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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
RAIN PREDICTED
 HERE MONDAY
Middle Of Week To Be Much l Colder, Says Forecast

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday {: South Atlantic and east gulf states {: Rains Monday and possible Tuesday and again latter part; mild at begin ming, considerably colder middle and somewhat warmer latter part.
 2 West gulf states: Rains at begin ming and again latter part; colder Mon day or Tuesday, warmer about Thurs day.
 Ohio\ valley and Tennessee Rain with mild temperature Sunday night, turning to snow flurries and much colder Monday or Monday night. Cold until after middle of week, then some what warmer; rain or snow probable latter part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
HOUSE FINISHES INTERIOR BILL
 OF $23S,000,OO0
$4O6,OOO Item For Negro University Is Stricken
 From Measure
fRy Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. House consideration of the Interior depart ment appropriation bill was completed late today with only a handful of mem bers on the floor and Q final vote on the measure was postponed until Tues day.
 Representative Cramton, Republican, Michigan, in charge of the bill, an nounced he would demand another vote on the Sinnett amendment which elimi. mated a provision for abolition of 3s land offices next July 13:
 Except for this amendment and the striking out of a $4O6,000 appropria' tion for Howard university in this city on a point of order by Representative Byrnes, democrat, South Carolina, the bill was not changed by the house II any important particular.
 It carries a total of $23S, ,000,0O, g decrease of $50, ,OO0, 900 from the total available for expenditure this year anc $1,5OO, 900 from budget estimates:
 Among the items approved withou, material change were those for recla nation projects in the west, the total amounting to $,943,0O0.
 Mir. Byrnes in proposing elimination of the allotment for Howard universlt! an institution for negroes, contendet the provisions were not authorized by law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
COTTON MILLS
 REOPEN MONDAY
10000 Employees To Re- turn To Work In New
 England
(By AssOciated Press, ]

FALL RIVER, Mass, Dec. 6.-An- nouncement was made today by the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers associa- tion that all but five of the cotton mills of the city will reopen at full time Monday, affording employment for 2O,- GOO persons. Some of the mills had been closed for many months. Improved conditions in the cloth market are given as the reason.
 The five mills of the 121 in the city which will remain closed are the Amer ican Linen, the Arkwright, the Flint, the Seaconnett and Stafford mills. In- cluded in the list of the plants resum- ing operations Monday are the Weet- mamoe and Troy mills, which have been closed for many months. A large number of the other plants have either been closed or operating on part time. At one time in the past year it was estimated that more than 30,000 textile operatives were out of work in Fall River.
 The announcement of the manufac- turers said the demand for finished product of Fall river looms had shown decided improvement and that many orders had been placed with the local mills.
 There has been no wage reduction in Fall River textile mills but several plants have rearranged their machinery so as to give additional looms to each worker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
Elite Of Nation To Fete
 , Exiled Russian Duchess
Fedeovria Arrives As PoliceGuarded Guest of
 Prominent Families

CT of the Black Sea fleet of the Rus sians during the World war, and Ad- miral Petroff, of the Russian Imperial navy.
 2, A somewhat angular woman,. tall and dressed simply to the point of sever ity, the Grand Duchess graciously well comed newspaper men, who invaded her suite at Quarantine. But she deftly turned aside all references to anything political, Russian or otherwise, and positively declined to discuss whatever notions she might have regarding the return of the monarchy to Russia-an events which probably would place her on the throne as 'the little mother of all the Russians"
 To Voice Thanks
 Her visit was purely a social mat. ter, she insisted. And with that, she adds, was coupled a desire to express in person her thanks to Americans who have exerted themselves to relieve the sufferings of Russian nobles, exiled since the revolution.
 In a statement issued through M Diamgaroff, she denied various rumors connected with her visit and reiterated that 'it is purely social in its natur, and has no political or financial pur pose"
 Present plans will take the roya party to Washington and Philadelphia In New York she will be the guest o Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr.. ant Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, while in Wash ington, Mrs. John Hays Hammond ant Mir. and Mrs. Robert Lansing will b, her hosts. In Philadelphia she will b, the guest of Mrs. Alexander van Rens selaer and Garden Cassell.
 The Grand Duchess is a cousin O King George of England. Her father was the son of Queen Victoria of Eng land, who became the Grand Duke Fret of Saxe Coburg- Gotha and her mothe was the only daughter of Nicholas I O Russia. Her sister is Queen Marie O Rumania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
DAVIS DEPARTS
 FOR CHILE VISIT

BUENOS AIRES. Dec 6.-James J. Davis, secretary of labor of the United States, who has been in Argentine for more than week, left today for Chile.
 Before his departure he wrote to the Welsh colony in Chubut, expressing re gret that he was unable to visit there. He paid tribute to the part Welshmen played in the development of Argen- tina, as they diddin the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
OIL co.
 MAKES BIG PROFIT

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Receivers for the Southern Cotton Oil company, subsidiary of the Virginia Carolina Chemical company, reported today that during their administration of the com pany's affairs from March 8 to October 31, 1924, operating profit had amounted to $971,o78, including the proceeds from operation of its subsidiaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
SIOOP AGROUND

BOSTON, Dec. 6.-The fishing sloop s sIrene was reported aground on the
 rocks off the Island of Nantucket Tonight in a message received at the Boston navy yard. The coast guard
 cutter Tampa prepared to go to her assistance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07

Thousands of beautiful French China Pieces, French and Dresden China Fish, Game, Chocolate, Soup and Breakfast Sets, Fruit and Salad Bowls, Celery Trays, Dressing Sets, Bon Bon Dishes, Nut Bowls, Encrusted Gold Dinner, Tea, Bread and Butter Plates, etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-07
w q BROWN DIES

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. Civilian c. Brown, Il, former president of the New York Central railroad, died this morning in, South Pasadena. Two years ago he suffered stroke of apo plexy and has been in failing shealth since. Services will be held at the res idence at 10 o'clock Monday. Inter- ment will be at Lime Springs. Iowa, his former home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
A DEMOCRAT HEAD
OF BIG COMMITTEE
LAFOLLETTE BLOCK TRI-
UMPHS IN CHAIRMAN
SHIP FIGHT.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The FIVE
weeks deadlock in the senate over the
election of a chairman of the powerful
interstate commerce committee was
broken with dramatic suddenness by
the election OF Senator Ellison D..
Smith, of South Carolina,
Smiths election places the initiative
for railroad legislation at this session
largely upon the democratic party,
Notwithstanding the republican con-
troll of congress.
He is the first democratic chairman
OF a legislative committee of congress
since 1920. His election represents a
victory for the, LaFollette insurgent
group in the senate, who despite their
small numbers successfully opposed
the reelection of Senator A. B. Cum
Minis, author of the present transporta-
ton act.
Smiths election was brought about
on the thirty-second ballot Wednesday
afternoon, when the progressives sud
denly decided to abandon their efforts
to force a compromise from the admin
istration forces in favor of Senator
Couzens, of Michigan. By swinging
over to Smith they gave him the ma
jojrity necessary to elect.
The official vote was Smith 50,
Cummins % and Couzens g.
The total votes cast were "a, making
majority of SO necessary to elect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
100 MILLION BID
FOR MUSSEL SHOALS
A COUNTER-OFFER TO FORD
PROPOSAL IS SUBMITTED
BY TENN. POWER CO.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-An offer
OF $1OOOOO,OO0 for the governments
water-power and nitrate plants at Mus
sci Shoals, Ala, has been received
IRON group OF southern companies
operating in Tennessee, Alabama,
Georgia, North and South Carolina,
the Federal Power Commission has ad-
vised congress in letter to Repre-
sentative Harry E. Hull, of Iowa, a
member of the house military affairs
committee, which is considering Mus
sci Shoals legislation.
Under the new bid, which was sub
mitted through the Tennessee Electric
Power Company OF Chattanooga, the
property would be leased to the south
ern interests for so years. after which
it would revert to the government.
The offer was presented to the mill
tary affairs committee as counter
bid to that OF Henry Ford.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
UNCLE SAM TOOK BIG
TOLL OF BOOTLEGGERS
KNOCKED BIG HOLE IN RUM
RUNNING BUSINESS OF 1923.
MANY PRISONERS.

The war of Uncle Sam on the rum
row off the New Jersey coast has cost
$5.000,O0O in a year, all in loss to the
rum smugglers.
Government forces have captured
100 sea craft, an airplane, 40 motor We
hicles, 375 men, and $4,000 cases OF all
kinds OF liquor.
Two Kings In, Jail.
In addition the two kings OF the
business are in jail. "Rummy Bill
Mccoy. leader of the ocean smugglerS,
was caught not long ago. Still more
recently Mamie" Kessler, chief OF
the shore bootleggers, fell into the
tolls of the law. The Dutch cruiser
Zeehond. mother ship of the liquor
fleet, and a seaplane used as a lookout
also are in the hands of the federal
government.
Still the rum running and bootleg
cling continues. The rum runners are
not frightened at their losses. Five
million dollars is but drop In the
h,cket beside the huge profits they
make.
Rum running and smuggling was
rampant in 1922, but by the end OF
1928 the bootleg liquor business
along the Atlantic coast was well IN
check. No rum of any large quantity
is being landed now, is the official as
suranCe to Washington
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
$3.50, 900 MADE BY
UNCLE SAM ON TIP
AGENT IN EUROPE TIPS OFF
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS AND
BROKER MUST PAY.

NEW YORK-Greater activity on
the part OF "tipsters" who inform
treasury department officials of gem
purchases by wealthy Americans
abroad today was expected to result
from the announcement yesterday that
cooperation between "tipster,"
agents and the American
Jewellers Protective Association led to
the payment by Simon w Strauss, in
vestment broker, of $150,00O in duty
and penalty for failure to declare jewel
ry brought from Europe last Novem-
Der. OF this amount the person who
supplied the information will get S37, =
500, or rs per cent.
Mr.. Strauss, it was learned paid
the government $108,875 to recover
the Jewels he brought here November
2 when he arrived from Europe. He
also paid a penalty of Sal ,125 for neg
lect to declare the jewels on his Gus
toms list and $4,000 claimed by the
government for alleged under-valua-
ton Of gems sent here through various
shipping agencies.
Mr.. Strauss is president OF the
American Society OF Thrift
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
WILL TURN SPOTLIGHT
ON PROPAGANDISTS
PROPOSED UNCOVERING OF
LOBBY LIKELY TO FIND
POLITICAL DYNAMITE.

The Atlanta Georgian prints the
following Washington dispatch from
George R. Holmes, staff correspondent
OF the International News Service:
Torn by discussion, split into snarl-
ing factions and filed with rampant
minorities, the turbulent sixty-eighth
congress stood Wednesday on the
verge of plunging into an abyss of in
vestigation whose depth is unesti-
mated and unplumbed.
Pending before the senate Is a reso-
luton fathered by Senator Reed, OF
Missouri, calling for an official investi-
CATION into the lobbying" and pro
paganda" which. it is charged, mem
bers OF congress are being subjected
to in behalf of various pieces of legis-
1ation pending and proposed. Inquiry
among both republicans and demo-
Gratis developed the belief among sena-
tors that the resolution should pass.
Field Day for Airing.
Once it does, and if it does, the re
suit will be a field day for airing all
the grievances and counter grievances
of all the factions in congress, with
the possibility that the probe may IN
cover some political dynamite. Such
seemingly innocent resolutions OF in
quiry in the past have sometimes pro-
duced astonishing results.
1t is estimated by sponsors OF the
resolution that there are no less than
200 organizations and individuals in
and around the capitol, working for
specific legislation, whose activities
would come within the scope OF the
Reed resolution Virtually every ma
ior industry in the country maintains
a national organization here to look
out" for its interests.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
AT AGE OF 88 YEARS
is BACK IN CONGRESS
VENERABLE IKE SHERWOOD
ONLY CIVIL WAR VETERAN
IN NATIONAL HOUSE.

TOLEDO, O.-Nenerable Ike Sher-
wood has gone back to Washington
again to help run the country.
At SO he is the oldest congressman
civil war veteran in the house
Sherwood holds the rank of briga-
der general.
1t puzzles him. he says. to fathom
the reason why more soldiers from
the recent war aren't rewarded with
congressional offices.
Fifty years intervene between his
first trip to the capital and this latest
one.
In 1873 there were IS Union soldiers
in the house. This number he says,
included six major generals, many
brigadiers and lesser commissioned
grades.
With a Confederate major represent
ing a southern district Sherwood IS
the sole civil war survivor
From the time OF his first call, when
he ran as a republican, the aged veter-
an has been reelected many times.
Today his politics are changed. He
was elected on a democratic ticket last
time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
VIEWS like
SENATOR UNDERWOOD'S
IN LINE WITH WHAT THE
ALABAMA STATESMAN HAS
BEEN TELLING PEOPLE.
ECONOMIC SANITY IS DEMANDED
Business Demands That Demagogic
Tendency Be Checked. Farmers
Need Markets for Produce in Place
of Platitudes, Says the Albanian.

ATLANTA--In a great many ways
leading southern newspapers, discuss
ing business conditions editorially
have recently followed to remarkably
close extent the speeches OF U. S.
Senator Oscar w. Underwood, candi-
date for the presidency, delivered at va
rious points in the country in the fall
Like Senator Underwood, editorials
now attracting the attention of bust
ness men notice the turning of the tide
to an era of prosperity in this country
beginning with 1924, provided radical
Legislation does not hinder its progress.
R. c. Gordon, Georgia, campaign man
ager for Underwood, points to the fact
that the views of number of leading
southern editors as expressed during
the last few days are strikingly in
line with what Senator Underwood has
been telling the people OF the country
for several years.
Southern editors have expressed the
view, to which Mr.. Gordon calls espe-
cia1 attention, that the business pendu-
lum is being kept restless by the I'M
certainties of a demagogiC tendency in
congress, the effect being almost as
disastrous as the enactment of the
legislation proposed; that so long as
congress threatens to impose heavier
taxes, instead OF relieving the burdens
now carried the influence is destruc-
tive, not constructive; that so long as
congress feeds the farmer on plati-
tudes, getting him heavily in debt
without giving him the foreign market
to absorb the surplus OF his production,
the influence is to hold agriculture's
nose to the grinding stone
Like Senator Underwood, Mr.. Cor
don says, one editorial declares that
the issue todays is economic sanity.
Another editorial. which Mr.. Gordon
emphasized in his statement, declares
that it is time for the outstanding
thought of the country to take stand
for sane legislation and constructive
action by those i'll authority.
THE Underwood views are so strik-
ingly expressed by recent editorials,
said Mr. Gordon, that most Of us in
the democratic ranks, as well as under
the Underwood banner feel called
upon to express our great gratifica-
ton"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
q MILLION DOLLARS
IN NEW STATE TAXES
CHAMPIONSHIP BELT" FOR
RAISING TAXES GOES TO
THE EXTRA SESSION.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Since the extra
session OF the Georgia legislature ad-
iourned the state house officials have
been figuring on the additional money
which will be raised under the new
taxes and they estimate that the state
will get $4,000000 more in 1924 than
was collected in 1928.
This gives the present legislature
the championship belt for raising
money. Never before in the history OF
the state has there been legislature
which put so much new tax on people
in one year, or even in two years.
In 1924 the state collected from the
pockets of the people little less than
100000.
In 1918 the collections were little
more than $7,000,000, an average gain
OF 100000 year
In 1924 the state will collect be
tween S16.000,000 and $17000,000, if the
laws are enforced.
The politicians are wondering what
the people are going to say about 1t.
Some OF the legislators are said to be
feeling uneasy over it. The Macon
platform adopted in October, 1922, de
clared that taxes must not be in
creased. In the face of that the leg
stature made the greatest increase
ever known in the history Of the state.
Some Of the members are wondering II
they did not go too lar.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
TOSS LEAP YEAR
STUFF IN DISCARD

CHICAGO-Exercise of tradi-
tional Leap Year prerogative is go
ing more and more into the discard,
according to DR.. Herman n. Bun
densen, health commissioner and
prominent Chicago woman.
CAREFUL.
THE modern girl refuses to seize
the first masculine person she can
get. She's learned to earn her own
livelihood, and to think twice be-
fore marrying"
Don't rush into matrimony just
to be a Mrs." was the advice Of
Mrs. George Plummer, president of
the Alliance of Business and Pro-
fessional Women. "And don't stay
out of matrimony just to have a
career"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15

1t is estimated that several thousand
dollars of additional revenue will be
received by the state under the cor
poration tax in the general tax act
passed at the recent extra session OF
the legislature, which is still in the
hands of the printer
In order to give corporations notice
OF the tax they are expected to pay
the comptroller general has prepared
a schedule OF the tax rates and mailed
out copies. The tax is payable in ad-
vance on the first day of the year, and
the foreign corporations must mail
checks to the comptroller general at
once. while domestic corporations must
pay the county tax collectors.
Under the old tax law the largest
tax imposed was 5000 per annum,
which applied to all corporations with
a capitalization OF 100000 or more.
Under the new law the 5000 tax ap-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
4 MEAN TRICK
ON 4 POOR FISH

SCOTLAND. = A pet catfish
owned by Emily Flanders, little
girl of Scotland, probably is won
dering what happened to it when
the cold wave hit this section. The
fish, captured about a year ago, has
made its home in gold fish bowl at
the Flanders home.
FROZE SOLID.
The water in the bowl froze
solid. So did the catfish. Although
little hope was entertained for its
recovery gentle hands took the
fsh's icy mausoleum and thawed it
out. When this was completed the
catfish walled its eyes, wiggled its
~ and otherwise showed signs of
GPDf, activity. 1t was placed in
fresh 'AARr end apparently is as
good as evt
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15

MACON. Ga.-A hickory switch
convinced Thomas Ebert Bloodworth;,
IS. for the time being, that welded
bliss is a chimera. Old hickory ap-
pIied unstintedly by his mother
blighted his romance and dissolved MS
marriage with Ludie Watson, II.
Twentv-seven hours after they were
married Thomas and Ludie were
separated, annulment proceedings in
stituted by both families, and the hus-
band with Miss Lula MllllIons'
former postmistress at Crump's Park
Ga. and George O'Dell arrested on
warrants charging kidnapping MISS
Millirons and O'Dell are accused Oh
being the match makers"
For a time an epidemic OF child mar
r;apes in this section has been ended.
There had been three other elope-
,nents of school students within few
weeks preceding the Bloodworth-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15
MULES BOARD BILL
PROVES EXPENSIVE
GEORGIA CITIZEN URGING
UNCLE SAM TO PAY WITH
OUT FURTHER DELAY.

A bill marked urgent remittance de-
sired for $3.50 for upkeep and board
of mule seized almost a year ago by
officials of the United States marshaps
office has been received in Atlanta by
Marshal Walter Akerman from north
Georgia livery stable proprietor
The mule was seized by the govern
ment agent on a whisky. raid and
placed in the keeping of the livery
proprietor while the case was pending
in the courts Recently the mule was
sold at public auction for $58 Its
mate which was taken at the same time
died soon after. The bill included a
number Of items summed as board
and lodging for the mule. It will be
sent to Washington.