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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
Treasures of AnatOIe.

Mr. Anatole Frances collection of manu- scripts, curios, rare volumes and antiques IS to be sold. Several members of the Academy of France are bringing pressure to bear on the minister of art and education ito prevent the collection from falling into. the hands of foreign buyers. They point to Italy, where it is strictly forbidden to take anything out which has bearing on the history of the country or is related to any great national figures. Some of the treasures of Anatole France would bring handsome prices. In the collection are several illuminated manuscripts from the ninth and tenth century on the progress and standing of architecture in the civilized world. Many others are of price less value. Among his curios which will find their way to a meuseum some time or other is the knife used by Charlotte Corday to kill Paul Marat, the leader of the French revolu- tion, while he was in his bath. NJ. France also owned the blood-stained papers Marat was writing at the time of his murder on which he sank his head after the Hateful stab. It is understood that M. France became the owner of a very artistic collection of early church music compositions at the time of the separation of church and state in France, some twenty years ago. It is small wonder that the "immortals" want to guard against disappearance of the treasures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

Former Ambassador Woods assertion that Japanese exclusion from America | a worldwide calamity confirms the opin ion of the average Jap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
ENUMERATED AMERICANS

There is no limit to the kind-heartedness of Americans They never fail to- send food to the starving occupants of the White House for Thanksgiving and Christmas.-W orcester Telegram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

A press report says that magician "found' the presidents watch in loaf of bread. This is the first time the word "loaf" has been mentioned in connection with Mir. Coolidge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
ARTIST REALTORS

All London is agitated about q picture painted by a grocer. London should see some of the pictures painted by an American real estate xagent.-Abilene (Kan.) Reflector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
GOING DOWN

Dear Friend: The good things of this life will come to you if you choose them and ther be still after you have chosen them. The hurry and rush is not for the sue cessful. Stop, look, listen! Be still. KNOW!
 Very sincerely yours,
 ALFALFA SMITH.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
NAME NOT IN ANY OF BOX SCORES

News dispatch says tlfe Nobel prize for literature for 1924 has been awarded to Ladislas Reymount But what some of us would like to know is, who is Ladislas Key mount?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

Charges of maladministration of h. dian affairs in Oklahoma indicate that the white man is still at the old game of taking from the Indian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

The Warrior river is being stocked with blue-nose bream from government fish hatchery. The next thing is to pro- tect them from red-nosed poachers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

President Coolidge, in advising every body to economize, has not failed to il the deed to the word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

If the choice left to whether to have free press a free government. would shooss . free prsss-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
A Smart Girl.

Eileen Frances doesn't seemto be in much of hurry to get rid of that cold in her nose"
 Helen "No, she says it improves her French accent"
 Beth Schullman
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PATRIOTISM

Real patriotism is that sort that under stands that this is a nation and not a, de- nomination.-Columbia Reeord. I'd
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Throat sTrOuble.

Janet: "Her adenoids seemed to interfere with her singing so she had them removed Jim: "She should have had her voice re moved"
 Randall Betts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

A man may sell his reputation for song; but he cannot buy it back at any ,,rjce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

What has become of the old fashioned girl who used to cough when she smoked a cigar ette?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
What Every Husband Knows.

Brown: Its the woman who pays." Green: "Yes, after you've handed over thu money.'
 Edmund J. Kiefer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
Her Disguise.

Jerry "So you didn't recognize her at the ball-did she wear maskw < George: Better than that-she came with out makeup"
 Archie Lorber
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
Good Lovers.

Good Lovers. Lawyers, because they like going to court. Tailors, because they know how to press suit.
 Confectioners, because they have the sweet est of kisses. Calendar printers because they are always eager to make dates. Card players, because they are very anxious to hold good hands. Sunday school teachers, because they are usually waiting at the church. Sailors, because they know what huggIng is from the way they see the waves hdgging the shore.
 -Kathryn B. Plennert.
 Copyright. 1924. Reproduction Forbidden.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
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Looking Forward to Happy New Year.

Isn't it rather unusual for you to think of sending your doctor Christmas present!"
 "Yes, but l figure if l send him sub- scription to this newspaper, there'll be some thing up-to-date to read in his waiting room when l get there."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
The Advanced Apa!

I am pastor of a church in Newark, New Jersey.
 Recently I called on a young couple whose name resembled "Farrar." They have little girl few weeks old. The mother wanted to call her "Betty"-the father decided it should be Geraldine Geraldine it is to be.
 The young wifes mother is an elderly Ger man woman who has difficulty with the Eng fish language. When they told her about the name she tried to pronounce it. But the nearest she could come to it was "Gelateen." {"
 She repeated it several times, and then said with every sign of disapproval: ''When was young we used to chose the children's names from the Bible, but now they go to the cook book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
THE ACE-HERALD


Entered at Birmingham, Ala, post office as sec end.oiass matter act of Congress-. March 6. 1873
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Telephone (private branch exchange connect. tng all departments). Main 4s00.
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EXCLUSIVE MEMBER OF NORTH AMERI. CAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE IN ALABAMA
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"An Empress" Here.
THE wife of Cyril Romanoff, pretender
 the throne of Peter the Great, is abo

tHE wife of Cyril Romanoff, pretender to
 the throne of Peter the Great, is about
 to set foot on the shores of America. There is no opposition to the lady's landing as there was in the case of Countess karolyl, wife of the liberal first president of Hungary. Still the grand duchess is quite frank in stat ing her object of visiting this country. She is here to enlist sympathy for the cause Of royalism and perhaps collect little money. It is quite natural that the lady should wish to return to the splendors that were once Moscow and Leningrad. Taken all in all the Romanoffs did not have a bad time of it until the debacle came. But the hundred mil lion peasants have a different view on the situation. They are not likely to wish for return of that family and they are likely to fight like wild beasts any army that comes with the object of intervening in the internal affairs of Muscovy. President Wilson once said that Russia twas known by those who knew her best to have been always in fact democratic at heart. and 'the autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure long as it stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Rus sian in origin, character or purpose" The grand duchess, like all other visitors, ought to be welcome in the land of the free, but her final object, that of restoring her husband to the throne of his relatives is a forlorn hope. Russia will be better off without them in the future. They had their chance once. They abused it with terrorism and Siberia.
 Love Laughs At Ranks.
 Little Princess Juliana, daughter of the staid and Calvanistic queen of Holland, is desperately in love with a Jewish cantor in the Synagogue of Amsterdam. On holiday, in the capital city, accompanied only by lady in waiting, the 15-year-old girl slipped in the synagogue and heard the marvellous voice of the cantor. She came back the next day and the next A doorkeeper in the house of God suspected the young lady's identity and warned the authorities. Juliana returned to The Hague forthwith. Such plebelan tastes are not allowed in princess. At least not publicly, though history has abundant in- stances of clandestine affaires d'amour be- tween persons of royal blood and ordinary mortals. When discovered such affairs gen. orally turn out bad for the participant in the affair who is not of noble standing. Fred erick the Great treated the young guard of ficers whom he thought in love with his sisters in an abominable manner. They were accused of high treason and kept in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives. The Jewish cantor will not fare so badly. He is 30 years of age, widower and has two children. He may not even have been aware of the royal veneration, but that does not mean that the man is not in an embarrassing citnatiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
The Right Word
WHEN TO USE HAD
By W. CURTIS NICHOLSON

J. L., of New York City writes as follows:
 "Please advise whether it should be: I have never heard of .....,' or, I had never heard
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
BUG HOLLOW NOTES.

Mr.. Sigsbce Maine WImDua ana
Miss Patriotism Wimpus Of Kaneas
City visited over Sunday with Mia
PFucie Pillsbury and other friends
here.
DOck. Tick 10 receiving . visit this
Tick. Of Texas, whom they have not
saw each other for 20 years, and are
having q real good time.
Fresh Dried Apples ut sHcklilley's!
Doc Ticks faithful marc, Daisy
Miss HonIIie Tonk few days 70.
and y sincerely mOurned by all, -
she has often stood before every
house In the Hollow, waiting for DOo
% do his stuff. Doc saye he -.
MeveS theI0 must bo q Heaven with
plenty OF Sugar-lumpS for horses like
New Western actor at the Pick
fOrdeOn this week-TOm Mkt
Doc Tick and brother, o. N. Tick
We g FINK CIty, seeing the sights
Q new Ford roadster, which doc viii
usc instead, but not IN uiace. ~
galey Bell. deceased. So times doth
Miss Birdie Sings, Of NeddIe. was
Miss Miss BS SiSuP %sy Gays this week visiting
Miss Birdie Sings and Miss T.ala
Hay and MessrS. Berthe MyDal and
Eerdlo Letts, Of Granville, was nm 70
Minnie Lake picking Easter floworS
1esSeruAS' GENE BLOSSOM.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
BACON TO BE HoNoRED
At LINCOLN MEMORIAL

Services In honor Of the late
Henry Bacon, architect Of the Lin.
coin Memorial. will be held at the
foot Of the Lincoln Memorial
Wednesday afternoon at S O'Clock.
The Fine Arts Commission and the
office Of public buildings grounds
are cooperating in planning the
exercises. ~,
Music will be. furnished by the
Marine Band. DIR. Wallace Rad.
clifte, pastor emeritus Of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
known as Lincoln's church, will
offer the prayer. Roland Moore will
Wing "The Evening Star" by Wag.
ner, and 1.-THE Song Of Thanksgiv.
ing" by Allitsen.
There will be no addresses or
ether exercises. No invitations will
be issued. but the public is invited.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
100 N. Y. HOTEL. MEN
PAY COOLIDGE VISIT

Among the callers at the White
House today were more than 100
New York hotel men. accompanied
by their wives and members Of
their families. The party was
en- route, to- New York, returning
from Atlanta, Ca, where it had
attended the formal opening Of the
new Atlanta-Biltmore Hotel.
Following their reception by
President Coolidge, the party was
entertained at luncheon at the New
Willard as the guests of L.. NJ.
Boomer, president of the Boomer.
Dupont properties corporation.
Among the prominent hotel men
with the party were George W.
Sweeney, vice president, Hotel. Com
modore, New York; Thomas ID.
Green, owner of the Hotel Wood
ward, Of New York, and David
Fitzgerald, Of Glens Falls, N. Y.
The party was in charge of Charles
e. Gehring, editor and publisher of
the National Hotel Review.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
NATIONAL ART GALLERY
HOME MOVE STARTED

Indication that steps will soon be
taken by Congress to erect q build
ing for the National Gallery Of Art
II seen in the action of the House
and Senate in including in the in,
dependent offices appropriation bin
an item for a new assistant secre-
tary Of the Smithsonian Institution.
This secretary is to have charge Of
the gallery.
DR.. Charles r. Walcott, secretary
Of the Smithsonian Institution, ap-
pearing before the House ApprO-
priation Committee in support Of
the provision. for a new assistant,
laid stress upon the growth of the
national gallery.
Congress has already designated
site for the building in the Mall
near the other buildings Of the
Smithsonian group and the board
Of regents Of the Smithsonian re.
Gently approved the selection OF
Charles A. Plat, of New York, to
draw plans for the structure.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
MARVlLLE WILL SING At
COMPOSERS CONCERT

John L. Marville, baritone, will
sing Gena Branscombe's, solos at
the concert to be given by five Of
the leading American Women Com
posers, at the ShorefIam Hotel, Wed.
nesday evening. Lucien Marsh,
baritone, who had originally been
scheduled to sing these solos, has
been called to the bedside Of his
mother, in Florida.
Mr.. Marville is the baritone soloist
at ST.. Stephens Episcopal Church
and the Eighth Street Temple. Other
singers will be Miss Gretchen Hood,
soprano; Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer,
contralto, and Warren Terry, tenor:
Miss Marjorv Matckres Fisher, vio-
Mnist, and Richard Lorleberg, cellist.
The American Women Composers
appearing at this concert win be
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Gena Brans
combe, Ethel Glenn HER, Mary Tur-
ner Salter and Harriet Ware.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21

case Of DIR. Plug and suicide in the
case OF Mrs. Plug will be issued
today and the bodies released in
the custody Of relatives. ~
The death OF Mrs. Plug . also
brings to an end the preparations
her family were making for her
defense-to save her, from the
gallows.
Why Did She Kill Him?
Z Even though the two principal
characters in the, tragedy are dead,
friends and relatives continue to
inquire: t.2
why did, she kill him?"
And there seems to come back
an answer that she killed him be,
cause she loved him and feared to
lose him. And further, knowing
that her acts had sent him to his
grave, decided to join him. n
Thursday last was the fatal day
in the lives Of these two persons.
Early IN the afternoons, Mrs.
Plug visited downtown Washington
and purchased revolver. Just a
few minutes before she had been
served with papers in divorce
suit filed by her husband. She had
received the final word from the
man she lived and loved with for
so many years. She was heart.
broken.
Later in the afternoon, Mrs. Plug
opened the door to her husbands
dental office in the Portner apart.
rhent. Or. Plugs patients had left
He was alone. And according to
his own story, he was musing to
himself az to whether he had done
the right thing in filing q suit for
The Washington times., 1924-04-21

This was nineteen years ago and
the principal actors were Mariana
p. Bailey and DIR. Charles, s. Pflug.
unhappiness. Quarrels were FIRE.
they parted forever-at least each
thought so.
But they are together again
now. n
In the undertaking establishment
Of Gawler's the body Of DIR. Plug,
who during his married life had
risen in his dental profession and
earned an enviable reputation, has
been lying since last Thursday
night. IS
Today the body Of his wife, Mrs.
Mariana p. Plug, was placed
next to that Of her husband. AN
And now that solemn promise to
live and love together until death
do us part" will bear fruit.
The body Of DIR. Plug will go to
Lansing, Mich, for burial. Mrs.
Plugs remains will be taken to
Summit Point, Va.
Mrs. Pflug shot and killed the
man she loved. She fired three
bullets into his body last Thursday
night. And then she swallowed sew.
eral veronal tablets. She died in
Emergency Hospital last night. I.
The world will never know the
true story of the circumstances
surrounding the staying OF DIR.
Plug, for the lips of the only two
persons who know are sealed in
death. itt
DIR. j. Ramsay hewitt, District
coroner, charged with inquiring into
deaths, has brought his inquiry to
an end.
A certificate Of homicide in the
The Washington times., 1924-04-21

divorce against Mrs. Plug. He
loved her-of that there is no doubt.
a What happened in. that room no
one knows. What was said between
this man and wife will never be
learned.
Did she beg her husband to take
her back? Did she get down on
her knees and plead with him for
forgiveness? Did he turn her down?
Did he spurn her pleas?
And did she finally, feeling des.
perate as she realized that her hus.
band would no longer be hers, pull
the revolver and fire at him?
Or did he strike her? Did he
resume his beating Of her, as che
had several times in the past com.
planned to ting police? Did he try
to eject her from his office?
mo one knows. All that is known
ts that she shot and killed her us.
band, which she confessed to be.
fore her death.
Just before he died, DIR. Plug
says his wife shot him deliberately.
And just before she became uncon.
scious from veronal, she said her
husband hit her and that she then
shot him. Which story is true?
When Louis Allwine, manager Of
the Portner, entered the dentists
apartment Thursday, he snatched a
revolver from the hands OF one If
the two-he is not sure which. He
brought their fight-for 1t was a
fight and both were tussling when
he entered-to an end.
DIR. Plug was quickly removed to
Emergency where he died few
hours later, Mrs. Plug was taken
to the Eighth police precinct. Some
time after the fatal shooting Mrs.
plug swallowed vdronal tablets
which later Thursday night put her
in a coma from which she never re.
covered consciousness.
And thus the story ends.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21

AFiz0mG has qssuTnmtined
against California motorists
because of the presence. of
foot-Gnd-noMtk disease in
California. They might carry
the germ to Arizona cattle. !,
Seems to me that the 0utIsort-
ties should keep Washington
motorists from going through
the Capitol grounds, in vieqU
Of the kOof and mouth o.t.
break In the Senate.
ARIZONA IKE.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
IN CAR
N()FELONY,
COURT
FINDS
Justice Says First offenss In
Such Cases Does Not Con-
stitute Infamous Crime"

The person convicted for the
first time of possessing or trans
porting intoxicating liquors is not
guilty Of a crime involving moral
turpitude, according to Justice
Siddons Of the District Supreme
Court, who today held that the
District Commissioners had no
legal authority to cut off the PEN
sion of Policeman Wilbur H. Rock,
who had been convicted in Mary
land on a charge of violating the
National prohibition act.
The court also directed the Com
missioners to restore Rocks name
to the pension roll.
Reverses ID. C. Commissioners
Rock, represented by Attorneys
Wilton H. Lambert and Rudolph H.
Yeatman,. had been placed on the
pension roll with $6916 a month
for being. disabled in line of duty
and had an automobile accident
+ SOE udEy 10 idSt IN maryland. O1I1.
ceHs found whiskey in his car, but
Rock Claimed that. it was the prop.
erty1of7 his guests who left him In
sole possession Of the car and ran
away when the accident occurred.
Rock was arrested and fined in
Baltimore for transporting hqNor.
The District Commissioners there.
upon took his name off the pension
list and Rock brought suit against
them for a mandamus.
The Commissioners claimed that
Rock had been convicted of a mis-
demeanor Involving moral turpi
tude," which under the law is a
basis for loss of pension. This con.
tention was denied by counsel for
Rock.
Not An Infamous Crime
In his review of the case, Justice
Siddons said that Gin the absence
OF a statute declaring otherwise, the
possession and transportation of in.
toxicating liquor is not in and of
itself an inherent wrong or act
evidencing a wicked or depraved
mind.
1T ranks as a misdemeanor and
not a felony. 1t involves no in.
famous punishment, and is not an
infamous crime"
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
POLICE ARREST
BAREFOOT
BURGLAR
Man is Found Hiding Under
Bed in Home He Mad
Just Entered.

Wholesale burglaries committed
in Chevy chase and other fashion
able neighborhoods in the Capital
are expected to be cleared up today
as the result of the arrest Of a
colored man who gave his name as
David Massey. He said he ceme
from Salisbury, N. c., but refused
to dfvulge his local address.
Headquarters Detectives Flaherty
and Fowler and police of the Tenth
precinct think they have captured
the barefoot" burglar. who in the
past two or three months has en-
tered more than q score of homes.
A list Of the residences broken
into by the barefoot thief has
been prepared, it was said. and
Massey and. the police will go over
it shortly. The list includes some
OF Washington's most wealthy
homes, according to police.
Caught In House.
Massey was arrested yesterday in
the home Of Joseph Hoffman, 1903
Buchanan street northwest, where,
shoeless, he had climbed a rain
spout and had gained entry to a
bedroom on the second floor.
Members Of the family, seated in
room on the floor below, felt a
strong draft through the house, as
the window was lifted. Hoffman
ran upstairs to close it. AS he was
leaving, he nOticed two large feet
sprotruding from beneath the bed oc.
cupied by his two-year-old grand.
son, Saul Freedman.
Without making known his dis.
covery, Hoffman returned to the
remainder of his family, where he
explained what he had seen.
Maurice Freedman, the father of
the boy asleep in the room, secured
revolver. With Samuel Freed.
man, Baltimore prize. fighter;
Emmanuel and Henry Hoffman,
Freedman ran up stairs.
Massey, it is said, was still under
the bed, when they. reached the
room. Realizing he Was discovered,
the man rose from his hiding place,
and is said to have made a motion
toward his hip pocket.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
FOREIGN SERVICE COUNCIL
TO DISCUSS STUDENTS

The National Council on Foreign
Service Training will discuss topics
OF Student Travel in Foreign Coun.
tries" at its annual meeting in Bos-
ton June 4, in conjunction with the
eleventh national convention Of the
National Foreign Trade Council.
AS an adjunct in foreign service
preparation supervised student
travel has been greatly neglected in
the United States" says DR.. G. L.
Swiggett, chairman of the National
Council on Foreign Service Train
ing. A subcommittee of the coun.
Gil has been appointed to study the
question and to recommend a pro.
gram for coordination Of all efforts
OF this character in the United
States.
The Washington times., 1924-04-21
"RocKY ROAD TO DUBLIN"
IS DAMAGED BY FLAMES

The Rocky Road to Dublin" n
side show with the Johnny r..
Jones Carnival, Fifteenth and H
streets northwest, caught fire yes
terday, and was badly damaged.
Louis. Jones, colored, eighteen, who
was sleeping there, was scared on
the arms and face.
1t is believed someone was smok.
ing cigarette at the place the
night previous, and threw the stub
into dry place, where 1t smould.
cred ~ n