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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
Georgia School Boy Plays
 With Kid Numbers F Comes ln Fourth

FORT BRAGG. N. C., Jan. B. Young Stribling, school boy light heavyweight of Macon, Ga, ended . scheduled 15-round bout with Kid Numbers here tonight in the fourth round when he floored the soldier boxer for the count with a right upperscut. Stribling outfought Num- hers from the start of the fight and had the soldier on the defensive throughout.
 Round l. They parried in the cen-
 ter of the ring and Stribling missed
 a blow to the stomach. Stribling 1circied Numbers and flashed a fist to the nose, bringing blood. Stribling landed four rights and lefts to the at Numbers and danced away from an uppercut. Numbers fought stol-. idly, but failed to land.
 4 Round 2. Stribling drove a left to the jaw and let number force the fighting, dancing just beyond his reach, and rushed in with a smart right to the jaw. Stribling missed a left to the stomach and came up with three hard rights to the jaw.s
 Round 3. Stribling landed left to
 head; they mixed 1t in the center of the ring. Numbers landing. in Strib- ling's stomach. Stribling missed two to the head. Numbers landed light blow to head. Stribling, landed suc- cession of uppercuts on jaw. They exchanged jabs to face. Stribling Handed hard left to head as round ended. Stribling was fighting calmly and Numbers doggedly.
 Round 4. Stribling sent lefts to
 face and rushed Numbers, and they exchanged body blows. Numbers landed to head. Stribling wrecked Numbers left ear and rushed in
 with series of terrific body blows. Numbers went down for the count following a terrific uppercut to the
 paw.
 Soldiers Second Defeat.
 The bout was number IA for Mum bers and the 90th for Stribling. It was the second defeat the soldier had suffered during his ring career of a little more than a year, the first being in his first bout. Since that time Numbers has won out of 12 fights by knockouts and the other four by decisions.
 stribling forced the fighting from the jump bringing blood in the first and then landing four rights and lefts to the soldiers jaw. Numbers seemed unable to land on the school boy, who danced about the ring. laughing as he drew away from ms opponents blows and retaliating with sure hits. Again in the second round Stribling carried the fight to Mum bers' camp with a left to the jaw. and then stepped back, letting the soldier come at him. Then he opened up with a right to the jaw, missed stomach blow and volleyed with three rights to the jaw and face, driving the soldier before him.
 In the third round the young Geor- gian opened with left to the head. but Numbers came back with a hard body blow. Stribling overwhelmed him with a succession of uppercuts and blows to the face. In the fourth, Stribling sent lefts to the face and head and rushed the fighting with series of, left and right body blows. An .uppercut to the jaw f1oored the soldier for the final count of ten just a few seconds before the round ended.
 "Pa" and Ma" Stribling were on hand to cheer the school boy fighter and had places in his corner of the ring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
BONUS HALTS TAX REDUCTION BILL
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(COntinued from Page One) exclude from the capital gain section the gain realized from the sale of stock of the new corporation"
 O O O
 Would Tax All Gains.
 Declaring that the proposed amend ment would discriminate unfairly be- tween those corporations which have capitalized their earnings by means of stock dividends and those which have not, MT. Gregg said that "if it is desired to tax the gain from the sale of stock received as a stock dividend at the full rates, 1t would seem only logical to tax all gains from the sale of stock in the same manner"
 Such action." he added, however, would be entirely inconsistent with the theory and principle of the capital gain section, would penalize and would materially discourage invest ments in stocks"
 Among the provisions of the new bill which will not be considered by the committee until disposes of the bonus question are those defining earned income and proposing a com munity property tax. A week or more. committee members said, will be re- quired to complete their study of the administrative sections.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
RICHARD PUTS UP DEFENSE AT BILL

NEW YORK. Jan. S.-Alarmed by the agitation against the existing boxing law in the halls of the legis- lature at Albany, Tex Rickard, the promoter. summed up his defense of the business in long statement on Thursday,
 Rickard denied the complaint that he holds a. monopoly in New York, pointing out that although there were six championship fights last summer. he was the promoter of only one.
 He argued against the necessity for the proposed law limiting cham pionship fight prices to $7, on the ground that the boxing commission already has power to regulate prices and has set a maximum of $25 for championships.
 There have been no fake fights un der the present law, Rickard said, and most of the decisions have been correct.
 Charities have received $500, ,OOo from fight shows ia three years and the state and fede}al treasuries have received $1,200,0f9 in admittance taxes from Ricfard alone in that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
MARAUDERS REPORTED
 AT HARDING GRAVE
Soldiers Ordered To Shoot To
 Wound All Trespassers


 MARION, Ohio, Jan. 3.--Orders to shoot to wound persons trespassing near the tomb of the late President Warren G. Harding were issued to- day to soldiers on duty at the ceme- tery. The order followed reports by privates on duty there that on sev- eral occasions recently rocks had been hurled at the tomb of the late President. Soldiers have been startled on other occasions by the mysterious blowing -ef bugles in the cemetery at midnight.
 The shoot to wound order was given by Lieut.. Roswell IT. Hartman, in charge of the detail of 26 soldiers on duty at the cemetery.
 Lieutenant Hartman told news paper men here that he was prompt ed to issue the order by recent dis turbances in the vicinity of the Hard ing tomb"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
POLITICS BLAMED. BY YOUNG WOOD.
Charges And Counter Charges Fly In Oil Development
 Case

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The new elements, both possessing significance which may bring important develop ments later on. have been injected into the financial entanglement circling around the figure of Leonard Wood, IT., and his oil promotions.
 In statement Thursday, Young Wood charged that stories being cir culated concerning his activity in the Acme company were direct attempts to blacken the name of his father, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philippines.
 Later Wood admitted that his father owned stock in the Acme Oil company to the extent of 200 or 300 shares. He added. however, that he had given the stock to his father and that the general had not pur- chased it.
 This whole matter is an attempt by the hue and cry method to launch a poison arrow into the public mind by my fathers political enemies and certain Filipinos who are bent on ob- taining their independence at all costs" Wood declared.
 Representative Frear. Wisconsin, who has introduced a resolution call ing for an investigation of General Woods charge that certain members of Congress had received money from Filipino independence advocates, scoffed at Young Woods statement. He said he could see no connection between the financial mishaps of young Wood and the political diff culties of his father.
 O 0
 Probe Plans Attacked.
 The congressional investigation which Senator Caraway, Arkansas intends to call for was in turn at tackled by young Wood and his law yer, Nash Redwood of New York city. Redwood said his client was private citizen and that any in vestigation which might be made into his affairs would have to be done either through the criminal or civil courts.
 grand jury" Redwood asserted caustically. They have the power to investigate the acts of public of ficials, but not those of private citi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
THREE RIVERS RISING

PITTSBURG, Pr, Jan. 3-The Mo- nongahela, Allegheny and Ohio riversr swollen by heavy rains in the mountain regions, are expected to- morrow to bring to Pittsburg it's first flood of any consequence since 1913. Flood warnings, issued early in the day by the weather bureau, with the prediction that a crest of 29 feet. seven feet above the flood stage, would be cached, was fol- lowed by day of feverish activity in the lowlands.
 A stage of 23 feet had been reached here tonight with a rise of six-tenths of a foot an hour.
 The Ohio river Is rising rapidly and today the waters began "seep- ing" along the main streets of many Ohio river towns. A stage of 2S feet had been reached at Wheeling, with an expected crest of 40 feet on Sat- urcay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
MRS. HARDING |S BACK IN CAPITAL
Political Circles Cogitate On Her Feasible Avtivity h
 Public Affairs
By LAWRENCE MARTIN (Leased Wire to The Age-Hefald.1

(Lcnsed Wire to The A8e-Hefalost
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Mrs. Flor ence Harding came back to Wash ington today.
 The widow of the former Presi- dent, looking little older and infi- nitely sadder, arrived from Marion. o. where she has been resting since she moved out of the White House last August following the death and burial of her husband.
 President and Mrs. Coolidge sent Q White House automobile to Union station to meet Mrs. Harding and take her to the apartment reserved for her in a downtown hotel, with in sight of the White House. Attor- ney General Daugherty also met her.
 She came in with Mrs. Charles E. Sawyer. whom she has been staying with at Oak Farm, near Marion, ever since the summer. Y
 The journey,from Marion was made in the private car of an official of the Pennsylvania railroad. g Return Start. conjeeture..
 Mrs. Harding's return imm sdiateiy started speculation concerning the ,part she may play in the momentous has never sought the limelight of publicity. but has always been in touch with affairs and her influ- ence has been wielded often in mat ters of state.
 She viii spend the rest of her life carrying out. as far as she can, MT. Harding's great dream of world peace.
 Mrs. Harding is also intensely in terested in seeing that disabled SO diers are given the fullest care t government can afford them.
 She. has been invited to bec' active in politics by accepting ap on the Ohio delegation to the publican national convention June but has not announced h' cision.
 For the present Mrs. Hardi' live quietly. Later in the wi may travel for a short tim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
WHITNEY REVEALS H|S O|L HOLDINGS
Admits Interest In Companies
 Controlling Teapot Dome x Area

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.-Harry Payne Whitney. New York banker and sportsman, told the Senate pub lie lands committee today of his part in floating Harry F. Sinclairs cor porations to operate the. lease of Teapot Dome naval oil reserve.
 A total of 55,000 shares of the Mammoth Oil company and con- siderable interest in the Sinclair, Oil company were purchased by him Tn 1922, MT. Whitney said, in three blocks. The first. comprising 50,00O shares of Mammoth and 50.000 shares quate securies in exchange"
 The second block of 5o.0O0 shares of Mammoth, he said. cost $1,025,00O and the third of 55.000 shares was obtained in exchange for 23,0O0 shares of Reynolds Tobacco. 2 Before MT. Whitney was called, the committee decided to ask Ed ward B. Mclean, publisher of the Washington Post, to appear before it later and testify regarding loan of s100,000 he made to former Secre- tary Albert B. Fall.
 Has Interest In Syndicate.
 In addition to the stock owned out right, MT. Whitney said he had taken a 25,00O share interest" in the Mammoth Oil syndicate which MT. Sinclair has testified was organized to carry out the lease.
 He said the price to be paid under the syndicate agreement was $50 to s32 share. Senator Walsh, demo- crat. Montana, pointed out market quotations of $56 a share had been published and asked why this hand some profit" has not been taken.
 Tt may have, been." said MT. Whit ney. T haven't had a report on the syndicate. But a quotation doesn't mean that we could have gotten that price for the stock"
 The Sinclair issues had, in every instance, been purchased for his own account as an investment, the witt ness declared. and with the exception of small portions of the syndicate interest, were still held in his name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
FAIRFIELD WOMAN DIES

Mrs. J. s. Lovett age 65, died at 10:20 o'clock Thursday night at the residence of her son-in-law, W. J. Oliver. 530 Parkway, Fairfield, after a short illness.
 Mrs. Lovett was born in Wood- berry, Ga. but for some time has made her home with her daughters, and is we'll known in Fairfield. She is survived by three daughters. Mrs. w. J. Oliver of Fairfield, Mrs. R. M Tenlord of Felltown. Ga, and Mrs. c. C. Holmes of Atlanta, and a son, D. V. Lovett, of Florida.
 Funeral services will be announced later by Bell Undertaking company of Fairfield
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
FIREWORKS POP M WOMANS EYE Physicians Say Mrs. Dillon To Lose Sight As
 Result

Struck in the eye by an exploding firecracker. thrown from a group of boys and girls into the crowd com ing out of the Lyric theatre New 2026 Avenue D, was removed from her home to the Woodlawn infirm- ary Thursday night in a serious con- dition.
 Doctors at the hospital stated that the ball of the left eye was injured by the explosion and that Mrs. Dill lon would probably lose sight in one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
Fitzsin,n,ons Is Fined

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan. B. Floyd Fitzsimmons, prize fight promoter, of Benton Harbor, Mich.. pleaded guilty in federal court here today to a technical violation of the internal revenue law. income pay ment of taxes onS gate receipts on the. proposed Jack Dempsey-B Bill Brennan fight at the Michigan City. Ind, arena, which was prevented by order of Gov. Warren T., McCray. Judge A. B. Anderson fined Fitzsim- mons S250 and costs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
SABBATH SERVICES

Regular Sabbath evening services will be held at Temple Emanu-El, Highland avenue and Twenty-first street, Friday night. January 4, at 8 o'clock. Services will be conducted by the rabbi, Dr. NJ. Newfield: who will lecture on his subject. Religion and Morality"
 The open forum meeting. on Sunday morning, January 6, at 11:30 o'clock, will be addressed by Prof. Percy Pratt Burns, dean and head of the department of English literature, at kfkoward college. Professor Burns will speak on the subject of "Decency and Censorship In Literature" His ad- dress will deal particularly with mod ern fiction and drama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
WGGLY WIGGLY STOCK
 HOLDERS FILE SUIT
Charge N. Y. Stock Exchange And
 Others With Conspiracy

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Charges Of conspiracy last March to depress stock in the Piggly Wiggly Stores. Inc with intent to relieve shorts" in the stock market are contained in a petition for damages of $l00,000 files in Brooklyn supreme court to- day.
 The suit was brought by Frank c. Milton ad Walter l.. Smith. Memp $. Tenn, against the New York Stock Exchange, Seymour L. Cromwell, it's president, the stock clearing associa- tion and individual firm members of James E. Bennett & Co.,, Clark Childs & Co. and A. A. Housman & Co. brokers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
CHICAGO DEFEATS YALE FIVE, 24-2l

CHICAGO, Jan. S.-The University of Chicago basketball team tonight defeated Yale .24 to 21, taking the lead five minutes after the game started and maintained a safe mar gin until the contest ended. The Ma rooms, however, were given pad scare in the second half when sec ond string team was sent in. Yale promptly ran the score from "A to 12 up to 24 to 19, when the Chicago regulars were hurried back on the floor and stopped the gains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
SEVEN BOUND OVER IN HOTEL SHOOTING
Charged With Murder Of Negro
 And Proprietor

DUNCAN. Okla. Jan. 3.-Seven men, charged with the murder of Albert Birch, Marlow. Okla, hotel proprietor. and Robert Jernigan, his negro porter, on December IT, were bound over to the district court at the close of their preliminary hear ing, here Thursday.
 Birch was killed while defending the negro from a mob, which at- tempted to run him out of town.
 Marlow is known as "non-negro- town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
To Selet:t Champion,

m PARIS. Jahl. 3.-(By Associated
 Press.)--Thef International Boxing
 tnion has frequested all European
 boxing fedstations affiliated with it
 to designafe before February 15, 8
 light heavyweight pugiiist to enter
 an eiimi4htion tournament designed
 to chose f successor to Battling Siki,, former champion in that class. -asThe European titleholder thus se- f NI1-the finals must be held pre- 8to April 30-will then chal- H4 the American fighter named by m Rational Boxing association as A2 z4Mion of the United States- IL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
th In Court Again

#EWTON, Mass, Jan. 3.-"Babe"
 th's automobile has got him into
 Buble again. A complaint was #orn out in the district court today a motorcycle officer charging the Asme run king, who Is spending the winter at his home on a farm in Sudbury. with overspeeding and with driving an automobile without d Massachusetts registration. A hearing was set for January 12. The officer said he had stopped Ruth on Tuesday afternoon and warned him hot to speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
DYE PLANTS SALE
 UPHELD BY. COURT
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citizen .co-partnership or corporation that desires to use it for the advance. ment in the United States of the only science or industry to which by req son of its nature, the property is ap- pltcable. The sale was in effect a sale to America and it's citizens not to persons then engaged in chemical and allied industries" Uphold. w,n.oxH nH9 9utsorit,. G
 Judge Morris over-ruled the con- tention of the government that the power conferred upon President Will son to order sales of seized enemy property could not legally he trnn ferred by him to Frank l.. Polk, then counsellor of the state department. It was MT. Polk who issued the executive order under which the first three sales by Francis Garvan as alien property custodian to the Chemical Foundation, Inc. Also he over-ruled the claim that the as- signments conducted. by MT. Garvan were invalid for thr further reason that at the time of making the as signments Mir. Garvan was president of the Chemical Foundation. He said that A. Mitchell Palmer, before re- signing as alien property custodian to become attorney general, had or ganized the defendant flor the pur- pose of dtverting the German chemi- cal patents into general public use for the benefit of this country" and that the terms and conditions of the sale had been agreed upon.
 The government also rested its contention at the trial upon section, Al of the criminal code, prohibiting persons interested in the pecuniary profits of, corporations from acting as agents of the government for the transaction of business with such corporation.
 as possible to appeal the decision of the federal district court at Whining ton in the governments suit agains, the Chemical Foundation, Inc. it was said at the department of justice to- night. The government, it was add ed. has every confidence of winning the case ultimately"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04

ly extinct volcano, the streets of Pomerania are reported to grow so hot at times that citizens are unable to walk upon them even when wear ing thick-soled shoes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04

Placing fresh bouquets of flowers in the tops of his fruit trees several times during the blossom season. re- suited in large increase in the yield of fruit of a Washington grower, ac- cording to recent announcement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04

One of, the most successful English yilms-one which earned nearly s1,000,000 in Great Britain-costs only $6,000 in the making.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04

When a man desires to marry in the Pamirs, that most. remote country of General Asia, he must be prepared to purchase his wife by at least 100 sheep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04

Synthetic sugar manufactured from chemicals by a carefully guarded se- cret process is said to have been pro- duced by an Australian chemist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-04
Hanley To Nebraska

LOS ANGELES, Jan. S.-Dick Han ley, coach of the Haskell Indians. will coach. the University of Nebras- ka football eleven next fall. accord ing to word received here.
 Fred Dawson will remain athletic director of the Cornhuskers.
 Manufacture of building paper from sugar-cane waste has been developed
Evening star., 1924-04-06

but that Colhoun took him about the
shoulders. a whale" he said You
remember? It's in the story. amt it,
mister? Only this one was dead,
with the harpoon and the rope still
to, him
You came ashore on a. dead
whale"
Like Jonah. Leastways az he
might have done, for that was tho
way it happened to me-you'l find
mine out there on the reefs, whats
left. You mind the way of it? Now
the word of the Lord come unto
JONAH it says. Now the word of
the Lord come unto Jonah And il
certainly did. mister, because that's
me-"
How" said Colhoun. pityingly He
eyes, but they were bright and clear,
only very, very weary.
"Aye-Jonah. For so T am ami 81
| was christened. and Capn Jonah
Jeffrey of the Galloway Lass is what
I've been these many years. And by
too. mister. and to pay
I, He braced his failing strength with
an effort and. fumbling in the breast
of his coat, drew out a little doqlble-
ended bag of fine coconut fiber that
made the faintest tinkling music
as he placed it in the pastors hand
THE pearls!' cried Colhoun. The
pearls % the mission
"And now you'll be buildin' thai
church. won't you? An honest-t-
heaven church, as you meant? And
maybe-maybe a school for the little
kids as wel1-what? To teach 'ern.
To teach the little niger kids, mis-
ter, that never had no chance and
never knew no better, and give 'em
what they need-the books and the
stories and the good words"
And the songs?" asked Colhoun.
gently. with true instinct.
'Aye-and the songs"
Earnestly then, and eagerly at their
missionary's signal, the faithful little
group lifted their voices in the favor
ite hymn:
DO num-'res hosts of mildly foes,
DID 'arth and hell my way oppose.
e save-ly leads me still a-lon',
'Es lov'n k-ind-'ess, oh 'ow stron
'Es lov'n k-ind-'ess, 'Es loy'n kinds
'ess,
'Es lov'n k-ind-'ess, oh 'ow stron'i
amen! Amsnl' br-athed Capt.
Jonah Jeffrey.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1924-04-06

just fifteen years ago today,
an American citizen stood
~ on the top Of the world and
unfurled our glorious flag to the
breeze.
!. The north pole, the goal of CEN
turies of heroic endeavor on the part
of intrepid explorers, had been at
tanned. and to Robert Edwin Peary,
officer of the United States Navy, be-
longed the great honor of giving to
his country new dominion-over ice
and sea-and of standing, the first
man, at that point on our globe where
the breexes blow only from the south
and where all meridians converge to
a point.
While at the time OF his discovery
Of the pole Peary was an officer of
the United States Navy and was re-
warded for his exploit by retirement
with the grade of rear admiral, he
was at the time also acting Under in
structions from the United States
coast and geodetic survey--instruc-
tions relating to tidal and current
work, in the fulfillment of which he
carried a light sounding apparatus
on the dash to the pole.
Whether or not Peary actually at
tanned the pole was a subject of con-
siderable discussion in the months
following his return therefrom. a
question hardly second to that other
one, was he the frst man to reach
the poie?' prompted BY one of the
most remarkable Incidents the world
has ever witnessed. 1t was according
|ly with a great deal OF interest that
the author embraced the opportunity