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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
DROP 1892 CHURCHES
FROM BAPTIST ROLL
But Membership In South Is
3,454,24S, Is Report

NASHVILLE. Tenn, April 5.-After
dropping 1892 churches, from which no
report has been received for three years,
from his lists, DR. Z. =. Alldredge, sec
rotary of survey, statistics and infor-
nation of the Baptist Sunday school
board, today reported that 26,S47 local
churches are affiliated with the South
ern Baptist convention and that they
have combined membership of
3, 454,2
The survey also reveals that Southern
Baptists have 1920 ordained ministers,
20,319 Sunday schools with an enroll
ment of 1857 1923, 19,411 houses of
worship and 2,910 pastors homes, that
the value of the church property is
$127, 121 ,O9G and that the gifts for local
purposes last YER amounted to $25.-
045, S1S09. Gifts to missions and
benevolences were 1898, 617.S3, making
the total contributions for all objects
81, 439, 1852. .-.-
No foreign churches are included in
any of these tabulations, it is an
nounced
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HOLD UP ACTION
0NSECTION2S
TILL NEXT WEEK
/. &c. C. Views To Be Pre-
scented When Sessions
Are Resumed

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MAeoIalIsu ~ ~ Aprn e = Inc
s souse neacnans mn. ia. .n scml.see 70,
S Ny R ss.s s,r,bss d;snrss; a "a ant;on =,
pa Of the merchant marine act which
would declare preferential railroad
freight rates to shippers using Ameri-
can vessels. 80 ~.
When consideration is resumed, rem
resentatives of the interstate commerce
commission will be called to state their
views in regard to the section, which, by
order of the commission, will become
effective May 20.
Chairman Greene indicated that an
attempt would be made to obtain action
on. the section before next week -eYld. ~,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
zANGWILL HAS
some RAZZLEFT
FOR AMERICA
Finds New York Slow,
And Inhabitants
All Cranks

LONDON. April 5.--America, land
of make believe; Americans, a nation
of cranks; prohibition, a farce; New
York. slowest city in the world.
Believe Israel Zangwell, great Jewish
dramatist. f.1.
Zangwwill criticized the United
States frankly and fluently during his
recent visit But he had all this and
more left over when he got back home.
He found just two bright spots in
the American wilderness-the stage and
taxicab drivers -.
IF anyone nowadays decided to turn
Messias: he would be a fool to try it out
in Europe. This talk of hard headed
American business men is all myth.
They are victimized by any advocates
of new foods and exercises, creeds and
sandals. There are more cranks in a
square mile of America than in the rest
of the world put together.
A Very Slow City
And their hustle! New York is the
slowest city in the world. Every one
buys motor. cars until traffic becomes
too congested for any movement what
ever.
Il sent 4 telegram to Lloyd George
one afternoon while he was staying on
Long Island. Three hours later l was
asked by telephone whether i knew the
telephone number of the place at which
he was staying. / did not. Finally l
was asked whether it mattered If the
telegram was delivered next day. The
distance between my address and that
of Mr.. Lloyd George was three-quar-
tiers of an hour by motor car.
Americans have no sense of humor,
he continued.
"They argue with grave faces about
the twelve-miIe limit, while Variety, a
leading theatrical weekly organ, quotes
the ruling prices of liquor as openly as
if they were stocks and shares
Boy Scouts Insulted
81 accused the Ku Klux Khan of be-
ing overgrown Boy Scouts, and the
head of the Boy Scouts sent a deputa-
ton to protest against by insult. The
Ku Kluz Klan, on the other hand, in
answer to this and further charge of
being Illegal and retrograde, made a
threat to take my life-presumably to
prove that they were not--and l had
to have a large policeman to prevent
my being slaughtered.
There are at least two things, how
ever. to be said for America Far more
enterprise is shown in the dramatic
world They encourage new authors
and come to a decision rapidly. Com
pare Broadway with London"s glut of
revivals and stale pieces.
The other point in favor of America
is the attitude of their taxicab drivers.
They are not expensive in. their
charges, and they do not BLACKBOARD
you if they fail to receive a tip" >
In London the taxicab rate is %
cents mile, and for short trip or 10
cents constitutes a tip.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
THE BIRMINGHAM AaE-HERALp- SUNDAY. ApRIL s 1924
Cotton Report Published
Despite Promise -Byrnes
South Carolina Representative Charges Bad
Faith To Wallace In "Guesswork Intentions

"The journal of Commerce OF March
"a, 1924, quotes the mid-month crop
report of the department as follows:
"'Growers of cotton did well in
Virginia last year and there will be a
large acreage planted In the old belt
and many will. grow cotton in other
countries. About IS per cent of the
acreage has been broken in the south
western. southern and eastern counties
Of South Carolina, and not ever 25 per
cent in the rest of the state.
g Preparation of the ground has been
much delayed in Georgia by bad
weather. More calcium arsenate will be
used than last year in Georgia, Okla
.homa, Mississippi and Alabama. Grow
ers are reported as discouraged in Flor
ida and in bad shape financially in
Tennessee. s
Sin Texas 'most1of the land in the
southern part has been planted or fully
prepared. There has been some replant-
ing due to bad weather. Work is pro-
crossing slowly in Louisiana, where half
the acreage. has been plowed and some
has been planted in the southern sec
ton So, -. 4 7. y ..s...ss {, I. ~. {
There will be big increase in
acreage in the southern and eastern
counties of New Mexico. Preparations
of the. land is progressing in Arizona,
and most of it has had a first piewing.
California expects a bigger acreage than
last year ~
In view of your positive statement
to me your letter of February 4 that no
be published. j would like to know why
be published. ] would ike. to know why
the above report was issued and If you
contend that it is an estimate of inters
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Modern Woman's Behavior .
Shocks Mr.. Alonzo B. See
Thinks Conditions Ter
rible Since Passage Of
10Th Amendment

NEW YORK, April "a. B. See
is at it again.
This time it is woman suffrage and
political clubs managed by idle wom-
en- for whose hands Satan still finds
mischief"
The president of the A. B. See Eleva.
tor company took his latest fling in a
letter to the Lucy Stone league, and
tain their maiden names after mar
riage.
Mr.. See achieved widespread public
ity in November. 1922, when he refused
to contribute to the building fund OF
Alelphi college, Brooklyn. and wrote
the committee saying, ''of all the fool
things in the world. think the col.
lege for women is the worst"
Delplores Passing Of Corset
In his latest letter, he denounced
paint. powder, lipsticks, staggering
and the passing of the old-fashioned
corset. Cocktails and cigarets for
women also drew shafts from the eleya-
tor builder.
"A suffraget once wrote a book. in
which she asked why it took 20 years
for men to give the vote to women, >
said Mr.. Sees letter. The answer
is simple:
1T took IS years for men to descend
t, intellectual depths low enough to
give them the vote. When the men be-
come intelligent again they will take the
vote away from women"
Mr. See described a suffrage parade
where he saw fat woman riding in
a wagon and every tinfe- the wagon
moved the fat shook" The wagon car
ried sign saying women would have
saved the world if they had been
given the vote.
We'll, they have it, Mr.. See con-
tinued.
l(ever. Never, Never
Never was there so much rum
drinking among the young as there
has been since women have had the
vote.
Never did women walk the streets
with the swagger and brazen faces
they have since they have had the
vote.
Never did women use paint. pow
der and the lipstick to the extent they
have since they have had the vote.
Never were cocktail drinking and
cigaret smoking so wife among the
women as they have been since they
have had the vote.
"Never did women take off their
corsets previous to dancing to the ex-
tent that came after the women were
given the vote.
1T has been said that a man needs
to be stronger to dance with a wom-
an these days than formerly. for in
former years when a woman danced
with man she expected to bear the
entire weight of her body on her own
feet. Today when a woman dances
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HOLD 5 BLONDES
And SHARK MEN
IN BANDIT HUNT
Women Suspects Will Be
Viewed By Victims Of
Girl Robber

NEW YORK, April 5.--Five .hobbed-
haired blondes and five TALL dirk,
handsome men were captured by de-
tectives in an upper West Side apart
ment today in the first iof a series of
raids to be launched upon suspected
gang. headquarters in the search for
New Y0rk's notorious girl bandit and
her male accomplish.
The apartment, was leased by .Mr.
and Mrs. Nelson" According to the de-
tectiyes, Mrs. Nelson" is Florence G.
Quirk, dancing teacher, who is sepa-
rated from her husband.
& She was held on a technical charge of
possession of dangerous weapons, two
large calibre pistols and twenty rounds
of "dum-dum" ammunition having been
found in "a bag suspended from bed
room window.
Violet Keve, 49, also a dance hall
instructress, was detained in order that
victims Of numerous girl bandit rob-
berries might be called to police head,
quarters to see il they could identify
her or Mrs. Nelson as the gun toting
bandit with blonde, bobbed hair, who
held them up. @$
Robert Carroll, alias Murphy" alias
eMr. Nelson was held by police I at
Morristown, N. j., where local de-
tectiyes said he was wanted for high
jacking." ~ ~
Arthur Courtney of Brooklyn, who
was reported to have been released from
Sing Sing prison last Wednesday, was
detained for examination.
The other three men captured in the
apartment were Louis Naimoli, George
Bernard and Albert Grass. "a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
FERTMIzER SALES HEAVY
Montgomery Is To Pay Tribute 10
S. Dead

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 81
The fertilizer tonnage handled in Ala.
bama to April 5, as indicated by the
sale of fertilizer tags from the state
department Of agriculture, has sur.
passed the figure for the same period
last year. Total fertilizer movement
in 1928 was the heaviest since 1914
To April of this year fertilizer tags
sufficient to cover 410,6S5 tons Of ferti,
lizer have been sold, as against 40S, 903
tons to the same date last year.
Tribute TO Dead--Anniversary of the
entry of !. the United States into the
World war will be observed Sunday,
April 6, Decoration day, by the World
War veterans Of Montgomery. H. r.
Spangler, post commander of the local
post of the American Legion, and @. w.
Sutcliffe. commander of the local chap.
ter of, disabled American veterans OF
the World War, have called on mem
bers of these bodies to join with the
Service Star Legion in paying tribute
to the memory of comrades who paid
the supreme sacrifice in the World war
Exercises will be held at 0akwood Ct Tine.
ferry f..r. sN
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
DEAFNESS OVERCOME BY
AMAZING. INVENTION
Thousands Deaf for Years Now
Hear Perfectly

An amazing invention which enables
any one whose auditory nerve is still
active to hear the slightest sound as
clearly and distinctly as a person
whose hearing is natural is announced
by the Dictograph Products Corpora.
ton, Suite 1901, 220 w. 42nd street,
New York City. The manufacturers
are so proud of their achievement and
so confident that every one who is hard
of hearing will be amazed and delight
ed with results that they are Offering
TO send it, on ten days free trial.
They require no deposit or advance
payment of any kind, but send it pre-
paid for ten days free use entirely at
their own risk and expense. If you
suffer from deafness in any degree,
take advantage of their liberal free
trial offer. Send them your name aid
address today.-Adv. .&T
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POWERS SEND BILL
OF $35l,22O TO CHINA

PEKING, April 5.--(By Associated
Press. Claims presented to the for
eien office by the Representatives of
foreign powers in behalf of the victims
Of the Lincheng bandit outrage of May
last in which a number of Americans
and other foreigners were kidnapped
from a Tientsin Shanghai train and
held captive for more than a month.
totaled 1884, go Chinese currency. The
American claim is the largest, totalling
$4,000 for loss Of baggage, medical
attention and other expenses, and $751;
600 for loss Of liberty and mental an
guish. The other claims filed are
Italians, 100000 British, $4,000;
French. $4,000; Mexican, 11,750 and
Danish, $4,000. 2
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
MOVE STARTED
TO SHIFT WORK
ON MISSISSIPPI
House Committee Would
Abolish The River
Commission

WASHINGTON. April 5.-Control
over improvement work on the Missis-
sippi river, now vested in the Missis-
sippi river commission. would be trans
ferred to the Secretary of War under
a resolution adopted today by the
House rivers and harbors committee.
The committee discussed an expendi-
ture of $16.000,000 for a canal GO miles
long from Port Arthur. Tex. to Gal
weston, joining up the canal from New
Orleans to Port Arthur and one from
Galveston to Corpus Christi. The ex-
listing canals would be improved under
the proposal by deepening them to nine
feet and widening them to 100 feet.
General Beach said it bas/been esti-
mated that if a single canal existed
from New Orleans to Corpus Christi
an annual tonnage of 100000 tons
would be carried. At present in spite
of insufficient depth and width from
100000 to 100000 tons yearly are
transported.
OF Military Value
The general, said such a canal would
be of considerable military value and
would materially help the reclamation
scheme at present on foot for southern
Louisiana by acting as q great drain
age ditch.
The states interested would be re-
CURED to provide all rights of way.
The Mississippi river commission was
created by Congress in 1879 and given
charge of improvements on the Missis-
sippi from the head. of passes to the
mouth of the Ohio, including the build
ing of levees and the improvement of
harbors, supplemental legislation APP
proved in 1916 and 1917 authorized the
continuation of levee work from Cape
Girardeau, No.. to Rock Island. ILL.,,
and extended the jurisdiction of the
commission to include work on the
Ohio from its mouth to the mouth of
the Cache river and on portions of the
Arkansas river.
Jurisdiction Is Extended
The jurisdiction of the commission
still further was extended in 1929 when
Congress charged it with levee and bank
protection of tributaries and outlets of
the Mississippi above Cairo, ILL.,, and
in 1923 it was empowered to take over
the tributaries and outlets of the Mis-
sissippi between Rock Island and the
head of passes.
The chief projects with, which the
commission is now charged include
maintenance of channel not ltss than
nine feet deep and not less than 200
feet wide from the mouth of the Ohio
to the head of passes by open channel
work and by dredging, confinement of
the river below Cairo to a permanent
position by bank revetment, mainte-
nance of a navigable channel between
the Mississippi, Red and Atachafalaya
rivers. control of the flood waters, Rock
Island to head of passes, by levee. and
the making of surveys, examinations
and investigations of the Mississippi as
are believed necessary for the execution
Of these nroiectS
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with man she Tolls on his shoulders
and tries to sit on his hips.
b Young Ladies 1nsolent'
Never was the insolent treatment
of parents by young girls known as
it has been since women have had
the vote. The girls have become heart
less and brutal in the extreme.
Nor has this insolence among
young girls which has developed since
the women have had the vote shown
itself in the treatment of parents only !;
it has shown itself toward those in
charge of the schools.
The girls in a high school in the
Middle West tried to start a riot in
the school because the trustees of
that school instead that the girls
should come to school with dresses
not less than five inches below their
knees
In small city in Pennsylvania,
while parents and teachers were
gathered together trying TO devise
ways to have the school girls dress
and act with decency, the girls showed
their brazenness by throwing into the
room the following rhyme:
81 can show my shoulders,
L can show my knees
I'm a free born. American,
And, / can show what I please.
I'm addition, all the evils to which
have referred that have come to us
since women were given the vote,
there has been great increase in the
cost to the overburdened taxpayers
of gathering this added vote, and the
slum vote has been increased enor-
mously.
Yet l have sometimes felt that
after all perhaps some sympathy
should go out to the suffragettes. for
no married woman was ever u suf-
fragette except as an unconscious pro-
test against the effeminacy of her
husband, and no spinster was ever a
suffragette except she thought she
found suffrage something of solace
in her lonleiness"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
ARABS ORGANIZE
TO SAVE PALESTINE

JERUSALEM, April b (Jewish
Telegraphic Agency - The executive
of the Palestine Arabs has decided to
take steps toward the formation of an
anti-Zionist world organization to be
known as the defense of Palestine" it
is reported here.
According to the report. honorary
membership in the organization was of
fered TO King Hussein of the Hediaz,
the newly proclaimed caliph, and his
three sons, Feizel, king of Mesopotamia
Emir Abdullah, ruler of TRANSFERABLE,
and Emir ALI, the commander of the
Hediaz forces.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
POLITICAL STRAWS

CHICAGO, April 5.-Predictions of
decisive and overwhelming victory
in Tuesdays primary for both Presi-
dent Coolidge and Senator Hiram
johnson in their fight for the Illinois
delegation to the Republican national
convention, were made tonight by their
respective campaign managers in the
state.
WENATCHEE, Wash, April O.
The candidacy of Calvin Coolidge for
the republican nomination was unani
mously indorsed here today by the
Washington republican state conven
ton. A delegation of II members was
instructed to vote for President Cool
idge's nomination at the Cleveland
convention.
WASHINGTON. Anril 5.-Views
differing from those of Governor Preus
of Minnesota, as to political conditions
in the northwest were given President
Coolidge today by two Republican
members of the house from that sec
ton. Governor Preus. who was a
White House luncheon guest yesterday,
stated that a third party, headed by
Senator Lafollette, Wisconsin. would
virtually sweep the northwest
Representative Young. Republican,
North Dakota, called on President
Coolidge to tell him that the Minnesota
governor was mistaken SO far as North
Dakota was concerned and Represent
ative Larsen. Republican, Minnesota,
took direct issue with the executive
of his state regarding Republican
| chance in Minnesota.
CHICAGO, April 5.--United States
Senator Royal S. Copeland. former
health commissioner of New York city,
addressing the Chicago German club
today declared that labor. agriculture
and the soldier bonus are the three
outstanding questions facing the ma.
ton.
OTTAWA. ILL.,. April 5.-Senator
Hiram johnson of California. today
praised Senator Thomas Walsh of Mon
tana. for the part he is playing in the
oil investigation in Washington. de.
claring that there is no higher duty
any man can perform for the people
of the United States than to expose
man who has sold out"
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STOPS PYORRHEA. IN TEN DAYS
Thousands Now Using New Successful
S Treatment At Home

If, you suffer from Pyorrhea, bleeding
or liberated gums, abcesses, gum boils,
Ioosening of the teeth, ETC., send your
name to the Martin Chemical Co., Dept.
SO, independence, Mo-, and they will
send you a full size dollar bottle of
Pyrokur on free trial. If it cures, you
are to. send them 81. Otherwise your
report cancels the charge, You pay
nothing until you are satisfied.
This remarkable treatment is meeting
with wonderful success and Is relieving
thousands of people. Many who think
they have loose or aching teeth find
that the trouble is in the gums and
after a few days use of Pyrokur the
pain disappears, the teeth become more
solid and the foul breath is gone.--Ady.
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ASTHMA CURED
BEFORE YOUPAY

Mr.. D. }. Lane. a chemist. located a,
e0s Lane Bldg. St Marys. Kans. ha4
discovered simple homo remedy for
Asthma. Mr. Lane has so much confi-
dence in his ability TO cure that he will
send a regular $1.25 bottle free. postpaid
10 any sufferer who will write him. His
offer is that no Is to be paid for 1t II It
cures. II not. your report cancels the
charge. II you suffer from ASTHMA. write
him today. Send no money-Just your
came and address will do.-AdV.
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COOLIDGE SEEKS
CREDIT FOR FARMS
Credit Corporation Asked To
Aid War Finance Board

WASHINGTON, April 5.-President
Coolidge today asked the recently or
ganized agricultural credit corporation
to undertake. in cooperation with the
war finance corporation the extension
of credit to northwestern wheat grow
ers for farm diversification.
The request was embodied in let
ter to c. T. Jaffray. of Minneapolis,
chairman of the board of directors of
the Agricultural Credit corporation,
which was organized by eastern and
middlewestern financial interests with
a capitalization of $10.0OO,O00 as a
result of the February conference here
on the northwest farm situation.
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JUNIOR OFFICIALS VISIT

MOBILE, Ala, April 5.-Joseph D.
Tunnison of Richmond Hill, N. Y,
national councillor; Thomas H. Wal
tiers of Philadelphia, Pa, national vice
councillor; James L. Wilmeth, also of
Philadelphia, Pa, national secretary
George A. Davis. Jr., national past
councillor; Charles Reiner, also of Bal
timore, Nd, national secretary, and
State Secretary e. r. Calhoun Of, Bir-
minghanl, Ala, of the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics, are in
Mobile on an official visit.
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YALE NEVER TO BE
RICH MANS COLLEGE
Wen Shut Up First Is Decla-
ration Of President

CHICAGO, April 5-Yale will never
be rich mans college, for well shut
up before that happens President
James Rowland Angel of the univer-
sity told its alumni advisory board
here today. He also expressed opti-
mism about the young people of today,
declaring that most of them are bet
ter than their parents. | am inclined
to think them better moral specimens. =
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FIND COLUMBUS MAP
Drawing Believed To Have Inspired
Voyage tn America

PARIS, April 5.-A map made by
christopher Columbus has been found
in the National library by NJ. della
Ponciere, head of the printed book sec
ton, who believes the map inspired the
voyage ON which Columbus. discovered
America. 1t was filed in the library
as Portuguese map Of the Sixteenth
century.
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HUMBER JURY OUT
Hearing In Murder Case At Scale
formulated

Scale, Ala. April 5.-Late today
the jury in the case of Mrs. Leila Hum
her. on trial for murder in connection
with the fatal shooting of her hus-
band, l.. F. Humber, in 1922, was still
out. The case went to the jury at
II 10 o'clock.