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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
WATER IN CRANKCAsE Not Always Fault, Often Character. istic Of Desien S

In general, little is understood by the average car owner why water accumu- lates in the motor oil pan, some motors more than others It is not always al fault; more often it is a characteristic of design. A worn motor, however, will generally accumulate more water than d new one, says the Automobile Digest, Al
 The crankcase of a motor, until it be. comes thoroughly heated up, acts as a condenser for all the exhaust gases that pass downward by the pistons. When the crankcase becomes thoroughly warm the greater portion of such ex. haust. gases pass. on out through the breather. A hot running motor allows much less water accumulation in the oil pan than a cold one.
 Short runs, such as are encountered in city driving do not allow the motor to heat up properly and some water inI the oil pan may be expected. r> &
 But, as you know, when motor is inI good condition, and correctly fabricated. the oil will seal the piston rings. There will be little or no ''blow-by." Still we get water, but less of it.. "
 The crankcase "hreathes." as you know, through the breather. pipe or oil filler. It takes in air at low tempera-I ture. sometimes close to the saturationl or dew point, and gives it out at high temperature, expanded and well below It's saturation point. There is. a differ. ence between the amount of moisture entering the crankcase and the amount expelled. Less comes, out than goes in. and while considering single revolu- ton of the engine this difference is in-I appreclable. it mounts up when strokes are counted by the million. sI
 So, with the engine running. there is always tendency for the crankcase air to absorb more water, to increase in relative humidity. Now when we shut off the engine, the air cools, the dew point is brought about by the falling temperature and precipitation or con. densation takes place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
SEVEN|.'STUDENTS
 ARE EXPELLED
Party At Missouri University Has Disastrous
 Results

COLUMBIA, Mo, Feb. 23.-It wasn't bad party that the Gamma Phi Betas threw week ago. The trouble was. some of the boys and girls didn't come. home early enough.
 Letters were sent out Friday by the registrars office advising dozen students, seven men and five women, that their presence was not desired at classes any more. f,
 One of the students, who was said to have been intoxicated was expelled. The others who stayed out after the university curfew' hours can get back il after a while, if they are good.
 Dean Priddy suddenly interrupted the ceived the sad news over the telephone i1 full sway, at the Daniel Boone university town, that something scand- alous was happening.
 s.Dean Freddy suddenly interrupted party. member of the faculty inves- tigating committee said. This same member declared that there was noth- ing immoral about it, but that one of the girls had taken a few sips of liquor. +s,-
 "The report that the men were in the women's bedroom is untrue,' the committee member said. 'The men and women were getting ready to leave the sitting room, when the dean of women came to the door. One of the boys got frightened and ran. The others ran into another room, but who >wouldn't?"
 Following the deans sudden appear ance the party broke up, but according to Ward Goodlow of St. Louis, fresh- man. trouble continued. tt-..
 There was nothing unconventional about the party" Gpodlow :. declared. "One or two men were drinking, but that is no more than happens any where. We started for the country and the dean and her escort chased us over country roads until 4 o'clock in the morning, when they caught us."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
CHARLES SMACEE ]
 .WINS.C!OURTFIGHT
Albuquerque Editors Pardon Declared To Be Con-
 stitutional

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Feb. 23.- The sensational fight of Charles Magee, editor of the State Tribune, Albuquer- que, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, against 1a contempt of court charge was. finally settled with a decision of the state supreme court that Governor Hinkle was within his rights in. par doning Magee.
 Magee was found guilty first of criminal libel and later of contempt of court, follwing his editorial battle to ''clean out the rotten political machine of New Mexico, He. was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary and to pay fines aggregating $4,00O. d..
 Governor Hinkle immediately par. doned the editor and the ensuing battle to declare the pardon illegal has just been settled. -g...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
STRONG SHOCK IN
 GUAYAQUIL IS FELT
Populace There Reported To Be
 Panic Stricken

TAMPA. Fla, Feb. 23.-A. A. Mur- phree, president of the University of Florida, Gainesville, who is urged by W. J. Bryan, of Miami, as the demo- cratic nominee for the presidency, will not permit his name to appear on the ballot in the preferential presidential primary, called by the state democratic executive committee in Jacksonville on Friday.
 In response to telegram from the Tampa Morning Tribune. asking if he would permit his name to appear on the Florida ballot along with Oscar Under- wood of Alabama and w. G. McAdoo of California, both of whose names are certain to appear. Dr. Murphree tele- graphed an answer of one word. mo"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
PRIZE IS OFFERED
 FOR RADIO DRAMA
5000 Gold Marks To B Awarded By German Firm
 For Play

BERLIN. Feb. ,23.--fBy Associated Press. Five thousand gold marksl will be. given for the best radio drama. written in the German language, in d competition just closed here. The prize was offered by general publication devoted exclusively to radio pfoblems,I and it was stipulated that the play must be especially written for wireless transmission, just as plays are written especially flor the films, ordinary dIamas being wholly unsuited for broad |cnsting. ss It is hoped that an entirely new. type or drama may be produced, which wilt give wide range for the use of alll sorts of .mechinical effects, in which sound is the prime element and. will; eliminate the pauses incidental to gest-|| ures and pantomime, obviously meari-| ingless to persons who do not see then. !
 Radio drama directors are springing' up in all parts of Germany, and aetorsI are giving attention to the special needs of. the unseen drama which will put a5 premium, on good voices and proper diction and make youth and beauty . flon-essentials.
 Opera Written From Lips
 Richard Strauss new opera, Inter mezzo,' which is to. be produced. next season in 2Austria and Germany, IT. based upon the personal experiences of the composer which caused him and his wife many unhappy days and ,nar-l rowly missed wrecking their home. ;
 While Dr.. Strauss was away from home he received telegram from his lawyer, saying his wife had instituted a suit for divorce. The composer rush.; ed back to Vienna, but was unable tol find his wife. Consequently he con- suited her attorney as we'll as his own,l and was told the whole story. <
 Frau Strauss. had opened one of his letters. which, apparently, revealed al love affair with another woman. Dr. Strauss declared he did not know the letter writer's name, and the lawyer went to see her. The girl asserted she was Strauss sweetheart, saying she) was to meet him that afternoon at a certain cafe. The lawyers went tol the cafe and saw the girl meet another man, who: confessed that he had used Strauss name, as he did not desire tol reveal his own and did not believe tho young woman would write to tho composer. }s, -s4.s F Herman Bahr wrote the libretto onI a plot suggested by Strauss, but thea composer rewrote it, as Bahr failed tol make Frau Strauss as fascinating a1id3 attractive as her. husband wished. s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
KENDALL TO JOIN IN
 - FIGHT ON GAS HIKE
Iowa Executive Approves Meas ure To Put State In Business

DESMOINES. Iowa, Feb. 23.-Gov- -ernor N. E. Kendall of Iowa expressed his willingness today to join Governors '~ Bryan and McMasters of Nebraska and < South Dakota, respectively, in their fight to prevent unlawful control of, and high prices of gasoline and coal.
 Kendall announced approval of an amendment to the executive council bill now before the legislature, where by the council would have the power v to put the state in the business of sell \ ing gasoline whenever the necessity arises.
 I--- The governor said he favored in cluding the sale of coal by the state under the same conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
PUBLIC BLOCKS TO
 DISPLAY OF MILK
Central COmpany's Booth Is At
 traction At Show

Mothers and fathers are more inter- Tested in the booth of the Central Milk ss fompany at the Birmingham Food Ex- position than others. but everyone is stopping to see the exhibit of pasteur- fized milk.
 l-y Signs warn mothers to give their @-babies pasteurized milk alone. Pack ages of butter and sample bottles of the milk ar etastefully arranged in the neat white booth presided over by motherly looking woman. /
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
DIR. SOWELL RESIGNS Succeeded As Empire Physician By Dr. NelSnn

EMPIRE, Ala, Feb. 23.-tSpecial.) ) Dr. W. $. SowelI, who has been at Elm pire for 23 years, rendered his resigna- tion this week.
 Dr. and Mrs. Sowell will leave in a few days for New York city. where he will do postgraduate work. then to St. Louir for postgraduate work. Dr. Sowell has not announced as to where he will locate when his courses are completed.
 " Announcement has been made that .Dr. Nelson df Virginia Mines, Jefferson eeunty, will take Dr. SowelIs place at Empire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
MADRID HAS CURFEW
But It Rings At 8 O'Clock In Tn,
 Morning, When Cafes Must Close

Madrid has always been a city of night life. How many are those writers who have described noctural rambles through it's. cafes and taverns where all classes mingle, says Le Figaro, Paris.
 Now however, the curfew rings at 3 o'cock in. the morning and the police have been instructed to see to it that no establishment remains open after that late-or early-hour. This is an economic measure as the cost of lighting is too high in land where coal is scarce.
 At o'clock, therefore, all the guitars in Madrid must cease their strumming aud the adroit wielders of the poignard must sheathe their weapons for few hours. e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
PRONOUNCED INSANE

TAMPA, Fla. Feb. 23.-Belief that Frank Mcdowell self-confessed murderer oi his parents at St. Petersburg, and a year ago his two sisters at Decatur, Ga.,. is insane. was expressed here this afternoon by Dr. H. Mason Smith. noted alienist and psychiatrist. Dr. Smith, retained by the Tampa Morning Trib- une to examine Mcdowell, visited Me- Dowell ill his cell at the Pinellas county Jail at Clearwater and questioned him for more than an hour. He also made a brief physical examination of the boy.
 Mcdowell is undoubtedly insane" Dr. Smith said in a statement to the Tribunel His condition reveals a com bination of evidence of several forms of 2. insanity. His case is unusual. It will require a detailed examination and q q thorough investigation of his physical and family history to definitely deter mine the extent of his insanity, how ever",
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

the members of the Ensley Associated Merchants for the luncheon to be held Tuesday in place of the 10 o'clock meet ing. The committee will, it is stated, base its recommendations as to the per manency of the luncheons, on the inter est manifested Tuesday,. The meeting win be held in the val Int store adjoin. ing the Walters cafel !
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
BOY MURDERER MAY BE INSANE
Frank Mcdowell Talks BrOkenly Concerning Staying Of
 Father And Mother
SIT. PETERSBURG. Fla. Feb. :,

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb. B. Brain storming," a type of insanity .first brought before the public nearly sstwo decades ago during the Harry K. Thaw trial in New York, was promi- snently emphasized today by Frank Me Dowell, confessed slayer of four mem7 bers of his family in 500-word confes- sion, written and signed by himself in the presence of newspapermen today.
 The youth, who is not yet out of his teens. said that he did not know exact ly what influenced him to do and act the way he did in connection with the deaths of his family, but that he had a brain storm" and nervous disorder during the days just preceding the slay- ing of his mother and father last Tues day night while they lay sleeping in their home there.
 5,sf II would like to make statement to clear up this whole thing he said. It is becoming horrible to me. l wish s,scould tell everything then l would be to die.,
 egS Wants To Be Executed
 % T wish they would put me in the electric chair and end it all. 1 hate to ~think of staying here until May. i Gould you tell me something about < -four youth:' he was asked .,r II guess that would be good place to begin this story" McDpwell replied and then began to make up the cot upon which he had spent the night. Mean while, q box and typewriter were brought into the cell
 The prisoner lay down for a moment dpon his bunk, after arranging it. He appeared exha usted.
 Gan you write out what you have to say?" he was asked as sheet of int tn tbn fv,, : "No, no, l could never do it" he said. :. IT am too nervous. There are many things in my mind. If you can. just ask me something or suggest something to me in connection with my life I can answer"
 He then posed for photographer.
 Il think l moved my head. If so the picture is ruined, l want it to be good"
 Religion Favorite Topic ----- After this statement was completed his questions carried him to his once favorite topic-religion.
 What is it you really believe or Be- Heve in?" he was asked.
 Well. 1 guess that for about five years I have been an agnostic, but these dual personalities in me work queer tricks. When 1 have control of myself I am above religion. I'm an :. atheist, but when my subconscious na- E ture is in control of me I believe in Christs and living God. My subcon- N scious self seems to command some thing that my conscious mind is power- less to ignore and my body obeys.
 f Just before my crime, l am Chris tian, then I become mortified at the enormity of my sins and return to my atheism" -..,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
SUBURBAN EVENTS--SOC7ETY HAPPENINGS--CLUBN NOTES s

Phone Ems. 4osw Circulation Ciassifiel Ads Phone Ensley !
 Society
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
MaSOnA Plan Social

The appearance of W. H.. woolver- ton of Birmingham will be, the feature of a program and social to be given by Globe lodge, No. 7S1, A. F. and A.. M., at the hall Friday night. Itgwas an nouneed that the committee in charge had arranged an attractive program. All the members and their families are re- Quested to attSnd. Z'.... ..
 Mir. Woolvert6n is one of the most widely known Masons in the state and his address will, it is said, prove espe- ciAlly interesting to those versed in Masonry. ,~ ..5 2
 Merchants Luncheon
 Tnvifa kiosta t,.aFe isetft,d Ssf1,fda - tf,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
To Cnnfar naprea.

Lodge No. 120, Royal Arch Masons, will meet in the temple Monday night at which time the Royal Arch degree will be conferred. Attendance of all members is requested.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

Merchants' lllIIche0n Invitations were issued Saturday to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24
FINDS KIN AFTER 22 YEARS

count of the illness of her father, John
 Queen, who is confined to the Bss-
Evening star., 1924-01-08
DEPLORES CONDITION
IN LOCAL HOSPITALS
DR.. Battle Would Have Some Pro-
vision for Persons of
Moderate Means.
PLACE FOR RICH AND POOR
Those Who Can Pay Little Made
Charity Patients.

Characterizing as deplorable the
conditions which exist in the local
municipal hospitals; DR.. Lewis j. Bat
tie told members of the Sixteenth
Street Highlands Citizens Association
at meeting in Sixth Presbyterian
Church, at 10th and Kennedy streets,
last night that movement soon
would be launched to eliminate neces-
sity of wearing the blue cloth suits
by persons compelled to enter these
institutions through financial stress,
but still able to pay small sum for
the care they may receive.
DIR. Battle, who is a member of the
government pension board, said that
it is practically impossible for suf-
ferer from a chronic disease to enter
either the Gallinger Municipal Hos
pital or the tuberculosis Hospital
because of the lack of accommoda-
tions He said also that some meas
ure of relief would be sought for
those who desire to pay their way in
these hospitals, but are prevented
from so doing because of a law for
bidding the acceptance of remunera-
ton from patients. DIR. Battle said
that the fees charged at the other
hospitals We're such as to forbid any
but persons financially well off to
enter.
L. G. Julihn presented resolution,
which the association adopted, re-
questing the traffic bureau to change
the character of the one-way street
markers. 1t was pointed out that the
black and yellow arrow signs now in
use are so placed and lighted as to be
almost negligible at night, and should
be replaced by plain arrows painted
white with no border
The organization has been assured
by the District Commissioners that
Evening star., 1924-01-08
u. S. Army AuiatOrs to Circle Globe
In Six Hops, Starting From Seattle
Route Includes KamcIatka Nagasaki, Calcutta, Con-
stantinople, London, Iceland, Greenland.
Britain and Portugal to Race for HonOrs.

The third division, from Nagasaii,
Japan. to Calcutta, India will be in
charge of Lieut.. NJ. s. Lawton.
Calcutta to Turkey.
The fourth division. from Calcutta
over the Persian gulf and the Bosporus
to Constahtinople, will be in charge of
Lieut.. H. A. Halvorsen. Lieut.. Halvor-
sen is now in the Philippines. He will
leave Manila this week for Calcutta to
confer with British air service officials
on the ta-Constantinople airway.
The fifth leg, from Constantinople to
London, will be in charge Of Maj. Car
| lisle Walsh. This route already is well
mapped by the British.
The sixth leg, from London up the
shores of Iceland and Greenland and
| southwark to the Canadian border, will
be in charge of Lieut.. Clarence Crum-
| rine.
Seeks Landing Places.
For the last four months Lieut.
Crumrine, operating out of Copen-
hagen. and afforded every assistance
by the Danish government, has been
engaged in selecting suitable landing
places in Greenland and Iceland.
The purposes of the flight, as an
nounced by Maj. Gen. Mason Patrick.
chief of the United States Army air
service, are threefold:
First to demonstrate the possibil-
ity of dispatching military airplanes
on long-distance flights with satis-
factory arrangement of the enormous
supply problems involved; second. to
demonstrate the feasibility of a world
airway and of traversing this airway
in the shortest time possible, and.
third, to bring to the United States
the honor of being the first to circum-
navigate the world by air.
America is not going to achieve the
feat without a picturesque battle.
Great Britain and Portugal have been
preparing for months for around-the-
world flights. and it is significant that
both these countries will attempt the
globe air voyage, it is reported, April
2. the date set for the American air
squadron to hop off from the shores
of Puget sound.
Evening star., 1924-01-08
PLEADS FOR K. X. X. !.
HELP ON CONVICTION
Woman Who Killed Man Has Call
for Assistance Sewed
on Skirt.
GETS 10 TO 20 YEARS
Indignant Because Another Slew
and Went Free.
GETS 10 TO 20 YEARS

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. January s.
Katherine Miller, rooming house mis-
tress, was sentenced to from ten to
twenty years in the county prison
yesterday for the fatal shooting of
Harry Kabernagel a former board
er, on a West Philadelphia street corner
October H.
The jury, which brought in a sec
ond degree murder verdict, with
recommendation of mercy, was out
for more than weight hours.
Judge Harry S. McDevitt, ignoring
the mercy recommendation, imposed
''any verdict but guilty would have
been equivalent to lynch law"
The defendant startled the court
in dramatic fashion after sentence
was imposed. Hitherto calm, she
suddenly rose and battled with court
officers, during the struggle tearing
back her heavy, cape to display in
white letters sewn on her black
dress:
"k. X. X. Help X. X. X
Two officers finally subdued her and
carried her out bodily tothe sheriff. s
cellroom. On the way, she screamed.
Mrs. Roster killed two and got
away free, and l have to go to pris-
ing case in which the defendant was
acquitted.
Later she told one of her counsel
that "a guardian angel had sug-
gested to her to sew the letters on
her dress.
Evening star., 1924-01-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, January S.-De-
tails of the round -the-world flight of
United States Army aviators, starting
from Seattle April 2. We're made pub
lie by Maj. Henry H. Arnold, com
mander of Rockwell Field, and Lieut..
Virgil Hines, post adjutant.
The information was contained in
letter sent to Rockwell Field author
tiles by Capt Lowell II. Smith, the
San Diego flyer. who has been select
ed as one of the four pilots to carry
the Stars and Stripes around the
world
The completed plans call for Maj F.
L. Martin, squadron commander;
Lieut. Eric Nelson, squadron engineer
officer; Capt. Lowell II. Smith and
Lieut.. Leigh Wade to leave Langley
Field. Va, for the Davis Douglass
plant at Santa Monica. March l. At
the Davis Douglass plant, the four
Army flyers will take over. the air
cruisers built especially for the flight
and will fly them to Rockwell Field
here. where the initial trial flights
Will be held.
Flight TO Seattle.
From San Diego the four airme II
will fly to Seattle, where they will
hop off on the first leg of the $4,000
mile voyage over the air lanes of
twenty-five foreign countries. 1t
originally was inte nded to start the
world trip from Langley Field. This.
however, would have necessitated the
flyers winging their way twice across
the American continent.
The first leg of the flight, from Seat
tie to Attu Island. at the westerly tip
of the Aleutians, will be under the su-
pervision of Lieut.. Clayton l.. Bisnell.
The flight from Attu Island across
the Bering sea to the Kamchatka penin-
sula, on the Siberian coast, and south
ward along the islands of Japan, will
be controlled by Lieut.. Clifford C. Mutt.
Evening star., 1924-01-08
COURT REFUSES STAY
OF EXECUTIONS BY GAS

By the Associated Press.
CARSON CITY, New, January s.
The state supreme court yeterday de-
MED petition for writ of prohibition
to stay the execution by lethal gas of
Gee Jon and Hughie Sing.
Judge Walsh, at Hawtsorne, is ex-
pected to designate some date not less
than sixty nor more than ninety days
distant on which the execution is to
take place. Warden Dickerson of the
state prison said he would make no
preparation for the executions until
the state board of pardons rules on
the cases.
Evening star., 1924-01-08

appropriate street-marking sign posts
would be erected in the vicinity Of
18th and Kennedy streets to replace
the inefficient markers now in use.
- A resolution was adopted thanking
the Capital Traction Company for the
improvements made'at the loop termi-
nal of its line at 18th street and Colo
rado avenue. The association went
on record as favoring an increase in
pay for the District firemen. =
Paul z. Grove, sr., entertained the
members with several negro dialect
stories. President Jesse Benjamin an
nounced that at the next meeting a
Philippine university professor would
address the body and a buffet supper
would be served.
j. Goldman and Peres Pappas We're
elected to membership.
Evening star., 1924-01-08
SINGLE LEPER COLONY
FOR ISLANDS SCORED
Committee Says Concentration of
Victims Has Not Proved
Effective.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, January S.-The report Of
the senate health committee inyesti-
eating conditions of the Cuilion leper
colony, made public today, declares
that the segregation and concentra-
tion of Iepers in the island colony as
a means of eradicating the disease is
a failure.
y system of branch asylums at i'm
portant centers, such as Manila, Cebu
and Iloilo, where lepers may be
treated, is recommended by the COM
mittee as a more effective means of
treating the patients.