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Seward daily gateway., 1924-05-17
GLOBE GIRDLERS CROSS PACIFIC SAFELY

Paramshiru Island, Kuriles, Saturday, May H-Blazing trail through skies neuer before inuaded by airplanes, three United States Army airmen reached this ice-fringed remote bay bor- dering the arctic at 11:35 o'clock this morning, thereby gaining for their country and themselues the distinction of being the first airmen to haUe crossed the Pacific ocean by planes.
 In negotiating the hazardous hop of of 878 miles from Attn Island, Lieuts. Smith, Wade and Nelson fought through chill Arctic winds and snowstorms that uhipped their faces with cut ting icy grains. Two planes landed in Kashiwa- baro Bay and the third descended to the water of the nearby harbor of Shimshu.
 Todays trip was one of the most spectacu- lar and hazardous euer undertaken by q group of airmen.
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PRESIDENT STUDYING
 OVER JAPANESE BILL

WASHINGTON, D. C., May IT. Chairman Johnson of the immigration committee brought up at the House conference report on the Japanese ex- clusion of July first that Coolidge is considering one of three courses re- garding his action on the bill. One to sign the bill without comment; sec ond to sign it with statement ex- pressing his disapproval on exclusion ssuch manner that might offend the Japs and thirdly, return the bill with a message indicating disapproval of the bill with the inclusion of the ex- clusion provision but approved if it was eliminated.
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MILLIONAIRE BOOTLEGGER
 SAYS PAID JESSE SMITH
 OVER $25O, O,OO0 PROTECTION

WASHINGTON, D. C., May IT, George Remus, millionaire bootlegger and inmate of Atlanta Pen testified before the Senate Daugherty commit tee that he paid Jesse Smith two hum dred and fifty thousand dollars for protection and declared that James Linton whom he described as "spec- ial assistant to the Attorney General" helped defend him and was paid nine thousand dollars. Remus said he paid Smith enc to two dollars a case for permits to withdraw whiskey from a string of distilleries which he purchas-
 cd Def re prohibition became effective.
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COMMITTEE FAVORS HOWELL
 BLAkELEI RAILROAD BILL

WASHINGTON, D. C., May IT. A subcommittee favorably reported to the Senate interstate commerce com mittee the Howell Blakeley bill to SUD- plant the Railroad Labor Board with a system of tribunals containing rep resentatives of the roads and employ ees ;th an amendment which would authorize the President of the U. s. to throw the roads into a receivership if strike or lockout threatened trans portation.
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Mabel Normand May
 Not Have To Testify
 In Horace Greer Case

LOS ANGELES, May IT, Mabel Normand may never have to testify on the charge against Horace Greer former chauffeur who shot Courtland s. Dimes, the Denver oil man New Years night.
 As result of legal conference Dimes may be permitted to leave the courts jurisdiction on his own recog- hilton. A conference resulted in the postponment of the case until May 19 or June 16 with an agreement to use Mabe's testimony for preliminary hearings if the actress is not present when the trial starts.
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GOVERNOR BONE AND
 WIFE ON WAY SOUTH

Governor Scott c. Bone and wife arrived in Seward on the Admiral Watson en route to their home in Juneau. Governor Bone attended a railway meeting in Seward and went over the railway in Manager Landis car to Anchorage, taking. the Admi- ral Watson back by way of Kodiak. They will leave on the Admiral Wat son tonight.
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WIFE OF KAISER VISITING
 RELATIVES IN GRIEZ

GRIEZ, May 17-Princess Hermine, wife of the kaiser arrived here yester- day to visit relatives. She said her husband had made no plans to visit in Germany, although he is longing to return to the fatherland. He thinks there is not yet chance to do so and the Princess thinks it wise to remain away for some time yet.
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International Good Will
 Only Assurance of Peace

NEW YORK, May 17-Cultivating international good will is the only good assurance of peace, Secretary Of State Hughes declared in an address accepting a gold medal awarded him by the National Institute for Society sciences. "All depends on making and cultivating friendships and this dis tinctively American policy will be fur thered by a demonstration of our sense and justice and respect we sho1 tc the feelings of others"
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KMAUEA VOLCANO
 THROWS ASH MANY
 FEET INTO THE AIR

HILO, Honolulu, May 17-A great .cloud is hanging over Kilauea volcano which is pouring flood of rain thru red ash eruptions from the pit as a result of two cascades, two hundred feet high from the crater A blood red torrent poured down the bluff into Halemaumau crater, the first time such and exhibition was ever recorded. The red ash cloud ejected from the crate Fit covers an area of twenty five miles.
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EIGHT BROADWAY WHITE
 LIGHT CABARETS CLOSED

NEW YORK, Eight Broadway white light district cabarets were closed for one year under paddock according to provisions of the prohibition law. They were the Palais, Royal, Plantation, Moulin Rouge, Montmarte, Balmoral Club, Barn Club, Four Hundred Club and the Club Royal.
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Shipping Board HuIls
 Sold to BroWnsfield

SEATTLE, May 17-It was an- nounced that twenty nine former ship ping board hulls in Lake Union were sold to Capt. J. c. Brownsfield of Se- attle and associates by the Equitable transportation of Frisco. They may be converted into floating canneries for salmon ill Alaska.
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CAPT. BARTLETT LEFT YESTERDAY ON BEAR
 FOR ARCTIC REGIONS

SEATTLE, May 17-Captain R. A. Bartlett left yesterday on the Revenue Cutter Bear on his mission for the Geographic Society and the navy. He said the Shenandoah will beat all oth- CTS to the Pole because the United States controls all the Helium Gas; and declared the English would be will ing to do it first with their R 31 but the Shenandoah would leave before any foreign ship could get ready.
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HOPPE GIVING EXHIBITION
 IN SAN FRANCISCO TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO, May 17-Champ Willie Hoppe, premier billiard shark of the world is now playing exhibition matches with Jake Shaeffer at Wright billiard emporium here. He was dem onstrating to the movie camera some of his difficult shots. Shaeffer now leads Hoppe.
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TAKEN INTO
 CUSTODY BY AUTHORITIES

NEW YORK, May 17-Henry White an Englishman, with dozen Aliases, sus pected of several of the city's sen- sational unsolved crimes, including the murder of Dorothy King Keegan, was taken into custody. According to an alleged confession he drugged Mrs. Howard Johnson, wife of the play wright and robbed her fnine thous and dollars worth of jewels in she Hotel Astor last Monday night.
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HOUSE PASSES BONUS BILL OVER VETO OF
 PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

WASHINGTON, May F. Party lines vanished today as the House passed the bonus bill over President Coolidg's veto Supporters of the bill piled up a comfortable margin over the two-thirds majority neces- sary. The. defeat of the bill is now up to the Senate whege a closer vote is expected.
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HEN..T FORD BE REF FREE
 OF INDIANA AUTO RACES

INDIANAPOLIS, May 17-Henry Ford is to be referee of the Indiana Auto races. Ford, who drove race cars when the speed attained was around G5 miles an hour, and somewhat above that, vii lhave complete charge of the races after the start is made, if he car ries out the duties of Referee.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY FINDS RACE OF
 BLONDE CHINESE IN ASIA

WASHINGTON D. C., May 1.-The National Geographic Society's expedi- tion into the unmapped Kansu region of Asia have found a blond Chinese race with curly hair and discovered women who dc not talk unless spoken to and make no reference to their age. Divorce, scandal, and lectures on pub lie morals were an unknown quantity among the natives.
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FIVE THOUSAND LAPS WILL SAIL FOR ]. s.
 BEFORE BARS DROP

TOXIC, May 17-A canvas of steam ship offices shows that at least five thousand Japanese will sail for the United States before July first at which time the Japanese exclusion act becomes effective.
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MRS. GOULD LOST RIGHT
 OBTAIN HUSBANDS PROPERTY

PARIS, May 17-Edith Kelly Gould lost her suit in the French courts to obtain half of the property owned by Francis Gould, her husband, in France the court ruling that she had not right to share the property because she mar ried an American
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Bandit Makes Off With
 Twenty Thousand Cash

GAINESVILLE, May 17-A bandit entered the office of the American Express Company at High Springs and escaped with the payroll of the Allan tic Coast Line. The shipment was es- timated at twenty thousand dollars. The bandit escaped in an automobile.
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Georges Carpetier Training
 For Fight With Gibbons

CHICAGO, May 17-Confident and in superb condition Georges Carpen- tier the French Light Heavyweight boxer began training in Michigan City for his match on May thirtieth with Tommy Gibbons.
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NO INDICTMENT RETURNED
 AGAINST KENNETH ROSS

May 17-The report of the Cumber- land county grand jury today did not contain an indictment of Kenneth Ross MacLean, former Bowdoin student and his wife Nettie May, both of Tacoma, who were arrested for manslaughter after the death of their baby daughter.
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DEFENSE PLANS
 BE WORKED OUT SOON

WASHINGTON, D. C., May IT, National defense plans as worked out by the War Department during the last four years, will be subjected on December 18th to defense test, thru sixth annual anniversary fthe Bat National Demonstration day on the tie of Saint Mehiel, also Pershing's birthday, who reaches the normal re- tiring age of 50 or that day.
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P0ST0FFICE CLERK
 R0BS. GOVT. MAILS

SEATTLE, May 17.-Walter E. Pe- tersen, clerk of the postoffice in this city, was arrested today for robbing the mails. which he claims he did in order to get out of the clutches of the loan sharks.
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ENGLAND ELIMINATES
 BELGIUM FROM MEET

TORQUOYA, England, May IT, England eliminated Belgium from the 1924 Davis cup competition, winning three out of five matches which made up the first round of the contest. Brit ain will now play Spain in the second round.
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TY COBB WILL FIGHT
 WITH NEGRO ATTENDANT

PHILADELPHIA, May 17-Before the game with Detroit today Ty Cobb said he had fight with negro at tendant whom he declared had insult ed him.
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COOLIDGE WINS OREGON
 OVER HIRAM JOHNSON

PORTLAND, Or, May 17.-Calvin Coolidge carried Oregon over Hiram Johnson at yesterdays primaries by four to one. McNary was renoml- hated for the Senate.
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TILDEN EXTENDED INVITATION
 TO PLAY IN CALIFORNIA MEET

SACRAMENTO, May 17-Wm. Til den was extended an invitation to par ticipate in the Central California lawn tennis championships, May 30, 31 and June 1, at Sacramento.
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IMMIGRATION BILL
 GOES TO PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The i'm migration bill providing for Japanese exclusion was handed to President Coolidge today for his signature or veto.
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PAT HARRISON SELECTED
 TO OPEN CONVENTION

NEW YORK, May 17.-Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi has been se- lected as temporary chairman and the leading speaker of the Democratic National convention.
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HARRY F. SINCLAIR WILL
 WORK ITALIAN OIL FIELDS

ROME, May Hilary F. Sinclair has been granted concession to work Italy's oil fields the official commin- que announced today.
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Department of Justice
 Will Continue to Push
 Case Against Wheeler

WASHINGTON, May 16.-The de- partment of justice will continue pro-
 cecdings against Wheeler under in dictment in Montana despite the sen ate exoneration of Senator Wheeler.
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Madison Square Garden
 Be Razed to the Ground

NEW YORK. May 17.-Madison Square Garden will be torn down and a 2S-story structure will take it's place.
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RODGERS BILL PASSED

WASHINGTON, May 17-The Rod- gers bill to reorganize the consular service was passed by the Senate last night and sent to the President.
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BRITISH FLYER AT CALCUTTA
 SHANGHAI, May 17-McLaren the British flyer encircling the globe ar rived at Calcutta today.
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Plot to Kill Forbes
 Discovered by Police

PHILADELPHIA, May 17-Caesar Tata is held by the police in connec. tion with plot to kill Forbes, for mer head of the veterans bureau.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS NOT TRUST

CINCINNATI, May 17-That the Associated Press was not trust bat a trustee, recognized it's responsibili- ties in telling the truth respecting worl ha7 renings was declared by NJ. Stone. former General manager of the Association and now councillor in talk to members of the National As sociation at their annual convention here
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BARON TOURNALLES DEAD

PARIS, May 17-Baron Des Tourn- alles de Constant, one of the propon- ents of International disarmament is dead here.
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ATTU, May 1.-The Army World encircIing flyers hopped off today from Attn Island for Cape Kronatski, Kamschatka, and expect to reach that position a few hours later from Cape Kronatski. The aviators will fly down the peninsula to Paramu- sharu, the northernmost island of the Japanese Kurile group.
 CORDOVA, May 17-A wireless op- orator at St. Paul said the Haida in formed him the three army globe en- circling planes had not left Attu yes terday morning, but the men were working on the machines Lieutenant Smith who is on the Haida out in the Harbor said the weather has been very severe forcing the Haida to sea in sixty mile gale with rain and snow. The planes held to their moorings very nicely. The flight personnel is quarter ed in shack ashore. The Catherine D. left Port Moller at five A. M. on Wednesday with Major Martin aboard for Bellingham. Captain Knight suggested to Martin that he catch faster ship at Ketchikan but he replied 'he would let we'll enough alone and stay with the ship with which he started" Knight said he agreed with him heartily though he thought he was superstitious. The Catherine D. will stop at Akutan, King Cove and Squaw larbor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
Listening In On Foe

course, the big place might have been able to find it for me, but my husband had tried all of them and they had failed. So I went into the little shop where we buy our magazines and asked whether the young woman there thought she could get the book for me.
 We've known this Miss Johnson in the little shop for some time. She goes to our church and lives on the street right back of us. She said she was through q publisher friend of hers, and l was delighted. would have q regu, lar surprise at last. There's always let him know about what I intended to give him for birthdays and Christ masses. Other years I have given him silk shirts and things he had to try on or ought to select the patterns of, but knew he wanted this book and l was safe in keeping still about it."
 "You were certainly a foxy lady," said Miss Davis. Were you able to get t?"
 q didn't get on its track for ever and ever so long," said Mrs. Dunbar. ''But finally learned that the book was there in the shop"
 T told you the small stores are the best" exclaimed Mrs. Forsythe. Its good idea to try them first after this. They haven't such a lot, of business that they forget all about your order, and besides they are anxious for your custom, as they need the money"
 "Your husband must have been de- lighted with your surprise" said Miss Porter. Did it come in time for his birthday"
 ~He is very particular about never letting me know what he is going to give me-" sighed Mrs. Dunbar. "He thinks so much of getting to the mOrn- ing of the day still looking forward to the gift, so l was glad he got it in time"
 "You don't seem very enthusiastic about the surprise" said the hostess. Wasn't he pleased?"
 "Of course he was pleased" put in Mrs. Clark. Didn't she say he loved surprises above everything? The sur prise of it is more to him than the gift"
 1.-Two weeks before his birthday, ,' said Mrs. Dunbar, dOlefully, The was coming along our main avenue when he met Miss Johnson. She said she was on her way up to the house, but he could save her walk if he would be kind enough to take a message for her to his wife. He was to tell me that she had secured that law book wanted and the price was to be $6. Of course, Mir. Dunbar gave her the money and then came in to deliver her mes sage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
STAYING QUALITIES

SS IV anything that I can get for
 him." remarked Mrs. Dunbar at the club porch party. 'So when he does I exert myself to find ii"
 'sThe things person can't get for himself are usually rather high priced" declared Mrs. Clark. You can buy the ordinary things, of course, but every now and then there is something that you'd just love to have and you wish somebody would be kind enough to give it to you, because it is way beyond your means" a .4,>, .--z..-4. .,- #,.s- ,.,
 "It was a book my husband wanted this ,time," explained Mrs. Dunbar. "One that was out of print and very difficult to get; a law book such as most stores do not carry"
 'It is very hard to find book that is out of print" said Mrs. Drake. II have been looking everywhere for one called 'Mariorie,' that read years ago and it can't be found anywhere
 My husband remarked one day that he had been hunting. for ages for this particular book" Mrs. Dunbar went on. "And said he had finally had to give it up as a bad job. didn't say thing about it, wishing to surprise him, but I made up my mind that I'd find that book somehow. It happens that my husband loves surprises. And he is al- ways surprising me in the loveliest ways, so was particularly anxious about this book.
 "Well, worked hard trying to find that book" continued Mrs. Dunbar. "I don't know how many stores I went into nor how many secondhand places T hunted up before decided to apply at little shop out in our suburb. Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
MRS. ROBSON ENTERTAINS AT HER HOME AT CJLLNfAN

Mrs. J. R. .=Rosson was hostess at 8 lovely bridge party at her hOma in Cullman on Tuesday afternoon, honor ing her daughter, Mrs. Fred B. Cooke of Clarksdale, Miss.
 Vases of midsummer flowers were used as decorations in the living rooms where the tables were arranged. ..
 At the conclusion of the game Miss Freda Hartung was given the prize for high score and Miss Roberta Kin ney received the prize for second high
 A two-course luncheon was served late in the afternoon.
 The guests included: Mrs. Leigh Tal- iaferro, Mrs. Bert COe, Mrs. G. Scott Leeth, Mrs. G. W. Hanlin, Mrs. F. B St. John, Mrs. Andrew KelhOffer, Mrs Lute Hays, Mrs. Al Richter, Mrs. A. A. Griffith, Mrs. John Dunlap, Mrs NJ. l.. Robertson, Mrs. William, Grif- fin, Mrs. Dudley McAdory, Mrs. Elmer Sufferer, Mrs. Phillip Hartung, Mrs L. l.. Otwell, Mrs. Eugenia Schwarz Mrs. B. c. Kinney, Mrs. Roscoe Scott of Birmingham, Mrs. E. H. Gentry Mrs. Hershel Morrison, Mrs. John Buchman, Mrs. D. o. McKoy and Misses Freda and Elsa Hartung, MaybelIe Thompson, Mattie James, Roberta Kinney, Fanny RossOn and Frances Cooke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
We Women
"HOw My Wife Has Helued Me-

"HOw My Wife Has Helped Me" 1 A IL magazine readers are familiar | A with the work of Howard Chand- Ter Christy, one of the most not able of living illustrators. But he is concentrating on portrait painting now and millions of his old magazine friends are lamenting his retirement from that field.
 Mir. Christy has drawn some pictures of arl0zing merit and distinction. He now paInts his masterpiece in the form of the f flowing testimonial to lis wife :
 Mrs. Christy, I feel, is at least one half of me, and, of course, the better half. You ask me how she has helped me. That is a very delicate question. I tell you that she is part of me and you want me to say nice things about that part of me.
 "I think no man, can really accom- plish anything unless there is someone who will share in the happiness of that accomplishment and lead him on through his wish to make that person S share in his accomplishment a big one. This has always been so with Mrs. Christy.
 A man wouldn't do stroke if he had to do it only for himself. Why should he? If were single wouldn't do anything. have to have something and somebody to work for. Mrs. Chris ty takes a greater pride in my work than do.
 ''She gets the prettiest models she can for me. She is never foolish about them or jealous. The girls like her better than they do me. I have used my wife as a model hundreds of times
 Since our marriage in 1919 l have been away from her for two evenings We don't have any fun unless we arc l together. We are so in the habit of being together that one day when stepped into the elevator of this apart. ment house the elevator girl said, 'Is Mrs. Christy not well todsy?' I laugh ed and replied Mrs. Christy cannot go to the barber shop with me.
 She is level headed and old-fashioned She is an excellent cook. She cooked 6 pie for President Harding when I was painting his portrait and he said, n that pie tastes as good as the cool looks I'm going to eat the whole thing myself We spent three weeks at thu White House, when I was painting President Coolidge's portrait and while there she cooked three pies. The Presi dent said they were the best he evel
 Mrs. Christy is a fine critic, quicl and observing. She's great on cOlol combination. Will Hays calls hel B. B. meaning Big Boss, and she ii that and a great deal mOre."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
MRS. HANNA HOSTESS FOR VISITORS

Mrs. Milton Dannelly, who has re- gently come to Birmingham to make her home, was honored Thursday when her aunt, Mrs. T. A. Hanna, entertain ed with bridge luncheon compliment ing her.
 The guests were Mesdames Dannelly, David Crawford, Will Kennon, Frank Barker, Robert Bowron, Edward Ward Smith of Boston, Edwin Robertson, Robert Nelson, James Lee, Reese Dun woody, Joe Sledge, John Newsome, Joe Franklin, Tom Baine Locke, B. T. Brown, A. T. Simmons, R. B. Evins, J. s. Pevear, H. H. Cobb, Charles Woodruff, Jack Parker, Sterling Ed. wards, Percy Brewer and Winston Rob erts, Misses Daisy Holt Huffman, Lau' rie Oden, Margaret Lewis, Emily Smith and Lucille Morgan. iiauu j.