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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
THREE TIED
IN DEBATES

Roosevelt. West Seattle and Bal
lard high schools nre tied for first
place in the city .ntsrhiEh school
debate series as result Of each win.
ming two debates in the initial loren.
vic kkirrnlshes Wednesday afternoon.
franklin and Garfield high schools
tied for middle position, each with
one. loss and one victory Lincoln
and Queen Anne high schools lost
both their contests.
No date has yet been Get for the
final and determining series TO Ice
held next semester.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17

nude was carried from her course by
storm December 20. end Was lost
in tho Mediterranean with all hands,
crew Of 30.
The fact that the Shenandoah was
filled with helium. the noninfiam.
mable gas used by the United states
navy. ailsviAied somewhat tho fears
for her safety which would have
been entertained had she been ~,
flated with hydrogen. as was the
Dlxmude.
II was shortly after darkness fell
on the fourth day OF the shenan.
doahs proposed seyen-day test OF her
ability TO ride out all weather eondi.
tons AZ her mooring mast that the
furious rainsiorm proved too much
for her slender structure.
Capt. Anton Helnen. picturesque
figure in an old overooat over blue
sweater. rolled high under his Juttlng
red vandyke beard. was aloft In the
tossing Rlrship. taking his turn 10
gether with Lieut.. Earl II. Kinoaid
Lieutenant Commander Dean. Com
mander Pierce. Lieutenant Mayer.
another former German commander.
and other officers and men-ga In all
II happened that Captain Mccrary
the Shenandoah's commander. had
taken his shin and was AZ dinner.
Some anxiety had been felt as 10
tho dirigible's ability 90 weather the
storm, but she was moored aloft 10
there was no help for u.
A terrific report. loud above the
tumuit OK the gale. brought the Of
ficers az mess 20 their feet. when
they rushed out into the storm and
looked up 10 where the enfccbicd rays
OF Searchlighis wavered thru tho
driving rain. marking the moorinE
mast tor. the Shenandoah was gone
into the night
But In the dlriEihie as u went
hurting thru the darkness discipline
came Immediately TO replace con.
fusion
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
Sinclair Silent
on Oil Situation

NEW YORK. Jan. Hillary II.
sinclair. refusing TO discuss any.
thing in connection with the Tea
pot Dome inquiry. but ivory optim-
is,ic about the oil situation in gen.
cral." sailed yesterday for France
on a siN.weoks business trip uboare
the finer Paris.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
Seek Woman for
Poisoning Case

CLEVELAND. o.. Jan. 1T-Tried
and acquitted in 1919 for the poison
ing OF Dan Kaber. wealthy Lake.
wood publisher. statewide search
was being conducted today for Mira
Emma Colavito. named yesterday in
a new murder indictment which
charges her with cousing the death
OF Marino Cosianzo in n poison plot.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
Giant Drigible Wins Battle With Storm
VEGETABLE TRUCK
CATCHES FIRE, BUT
PRODUCE is SAVED

L opA, Jap vegetable dealer.
~ tried 20 start hls motor
truck az ninth ave. and Yeslcr
way Thursday morning. The ON
sine hacknred. setting fire 70 the
gasoline supply. oda jumped on
the truck and threw vegetables
In all directions, and succeeded
IN saving most OF the cargo, The
fire department: put out the blaze
after damage Of $500 had been
done.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
Await Ford's Word
on Muscle Shoals

WASHINGTON, Jan. i7.-Henry
Ford. within a day or two. viii
make definite statement on
whether or not he will repeat his
offer for Muscle Shoals, Chairman
Kahn told the house military az.
fairs committee today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17

PARIs.-According TO messages
from Dusseldorf. the Ruhr Miners
union at Essen has refused 10 ap.
prove the agreement concluded in
Berlin by is representatives. accord.
ing TO which the UNDERGROUND work.
ers were 20 work an extra hour a
day.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
SHENANDOAH BROUGHT down
SAFELY FROM AIR THRILLER
Officers and Men of American Graft
Prove Heroes in Perilous Experience
as Blimp Is Blown Loose by Winds

WASHINGTON. jan. 1.-The
navy dlriEIble Shenandoah has
made good for it, coming flight
TO the North Pole. Secretary OF
tho Navy Derby said today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
BY FRANK GETTY

by FRANK GETTY
Omitted Press staff CofrespendehO
I.akEHU RST. y. j., Jan. H.
Another disaster Of the air was
= Ayerted today when the giant
y United States naval dirigible
Shenandoah. with ss officers
aud men aboard. torn from her
mcoring mast and swept into
the night by a 7o-mile-an'hour
gale, beat her way back against
the storm and was nosed Into
her hangar at S.53 n. m.
For nine hours the airship, partly
disabled, fought the elements that
threatened her destruction The night
air was alive with wireless messages
as anxious officials followed the
progress OF her struggle. Thousands
sitting safe and snug In their homes
while the fury OF the winters worst
storm beat outside followed. too. with
radio receivers 10 their ears. the
plight OF tho gale-driyen dirigihle
Then. after being carried as far as
Newark. sometimes at speed OF
more than mile a minute. the shen.
andoah proved herself mistress Of
the storms.
Under the guidance Of Capt. Anton
Heinen. a veteran German Zeppelin
expert. the ship was nosed back into
the teeth OF the driving ralns,orm.
Slowly her propellers gained head.
way against the diminishing winds
Back az the aviation field where
her commander. who had been at
mess when the alrship was whipped
off into the night. and officials Of the
naval air service waited. strainlng
their eyes Into the inky darkness
The nose OF the Shenandoah had
been torn completely off and tapped
Dgvm the rrastheed at the end Of
yher mooring chain.
This added tremendously TO the
difficulties Of maneuveFing. But
AZ $50 a, m. the searchlghts at
the airdrorne picked out OF the
night the welcome sight Of tho
silver Shenandoah. safely home.
THREE HOURS TO "
BRING HER DOWN
II was the work Of three hours
20 bring her down. The storm had
ahated by this time. but gusts OF
wind persisted in getting into the
aperture where the airship's nose
plate had been ripped away.
A ground force Of 90 men were
on hand 10 help the dlrigible into
its nest.
MlIneuvering with consummate
skin. the veteran Captain Hetnen
brought her gradually down. few
hundred feet at a time. cartiouA
now that the greater disaster had
been averted. OF the least accident
20 the ship.
Then the landing crew, marines
and sailors. seized the trailing ropes
. with a cheer and walked The shsn-
vandoah across a thousans-foot span
20 the hangar doors
From the gondoias the crew that
eArnc home safe shouted CHEEKY
greetings to those below
After directing the ground crew
thru q megaphons. Capt. Hsinen
called down 10 his brother officers
below;
You sons Of guns were waiting
for something to happen. weren't
your
Thus the first word OF mouth from
the Nays daughter Of the gtars.
which had been lost and found
again. was Enthusiastically care
less jibe, covering up the sentiment
behind.
But later in the day, after hot cot
rec and much congratulation, Capt.
Heinen said seriously;
I'VE narrowly escaped the fate Of
the Dixmude."
The French naval dirigible Dix.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-17
40-INCH
RADIUM SILK

lin steel gray, white,
orchid, pc h, almond [
green, pink, B erm u d a Z,
rose, turquoise blue. seal
brown, Navy blue and
black.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
HUNT HAS CHOICE
 SHOALS. CITY LOTS
Offerings EmbrSee Both Resi-
 dential And Business Sites

S. B. Hunt, president of the Hunt Realty company, with offices at 407 American Trust building, announces that his company has for saleETET Der of the choicest residential and busi- ness lots in the newly created Muscle Shoals city. F.
 There are a total of 40 lots avail able, MT. Hunt said. Inquiries re- ceived at his office recently indicate that they will be sold quickly.
 The Robertson Land Co.,, Inc, is owner and developer of the sub-divi- sion, which is located in the heart of the new city. Nearly no of the lots already have been sold.
 T have had my eye on the Muscle Shoals territory for nearly three years" |" MT. Hunt said, land have realized all the while that that territory soon is. to be the real hub of Alabama"
 MT. Hunt has been in the real estate business for nearly IA years. He knows real estate from start to finish. and has hung up the enviable record of never failing to satisfy his custo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
CROP FAILURE B.
 FACTOR. IN FARMING LIFE
Black Loam Bottom Lands Of Northwest Alabama Always Produce

In speaking of the Tennessee river valley, world famed soil expert said :: 1t. is nearer the equal of the valley of the Nile than any other farming area in America" When one reads the record of the ear-after-year produc- ton from the black loam river and creek bottoms of this section it is df- ficult to pverestimate it's possibilities. In the Muscle Shoals district on the slopes and uplands is also found the red loam, which almost equals in the quality of high production the black land of the bottoms.
 . In the memory of the old residents of this district, there has been no year of crop failure. Cotton has been the staple cotton in Alabama has been pro duced in this section, commanding a price far in excess of market quota tions. The average yield of corn ranges from B to 65 bushels per acre. Two and three cuttings of hay per year is usual, the favorite varieties be- ing-elover, alfalfa, lespedeza and pea vine.
 The Tennessee valley is peculiarly well adapted for stock raising. Dr. D. II. Gray. dean of the department of agriculture of Alabama A. and M. col lege, recently made the statement that the farm of J. s. Kernahan, nine miles frmo Sheffield, Colbert county, Ala bama, holds the record per acre in the south for stock raising. The prevailing breeds for this district are Jerseys, Short Horns, Herefords and Angus. The Southdown sheep is a favorite in this section. Trucking on a large scale has not been practiced here, but veg etables and fruits are easily grown, and with the future growth of the al- ready thriving cities of >the Muscle Shoals district ready markets will be close at hand.
 Farm values vary with the location and extent of farm improvements, but a high grade farm can be obtained at reasonable prices. With the comple- ton of the highways projected. even the remotest sections of the district will be brought in close proximity to the centers of trade and industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
FLORENCE AMONG STATES FAMOUS
 OLD TIME CITIES
River Transportation Is One Of Valuable
 Trade Assets

Florence, Alabama, is the county site of Lauderdale county, which is located on the north side of the Ten nessee river. It issone of the old cities of the state, having been incorporated in ISIS. Its city government is adminis- tered by three commissioners. Florence has. well plotted streets constructed of bituhthic pavement and macadam. The city enjoys the use of we'll kept pub lie parks, a modern water works sys- tenn, gas and electric light facilities, and an interurban service operating be- tween Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Flor ence. The city also enjoys the benefits of the river transportation on the Ten nessee river. which, coupled with its railroad facilities, afford an admirable location. The Louisville and Nash vile railroad passes through Florence, and with an interurban service, the city connects at Sheffield with the main line of the Southern railway and the North Alabama.
 Florence is highly favored in its ed- ucational facilities, having splendid system of schools doing high school and grammar school work. The State Normal school is located here.
 All of the leading churches are rep resented by splendid plants and active organizations. An aggressive Chamber of Commerce, together with various civic organizations, have contributed largely to the growth and development of the city. Florence is situated on the main highways that pass through the Muscle Shoals district and by means of the bridge crossing the Ten nessee river the city is brought in close proximity to the great nitrate plants.
 In the character of it's citizenship, in its beautiful homes and public build ings. in it's fine spirit of progress, and in all that goes into the making of a modern city, Florence is justly entitled to place of high consideration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
SHOALS REGION
 NOT LAGCARD IN
 CULTURAL WORK
Mrs. Latta Writes Of Pos abilities From Musi-
 cal Standpoint

Having spent my life in the pursuit of music in all parts of the world, writes Mrs. s. !. Latta in The Muscle Shoals Sunday News, am here in the Muscle Shoals district, interested in the development of music and listening to talent in this community. On my way to New York City stopped over for little rest and listening to music found so much unusual talent and so many beautiful voices in the Tri-C Cities I have stayed on, for having become in- terested and knowing this talent could be brought together for the benefit of humanity would like to assist in making Muscle Shoals one of the great est musical centers in the United States.
 Recently I heard something perfect, a wonderful singer, who had entered into the voice and the voice had entered into her. Something is singing all the time, that something is God. What is Gods song? "The Life of Man. and who is man? You and I. We then are Gods song. You and on this plane are in a great conservatory of music, learning to shape and cultivate our lives that we may know how to give forth the divine song in perfect tone. We are to send message forth in a world of discord, so that the world may become one of harmony.
 An American Progressive Glee Club
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27

Organization" has been formed in New York City, which is a wonderful move ment. 1t is formed to assemble glee clubs in all parts of the United States, in cooperative activities that will create wider understanding of what such an organization can do. Also, to interestsin music many people who have not yet>been brought to appreciate how 1t %can entertain and otherwise serve then. Every man,. woman and child in the world should be able to hear the message of music, and to realize, that at least some form of music, has an appeal. Churches, schools, musical so- cieties, women's clubs, mems organiza- tions, boys and girls sclubs, all of those directly concerned with music and those not directly concerned but understand ing it's importance, must contribute each in it's own way to the joint effort to empress upon the public, what music can do~ras comfort, a stimulus, q nerve steadying force, and a com panion to man, In his work, in his play, in his home. Communities which thus give more thought to music will nave the way for better. broader people and have an untold influence on our coming generation. I agree with the great Fritz Kreisler, who said to me, If every man, woman and child in the world understood music, they would have love in their hearts for hu- manity, and we would have no more wars on earth"
 Now some may call it vision, but there isn't anything accumulated in life worth while, unless visioned, so I plead that the people of these cities, get together and cooperate, for movement for the good of humanity, and let us have twenty of our mne's beautiful voices form Muscle Shoals Glee club" and make it the best in the United States. With the beautiful voices have heard this can absolutely be done. It was suggested in New York City, that Muscle Shoals, Ala, will be the greatest center of music and art in the south. A beautiful glee club will interest every man, woman and child, even though they do not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
THE QUEST FOR OIL
Picture of Fabulous Riches Lures Man
 In Never Ending Seach

Flcture or Fabulous Riches Lures Man
 In Never Ending Seach
 Romance has always clustered about the quest for petroleum, says the Mil waukee Journal. Chicanery. alleged or real, in the acquisition of naval re- serves in Wyoming and California and the sensatlona investigation at Wash lngton have stirred the interest of even that court of last resort in the iuris- prudence of public opinion, the man Tn the street.
 Therefore it is believed the coming summer will witness a great number of prospectOrs lured to the wide, open spaces in the hope of striking oil and wallowing in riches ever after. Man is hopeful creature. When the petro- leum bug nests in his noodle it is idle to tell him that the chances are 100 to l against him, for his reply, born of the spirit of adventure, is that he is going to put all his faith in his lucky star. He has the indomitable courage that characterized the gold hunter of 1s49. $
 There's millions in it!" as the su- per-optimist Colonel Mulberry Sellers used to say in his rich, uhctuous- and infectious voice. Seldom, however, has the wildcatter gotten the millions, for they generally went to the powerful concerns which make wholesale pur- chase of territory as soon as a new field has been discovered. e
 Buoyed by the ever-present picture of fabulous riches, the prospector under goes privation and courts death year after year in his search. The oil fever burns in his blood. It seldom dies out The man thus innoculated either brings forth gusher and retires in ease or he pursues the phantom until the end of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
BROOM SERVES AS THREE

The old jest about the Irishman who. if he wanted to go from the kitchen into tbe pearlor of his humble home, just stayed wheer he was," is being trans lated into reality, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A Berlin architect has erected in the suburbs four novel houses, the object being to economize space. In reality eHch house merely consists of one large room, at teh end of which is an arrange ment similar to a circular moving stage.
 This is divided into three sections, one containing the essentials of a kitchen, another the essentials of a bedroom, and tie third those of reception room. Thus, for example, in a moment the kitchen can be transformed into a re- eeption room or the latter into a bed room. The public appears to view the idea with some doubt; for despite the shortage of houses only one of these naR buildings has obtained a tenant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
FARMING IN A FEW HANDS,

After studying the existing facts care fully and seriously, I can imagine the future unrolling in somewhat the fol lowing fashion, says B. M. East in Scribner's Magazine.
 With the progress of science and a more thorough diffusion of knowledge than there has been in the past, the de- velopment of agriculture should com pare favOrably with that of mechanical industry. Though the odds are against revolutionary discoveries, there will be a marked advance in agriculture as an art; and in country having a consid- crable density of population, this will require real metamorphosis in agri- culture as business.
 As the cOmplexity of the situation in creases, thus demanding more and more in the way of capital and knowledge, both the little farmer and the inefficient farmer will be forced to the wall. There will be survival of the fittest. Paralleling the tendency of the last 20 years in manufacturing, there will be a trend toward larger units. Sue cessful farming will require competent managers and highly paid specialists, and these can be retained only where there is relatively large production.
 To what lengths centralization will go, no one can cay. The limit will surely be different in the various branches of husbandry. It is not likely, for example, that individual control can become as extensive in growing fresh vegetables for immediate consumption as in raising wheat and corn. But it seems quite probable that ultimately there will be agricultural undertakings comparable in size and scope to the United States Steel corporation. They will build up voluntarily because of the advantages offered.
 There will be large farms growing as few crops as the exigencies of scientific farming permit. managed by business executives of high caliber and super intended by men adequately trained in the natural sciences and in farm prac- tice. These farms will be firmly united into mutual-benefit associations having q single directive policy
 | PlantinE wlii he eontrollpd aaa eves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
SHOALS ' MIVERALSOUCHT
 BY NEW CONCERN
Trading Corporation To Develop Natural Re
 sources Of Land

The biz dam and power site sought by Henry Ford at Muscle Shoals Is not the only valuable space in that dis tr;ct accordinr to Sam w. Kendall, who is organizing the Muscle Shpals Trading cooperation to develop the; mineral resources of that section.
 For the past six years MT. kerHaail states he has had chemists, geolog1sn and mineralogists locating and apalyx- ing the raw material and minerais cf the district. They have found them ln abundance. As fast as thess men coula work and give their opinions Mr. ken- dall secured options on the land ana ls now holding it in trust for the Mus cle Shoals Trading corporation. which
 The firm will not only have under its control some of the finest coal and mineral lands of the district but has also secured options on some of the best timber lands of the section, all Tn the heart of the Shoals district and cAo4e to Florence, Sheffield, Muscle Shoals city. Ford City, Wilson Dam, Lake Wilson. Dam Three, Tennessee river and the Nitrate Plants, No. 1 and No. 2
 The new corporation will be . branch of the Internationa Mineral company, which owns millions of acres of mineral, coal, oil and timber lands throughout the United States. Besides . concession of 380 900 acres of land owned per sonally by Mr. Kendall In the re public of Columbia, South Americas and another million acres owned by the International Mineral company.
 MT. Kendall is president of this company and has for his partners John W. O'Bannon and Dr. Ernesto Murn- To of Bogota, Columbia. Dr. OBannon is rated as one of the leading geolo- gist of the world. The other two part ners are in New York at present.
 Headquarters for the new company will be established in the Exchange hotel in Sheffield. formerly the old American hotel. and the Exchange hotel of Flor ence, which was formerly the Reader Annex. .--z----.--- know music. With a gles club here to bring the nnasses together to stfmu- late music, Gods voice." we will find n greater cooperative spirit for the good of every man, woman and child Tn the community. ssThe eyes of the world are upon If.
 All the live long day,
 Tho eyes of the world are upon it, It cannot be hid away.
 For the eyes of the world are upon it.
 Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is on top, The eyes of the world are upon it,
 Muscle Shoals is Amsrica's spot"
 Man, woman and child, of this com munity rise up, pull together to make Muscle Shoals, Ala. Americas spot, for Gods voice. music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27

production prevented. Standardized products will be sold, and sold through out the year in quantities just meeting the current market demands, thus eIim- mating outside speculation. Margins now eaten up by middlemen, both from small quantity buying and from lack of economy in selling, will go to swell the annual balance of the growers themselves.
 In brief, the methods which have made the American manufacturer sue cessful will make the American farmer successful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
A WASTING DISEASE

From the Boston Iranscrlpt.
 Mrs. Rodgers is dreadfully afraid of embonpoint," remarked Mrs Gadsley to Ter caller.
 That's a terrible disease" returned the other woman. My favorite aunt had 1t and the poor thing just wasted away.