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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
M THE AIR TODAY
(Corrtesy Of Radio Digest)
 (By Associated Press.)
Program For November sI

Program For November S1
 WISE Atlanta Journal (429) S-9 con. cert; 1O;45 RadiowIs. WEEI Boston t3o3) Big Brother club: 6:30-S musical; program from WEAF; musical.
 wGR Buffalo tslO 6 music; s:sc WGN Chicago Tribune ts7o) organ s:So concert; concert; S:S0 classical; 1o orchestras.
 WIS Chicago ts45) s;so organ; 7-1o talks; 1O-10:40 orchestra, entertainers. XIV Chicago t536) ' concert; 7:so program; SEQ speeches; revue; 11-::S0 Nighthawks, organ.
 wQJ Chicago (44s) : concert, soloists; voc Davenport (4s4l Sandman: 7:et educational lecture; musical.
 WHO Des Moines (5as) 7:so-s movie WWJ Detroit News (51D 7:3o New. orchestra, soprano baritone
 WICK Detroit Free Press G1D 6 WTAs Elgin (2ss) s-s string sex tette, songs; s-12 orchestra, request num- (47s1 : :3O-sSO old time fiddlers; s:sO- Wi WDAF Kansas City Star GID s-7 School of the Air; s-s:So orchestra; 11:45 N WHB Kansas City t41D 7-s civil service talk, music. ., WHAS Louisville Times Journal NfVOJ 7:3O-9 concert, talk WING Memphis Commercial Appeal (5O0) s:30 concert: II frolic.
 WCCO Minneap polls. St. Paul (41O e:3t concert: 7:3O lecture; s:30 musical.
 WEAF New York 4s2) Happiness WoR N Newark t4oS) 6 trio; s:1s sports WTAY Oak Park (2s3) 6:45 soloists g feature; 10:l5 orchestra
 WOAW Omaha (62s) stories; 6:3( dinner program; Musical Maids; s:4S piano, violin and saxophone; 10:30 dance WIFI Philadelphia (395) 6 talk.
 WIP Philadelphia (509) 6 talk.
 WDAR Philadelphia (3s5) 6:30 talk z concert: S:30 recital; s:o3 dance; Il WOO Philadelphsa t5os) s:so orches. tra: recital; orchestra; e:os recital WcAE w Pittsburg (4s2) s;so Uncle Kaybee; 7-7:S0 special; 7:3o quartet.
 WAR Providence (S60) musical KPo San Francisco t42s) s:so-7;so or WGY Schenectady (sSo) farce. in, strumental 9:S0 musical
 KFQX Seattle (233) s-s reports. news 9 bedtime; 10-11 orchestra; 12-1 orches WBZ Springfield t3s7) s:o5 bedtime 6:15 book review: 6:30 lecture; trio; l( concert trio; 1o:30 singing orchestra.
 KSD St. Louis Dispatch (646) con concert; church concert.
 CKY Winnipeg (450) 6:3o lecture; 7:1' cert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
|BANEZ ACCUSES | SPANISH RULER
 OF TREACHERY
Alfonso Betrayed Army And France, Noted
 Author Charges

PARIS, Nov. 19-Vicente Blascc Ibanez's manifesto against King Alfonso of Spain, a pamphlet of 100 pages, pub lished in France, England and the United States today charges the king with being directly and personally. re- sponsible for the Spanish military disas- ter at Annual in Morocco, in 1921. in which General Silvestre and several thousand Spanish soldiers were killed and thousands of others made prisoners.
 The noted Spanish author also charges King Alfonso with bctraying the French ty giving secret information to the Ger mans during the war. Ibanez accuses Alfonso of having written General Sil- estre letter commanding the Moroccan army to do as say" and adding:
 Minister An In,becile
 Don't bother about the instructions of the minister of war, who ii an im- becile." General Silvsstre advanced against the advice of Madrid, says Ibanez, and was surrounded and his srmy 'annihilated. ;
 Concerning the alleged betrayal of the French, Ibanez charges that King Alfonso, who had boasted of being a Francophile, one day discussed the war situation with the French military at- tache and afterward when the French had discovered the secret of Germany $ code it was found that German agent lad reported verbatim everything the French attache had said to the king.
 The French attache subsequently gave the king at test, adds Ibanez, in formation which had no foundation, and this was found to have been transmitted within few hours to Berlin by the Ger man ambassador. The title of Ibanez' s pamphlet was "Alfonso Unmasked."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
DOES HER PART TO AID CHEST
 WITH BIG CAKE

TN the show window of Loveman,
 Joseph and Loeb, is being dis
 played a fruit cake in the form of a chest with raised lid. The cake weights approximately 25 pounds, is attractively decorated, bearing the quotation, Faith, Hope and Charity, and the Greatest of these is Charity"
 This cake is the handiwork of Miss Bessie Davis, 1512 South Thirteenth street, who informed the leaders of the second annual ap- peal of the Community Chest that she wanted to do more for the chest than she was able to do in the form of monetary contribution.
 Miss Davis worked on this cake all of Tuesday until far past the hour of midnight and resumed her work again Wednesday until late in the afternoon.
 The cake is to be auctioned off by the pound for the benefit of the Con- muity Chest, and sealed bids may be left at Loveman, Joseph and Loebs, or at headquarters of the second an nual appeal, 2020 Fourth avenue, north, but no bid under $10. per pound will be considered. Names of the lucky bidders will be published next Wednesday, and the cake will be allotted in pounds to the highest bidders in time to become part of their Thanksgiving dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
FILM STAR'S SUIT
 FOR $5OO,OOO VOIDED
Mabel NOrmand To Take Case
 To Supreme Court
(By Associated Press. )

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 19- Mabel Normand's S5OO,O0O libel suit against Mrs. Georgia w. Church was quashed in superior court today when Judge Hartley Shaw upheld the defend ants demurrer and ruled that the mo- tion picture actress had no legal right to seek libel damages on the ground that Mrs. Church, in suing her wealthy hus- band for divorce, had referred to his alleged behavior with Miss Normand.
 Counsel for Miss Normand an- nounced he would appeal to the state supreme court.
 The portion of Mrs. Church's divorce complaint to which Miss Normand took exception, quoted Norman Church as saying that the actress had entered his room in hospital here, clad only in a nightgown, had given him flowers and had threatened to tell him naughty stories" if he didn't keep quiet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
(Leased Wire to The Age.Herald)

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 19.- John Bothma has been prisoner in paradise for 23 years, or ever since his tatterdemaliOn troupe was rounded up by the British army in the Boer war.
 He likes it fine. He could go home tomorrow if he would: but John is still an enemy of the British and will not take the oath of allegiance to King George. Therefore, he stays on and on in Bermuda, prisoner of principle cap tured in war that is almost forgotten.
 John took the field along with the other Boer farmers m the Transvaal in 1899 and fought for two years before he was picked up. After a time, he found himself in a prison compound on the Island of Bermuda, member of a colony of 4,500 captives. When the war ended, Great Britain, victorious, offered the entire colony free transportation back to Africa, provided that they took the oath of allegiance to the crown.
 Refuse To Take Oath
 John Bothma and William Laubscher were leaders of the prison community. They refused to let bygones be bygones, except for a price. They wanted a pound sterling a day Tor every day they had spent in the prison camp, first-class passage home and recompense for their lands and cattle which had been confis- cated in the war.
 Laubscher died two months ago in Bermuda, stubborn, whiskered, hostile old fellow, who insisted to the last that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
Prisoner Of Paradise
 Reuels In His Captiuity
John Bothma, Held On Bermuda By British Says
 Captors Owe Him Small Fortune

the crown of Great Britain owed him approximately $40,000, with interest at 6 per cent, as wages for his twenty-three years of isolation in the beautiful island in the Gulf Stream, where there are no taxes nor traffic cops nor prohibition agents.
 Among those who trifle with the laws of American communities, Sing Sing prison, with it's ball games, movies, musical comedies, extra mural liberties and ice cream three times a week, IS known as "The Castle on the Hudson" and regarded as a country club. But Sing Sing as compared to the island prison, which confines John Bothma, is like a crossing-keeper's shanty compared to Rockefeller's mansion off the avenue.
 Does As He Likes
 John may go deep-sea fishing, if he likes. He may swim in the sapphire lagoons of Bermuda, or rub his vest buttons against the mahogany of the bars in the pubs and hotels of the is- land. In a technical sense he is still under arrest, but the governor general of the island knows that John Bothma will not escape.
 Do you want to go home"
 q want to go home when the British government pays me what it owes me. It owes me a first-class passage to Africa, as an honorable prisoner. That is the first thing. The British govern. ment will not give me that, so it is no use to discuss other things that the British government owes me-" said Bothma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
SCHOOL BURNS IN MISSISSIPPI
 PUPILS ESCAPE
Gulfport Building Is De- stroyed At Loss Of
 $75,00O

GULFPORT, Miss, Nov. 19.-The central ward school was destroyed by fire this morning causing loss es- timated at S75.O00. Three hundred and forty-five children attending classes were marched out of the burning structure to safety although many leaned out of the windows to prevent suffocation prior to being led out.
 The fire started in the basement and rapidly spread through the three-story brick building as part of the fire fight ing apparatus was in another part of the city fighting fire. Due to the drought there was delay in getting the necessary water.
 Citizens formed a volunteer unit in combating the flames. The fire drills were carried out perfectly. There was no panic among the children although smoke penetrated through the building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
MOBILIAN KILLED
 w STREET FIGHT
Alleged Slayer Arrested, Enters
 Self Defense Plea

MOBILE, Ala, Nov. 19.-(Special)- Claude Constantine. 25. was shot to death in fight at Lawrence and Vir- ginia streets this afternoon by Sidney Metcalfe, 24, man about town. Con- stantine when examined by the coroner had an open knife in his hands and a half pint bottle of whisky in a rear pocket.
 Metcalfe after surrendering made a statement that Constantine frs! began fight in a nearby store. throwing things around and struck J. P. Chambers in the head, slightly injuring him. Con- stantine operated lunch stand in the shipyard section of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-George W. Carver, negro scientist, who heads Tuskegee Institutes s:centific re- search and experiment station, be- lives that his divisoreries through Divine Providence of. new com mercial products from sweet potatoes, peanuts, oceans and common clays, will mean an economic revolution of the south.
 Speaking yesterday in the Marble Collegiate church on Fifth avenue, Carver told an audience that he had developed 11S commercial products from the sweet potatoes, 176 from the peanut, S5 from the pecan and more than 300 from the common clay of his native south. His accomplishments in "creatiye chemistry" have won for him fellowship in the Royal society of Great Britain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
SEARCH FOR BODY
 OF SANBORN FAILS
Dynamite Used In Effort To
 Solve Disappearance

GORHAM. Maine, Nov. 19.-Four hours of digging and blasting under the direction of Deputy Sheriff Eugene F, Norton today failed to unearth the body of William Sanborn, first husband of Mrs. Lottie Freeman Cote, who is held in the county jail at Portland as an accessory in the murder of her husband, Alphonse Cote, November '. Authori- ties began operations on the Cote farm this morning after information had reached them that Sanborn who dis appeared 14 years ago, may also have been murdered.
 Although it was announced tonight that further search on the farm for the body would not be continued without additional information. the authorities said they would continue to investigate the report that Sanborn did not leave home of his own accord in the summer of 1910.
 An uncle and an aunt of Sanborn, Mir, and Mrs. Clarence Emery of Steep Falls, told the authorities today that they were with him on the night preced- ing his disappearance and that he told them of his plans for the following day which included farm work but not a visit to a circus in Portland or q journey from home. They told of fire. quent quarrels in his home.
 Mrs. Sanborn, in explaining San born's absence, had said he had gone to a circus in Portland.
 Charles H. Fielding of Portland is held on a murder charge in connec- tion with the death of Mrs. Cote's second husband and Mrs. Cote's son by her first marriage, Ralph B. san born is held as an accessory after the fact. The authorities allege that Fielding confessed to shooting Cote while on q hunting trip. His body was buried in field which was sub sequently ploughed over. The police allege Sanborn confessed he aid in dis posing of the body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
MRS. WARE ASKS LOVERS ARREST
 CHARGING THEFT
Came To Birmingham With kuney, Orleans
 Woman Admits
iBy Associated Press.

CHICAGO. Nov. 19.-Declaring that she was penniless as a result of her love for Clark G. Kuney, forL.er banker at Three Lakes, Wis, Mrs. Cecil Ware, of New Orleans, today obtained war rant for his arrest. She charged him specifically with the theft of a diamond ring but said she had lost a personal fortune of $S0,000 as a result of the association. Mrs. Ware said she was estranged from her husband, J. w.. Ware.
 "He is a good man and I have dis sraced him enough already. do not want him brought into this,' she said.
 Mrs. Ware related that she met Kuney at the New Orleans races in January, 1923. Mir. and Mrs. Moury Franks, of Magnolia Springs, and MT. and Mrs. Quill, of Mobile, Ala, intro duced him to her, according to her story.
 Visits Birmingham
 Kuney accompanied her back to New Orleans and their conversation devel- oped that each was planning a trip to Houston, Texas. They spent two days in Houston, she said, and she told of another trip to Birmingham, third to Sunset farms at Three Lakes, Wis, after Kuney had said that he would tell his wife of her entertaining him in New Orleans and that he knew Mrs. Kuney would reciprocate the hos pitality.
 Mrs. Ware then told how she had in- vested $52,000 with Kuney. She also said she had advanced Kuney S20OOO by a New York draft. Later she said, Kuney took her diamond rings for safe keeping.
 Ware Told
 Subsequently Kuney and his wife were her guests in New Orleans, she said, and there a domestic scene oc- cured in which she said Mrs. Kuney threatened her with a revolver and later they went to MT. Ware and told him things.
 But they failed there" she said. MT. Ware is one of the finest men in the world"
 Kuney was found and served with the warrant and gave $2,500 bond in municipal court The preliminary hear ing is set for November 26.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
ARMS FARLEY
 IN U. s. LOOMS
Continued From Page One. )

that the British move means an ad- journment of the arms conference until 1926, with the possibility of revision of the protocol itself at the next assem- bly,. meeting Officials, however, are careful to insist that postponement does not mean abandonment.
 Officials regard the British request as based on the desire to observe em- pire policy by carefully consulting the dominions. It is believed that spe- cial points involved include the activity of the British fleet under the protocol, the provisions of which stipulate the taking of sanctions against an aggres- sor state and which it has been argued in some circles might result in bring ing Great Britain into a dispute with the United States as a non-member of the league.
 Other points involved probably are the so-called Japanese amendments, whereby domestic problems could be aired before the council, and the ques- tion of revision of treaties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
COUSIN OF SHUTS
 FOUND, WOUNDED
Suicide Note Fails To Satisfy
 Boston Police
(By Associated PreSs.)

BOSTON, Nov. 19.-JOhn A. Shuts, said to be a cousin of General Jan Shuts of South Africa, and cap tain in the Boer war, was taken to a hospital tonight with bullet wound in his chest. He was said to be in a critical condition. Although a suicide note was found in the Shuts apartment, police said they were at a loss to ex- plain how the wound could have been self-inflicted.
 Mrs. Shuts, who formerly was May Yohe, actress. and who as the wife of Lord Francis Hope, was the possessor of, the Hope diamond, summoned a doe tor when she said she heard shot and found Shuts lying wounded on the floor in the next room. At the hospital Shuts declared he was wounded while cleaning a revolver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
SENATOR'S TURN
 TO WEST FOR AID
 NSHOALSDRAFT
Weeks May Ask Author
 ity To Lease Output :. Of Plants
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Senators who favored the Ford bill for Muscle Shoals are seeking the aid of western senators for a compromise government plan of operation for the properties to be sumitted when congress con- venes in December.
 At the same this, Secretary Weeks is taking steps to ascertain the scope of his authority to contract for the temporary disposition of power gener- ated at the plant, should congress fail to make final disposition of the prop critics prior to completion of Wilson Dam next July.
 Should congress fail to dispose of the question and should the secretary find himself without authority to lease the output of the plants, they would lie idle.
 To Amend Norris Plan
 Senator Norris, republican, Nebraska, has submitted a government operation plan, and leading advocates of the Ford bid, convinced that MT. Ford has withdrawn from the competition, are engaged in efforts to put together q plan having many features of the Norris proposal, but considerably amended
 Secretary Weeks has asked ajor General Hull, judge advocate general of the army to furnish him with an opin- ion as to his powers in handling the properties. If that opinion should hold that he has no authority to make temp orary contracts for power which he has in mind, he probably will ask congress to confer the authority on him if it should appear that Muscle Shoals leg islation is not to be completed dur ing the short session.
 While there may be some difficulty in finding companies willing to make short term leases for all the power developed, nearby power companies are known to be prepared to take very large part of it.
 Weeks And Hooker Confer
 Secretary Weeks conferred today with Elon H. Hooker of New York, who has been at work for some time on a proposal for the creation of a gigantic chemical and industrial plant at Muscle Shoals. The conference was described as one of a series which have been held by the two during the past year on various aspects of the Hooker offer for the properties. It was said that MT. Hooker hoped to have his pro posal in shape for submission to con- gress at the forthcoming session.
 The conference between Secretary Weeks and Mr. Hooker was described as one of a series which has continued between the two men for the past year. Mir. Hooker has been working on a proposal for the creation of a gigantic chemical, and industrial plant at Muscle Shoals, and from time to time has conferred with Secretary Weeks on various parts of the offer.
 There was nothing definite develop oped during the discussion today. It was explained, however, that MT. Hook. CT hoped to get his proposal in shape for submission to congress at the forth coming session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
ZIMMERMAN SEEKS
 S25,OOO DAMAGES
Claims Fruitdale Man Alien.
 ated Wife's Affections

MOBILE. Ala, Nov. 19.-The $25,- GOO heart balm suit of Elmer D. Jor- dan, sawmill operator and lumberman of Buca, Tunna, Miss, against W. Nathan Mills, merchant of Fruitdale, Ala, was heard here today in the fed eral court. The question of whether the federal court had jurisdiction on the ground that Jordan was not a resident of Mississippi when the suit was filed, caused the continuance of the case until the defense could furnish the court briefs in the case.
 Jordan in his suit alleges that Mills alienated the affections of his wife, Mrs Ruby Jordan, beautiful blonde woman of 30 years of age. The action was first filed at Chatoma, Washington county, but was later withdrawn and refiled in the federal court for south Alabama district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
WHOLESALE PRICES
 TAKE SHARP UPTURN
Food Continues Advance During
 October
(By Associated Press. )

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-A sharp upward turn in the general level of wholesale prices and continued increase in retail food prices during the month of October was reported today by the bureau of labor statistics of the depart ment of labor. Wholesale prices in the various commodity groups showed an average gain of per cent for the month while food prices at the retail counter in 51 cities increased on an average of 1 and IS per cent in the period from September 15 to October 16.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
PART OF LABOR
 IN EUROPE TOLD
 TOA.F.0FL MEET
German Workers To Sup port Experts Plan,
 Says Envoy
(By Associated Press. ]

FL PASO, Texas, Nov. 19.--Spokes- men for organized labor in England and Germany detailed to the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor today labor's contribution to the restoration of economic stability in Europe nthe trying period of post war reconstruction.
 Peter Grassman, vice president of the German federation of trade unions, speaking for the workers of his coun- try. pledged support of the Dawes plan for reparations adjustments.
 In the execution of the plan lies Germany's most promising pathway to the pre-war economic basis and last ing peace. he said. He denounced com munism, which he characterized as a mental disease resultant from the ter rible years of the war.
 "As a mass movement, communism in Germany today is of no account, he said.
 To labor he credited an important part in the maintenance of the republic against the persistent efforts of the monarchists and the subversive attacks of the communists. He appealed for American particiation in every endeavor for world peace.
 c. T. Cramp, chairman of the execu- tive committee of the British labor party told the convention the foreign policy of Ramsay Macdonald, the labor premier. eventually would be appraised as one of Britain's most brilliant and yet most simple, contributions to the cause of would peace. Sincerity, sim plicity and sympathy, he said, were the factors in that policy.
 ''The labor party has lost a few seats in parliament but it has neverthe- less laid the foundation for its future success he said.
 "We shall go on in Great Britain, striving to promote peace mad eliminate the causes which make for war. Now, in the years of peace, is the time to prepare for the lasting peace."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
Face Powder In Potatoes,
 Says Tuskegee Chemist

The sweet potatoes, Carver told the audience. is the source of three or four kinds of flour that makes bet ter bread than any cereal, and also coffee, vinegar. molasses, ink, shoe polish, paints; dyes, tapioca, breakfast foods, starch face powders, and many other products. A large factory now is being erected outside Tuskegee where paint is to be produced from the sweet potatoes, Carver said. He announced that he had discovered '32 different kinds of milk in the peanut and richer than cows milk.
 No books every go into my labora- tory. The thing l am to do and the way of doing it come to me-" Carver said. T never have to grope for methods; the method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain would be helpless.