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New Britain herald., 1924-02-20
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 A number of fight fans from thi city are going to Waterbury tomorrow night to watch Kid Kaplan in actior against Billy DeFoe.
 ! Murray, the young Red Sox hurlel who has been holding out for. more jack, finally has sent in his signed contract.
 Trinity plays Northeastern Universi, ty of Boston in Hartford this evening The game is at the Hopkins street gym this evening.
 Bob Harmon of Quincy, H., has signed as an Eastern league umpire.
 "Snowshoe" Sheehan, whose athle- tic fame also extends to the baseball diamond where he plays third base for the Pirates last season, is slated for good tryout with the Corbin Red Sox this spring.
 With Wojak leaving the team, a new infielder is necessary and many think Johnny has the goods.
 Manager Tobin may have to re- arrange his infield a bit and transfer Barnett from short to third. Paul has an excellent whip across the lot and is second only to Blanchard in snap ping the pill around.
 The Aggies won easily from St. Michaels last night and again Baylock, the captain, was the high man. The New Britain boy dropped in IT points. The score was 35-16.
 Class told the story in the Moran bout. Dundee, carefully trained for the meeting, swept aside any claim that Moran might have had for a Leonard bout, by winning easily.
 Perhaps the most active fighter in tho game at present is Young Strib- ling, tho Georgia school boy, light heavyweight. Stribling fights three or four times a month and usually wins. Stribling is fairly clever but no hitter. He rarely ever drops an opponent.
 Whitey Witt of the New York Americans says that he intends 10 re- tire from the bfg show---that he play cd his last game in the recent world series. However, when spring rolls around and Whitey realizes the Tanks have Il great chance to cut into an- other world series ho will probably forget his threat of the fall 10 retire for all time.
 Charley clarkson, St. Louis golf professional, says humming n tune will cure your golf ills. A perfect golf stroke must have harmony in movement. says clarkson. This is better promoted if harmony exists in the soul Go ahead and hum and be a hummer.
 Third.basoman Rconda Of the Philadelphia Athleticssis one of the best basketball players in inc coun- try. He is 10 receive S5,000 for his winters work on a crack pro team in the east It's cinch, that is more than Connie Mack paid him for tho summer. Mack says Iliconds should be a regular next year.
 Pitcher Charley Robertson. or TO. hit fame, who promised so much in 1922 and then "fiyvered" 70 certain | extent in 1923, is expected 10 do much | better work for tho White Sox under Chance. Robertson and Kid Gleason couldn't agree very well, with the re- suit that Robertson didn't seem 10 care.
 Jimmy Jones. crack Ohio snl'er- weight seems to be slipping. Jones, over the best in the division ana considered most logical challenger 10 Champion Walker, was recently battered up badly by Morfie schlaifer in an Omaha bout Jones had "a hold on desperately to escape a knoci.out.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

Whitey Witt of the New York Americans says that he intends 10 re- tire from the bfg show---that he play cd his last game in the recent world series. However, when spring rolls around and Whitey realizes the Tanks have n great chance to cut into an- other world series ho will probably forget his threat of the fall 10 retire for all time.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

Perhaps the most active fighter in tho game al present is Young Strib- ling, tho Georgia school boy. light heavyweight. Stribling fights three or four times a month and usually wins. Stribling is fairly clever but no hitter. He rarely ever drops an opponent.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

Class told the story in the Moran bout. Dundee, carefully trained for the meeting. swept aside any claim that Moran might have had for a Leonard bout, by winning easily.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20
Bob Harmon of Quincy, H., has signed as an Eastern league umpire.

''snowshoe" Sheehan, whose athle- tic fame also extends to the baseball diamond where he plays third base for the Pirates last season, is slated for good tryout with the Corbin Red Sox this spring.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20
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New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

The Aggies won easily from St. Michaels last night and again Baylock, the captain, was the high man. The New Britain boy dropped in IT points. The score was 35-16.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

With Wojak leaving the team, a new infielder is necessary and many think Johnny has the goods.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

Manager Tobin may have to re- arrange his infield bit and transfer Barnett from short to third. Paul has an excellent whip across the lot and is second only to Blanchard in snap ping the pill around.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

Trinity plays Northeastern Universi- ty of Boston in Hartford this evening. The game is at the Hopkins street sym this evening.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-20

A number of fight fans from this city are going to Waterbury tomorrow night to watch Kid Kaplan in action against Billy DeFoe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
CHARGES DISMISSED
 AGAINST H. K. THAW
Three Indictments Removed
 Against Noted Millionaire

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-~Once more Harry K. Thaw has a clean slate and an open road. In trouble almost con tinuously for the last 20 years, Thaw was freed of the last charges against him when Judge Mcintyre of the court of general sessions, dismissed three in dictments Wednesday, all of them hay ing to do with the notorious whipping episode in the McAlpin hotel on Broad way in 1917.
 Ferdinand Pecora, the prosecutor in charge of the case, consented to the dismissal because Fred Gump, tNe young man who said he was lured ftoIn Kansas City to New York and s4'- iected to fiendish practices. deci'ued Q return here at this time to ,c-ti'y against Thaw.
 Except for brief time few Wears ago Thaw has been at odds with the criminal laws of New York ever sncy that memorable night in the criml .,i history of the metropolis when he sl '' and killed Stanford White on the TO- cafe of Madison Square Garden, whic soon will be tom down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
PLANSUNDER WAY TO GET VIADUCT FOR 26TH STREET
Delegation To Place Mat ter Before Commits
 sion Soon

City commissioners and property own CTS have virtua15 completed plans which they believe will insure the speedy construction of a viaduct at Twenty-sixth street without litigation with the railroads, it became known at city hall Wednesday.
 Drawings have been prepared, an agreement over division of cost IS Tn sight, and a delegation of citizens will place the project formally before the commission Thursday or Friday, 1t is learned. The property owners have ln- dicated a willingness to stand some thing like 40 per cent of the cost, Tn order to get prompt action.
 Although the project, which orlgi- hated at city hall, was at first an apparent compromise by the city com mission to get out an embarrassing position if the proposed Twenty-fourth street viaduct did not go through with out litigation, it now appears that plans for both spans will be pushed simultaneously and that an agreement with the railroads for viaducts at Twen- l in early prospect.
 Relief In Sight
 Facing a court fight of years over the proposed erection of four under passes west of TwentS-first street, com mission members and property owners agree that the successful culmination of the viaduct plans will relieve the city's traffic congestion to such an extent that it will lessen by 100 per cent the hardship of awaiting the out come of the underpass litigation.
 Sponsors of the Twenty-sixth street project have been working ont their plans quietly for weeks, it is learned Commissioner We D. Dickson has handled the city's end of the details, and the project has been laid before the railroads with encouraging results, ac- cording to information from reliable sources.
 Two Groups Interested.
 The groups of property owners be- hind the two viaducts are expected to meet in a joint session before the plans proceed much further. Names of the leaders of the Twenty-sixth street property owners have not been given out, but H. N. Malony. prominent real estate operator with offices in the Age Herald building, is temporary chairman of the Twenty-fourth street movement having been elected at meeting oi 50 property owners and business mer Tuesday.
 Commission President D. B. McLen don said Dickson had been handling both projects for the city and that he waf not informed as to the progress made recently. .r
 q believe both of these viaducts will soon be under construction, however, he said. Tt is our plan to designate Twenty-fourth street, after completion of the viaduct. as the main north and south thoroughfare, thus diverting much traffic from Twentieth and Twenty first streets and eliminating congestion in the loop area as well as lessening the danger attendant to using the Twentieth street crossing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
BIG CORPORATIONS
 JOIN IN MOVEMENT
Industrial Employees Will Get Money For Christ
 mas Spending
FIRST THREE DAYS SET FOR HUGE OUTGO
Nearly Every Big Pay Day In District Is Set For Next
 Week

The largest pay rolls in the his tory of the district will be distrib.. uted to the industrial workers Of Birmingham Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The dis tribution will be so arranged as to give every employe the earnings prior to the celebration of Christ mas next Thursday. With season. able weather and the holiday splrlt and with industrial workers possess ing greater sums of money than ever before, not exceeding war times, the merchants are expected to be taxed heavily to handle the business.
 The largest pay rolls in the history of the district will be distributed to the industrial workers of Birmingham Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday or next week. The distribution will be so ar ranged as to give every empioye the earnings prior to the celebration or Christmas next Thursday. With sea sonable weather and the holiday spirlt and with industrial workers possessing greater sums of money than ever pe- fore, not exceeding war times, the mer- chants are expected to be taxed heaVhy to handle the business.
 It was stated Wednesday by many merchants that the distribution of the Christmas Savings club funds aiready had created wave of buying wnlcn was traceable to the thrift exercised by residents of the district during the year.
 Ordinarily, it was explained Wednes- day by some of the industrial paymas- ters, the mines and other 1ndustrlals would pay their employees Friday and Saturday of the present week. And there will be some few to make dls- tribution up to and including Saturday. However, the statement was made that most of the payments would be de- ferred until the first three days of next week, giving the employees more funds and also timing the distribution into the actual Christmas week. The pay roll distribution will start in Fairfield and Ensley and Dolomite Saturday when the mines will be paid off. Mon- day, Tuesday and to noon Wednesday the Fairfield works, Ensley Steel works, the blast furnaces at Woodward ana Ensley, the operations at Bessemer, the pipe shops and other diversified plants will start passing out the envel- opes. From all indications the tnou- sands of employees on industrial pay rolls will be paid for the maximum Of service not later than Wednesday,
 Accurate data as to how many men the industrial pay rolls will effect was unavailable yesterday. However. the number exceeds 75,OOO it is stated and the pay rolls to be given out and will total huge sum.
 From the forthcoming Saturday until January 2. which is Friday the in- dustrial operations will not measure to best. There will be decrease in the operation of mines and there will also be xelt in the plants the absence of host of men, occasioned by the holi- days. Many will visit relatives away from Birmingham, many will celebrate at home with few days rest. h. dustrial leaders are not looking for a full swing into production much soon- CT than January 3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
INQUIRY ORDERED
 TO FIND SOURCE OF NAVAL LEAK
Secret Information May Be Passing To Foreign
 Nations, Says Wilbur
(By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.-Secre- tary Wilbur announced today that he had ordered a naval court of inquiry to be convened at the New York navy yard to investigate the unauthorlzed publication of information regarding naval matters which might be of value to possible enemy country.
 The secretary said the inquiry would deal specifically with the question of how a communication which passed between Captain Osterhaus at the naval war college, Newport, R. l., and Captain Barry, in charge of naval re- cruiting in New York City, came to find it's way into a number of papers recently.
 To Curb Officers
 The navy department, he said, IS not contemplating any general order muzzling navy officers in the free ex- pression of their opinions but 1t is de- termined to prevent the giving out Of information of military value to another nation.
 On the report of the board of inquiry the secretary will determine whether the facts developed warrant the order ing a courtmartial for any officer for the purpose of taking disciplinary measures. ,---=--. --=,-=.
 Secretary Wilbur who has been handling the question of publication, Of confidential information personally, said the department had received state ments from both Captain Osterhaus and Captain Berry and knew which one gave it out" referring to the letter in volved in the inquiry. Such letters, he added, have been published in several papers.
 During the recent agitation in the senate in connection with efforts to bring about a congressional investiga- ton of the navy department, the name of William B. Shearer of New York. who sought to prevent destruction of the hull of the battleship Washington through the filling of taxpayers suit in the courts here, has appeared Tn various newspapers as having furnished them copies of letters passing between naval officers which had bearing on statements he was quoted as making
 Among these articles have been ex. cerpts from a letter, with the name of the writer and recipient deleted, which mentioned among other things, results of naval problems played out on the game board at the naval war college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
ZERO WEATHER TAKES F LIVES IN MIDDLEWEST North Freezes While The South Basks In
 Balmy Air MERCURY REGISTERS 75,2 IN CHATTANOOGA While Alberta Shivers As Mercury Drops To
 62 Below

CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-Old Man Winter tonight was enthroned in the west and middlewest and his heraids had reached eastward to the ohio Valley region.
 The arrival of the most severe cold weather of the season in the northwest and west was responsible directly or indirectly, for the loss of upwards of a dozen lives, while in the Rocky Mountain region huge snow drifts played havoc with train schedules and interrupted wire com munications.
 While the entire northwest, including Minnesota, the Dakotas, northern Iowa. western Wisconsin and the Canadian provinces were in the icy grip of sub zero weather, the nip of the cold in the middle western and central states was not as severe as had been anticipated.
 62 Below In Alberta
 The severe cold that had spread throughout the northwest was expected to continue for another 24 hours. Red Deer. Alberta, reported a minimum of 62 below zero last night, being prob ably the coldest place south of the Arctic regions on the North American continent.
 In Minnesota it was from 3 to 70 below zero, while in North Dakota the temperature ranged from 16 below at Fargo to 24 below at Willison. South Dakota's mercury ranged from 10 to l6 degrees below.
 In the Rocky mountain region a mod eration of the cold was accompanied by heavy snow fall, the snow area extending into western Wyoming and through virtually all of Idaho and Utah and into eastern Nevada. The Rocky mountain storm, entering on its third day, hinder ed rail traffic and caused trouble te1& wire communications. In Montana roads were reported almost impossible with the snow drifting badly and range stock suffering to some ex- tent. The cold weather in this region will continue, it was predicted.
 Streets Icy In Chicago
 In the Pacific states, temperatures several degrees below freezing were re- ported, with Baker Ore, announcing a 1O-degree- below zero reading. In Chi caeo this morning people found streets and sidewalks a glare of ice. One man was killed in a fall and more than q score were seriously injured by falls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
PERE MARQUETTE
 JOINS RAIL MERGER
Van Swerigen Deal Takes An
 other Step Toward Goal
lRx Associated Pressl

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The pro iected S1,5O0,0OO,OOO "Nickel Plate" railroad merger, engineered by the Van Sweringen interests of Cleveland, drew another step nearer completion today when the executive committee of the Pere Marquette railroad approved the fundamental terms of the lease which will bring this road into the new sys- tenn.
 Ratification by directors and stock holders of the other roads, the present Nickel Plate," Erie, Chesapeake and Ohio. and Hooking Valley, was said to be assured by the receipt of proxies representing a quorum of each com pany. More than 70 per cent of the man E. N Brown announced, had sig nified their acceptance of the lease contract on January z, after additional minor revisions have been made.
 The Van Sweringens are given un- til January, 1926, to complete their unification of the five roads. If the consolidation has not been accom- pli,hed by that time. the Pere Mar auette will hold itself free to withdraw from the plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
FREEZE MOVES SOUTH
Ten Deaths Laid To Blizzards Of
 North And West

CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-Tobagganing temperatures today heralded the move ment eastward and southward of a cold wave that cost ten lives in the Rocky mountain states and brought sub zero blasts of ice and snow to the north west.
 The far west and the regions of the Rockies were hardest hit. Snow and low temperatures prevailed along the Pacific coast from the Canadian bor- der to the normally warm sections of California. Bellingham, Wash, schools were closed because of the cold which lowered about the zero point and snow was falling on the Mojave desert i'll Southern California.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
ALL PRISON HEADS. MAY BE REMOVED IN ATLANTA ROW
Stone Says He May Ap- point Entire New Set
 Of Officials
lRy AssOciated PresS)

ATLANTA. Ga, Dec. 17.-Deputty Warden l.. J. Fletcher, who recently resigned his position at the Atlanta federal penitentiary, effective January 31, 1925, has ended his official duties and now is on "furlough" at his own request. it was learned tonight
 fletcher stated he went on fur tough" yesterday morning. When asked if his leave was in any way con nected with what has been termed general house cleaning of officials at the penitentiary, as the result of an investigation ordered by Attorney Gen eral Stone, the deputy warden said '.business reasons" caused the step.
 A. F. Sartain was deposed as war den last week by Attorney General Stone who based his action, according to Sartain, on the ground that the officer had given special privileges to convicted bootleggers. Previous 10 this removal, D. J. Allen. prison pur- chasing agent, was discharged.
 The attorney general, in Washing ton today, said he was considering the appointment of an entirely new set of officials at the prison. T. B. White, of the department of justice, now IS in charge of the prison, having taken over supervision while Sartain was in Washington last week to confer with the attorney general. (.
 Secrecy which has marked proceed ings of the investigations continued in force being marked by an order Of White banning all visitors from the in stitution except those to inmates.
 The federal grand jury again was in session and also will meet tomor- row. It could not be established whether evidence relating to the investigation has yet been submitted for the jury's consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
VOTE DIE JANUARY 6

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Whlie President Coolidge continued today ms efforts to prevent the overriding Of hls veto of the postal pay increase bill to the senate, that body entered into an unanimous consent agreement for vote on the veto not later than January 6.
 Calling several republican senate leaders to the White House, the execu- tive again informed them of his desire that the veto be sustained, because any other action in advance of the enact ment of a revenue measure to take care of the pay raise would interfere with the economy policy of his administra- tion and continue what he regards as a harmful practice of leaving to the future the matter of providing for pres ent authorized expenditures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
STATE CLOSES CASE
 NV HIGHT TRIAL
Mrs. Sweetin Accused By Aged
 Father-In-Law
lRy Associated Pressl

MOUNT VERNON, H., Dec. IT, Declaring Elsie Sweetin had always been like a daughter to him, c. C. Sweetin, father of Wilfred Sweetin, took the stand against her today in her joint trial with Lawrence M. Flight: former clergyman, for the murder Of her husband, Milford, and told how she admitted to him she had three times administered poison to Milford Sweetin.
 This testimony, which closed the states evidence, had been held in re- serve for the final effort to make case against Mrs. Sweetin. It came as climax to a day devoted almost entirely to testimony of Ina villagers as to what they had seen and heard that made them suspicious. The state rested at 4 p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18

EELIX E. BLACKBURN, for
 mer prominent Birmingham at-
 torney, now judge advocate in the army and stationed at Fort Mc- Kinley. Rizal, Philippine Islands, has been promoted by the war depart ment to the rank of lieutenant colo nel effective as of October 23. En- closing a copy of the war department order Colonel Blackburn writes to The Age-Herald:
 4I am just winding up the most pleasant tour of service l have had seen since joining the army. We are scheduled to return on January 50 transport, arriving in San Francisco February 23. thence by transport through the canal to New York for permanent station in Washington. l do not know whether or not the re- cent retirement of General w. A: Bethel as judge advocate general Will alter these plans or not.
 Mrs. Blackburn and our two girls have just returned from two months tour of China and Japan and we are all set now to return to the land of the free and the home of the brave.' I want to take this opportunity of expressing apprecia- tion of The Age-Heraid. In these parts, it is like an oasis in a desert. I am unable to attend church on Sundays and enjoy the sermon unless I have first read The Age-Herald.
 "Wishing you. The Age-Herald and all my Birmingham friends happy and joyous Christmas and pros porous New Year, I remain,
 Yours very truly,
 "FELIX E. BLACKBURN"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-18
ENVOY EXTENDS
 JAPAN'S RESPECTS
Country Will Support Good Will
 Message, Says Ambassador

TOXIC, Dec, 17.-A message of good will and sympathy to the United States was rendered tonight by Tsuneo Matsu- daira, new Japanese ambassador, to Washington, in an interview granted the Associated Press.
 II wish to convey my respects to your President and your countrymen, for with their friendship and sympathy shall labor for the furtherance or good understanding between our coun- tries," he said.
 "In this fully expect the support of my countrymen, because every Jap anese knows that the prosperity Of the empire depends upon the peace of the Pacific, which in turn depends upon maintenance of friendly relations be- tween Japan and America"