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, 1924-01-03
Commissioners are
Preparing Budget

Tho Board OF County Commission
ors. with every commissioner pres
ont. mot this morning In a session
that promises to run over into to-
morrow. FOR tho purpose OF prcpar-
Ing a budget covering tho various
Items OF expenditure during the en-
suing year.
No definite action had boon taken
by the Board up to noon today.
, 1924-01-03
S22.9SS.7S ~s3O.aO7-7h

Iotai $~SE,3oo.l f3O,9O1.T
Ihis shows an increase OF 34n %
IN postal receipts over those OF 1922.
Postal receipts. as used here, include
merely the sale OF stamps. and have
no bearing upon money orders, in
ternal revenue stamps or savings
certificates etc. sold.
Marriage licenses issued by the
county clerk also show an increase
OF approximately onc-third over the
record. For the years 1921
n ls22, 60 licenses were issued
n for 1923, 50 we're issued. These
apply to Carbon county as a whole
rather than to Rawlins. however.
, 1924-01-03
Elks Dance Was
Very Successful

Tho dance given at the Elks Hall
on Friday night last was a very
enjoyable affair although there was
not Ms large a crowd present as had
been expected.
The second dance In tho series Of
i've which tho Elks Dance Commit
toe In giving will BIO held on Friday.
January 18th.
, 1924-01-03
Saratoga Man Dies
At Hospital Tuesday

Gus Peters. who has been In tho
Memorial hospital for the last threo
weeks ms u medical case. died New
Years bay. He gave his address as
Saratoga, but hospital attendants
declare that he is virtually unknown
there as efforts to locate friends
we're but partly successful. Tho body
rs being prepared for burial at tho
RaAmussen Undermining Pnrlon.
, 1924-01-03

AS 500 as the legal requirements
for the issuing of this additional
bond issue have been checked up
the City Council will pass an ordin-
ance ordering the issuing of the
Bonds.
The legal requirements should all
be completed within the next couple
weeks and the money paid into the
city treasury for the bonds.
, 1924-01-03
Mrs. Mike Healy Ill
At Memorial Hospital

Mrs. Mike IIcaly was taken TO tho
Memorial hospital Monday opening
icriou8ly m with pneumonia. Hos
pital authorities state that tho pa
tiont is getting along nicely and
that II is believed that tho danger
point Ia her Illness has boon passed.
, 1924-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Il. Good are
spending the week In Denver and on
Saturday last Mrs. Good underwent
an operation OF her throat. In that
city. The operation. though n very
dclicatc one. was entirely suscoss-
ful and Mrs. Good is convaiecsing
nicely and Will soon DO able to re-
turn home.
, 1924-01-03
hatfield GASSER BROKE
LOOSE FRIDAY MORNING
CREW Of WORkMEN HAVE Been BUSY DURING PAST
WEEK ENDEAV0RING To AGAIN Bring
Big GASSER UNDER CONTROL

About three o'clock last Friday morning employees at the
Hatfield well were awakened by a terrific report from the vicinity
of the big gas we'll which has been shut in since the middle of
November
An immediate investigation was made and it was found that
the pipe leading the gas to we'll No. 2 had blown up and that
the gas was escaping from the four inch opening. The force of
the gas bent the top of the casing to almost a As degree angle
and blew out one corner of the derrick, leaving the rig standing
, 1924-01-03
Patrol Dance
To Be Given Jan. 10

Tho Patrol OF korc'n Temple IL
sending out invitations for nm In
formal dance to be diven at the Ma
sonic Temple on January 10Th.
These Patrol dances arc rccogniz-
cd an being among tho best held IN
the city and there will undoubtedly
be q large crowd there.
Mualc will b. furnished by Brand
los Orchestra.
, 1924-01-03
HAS MUCH FOR
Which TO THANK YEAR 1928
Growth OF RAWlNS DURING The PAST YEAR HAS BEEN
REMARKABLE BOTH AS REGARDS new CONS7RUC-
ton AS WELL AS INCREASED POPULATION

The Year 1928 has been ped;1 1924 challenges ms Is the umet Tor cehng up. -,
VIVA has Ravins to- say for herself pleading frh her continued place in the sun? What
beer her progressed Turing the year so recently passed, what her lack? 10 men and Wonen,
who through ASSOCIATIONS commercial or associations. sMa, have come to know ad believe in
city the message is plain. 1t is bitw with enduring fhrcl into the on or more new bua,
ds h,oph the erection of nearly one and half hundred new homes that. spell nothing 50
inch as thew Smell hope for the community and hrf future. This message appears in the air of
nmIn msrertv worm y everyone connected with thee commercial Development this regon
tE I nops SHINY # amearsi Importantly in a ceiling of civic consciousness that has lately ap
, 1924-01-03
Palace Candy Co.
Improves Kitchen

Further improvements At the
rxiarc Candy store have Just hem
mAdo. Thsse include Alterations 10
tho kitchen. suitinE that depart
mnt to the better manufacture Of
candles and confectlons.
, 1924-01-03

Chns. Lytlc returned early IN tho
week from Colorado and New Mex.
leo whore no spent the holidays with
relatives.
, 1924-01-03

been built or well under WayJ
IT is safe to say that far more than
las families took up residence here
during 1928.
This bears out reports from ac-
surveys of population made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

see some houses in flames, although there appeared to be no general con migration.
 "The river bridge was demolished, ex- cept for the footpath, which was still standing. People were running about excitedly in the streets, some of them with injured hands and legs. Many had been pinned under falling buildings and trees.. " s "one wall of grocery had been de- molished, and the merchandise was scattered over the street. We saw a moving picture theatre which had col lapsed. The balcony had fallen across the doorway. Whether anybody was in the theatre or not do not know. Some men were trying to chop through the balcony to reach any injured who might be inside.
 We left this scene of desolation and retraced our steps to-. the car. Driving back to Bay Village, we overlook number of refugees who came pouring out of the city few minutes after the storm struck NJ ,s
 One of these was man who said he owned four-family apartment house which had been wrecked. Two people were found buried in the debris, he said.
 we met man hurrying toward Lorain, who besought us for news. He said his wife and family were in the. wrecked area. Ambulances and auto mobiles were rushing storm victims to the Eiyria hospital"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
DAIRYMEN VISIT
 MODEL PASTURE

TALLADEGA, Ala, June 2S.-Spec- ial.-Several dairymen from Jefferson County were guests of the Talladega chamber of commerce Friday on an in- spection tour of Talladega pasture lands. The visitors arrived here at noon, having driven through from Birmingham in automobiles. Lunch was served at the Talladega cafe. The visitors were taken on an inspection tour of the pastures of Hugh F. Mo Elderry.
 Mir. McElderry gave a talk on the methods he uses in the care of his pas lures and John Higgins, agricultural agent of the Central of Georgia railroad also gave a talk on pastures. The yis- itors started home late in the after noon, The entire party was loud in praise of Talladega, especially for its new water, good roads and pasture lands.
 The local reception committee con- sisted of T. D. Boynton, president of McElderry, Dr. 0. l.. Salter, P. S. of the Talladega Creamery, MT, Phil 4lpcI OA Luo dEIn DuTcduS anu w.. IL Coker, county agent,
 In the Birmingham delegation were J. H. Sellers, s. L, Brewster, B. V. Gain, c. F. Ferguson, George O, Da- wis, D. A, Chambers, Hugh Praytor, B. c, Bibb, J. A. Thompson, s. F, Thompson, J. D. Pope, D, W, little, W. R. Rich, J. 0. Lowery, county agent, J. F. Lilies, county agent O. B.. Roe, W. A. Berman, Mir. and Mrs, Will liam F, Franke, H, K, Mcknight, O. J, Pardue, R, W. Kirk, R, H. Tar brough, R, D. Robertson, V, G. Clayton, and J, K, Spradley,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
EFLN'S STAND DN DEFLATION ! E SUSTAINED
Policy Laid To G. o. P.
 Actually Was AdvOca- N ted By Democrats
Staff Correspondent

F MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK;. June 28.--Condemna- ton of the 1920 "deflation" policy of the federal reserve board, expressed in the platform adopted tonight, was ot- . fefed by the resolutions committee as a Ayelief for the farmers of the west who
 Are bankrupt, and who believe that the Rpclicy was responsible for their plight. M The policy is referred to as the re-
 publican policy because it was advo-
 eated in the republican platform of
 1a20. Actually, however, it was put
 into effect while Woodrow Wilson was
 in the White House. It was advocated
 by D.. H. Houston, then secretary of
 the treasury, and W. F. G. Harding snf Birmingham, governor of the federal
 reserve board, an appointee of Presi' tdent Wilson.
 q At a later date the policy was de- zended by Senator Carter Glass of
 Virginia, who succeeded Houston as ; secretary of the treasury. The demo-
 crsts, by adopting the plan condemning 2 fhe policy, moved against the candi- , Aacy of Senator Glass, who is regarded
 as . dark horse" of considerable DO:
 tsntiality. <
 .v Likewise the convention sustained the -Dpposing attitude of Senator J. Thomas Eef1in of Alabama, the chief senatorial critic of the deflation policy. Senator Hef1in was on the stand as the plat form was read, and was visibly de- lighted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

the behest of compromise and surren- der, we strike Woodrow Wilson down, anew, remind you that once before he was stricken down by his enemies but that his soul went marching on and will go marching on because it Is the voice of America and all the world.
 T ask that we march on with the soul of Woodrow Wilson, incorporate in the league of nations"
 Again at the conclusion of Rabbi Wise's brief address, many of the dele gates stood and cheered while Senator Pittman, of Nevada, arose to close the the committee majority.
 The senator began his speech by de claring that many of those who had fought side by side with\ Woodrow Will son, and were as loyal to him as Sec retary Baker, favored the referendum proposal as the practical means of at- taining the ends they desire.
 "When he attempts to say by infer ence," he continued, "that those who signed the majority report are desert ing Woodrow Wilson, he is saying that no intelligent man will believe. We fought for the league of nations and we still believe in 1t. We are fighting, not to keep out of the league, but to get into the league. It Is only a question of method.
 eve made the league a party issue In 1920, and what happened? We drove away from the league all of the great republicans who had been In ia. vor of It. They loved their party bet ter than the league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
10 DEAD AT PEORIA
Scores Injured As Storm Sweeps Up.
 per Mississippi Valley

q kr%- AsA~1DADSAkRA eSAANJ
 CHICAGO, June 2S.--More than a dozen deaths are believed to have re- suited from a severe wind and electrf- cal storm that swept the upper Missis- sippi Valley early today. Scores were injured, many seriously, and property damage running into several million dollars has been reported.
 The storm was most violent at Pc oria, ILL, where it took the form of a tornado. From that vicinity, ten deaths have been reported, while news has been brought from Fort Dodge, Iowa, despite the utter collapse of wires, of three fatalities there. Other cities and towns reporting heavy dam age and many persons injured includes Des Moines, Omaha, and Gatesburg, and o'Quawaka, Ill. Train service throughout the affected area has been brought almost to a standstil.
 The tornado, sweeping along the IIli- nois river at and below Peoria, sank numerous houseboats and wrecked sev- eral warehouses along the east bank. Three deaths from drowning in Taze- we'll county have been reported.
 Worst In History
 The wind hit Peoria with the force of an explosion after an hours vivid and terrific electrical display. The storm was the worst in the city's his tory, according to M. L. Fuller, gov ernment weather bureau observer. The wind reached a velocity of 62 miles an hour and came from three direc- tions.
 Hundreds of houses were unroofed, many brought down and streets and basements flooded. Witnesses told of automobiles being lifted from tho pave ment and carried onto sidewalks.
 The tornado's path over Peoria was approximately two miles wide and passed over East Peoria to Cloverdale, Washington and Morton. No word had been received from Morton tonight, and 1t was said that some, persons may have been killed and injured there. The roads from Peoria to Morton are al most impossible, physicians and nurses having been despatched to that village on horseback
 All Iowa StOrmswept
 Four persons are known to have been seriously injured at Des Moines. Reports received there from other Iowa cities told of excessive damage, but the storm, having swept virtually the entire state and having crippled lines of communication, an accurate survey of conditions was impossible.
 The wind struck Omaha with q velocity of 51 miles an hour, but prop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
Convention Once-Overs
By 1T. '. Phillips

There is a plank on the Philippines. It would either give the Filipinos their freedom or give them Lieut.. Woods stock market tips.
 There is one also on Alaska. It would give Coolidge back to the Alas kans. More electricians are guaran- teed Hawaii.
 The platform welcomes women to the party conventions, but leaves them there. It does nothing to end their suffering. They must continue to lis ten to seconding speeches. There is plank for deeper waters. The delegates here feel they are in deep water enough already.
 There are two blanks on the league of nations. It is mentioned by name. The majority plank is 50 full of loose language 1t would take professional diver to bring up the body.
 Secretary of War, Baker, has a mi nority report. It is for the Wilson league and for the early cremation of Senator Lodge.
 The delegates will vote on a choice here as in the case of the klan blanks. The outlook for a pleasant weekend is practically null and void.
 There is a plank in favor of ending wars. All wars but the one now in progress on the convention floor.
 
 Something has got to be done about getting the convention to open on time. The party is hopelessly split on the question of whether 9 30 o'clock 2. m., ss ss----------z-s 4 sG4 .2fsE, { tNine.thirty was the hour set for to- ddy's opening. It opened one hour late. This reflects the party's attitude on the railroads.
 None of the delegates reach any ses- sion on time. w. J. Bryan evidently is not the only delegate who had. his watch stolen since arriving in New | York.
 As the afternoon session. opened, the band played; Tt May Be for Years and It May Be Forever"
 Richmond P. Hobson, the man who popularized swimming in Cuba waters, was among those on the platform. He is one of the nations great heroes. You have to be a great hero to sit through a national convention.
 The delegates were in a state of panic when today's session opened. Chairman Walsh appeared with tele- phone directory. They thought he was going to start naming more candidates in alphabetical order.
 The burglars and gunmens union passed resolutions at 9 o'clock tonight thanking the democrats for holding the convention here. Every policeman in New York was stationed in or around Madison Square Garden this evening. This left the rest of Manhattan open to such assault and battery as\it may see fit.
 There will never be any klan on Man. haitian Island. At 9:30 the burglars ! had stolen all the sheets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

erty damage there was not believed 70 be great. sl At Monmouth, m-, 5000 txses and all telephone wires were blown down. Two inches of rain fell in an hCuf, flooding the streets. OQuGwzkn .@sAs left in the scme condition by khesEsln and. wind. ST < = Trains Are Marooned
 : Train No. 10 on the AfchfBuxi~ sTD. peka & Santa Fe railroad, repox1ea aouk near GatesbuFg, Ill, was delRyed. bwsa washout near Knox station and tcmfKli1 was slowly making it's way to GhAcagp over the tracks of another EnA Ckf- cago, Rock Island 6 Pacific t1aRns haa being held up by scores of waah0Ga. one at Grinnell, Iowa, being miie and a half long. The Chicago, MftwaukeS.& & St. Paul line encountered dmilaR dEskSs iculties at Tampa, Iowa, as did Inc Illinois Central at points bs&waSm Cherokee and Fort, Dodge, Iowa, rs-
 The heat wave in the scnEsask has pushed north and northeast, wpmfh. CT reports show, spreading acsoB Knsp Eas and Missouri Maximum tnnrpasR- lures in Kansas yesteBdRy exca9AAd 100 degrees, The tempexatuEw h&Ee continued seasonable further noEzAs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
ALI things considered

The factors which must be considered in the selection of piano are different according to the needs of different pur- ehasers.
 The master pianist makes demands upon his instrument that test perfection to the utmost. A tone that Is sonorous and pure, carrying power that makes practicable themost delicate pianissimo, an action that combines power, Ightness and elasticity-these are but a part of all the qualities which the artist seeks. And 1t seems conclusive that, for the past fifty years, nearly every pianist of the first rank has preferred the Steinway.
 There are users of the piano other than the masters whose needs must be considered. In musical conservatorles the lasting qualities of the piano are of extreme importance. Here, too, the Steinway Is supreme. The director of a great conservatory has said, "The Steinway, In addition to It's singing quail
 You may purchase netV SteinsUGy
 10%, and the balance tVil be e4
 Used pianos 0ccebte
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 2S.-The ques- ton whether or not the cutting of holes in sheets for human heads should be . party issue, kept the democratic national convention on the fire today and tonight.
 A condition close to a state of war existed at a late hour. It looked like the best war since the late European one.
 To call the klan by the name or not to call the klan by name? was the question. The democratic plat form as submitted did not mention the klan by name. Substitute plank offered by the governor of Maine, mentioned it by name. and de- nounced it by name. And then the fun began. A new civil war was on between the north and south at late hour. ... E
 The outcome will tell whether the democratic party is to continue as a party, or as boxing club.
 It was democrats versus demoklea- gles.
 The showdown came after Homer s. Cummings, foreman of the jury, had caused recess of the session in the morning, because no agreement could be reached on the wording of the klan plank.
 MT. Cummings told the delegates he had not had any sleep in four days. This proved he was not present during the nominating speeches.
 He sent the delegates back to their hotelsr while thS jury resumed sessions. ]. It was understood at that time that the count stood six for acquittal and six for life Imprisonment.
 The attitude of the delegates was that If the jurors didn't reach a yer dict by afternoon 1t would be discharged as a committee of platform makers and arrested as committee of traffic vio- lators.
 MT. Cummings reported back at 1 o'clock He submitted the platform. It was so hot 1t took three men to han uAS,s4bs UAEP OuAuA14uBD UCkAu, ICAQlOEs It burned his fingers and turned 1t over to Senator Pittman of Nevada. The Senator's arms caught fire at the wrists. He, turned it oyer to Pat Halli- gan, Mir. Halligan has voice like a train caller.
 He is reading clerk of the House of Representatives. This makes him fire proof.
 The platform denounces nearly every thing. It mentions everything by name except the klan and nearly every body.
 Senator Fall. is mentioned by name early and often.
 The Grand Oil Party is mentioned by name in every paragraph.
 Everything can get mentioned by name but the klan.
 The platform has an aviation plank. It favors fewer sky writers and more scout planes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

other automobile that had stopped there. It had just come from Lorain, and from the man and woman in it we learned there had been a cyclone. They said they had seen houses top bling over, roofs flying through the air and trees and telephone poles moved down as by a huge scythe.
 Their car was a sedan. They said the wind blew 50 hard that they had to sit on the floor to keep it from shattering their ear drums.
 HalteG By Wreckage
 "We drove on toward Lorain until a tangle of fallen trees made further progress impossible. Then we got out and walked on into the town.
 'sThe town was wreck. had an uncanny feeling as looked at houses without roofs or without walls, as I picked my way through the wfeckage in the streets.
 ''I recall looking into one house from which the front wall had been blown out. I could see into the bedrooms, and noticed that the beds stood there neatly made. In the distance we could
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
SHOALS SECTION BEING ANALYZED
 BY ALABAMIANS
Dedication Of Waterpow- CT To Fertilizer Pro-
 duction Commended
lsaff Corespondent.l

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, N. T., June 28--It is. the subject of debate by Alahamians tonight as to the merits of those sections of the platform which deal with Muscle Shoals.
 The offer of Henry Ford was not in dorsed. As pointed out previously in this correspondence, all hope that the Ford offer would be indorsed was abandoned when 1t became known that members of the committee from the east and west were determined not to praise by. name an individual who has called and it still calling for the cleo tion of President Coolidge. W
 Favor Fertilizer Clause
 The platform accords with the idea of Alabamians in that it dedieates all waterpower necessary for the purpose to the manufacture of fertilizer Re- garding Muscle Shoals, in particular, it protests against limiting the amount of power to be generated there to fertilizer production. By inference it declares that all power necessary to produce all fertilizer the market will consume shall be used in fertilizer production.
 Such provisions of the platform please the Muscle Shoals contingent, inasmuch as Ford can come under them and the Alabama Power company can not. Nothing is said regarding the distribution of surplus power.
 Federal Act Sustained
 The provision that the nation shall retain title to all waterpower sites sus- tains the federal waterpower act, un- less it be decreed by the Supreme Court that the act, by its yerbiage, does not retain such title for the na- tion. The agreements of Mir. Ford, be- fore the Senate committee on agricul- ture contend in the recent hearings that, the so-called ''recapture" clause of the act is snare and a delusion, and that all sites leased in Alabama by the Alabama Power company could not be recaptured.
 If this contention is sustained, then the democrats will have condemned the act and the 100-year lease on Muscle Shoals as required by Ford, will not be subject to the time worn criticism that it is contrary to law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
NEGRO INJURED

John Henry Turner. negro, was in- jured Saturday night at 6;S0 o'clock when his cdr colllded with another said to have been driven by Allen Morris.
 Turner was immediately removed to the Fraternal hospital, where his in- juries were found not to be serious. The driver of the other car is said to havel jumped out and run.
 Ipyestlgst Is being made b9I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
sPINGARN MEDAL AWARDED

Coos To Holland Hays For Years
 Highest Achievement
 PHILADELPHIA, June 2S.-The SpinSarn medal, awarded annually to an American of African descent for the highest achievement in some field of human endeavor. gOeS this year to HOl- land Hays, singer, former soloist with the Philadelphia, Boston and other sym. phony orchestras, who Is now on q con- cert tour of Europe.
 The medal win be presented to a representative of HayS tomorrow night ct q bnass meeting of the National As- Eocis laa for tBe AavaneaUaa elaa's