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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
PSYCHIC UNRAVELS = BATHING MYSTERY
Crime, However, Existed Only In Imagination Of Questioner

NEW YORK, March Miss Flu genie Dennis, phychic and clairvoyant aof Atchison, Kansas, has solved one of New York's most baffling mysteries &aA murder in a lonely shack on Staten Island in 1920 of Carl Hostetter and SNatalie Willis-but unfortunately the seEine has never been reported to the police, and so far as is known, exists SnlE in the imagination of the person l}whos asked the 19-year-old girl to de- scribe 1t. : Ns f The girl several days ago demonstrat- ed her powers to high police officials. describing secret police documents and contributing cluesin unsolved crimincal Ceases, with an accuracy which was said < to have astounded her interrogators. ,N Asked about the Hostetter- Willis
 case Miss Dennis was able to describe sthe principals, found jealousy the mo- tive, disagreed moderately with the version advanced by her questioner, and then gave the approximate name and description of the murder.
 < She was not told that her clairvoy- 4arlce had added to police records a
 brand new unsolved mistery while the police themselves showed no signs of an intended inquiry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
SALTS FINE FOR
 ACHING kIDNEY EYS When Back Hurts Flush Your Kidneys As YoE Clean .@ Your Bowels

;, Most folks forget that the kid neys, like the bowels, sometimes get sluggish and clogged and need . flushing occasionally, else we have backache and dull misery in tine kid ney region, severe headaches, rheu- matic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, Sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder disorders.
 You simply must keep your kid pcys active and clean and the mo- Ient yol' feel an ache or pain in the Sidliey region begin drinking lots o1 water. Also get about lour ounces of. lad Salts from any good drug a g.ass of water befDrs breakfast for a few days and your kidneys w!ll then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes anu lemon juice, combined with Iith1a, and is-intended to flush tlcsged kid neys and help stimulate tl.-m to ac- livity. It also helps "tutralize the acids in the urine so they no longer :. frrkate, thus helping to relieve s bladder disorders.
 lad Salts is ineXpensive; makes a -ieli ghtful cfferNesccnt lithia water .lcds ink which everybody should take > LOW and then 10 help keep their kid- 32ys clean.
 s,5 4 we'll known local druggist says he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks Iho believe in trying to correct Kid Aey trouble while il is only trouble. Sy all means have your physician "XamIne your kidneys at least twice year. Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
I lPROHk OFFEMH6 '
 FACING PADlOCKS
New Orleans Fedsrsls apdge Wants Bonds Put Up I 2,

NEW ORLEANS. March .I.-1-Judes Rufus E. Foster of the federal district court, announced Friday :. following q with Louis H. Burns, United States district attorney, that he would apply. the paddock law in all cases where proprietors of places con yicted of violation of the eighteenth amendment failed to furnish bond re- quired by the court.
 The Little club, the Moulin Rogue, the Cadillac, Picking Rest and about twenty other cabarets, restaurants and soft drink establishments, will be af- fecfed By Judge. Fosters announceinent anless the proprietors appear in court within ten days and furnish bond of S1, 900 as 4 guarantee that no more iiduor will be sold in the establishments.
 Operators of the places cited were convicted and fined last fall in, sums yaryirg from $25 to $500, but were allowed to continue their. business with the understanding that they would put a bond as required by national prohibi- 'tion art 5-> -... as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
REVENUE BILL IS I
 BEFORE SENATE|
Measure Referred To Finance Committee To Be Opened
 For Revision

WASHINGTON, March 1-The revenue bill will be taken up by the Senate finance committee the latter part of next week, under plans an- flounced today by Chairman Shoot. ?.
 The, bill was formerly reported to the Senate from the House today and referred to the finance committee, be! fore which it will be opened again for revision. However, not more than a month is expected to be consumed in consideration of the bill in committee. During that time bearings will be held, but Senator Shoot is considering limit ing each trade or industry to one spokesman.
 Bending study of the Longworth compromise income tax schedule, voted into the bill by the House, Senate leaders were reticent in expressing opin- ions of the plan which provides for a maximum surtax rate of 371a per cent on the amount of incomes in excess of $200,00 4 Vi Some Predict Deficit
 3 At the same time considerable in terest, both in the Senate and EfRusse was evident concerning the govern ment's estimates as to the amount of revenue assured by the bill as it now stands. In proposing the compromise schedule, MT. Longworth said it would not result in treasury deficit, but ough,aealculations made today by some republican members of the House ways and means committee, who are advo- cates of the Mellon income tax plan, indicated that the bill as passed by the House would reduce revenues about $46O. 100000 next year. The treasury surplus estimated for this fiscal year by the treasury was $350,000,000. :.
 Three amendments to the revenue bill have been introduced in the Senate. Senator Curtis, republican, Kansas. submitted an amendment to increase the admission tax, making a 20 per
 cent tax apply to all theatre tickets selling for less than dollar and more than 20 cents, and 9 per cent tax on tickets above $1 in cost. The reve4 nue obtained from such a tax, Mir. Cur. tis said, would be used entirely for payment of an adjusted compensation act for World war veterans. Proposes New Schedule '%
 Senator King, .democrat,' Utah, in- trodueed an amendment proposing an entire new income tax schedule with normal rates of two per cent on in comes below S4,000, the same as, pro, yided by the House, and 8 per cent on incomes above that amount He would start the surtax rates at one per cent on the amount of incomes in excess of $5,O0O and not in excess of S6,OOO, and graduate the scale upward by two- tenths of one per cent for each addi- tional $1,OO0 to maximum rate of 3S per cent on incomes over $175,0OO. The amendment also would increase the personal exemption to $3,OOO for single, persons and $4,000- for heads of families. ,..
 Senator Shields, democrat. Tennessee. in an amendment, would allow deduc- tions from gross incomes of all sums paid for medical purposes, proposal which was turned down by the House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
= A Vn ' " ! f Ruptur!ed
 !. .fly This Free
Apply. It. to Any Rupture. old or Recent, Large or, Small. and You Are on the Road That Haa
 Convinced ThOuMands.

Anyone ruptured. man.. woman or child shotilI write at once to. W. g. Rice. 56SC Main, st.. Adams. N. r.. for free trial gof his wonderful stim- ulating applica ton. Just put it on& the rupture and the muscles, begin to tighten; they begin to bind together so that the opening closes naturally and the need of support or, truss or applia ance is then done away with, Don't neglect to send for. this free trial. Even if your rupture doesn't bother you. what is the use: of wear ing supports all your life? Why suffer this nuisance? Why run the risk of gangrene and such dangers from q small and innocent little rup- ture, the kind that has thrown thou sands on the operating table? A host of men and women are. daily running such risk just because their ruptures do not hurt nor prevent them from getting around. Write at once for this free trial. as 1t is certainly a wonderful thing and has aided in the cure of ruptureS that were as big as a mans two fists. Try and write at once, using the coupon below.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
COTTON STATISTICS
 COMMITTEE NAMED
To Investigate Methods And
 Offer Suggestions ....

WASHINGTON, March 1.-Secre- tary Hoover today announced, the ap- pointment of the special committee, planned at 6 recent conference with senators to investigate methods used and offer suggestions for improving the ways and means of compilation of cot ton statistics. The committee will start work immediately.
 Mir. Hoovers action resulted from a controversy originating with an all lcged error in an estimate of cotton stocks made by the census bureau last August. Some senators claimed that the figures were 100000 bales in error and that it gave wrong impression of the cotton situation.
 The names of the committeeman are 5. W. Kilgore, Raleigh, N. C.; Daniel C. Roper, former internal revenue com missioner; W. S. Rossiter, Concord, N. H.; Lewis I. Dublin, president of the American Statistical association. New York, and Walter F. Wilcox of Cornell university.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
OIL ISSUES HOLD
 INTEREST ON CURB
Condition Believed To Have De tered Further Crude Advance :.

NEW YORK, March 1.-Most inter- est in the curb market this week was concentrated in the petroleum issues, which continued affected by the results of the oil Investigations. It was gem orally understood in the street that the conditions created had been effec- tive in deteETing further advances in crude oil, wkich had been looked for henause of the sknown strength of the industry. At times, some <, of the Standard Oil issues were under pro- nounced pressure and sustained sub stantial losses, but toward the end of the week 6 firmer tone developed, based on confidence, that the Investigations would soon loose forge as deterring
 Prairie oil indicated the general char acter of the trading in this group, first declining from PAS to 2271a; and, after rallying 10 points, was again under pressure. r'--
 Industrial issues were fairly well held the greater part of the week. Dubilier moved up more than three points to a new high record. There was heavy trading at times in Radio common, which made an advance of < to AS, and the preferred also made fractional gain. Motor stocks were heaVyf t | =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
CASES
 LAND MONTHLY, HOUSE E TOLD
Rum Runners Do Busi- ness On Huge Scale,
 Says Official

WASHINGTON, March 1.-One hundred thousand cases of liquor are smuggled into the United States month iy by rum runner off the Atlantic and gulf states, according to coast guard officials charged with preventing the traffic.
 This estimate was given to the House appropriation subcommittee, which drafted the deficiency bill reported to- day allotting an additional S1J,S53 ,9S9 for the coast guard service.
 In testimony before the subconlmit- tee February 25, Commander Root of the service, who had made "a special investigation of rum running activities, said:
 3"The smuggiers' high sea force at present consists of 34 steamers and 132 sailing vessels, ranging in size from 8 tons to 5000 tons. Some of these vessels are capable of speeds up to 19 knots. The majority fly foreign flags. The auxiliary craft for making shore contacts consist of several hundred gasoline driven craft, about 30 per cent of which are good for 9 knots.
 1o3 Put Out Of Business
 Wltn our present Iorcc, uurlnS tne past 9 months, we have been able to put out of business, by capture or otherwise, 153 vessels. We have cap tured the equivalent of 31,000 cases o; liquor and caused to be jettisoned under fire an amount estimated at 20.000 cases.
 "The so-called rum row off New York is maintained ostensibly as a good business proposition, but princi- pally as a diversion to hold to that point the attention of as many coast guard vessels as possible"
 Commander Root said the smugglers maintained advance stations at St. Johrs.. New Foundland: St. Pierre Miquelon. the Azores, Bermuda and the Bahamas. '-.
 The smugglers maintained a. "brib- cry fund.-" he added, "and have a shore organization for obtaining supplies and making contacts"
 Commander Root said q report from Havana showed that from 1000 to 1O,- 900 cases of liquor were shipped week. ly to Baltimore and New York con- cealed in cargoes of sugar. Extensive smuggling activities also exist in the Puget Sound country, he said, adding
 ''Not only is the traffic increasing, but also the audacity, skill and cour- age of the enemy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
Wonderful for Piles
 Says Peterson
'T Guarantee My Ointment"
 Saws Peterson--Every Box of It.

If you received every week dozen or more letters like the one below from people who have suffered torments from piles wouldn't you feel happier than the nan whose life is devoted to money St&bbing:
 "Gentlemen-I have been suffering with fistula for the past twenty years During that time l have tried numer- ous remedies, all of which have failed.
 Two months ago I determined 10 give Pcterson'S Ointment Il. trial. The improvement was so decided after using one box. that I have continued, and on the completion of the fifth box am now entirely cured.
 This is written with the view of passing along the good word to other sufferers Very truly yours, ChaS. r. Caswcll, 2S2 Third street. Albany, x. '. ..
 Besides piles Petcrson's OipRRient Is just as good for ulcers, old and run ming sores. boils, eczema, itching skin, sore feet. prickly heat, sunburn. chaf- ing, cuts, burns, bruises, scalds and scores of other ailments us any drug gist anywhere will tell you. 35c, G0c, S1.00-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
FORD ADHERENTS l READY: FOR FRAY
Alabama Delegation On Qui Viye For Fight Begin ming Tuesday
tMUscLE SHOALS BUREAU)

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Ala bama delegation, because Muscle Shoals will be the order of business in the house beninning Tuesday, is on the qui vive tonight. The idea obtains that the bill of Representative Mckenzie O: Illinois providing for the acceptance o: the Henry Ford offer, will be put across. Conservative members of the delegation, however, disagree tonight with the belief of more enthusiastic members that the result is 'cinch." The provision requiring the government to: appropriate for the construction of Dam number 3, and for, the construc- tion of another steam auxiliary plant tn take the place of Gorgas, sold by Secretary of War Weeks to the Ala bama Power company for a large sum of money, seems to be the greatest ob- stacles in the way of success.
 There was another cause of uneasi- ness tonight when it was learned that the democrats sof the New York dele gations were wagering. Representative ". B, Oliver of Alabama, leading the fight forsthe Ford offer, appealed to the New Workers late tonight, and will again appeal tomorrow and Monday. The result of his appeal is problematical at this time. rs -. . '... AlmOn Optimistic
 Representative E. B. Almhon of the Muscle Shoals district, is highly op- tismistic, while the margin by which success will be achieved is not as great as MT. Almon thinks, in the opinion of the more conservative members. It is generally believed that the Ford offer will prevail. The Alabama Power company is redoubling it's previous ef- forts against the Ford offer. .,.
 There will be ten hours of debate. The vote will be had, it is believed, Fri day or Saturday. Telegrams were ad- dressed tonight to every democrat who is absent to report to Washington inn mediately. :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
BIG RIVER STEAMER
 SPEEDS SOUTHWARD
Vessel Bringing 300 Ohioans To
 See Mardi Gras

NEW ORLEANS, March 1.-The Mississippi river today assumed in spots an aspect such as it has not known since the seventies. while the huge river packet Cincinnati. of the Louisville and Cincinnati Packet com pany, was covering the last stretches of run from Cincinnati to New Orleans tonight with 300 passengers for the Nardi GrGs carnival. While the Gin clnnati was steaming the last few of the l,5lo miles, the steamer George Prince. was leaving Natchez for New Orleans
 The Cincinnati. new steamer and said to be the largest that ever piled the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, left Gin cinnati February Is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
3,2OO WOMEN
 TAKE PART IN
 CARD SOCIAL

CLEVELAND. o., March l. Thirty-two hundred women ''sat in" on what is said to be the worlds largest card party here today. Fight hundred tables covered the entire vast floor of the public auditorium when the bridge games started.
 Proceeds will go to charitable work,
 Even if floor space was available. no more players could be taken care of, Mrs. J.. Powell Jones, secretary of the club. said.
 We have about all the card tables in town" she said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
FARMER HAS TERRIBLE
 EXPERIENCE.

7 Tsdon't think anybody ever suffered more pain than I have. Twice I was operated for gall stones and third op- eration was advised. A friend in Iowa wrote me how he was cured by taking Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. I took a bottle on his advice, with good results and have also taken the full course. My pains are all gone. and feel am permanently cured." It removes the catarrhal mucous from the intestinal tract, and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. ,, One dose will convince or money refunded at all druggists.-- Adv, t--H .'s; .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
VICTORY IN TAX
 ACTION CLAIMED
Democratic Policies Vindicated, Says Statement Of Ma
 : tional Committee

WASHINGTON, March e1.-The tak bill as 1t passed the house yesterday was described in statement tonight by the democratic national committee as having vindicated, with some excep- tions, the policies advocated by demo- cratsa The statement follows, in part i:
 5"fhe action of the house of repre- scntatives on the various proposed in ternal revenue reduction . measures shows complete repndiation of the policy of Secretary Mellon and Presi- dent Coolidge to the effect that the sec retary of the treasury should draft in secret a tax reduction in every detail coupled with a subsequent demand by the secretary, and president upon Con gress to pass the bill without compro- mise. : -. -
 ''On a direct vote in the house the Mellon plan was overwhelmingly re- jected by vote of 261 to 153, the ballot showing that G2 republicans. had voted against it. while. many republi- cans voted for 1t only because they knew in advance it had iio chance to pass.
 Point Way To Reduction t
 In the second place., democrats in the house. pointed the way to tax re- duetion by offering bill along the line of which any measure possible to pass must be framed. The Longworth- La Toilette compromise measure finally adopted is almost identical with the democratic proposal as to certain of its principles, while the principle under lying the higher surtax provisions of the LonGworth-L -LaFollette measure is repudiation of the principle under lying the Mellon higher surtax pro- posals and they, at the same time, tend to accomplish the principle of the demo- cratic surtax plan. f !
 The only two points of substan- tial difference between the democratic and the Longworth- La Toilette meas ures are, first, that the democratic pro posal raises exemptions from .$1 900 and $2,500 for single and married per sons, respectively, to $2,000 and $3,000, thereby releasing about S00,000. per sons now required to make returns without being subject ito taxes from making any returns, and releasing from further taxes nearly 1,6O0, 900 persons whose taxes are SIP each. The. Long worth-LaFo Toilette measure gives iio relief as, to. these exemptions, although these millions of persons Are already paying most grinding tariff tAxSs. 1
 The second point of chief differ ence is in the higher surtak, brackets due. to the flat 25 per cent reduction of each surtax rate under the Eongworth- LaEollette plan. Under the. opera tion of this flat 25 per cent reduction method the Longworth plan would ef- feet substantially larger reductions of the taxes of between 15,0O0 and 10000 of the biggest individual income tax payers with incomes in excess of $46,- 900 and upward, than the Garner (democratic) plan.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
TREASURY TO ISSUE
 NEW CERTIFICATES

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The treasury has begun consideration of the March 10 financial program involving an issue of certificates of indebtedness to meet maturing obligations and pro vide funds for current governmental ex- penditures. Although officials will not venture an estimate of the amount of certificates which it will be necessary to issue, the general belief is that it will not exceed $400,00OOOO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
LOUISIANA. WOMAN X, SEEKS HOUSE SEAT
Daughter Of Champ Clark Can
 didate To Succeed Dupre

NEW ORLEANS, March, 1.--Gene- vieye Clarke Thompson today an- ilounced her candidacy to fill the un- expired |, term of the late Represents tive Dupre of the second congressional district of Louisiana and in a plat form submitted to a caucus of "old regular" democrats, declared for a tariff on sugar and rice, development of river and waterway. traffic, flood control and a reduction of federal taxes. s.,.
 Mrs, Thompson, is the wife of James M. Thompson, publisher of the New Orleans Item and daughter of the late Champ Clark, for many years rep resentative of Congress from Missouri and speaker of the House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
GIRL DIES IN FALL
 FROM WINDOW
Daughter Of Department Store Head Dead Before Aid Arrives

CHICAGO, March Miss Ruth Hillman, 19, daughter of Edward J. Hillman, president of Hillmans de- partment store, was fatally injured early today in fall from a window of the Hillman suite ill a Lake Shore hotel.
 A night clerk found her body on the lawn in the rear of the hotel. She tied before doctors could be summoned Miss Hillman had just returned from a southern trip for tine benefit of her nao1th
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
PUBLICsDANCES: PROHIBITED AT
 x MISS. A AND M.

! sTARKVILLE, Miss, March 1. Pubic dahces at < Mississippi, A.. and M, college are prohibited in an. order, issGed today by the presi- dent; and members of the faculty.
 The action resulted, the faculty explafAed in, a statement to the students and the public, from the public, dances held, in the gymna- sium February 21-21, when, the statement said "there was such con duct on the. ypart of some of the participants in these dances as re- flected discredit upon the good name of, this college and its student, body."'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
HISTORIC HOSTELRY
 TO BE RAZED SOON
Sawyer House Made Famous By
 Last Mans Club

SALTWATER, Minf., March IA The Sawyer house, pioneer hostelry of Minnesota, made famous by the Last Mans club. and gatherings of the states early settlers, will be razed March 15, it was announced, today.
 The Last Mans club for the past 34 years has held its annual banquet. The club was formed by group of Civil war veterans of Minnesota, only three of whom survive. The last man in the organization will drink a bottle of wine, obtained when the club was started, as a toast to his. departed friends,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
STATE EXECUTIVE
 MAY GET NAVY POST GrOesbeek Mentioned As Pos
 .sibIe Successor To Denby

WASHINGTON. March 1.-Gover- nor Groesbeck of Michigan was added today to the list of those understood to be under consideration by President Coolidge for appointment as secretary of the navy in succession to Edwin Denby, who will retire March 1O.
 The Michigan governor arrived in Washington today and White House officials said it was expected he would confer with the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-02
TO LOCK OUT 4O,OOO
Employers Tired Of Threats Against
 Labor Peace

LIlNDON, March l.--Lockouts af fecting about 10000 men are to be de clared shortly by the Danish Employers union. according to dispatches from Copenhagen. They involve the metal workers. bricklayers, masons, lithos- raphers and many branches of un- skilled labor. The employers union says 1t is impossible to continue operations in the face of persistent threats against labor peace. Textile workers have given notice of strike to. begin next Monday, involving 10000 persons. V