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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
REPUBLIC PLANS sl,OOo,oOO BATTERY
 OF COKE OVENS
Official Visit Seen As Confirmation Of
 Reports

Although official confirmation was unobtainable Wednesday the report was circulated in Birmingham that the Re- public Iron and Steel company has under consideration the construction of battery of by-product coke ovens at East Thomas involving an expenditure of more than $1,00O,00O.
 While the report has been heard here in the past, the presence of J. W. Beetrick, second vice president of the Republic company from Youngs- town, and his prolonged inspection of the situation at Thomas, added more than usual weight to the reports.
 Mir. Beetrick was in Thomas for several hours with Charles T. F. Fair bairne, Southern district manager, neither of whom would confirm or deny the report.
 Activities at Thomas, where Hive ovens once were operated, and the clear ing away of site, coupled with the report of other details tended to con- firm the probability of the new con- structure.
 The Republic company now secures it's coke from the Semet-Solvay com pany by, furnishing that company with coal from Republic and Sayreton which is delivered again as coke. The Solvay company retains the bi-products and receives fee for the coking and the coal is reloaded and sent to the fur naces at Thomas. Inasmuch as the Republic is operating about S5 per cent in the east it is believed the of ficials are determined to eliminate the dependence upon the Semet-Solvay com pany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
5O.OOO EXTRA NEEDED
 FOR HOLIDAY MAIL
Men Are Necessary To Handle
 Christmas Rush
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-Between 4OOOO and J0,000 extra employees will be required to handle the peak load or Christmas mail this year. postal offl- cials today estimated The extra cost will be about S2,500,000.
 The New York postoffice and its branches will require at least 2,OOO extra employees with a corresponding in crease planned for other large offices throughout the country and the rail way mail service will need an added force of from ten to twenty thousand.
 To handle the rush of Christmas mail smoothly even with the added army of employees the postoffice department is stressing the necessity of public coop eration in pushing it's shop carly mail early for Christmas, campaign
 The increased postal force will he in full swing when teh peak of the heavy mail period is reported about December 23
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
AUGUST BELMONT
 DIES IN GOTHAM
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the Rcctory school, Hamrden, Conn.,, and Phillips Exetor Academy.
 In 1875 he entered the banking firm of his father of which he assumed con trol in 1890 at the death of his father and has throughout this life been prominent in banking circles. At the time of his death he was head of the firm of August Belmont and company.
 Was Director Of l.. and N
 Mir. Belmont was chairman of the board of the Interborough Rapid Transit company which he organized. He was chairman of the board of the Louis vile and Nashville railroad, a director of the St. Paul railroad, a director of the Equitable Life Insurance company, the National Park bank and various other corporations.
 NIT. Belmont was married twice and was the father of three children. His first wife, whom he married in 1881 was Bessie II. Morgan. She died in 1898 snd in 1910 Mir. Belmont married Eleanor Robson, famous actress. His children by his fist wife were August, Jr.. Raymond and Morgan. August, Jr.. died in 1919
 MT. Belmont was the son of August and Caroline Slidell Perry) Belmont
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
 NAMED M SUIT
Tennesseans Claim Company
 Seized Valuable Land

NEWPORT, Tenn, Dec. 1O.-Valid- ity of charter rights conferred on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railway, now a part of the Southern Railway system, Cooke and Jefferson counties, Tenn, is attacked in a suit filed in magistrates court here by J. G., and D. G. Allen of Leadvale, Tenn.
 The suit results from construction, by the Southern, of double track railroad from Morristown, through Leadvale and Newport, Tenn. to Ashe- vile, N. C., and in the building of which the complainants charge that the said company has seized six acres of valuable land in Jefferson county and approximately nine acres in Cooke county, which rightfully belongs to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
BRAGG TO HEAD
 SOUTHERN CLUB
J. w. Oden, Vice Presi- dent Board Of Direct
 ors, Elected

Thomas Bragg of the bond depart ment of the Alabama Power Company was chosen president of the Southern club at the annual election of officers Wednesday night. J. W. Oden, of the Oden- Elliott Lumber company, was named vice president.
 A board of governors composed of Thornton Estes, retiring president, T. H. Benners, R. E. Smith, Robert Will Hams and Jack Wenslett also was named. The president and vice presi. dent will serve ex-officio members of the board, and the entire new set of officers will assume charge of the affairs of the club on January l.
 . The annual report of the various committees were read at the election and a general discussion of policies was indulged in. Attendance was among the best at any election ever held by the club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
CAPITAL ALUMNI
 TO ASK REMOVAL
 OF DIR. D0WELL
Not Man For President Of Auburn, Says
 Resolutions
(State Capital Bureau.)

MONTGOGERY, Ala, Dec. 1O-Ihe Montgomery County Auburn Alumni association called meeting here tonight adopted resolution calling on the president of the association to appoint a commission of five to appear before the January 12 meeting of the board of trustees of Auburn and tell them that "it is the belief of the Montgomery County Alumni association that Dr. Spright Dowcll is not the man for president of Auburn.
 The action was taken following a three hour session in which Dr. Dowell was endorsed as a Christian gentleman but attacked as Il man too small for his job by his opponents and defended as a Christian gentleman and thorough scholar and capable executive by his symapthizers.
 Many of the most prominent men in Montgomery county attended the meet ing which was open to the public and to which the newspapers were especi- ally invited to send representatives,.
 Charles Debardeleben, of Birming- ham, past president of the alumni asso- citation and chairman of the drive for funds, was present and presented the identical resolution adopted recently by the Birmingham meeting of the alumni of the state.
 The wording of the resolution adopted by vote of 59 to 36 is as follows |: Resolved: that the president appoint committee of five to go before the trustees of Auburn at the called meet ing for January 12 and inform them that the alumni association of Mont gomery county does not believe that Dr. Spright Dowell is the man for the president of Auburn and that that com- mittee state to the board of trustees its reasons for so thinking" Dr. George Blue, president of the association, was in the chair with Colonel Willard West colt acting as secretary.
 A second resolution calling upon all members of the board of trustees who are not members of the Auburn alumni to resign was tabled by an over whelm- ing vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
BEET SUGAR PRICE
 CHOPPED 40 CENTS
Reductions Since Saturday To- tai 90 Cents Per 100 Pounds

DENVER, Clo., Dec. 1O.-Prices for beet sugar today approached the 1923 low level when forty cents q hundred pounds was topped off the price, all ready reduced 50 cents since last Satur- day.
 This brings the prevailing market price to within ten cents of the 1923 mark reached on June 4, when the price dropped to SIPS hundred pounds.
 Officials of the Great Western Sugar company here attributed the sharp drop to reports of recordbreaking crops of both teet and sugar cane. They pre- dict that further reductions will be made. Today's prices from the manu- facturer are: Beet $7.35; cane S7.55
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
FRENCH ARMY TESTS
 NEW MOTOR FUEL
Debenzolized Coal Tar Used To
 Be Cheaper Than Gasoline

PARIS, Dec. 10.-Tests by the artil- lery laboratories at Vincennes are said to have justified the claims made for q new motor fuel extracted from debenzo- lized coal tar by process invented by NJ. Makhonine, a Russian engineer.
 When used in heavy trucks and trac- tors, according to Le Matin, French newspaper. it developed much greater power than gasoline and gave slightly higher mileage to the gallon. Its cost is said to be but one tenth that of gasoline. Further experiments are to be made with 40 trucks which will cover between 2.000 and 5000 miles each.
 Pending further data experts here are withholding judgment although in clined to be skeptical of the merits claimed for the fuel The process it is stated is also being tried in the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
ASTOR PORTRAIT
 STARTS WRANGLE
Removal From House Of Com-
 mons Is Discussed
(By Associated Press ]

LONDON, Dec. 10.-An amusing dilemma has arisen over the disposition of Lady Astor's portrait, which hangs on one of the staircases of the house of commons. The picture was presented to parliament by Lord Astor with the approval of a former government. But parliament has found it undesirable as a matter of principle that pictures or statues of living persons should be displayed there.
 In the controversy which lasted for weeks the picture was covered with a cloth and it still hangs under this shroud, neither Lord Astor nor the first commissioner of works, Lord Peel being willing to remove it.
 Lady Astor said laughingly: Tt has nothing to do with me. The house of commons accepted it; let them do what they like with it.'
 It is reported Washington has re- quested the portrait. The city of Ply mouth also wants it for it's art gallery and it is said Plymouth will get it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11

HATTIESBURG. Miss. Dec. 1O.- Special "A widow and six children who have been occupying an aban- doned barn near Richburg, only a few miles from Hattiesburg, which has been the only place of abode for months, are to be given a Christmas present. such as no family in Missis- sippi may ever dream of receiving from Santa Claus this year. They are to have presented to them, on or be- fore Christmas morning, a cozy lit tie cottage. everything spick and span, completely furnished and as the breezes sweep through from the Rich
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
TRAIN HITS AUTO:
 CHILD DIES, 2 HURT

NORFOLK, Va. Dec. 10.-One per son was instantly killed and two others severel y injured when an automobile, in which they were riding, was struck by Norfolk and Western train at the South Norfolk crossing near here.
 Ruby Grandy, five-year-old step daughter of Thomas Evans, South Nor folk, was instantly killed in the crash and the father suffered internal in Jurles. Emmett Evans, brother of the girl s stepfather, sustained a fractured skull and little hope is held for his record
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
LOUISIANA BOY
 DIES w FLAMES
Allen Lindsay, 7, Is Trapped In
 Burning Homo

klNGSVILLE, La., Dec. 10.-Allen Lindsay, 7-year-old, was burned to death in fire which early today de- troyed the Lindsay home, forcing other members of the family to flee scantily dressed. w. K. Lindsay, father of the boy, was badly burned while going from bed to bed awakening the family. Reaching the yard he found Allen was missing. The boys half-burned body was recovered before the house was totally destroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
FREIGHT CAR SURPLUS
Shipping Slump Causes 1S3,914 Cars to
 Lie Idle. Says Report

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-A total of lS3.914 surplus freight ears in good re pairs on November 30. an increase of l7,S13 over the number shown Novem- Der 22, was reported today by the American Railway association. The in crease was attrilt tIted to seasonal fall Ing off in transportation demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
DR. HARMON HEADS SEABOARD SURGEONS
Columbia Physician Elected At
 Florida Railway Meet

SARASOTA. Fla, Dec. 1O.-Dr. S E. Harmon of Columbia, S. C., was elected president of the Association of Surgeons of the Seaboard Air Line railway last night. Other officers elected were Dr. Edward T. Connolly Birmingham, vice president; Dr. T. M McDuffy, Manate. Fla, second vice president; pr. W. T. Graham, Rich, mond. Va, third vice president; Dr. J w. Palmer, Alley, Ga, was reelected secretary.
 Dr. Jack Halton of Sarasota was named chairman of the executive com mittee for a six-year term. The selec. tion of the 1925 convention city was left to the executive committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
PRESIDENTS WATCH
 FOUND M BREAD
Magician Entertains Coolidge At
 White House
tBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. IU.-W hlle President and Mrs. Coolidge are ab, staining from attendance at theatrical performances some of the troupes which visit Washington are carrying the thea ter to the White House.
 A magician yesterday moved to the executive mansion with large van and 22 members of his company, entertain ing Mir. and Hrs. Coolidge for an hour
 The magician took watch presented to the President and apparently struck 1t a solid blow with q hammer. The President was relieved when the watch was found in a loaf of White House broad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
FOOD PRICES JUMP
 THREE PER CENT
Louisville And Norfolk Report 6Per Cent Increase

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-Increase in retail food prices ranging up to three per cent during the month ending De- cember 15 were shown in 19 out of 20 cities for which figures were announced today by the department of labor. The 3 per cent maximum was reported at Rochester; 6 per cent increase was shown in New York, Louisville, New Haven. Norfolk and Portland, Maine. Ten of the twenty cities showed an in crease in prices ranging up to the 3 per cent in the year ending November 1E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
FRANKS REWARD
 OF $6,OOO DIVIDED
Reporters Given Share For SoIv-
 ing Loeb-LeopOld Case

CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-Eight persons today shared the $6,00O reward offered for the solution of the murder of Robert Franks for which Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., now are serving life sentences.
 Alvin H. Goldstein and James W. Mulroy, Chicago Daily News reporters, received $1 300 each.
 The others who shared were Robert, Minke, who found the body under a Pennsylvania Railroad culvert, Paul korff who found Leopold's glasses, John Noleska, and Walter and George knitter. members of the railroad signal crew, and Robert Hunt, watchman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
Catholics, Jews And Kan
 TOPresent Widow Home

burg hills. blowing to one side neat handmade curtains the family will be able to look through the windows on ten acres of land all their own, a house furnished and provided with wood and food. Headed by Hatties- burg Klan No. IS. Knights of Ku klux, Hattiesburg business establish ments needing the call of Mrs. E. A. kernaghan for clothing. food and money for the distressed seven, will make it possible for the home to be built. The Ilansmen will actually con- struct the home. Protestants, Jews and Catholics have Joined in provid- ing material and funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
GERMAN CABINET
 TO RESIGN SOON
(By Associated Press !

BERLIN, Dec. IO.-The cabinet at a meeting today decided to resign. The date Of resignation will be fixed by a agreement between chancellor Marx and President Ebert.
 Unless Ebert requests the Marx StreSSemann cabinet to continue in of flee until after the holidays, it is prob able that the affairs of Germany will be entrusted to n new ministry next week. This would be composed of 5urgeoise parties, in which the German national ists, by virtue of their preponderance cisive role.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
SOUTHERN SHIPPERS
 MEET IN ORLEANS
Joint Conference To Be Held
 Friday And Saturday

NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 10.- Shippers and railroad officials of the south were arriving tonight to attend the sessions here of the Southern Traf- fife league tomorrow and the joint meet ings of the Southeast and Southwest Shippers Regional Advisory boards Friday and Saturday.
 Virtually every industry and rail- road operating in the south were ex- pected to be represented at the meet ings, at which many problems dealing with traffic and transportation will come up for discussion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
TO ABOLISH NAVAL BASE

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 1O.-The United States naval coaling station at Pichilinque bay, near La Paz, Gulf of California, maintained as an emergency fuel base for more than 25 years, is to be abolished at the request of the Mexican government, according to word received at Eleventh naval district head quarters from Washington yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
COTTON CROP RUINED

Nicaraguan Fields Suffer Huge Ioss
 Throughout Caterpillar ScOurpe
 SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 1OED;s- patches from Managua says the grea tar part of the Nicaraguan cotton cron hoe been ruined by caterpillars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
PAGE FATHER TIME!

NEW YORK, Dee. 1O-CharIFs Narona wanted to be the first motorist in New York to put 1925 license plates on his car. He was. Now Charles is held .n $50 bail on a charge of driving with improper license plates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
SENATOR'S CLASH
 ON SHOALS BILL
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 performances of the Alabama Power company that they would reduce either the price of power of fertilizer if they got the poperty.
 Senator Harrison, democat, Missis- sippi, accused Senator McKellar of not studying the Underwood bill and dis agreed with his statement that the pow CT companies had offered better pro- posal than the Underwood bill. He de clared their bid allowed per cent on the cost of production and sale of ferti- lizer and only 312 per cent on the cost of the Muscle Shoals property.
 Restricts Profits
 The Underwood bill the Mississip- pi senator declared, restricted the pro- fits on fertilizer to f per cent of the cost of prdouction only and required q rental of 4 per cent on the cost of the property. He asserted Senator Nickel lar would be doing ''dis-service" to the farmers and taxpayers of the cOun- try by favoring more profits on ferti- lizers ad depriving the government of at least one-half per cent in rental.
 Senator Norris said the senate must decide if it wishes to require the pro- duction of fertilizer at Muscle Shoals regardless of whether it can be produced at d profit or loss. Senator Underwood said his bill provided for the produc- tion of a certain amount of fixed nitro- gen annually either at loss or profit for bo of of He declared that since it would be more profitable to convert it into fer tilizer than to throw it away, it would be natural to assume it would be turned into fertilizer If lessee took over the property, Senator Underwood said he naturally would expect to be able to produce fertilizer at profit under the terms of the bill and he would be held to the contract.
 Amendment Passed
 The senate voted down without a record vote the McKellar amendment which would have given authority to the secretary of war to fix rates on power produced at Muscle Shoals. An amendment, introduced by Senator Underwood at the suggestion of the chief of army engineers, authorizing the secretary of war to complete the "nec- essary approaches to locks in Dam number 2" was unanimously accepted.
 Senator Underwood asked unanimous consent to insert an amendment to his bill providing that future funds for the maintenance of Muscle Shoals would be included in national defense appropriations of the rivers and har- bors bill. Upon objection by Chair man Wadsworth of the military affairs committee, he withdrew the proposal, declaring ''it came from the govern ment,' and met with his approval.
 At the opening today's session, it was agreed unanimously to hold the Muscle Shoals question before the sen ate until it is disposed of. Leaders ex- pected to obtain a final vote before the end of the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-11
BANK AT SHAWNEE
 LOOTED OF SI5,OOO
Officials And Customers Locked
 In Vault By Bandits
(By Associated Press)

SHAWNEE, Okla. Dee. 10.--After locking all the officials. employees and customers in the vault. three unmasked men today robbed the Federal National bank here of cash eStimted by officials at $15,0O0 and escaped in small motor ear. About ten persons were imprison- ed until they gave an alarm through q telephone in the vault
 Posses were in close pursuit of the robbers soon after the hold-up. The three men entered the bank as it open ed for business. Their leader. a small lnan, herded the victims into the vault. The robbers scooped up all the cash in sight and leisurely left the bank, join ing fourth who waited in the car out side.
 DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 10.-Four men held up q branch bank of the Bank of Detroit here today and escaped with S15.0OO in cash. Six customers, P. IL. Keller, manager; Marvin Frederick, teller. and q bookkeeper were lined against the wall while the bandits scooped the cash from tills.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-09-20

with him, and will make even more friends among foreigners by his at tempt to keep the actual fighting, which was bound to occur sooner or later, from going on near any of the cities where foreign lives or proper ty might be endangered. l think that it is highlyt improbable tha General Lu will receive any outside assistance, while General Chi, if necessary could expect assistance from General Chou Yin-jen the Tu- chun of Fukien, provi?ce (which ad- mate of General Chi in the Military joins Chekiang), who was class College ,as we'll as from other Chihli leaders.
 ''The end of the war will mean that General Chi will be in control of all that portion of China along the Lower Yangtze all of South China, in fact, except the Canton area, and will make him and Gen. eral Wu Pei-fu, who is also a very bright man and an extremely able warrior, the two 'vost powerful lead CTS in the entire country"
Seward daily gateway., 1924-09-20
Bombard Shanghai; Kills Two Ciuilians
 Allies Make Protest

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-03
Can't Conceal the Dirty Mess

Evidence submitted the Teapot Dome Committee in the
last days. despite the efforts at conceament by
officials the president down. has furnished abundant
these contentious by bringing light the
intimate connection with the benecares of the Teapot Dome
steal of the circle of the Department of Justice
headed by William J. Burns.
Let again that Daugherty and
William their personal and confidential secretaries,
the and his confidential with other conden
tal employees of the Department of Justice constituting those
the heart of the cooperaed keep the
theving whose activities the tgang
informed of the slightest their safety.
Let be remembered that these the agencies capital
lists broke the strike of the rawaymen because they said
challenge the and that trying still
Jail Communist workingmen for attempting overthrow
the government"
If the and of America still believe that
American in theory their government
plain that every of the Coolidge administration refuta
ton of that theory?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-03
Haze You Anything
to Say, About IT.?

Tomorrow we will publish some
Of the letters that have been com
ing in to us, giving the views of
our readers on our serial, "A
Week. We hope to keep on pub
fishing some Of these letters every
day until we reach the end of the
story. Don't you want to be among
those stating their views, among
those who really have something
to say? Today's instalIment of
"A Week" appears on Page Six.
Read it carefully. Remember what
has gone before. What do you
think about the handling of this
gripping story, about the charac-
tiers, about their ideas and their
struggles. Surely you have some
thing to say. Send in your
thoughts to the DAILY WORKER,
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