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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
OFFICERS SLAYER
 HANGS IN GEORGIA
Warren Waters Last To Pay Pen
 alty On .GallOws

HAZELHURsT. Ga, Sept. 19.- Warren Waters, 56, white, was hanged here today for the murder of City Mar shal T. A. Hersey, here last December. Waters was the last person to meet legal death on the gallows in Georgia. the general assembly having substituted electrocution for hanging at it's last session. Although one electrocution has already taken place in this state and all other death sentences will be meted out by electricity, Waters was hanged because he was sentenced to death be- fore the electrocution law went into effect,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
ZIONIST MEETING SUNDAY

The Zionist meeting to be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Young Mems Hebrew association build ing. will be addressed by Rabbi Sol omon Katz, it was announced Friday
 While attending the annual Zionist convention at Pittsburgh, Rabbi Kantz came in contact with the leaders of the movement and is enthusiastic over the york already. accomplished. /.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
IN THE AIR TODAY
sfcopyrisht, 1924

sfCopyrisht. 1924 V1sAI, Cincinnati, 309 Me w ters, Midnight, E. 8. T.
 wSAI Midnight Entertain, CTS,
 WEAF, New York, 492 Meters, g. P. M., E. s. T.-vincent Lopez and his orchestra. KFI. Los Angeles, 469 Meters, 8 P. M., P. s. s. T.-Pasadena light opera company.
 KSD, St. Louis, 546 Meters, 8 F.. NJ, c. s. T.-Program from the Missouri theatre.
 KDK9, Pittsburgh, 326 Meters, 8 P. M., E. s. T.-Concert by the Westinghouse band. WEAE, New York, 492 Meters, S:3O P. M., E. s. T.-Intimate glimpses of the around-the-world flyers in sub-Arctic lands, by Otis Peabody Swift.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
COURT OVERRULES
 FORBES DEMURRER

CHICAGO. Sept. 19.-Federal Judge ( lrperter today overruled demurrers of t3i. Charles R. Forbes and John w. thompson, Chicago and St. Louis con tractor. to the indictments charging them with conspiracy in connection with Ft rbes' administration as director of the et"rans' bureau. The trial date wil De set October IL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
NEGRESS IS FINED
 AND GIVEN I8O DAYS Seriously Injures Youth While
Experimenting With Car

Susie Hart, negress, driver of an automobile, which struck and seriously injured Howard $. Banton, while the youth was sitting on the bumper of car parked in front of his home, Friday was fined $100 and sentenced to 1SO days by Judge Henry J. Martin. Her license to drive a car was suspended for a year.
 The negress told police officers she was trying her hand at driving on car which her husband was considerinG, buying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
rENIES FAT REMOVAL

NhN TURK, Sept. 19.-Maurice s5codn n, general counsel for B. F. Keith aid today that he was not the NauI Goodman reported in Battle Cteel lich., dispatches as New York theater owner, who had undergone an operati' there to have forty pounds of tat re. owed from his waistline. Mir t'oodma n says his physical proportions III no 'ense would demand such an op- atat,nn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
ROARS
 WITH WARS DIN
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state that North China is in state of terror over the news that General Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian leader, has carried out air raids on Shanhaikwan, held by jwu Pei Fu's forces, and that he has bombed the town. . Ships were stEuck by these bombs, it is said. 4
 Chang claims that he has captured two more cities in Chili, but the names of the cities are not given in dispatches received here from the north.
 An adventurous aviator who is due for an unscheduled thrill will arrive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
DEATHS

John D. Killian-The body of John D. killian. 4S who died at 7:15 o'clock, Friday night, in local nfirmary. will be shipped Saturday morning by Lige Loy to York, Ala. for burial Mir Xii Han is survived by one brother, J. w Killian of York. Ala, and two sisters, Mrs. William Alexander of Blocton Ala. and Mrs. J. W. Arlington of York.
 Maxine BOxer-FHneral services for Max inc Boxer, the 1o-year-old daughter of Mir and Mrs: Lee Goldschmidt of New York City will be held in Birmingham Monday morning at the home of the chtld's uncle. Melvin Schwarz, 2422 Tenth avenue. south. The child died at the GoldSchmidt home in New York and the body is being shipped south for burial. Another uncle Julien Schwarz, also resides in Birmingham. c. A. Benson-The body of c. A. Benson. 39. who died at local hospital Friday. will be sent to Thomaston. Ga, by Brown for burial
 G. w., Creei-The remains of G. W. Creel. who died at q local hospital Friday morning. were shipped Friday afternoon tO DoEsR .AIa.e feg. Ruxiel kE, REowns .S.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
WOMAN TAKES POISON

Mrs. Ruth Laney, 24, 3312 Twenty fourth street, north, who took poison Friday night, will probably recover, attending physicians reported. The bot tie containing poison was picked up by mistake, the young woman told po- ice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

here Monday. He is Major Zanni, now at Hanoi, has been given special permission by Lu Yung Hsiang to land in the war zone here. {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

LENINGRAD. Russia, Sept. 19.- Russia is sending a scientific expedi- tion to Wrangel island headed by the well-known goedetic expert, Davidoff. chief of the navigation department of the Russian government for the Far East. It is already suggested here that the island is rechristened Lenin Is- land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
ROBBERS TAKE SAFES

Adopt Serve-YOurseh Plan In New Or.
 leans Piggly Wiggly
 NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19.-Band- its adopted the serve-yourself idea here sometime last night and helped them selves to the safes in two Piggly Wig gly stores, hauling them away in a truck. One safe, blown open, was found beside a highway on the out skirts of the city early today, but no trace of the other had been discovered this afternoon. Cash in the two safes amounted to approximately $25O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

ticn on putting down the movement headed by Chang Tso Lin, who is ad vancing on Pekin from Mukden. s... {. bent sk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
"$7,5OO POLICY"

YEARLY. pays s2s to $50 weekly ss fVyAl many as IS weeks. covering .ceidents. {. AyH;ndi MEbcA ;' .,.mns. :. sion required. Covers hespitaI benefit. and sur. gscns lees. NOT A SUPERIOR POLICY IN U. g FOB THE PRICE ws cover go H.tss. ss FENDER" 2l6 Brown Marx Blde., Birmingham.
 Ala tCail today if intstssted) Main 47s7 or 1902.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
REVOLT HELD CRUSHED
Pekin Government To Concentrate
 Agafnst Chang. -l

PEKIN, Sept. 19.-It Is learned from semi-officiaI sources that the Pekin government considers that the southern rebellion is crushed, and that 1t intends immediately to concentrate its atten-
Evening star., 1924-08-23
Free Buffalo.

It has been said that a very large
number of persons will accept any
thing offered them if no charge is
made. Getting something for nothing
is especially attractive, but the ex-
perience of mankind is that few of us
get anything for nothing, unless get
ting stung is getting something. Here
is the case of some buffaloes of the
Yellowstone Park herd which the De-
partment of the Interior has offered
to give away because the herd is get
ting too large. Requests for buffalo
are pouring i'm on the department.
They come from people in cities, who
seem to think that free buffalo will
help to make them happy. Requests
come from persons who have not the
means to pay the grocery bill Of a
buffalo and who have not the kind Of
lodgings a civilized buffalo needs.
The Yellowstone buffalo are not the
Buffalo Bill kind of buffalo. They are
Government raised and have been on
the Government pay roll ever since
they were born. They will probably
eat out of mans hand and are indis-
posed to do any work. It is not clear
why so many people want to adopt a
buffalo. 1t would not be convenient
to q buffalo to keep him in q dat. A.
Evening star., 1924-08-23

or hard to conceal than a human
corpse. If it is cast into the water ii
will eventually be found and almost
surely identified. If burned in a fur
mace it can be reconstructed" by
those parts which resist combustion.
AS Luetgert, the Chicago sausage
man, found to his sorrow, it cannot
be wholly dissolved by chemicals. AS
Mrs Mack, the New York murderess,
learned, it cannot be chopped up and
thrown into the river in bags at diff
ferent places without an almost Ger.
tain reassemblage. Burial is about
all that can be depended upon, and
that is difficult. In recent case in
the Middle West the murderer tried
to conceal his crime by burying the
body of his victim in concrete, and
yet the crime was disclosed.
In the matter of identification
however mutilated the body, dental
records are of the greatest value.
deputy who was slain, it is believed,
for political reasons, was definitely
proved by this means, although many
weeks had elapsed since the crime.
Nature seems to protect her crea-
lures thus by interposing difficulties
in the way Of the criminal. The
science of detection has greatly ad-
vanced in consequence of the persist
pDpa pf evidence of crime due to this
natural law.
Evening star., 1924-08-23
Phineas Fogg and Mrs. Chandler.

After Ph1nedS FORS, with his faith
| full servant Passepartout, started out
| on his dashing journey "round the
world in so days" in Jules Nerne's
| thrilling novel of that title, he re-
| membered that he had left the gas
burning in his apartment in London.
This recollection gave him a great
deal of annoyance on the long and
adventurous voyage, with its hair
| breadth escapes and it's ingenious de-
vices to save time and prevent delay
But Mr.. Fogg won a wager that far
more than paid for the gas bill.
After Mrs. George Chandler of
sion steamer for a moonlight ride on
Lake Erie the other day she suddenly
remembered that she had left the
gas burning under the hot-water tank
in the basement of her home. She
was to be gone only a few hours.
The consumption of gas would not
be very great. But the water would
| be superheated and an explosion
might result. 1t was out of the ques-
tion to turn the steamer back to
shore. But she was equipped with
radio sender, and so Mrs. Chandler
simply sent out broadcast message
asking the Cleveland fire department
to send around to her home and turn
out the gas as means of preventing
d possible disaster. The message was
received and obeyed, and when Mrs.
Chandler returned home that night
all was well.
Phineas Fogg had no radio and was
out OF cable reach most of the time.
Moreover, there were other difficulties
in the way of getting speedy word
back home to turn out the gas. A
great many years have passed since
Jules Verne wrote Round the World
in Eighty Days''-52, to be eXact-and
many changes have occurred, but
none quite so remarkable as in the
matter of communication. With the
radio and flying machines. the world
has shrunk to comparative insignifi-
canoe since Phineas Fogg hustled
around in his allotted time.
Evening star., 1924-08-23
An Intense Public Interest.

\ veritable riot occurred yesterday
in the courthouse at Chicago where
young Leopold and Loeb are await
crime. The people crowded into the
courtroom until it was filled, and
others were held in d dense throng in
the corridors and on the Stairways.
The mob broke bounds and for some
time could not be controlled. 1t was
with the greatest difficulty that order
was restored and the court proceed
ings could continue. Many people
We're injured. clothing was torn,
women tainted. 1t was altogether a
most disgraceful scene.
What was the cause of this rush?
The chief attorney for the defense
was to speak for his clients, to plead
for less than the death penalty.
Known as an eloquent advocate, he
was an attraction, Il magnet for the
multitude. Many of those who
crowded into the courthouse in the
hope Of getting inside of the room
We're drawn by no more than idle
curiosity, whetted by the morbid de-
sire to be present at a spectacular
scene. Yet practically all of those in
the crowd We're destined to disap-
pointment. Many times the number
of persons who could be accOmmo-
dated in the room gathered outside
and persisted in the vain hope of
somehow getting past the guards into
an already compactly filled space.
This case has aroused public curl
osity and interest as have few others
in the history of American court pro-
ceedings. An intense feeling prevails
on the subject of the punishment
which should be given to these
youths. 1t is discussed in every house
hold in the United States where the
news is read. The atrociouS nature
of the crime, the youth of the Grim
inals, the peculiar circumstances of
their diabolical enterprise, and their
plea of irresponsibility, supported by
technical testimony of character to
challenge the reasoning of most peo-
pie, have all combined to make this
a matter of. it would seem, almost
personal concern to millions of peo-
pie.
Back of this interest lies the fear
that a sentence Of less than capital
punishment will be pronounced upon
these young men. There is apprehen
sion of a penalty that will, it is be-
lieved, encourage similar crimes and
encourage pleas of irresponsibility.
There is fear that sentence of life i'm
prisonment will mean ultimate release
of these degenerates.
These emotions to a large extent
entered into the motives of those who
yesterday swarmed into the Chicago
courthouse in a riot of impatience to
get within sound Of the voice of the
chief counsel for the defense.
Evening star., 1924-08-23
ROME OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

| dorial post, in addition to term as
| Undersecretary Of State. The United
States has no embassy of its own in
Italy. The Fletchers live in a beau
tiful and spacious apartment in the
| PalazZo OrSini. The ambassador, who
speaks French and Spanish f1uently,
| finds them of service in learning
| Italian, which he IS gradually mas
! terins by dint of hard study.
| X X X
Every American who comes to
Rome. especially the globe-trotting
| fapper, falls in love with the ma
| tional police, the famed carbinieri.
| They are the picked young men of
! the nation. In their cooked hats and
swallow-tail coats of black, richly
embroidered with silver braid, they
cut a dashing figure. They carry
cleaning swords at the side and
| businesslike revolvers at the belts
| For some unexplained reason, the
| carbinieri always travel in pairs
| They are not burdened with coarse
| duties like regulation of traffic. Spe-
cial squads of ordinary police attend
| to that. The carbinieri seem required
| mainly to patrol the streets and look
| picturesque, and they do 1t we'll
Every Italian city has it's quota of
| them. One of our immigrat ton Of
Italy would send us exclusively
young fellows of the carbinieri type
we might raise the quota. Before
| they are taken onto the force their
family records for two generations
are prObed to see If they ever had an
ancestor or a kinsman convicted of
| a penal offense.
X X X
| Rome's leading department store
| q i,,on % hrta 11a
| d'Annunzio was firing Italys patriotic
emotions at Fiume. The proprietors
| asked him to christen the new es-
| tablishment. He came to Rome and
| baptised it, "Rinascente," which
means rebirth. The Rinascente has q
| system unique in Europe, if not in
the world. For every purchase total
| ing 100 lire (now about $500, a
customer is credited with savings
! bank interest, the same as if he had
| deposited 100 lire with the house.
| Interest is paid on any purchase, no
! matter how high, but on none less
| than 100 lire.
X X X
Although Italy has outstriped Ger
many's motor industry there is
aStonishingly little automobile traffic
! in Rome. Perhaps the omnipresence
of cobbled pavements is responsible.
L
| metropolis of 100000 or 100000 than
in the average American city of
! 100000. The ancient horse-cab and
| its cabbie, who used to delight the
| heart of Mark Twain when he
| tramped abroad, still flourish.
X X X
Italy's most prominent newspaper
| is published in Milan, not Rome, the
| celebrated Correre della Sierra
(Evening Courier). It's proprietor is
Senator Luigi Albertini, one of Italy 5
delegates at the Washington con-
ference and a brave and sworn foe
| of Mussolini. The Corriere's Rome
correspondent, DR.. Emanuel, is one OF
the political powers-thatbe in the
Eternal City. He also is anti-Mus-
solini TO the core. Another Journals
tic factor in Rome is the veteran
| Comma ndatore Salvatore CorteSi, for
many years the Roman represent
of the Associated Press. There is a
Cortesi, jr., who gives promise OF
following in distinguished paternal
Copyright. 1924.)
Evening star., 1924-08-23
New York's Latest Thrill.

New York has another murder
mystery, and, most delectable of all to
the mystery lovers of the metropolis,
centering on a dismembered body.
There is something particularly fas-
cinatlng about a chopping-block
crime. In this case a man who was
last seen on the 1st of August some
where down Greenwich Village way
has been found in a cellar of house
in that region neatly packed in a gal
vanized iron box 3 feet long. IS
inches wide and Is inches deep, with
prevent detection. Nature had her
way, however, and gave evidence of
the crime. A search was made and
the body was found. A tenant Of the
house with whom the dead man is
known to have had some financial
dealings also disappeared on the 9th
of August. Here is where the mys-
terry loses some of its fascination.
This second missing person is known
to have bought unusual quantities of
plaster Of paris and tar short time
before his disappearance. Suspicion,
Of course, leaps at once to him as the
murderer. About all that is left of
the case after the first thrill of find
ing dismembered body is to find the
fugitive.
It has been often said that one of
the chief safeguards against murder
is the difficulty of disposing Of the
body Of the victim. Those who de-
Perately plot the taking of life are
efy to be balked by the knowledge
7 " &here nothing more obdurates
Evening star., 1924-08-23

man with large country place where
grass and corn grow and where there
is big barn could make a buffalo
at home. The owner of such a place
and a buffalo could talk of his pri-
vate geological park and could call in
the neighbors to see the author of the
buffalo robe. Perhaps if the Govern
ment keeps on raising buffaloes to
give away there will be a buffalo on
every farm, and the animal will be-
come as numerous in the Potomac
Valley as it was several hundred
years ago.
Evening star., 1924-08-23

Rome, which enjoys about the same
kind of equatorial midsummer eli
matte conditions as Washington, D. c..
Is deserted in July and August by
everybody, prince or pauper, who has
the time or money to get away The
Italian lakes and mountains are the
favorite resorts, along with what
used to be the Austrian Tyrol, but is
now Italian territory. Mussolini and
his ministers stick to their posts of
duty, but 1t Is an exception to find
anybody else Of importance in the
Roman social, political or business
world still lingering at the foot of
the seven hills. The ancient and glori-
ed Tiber, ito which all Romans pray
is most unromantic, sluggish and
shallow stream in these torrid days.
Generally, except for the life the
tourists, mainly American, infuse into
Rome in Summer time, it is u dreary,
though fascinating city.
X X X X
If foreigners in Rome really were
to do a. the Romans do, they would
LAY off" daily between II and for
lunch and nap. That is almost the
unfailing rule. Even great shopping
streets like the Corso Umberto / put
up the shutters and lock the doors
between those hours. Retail life only
begins to buzz in Rome after O'Clock
in the afternoon and usually goes on
until s. In midsummer numerous
shops close for a month or six weeks
at Il ime-"Proprietor and staff on
vacation" reads the common legend
Even the restaurants do that sort of
thing. Sinclair Lewis discovered a
Rome 'trattoria," which, he claimed
was the only restaurant in all Italy
that knew how to cook spaghetti. 1t
is called Alfredo, after the proprietor,
Alfredo, like couple of hundred
thousand other Romans, has locked UP
for the Summer and fed to the noun
tains, so disappointed wouldbe pa
irons are notified when they approach
his barred and bolted door.
X X !. x
Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Am
bassador to the United States, is
highly respected in Rome, which
that he may soon resign from his post
in Washington. Romans have heard
of the princes brilliant social career
at our National Capital, and rejoice
in it. They call him an ambassador
to the manner born. a man of diStin-
guished family. a brave soldier. and
in every respect an envoy of whom
the nation can be proud. Prince Cae-
tani ranks in his own country as a
Fascist and loyal supporter of the
MusSolini idea.
X x X
Overheard at a personally conducted
party of American tourists in the
Vatican galleries:
Guide-These paintings are by
Raphael. Raphael was famed among
other things. for the number of his
love affairs, of which there are SO
authenticated cases.
Fair Chicagoan-When did he do
his painting?
X X X x
Henry =. Fletcher is the first pro-
'fessional American diplomat the Unit
ed States has stationed at Rome for
many years, if not the very first. All
three of his immediate predecessors
Thomas Nelson Page, Robert Under
wood johnson and Richard Washburn
Child-were what John Hay once de-
nominated literary cuSses. Italy is
glad TO have at the Rome embassy
an American who knows the diplo-
matte game inside out like Fletcher,
now in his third successive ambassa-
Evening star., 1924-08-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Autumnal Prospect,

Autumnal Prospect.
We've had the fow'rs of Summer
hours
In their magnifcence so bright.
The good old earth has shown its
mirth
In scenes of varying delight.
The earlier joy begins to cloy;
We shall not greatly feel it's loss.
The ripened fruit our taste will suit;
So, bring alone the apple sauce.
Life is made fair by fancies rare
Born of the Maytime and the June.
The Summer glow must fade, we
know;
November will be with us soon.
If we would thrive, we must contrive
For serious need to come across.
So, take away your big bouquet
And bring along the apple sauce.