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The Washington times., 1924-08-08
Central Concert Postponed

Due to a conflicting schedule the
band concert set for tonight IN the
Central High School stadium has
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The Washington times., 1924-08-08

Office Boy-I amt feeling 90
good. Kin / have the afternoon
off?
Boss-Why don't you tell me
your grandmother il dead?
Office BOy-Im saving that fer
later In the season, when the
team gets going stronger.
GUS LANGLEY.
The Washington times., 1924-08-08
DIDN'T CURE HIS CORNS.

He wrote the following letter
to the corn syrup manufacturing
company:
Dere Sires: Just q line telling
youSe that / have aten three cans
of your corn syrup and it amt
helped my cOrns a bit. Watts the
matter? Please send me some info
about the stuff.
MICHAEL j. b.
The Washington times., 1924-08-08

Those couples aOhich ceLe-
brGte their golden 4Oeddings
demonstrate one thing-there
IS q lot of endurance in the
10orLd. GENEVIEVE.
The Washington times., 1924-08-08
WILL BODIED HAIR STAY?

Bob, my boy, I'm here to prophecy,
BY the time ten years rolf BY,
Well not see any lOnG-haired curla
Worn on the heads Of our dear girls,
Be they sweetheaFts or Rrandmothers
Spite of heaux, bubbles and brothers'
The females OF the species fair.
All Of them will then bob their hair.
Their heightened locks have got the
can,
Along with the bewhiskered man.
CABIN JOHN POET.
The Washington times., 1924-08-08

Washington Chinese, tOe learn,
hGven't Joined the Woo Fat
Tong, the neU Chinese tong or
0Gmised in this country. They
probably prefer the skinny tong
they already belong to.
The Washington times., 1924-08-08

The villain has q large nous
tache, and wears q hateful sneer,
he packs q gun and thinks IL
fun to fiji q man with fear. The
movie hero IL his foe, he hates
this manly chap, who fears him
not, he starts q plot, to get him
In q trap.
The movie villain gathers men,
q bloody, daring band, and pretty
Pearl, the herO's Girl, is kidnapped
and 1t IL planned to have the
villain marry her, she calls him
coward, brute and eur, he doesn't
mind, he amt refined, he's used
to titles Of this kind.
The villain stands beside the
bride, the preacher speaks, he's
Just replied, and then q crash,
. leap and dash, tho hero'S ON
him Ike = flash, the bloody crew
10 conquered too. they bid their
leader fond Adleu, the hero'e
might was great all right, he
won the girl, also the fight.
JOE H. HOLMAN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
|MACDONALDS SPEECH
 PRAISED AND BLAMED

speech by Stanley Baldwin or MT. Asquith.
 The Daily Chronicle, supporter of Mir Lloyd George, is very outspoken in con. demning the premier's treatment of the popular matter. It says it showed ignorance or indifference to the. strong public feeling against the action of the Aealth minister in yielding to "the true slent representations of a group of com munist incendiaries."
 ATTITUDE IN FRANCE
 PARIS, Feb. 13.-Premier MacDon. aids speech before the British house of commons is received with sympathy tempered with certain skepticism and disappointment, by .today's news papers.
 Le Matin cannot see that the policy set forth by the laborites differs greatly from that of any other party in Eng land. The Echo de Paris also finds that the speech does not add much tc our knowledge of the designs formed in Downing street." The paper says the British premier hesitates, to commit himself to any definite line of action and it does not believe Premier Poin. care and Mir. Mcdonald will succeed in reaching an agreement as easily as it is now predicted. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

Friday, was indicated today by the flood of inquiries which poured in on bankers from all parts of the country and by the istatsment that the London portion of the loan totalling 25,O00,- 900 pounds had been more than twice ver-subscribed,
 It was learned that the United states Steel corporation, the General Electric company and other large cor porations shad placed their orders for large blocks of the bonds, totalling many millions of dollars. A statement regarding the loan was authorized by E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation now on his way to South America, who said:
 "This loan is of especial importance to Americans becadse the proceeds will largely be spent in America in pay ment for materials and supplies needed by Japan in her reconstruction program. Such purchases obviously will be of benefit to American industry and com merce."
 Inquiry for the bonds was particular. ly heavy from the Pacific coast, bank CTS reported.
 Announcement was made today that the Japanese government would call it's two Az per cent sterling issues next October at par, with interest and that payment for new bonds allotted might be made with bonds of these issues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
X THREE DAYs'
 COUGH |s YOUR
 DANGER SIGNAL

Is Chronic coughs and persistent colds lead to serioug lung trouble. You can stop them now with Creomulsion. an emulsified screosote that Is pleas. ant to take. Creom ulsion is a new medical discovery with Iwotold ac. sion, IL soothes and heals the in- flamed membranes and kills the germ.
 Of all known drugs. creosote is recognized by the medical traternity as the greatest healing agency for the treatment of chronic coughs and colds and other forms of throat and lung troubles. Creomulsion contains. In addition to creosote. other healing clements which soothe and heal the tnflamed membranes and stop the ir. irritation and inflammation, while the creosote goes on to the stomach Is absorbed into the blood. attacks the seat of the trouble and destroys the germs that lead to consumption. Creomulsion Is guaranteed satis-
 hctory in the treatment of chronic coughs and colds, bronchial asthma, catarrhal bronchitis and other forms of throat and lung diseases. and is excellent for building up the system after colds or the flu. Money re. funded if any cough or cold. no mat ter of how long standing. is not re- neved after taking according to dt. Eections. Ask your druggist Creo- mulsion '.o.. Atlanta. Ga.-tAdv.b
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

tee opposed to the Ford offer, among them Representative Hull, republican, Iowa, said they would interpose no ob- lection to giving the Mckenzie bill priority but would insist on ample time to conduct fight against it.
 Possibility that promise of an early vote on Muscle Shoals might have the effect of shortening consideration of the tax bill, which leaders predict may stretch out for several weeks, has been a factor in causing republican leaders to revise their program.
 Democrats Also Insistent
 Democrats who are expected to con- duct vigorous fight against important provisions of the revenue measure, it was declared, are also insisting on quick action on the Mckenzie bill and would be inclined to assist in speeding up House action on the tax bill to take up Muscle Shoals.
 Regardless of what program is final ly determined upon, said Mir. Long worth, time will be taken by the House from time to time to dispose of the routine supply measures. A vote on the navy bill and probably one other appropriation measure is planned dur ing the next month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

period of several years averaged a re- turn of 10 per cent on the full purchase price. These facts are given to show that Mir. Vanderlip does not know any more about the value of the Marion Star than he does about the men whose financial standing he has assailed or the price paid for the Star.
 "The important position MT. Wander lip occupies in the financial world, his former connection with the biggest banking interests and the flat unquali- fled and unjustified charges he made, constitute the worst and most damaging kind of islander. MT. Moore and l have notified Senator Lenroot, chair. man of the investigating committee, that we will be in Washington tomorrow ready to give his committee any in formation it may want. Unless MT. .Vanderlip falls absolutely flat before the committee, I should like the privilege of appearing before it. I pre- dict, however, the whole thing will be thrown out in digust"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

LONDON, Feb. 13.--(By the Asso- ciated Press.)-The general good will extended to the labor government by the London press is not withdrawn as a result of Premier MacDonald's state ment of policy in the house of com mons yesterday, but his declaration does not escape adverse criticism.
 The comment that the premier dealt in platitudes and said what a leader of any party might have said is fairly gen. eral, and there is. some sharp dissent with his attitude toward the action of the new health minister, John Wheat ley, in giving the popular guardians a rather free hand in the distribution of relief to the unemployed, thus reversing the policy pursued by his predecessor. Otherwise the editorials are mostly in- dulgent.
 The Times commends the premier's program as comprehensive and well ar sanged, but remarks that problems are not to be solved by merely stating them.
 The Daily Telegraph complains that there was "a touch of arrogance not altogether pleasing" in his reference to the foreign policy, but otherwise sees hardly anything in the statement which might not have figured in program
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

owners of the Marion Star, through the sale of that newspaper to Roy D. Moore and myself, is inexcusably false. His statements were so yenomous that it is i impossible for him to soften their ef- feet by claiming a desire to protect Mir Harding's memory by forcing an investi- gation. When he appears before the 1 Senate committee tomorrow, which l presume is result of my request that he be called, Mir. Vanderlip will explain that his speech was based entirely on rumors and admit that he had made no effort to confirm them before shoot ing them broadcast through the press of the country without regard to the harm he might be doing to the late Presidents reputation, and to MT. Moore and myself in our business careers.
 Where Money Came From
 "Mr. 'Vanderlip asks Where did the money come from; where did it go? Every dollar of it came from our own pockets, some of it was borrowed, it is true but with the customary secur- ities back of it. The money went to MT. Harding and the minority stock now part of his estate. Practically I now available in the Marion county probate court through the executor of the Harding estate or at the offices of the Marion Star for the benefit of Mir. 1 Vanderlip, the Senate committee or anyone else.
 No authorized statement has ever been made by us as to the actual pur- chase price of the Star although terribly exaggerated figures have been repeated i ly published. But since a man of MT. | Vanderlip's standing comes out boldly and tells the world that we have no financial standing hitting us in an apparent effort to throw mud at the Harding administration in general, we are willing to parade our private busi- ness affairs on the ground that there | is public interest and official demand for the details.
 $ss0,OOO Paid For Star
 ''The actual purchase price of the Marion Star. including every share of stock, was $3S0,000. The contract with President Harding was signed at the l White House two days before he left for Alaska upon the payment by us of $50, ,000 in cash. The contract provided that other payments and details of the transaction should be cleared upon his return from Alaska for which purpose he had planned to stop at Marion.
 'Of this $3SO, 900, Mr. Harding was to receive $263, ,0O0, the remainder of the stock then being held by Star employees. We were to pay the Presi- dent $1G3.000 in cash. including the $50,00O paid to him in Washington, and turn over to him in preferred stock in the reorganized Harding Publishing company amounting to $100,0O0. In addition the President was to sign contract of employment with the Star as associate editor at salary of $13,- 300 per year. This arrangement con- stituted compromise on the price and as result our prospects of making considerable profit from the syndica- tion of his writings at comparatively small salary, the payment of the salary was guaranteed for ten years.
 Earnings 10 Per Cent
 ''The earnings of the Star over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
MUSCLE SHOALSTO BE
 GIVEN RIGHT OF WAY
 WHEN TAX BILL PASSES
Republican Leader Longworth Announces He Is Willing To Revise Schedule And Consider
 Shoals Ahead Of Immigration

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Repub- lican house leaders are willing to have the House take up Muscle Shoals leg islation immediately after the vote on the tax bill. Until today the tentative program called for consideration of the Johnson immigration bill before the Mckenzie Muscle Shoals measure.
 Representative Longworth, the re- publican leader, who with Chairman Shell, of the rules committee, after conferring with President Coolidge last Saturday predicted that immigration would be given priority over Muscle Shoals, said he now is of the belief that it might be wise to revise this schedule.
 Many Press For Action
 Various representatives of farm or ganizations and individuals, both in Congress and out, interested in the Muscle Shoals proposition have been urging that no time be lost in putting the bill, which calls for acceptance of Henry Ford's bid, to vote. Repre- sentative Mckenzie, republican, Illi- nois, advocate of the measure, has been pressing for early consideration. Members of the House military commit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
OS OVANA1AsAo GA>ASAUED Vanderlip's Statement Tnexcusably
 False

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 13- The implications of irregularities in the sale of the Marion Star by President Harding to Louis H. Brush and Roy D. Moore, made by Frank A. Wander lip, New York financier, in speech at Ossinning, N. Y., last night, brought a sharp denial from Mir. Brush tonight.
 Brush is president of the Harding Publishing company in addition to own. ing several other newspapers in Ohio. and had been life long personal friend of the President. His statement fol lows:
 MT. Vanderlip's attempt to implicate the late President Harding and the new
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

Christian said. "If he did not make the statement, then common decency demands that he immediately dis claim it.
 "Neither MT. Vanderlip nor any other human being can truthfully charge<th Warren C.. Harding ever obtained, di- rectly or indirectly, & dishonest dollar, or was connected with corrupt trans action in his entire official or private career as a business man, he was scrupulously honest. As United States senator and the nation's chief exech- tive, he regarded public office as a sacred trust, and detested any who be- trayed it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
SCORES VANDERBILT
Harding's Secretary Defends Dead
 President

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-If Frank A. Vanderlip is correctly quoted in. re- ports here, he is "an unconscionable traducer of the memory of the dead, George B. Christian, Jr., secretary to the late President Harding, declared Wednesday night in defending his chief from the insinuations dropped by the ffinancier.
 "If MT. Frank A. Vanderlip made the statement attributed to him by today's newspapers, he is an unconscionable traducer of the memory of the dead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
NO CHANCE FOR
 HONEST BIDS ON
 VETS HOSPITALS
Forbes Clique Had Right Of Way In All Big
 Money Transactions
DENTAL WORK SIDELINE
 WHICH COST THOUSANDS
Mortimer Gets Offended When Ignored And Downfall Of
 Powerful Group Impends
ASTOUNDING STORY OF GRAFT

NSTUUNUING STUHY UF GRAFT
 This is the fourth installment of the as- founding story of Charles R. Forbes and the veterans bureau. which is being published ex- elusively in Birmingham by The Age Herald. The preceding installments told of Forbes meet ing with the late President Harding how Forbes was appointed. how he arranged to give a con- tractors agent. Elias Mortimer. advance infor- nation as to sites for hospitals planned by the government: how inspection trips were ioyrides. and how Mortimer. when approached for loan by Forbes. secured S5.000 from a Chicago con- tractor. which he turned over to Forbes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
BIC DEMAND FOR JAPANESE LOAN
Large Percentage Of $15O,OOO.' GOO Will Be Spent In
 United States

NEW YORK. Feb. ,1S.-Successful sale of the new $16O, ,O00, 900 Japanese loan, which will be offered publicly
The Washington times., 1924-04-29
Summer Sewing Is Easy

The sheer thin materials are SO pleasant
to work with. The new styles are so sim
ple-straight lines and trim boyish effects.
And the Mccall Printed Pattern is so
easy to understand and so accurate that
sewing is genuinely pleasurable at last!
Consult an Expert-Palais Royal Basement.
The Washington times., 1924-04-29

Tissue Ginghams
and VOiles - these
sell at 45c and SOC
yard-when cut from
the piece-some with
owe rplaids and
stripes Of CLOS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-01
VIEWS FATHERS BODY E,
BURIED FIFTY YEARS
BY LIGHT OF AUTO LAMP AMER.
ICUS MAN LOOKS ON PARENT
HE NEVER KNEW.

Americas, Ga.-Almost fifty years
after the corpse had been committed
to the earth John w. SILVER, Americas
business man and wealthy citizen,
first viewed the remains of his ia
Their, Captain John Willis SILVER, the
body being disinterred in order to per-
NIT the burial of Mr.. Shivers' mother
in the same grave with her departed
husband at her request.
The remains were taken from their
resting place during the still hours of
the night, the silence broken only by
the sound of shovels as the earth and
masonry were removed, mingled with
the scraping of tools against the me-
tallic casket, a portion of which was
taken away to permit full view of the
remains. An automobile headlight,
something utterly unknown in the day
when Captain SILVER lived, illumined
the scene, and Mr.. SILVER, who was
born just four months before his ia
theirs death, stepped silently to the
verge of the tomb as the casket was
brought into the food of light cast by
the electric rays. There he stood dur
ing brief period and then invited the
others present to view with him the
almost perfectly preserved corpse of
his father.
The remains, sealed half century
ago in a metal casket such as those
used commonly among the well-to-do
classes of that day, were found to be
in an excellent state of preservation,
with few changes visible to remind
one of the long period during which
the body had remained buried. A long
beard grown since the burial was the
chief change noticeable in the corpse,
say those who viewed Captain Shiv-
er's body, all Of the clothing being in
good conditions and the corpse most
life-like in appearance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-01
GEORGIA MINES PAY
IN YEAR S12,OO0,OOO
REPORT OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY SHOWS GREAT WEALTH
EXTRACTED FROM EARTH.

Nearly S12,OOO,0O0 worth of min
erals was extracted from the soil of
Georgia in 1922, according to a re-
port compiled by the state geological
survey in cooperation with the U. s..
geological survey, and presented to
the state board of geology at its reg
ular quarterly meeting held recently.
Brick and tile was the largest sin
gle item in value being credited with
$4,141, 688 in the report. In addi-
ton, clays are scheduled at S85O,O7
Barites are set down at $468,5 17
and bauxite S231,325. Value of the
marble output was S1,867 ,228, with
that of granite put at S1,O57,823.
Portland cement and slate valuation
is given at $1,184,480.
One Asbestos Source.
White county was the only county
in the state recorded as producing as
bestos in 1922. The output was
limited and was prepared for market
at the Ball mountain plant at Gaines
vile. Four mines were operated in
Une parties neluS, WLlle SIN COuHCleS
produced bauXite.
There were fourteen clay mines.
Coal was produced only in Walker
county, but four counties, Barlow,
Polk, Gordon and Chattooga are
listed as mining iron ore.
Gold was mined in the state to
the value of 1924. More than one
third of the entire production of Full
ler's earth in the United States came
from Georgia in 1922, two plants,
one in Decatur county and one in
Twiggs county, producing 5000 tons.
Other interesting items in the re-
port show S,818 pounds of sheet mica
and 224 tons of scrap mica; eight
producing mineral springs; one plant
producing slate, which was all ground
and used for a coating on tar roof
ing; fourteen counties producing
sand and gravel and three counties
producing limestone, totaling 161,-
$50 tons, used for agricultural pur-
poses almost entirely.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-01
NEW JOBS CREATED;
TAXES INCREASED
THAT COVERS WORK OF RECENT
LEGISLATURE SESSION - NO
RELIEF FROM HIGH TAXES.

Atlanta, Ga.-The cost of the re-
cent extra session was nearly 100000
1t was called into extraordinary ses-
sion by the governor to pass tax leg
islation, but instead of passing legis-
lation to raise more revenue it sim
ply created a couple of new state Of
fices-that of state auditor and tax
collecting commission and adjourned.
Had it gone further and passed the
income tax, calling for string Of
folk on the payroll, it would have add
ed still further to the states expenses.
The revenue producing legislation was
conspicuous by its absence.
Some of the leading farmers of the
state who are constantly figuring on
how much tax would be needed or has
been needed to pay some of the states
expense bills, have penciled it down
that it would take the state tax OF
five mills on farm land worth between
eighteen and twenty millions of dol
lars to pay the cost of the recent leg
islature.
Some folks who saw no necessity
for the extra session take the position
that with the increased tax on to-
bacco and the increased tax on gaso-
line the state will eventually raise
enough revenue to meet its expenses
so there you are.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-01
GEORGIA TO GET CUT
OF WASHINGTON ELM
ALL STATES TO GET SECTION OF
HISTORIC TREE-PLAN TO
ERECT BRONZE STATUE.

Georgia will receive a section of the
historic elm, under which General
George Washington stood when ne
received command of the American
forces in 1775, according to a letter
being sent out by Mayor Edward w.
Quinn, of Cambridge, Mass.
The old tree recently fell and 1t
is the plan of Cambridge citizens to
erect a monument in bronze, or stone,
on the spot as memorial to the great
event. Every school child in the coun-
try will be asked to contribute some
thing to the memorial.
sit is proposed" the mayors letter
reads, ito cut the tree into fifty pieces,
one to be given each state, Alaska and
the District of Columbia to be pre-
served in the various state houses as
part of a common heritage Of ines
timable patriotic value"
The mayor asked that each state
appoint a Washington Elm committee,
name Washington Day, allow each
school pupil to contribute one penny
to the memorial fund, and conduct an
essay contest among high school stu
dents on the subject, "The Washing
ton Elm. It's Significance in His
tory" with prizes to be awarded.