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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
PLANES READY l. FOR NEXT HOP ACROSS NATION World Pliers Plan To Make Trip To Chicago
 Today LIBERTY MOTORS
 HIGHLY PRAISED Wartime Product Stands Gruelling Test, Com mander Says
(By Associated Press)

DAYTON, Ohio, Sept. IA Weather conditions permitting the American world fliers will leave here at 10 o'clock tomor- row for Chicago, their next stop on the transcontinental flight, Lieut.. Lowell H. Smith, flight commander, announced today. It had been planned not to leave until Tuesday, but McCook field mechanics worked all night in relays and completed overhauling the planes and there is little doubt but that they will be ready for the hop-off tomorrow.
 A new engine was installed in the Boston II, Lieut.. Leigh Wade's plane, and the engines of the flagship Chicago and the New Orleans were over hauled completely and serv- iced. The ships" were wheeled into the hangars yes terday just as soon as it was possible to get them off the field, and mechanicians bounced upon them for the servicing job.
 Smiths Plane Repaired
 The motor removed from the Boston was put in at Langley Field and the plane flown to Nova Scotia and Pic tou. Lieutenant Smith, who damaged the tail-skid of his plane while taking off yesterday at Boiling Field, Wash ington, received the part by train to- day, the repairs having been made there.
 Lieutenant Kneip, naval attache at Melsp0k field, and Lieut. VI right, advance men for the world fliers, ar rived here this morning from Cumber- land, Md, where they were forced down yesterday because of low hang ing clouds and fog. They spent the night at Cumberland.
 There is no doubt in the minds of any of the fliers now as to the ultimate SutCcSS OL LAAp9 A4AONtShAAS SAAAAN ANAA said. He declared the only thought is to get to Seattle as soon as possible, without running any chances.
 Impressed By Capital Reception
 The aviators were agreed, they told newspaper men today, tha tthe most impressive part of the whole journey was the welcome they received at Washington. We never thought or expected the President to meet us'" Lieutenant Smith said
 Praise for the Liberty motors with which the planes have been equipped throughout the flight. was expressed today by Lieutenant Smith, who said the fight demonstrated conclusively that they are wonderful motors" All of the engines used in, the ships were made during the war, he said. Two improvements developed at Me Cook field, an electric starter, and an advanced ignition system were given their first test on the flight, Smith disclosed today. He said they have functioned perfectly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
GOWN AND SMILE
 IS PARIS DEGREE
MOdistes FOrsake Efforts To
 Create Waist Line

PARIS, Sept. 14.-A sheath gown and smile-that's what the Parisienne is going to wear next winter, according to the leaders of fashion in the Rue De La Paix.
 There won't be any waist line. The dressmakers have given it up as a Lad job the task of trying to decide whether it should be close to the knee CT close to the northern frontier. But winter is going to be cold. Therefore, before you can see the gown, you can admire cloak of velvet or of silk with furs as accessories above and be- low. Fur coats will be as popular as ever, of course, but they are getting more and more expensive. The best the woman of modest means can do is to have a fur collar but it must be so high that nothing shows but her eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
CHANG FORCES MOVE0N PEKING
 FROM 2 POINTS
Advances Are Claimed By Opponents Of Gov
 ernment
Rv Associated Press

SHANGHAI, Sept. 1.-Two mes sages from Hukden, given out today by Secretary Loh, of Chekiang defense headquarters here, reported that firing began last night at Shanhaikwan, in Chibli province, at the Manchurian bor- der, and in the Jehol district, in the heart of Chihli, 125 miles northwest of Shanha;kwan and about 100 miles nortEeast of Picking.
 The second message repor ted the ca F. ture of Tsaoyang, near Jehoi.
 These messages, if confirmed, will indicate that Chang Tso-Lin, the Man chnrian field marshal, is moving his troops on Peking from two directions in his effort to overthrow the govern ment there.
 Meanwhile, the civil war about Shanghai brouk.t sharp fighting to- day.
 Chekiang Forces Cain.
 According to a communiQue by Loh, the Chekiang forces, allied with Chang .Tso-Lin. in their opposition to the Pe- king government, advanced from Kia- ting. 30 miles northwest of Shanghai, toward T1itsang. They also were said to have scored advances near Antlng.
 The major operations, however, were west of Tai Lake, where the Chekiang artillery was turned on Yihing after the Chekiang commander had withheld fire in response to q petition of the townspeople and discovered that this was ruse to enable the Kiangsu army to bring up reinforcements.
 It was admitted that Chekiang troops suffered unimportant losses when iunks on Tai Lake transporting them were subjected tU a heavy fire. A report from Kiangsu sources said a flotilla of these junks had been sunk by artillery.
 Advances Claimed.
 An eye witness attached to the Kiang- SUI army reported that it had been at tacking near Tsingpu, east of Tai Lake, with Sungkiang, 20 miles southwest of Shanghai, and the Shanghai-HLngchow railroad as objectives. Advances were claimed. It also was said that the Che kiang advance against Yihing had been halted.
 Another witness, returning here at ten o'clock tonight from Hwangtu, 15 miles west of Shanghai, reported that he saw havy firing today with many casualties. The Chekiang line between Hwangtu and Anting was holding firm ly he said. There was renewed firing in the Kiuho sector, to the northwest, near the town of Kiating, mentioned in LOh's cOmmunique.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
LAYS FUNERAL EYRE
 ON HIS WEES TOMB
Chicago Man Fights Off All
 Attempts At Rescue

CHICAGO, Sept. 14.-When Joseph Kopusea decided that he could no longer live without his beloved wife he made of her fresh grave a funeral pyre for himself.
 Kopnsea went to the grave of his wife Sunday, piled it high with sticks, old newspapers and other inflammable matter over which he poured kerosene. After striking a match to the pile on the grave. Kopusea poured kersone over himself and leaped into the flame. Mourners at nearby grave attempted to rescue him, and once succeeded in getting him out of the fire but he fought with them and jumped into the flames again. Finally the police came, overpowered him and took him to hospital. He will die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
MANY LIVES IMPERILED INNEWYORK Meant No Harm, Says
 Pale Figure In
 Black STRANGE IMPULSE
 IS ONLY EXCUSE Baby Carriage Forms The Torch In One At-
 tempted Blaze , CONGREGATIONS STARTED IN 1 HOUR Pyromaniac Now .. Held Under Observation At Bellevue
 Hospital
, CONGREGATIONS
 STARTED IN 1 HOUR
Meased Wire to Age.Herald)

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.- Jennie Latimer, 34 years old. a pattern-maker, pale, dressed in black and shaken by vague terrors that have haunted her since a recent nervous break down, sped swiftly through a tenement district on the lower west side Sunday, lighting fires in crowded tenement buildings and endangering the lives of thousands of people.
 In less than an hour and a half she had started five blazes. As fire engines changed through the streets and terror-stricken people watched tenement after tene- ment pour it's hordes of flee ing families onto the side walks, Jennie-"a pale woman in black" under suspi- cion. As men fought a blaze in one hallway she was ques- toned, but mumbled a vague explanation of her presence and swiftly disappeared. A few minutes later another fire alarm was sounded, and again she was found on the scene.
 Arrested at her home, she at first denied all guilt, but later broke down and confessed.
 'I didn't mean to do any harm.' she stammered. 1T wouldn't hurt anybody"
 Then, haltingly, with fear in her eyes, she confessed that she had started five other fires in the past week, 10 fires in all. Four of these had been in the crowded tenement where she and her sister make their home. Once dur ing the week she had fired a baby carriage that stood inside tenement door. Sunday she had set the blazes by lighting curtains at the doors of the tenements or by touching a match to rubbish under basement stairs.
 II didn't mean to do any ham again she mumbled her explanation. But something, she said. had driven her on. She had been unable to control her i'm pulse-the frantic driving desire to watch flames lap upward, sibilantly. creeping from paper to woodwork, to see people flee, to hear the clang of en- zine bells, the roar of excited crowds. She had not understood that strange urge, but she had obeyed.
 Jennie, in addition to saying that she had set the 10 mysterious fires which have burst out in her neighborhood in the past week, took responsibility for setting other blazes. Fire Marshal Brophy questioned the woman thor oughly. She is now held at Bellevue hospital charged with arson, and doe tors are observing her to determine her. sanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
BUSINESS BLAMED
 FOR BALD HEADS
High Tension Of Modern Life
 Responsible

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. IA The high tension of American business life is cutting wide swath in the country's hair crop, Paul Killing, Chi cago specialist, told the National Hair dressers' convention Sunday. The typi- cal business man, he said, is the biggest enemy of American hair growth,
 Ali his nervous energy is coneen- trated on his affairs" said Killing. He forgets his hair until most of 1t is gone. If the average man would give his hair half the attention during the preceding 15 years that he showers on its after 40, America would have bumper crop of scalp foliage."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
4OO- -YEAR-OLD OAK
 COSTS $3,393,O8

BASKING RIDGE, N. J., Sept. 14. New Jerseys oldest oak tree, planted 400 years old cost it's owners, the Presbyterian church here, S, 1908, ,0S last year for upkeep, the pastor reported Sunday.
 Three tons of concrete were used to fill cavities in its rapidly decaying trunk, and 35 cables were required to brace it. The tree is 93 feet high and has a circumference of 23 feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
FRENCHMAN WINS
 HELICOPTER PRIZE
Ochmichen Remains Stationary
 In Air For Minute

MONT BILLIARD, France, Sept. 1A. -Etienne Oehmithen, the French engi- neer, today was awarded the 10000 franc prize for his performance with a helicopter. The machine of Oehmichen in an official test lifted 100 pounds to a height of one meter in one minute and remained there entirely stable for one minute. Afterwards the helicopter lifted $50 pounds three-fourths of a meter and 440 pounds one meter 10 centimeters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
MYSTERIOUS FUMES
 KILL 2 IN NEW YORK
Doctors Apartments Found Filled With Drug-Like Vapor

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Gas from q small furnace fire is believed to have caused the death of two persons and poisoning of third in an apartment house here.
 Police discovered the tragedy when they broke into the apartment of Dr. James L. Joughlin, after he had failed to respond to telephone calls, and found Mrs. Joughlin dead and her husband unconscious. A curious Idor filled the room and caused them to suspect at first that the couple were the victims of drugs.
 But when they entered the apartment of Dr. George w. Partridge, on the floor below, seeking his help, they found he also was dead.s Other occupants of the building were not affected, and po- lice are unable to understand how the gas entered only t apartments of the two physicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
, SOLDIERS DIE
 IN OIL TANK FIRE
Unidentified Victims Burned To
 Crisp At Monterey

MONTEREY, Cal, Sept. 14.- Three unidentified soldiers were burn ed to death when an oil tank, one of six set fire by lightning, exploded Sun day.
 The soldiers were covered with fam ing oil and their bodies were burned to q crisp. The fire started during an electrical storm when lightning struck q 55,000 barrel tank of crude oil. Five other tanks, one of them filled with gasoline, soon were ignited by the flames.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
THREE ARE KILLED TN GRADE WRECK IN TENNESSEE Three Others Hurt As Royal Palm Crashes
 Into Auto ENGINE STALLS
 IN PATH OF FLYER Race With Train In GeOr-
 gia Ends In
 Death
(By Associated Press)


 DAYTON, Tenn, Sept. 14.- Three persons were killed and three others injured at the South Dayton crossing of the Southern railroad this after noon at 12;45 when the Royal Palm, northbound, struck an automobile containing a party of six.
 The dead are: Mrs. Dade Allison, aged 45; Clyde Hen- derson, aged A.; Thomas Hughes, aged IS. Injured :: Arthur Allison, 36, believed to be fatally hurt; Clyde Hughes and Lewis Turner.
 The accident occurred on the Dixie highway, about half mile from the Dayton depot. The two boys who were killed and the top of the auto mobile were carried a quarter of a mile on the fender of the engine before the train stopped.
 Mrs. Allison was instantly killed, young Henderson and Hughes dying a short time afterward at local hotel. All the victims were residents of Nor gantown, near this city, and were re- turning from church when the crash came. Turner, the driver of the car, and Clyde Hughes saw the approach ing train in time to jump, and escaped serious injury.
 Eye-wi, ,esses of the accident say Turner had driven the car onto the track directly in front of the approach ing train, and that the engine had stopped. The engineer of the train saw the automobile while a short distance away and made every effort to step, but was travelling 40 miles an hour when the crash came, it is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
(Leased Wire To The Age-Herald. ]
 IT 0NDON, Sept. 14.-Fleet street,

(Leased Wire To The Age-Herald.) IT 0NDON, Sept. 14.-Fleet street,
 London's world of newspaper
 men, is buzzing with new sen sation. The newspaper, "The Peo- ple," has published. in serious vein. what purports to be long spirited message from the late Lord North cliffe, former owner of the London Times, Daily Mail and numerous oth- CT publica tions.
 The spirit of. Northcliffe, accord ing to his former confidential sec retary, through whom the message was received, described "the other world," as most pleasant place in which he wears grey flannels and lives in beautiful country house, works to get clothes, and has Tolstoi and Joseph Conrad as friends.
 Northcliffe is quoted as saying that he was with Conrad when he passed over" The famous novelist died several weeks ago.
 The article in "The People" states that the message was given to Miss Louise Owen, who served for 20 years as Northcliffe's private secre- tary, through spiritual medium named Mrs. Leonard. Miss Owen says that the message came verbally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
SEMINARY DEDICATED

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. H. Dedication here this afternoon of the new American Baptist Theological seminary, institution for the theological training of negro preachers, will do more than anything else that has de- veloped in the south toward the burn ing of the lyncher's rope, Dr. l.. K. Williams of Chicago, president of the National Baptist convention, negro, de clared in accepting the first unit of that institution as a gift from the Southern Baptist convention, composed of white churches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
SON OF SOPRANO
 FEARED KIDNAPPED
Detectives Seek Four Year Old
 Boy In Chicago

CHICAGO. Sept. 14.-Private de- tectives today were seeking the four year-old son of Beryl Brown, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera company. reported kidnapped from an apartment here Friday. The singer in private life is Mrs. Charles W. Bliss, wife of a wealthy realtor of Tulsa. Oklahoma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
CAPTAIN OF SHIP
 DIES OF WOUNDS
Seaman Of Italian Vessel Is
 Held At Mobile
Special Leased Wire to Age Herald.

Especial Leased WIre 10 Age-HeraId.1
 MOBILE. Ala, Sept, 14.-Capt. Angelo Ciarlo, master of the Italian steamship Vallesoura in this port, died today at local infirmary of gunshot wounds. Livereni EttOre, a seaman on the vessel, who confessed the shooting, according to officers, and was arrested as he was trying to escape, wa3 chHrg- ed with murder. Ettore quarreled with the ship captain relative to his wages and shot him four times, a wound m the abdomen proving fatal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Showers Monday; Tues day fair.
 Georgia: Showers. Tennessee: Fair Monday and Tues. day.
 Mississippi: Fair.
 lComplete weather data Is on Page 1d.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
PLANTATION MANAGER SHOT
Mississippi Posse Searching For Negro
 Assailant And Companion.

TUNICA, Miss, sept. 14.-W. ID. Barbee plantation manager, was shot and killed late tonight by, negro farm worker on the Tom Milford plantation near here. The negro and a companion who witnessed the shooting are being sought by a posse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-15
ONE KILLED IN GEoRc 4
Dauasens Nam Dies Alter Raea With Train

ARLINGTON, Ga, Sept. 14.--While believed to have been racing with n Georgia, Florida and .tlabama railway train late last night, an automobile con taining two men crashed into another on the highway between Edison and Cuth- bert Guy Webb of Damascus was killed and Morris Paddock, also of Da- mascus, is believed to have been fatally injured. The latter is in a hospital in Cuthbert. The engineer O. the train saw the crash and sent rescuers to the scene.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-19
HUNTING PRESERVE
IN SOUTH GEORGIA
ONE OF $4,000 ACRES SEEN AS
PROBABILITY. LAND IN A
HALF DOZEN COUNTIES.

NASHVILLE, Ga.-The immense
expanse of South Georgia woodland,
known as "Sportsman's Paradise" on
which were assigned two years ago
exclusive hunting privileges to J.
Isom Davis, of Nashville, may be ex-
banded into a hunting reserve $4,000
acres in area, including not only
Banks pond, the $4,000 acre artificial
lake, but large part of the Okefeno-
kee swamp.
Mr.. Davis negotiated the original ar
rangement for "Sportsman's Paradise
two years ago to include exclusive
hunting privileges on $4,000 acres of
South Georgia woodland in Berrien,
CEnch and parts of adjacent counties.
After two successful hunting sea-
sons he has been beseiged by large
and adjacent counties to. include their
land in the hunting preserve, which
has attracted nearly 100 hunting par
ties from the north and east
Mr.. Davis purpose in inaugurating
this paradise" was to stop the pro-
miscuous hunting through South Geor-
gia woodlands which threatened in
time to reduce the amount OF game.
Quail deer and bear are the prin-
cipal species OF game to be found.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-19
New Fruit Is on Way
To the Breakfast Table
The DURAN Said to Be Delicious, Yet
Unlike Other Fruits.


The next new fruit 10 appear in
American markets will probably be
the DURHAM 1t is very popular in the
East Indies and the Philippines and
the vogue of ound-the-world tours
has made it known to many Ameri-
cans. 1t can be grown in the West
Indies and should win widespread ia
vor here because it is so delicious and
yet so unlike other fruits. The only
drawback about it is its abominable
smell
The DURAN is about the size OF a
big cocoanut. 1t has hard husk and
inside are five oval cells filled with a
cream-colored pulp. The favor OF this
pulp is so different from that OF other
fruits that it is difficult to describe.
A. r. Wallace, the naturalist says
that it is like a, rich custard which has
been literally dosed with almond ex-
Itract, but that there are also waits
OF flavor which call to mind cream
cheese, onion sauce brown sherry and
other incongruities.
A more recent experimental re-
marks that 'it tastes like banana
beaten up with cream and dash OF
chocolate"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-19
MEN TO QUIT SHAVING
TO END HAIR BOBBING
National Organization Is Formed to
Fight Fad of Clipping Locks.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth and beard for a bobl This,
briefly, says the New York World, is
the platform Of the new national or
ganization now being formed to com
bat the wave OF hair-bobbing that is
sweeping the country.
Leaders in the organization are the
husbands OF dozen women OF Ira
verse City who, while at card par
ty, grew bored with bridge and called
for a barber The result was a dozen
bobbed heads.
DR.. P. P Smith, OF Big Valley, Al
berta, read OF the Traverse City bobb-
ing orgy and offered to be one of the
founders OF an organization whose
aim will be to check the women from
bobbing their hair.
The new club will be known as the
Beard for a Bob League" Those eli
gible are the male members Of fam
lily in which a woman either is or was
threatening to bob her hair The
pledge provides that the protesting
male members of the family will re-
fuse to shave until the defiant woman
agrees either not to cut her hair or,
if already clipped, agrees to let it
grow out.
1t is now planned to hold the first
annual convention of the organization
in Traverse City this summer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-19
CORN COBS PROVE A
VALUABLE BY-PRODUCT
IF PROPERLY CONSERVED
WOULD YIELD MORE REVE-
NUE. THAN FOOD ITSELF.

A Chicago professor has called at
tention to the loss suffered by agri-
culture in the waste of by-products on
one comparatively small item-corn
cobs. He shows that these, instead of
being used for fuel or allowed to rot,
if properly conserved would yield a
greater revenue even than the corn it
self Out of corn cobs he has extract
ed natural sugar material for stock
moulded into telephone receivers, CT
food, synthetic resin which can be
gar holders, monograph records, two
dyes, black and blue; noiseless gears.
cellulose from which is manufactured
fibre or artificial silk and films for
motion pictures. All that is wasted
and destroyed annually without
thought, says the ST. Paul Dispatch.
The packers have taught the world
a lesson in extracting a revenue from
the by-product of animals slaughtered
for food The wealth they have attain
ed has not been through the purveying
of meats, but by the stoppage OF waste.
When the farmer learns that lesson
he will have no occasion to envy the
wealth of others
1t is not alone in corn cobs that this
waste occurs. The mountains OF valu-
able fax straw which in the fall dot
the western horizon with flaming vol
canoes of fire need only the simple
scutch mill and retting tanks to fur
nish valuable textile material and eX-
cellent heaps of wheat, oats and bar
ley straw that make an annual smoke
offering each fall have within them po-
tential paper pulp that experiments
prove can be utilized and will be
when our forests are extinct from fire
and lack of reforestation. Excellent
bond paper has been made from fax
straw from the northwest, superior,
because OF its linen base. to the ordi-
nary sulphite The culls from the po-
tato sorting machine, the broken and
foul seeds shipped with the grain, low
ering its grade and costing thousands
of dollars in freight, which might be
retained and made into excellent
ground feed dor live stock-these and
more slip into the sewer of waste and
are never recovered. The coming sci
entihc farming will accomplish the
impossible 1t will make silk purse
out of a sow's ear. 1t will extract silk
stockings from the lowly corn cob
and furnish the dye to color them.