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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
BUSINESS PROPERTY
 BOUGHT BY OVERTON
Pays $31,OOO For National Hide
 Company Site

Sale of a one-story brick building, formerly owned by Abram Lipsitz to A. G. Overton for consideration of ap- proximately $31, 600 was announced Monday by the Elliott-Hamm Realty company, which negotiated the deal. :"
 The building is occupied by the Ma tional Hide and Wool company, of which Mir. Lipsitz is president; and the lease was renewed immediately after the transfer The property measures 50 by >18212 feet. Mir. ,Oyefton an- nounced he had made the purchase en- tirely as an investment.
 Seven improved residence lots in Boyles formed approximately SIG, 900 of the total consideration, which is said to be much larger than usual for prop erty in htis part of the city. Charles B. Taylor represented the real estate firm in the deal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
ESTES IS AFTER
 BUILDING RECORD
Constructors Race Time
 On Nineteen New l Bungalows

Setting out to build 19 bungalows in 64 days, Claude Estes, Birmingham realtor, is kicking over precedents and has the west residents of the city wag- ering which will win, the contractors or the calendar.
 Earl Place was chosen for the scene of the activity last Monday morning. When the o'clock whistle blew a gang of men started in preparing to lay a street, April IA, and already the wa ter mains are down and the gas and sewer mains are being laid. @
 Foundations for six of the houses have been placed, four more are being laid and before the week is out foun- dations for the nineteen houses will have been set up. As soon as the first brick work was finished carpenters were put to work laying the floor of the first building. and as soon as they were through with the floor of the first building they began on the second and another crew started putting up the frame of the building. All the work of the 19 houses has been separated into departments, piece work, each set of men with but one phase of the building to do. The result has been startling for at the end of the first week the first house was ready for the interior finish, the second will be in day or so, and all along the lima the bungalows are in various stages of'con- struction from laying of the site to painting completed building.
 The workers have set July as fnsh- ing day when the last of the 19 is to have been completed.
 This is the fourth street full of houses Mir. Estes has built in the past four months. eaay.e a@
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
GRAIN RATE ISSUE
 TO BE REOPENED

The railroads side of the Memphis to Birmingham grain rate question, con troversy which was opened here sey- eral weeks ago. will be given the inter state commerce commission when it meets Tuesday in the Chamber of Com merce.
 Testimony of the shippers was com pleted at this previous hearing based on plea to reduce the reshipping rate from 27 to IA cents, or the. same rate allowed between Memphis and Meridian, Miss. A reduction in the local rate, now standing at 241a cents, is also asked. zsass
 Railroads effected are the Louisville & Nashville, Frisco, and Southern. Several thousand dollars annually is in- Yolyed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
GROCERS WILL VOTE
 ON NEW APPLICANTS
Plans Being Made For Conven-
 ton In Los Angeles

The regular meeting of the Birming- ham Retail Grocets and Butchers as- sociation will be held at the Y. M. O.. A. auditorium Tuesday night at s o'clock. M
 A number of live questions are on the program for discussion.
 A large number of new applications will be voted upon for membership, which have been secured by commit tees in the annual roundup campaign begun April 1, after which plans and details of the twenty-seyenth annual convention trip to Los Angeles in June will be discussed. Birmingham is ex- peeted to send the largest delegation ever sent before the national gather ing. <,
 President Mason Martin has been busy during the past two weeks with Secretary B. c. Apperson, directing the campaign for new members and mak- ing plans for the coming national gath ering.
 YAH team workers in the annual round up will report at Tuesday nights meet ing and applications for initiation will be voted upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
BIRMINGHAM CASES
 SLATED THIS WEEK
Supreme And Appellate Courts Engaged With Sixth Division

Hearing cases from the Sixth division, of which Jefferson county is a part, opened in the Alabama supreme and appellate courts Monday, taking a num- Der of lawyers from the Magic City to the capital of the state.
 Birmingham municipal cases before the supreme court at this half-year hearing are fewer than has been the case in years, as most of the municipal litigations before the high tribunal have been cleared up.
 Birmingham's cases before the su- preme bench are all civil as the crimi- nal cases got to the appellate court.
 City Attorney W. J. Wynn stated he would leave on the evening train Mon- day for Montgomery to represent Bir- mingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
BIRMINGHAM GETS
 LIBRARIANS MEET

Members of the Alabama Library as sociation will meet in Birmingham April A, 25 and 26. The, meeting is designed to bring together all libra lians, library workers and friends of libraries in the state.
 A feature of the program, which has been printed and distributed, will be the address From a Librarian's Note. book" to be delivered by Charles E Rush, librarian of the public library of Indianapolis, Ind.
 Lloyd W. Jocellyn, librarian, of Bir. mingham, will address the assembly as will a number of other librarians from various cities in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
DEATHS

Charles J. MeKenny-Charles J. McKenny. formerly of Fairfield. died Monday in Detroit. Mich, according. to word re- ceived in Birmingham. MT. McKenny is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. W. McKenny of Birmingham. and seV- eral brothers and sisters. He was 2 church and the Fairfield Masonic lodge. Funeral services and burial will be held at o'clock "Wednesday afternoon in Detroit. <.s. George 8, Lee-Funeral services for George S. Lee, 73 years old. who died at l1:S0 < o'clock sunday night at the residence 1925 Eleventh avenue north, ,s will he held at o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the Masonic temple: Mi. Lee was a charter member of the North Blrming- ham Masonic lodge, a Knight Templar. Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. Burial will be in Oakland cemetery with MT Lee is survived by three grand children. Agnes. Lee and Grant -Mur- phree' .s s-e f'<. Mrs. Amelia Strange-FuherAI services for Mrs. Amelia Strange, bS years old, who died Sunday night at local inftrmary, will be held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn- will follow in the Evergreen. cemetery with Higs Loy in charge She is sur vived by, three sons. Albert. Luther J. and E. W. Strange; daughter. Miss Ethel Strange, of Birmingham; four sis ters, Mrs. Jennie Thompson of Fort Worth. Tex; Mrs. Georgia Crump of Steel, Ala; Mrs Myrtle Ramsey of Cald- well, Ala. and Mrs. Wiley Jones of Gadsden, and two brothers, E A. and Walter Coates Of Greenville.
 Thomas o. Hernnan--Funerai services for. Thomas o. Herman, 29 years old who died Sunday at Roebuck Springs will be held at ii o'clock Tuesday morning from the Huffman Methodist church. Burial will follow in the adjoining cem- etery, with Vice inscharge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
BUILDING RECORD FOR MARCH HIGH Birmingham Stands Sec ond In List Of Largest
 Southern Cities

Birmingham topped all the larger southern cities, save one, in building construction during March, according to figures at the office of City Building Inspector J. E. Spencer. Memphis showed about $64,0O0 better than Bir- mingham for the month, though there were about POO more permits issued in Birmingham than in Memphis.
 The figures were as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
CONCERT ANNOUNCED

Dr. Minor c. Baldwin,. organist, will appear in concert at the main audi torium of the First Methodist church Tuesday evening.
 Dr. Baldwin has won distinction as a musician, not only in America. but in foreign lands, and the officials in charge of the concert are looking for ward to a large crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
COURTS CLOSED

No cases have been set for trial this week in circuit court, as several county officials and attorneys are in Mont gomery in connection with cases being heard by the Alabama supreme court
 Assistant Solicitors Willard Drake adn L. H. Etherdige left for Montgom. cry Monday morning, and Solicitor Jim Davis said he expected to be there for the hearing on the Preston Motors cor poration case. which is expected to be heard either Tuesday or Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
BUFFALO SEEKS
 TRAFFIC ADVICE
Representative Studio s Birmingham New Sys.
 tenn Of Control

s. k. Coleman, manager of the safety bureau of Buffalo, N. Y.. has spent sev- eral days in Birmingham studying the working of the traffic regulations, and particularly the system of traffic bea- cons installed in the business district. Commissioner w. B. Cloe says he ex- poets to add eight more of these lights within few weeks, and will ask the other commissioners to let him use $2,0O0 for that purpose.
 It is the desire of the public safety
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
SUES FOR $1O,OOO
B. F. Eborn Charges False Accusation
 To Jesse Edwards

Charging that he was falsely accused of stealing a sport model Haynes auto mobile, B. F. Eborn filed suit in the civil division of circuit court Monday against Jesse Edwards for $1O,O0O.
 Eborn stated in his bill of complaint that Edwards obtained a warrant for his arrest January 9 through w. R. Watkins, ex-officio judge of the court of misdemeanors. The suit was brought through D. G. Ewing, his attorney.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22

Indications for April. says Claude Kendric, chief clerk in the building in spector' s department, give promise of approximately $1,OOO,0O0. This actit- ity has been independent of larger com mercial or industrial structures, though there are several churches in the list. In the main the permits have been for homes by individuals, or dwellings built by realty companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
''Pile Pain Stopped at
 Heme in } Minutes ,
$2.OO Treatment FREE

No matter how much you suffer, the pain can be stopped with Otis Pile Treatment. To prove this I offer to send full $2 package absolutely free. You will find that the Otis treatment does cure itching, bleeding and pro- truding piles. Doctors are using this treatment in private practice with re- suits. Send no money for your $2 package-just your name and address to Otis Chemical Co.,, 1OS6 Otis Bldg, Kansas City, Mo.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
NEGRO RARBER sLAsHED

Will Foster. negro barber in The basement of the Woodward building is in the Hillman hospital suffering with severe lacerations about the head. face and shoulders, inflicted by another negro, following an argument between the two. Detectives Brown and Moser stated that Foster gave the name of his assailant as White.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
MERCHANT HEARD
 ON ARSON CHARGE
New Merkle Man Charged With
 Firing Store

David Acton, a merchant at New Merkle, was given hearing Monday before Judge H. B. Abernethy of the Jefferson county court of feloniss and misdemeanors, charged with setting fire to his store to collect insurance.
 The store is alleged to have been insured for $3,O00 just few weeks be- fore it was burned. Judge Abernethy declined to fule until after the Jeffer- son count grand jury acts on the case, as no indictment has been reT turned. Assistant Solicitor J. F. Me- Coy acted as special prosecutor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22
DIR. HOKE APPOINTED

TO NOpT05pElC OUIE1BO TE1VvIHlSy zAs
 New York Convention
 Dr. Roy E. Hoke,. head of the edu- cation department at Birmingham. Southern college, and director of the summer school, has been appointed to the Kappa chapter of the Kappa Phi Kappa. honor educational fraternity, at the national convention of this organiza tion, to be. held in New York, May z, 8, and 8. .4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22

commissioner to equip those street in. tersections not now provided with bea- cons, between First and Fifth avenues and Eighteenth and Twenty-second streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-22

Jemison:Seibels Insurance Agency
The Washington times., 1924-02-15
PLOT To LOOT ALASKA
RESERVES CHARGED
To INTERESTS

Navy coal reserve lands in Alaska, valued at millions
f dollars involved in effort being made to turn
pver the land under lease to private interests according
10 John E. Baaine of Alaska, and Seattle WASH, who
Is here seeking Congressional investigation Of the
Alaska railroad situation. The railroad is Government
owned and operated.
President Coolidge sent the Baane charges to the In
terior Department with orders for investigation.
justification for the leasing of the lands it is declared
sought in reports issued by the Navy Department that
the coal mined from them is unfit for Navy
These reports issued by the Navy Department Bal
ane points OUT contrary to the report submitted by
Navy engineers who made official test of the relative
value of Alaska coal as compared with Navy standard
grades.
REPORT HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED.
The report submitted by the Navy engineers it is de-
clared, has never been published.
This report shows that the coal from the Mataruska
seam No is approximately 16 cent superior to the
Pocahonas COAL the accepted Navy standard steam
The report of the Navy engineers covering the tests
OF the Alaska coal was brought to light following
exhaustive search participated in by United States
Senator shows the relative quality Of the Alaska and
Pocahontas Goals obtained in series of five tests made
under sea conditions with ships selected for the
by the Navy Department The report follows:
FIVE DAYS sTEAMING TEST on POCAHOaeTAs COAL
(Three BoIers0
The Washington times., 1924-02-15

The Times Night Sports edition
carries charts Of New Orleans.
Watch for &c,
The Washington times., 1924-02-15

Chronological Story Of
Teapot Dome
Tanqle

by Cosmopolitan News HGrvic0s
Here's the chronological story
Of the Teapot Dome tangle
now being unravelled by the
Senate Investigators:
10l2-President Taft set
apart certain areas Of Cali
fornia oil fields as naval oil
reserves.
1915-President Wilson des-
ignated Teapot Dome as naval
March 5, 1s21-Albert Fall
and Edwin Denby became Sec
retaries of Interior and Navy,
respectively.
May 26, 1921-Denby sent
executive order to President
Harding for transfer of oil
reserves from Navy to Interior
Nav 81, 1921 President
Harding signed transfer at
Denby's request.
July 12, 1921-Fall, four
months after entering office,
leased reservation NO..s1 to E.
L. Doheny.
loaned Fall 100000.
December %, 1921-Fall
leased reserve No. 2 to Doheny.
April z, 1922-Fall leased
Teapot Dome to Sinclair.
April 20, 1923 Senator
Robert M. La Toilette called
for congressional probe.
June z, 1922 President
Harding wrote Calvin Coolidge,
then president of the Senate: !:
"The policy decided upon and
subsequent acts have at all
times had my entire approval"
March 5, 1923-Fall retired
from office ase Secretary Of
Interior.
June, 1923-Sinclair loaned
Fall $4,000, according to
Colonel Zeyely, a witness called
by the Senate investigators.
The Washington times., 1924-02-15

The origin Of this new lead in
the inquiry was found to be in
loud talk by a banker in q New
York club. This banker was over
heard complaining about the man.
agement of a large sum of money
sent down from New York to Wash
ington for political purposes. He
implied that one Of these purposes
was to compensate public officials
here for losses which they had sus-
tanned In stock speculations.
He was content to have the
money put to that use but he com.
planned violently and loudly about
the failure Of the manager Of the
fund to account for 100000 of 1t.
He wanted to know what had be-
come of the 100000. He will now
perhaps have a chance to find out
by listening to testimony before
the Senate Public Lands ComnilS> Il
Dummy Names Used.
Meanwhile the accountants EN-.
ployed by the Public Lands Commit.
tee continued their explorations Of
the books Of local stockholders In
order to run down speculative &C.
counts conducted by or for public
officials. According to q member
Of the committee great difficulty is
being experienced by these account
ants in discovering just who the
persons were on whose behalf these
accounts were carried. Many OF
the names in the books are believed
to be dummy names. The difficulty
has been to locate and identify the
persons behind these names.
It is believed in the committee
| that some light may now be thrown
on this problem by the testimony
of bankers and brokers from New
York. It ia thought that possibly
the results Of the Investigations into
| the books Of the local stock brokers
may dovetail into the results of the
ross-examinations of the New York
bankers and brokers and that the
hidden theory OF the periods during
Continued on Page Q. Column ~
The Washington times., 1924-02-15

which investigated the circum.
stances, was taken from a dump
where 1t had been exposed to the
weather for two years.
Secretary Roosevelt was una
ware Of this fact, It is asserted,
when commenting on the lessened
cruising radn of vessels burning
the Alaska coal.
Matanuska coal, 1t is declared,
can be laid down at Pacific ports
at approximately $3.50 a ton as
against the transcontinental shipped
POchahontas coal which cannot bo
delivered at Pacific ports under $11
ton.
The effort to secure the transfer
Of the Alaska coal lands was made
under former Secretary Falls ad-
ministration of the Department of
the Interior. Since his resignation
the Navy Department, it is pointed
out, has consistently given out re-
ports indicating that the coal js
practically worthless for navy use.
which iS contrary to the report of
the navy engineers establishing its
superiority to Pocahontas coal.
Big Interests Accused.
The demand for congressional
investigation. IL is said, is based On
charges involving the Morgan Gug-
genhein interests in Alaska which,
1t is alleged. have undertaken to
acquire possession Of the valuable
Alaska resources, among them the
navy coal reserve lands. The
Morgan.G Guggenhein interests own
Continued on Page q. Column 81
The Washington times., 1924-02-15

A0mAFaA fSODlSOn quoted.
In condemning the Alaska coal
Admiral John K. Robson, Chief of
the Bureau Of Engineers, u. s. NJ,
is quoted by Bellamie as declaring
that neither the Bering river coal
nor the Matanuska coal can be
used by navy vessels, under any
circumstances, 1t is believed that
the tests OF these Goals are con.
elusive evidence OF their unsuita-
bility for naval use."
In q letter written by Acting
Secretary of the Navy Theodore
Roosevelt, jr., to former Secretary
Of the Interior Fall, ON December
16. 1922. concerning the tests made
with Alaska coal mined on the coal
land reservations by the Navy De-
partrnent, he is quoted as saying:
'FOr colliers and auxiliaries,
Matanusla coal, such as is OBJ
tanned from No. seam, Chicaloon,
is considered entirely satisfactory
II 1t be laid down at west coast
ports at equal cost with Navy
standard Goals.
For battleships and coal burn.
1ng vessels of the battle fleet Mata.
nuska coal is considered satisfac.
tory, except for decreased cruising
radii. The report from Janson in
dicates, however, that an increased
cruising radius Of approximately
20 per cent over that reported by
the Texas could be expected of
coal from present workings in No.
. seam of Chicaloon mine used"
At the time of the tests with
the Texas were made the coal
used, according to q COMMITTEES
The Washington times., 1924-02-15
BROADCAST
SCANDAL
ASDUTX,
CLAIM
Banker Says He Hoped to
Clear Harding's. Name Of
Publicity.
By KENNETH CLARK.
!. International NeRa serYfrs.


II III uncomfortable two hours
on the witness stand today before
the Senate oil investigating conf
mittee, Frank A. Vanderbilt, New
York banker, admitted that he
had nothing but "rumors and
gossip" to back up his sensa-
tional insinuations concerning the
sale of the Marion Star by the.
late President Harding.
Members of the committee took
turns questioning the banker and
criticising him for having broad
cast his startling insinuations
against the dead President, and
also against the committee itself.
In the same speech in which
he suggested an investigation Of
the Stars sale, Vanderlip also
had cast reflections upon the SEN
ate committee, declaring he had
heard the committee had aban-
doned further questioning Of AL
bert B. Fall because of fear that
he would "peach" on those, in
high places.
Draws Sarcastic Comment.
Vanderlip met this fire Of criti-
cism today by steadfastly assert.
ing that he believed he had ''ren-
dered a public duty" by repeating
these rumors in such fashion as
to draw public attention to them
and result in their being cleared
up-a defense of his own conduct
which drew sarcastic and ironic
comment from members of the
committee.
In vain did the questioning Sen.
ators seek to determine Wander
lips sources of information. To
all questions OF this character, he
replied that he had heard "rumorS
and gossip" from many places. and
either did not remember or did
not care to state from whom he
had heard them. He had no in
formation or facts, "other than
gossip and rumOrs," he said re-
peatedly.
Under O. continual fire of Ques.
tions from Senator'S of both par
ties Vanderlip finally admitted that
he thought the committee haa done
"exactly right" in not questioning
Fall any further, when such Ques-
tioning might give the ex-Secre-
tary a constitutional immunity
against criminal prosecution. He
had not known of this phase of
it, he said, at the time he made
his reference to the committee.
Patriotic, Vanderlip Says.
Vanderlip was sworn by Senator
Lenroot, Republican, of Wisconsin.
chairman, who began his question.
Ing.
did you make speech at ossining.
mo. at Briar Cliff to the Rotary
| Club"
"What did you mean by saying
a certain Marion newspaper was
| sold for $500,O0O when everyone
knew it was not worth half that
much'?"
"I was not correctly reported in
| that instance. / said rumors were
current, and said knew nothing
| whatever of the facts.
| "Rumors "Vanderlip said" 20 far
above gossip. You heard them
everywhere, in the offices, In the
The Washington times., 1924-02-15
BR0TAEBTQA hid
IN HUNT FOR
SLAYERS
He Will Also Settle Estate of
Louise Lawson, Valued
at $4,000.
BY International News Service.

By international News Service.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-With the
brother Of the murdered Louise
Lawson speeding from his home
in Texas to New York to avenge
the Staying of his sister in her
luxurious apartment here a week
ago, police were busy today comb
ing the Rialto for a mysterious
woman "spotter" who may be the
solution to the strangliing puzzle.
Almost identical methods used by
two crooks in jewelry robberies
here during the last year, two Of
which ended in the murder of the
victims, has convinced the authori.
ties that there is. a woman in the
case, a sophisticated frequenter Of
the white light cafes who makes
it y business Of Identifying women
possessing valuable jeweIry and
giving the actual robbers their ad-
dresses.
It is not believed that murder
was intended in either the Dot
King or the Louise Lawson cases,
nor that the woman "spotter" had
any actual connection with the
robberies.
Among other women victims of
this gang are believed to be
Avonne Taylor, chorus girl
robbed Of $4,000 worth Of gems
last August; Mrs. Charlotte Palmer
and Mrs. Hugo Schoelkopf. De.
livery Of q package. which was
the ruse used in the Dot King and
Louise Lawson murder robbery
cases, also was reported in others.
In addition to assisting police in
clearing UP the mystery Miss Law.
sons brother, upon his arrival,
will settle up her estate, which is
estimated at 42n nln