killing the chancellor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
GIRL DIES IN FIRE
 AT RUSSELLTILLE
Clothing Ignited While Mother
 Is Absent

RUsSELLvILLE, Ala, Dec l. Especial. )-Mary, the five-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Will O'Neal, was burned beyond recognition here this morning when her mother stepped out of the house on an errand and the child's clothing ignited in an open fire place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-02
: DIE IN GOTHAM
Four Men. Three Women Burned To
 Death in Big Fire

NEW YORK. Dec1.-Seven persons, four men and three women, lost their lives. and 10 were injured in a fire which early today swept through rooming house, within half block of upper Broadway.
 The origin of the fire, which ate it's way through the brown stone house in an incredibly short time. has not been determined. Several of the victims were trapped in their rooms.
 Search was being made for street car motorman who had run his car over a fire hose leading to the burning house, seyering the tubing and delaying the firemen fully ten minutes.
 One of the women victims was killed in leaping from the roof, and another died after she had been lowered by her husband from the top floor by rope. The bodies of q woman and two men were found in hallway.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-09-04
Cannery Soon, Maybe
Possibly 1t Will Be Built in a Year
Much Needed

A cannery may be built here
or in Carrboro within the next
year.
This will enable the farm
| ers around Chapel Hill to make
use Of fruits and vegetables
when they have a surplus.
There is a ready market for
canned goods at Swain Hall
and the restaurants.
One Of the impediments to
profitable trucking is the un-
evenness of demand throughout
the year. At one time a great
deal more truck is wanted than
the farmers can supply; at an
other, when all the vegetables
and fruits are ripening, the
growers cannot get a big enough
price for it to pay for hauling it.
Thousands of dollars worth of
canned vegetables are shipped
into Chapel Hill every year-the
same vegetables that grow here
abouts in abundance.
II have learned that there is a
good chance of a cannery's being
built within a year." said R. P.
Harris, agriculture teacher in
the Chapel Hill school, yester-
day, although l am not yet at
liberty to say who is going to
embark upon the enterprise. 1t
will be great thing for the
county. Many a farmer can
raise bushels more of tomatoes
and beans and other vegetables
than he can sell readily at the
time they ripen, and the cannery
will give him way to make use
Of them profitably. When the
cannery is built it will put up
things in just the shape that
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-09-04
Chapel Hill Chatf

When walked into Eubanks'
drugstore the other day Harry
Buice was behind the counter
mixing drinks. "You are falling
off, Harry" said. He was so
excited by this compliment that
when I gave him five cents and
asked for a box of matches he
wheeled around rapidly and
gave me back the box and the
same five cents in change. Thus
my matches came free. I always
try to be measurably pleasant
to people who serve me in
stores, but this is the only time
| ever got such a quick cash
return for it.
I had heard the word panjan-
drum but never took the
trouble to investigate it until ]
read the piece in the Asheville
citizen about George Bernard
Shaw's application of the term
academic panjandrum" to
Archibald Henderson. hastened
to my bookshelves for enlight-
eminent. Among theF meanings
given by the Century Diction-
ary are "plenipotentiary" and
"Great Mogul." The dictionary
appends a quotation from one of
the works of the Eighteenth
Century dramatist, Samuel
Foote, the passage quoted being
as follows: "And there were
present the Picninnies, and the
Joblillies, and the Garyulies,
and the grand Panjandrum him
self" Mr.. Shaw explains his
phrase by adding: chat is, a
scholar and educator of the
first rank" This sounds ade-
quate to me. | can easily under
stand that a man less tutored
Continued on Page 81
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-09-04
MAYBE VILLAGE
WILL HAVE GAS
Negotiations under Way for Ex-
tending Durham's Mains
Over Here
\ GREAT CONVENIENCE

Chapel Hill may have gas be-
fore long. This does not mean
laughing gas, or additional
laughing gas, but plain heating
and Illuminating gas.
The movement for it began
with the University, which
needs it urgently for laborator-
les. A monster chemistry build
ing is being constructed, and gas
will be needed in abundance for
the experiments carried on
there. The work in the medical
and other laboratories will also
benefit by it.
A representative of the Caro-
lima Power and Light Company
has been over here from Dur
ham and made a survey of the
campus and the town, to find
out about the possible laying
out of a system of mains. The
idea is to lay a big feeder main
from Durham and then send the
gas in smaller pipes under those
streets where there are residents
who want the service.
1t has been suggested that the
main from Durham pass along
the State highway route, since
the right of way includes several
feet beyond the bitches flank
ing the highway.
Many of the householders in
Chapel Hill have long yearned
Sor gas, especially for kitchen
use. Modern inventive skill has
produced gas ranges suitable for
all kinds of cooking; and there
are also numerous devices for
Aoating water with gas. Some
of theSe> are automatic-you
.8ht the gas, and the flame
goes high or low according as
more or less heat is required to
keep the water hot.
AS in the case of water SER
wee, the company brings the
gas to the edge of the lot, and
the householder has to pay for
the piping within his own
premises. 1t is said that the
average cost of this inside piping
is about $25; the figure runs
higher the further the home is
set back from the street.
Ot course the gas-user
has a wide variety of
choice in the stoves and
other equipment that he buys.
Charles T. Woollen, business
manager of the University, and
James M. Bell, professor of
chemistry, have been active in
negotiating with the officials of
the gas company.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-09-04
CITIZENS DRAFT
MARKETING PLAN
= Group Holds Meeting and De-
vises Way to Sell Farm
Products
TRUCK TO COLLECT THEM

The farmers, the school board
of Chapel Hill, and the county
commissioners are actively in
terested in a plan to solve the
problem of marketing the dairy,
poultry, and garden products of
Orange county. They are going
to do all that is humanity pos
sible to inaugurate a selling
plan to eliminate the delay and
expense that now have to be in
Cured in getting products from
the farmer to the consumer.
A group of citizens met at
a supper, served by Miss Atkin-
sin in the school building, last
Thursday night, and discussed
the details of the scheme. May
or w. S. Robertson and Mrs. w.
d. Toy were there, representing
j. D. Webb, and W. T. Reynolds
of Teer, and Harmon McIver,
F. w. Winn, and F. w. Winn,
Jr., of the Bethlehem church
neighborhood, and S. M. Oldham
and his son Clarence Oldham,
and H. w. Odum, who is not
and H. w. Odum, who is not
only a sociologist but an enthu-
siastic Jersey cow-ologist.
r. P. Harris, agriculture
teacher in the Chapel Hill
school, reported upon his work
this summer in gathering and
selling farm products, and told
the gathering his ideas for
overcoming the difficulties of
marketing.
"To start with we ought to
have a truck make regular
rounds, covering all parts of the
county every week." he said.
We can get the farmers to
contribute enough to buy a
truck. We want to ask the coun-
ty commissioners to appropriate
a sum sufficient to employ a man
TO drive the truck and collect
the products through the first
year; and with the help of the
hank and the school board we
ought to be able to raise a
revolving fund out of which to
pay farmers promptly while we
are waiting for buyers to settle
up"
Mr.. Harris, whose teaching
duties are to be taken over by
u. II. Singleton this coming
year, will give a large share of
his time to running the market
ing system. He will find pur-
chasers and attend to getting
the checks to the farmers.
Here is the way the scheme
will work." he explained. "Say
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