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Evening star., 1924-02-15
UNION OILS EARNINGS UP.

SAN FRANCISCO, February 10
The yearly financial statement Of the
Union Oil Company of California
showed that the company earned net
profits of sS,032,649 in 1928. The
Years sales were $72,92S,577, as
against s5S,337141 for 1922. The
gross profit was equivalent to 22k
per cent on the capital stock, as COM
nared to 231a per cent for 1922. These
percentages are based on the $780,
00o, 900 capital stock outstanding.
Production of crude oil for the year
was 1874, ,63a -NErels. as against 49,
453,S46 baJA 1922.
Evening star., 1924-02-15
FOREIGN EXCHANGE,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated frece.
NEW YORK, February 15.-For-
eign exchange easy. Quotations Tin
United States dollars): Great Brit
ain-Demand. 4.2s%; cables, 4.3o; six
ty-day bills on banks, 4.271s. France
Demand, .0444; cables, .0444!a. Italy
Demand, .0434A; cables, .o4s5A.
Belgium-Demand, .os7sA; cables
oooosa: cables, .Oo0OOOOOO00O22. Hol-
land-Demand. .S735. Norway-De-
mand, 1929. sweden-DHeamand, :261o.
Denmark-Demand, 1879. Switzer-
land-Demand, .1739. Spain-Demand.
1875. Greece-Demand, .0167. Po-
land-Demand, .00000011h. Czecho-
slovakia--Demand, .0291. Jugoslavia
Demand, .0127. Austria--Demand,
.000014M. Rumania-Demand, .0051 "a.
Aree entina-Demand, 1850. Brazil
Demand, 1885. . Toxic - Demand,
.0O45A. Montreal, 81 1-32.
Evening star., 1924-02-15
BRILL, INCOME GAINS.

PHILADELPHIA, Febyuary 15.-Net
operating profit of the j. G. Brill
Company in 1923 was s2.146,5o6, an
increase of $1,191,538 and equal, after
payment of per cent dividend on
the preferred stock, to approximately
s3S share on the outstanding COM
mon stock. 1t was previously reported
the operating profit was S1,146,506.
Evening star., 1924-02-15
FREIGHT TRAFFIC NOW
HEAVIEST IN HISTORY
All Car Loading Records for This
Time of Year Have Been
Smashed.

Unequaled loading of revenue
freight for this period of the year
is reported by railroads of the coun-
try to the car service division of the
American Railway Association.
Loadings totaled 929,936 cars for
the week ended February 2, the larg-
est number ever loaded during any
one week in January or February.
Compared with the same week last
year, when freight traffic was the
heaviest in history, it was an in
crease of 64,522 cars, and an in
crease of 1904 over the same week
of 1922.
Evening star., 1924-02-15
DIVIDEND UNCHANGED.

NEW YORK, February 15.-General
Motors opened down to 15 against
l5% at the close last night, in conse-
quence of the failure of the directors
to do anything more than declare
the regular quarterly dividend. :
Evening star., 1924-02-15
TODAY's CHICAGO PRICES.

CHICAGO, February 15.-Prospects Of
the tariff being increased gave hrmness
to wheat prices today during the early
dealings. The upward tendency OF
values, however. was helped more
through absence of selling pressure
than as a result Of increased buying.
Lack of new demand was explained in
some quarters as due to the fact that
there are 10000, 900 bushels Of Canadian
bonded wheat at present in the United
States. Opening prices, which varied
from unchanged figures to 4 cent off,
with May 1.10B to 1.10Z and July
1.10H, were followed by a moderate gen.
eral upturn.
Corn and oats were firmer with wheat.
After opening unchanged to u higher,
May 79N to S01s, the corn market scored
gains well around.
Oats started at u advance, May 4Sss,
and later climbed little more.
Provisions were easier in the absence
of any aggressive buying.
Evening star., 1924-02-15

II you want work read the want col.
umns Of The Star. ----
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N. Y. Stock and Bond
Averages.
Thursday, February II.

STOCKS.
Total stick sales, 9s2,100
shares.
Twenty industrials averaged
100.45: net gain. 80.
High. 1924, 101.24; low. 94.ss.
Twenty railroads averaged
S4.41; net gain, 10.
High, 1924, $3.50; low, S2.74.
BONDS.
Total bond sales (par value),
s11,223,00O.
Ten first grade rails averaged
S6.10; net gain, .12.
Ten secondary rails averaged
S3.s7; net loss. ,.03.
Ten public utilities averaged
S6.51; net loss. .12.
Ten industrials averag ged
93.97; net gain, IA.
Combined average, 1851; net
gain, .02.
Combined average month ago,
3. SS.o3; year ago, $3.50.
Evening star., 1924-02-15

~
Auto Knitter...
Auto Sales pf. -.
Bald Loco o..
Ral & Ohio (5).
Bal & oh pf (4) =.
BarnSdall A. -.
B'ch Nut (2.40).
Beth Steel (5)...
, Beth SRI pf co...
Beth ST. pf (S)
! Booth Fisheries.
! Br'k Edison (S).
! Brk-Man Tran.
/, Br'k-Man TT pf..
Bklyn Tn G (s)..
Burns Br B (2)..
But c & z (50cl..
Butte & Superior.
| Butterick Co.
! Caddo Cen o & r
| Cal Packing CO..
! Cal Pet (1&)..
i Cal Pet pf co..
! Callahan q Lead.
Calu & Ariz CD
| Calu & He (50c).
Can Pacific (10).
Case J I Plow.
Case Threshing.
|! Cent Leather Co.
Cent Lea Co pf. =.
Cent Rib Mills.
, Ger de Pas c (4)
Certain-Td Prod.
Chand Mot (6)..
Ches & Ohio 90.
Oh & o pf (6h)..
| Chicago & Alton.
| Chic & Alton pf. .
| Chic & East Ill.,.
| Chic Ct West. 80.
| Chic Ct West pf..
! Ch Mil & st Paul.
Ch Mil & st = pf..
Chic & Nohthwt..
| Chic r I & Pac.
c r I & p pf (6).
c r I & P pf 90.
Chile Cop (2k).
Chino Copper.
Cluett. Peab (5).
Coca-Cola o..
Colo Fuel & Iron.
Colo Southern.
Col G & E (2.60).
Col Carbon (4).-
Com Solv A o..
, Com Solv B o..
Comp Tab r (6).
Cor soleum (3)..
Conley Tin Foil.
Consol Cigar. 80.
! Consol Gas (5)..
Consol Textile. ..
Cont Can o..
Cont Motors. 80.
Corn Pr r (t9)...
Corn Pr r NV wi.
Cosden Co.
! Crucible Stl o..
! Cub Am Sug 90.
! Gu Am Su pf %.
| Cuban Cane Sug.
Cub Cane Su pf.
/ Cub Dom Sugar.
Cub Dom Sug pf..
| Cuyamel FIR o..
Davidson Chem.
De Beers Mines.
| Del l. G. w (6).
/! Devoe 1st pf 90.
, Dome Mines (2).
Doug-Pectin (1)
Du Pt de N (S)..
East X. K.(t5%)...
Eaton AK (2.6nI.
Ell st Bat (t5 ~
Elk Horn Coal. -.
! End-John (5)..-
Erie. ...-
Erie 1st pf. .....-
Erie I'd pf. .....-
Famous Pl 3d..
Famous Pl pf (8)
Fed Min G. Sm...
Ed M & 8 pf (7).
Fid-Phe F In (6)
Fifth Av 3 (64c)
Fisher Bdy (10).
Fisk Rubber.
Fisk Rub pf A..
Fl'chm'n (t3K).
Freeport-Texas..
Gen Am TC (3).
Gen Asphalt. :.
Gen Asph pf (5).
Gen Baking CO.,.
Gen Cigar o..
| Gen Cigar deb.
| Gen Elec (S)...-
| Gen Ell spe (60c)
Gen Mot (1.20)..
| Gen Refr (4)...-
| Ginbel Bros... 80.
! Glidden Co.
| Goldwyn Pict.,...
| Goodrich.
| Goodrich pf CD.
! Goodyear pf. 80.
| G'dyear pr pf (S)
| Cranky Consol. =.
| Ct North pf (5)..
! Or Nor Ore (3).
| Grit Westn Sug.
| OR Canan Cop. -.
! Guantan Sugar..
| G M & N pf (1) -.
Gulf St stl t4)..~
Habirshaw Ell c..
. Hartman Co 60.
| Hayes Will (3)..
! Helme Geo H.
Homestake (6)..
Househ'd Pr go.
i Houston Oil.
Hud Mot c (3) -.
Hupp Mot c %.
Hydraulic Steel.
Illinois Cent (7).
Ind Oil & Gas. 3.
Indiahoma Ref.
Indian Motorcyc.
Inger r (f2S)...
Inland Stl (2A).
Inland Stl pf 60
Ins Copper co.
Interb Rap Tr.
Internal Ag new.
Internal Ag pf. ..
! Int Cement o..
Evening star., 1924-02-15

TOTAL SALES (Par vaIue):
II am. q 369 900 12noon 4230Ooo
1p.m. 6 10000 2p.m.. g OO9 600
Evening star., 1924-02-15
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office
Adams Exp Co e.
Air Reduct (4).

Adams Exp CO.,.
Air Reduct o..
AJAX Rubber.
Alaska Juneau.
AL Oh & Dye %.
Allis-Ch-N1f %.
Allis-C NJ pf (7).
Am Agri Chem.
Am Agri Chem pf
Am Beet Sugar.
Am Bosch.
Am Br S & F (5)
Am Can f6).....
Am Can pf CO..
Am c & F. (12)
Am Chain A (2).
Am Chicle.
Am Chlcle pf.
Am Drug Synd.
Am EynresS (6).
Am. & F.P.25esp pd
Am Hide & Lea
Am Hide & L pf..
Am Ice (7).....
Am Information
Am LaF F. e %.
Am Linseed.
Am Linseed pf.
Am Locomo (6).
Am Metal (3)...
Am Radiator %
Am Roll M pf -.
Am SAT- r (50c).
Am Ship & Com
Am SIN & Re (5)
Am S & r pf (7).
Am Stl Fdys (3)
Am Sugar. .....
Am Sumat Tob. :.
Am T & Tel (9)...
Am Tobac (12).:
Am Tob b (12)..
Am water WkS.
Am W w pr "a.
Am Woolen (7).
Am Wool pf %.
Am Zinc.
Am Zinc pf. -.
Anaconda Cop.
Ann Arbor pf. 80.
Arm pf Del co..
Arm Cons & Co.
Asso Dry q (5)..
Asso OIL t1h).
At II & S Fe co..
A T & S F pf t5).
At Coast l. o..
Allan Fruit CTS.
At Gulf & w I.
At Gulf 6 w I pf.
Atlantic Ref 90.
Austin Nichols
Auto Knitter...
Auto Sales pf. -.
Bald Loco o..
Bal & Ohio o..
Bal & oh pf o..
BarnSdall A.
B'ch Nut (2.4O).
Beth Steel (5)....
Beth SRI pf (7)....
Beth ST. pf (S)....
Booth Fisheries.
Br'k Edison (S).
Brk-Man Tram.
Br'k-Man TT pf.
Bklyn Tn G ts)..
Burns Rr r az
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
SAYS SHIP BOARD
DEFEATED PROPOSAL
Spurns Coolidge Recommends
ton For Fleet Control, Is RumOr
(By Associated Press. }

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Infor-
nation that the shipping board had
rejected a resolution designed to carry
out President Coolidge's recommends
ton that the Emergency Fleet corpo-
ration be given absolute control of the
governments merchant fleet was re-
ceived today from unofficial sources by
the house committee investigating the
board.
Representative Lehlbach of New Jer-
sey, republican member of the COM
mittee, announced he had heard unoffi-
cially that such a resolution was
defeated at a board meeting last
Wednesday by 3 to 3 vote, with Com
missioner Thompson absent.
Leigh G. Palmer, president of the
corporation, who was testifying before
the committee, said he knew such d
resolution was pending, but had moi
heard what action, if any, had been
taken. Mr.. Palmer testified that the
resolution would turn over all operat-
ing matters to me" and had been drawn
at the direction Of Chairman O'Connor
from the board.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
FORGOT OIL TANK
And CONTENTS GO
AS AXLE GREASE
Operator Stored ThOus-
ands Of Barrels Fight
ing Standard Co.

CLEVELAND, Okla, Dec. 90
Oklahoma's oil region is strewn with
the wrecks of fortunes won but never
realized. Theysgo to account for the
$500 which statistics show is sunk in
the earth for every dollar wrested from
it in net oil profits:
For instance, there is the story of
the big earthen reservoir which Bill
Millikan built seventeen or eighteen
years ago when he brought in several
big wells on the southwestern part
of the townsite of Cleveland. This tank
covered a half black, was of great
depth and at one time was ROOTED. 1t
was a forerunner-spectacul for its
time-of the vast concrete and steel
reservoirs now in use for oil storage in
the new California fields.
When Millikan struck oil the Stand
ard was paying 35 cents a barrel for
crude in this field as against the $3.50
and even more that certain grades have
commanded in recent years. Millikan
swore the Standard nor any other con-
Germ should force him to give hsi oil
away-he would store his production
and wait for better prices, which he
believed were on the way.
Hard to Stop the Flow
If. Millikan could have shut down
his wells he would have been happy.
But it was as hard to curtail produc-
ton once established then as it has
been found in recent years, when de-
moralization has more than once threat
ened the oil industry because of rapidly
shifting price scales. 1t was as danger
Gus to the well as to the owners pocket.
If other producers on adjoining
leases kept their wells running, they
would soon be able to drain all the oil
and the owner of the capped wells
would find them dry in time. That was
why Millikan was compelled, he
thought, to build the big earthen tank.
N1illikan emptied 100000 barrels of
oil into this tank. Much of it remained
there for good-or rather bad. If all
that Millikan put into the tank had re-
manned in prime condition and been sold
advantageously, it might have become
worth 100000.
1t is doubtful, however, if as much
as $4,000 was ever salvaged from the
wreck. Millikan forgot his tank, as oil
men generally are accustomed to for
get such things, and proceeded to build
up a fortune in other parts of Okla
homa.
The Cleveland oil was of high grade,
but continuous exposure to the atmos-
phere caused the gasoline content to
evaporate quickly and the oil to deteri-
crate much in quality. In two or three
years the oil in Millikan's big tank had
CONCEALED and hardened until it re-
sembled badly scorched fried mush or
blackberry jam. 1t was hardly good
fuel oil and scarcely worth 10 cents a
barrel.
Sold for Axle Grease
Then, in 1912, the Flat Rock Oil
company dared Millikan to set a price
on his big tank of black axle grease
with the result that the owner unloaded
his property at a poor fire sale price.
The Flat Rock company cut canals in
the entertainments and recovered such
oil as would flow down the side of the
hill. When this was exhausted, pumps
were thrust down below the flow line at
various places in the reservoir and
more oil taken out.
By this time the roof and the heavy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
GOVERNOR WILL
GO TO COLLEGE
Connecticut Executive To
Realize Dream Of
His Life

When the fall semester opens at Yale
next year the freshman class will in
clude one man who hopes to achieve a
delayed ambition, writes James @.
Young in the New York Times. He is
Charles A. Templeton, governor of Con-
necticut, successful merchant and self
instructed student. As the next step
in a career of hard work he aspires
to an A. B. degree. The governor
wanted one thirty years ago, when he
was plain Charlie Templeton, but op-
portunity withheld it.
= Governor Templeton, at So years old,
is young and hardy. He belongs to the
square-cut type of men, who bulk large
in the shoulders and seen created to
elbow their way along in the world
And he talks about the days when his
young eyes looked hungrily from Yale
to Trinity as he wondered which of
these great institutions could give him
the best start. Just at that time his
capital represented naught but hope.
Nevertheless, he had practically decided
on the law and was inclinging strongly
to Yale, when he got job, in a hard
ware store. That was the mold in
which fate cast his career.
Helping Out the Family
81 had gone to work at T." the gov
ernor said recently, barking back to his
first employment. II certainly can re-
member that job. 1t consisted of sort
ing out scrap in a Winstead factory,
and the pay was rs cents a day. Some
days there was no scrap to sort and
went to school. But had to help the
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Orders that spanned the reservoir had
collapsed and fallen in, and the black
sea on which no boat could sail was
filled with the debris of broken tim
bers. The Flat Rock company reached
the conclusion that nothing remained
but axle grease material.
Axle grease, however, was one of
the cheapest commodities salable-then
little boxes in Nhich the grease was
sold were worth more than their con-
tents. The Flat Rock company was
lucky when an employee stuck a hose
down in the hard mush and turned on
the steam, to see if he could soften and
loosen up the mess. The steam turned
part of the muck into duel oil and
formed little wells that gradually filled
and were pumped out. The steam pro-
cess was continued and hundreds of
barrels of oil obtained.
But after while even steam made
little Roadway and the old reservoir with
ten or fifteen feet of black mush was
abandoned. 1t wouldn't burn, it was
too slippery to be hauled away and be-
sides, no one would provide a dumping
ground even if it could be removed.
maai. 1gmBrttol789 1913 789 7S9S999. :.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
LET ENGINE HELP

Leave the clutch engaged while going
down hill. The engine is better safe
guard than the brakes themselves.
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family finances. There were four chill
dren, and my father had given up
farming because it didn't pay him. So
the 25 cents a day served good ends.
II suppose the yearning for wider
knowledge and bigger things is planted
in a man when he begins life. Success
is largely a matter of the will to sue
coed. Fortune granted me what is
termed an inquiring mind. One of my
first wishes, as / look back, was an
education, the best could get. But
circumstances never were favorable.
went to work early and have kept at it
pretty late in life. Now I want to
smoot hout the rought places"
When a caller enters the governors
office in Waterbury a surprise awaits
him. 1t is the office of hard work
jng man, without mahogany or formal
ity. 1t is, in fact, just coner of the
Templeton warehouse, where hardware
and odds and ends of many kinds are
stored. When the governor is not
called home to look after the running
of his business he does the honors of
his position from Hartford, and there,
of course, he is surrounded by a
wealth of mahogany. But he believes
in the open door and the loose latch
string.
Running Errands
Obviously such a man, or such boy
as he must have been, would not re-
main long on scrapheap job. He won
advancement by changing to another
factory, in Thomaston, where he first
went to work as errand boy. His en-
ployers operated big clock plant and
he decided that making clocks must be
a better vocation than carrying mes
sages. So he changed over to the tool
department. Then he received another
advancement, into the machine depart
ment, and from there to the drafting
forces.
During these years the governor went
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
AUTO FATALITIES
CAUSE INCREASE
IN DEATH RATE
More Suicides Reported
: In 1924, Says Insur-
.ance Expert
Try Associated Press.l


NEW YORK, Dec. Polite insur-
anec DEATH claims for the first ten
months Of the current year reflect
marked Improvement in the health of
the people of the United States during
1924, according to original statistics
presented to the eighteenth annual con-
vention of the Association of Life In
surance Presidents here today by DR..
Oscar II. Rogers, chief medical direc-
tor of the New York Life Insurance
company. Notwithstanding the normal
average increase expected in popula-
ton during 1924, the life insurance
mortality records indicate that there
will be 10000 fewere deaths this year
than during 1923, when the total deaths
in the United States amounted to
100000.
Auto Deaths Grow
Automobile accidents and suicides
are practically the only causes among
adult deaths that show an increase in
rate over 1923. Noteworthy reductions
are recorded in influenza mad typhoid
fever. In typically children's diseases,
an increased death rate is indicated in
meningitis, diarrhea, enteritis, and scar
let fever, while htere has been sub
stantial falling-off in measles, diptheria
and whooping cough.
"In order that this convention might
have the benefit of the last word in
their mortality experience, 45 of the
leading life insurance companies have
contributed their records for the first
ten months of 1924, compared with the
first ten months Of 1928" said DR..
Rogers. "As these statistics include
industrial insurance as well as ordinary
insurance death claims, the survey is
fairly representative of the entire popu-
lation. This experience deals with ap-
proximately 100000 deaths this year
out of nearly 2S,0OO,0O0 years of lives
exposed.
Rate Over Is Per 100000
9Th death rate from automobile
accidents, including both adults and
children, for the first ten months of
1924 was 1871 per 100000 as compared
with 14.S per 100000 for the first
ten months of 1928; 1928 for 1922 !;
1872 for 1921 and 1913 for 1 20.Using
the experience of these companies as
a basis, the total number of deaths
from automobile accidents in this coun-
try for 1924 may be estimated at
1880, as compared with 16,450 for
last year.. 1T
"This is an alarming state of af-
fairs and means should be found to
remedy it. The argument has been adj
vanced that the number of accidents
is by no means keeping pace with the
number of cars in use, but this is quite
beside the mark. If a man is knocked
down in the street by an automobile,
1t does not benefit him that the number
of cars in the street is larger than
it formerly was. 1t is the. one offend
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
INSANITY PLEA
IS HIGHT DEFENSE
Daughter Testifies Alleged
Slayer Had Spells

MOUNT VERNON, ILL.,, Dec. 21.-
Nelson Layman, attorney for Lawrence
NJ. Hight, who is on trial with Mrs.
Elsie Sweetin for poisoning of her hus-
band, MILFORD, today began an attempt
to show that his client is suffering
from mental disorders, and therefore
was not entirely responsible for all of
his actions. DIR. II. l.. Walker, who
said he was a cousin of Hight, testified
that members of Nights family had
been afflicted with metal disorders.
On cross-examination Special Prose-
cutor Thompson brought out that some
of Nights relatives we're persons of
considerable mental capacity. Mildred
Hight, II, daughter of Hight, said he
was subject to sinking spells, follow
ing pains in his head, so severe they
caused him to cry out. He is also
victim of Authorizations, she said.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
MANY SIGN FOR
new FRANCHISE
Maxwell Account Large
ly Sought
After

The unusually successful reception
given the new Maxwell cars the country
over has resulted in hundreds of ap-
plications for dealerships being filed
with the Maxwell Motor Sales corpor-
alton in the last few weeks, according
to j. K. Fields, vice president in charge
of sales.
The company's records show that
never before in the history of the or
ganization has the selling franchise been
so largely sought after, not only in this
country but in Europe and Australia.
This recent swing to Maxwell, led
by some of the most prominent dealers
in the country, is undoubtedly the out
come of the fine performance capabili-
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ties of the new Maxwell" Mr.. Fields
pointed out.
Reports have been received by the
company from scores of dealers that &C
tual performance records of demon
strators surpass the slogan of '25 miles
per gallon, So miles per hour and
acceleration from to % miles in eight
seconds adopted by the factory for the
new model.
Record sales of Maxwell cars are
being reported in all parts of the coun-
try" Mr.. Fields said. Hundreds Of our
dealers sales for November were two
and three times those of a year ago.
In Detroit, quite generally recorganized
as a barometer of the automobile
market, our dealers took orders for
more than 125 Maxwells in two weeks.
That is an un-heard-of record for
November"
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ing car that counts so far as he and
his family are concerned. The remedy
lies in greater care in the issuing of
automobile licenses, so as to eliminate
persons temperamentally unfit to drive
car. Beside that, adequate punish
ment should be melted out to all per-
sons guilty of inflicting injury upon
others by careless driving.
''The suicide death rate increased
from 11.6 for the first ten months of
1923 to 12.O for the first ten months
of 1924. 1t is as if this method of
finding relief from -the stings and ar
rows of outrageous fortune had come
to be a fashion in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
ALLEN ARRESTED
ON THEFT CHARGE
Was Recently Fired By Attorney
General Stone

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 21.-David
Allen, who was recently dismissed
by Attorney General Stone as an assist
ant purchasing agent of the department
of justice, was arrested here this
afternoon by the Jersey City police on
a charge of grand larceny. Allen was
taken into custody at the request of
District Attorney Blessing of Science
tady, N. Y.
Allen, who was dismissed from his
federal post on charges of inefficiency,
is being held here to await Identified
ton by the Schenectady authorities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
MAN IS ACCUSED
OF Staying SON
Carolina Boy Would Not Take
Drink, Is Report

GOLDSBORO, N. c., Dec 21.-John
Golf, Burley, Green county farmer,
killed his 16-year-old son Herbert, be-
cause the boy refused to take a drink
of hootch with him, it was charged here
today.
Golf was arrested last Monday for
"disorderly conduct" on complaint of
his son, who reported to officers that
his father had beaten him for refusing
to drink with him. The killing was not
revealed until today when neighbor
reported the boy was missing and the
body was found near the home.