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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
DRY DEFENDANTS
 MAY DROP APPEAL
MObiIians Expected To Begin
 Sentences Shortly

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. 20.- Special Leased Wire. )-Appeals entered by the ma jority of il persons recently convict. ed in federal court of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act, will be withdrawn and the defendants will begin serving their time, according to rumor in federal court circles today, although confirmation was lacking. No official word by either defense or gov ernment attorneys could be obtained, but 1t was understood that the major ity of the defendants would within the next few days withdraw their appeals and begin their sentenced In the At lanta prison, ranging from one to two years.
 The defendants convicted in the big liquor conspiracy atrial recently in cluded: s'' ''.s
 Percy Kearns, c. l.. Donaghue. dep uty sheriffs; P. J. O 0sShaughnessy, ex- chief of police Geronimo Perez, Dan L. Jemison, Ben F. Cody, John, H, McEvoy, James Davis, Harry O'Con- ner, alleged s.big six" among whole salers In liquor, and others.
 500 Buyers Register Registration for the third annual Buyers Week passed the 300 mark today, exceeding the total registration for the buyers convention, last year, and many more 0ut-0f-town visitors were still coming in to aecept the hospitality of Mobile merchaIits. &t s
 FOFRefy Is CharkaA- U. Vickers alias John yickers alias John Moangef was arrested this aftarno0n on the watff. front. by federal officers and charged with forging and utterine checks of $52.60' and $44 dawn on the Mississippi Warrior barge line serv- ice. Vickers was arrested as he was leaving in an automobile for vfrsinia; He was arraigned before Federal Com missioner J. l. Burgett and bound oyer to the federal grand jury under bond of. $1,5O0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
 DIES OF INJURIES

BERRY, Ala, Aug. 20.-(Special. ) Uncle Joe l. Stewart, IS years old, well known religious worker and Civil war veteran of Berry, died Wednesday morning as the result, of internal in- juries received when he was run over by a horse while on his way from church, Mir. Stewart is survived by two sisters, a brother and one daugh- ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
INVESTORS ARRIVE
 M SHOALS DISTRICT
Muscle Shoals Bureau l

SHEFFrELD, Ala, Aug. 2O.-A par ty of B investors arrived in Sheffield today on special pullman from Detroit, Chicago and other points. The visitors were rendered banquet at the Cham Der of Commerce this evening.
 Keeton Appointed has been an- nounced by Hartley A. Moon, adjutant general of Alabama, that J. B. Keeton of Tuscaloosa, has been appointed chair man of the mobilization committee in Colbert county in charge of the program for Defense Day. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21

fewer good restaurants in New Nc in any other civilized city.
 The duck dinners are served in the biological belt. The ambition of the duck dinnerer is to combine a lively business in. pups withA more or less roasted ducks. No doubt there is a business reason for this Perhaps the police dogs, the Pekinese, the Cairns, the Chows, the other dogs which vi Fcariously serve the urge for parenthood latent in the breast of the restaufateurs can be fed cheaply oD the debris Of the ducks. But it is in this, way that the patron catches hairs in the spinach.
 I cannot guess at the number of road houses, tea houses, waffle stores, duck dinner places and the like to be found within q thirty mile radius. But an average of 1S5, 900 vehicles leave Man haitian each twelve hours. On Satur. days and Sundays this number is prob ably added to by half. One tolls for miles in fog of dust, gasoline fumes, the reek of burning oil, a large part of the time on second speed In flu neral procession of despairing pleasure seekers, One by one they plunge into the mysteries of q duck dinner.
 Yet they are supefficialIy candid. They run as true to pattern as bullets. A queer soup, a greasy duck, sogky DO tatoes, a salad on which q reddish, ole aginous mixture has been spotted, and factory pie With the chicken dinners waffles are obligatory. A blind man might be fed for nine months on end in different place each night and not know 1t. Unless the wafflerers mixed their dialects.
 These reflections are prompted by the fact ~that I have discovered two places where eatables are served edibly. One is on the Merrick road. The proprie- tress bows down before the waffle god, but her yraffles really taste like waf- les. This is very extraordinary. The other is aat Chappaqua way, where an English woman whose shusband died in the war will admit but one party to dinner. That party may be two in number or twenty, but no others can come on the lot. She also raises dogs, but one becomes used to talking puppies over his provenaer. Some of the curse is lifted here because she has an i'm. mense dOg--0ne pitou-whieh has hauled thousand pounds on the ice and once saved a drunken ,lumbeRman who hal broken through the ice.
 Doubtless there are other places in which person who can digest horse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
JJeeIess Crlticism

What do you think of your party platform?y
 ''There isn't word to be sah against it, answered Senator Sorghum, .'eon- altering the fact that most people have already forgotten it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
.'WE KNOW ITs MERITs.

Adams Drug Co. Aliens Drug Stores Barber Bros. Drug Co. Bain's Drug Co. Birmingham Drug Co. BoIen's Pharmacy E. G. Burchfield, Druggist Cromwell e Martin, Druggists Dewberfy. Drug Go. Duncan Drug Ce4 Five Points Pharmacy Fort Drug Co. Fort & Gibbs Drug Co. GamnliIl Drug Co. L. B. Gist, Druggiat Goodman Drug co. GOrman- Gamnnill Drug Co. Greene Drug Co. Hagan-D Dunlap Drug Co. Highland Pharmacy Eugene Jacobs Pharmacy Levy broS.s Drugglsts Maurice Letaw, Druggist Mecca Drug Co. D. R. Murray, Druggist R. ". Murray, Druggist Norton Drug Co. Pattou-Pope Drug Col Sellers Drug Co. L. R. Shihett, Druggist Slack Drug Co. Taylor Drug Co. H. w. Taylor, Druggist B. H. Turner, Druggist Walker Drug Co. Ward Drug Co. West End Pharmacy Winson Drug Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21

9SoId before nOonp-the usual report following a For Sale" Want Ad in The Age Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
Mdnfsdttan Days And Nights
By Herbeft Corey

NTEW YORK NJ ride between lines $26O
 Chicken Dinners $15O, with occasionally Italian Table they quite good enough New would there fewer good New York In proportion n my therc city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21

Doubtless there are other places in which q person who can digest horse
Evening star., 1924-11-14
DOUBTS OIL VALUE
AS FUEL FOR SHIPS
Expert Says Price Would Soar if
Steam Were to Be Replaced
on Large Scale.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KEW YORK, November 14.-OiI-
burning ships are not likely to re-
place steam driven vessels because
the extensive use of the former would
increase the price of oil until it
could not be employed profita bly, as
fuel, Capt. Walter T. Mcfarland
retiring president of the Society of
Naval Architects and Marine EnEi-
nccrs said yesterday in the opening
session of the Society's 32d annual
meeting.
There are services on which motor
ships are attractive with oil at it's
present price" he said. but authori-
ties warn us that the oil is not in
eNhaustibe. some predicting it's fail
ure within two decades. Some
designers even now are insisting that
boilers be constructed to permit a
ready shift to coal when the price of
oil becomes prohihitive."
Shipbuilding is now at it's lowest
ebh, he said, because of the naval
Evening star., 1924-11-14
FIRST LOB" FAILS,
BANDIT ENDS LIFE
Father of Five, Convinced He
Had Killed Victim, Turns
Gun on Self.
Er the Associated Press.

Ev the Associated Press
NEW YORK, November 14-Wn-
liam T.. Burns "a an unemployed
chauffeur. attempted his first stick
up yesterday, bungled it through
nervousness and committed suicide
after h. hid accidtutly wounded his
intended victim, Miss Nellie HanSe'l
Al midday :}urns entered an office
building in the uptown headline
zone" He proceeded to the offices
of Wallace l.. TEs; en-. a ieweler. Miss
HanscI. Tustrn secretary. was
alone in the place. She pat her
hands above her head when Burns
held a pistol at her face His hand
shoof ard the pistol fired. NJ s.
H@">s '"urNrd 10 tn" FoOr
Evidently convinced he had killed
Evening star., 1924-11-14

holiday which prevented new con-
tracts and the virtual completion of
earlier contracts.
a. c. Smith of Cleveland, suggest
ed that the old Shipping Board ves
sells could be converted for service
on the Great Lakes at about half the
cost of building new ships. ~
Capt. Mcfarland was succeeded
as president by Rear Admiral David
w. Taylor, retired.
Evening star., 1924-11-14
WAHABIS FACE ATTACK
OF HEDJAZ AT MECCA
New Outbreak Looms as Reinforced
Troops of King March
on Holy City.

JERUSALEM, November IA Gewish
Telegraphic Agency),-Furthe con-
fiict between tie forces OF King Ali
and lbn Saoud is expected to take
place between Mecca and Jeddah.
King Alis army, reinforced by
troops from ransjordinia and other
frontiers, is slowly advancing toward
Mecca. The Wahabis are or
ganizing their defense. orders have
also been issued to recall the Wahabi
forces from the Irak frontier. King
Ali, il is stated, has just received
new supplies of rifles, ammunition
and tanks from Europe.
Evening star., 1924-11-14
LIMBURGER IN BERLIN
is HIGHER AND POORER
Favorite Cheese of Germans Costs
More and Is Less Pungent
Than of Old.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN. November 14.-Limburger
cheese is 1873 per cent dearer in the
current market than it was in 1913
and not half so pungent. Cheese
experts insist it is not made with
the care it formerly was and that
less attention is paid to aging il.
Goldfish is 124 per cent more ex-
pensive than in pre-war Germany
onions, 200 per cent: sauerkraut, 100
per cent; beans. 167 per cent. and
coffee. 100 per cent.
Evening star., 1924-11-14
Women's S Hats

Silk Panne Nek cts and
all the season 5 popular
materials in gorgeous col
orings and snartest OF
shapes for matrons and
misses.
Evening star., 1924-11-14
WORKERS HURT BY BLAST.
Explosion Sprays Molten Metal
Over Hands and Faces.

DETROIT, November l4.-Thomas
Slivinski and Frank Sddawslli. employed
at the Peerless Foundry Co, We're pain
fully injured late yesterday when Il
blast furnace exploded, spraying molten
metal over their faces and hands. Three
other employees were slightly injured by
flying bits of metal.
The two severely injured men We're
standing in front of the cupola when it
exploded. Beresford Boat, proprietor
Of the foundry, which manufactures
window sash weights. expressed the
belief that the blast was caused by ex-
pioSiVeS in waste war material which
was being remelted.
Evening star., 1924-11-14

his victim. Burns placed the pistoi
At his temple and shot himself He
was dead before aid could be sum
mCned.
was only slightly injured.
Burns had five children and his
wife again. is to be a mother in a
feW months. the police said.
Evening star., 1924-11-14

Thousands of migrating birds are
killed every year by flying against light
UOuSrS.
Evening star., 1924-11-14

Coins are much more sanitary than
paper money, according to a German
bacteriOlCgist.
Evening star., 1924-11-14
Women's Coats

Whether for dress or sport
wear, Your coat is here stun
ning fur-trimmed bolivia and
soft wool fabric dress coats
and handsome sport coats in
new, different novelty styles
for misses and women
Evening star., 1924-11-14
SASS to $3.50 Dresses =

\ $50 lot selection of
finest iustrous atins.
heavy silk crepes. wool
poirets, French fiannels
and rich plaid novelty
dresses in every wanted
color Gight or dark) and
plenty of blacks. Is to
~ sizes in lot.
, 1924-10-02
TREASURY GETS S5,251 DOB
FROM i46 NATIONAL FORESTS

Receipts from timber sales. live
stock grazing. and other forms OF
uses of the 146 National Forests
totaled s~5.251,9O3 during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1924, accord
ing to the Forest Service, United
States Department Of Agriculture.
This sum is paid into the United
States Treasury.
Timber sales brought in $1,000
037, and ices for grazing permits
brought in $~1,915,561. The third
highest amount vas paid for the
leasing OF National Forest land for
summer homes and for other pur-
poses. this form of forest use hav-
ing brought in s207,637. Leases of
water power rights brought in SS2,-
915. Miscellaneous uses of the Ma
tional Forests, including trespass
damages. accounted for the balance
The IT National Forests in Cali
fcrnia sold the most timber. with the
National Forests in Washington and
Oregon second. The Nationar For
, 1924-10-02
PRE-WAR DEMOCRATIC
TARIFF RECORD

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 3O.-.'The
leaders of the Democratic Party have
not made and probably will never
attempt to make n definite statement
OF the meaning of their platform
plank on the tariff question:" as
serts the Republican Publicity As
ISOLATION, through its President.
Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr. The
declaration of that plank is, in favor
of a tax on commodities entering
the custom houses that will promote
effective competition, protect against
monopoly, and at the same time
produce a fair revenue to support the
Government
This is a generality which means
nothing. Unless the Democratic
candidates are prepared to specify
what they mean by IN effective COM
petition their platform is as mean
ingless as so much blank paper. The
Democratic candidates for the pres
idency and vice presidency and for
seats in Congress should frankly de-
clare whether the competition they
desire is such as would displace
American goods in American mar
kets. If that degree of competition
is not deemed necessary in order to-
be effective, they should specify
what measure of competition they
have in mind.
THE Democratic platform as
sumes. without asserting, that a
Democratic tariff would promote
that reasonable exchange of COM
modities which would enable foreign
countries to buy our surplus agri-
cultural and manufactured products
But that assumption is disputed by
the records of experience. The Will
son-Underwood tariff law went into
effect in october, 1913, and was in
ten months, as compared with the
force ten months before the outbreak
of the war in Europe. During that
corresponding period under the Re
publican tariff law, our imports in
creased from $500, 900. 900 TO ST.
600, 900 900. and at the same time
, 1924-10-02

our exports increased from s2,11O-
100000 to $1,95O.O0O, 900. II the
Democratic theory had beer correct
our exports should have increased
at the same time as our imports. In
stead of that there was the opposite
movement Of exports. We increased
our imports 800. 5000 and de-
creased IL exports $4,000, 900,
making a change adverse to the in
terests of American industry to the
extent Of $3.50, 100000. in a period
of ten months.
Let it be remembered that this
occurred before the war broke out
and when the Democratic tariff was
operating under normal conditions.
That this change had a very pro-
nounced depressing effect upon
American business conditions was ad-
mitted by the Democratic administra-
ton when its Department of Com
merce made'a report to Congress on
comparative conditions after the
Democratic Party went into power
and the Democratic tariff went into
effect. From thai report the follow
ing excerpts are taken:
Receipts Of railways: A COM
parison OF each month with the same
month of the preceding year shows
steady increases until September,
1913, after which there was a decline
, 1924-10-02
License Plates For
1925 Will Be White
With Black Figures

The automobile license paltes for
1925 will be white with the numerals
and lettering in jet black, a distinct
C b from the 1924 plates
which are red with white numerals.
The secretary Of states office has re-
ceived the 1925 supply of plates
which consists of 10000 vehicle
plates in duplicate, 5000 truck
plates in duplicate, 300 dealers
plates in triplicate, 200 motorcycle
Dealers plates in triplicate. These
plates cost the State 1878 cents per
pair. which is less than the 1924 con-
tract price, 1917 emit per pair, but
more than the 1928 contract price,
IL cents per pair. The 1925 plates
are supplied by the Western Display
& Manufacturing company of st.
Paul, MINI.
The estimate of the number of
plates that will be required in 1925
was predicated on the number re-
CURED for 1924 as compared with
the number required for 1923. this
comparison giving the foundation for
an estimate of the rate of increase.
To date there have been issued 1924
licenses for 38.700 passenger cars
and 400 trucks.
AAe seSIctdTy VI SIdte B OHlCe tHlS
year will follow its custom OF reserv-
ing for 1925 licenses the licensees
the numbers OF their 1924 licenses,
providing their applications for 1925
licenses, with the required fee, are
received before December is. Should
the holder Of a 1924 number not ap-
ply for that number in 1925 prior
two applicants prior to December Is
will be allotted to any other person
who may apply for it prior to De-
cember is. II there are more than
two APPLICANTS prior to December is
for a specific number, and the 1924
holder of hiatt number does moi apply
for it for 1925, then the number will
be allotted to the applicant whose
application Is first received.
, 1924-10-02
'LADDIE" DOG POISONED
ON PASS CREEK MAKES
TRIBUTE APPROPRIATE

The report has reached this office
that several dogs on Pass creek
have been poisoned during the past
month and on September 18th,
"Laddie' a dog belonging to Mrs. T.
G. Brown was found dead, presum-
ably from poison. This dog was her
constant companion on the home
stead and knowing the human ca
pacity to love and treasure such a
friend. the loss was indeed great.
Mrs. Brown was a teacher on Pass
Creek and 1t was on a visit to her
home that she found her dog dead.
AS a result OF her loss. she requested
Miss Helen Irving. County Superin-
tendent OF Schools to accept her res
ignation and secure another teacher
to complete the school term.
Mr.. Brown has submitted the fol-
lowing tribute and 1t carries the feel
ing which was felt in the loss Of
"Laddie." The article was written
by Warren G. Harding when he was
editor of the Marion Star. He had
just lost a Boston terrier who had
been his daily companion for many
years n the tribute IA printed in
the Boston Post.
"Edgewood Hub in the register 10
a mark OF his breeding: but to US
Just Hub. a little Boston terrier,
whose sentient eye mirrored the fidel-
ity and devotion OF his loyal heart.
The veterinary said he was poisoned;
perhaps he was. his mute suffering
suggested It.
"One IL reluctant to believe that
a human being who claims mans
estate could be so hateful n cow
ard AZ to ruthlessly torture and kill
, 1924-10-02

q trusting victim. made defenseless
through his confidence in the human
master, but there are such.
one honest look from Hubs
trusting eyes was worth a hundred
lying greetings from such inhuman
beings. though they wear the habili-
ments of men.
Perhaps you wouldn't devote
these lines to a dog. But Hub was
a Star office visitor nearly every
day of the six years in which he
deepened attachment.
HI was a grateful and devoted
dog, with a dozen lovable attributes
and it somehow voices the yearn-
ings of broken companionship to
pay his memory deserved tribute.
1t isn't orthodox to ascribe a soul
to a dog-if soul lean immortality.
But Hub was loving and loyal, with
the jealousy that tests its quality.
H was reverent, patient, faithful
he was sympathetic, more than hui
manly SO sometimes, for no lure
could be devised to call him from
the sick bed of mistress or master.
He minded his own affairs, es-
pecially worthy Of human emulation,
and he would kill nor wound no
living thlng. He was modest and
submissive where these were be-
coming, yet he assumed a guardian
ship of the home he sentineled, I'M
til the entry was porperly vouched.
II couldn't speak our language,
though he somehow understood. but
he could be, and was. eloquent with
uttering eye and wagging tail, and
the other expressions of knowing
dogs.
mo. perhaps he has no soul, but
in these things are the essence Of
soul and the spirit Of lovable life.
Whether the Creator planned it
so or environment and human COM
partnership have made it so, men
may earn richly through the love
and fidelity of a brave and devoted
dog.
Such loyalty might easily add
lustre to a crown of Immortality"
, 1924-10-02

ests in Utah, Nevada, and southern
Idaho grazed the most livestock, with
the forests in Arizona and New Next
co second.
Compared with the receipts for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1923, the
receipts for this past year were
$83,915 ess, the decrease being
caused by the smaller number Of
livestock grazing permits issued for
horses, cattle. and sheep. Timber
sales this past year exceeded the
former year by $30S,799. Summer
home leasing and water power leases
also increased, Grazing receipts,
however. fell off $~425,924.
, 1924-10-02

each month Except, March. 1914,
and February, 1870 until April,
1915, when each month showed an
increase. Bank Clearings: These,
when each month is compared with
the same month OF the preceding
year, show a decline during five con-
secutive months beginning October
1918. Production of pig iron: The
production of pig iron in the United
, 1924-10-02

States each month when compared
with the same month of the preced-
ing year shows an increase from jan
uary to September. 1913. After this
each month shows o decline until
April, 1915. Business failures: The
number OF business failures each
month, when compared with the
same month of the preceding year,
show an increase each month from
, 1924-10-02

April, 1913. to August, 1915, except
in July. 1913, and May, 1914. when
decreases are shown
The result could scarcely have
been wise nor can it be other
wise in the future. II we buy moro
abroad and sell less abroad, as we do
under a Democratic tariff, every line
of American enterprise must neces-
sarily suffer"
, 1924-10-02
THIS HELPS EYE STRAIN

Simple camphor, %hydrastis, witch
hazel. etc, as mixed in Lavoptik eye
wash, strengthens yes and helps any
case weak, strained or sore eyes.
Lavoptik acts very quickly. Alumi-
nun eye cup free. - Rendle's Drug
Store, Miller Block. Adv.C-3
Evening star., 1924-08-05
RECEIVER is DENIED
FOR EXCLUSIVE CLUB
Reputed Promoter Charged Custer
by lockwood Hall. Near
Tarrytown, N. Y.

BY the Associa ted Press
NEW YORK, August 5.-Supreme
Court Justice McGoldrick today de-
MED application for appointment OF
a receiver for the lockwood Hall
Country Club. near Tarrytown.
Harold Bolter, who said he orig
mated the plan for the club, had
charged that the Tarrytown Realty
Syndicate, which he organized. had
been deprived of its interest in the
club after Il members OF the syndl-
cate had subscribed $4,000, in re-
turn for which they were to receive
a profit of s50.000 and life member
ship in the club.
The president of the club is Frank
era'. Among its directors. against
whom Mr.. Bolter made no accusa
tions. are \. J. DreXel Blddle, Frank
4. Munsey. cambridge Colby. Rob
ert w. Chambers. Edward l.. DohenY,
T. Coleman du Pont, Charles Dana
Bolter said he had contract to
buy 400 acres of the William Rocke-
feller estate. including lockwood
Hal, which had been Mr. Rocke-
feller's home. and the grounds I'M
n? ediately surrounding il for sl,250.
900. After he had formed svndi-
cate to carry out this project, Bolter
said, Mr. Hitchcock opened negotla-
tions with the Rockefeller executors
for purchase OF the grounds tor
s95o,0 900.
MIR. Hitchcock replied that Boiter
the executors when he tMr. Hitch
cock) intervened to save the club
project, a course that ne said Bolter
approved.