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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-07-16

Pipo Maldonado el senior Fernan
dez, managers de los teams Ponce y
Ribosch, respectivamente, nos mani
festaron que hace tempo vienen pi-
diendo una reunion de la Directiva
del Campeonato que hasta la fe-
cha no sc les ha hecho caso
Queremos dar fin tanto desatino
jugadores vienen y van, los umpires
actian como les viene sen ganas Y no
hay medida para impedir estas cosas.
No sabemos por que no Sc nos atien-
de; somos caballeros la vez los
directamente interesados en- ell cam
peonato. Con paciencia esperamos 10
que han de acordar los directories de
este "jueguitc''.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-07-16

DEPoRTIvAs DE Ell MUNDc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
MINSTREL TURN
 TOPSLYRIC BILL
Leila White Entertainers Head Week-End Vau-
 deville Program

A varied combination of mirth, melody, dancing and novelty will be of- fered patrons of the Lyric for the last half of the week in the new bill which opens Thursday afternoon. Five acts of big-time Keith vaudeville, offering @ wide range of entertainment, making up the program with the usual interest ing screen novelties added.
 One of the odt-of-the-ordinary acts that come to the vaudeville stage every now and then. is the pleasing headliner. It is the Lela White Entertainers, min strels de Luxe in Bits of 1924" Lela Wbite Entertainers are miniature min strels. What they lack in quality they l,ake up in quality, for here is a troupe de luxe. In Bits of 1924" they present complete minstrel first part from inter locutor to end men. Miss Whites en- tertainers are a mixed quartette. There are three men and two women.
 The added attraction is noval in set ting and arrangement, while great number in every respect. 1t is Mon tana."- the cowboy banjoist. Montana" has a national reputation, and is able to make the banjo do everything but run around the stage by itself, so capable is he. reports say.
 An eccentric little comedy will be served up as the special feature. This is the offering of Medley and Duprey un- der the title of Peanuts" There are batter and songs with some more than clever dancing steps in the number.
 Rounding out the bill are Charles Horn and company in '"The Automobile Broker" and Alexander Brothers and Evelyn in "All Balled Up."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
COTTON HARVEST
 NEARLY FINISHED
Week Of Sunshine Speeds Up Picking And Gin
 ming Of Crop

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Crop and weather conditions in southern states during the week ending yesterday were summarized today by the department of agriculture as follows: so
 The week was warm, rainless and sunshinny throughout the cotton pro ducing states. Except in the extreme northwestern portion of the belt there was no rain reported from any point, with substantially 100 per cent of sum shine in practically all sections. This made ideal weather for picking and ginning and also for maturing the late crop in the mora northern districts.
 Top Crop Gains
 The top crop made very good progress in central and northern Texas and also in Oklahoma. There was still some cot the crop gained somewhat Tn Tennes- see, where the warmth helped great ly to bring bolls to maturity in the northern portion. Some improvement was noted also in North Carolina, but tho bolls were opening slowly in the northern part of the state where the crop in general is about three weeks late. The warm sunshiny weather was fa- yorable for maturing late cotton in central and northern South Carolina.
 Picking made excellent progress ev- anywhere and has been largely com- pleted in the southern sections of the belt. It is so well advanced in Georgia as to be practically finished in another ten days with favorable weather. Har- vest Is nearing completion also through out Alabama and is about finished in the southern two-thirds of Mississippi.
 Oats Seeding Late @te
 Winter oats seeding made slow prog ress in the south because of deficient moisture. Wheat needed moisture from Oklahoma southward. ts
 Planting of fall truck made good progress in the southeast, but there was considerable damage in parts of Flor ida by the tropical storm and shipments were suspended. It was too dry in the central and west gulf areas, where truck and minor late crops are generally in poor condition. Because of the con- tinued drought in Louisiana sugar cane Is very poor and showing no progress, with harvest still being delayed.
 storm Injures Citrus
 Citrus continued good in the western area but the tropical storm the latter part of the week caused some damage in southern Florida, where reports of split ting continue.
 Condition by state include:
 Alabama: Continued drought and un- reasonably warm; springs failing local ly, favorable for harvesting, but un- favorable for growth and development of growing crops. Sowing oats pro= gressed slowly, sweet potatoes and mil nor crops made slow progress; truck and pastures mostly poor, pastures de- teriorating badly. Cotton picking prac- tically finished in south and many cen- tral areas, nearing completion in ex- treme north, where condition mostly fair to good.
 Mississippi: Generally abundant sun shine, dry and warm; very good prog ress in picking and ginning cotton; practically complete in southern two thirds; fair progress in harvesting corn; largely housed in southern half. Progress of fall blowing and seeding poor; progress of cane, gardens, pas lures and truck mostly poor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23

H REIGHT traffic over railroads has
 veen heavier lately than at any
 time this year. Only a rather slow distribution of coal and ore. as mat ter of fact, has prevented the heaviest carloadings ever known. During the week of last report, that ending ,Oc- tober 1, loadings of merchandise and "Iess than carload lot" freight totalled 259, ,106 cars, the greatest number for any week on record. The same six days saw new level established for the loading of grain and grain products. More news to confound the unduly pes siTnistic.
 Yet it is well to examine these freight traffic records, since carloadings are seasonally heaviest in the fall months and because yearly increases in popula- ton mean yearly increases in demand for commodities of all kinds. The above chart illustrates the movements of freight In relation to an estimated line of normal year to year growth. Seasonal influences are largely &C., counted for by computing the figures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
CIRCIJSIS NOTED
 FOR FINE HORSES
Beautiful Women Also Feature With John Rob-
 insOn's Shows

Kentucky has always boasted of it's lovely and beautiful women and thor oughbred horses, and when the John Robinson circus and trained wild ami malls appears in that commonwealth. or any other of the 4S states or the pro- vinces of Canada, its striking beautiful women and exceptional horseflesh com pare favorably with the celebrated toast of "Old Kintuck."
 When the big tops and the hundreds of little tops of the John Robinson cir GUS, the greatest trained Wild animal circus on earth are raised in Birming- ham on Monday, October ? these facts will impress the crowds during the pa rade and during the afternoon and night performances, go the advance represen- tatives declare.
 No show, it is claimed. can boast of more beautiful women than Ola Dar- ragh, Harriet Guilfoyle, Billy Burton, the Martin Sisters, Erna Rudynoff. Jinseve Johnson, Pompey Baio, Etta Carreon. Miss Julian Rogers, Lela Plank, Ora Thornton and the Morales Sisters These stars of the galloping white horses and the aerial wire. are celebrated in vaudeville and the circus world for their charms and they are only few of the two hundred women under the John Robinson banner this year.
 In teh opening spectacle, Peter Pan in Animal Land," in the rings, stages, arena, in the air and on the track, the hundreds of folks with the big show assert they have the best looking girl performances ever seen under the white top. As they offer to prove it circus day, it's only fair to wait and see. So that everybody will have an opportun- ity to judge, many of the featured girl performers will be seen on the mile long street parade, which will wlnd its way through the business section of the city shortly at II o'clock, the hour when this gorgeous open-air review leaves the circus grounds.
 Performances will be given at Smith park and tickets will be on sale show day at Sellers Drug store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
COTTON SPINNING
 SHOWS INCREASE
Active Spindle Hours In Sep tember Total 6,414,902,O1O

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Cotton spin ing activity showed an increase in Sep tember as compared with August and July, according to the census bureaus monthly report issued today.
 Active spendle hours in September numbered 6,414, ,010, or an average of 17O per spindle in place, compared with 5,399 9549,661 or an average of 143 in August this year and 7,4S2, 0,995, or an average of 200, in September last year. SE
 Spinning spindles in place September 30 numbered 37,S40,731, of which 3O,- 122,3S4 were active at some time during the month, compared with $37, ,822,7 ,706, of which 28,945,603 were active in August this year and 37,491, ,706, of which 3S,929,- 8S5 were active in September last year.
 The average number of spindles op- erated in September was 2s,7S3, ,156, or at 76.1 per cent capacity on a single shift basis compared with 23,761 ,44O, or at CPS per cent capacity In August this year and 34,941, ,676, or at 93.2 per cent capacity in September last year..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
SHORTAGE OF CARS .
 THOUGHT AVERTED
Traffic Experts Promise PrOtec-
 ton To Local District

Probability of a car shortage in the Birmingham district, especially in the coal fields was forestalled Wednesday when traffic and transportation ex- perts from many lines met here and agreed to adequately protect this dis trict in the distribution of equipment
 The conference in which several coal operators with mines on the Frisco, participated, agreed to details of inter change of equipment and the isolation of foreign cars in this section. This agreement will, in effect, take care of the Birmingham situation and will in sure this district from car shortage ex- periences similar to that of last win ter.
 Officials of the American Railway association. s. L. Yerkes, and others officially connected with the car bu- reau were present and assisted in form ulating the understanding which was considered necessary for the adequate protection of the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
COURT TO DECIDE
 IF PRISON IS HOME
Question Raised In Suit Against
 Bootleg King

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 22.-Wheth- CT a mans place of residence changes from his established home to a penal institution with his sentence there was a question raised here in a judgment suit against George Remus, known as ''the bootleg king now serving a federal prison sentence at Atlanta, Ga. The suit for $11,375 was brought by J. W. Murray, who contends that amount to be the prewar value of 60 barrels of liquor which he placed in Remus cus- tody and that Remus diverted to his own use.
 Attorneys for Remus raised the ques- tion that service on the petition for judgment was made at the palatial home here of Remus and therefore it is erroneous inasmuch as Remus' pres ent abode is in Atlanta, Ga, in federal prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
UNITED OUTBREAKS
 REFLECT KNUBEL
New Yorker Heads Church For
 Fourth Consecutive Time
fRx Associated Pressl

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-Dr. F. H. Knu- bel, New York, today was unimously Lutheran church of America Iby the tion. Dr. Knubel was elected today for the fourth consecutive term of two years.
 F. c. Miller, Philadelphia, was re elected treasurer for the fourth term.
 NJ. G. Scherer of New York City was reelected secretary of the church. His biennial report, presented at the open ing business session of the convention, sketched the development of the war is sue in the church, outlining the contend ing positions. The majority opinion seemed embodied in the committee text. he asserted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23

upon a base of 100 per cent which rep resents the average loadings Of the corresponding periods during the years 1919 and 1923. It will thus be seen that following a sharp contraction earl fer in 1924, carloadings have now re- covered to point which may be con- sidered as being at least normal. It consequently follows that consumption of commodities is heavy-particularly the consumption Of manufactured prod ucts. But if there be those who say that carloadings represent distribution of goods rather than actual final con- sumption, it may well be argued that heavy purchases, if not used at once, a! least represent confidence ill the euture.
 Further than this, comparison of the above line Of carloadings with any accepted index of general business ac- tivity will reveal a. likeness in trend so marked as to warrant acceptance of freight traffic movements as . fairly reliable indicator of what trade and in dustry as Q whole are now ac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
CHILD IS KILLED
 INV 75-FOOT FALL
Girl Of Four Plunges Over Look
 out Mountain Bluff

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. 22.- Elizabeth Sims Smartt, 4 year old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Edmondson Smartt, of Lookout mountain and granddaughter of s. R. Reid, presi- dent of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, was instantly killed near her home this morning when she fell over g foot bluff, on the east brow of Lookout mountain.
 The little girl was visiting a little, playmate when the tragic affair oc- cured. She ventured too near the edge of the prec7pIce, lost her balance and fell to instant death,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
FRIDAY TO CLOSE
 AUDITORIUM WEEK
Great Quartette Of Artists On
 Program For Evening

The performance at the auditorium Friday night will close a week of bril- liant musical events. The week has music lovers and nothing could be more fitting for the finale of the fes- tivities than the attraction to be of fered it is declared.
 The Metropolitan quartette including Mabel Garrison, soprano; Davora Mad vorney, contralto; Allen McQuhae, tenor. and Clarence Whitehill is a cast that is seldom heard even at the great Metropolitan. The evening will be one of opera and each soloist will be heard in his or her favorite aria. The great feat ure number, however, will be the stag ing of the Garden Scene" from FausT, lovers an opportunity to really appre- ciate grand opera in the new audito- rum.
 Each artist appearing so far tbis week has pronounced the acoustics as perfect and great things are expected Friday night. The advance seat sale has been heavy and a capacity house is expected.
 Reservations may be made at Clark H Jones during the day and at the Auditorium at night.
 AA---
 HORSES AND MULES EAST ST. LOUIS, Oct. Endorses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
HULL TO ASSIST
 IN PARTY DRIVE
Former Chairman Goes To Washington At Davis Request
fRx Associated Prsssl

 2 WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Represen- tative Cordell Hull of Tennessee, former national committeeman, announced here today that in compliance with the re- quest of John W. Davis, the democratic presidential nominee, he had arranged to place his entire services at the disposal of the democratic national committee for the remainder of the campaign,
 MT. Hull reached Washington from Nashville last night and after a con ference today with Chairman Shaver and other democratic leaders, said he had not been assigned any specific duty, but would be used wherever the com mittee might think his service of. most value He said he expected he would be sent from place to place, but did not know to what point he would be as- signed first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
LEACH NOMINATED
 IN MASSACHUSETTS
Will Make Race For Unexpired Term Of Representative Greene

FALL RIVER, Mass, Oct. 22.-The nomination of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, as Republican candidate fof the unexpired term of the late Con grcssman William s. Greene of Fall River, by 2,000 plurality, was indicated in reports available today from yester- days special joint primary in the Eff teenth Congressional district. William II. Lomax of Fall River received the Democratic nomination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23

i on of large circulation that received 900 letters in a contest. DO you want our daughter to marry 2 farmer?"
 Of the 1000 only six per cent replied No" .sy The advantages named are not only hany in number, but reflect most cred- ably on the character of the women rho live on Americas farms and are ringing into being our new generation farmers and "comers.'' Most men Eho attain conspicuous success in in- tustry. finance, commerce transporta- on, etc. come, as you probably know, The gIipmse given by these letters pto the worth and calibFe of agricul- iral mothers throws light. on why so tany men who make their mark spring fom the farmhouse.
 Here are a number of reasons given y the women who regard life on tho arm as more desirable than life in 1 lties:
 Baby life thrfves in the country. Growing children need outdoor life nd play. Women earn independent income on | nc farm. Al.S Farm woman's complex responsibili- les develop mental activity.
 our-of-doors develops body and mind nd tones nerves.
 Farmer and wife are automatically lome and business partners. Farm family is unit in the work nd pleasures.
 Country life is necessarily community fife and unselfish.
 Good living always assured, though beans are moderate. I Family has fresh and abundant food |hl the year.
 Chiidrenelearn laws of reproduction IIaturaily and cleanly. Kindness and gentleness developed by hre os dependent young life.
 Farm life gives a womaW opportunity lPr constructive occupation.
 Children early learn the deep value f honest labor.
 Divorce in the country at minimum. Crime in the country at a minimum. dissipation and frivolity at mini bum in the country.
 Natural balance of work and recrea- lon building good character.
 Farmer is integral factor of the na- llon's progress. se
 Children grow up with their life work. Proved that larger per cent of world kaders were country bred.
 Real neighbors found in the country md true neighboring develops best force f character.
 Opportunity for any and every kind lf study is open to farm children.
 The families of small incomes can I've like kings, on the farm; this is true democracy.
 No matter; what happehs the ground
 always there for a new start.
 Farmer and wife "boss their own busi4 uess." e- 70 ,&. The farmer is coming into his own Iacc in the affairs of the state and HaJion. Good roads, education. have, made he farm the only place on earth to bake a home.
 People as a whole are more devout in he country.
 Farm-bred men make. better husbands han city-bred men, as a rule.
 On the farm the home Is the center If all operations. Farm life turns out boys and girls of lractical business ability.
 Children learn to assume responsibil- ty as early as they learn to play.
 The best of educational opportunities low within reach of practically all Iarm folks
 If husband dies, woman can go right n with the business and keep her fam Iytat home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
RICE MARKET

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22-Rough rice steady; sales none; millers' re- ceipts, 20,62O; clean rice steady; sales. S75; Honduras, 6%c; 35 Japan at 4Sc; 2,45S Blue Rose, 25 1-160257sc; 501 Caro-. linas at 5ss @5 15-16c: 2s5 Edith at exc; 643 second heads, 8A@4Ac; 512 sscreen- ings, 2 T-16@2%c; 320 fortuna. 6@63sc receipts, 400 pockets. Bran and polish unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23

T q difficulties a n d hardships. < Those who should know farmers best are, naturally, farmers wives. We'll, what do they say about life on the farm7
 Ninesy-four per cent of them regard fife on the farm as preferable to life in the city
 This intensely in- tefesting fact has been brought out by the Farmers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23

'Lookit," said the other fellow. "Lookit who's here"
 Half dozen young men and, women of the highest fashion entered. Now and then they passed a bottle. One girl went to sleep with her head on her escorts shoulder. Another laboriously climbed on the stage and shared dance with big buck. Hum!
 Whenever a tong war breaks out l visit Chinatown. Between times it is a place for cheap gimcracks, tourist, curios, seeing New Workers, and dirt. Everything is faked. But the fighting is real.
 Hardly a yellow face is seen on the streets. Bluecoats are everywhere. The visiting stranger is deftly patted for artillery and told to move on. China men scuttle hurriedly across Doyers and Mott and Pell, their hands clasped be hind them-that gesture seems to be the equivalent of flag of truce-and pop into doOrways that fly shut after them
 One -glimpses faces behind the dingy curtains. The bedraggled women, knowing themselves safe, lean from doorways and gossip about the war. Little Chinese children come from school with big Irish policemen guard ing them. Two or three Chinese wom- en, aristocratically slender, of a vel Jewish pallor, shuffle past on their thick soled slippers. Their pajama garb suits them. On white woman il is absurd. There come moments when these streets, ordinarily so busy, are si lent and empty.
 Here's a slice of real life. The man aging-director of a great Forty-secon6 street hotel is rich man. A well to dc westerner was introduced:
 We've met before?" said the west ern man.
 Think not" said the hotel man.
 I'm not apt to forget the only mar who ever chucked me out of hotel, said the westerner.
 It happened when the hotel man wal the bouncer for a fifty-cents-a-nighi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23

fat kinds, $s.25@1O5O; beef cows and canners 10 to 15c higher; bulk of cows $S.7504.5O; most canners S2.3542.75; bo- ioKna bulls largely $3.50@3,75; fat bO- lognas, $4; top vealers, $1050; bulk, $10.l0910.25; top yearlings, $1210.
 Sheep; Receipts, 2,000; fat lambs, strong to 25c higher; bulk sales, $13.75 Q14O0; packer top, $14; few heads to pitchers, S14.25; culls largely $9 good light mutton ewes, $5.50Q6.60; heavy, $4Q5.
 Estimated receipts for Thursday: Cat tie, 5000; hogs. 10000; Sheeps LOCO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23

lGVGC II1OOn dHO PIuC gull AhC unny enough. We rose to go. place on Sixth avenue. A scrambled egg joint, he called it. The westerner was then a bum. Not that the rising young business man objected to buns, but this one did not have the fifty cents.
 The ohly athletic contest to which no suspicion of dishonesty can possibly be attached may have a moratorium de- clared. Tammany Young, gate-crasher, plans to leave for tour of the south ern resorts.
 "I'm going to Miami first" said Tammany. I've got my dime"
 During his absence One-Eyed Con- nolly will crash gates alone, uninspired leading an assault on the adjacent bar rier. Their percentages seem to be about the same, for no sporting event is held in New York lacking the unpaid for presences of Messrs. Young and Connolly. They represent two widely i different schools of gate-crashing 1 thought. Mir. Young is sartorial mas terpiece He runs somewhat heavily to hues, but they never clash. Whereas Mir. Connolly affects cap and the sprouting whisker. MT. Young main- tains bitterly that MT. Connolly is not true gate-crasher:
 "He works," is Mir. Young's sheer at his rival. Sells programs. I'll crash gate like a gentleman or not at all.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
NOTICE
Water Consumers

residing in Germania Park, POwderly, ParkIawn, Sunnyside and Riley Sta tiOn, water will be cut off to make connection from $500 p. m. to 12:0O a. m. Thursday, October g, 1924.
 BIRMINGHAM WATER WORKS co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
DYER 90 PER CENT DF RURAL WIVES PREFER FARMS
,OOO Tell Why They Re- gard Country As Most
 Desirable
sy B@c. FORBES

By BIC. FORBES Do those who live in the country Iet more out of life. than. those of us Tho live in the cities? Farmers, constantly, tell us of their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-23
NAVAL STORES

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 22.-Tur- entine firm, 7sc; sales, 253; receipts. 73; shipments, 736; stocks, s2,260.
 Resin firmS sales, s11;579; receipts, 561; i; hipments, 6,099; stock, los, ,717.
 Quote: B to K, $6.2o; M, $6.25; N. $40; VIC, $7.10; wv, $7.6O; x, $7.7O.