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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
STATISTICS
VITAL STATISTICS

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 To MT and Mrs. II. D. Drew. s07 Fourth avenue: west; November 10, . noy, ,.o,a svo- amore avenue Central Park, November 10,
 To MT, and Mrs: c; "; Mooney' Noon 14os rusSaloosa S %s ar" avenue, . November 20, girl; TS MT snd NSysmSsf nys % E. 6oy
 To MT. and Mrs. J. D. Grain. Route 4, Birmingham, November 2, boy. ,
 To Mir and Mrs. T. A. George, Irondale, To ss'ne' MT. and nd Mrs. Jim Barnett. 1rondaie. November 22, boy MoAdorv ,.r1 Sixteenth street, north, November 27, girl.
 To Mir. and Mrs William B. Todd, Star RGrte snd Gnses Mss Raph s05 Forty-first street, north' NoVemoer zi' To Mir. and Mrs Robert King Yam.
 To MT. and Mrs George silvery. oads- den, October 10, girl. o,,. ,.oo Third avenue. November 20 boy.
 To Mir. and Mrs. Alton c. Simpson, Lewisburg. November IS, giri:, Mao. pov,..
 10 MT. anu NIs. HA HS7' '' -NN~o' "
 To Mr.. and Mrs. R. W. Murphree Fair field, November 9, girl.
 To Mir. and Mrs. Frank Wright, Pratt City, November IT, girl.
 To Mir. and Mrs. w. R. McDurmont 722 Forty-second street, north, November
 ro MT. and Mrs J. B. Jackson, 21o Bank street, November 19. girl.
 To Mr. and Mrs. l.. D. Edge, 3417 Ave- nue E, Ensley, November 26. boy.
 To MT. and Mrs. G. B. Romine, 210 Six ty-fourth street north. November Zo' boy. ,s,,,,u Billings, November 26: boy;
 Mrs. Mary l.. Burroughs, Route l, Iron dale, November 24 age 73.
 Mrs. Mary Addie Steele Route l, Iron dale November IA. age S5.
 Ada Clenontine Mace, 539 Seventh ave- nue, November 26 age 22.
 Raymond Stepp, Remlap Ala, NoVem- Der 27, age s. street, north. November 26 age 4S.
 Cassie Miller Howland 17S9 Sixteenth avenue, south November 26, age 4S.
 Charles F. Jenkins, 1219 Thirty-second street, north, November 25, age 63.
 Mir J. l.. Perkerson, Our Home Hotel, November 26, age 45.
 James I; Payne, 24s5 Ensley avenue November 25, age AZ. November 25. age A. -.
 Mrs. l.. Galatas 2516 Ensley avenue, November 24. age 54
 B. s. Turner, Unknown. November Fl, a1a TT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
SHRINERS DANCE AT AUDITORIUM
Minstrel Entertainment ', Of Zamora Temple
 Successful Affair

Dr. H. c. Crelly, potentate of Zamora Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, makes the announcement that on the evening of December 14, grand ball and reception would be given by the temple, complimentary to the NQbles and their ladies. The affair will be staged at the Municipal auditorium, which will be suitably decorated for the occasion in Shrine and national colors, and large orchestra will provide the music. The details of the affair are be- ing worked out by, the standing and special committees and everything will be done, it is said, to make the occasion an enjoyable and delightful affair.
 It is also announced that on New Years eve, a script dance under the auspices of the temple, will be given at the Municipal auditorium, for which an holiday season is being worked out and will be announced later.
 The three performances of the Min strel-M Musical comedy show, given last week at the big auditorium of the Ma sonic temple, under the auspices of the Shrine. played to capacity audiences each night, who gave enthusiastic ap- proval to the entertainment from be- ginning to end. Elaborate stage setting and scenic effects, beautiful and strik- ing costumes, dazzling dances and spark ling music, all combined to. make an en- tertainmcnt of the highest order, with plenty of mirth and mimicry to balance the show.
 Lew Salters was chairman of the com mittee in charge, who put the affair over in great shape, was ably assisted by the several members of the committee and the uniformed bodies. Potentate Crelly in addition to acting as interlocu- tor-and he made good one-gave his personal attention to the show and aided materially in putting it over" so sue cessfully staged the Shrine minstrels in Birmingham for the past few years.
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 Fork or spade up the desired size of bed as deep as the fork will go and throw the dirt on the side as though making a pit, then throw the dirt back into the pit made, leaving out a part of the subsoil or poorer dirt, so that the pit likes about three or four inches being full. Break up the soil with fork or rake and then apply a dressing of we'll decayed animal manure and old litter to bring the surface of pit to within an inch or two of the surface level, firm down and then plant po- tatoes about q foot apart. slightly pressed in, and cover about two inches with leaves or all decaying straw, then light covering of hay or old weeds on which place just enough soil to anchor or hold covering in place.
 Whole potatoes are generally used, but it is permissible to cut in halves. It won't be long before the top growth will be seen coming through the straw and during cold snaps quantity of straw should be near at hand to throw over the tops for protection, but which should be removed when danger is passed and when potatoes are formed the bed may be carefully gone into and robbed of the young but be careful ev- erytime to repair the damage done by replacing the covering.
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We have never seen white radish grow ing here. Mrs. E. N., Florence, Ala.
 A. Yes, white radishes do fine here and may be planted any month in the year. Plant now the winter varieties such as Celestial, White China or Cali fornia White Mammoth.
 Q. I planted lot of hyacinths and narcissus in September that I was told would bloom by Christmas but none have ever come through the ground yet. What should do about it? Mrs. G. D.
 A. Hyacinths and narcissus planted in open ground are not supposed to come up before late winter or early spring. Some varieties may be forced into bloom by Christmas by planting in pots, watered and given the best liv- ing conditions. Just let them alone They will come along in good time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
OCEANS LEAKAGE CAUSES QUAKES, SAYS PROFESSOR
Readjustments Of Lava Forms Mountains, T. J.
 Lee Declares
(By Associated Press.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.-Earth- quakes depend primarily on the leak age of the oceans, said Captain T. J. See, professor of mathematics in the United States navy and government as- tronomer at Mare Island, California, in an address before the Commonwealth club here.
 As one notable result of such leak age, in his opinion, ''the molten rock swells and thereby causes periodic re- adjustments of the lava beneath the crust, pushing up great mountain chains and high plateaus about the ocean bor- der, as in the famous world ridge which surrounds the Pacific and Indian oceans"
 Explains Theotry
 Professor See explained the pro- cesses that led him to accept these the ories.
 After the great earthquake at San Francisco, April IS, 1906," he stated, II had occasion to make careful study of the cause of earthquakes, mountain formation and kindred phenomena con- nected with the physics of the earth. 1 was led to the conclusion that ranges of mountains are formed by movements of lava beneath the crust, depending on the secular leakage of the oceans. This ocean leakage yields an absorption of water and steam in thel layer of lava just beneath the crust and leads to the swelling of the molten rock, which finds relief by expulsion towards the land and thus builds up a mighty moun- tain wall along the seashore.
 Of seismic sea waves he said,: "1n the expulsion of lava from under the sea it pushes generally towards the continent, because, owing to leakage, steam saturates the lava under the sea, but not under the land; and in this agitation for the readjustment of the underlying molten rock the crust opens along cracks, and the blocks of the earth's crust are so displaced that a fault moves may be several hundred feet.
 Movement Downward
 Under the deep sea, however, the movement of the blocks of crust is often downward, for the spurt is undermined when the lava surges towards the land and thus section of the sea bottom as large as a county or small state may sink several hundred feet and there fore depress the sea level over the sunken area.
 ''The theory thus outlined is veri- fled by the very deep holes in the sea bottom west of Africa and by the deep trench in the sea bottom just south of the Aleutian islands and just east of Japan-in all of which places the earthquakes and sea waves are very terrible"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
McVay Offers Easy Way
 Of Cultiuating Potatoes Lazy Mans Method Carefully Outlined. Queries From All Parts Of State Answered
By C. B. M'vAY
THE ACE-HERALD has been

N1E AGEHERALD has been asked to tell lazy man how to his Irish potatoes with the least possible of work in short how make lazy bed. Many readers doubt the problem and while there different methods pacced the given here has in
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or more greater business than was done in August, 1923. That these states of most marked improvement may be placed, they are especially noted by the white areas. on the map above. To list them, with the approximate amount of improvement over a year ago, they are: Florida, 16 per cent; Illinois, 12 per cent; Iowa, IS per cent; Kansas, 10 per cent; Kentucky. 12 per cent; Louisiana, 23 per cent; Maryland, Il per cent; Massachusetts, M 21 per cent; Mississippi, S2 per cent; New Jersey, 15 per cent.
 Other states which can be listed as showing progress, with the approximate amount over last year, are: Alabama, ' per cent; Arizona, per cent; Arkan- sas, per cent; California, 55 per cent; Colorado. per cent; Connecticut, 4 per cent; Georgia, per cent; Maine, 8 per cent; Michigan, 8 per cent; Minnesota, 4 per cent; Missouri, z per cent; New Mexico, per cent; New York, 5.5 per cent; North Carolina, per cent; Penn sylvania, 6 per cent; Rhode Island. 4 per cent; Tennessee, 1 per cent; Texas, per cent; Utah, 5 per cent; Virginia, per cent; Washington, 4 per cent
 A considerable number of states which experienced poorer August business than they did last year are to be found in the agricultural northwest which as yet could scarcely be expected to feel the result of the recently brightened agri- tultural outlook. Improvement in these states now appears to be merely a mat ter of time-until farmers begin to real ize on their crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
STOCK LETTERS

NEW YORK, Sept 10.-After a morn ing featured by considerable irregu- larity leading speculative issues were subjected to severe pressure and during the afternoon sustained substantial losses. United States Steel, after selling at 1OSk was in supply following fa- vOrable statement of untitled orders and declined two points to 106h. American Can lost over 3 points to below 124 while Lackawanna and Baldwin also reacted about the same amount Many other issues yielded from to 8 points from the high figures of the morning. During the first hour, however, stocks displayed an impressive degree of resist ance 10 professional pressure and clos ing quotations showed an improved tone. Steel recovered half a point to I07, while many other scattered indus trial leaders were also in moderate de- mand. Principal news developments consisted of the passing of the regular quarterly dividend by Union Bag and Paper, optimistic trade reviews by vari- 0us- steel and iron publications, new high price for silver for 1924 at 69N an ounce. and an advance in the price of anthracite coal by Burns Brothers of 1Oc a tone. Pan-American Petroleum also announced a settlement of their Mexican strike and the bringing in of a new we'll estimated at 10000 barrels Daily. The closing tone was somewhat uncertain and considerable difference of opinion exists regarding future trend of market prlces.-Fenner and Beane to Kahn & Virgin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
STOCK MARKET
 AGAIN IS HIT
 BY REACTION
Breaks In Union Bag And St. Paul Unsettle Most
 Of List
By EDWARD J. coNDLoN

(By Leased Wire to Age-HeralD NEW YORK, Sept. 10.--on the heels of the bullish demonstration Tuesday, inspired by political news, the mid-wcek session of the stock market Saw the outcropping of reactionary tendencies again. The break in Union Bag and Paper following the news of the pass ing of the quarterly dividend unset tied the industrial section of the list, while the rail division suffered from un- certainty when St. Paul preferred hit record low despite assurances from President Byram that a reorganization of the roads finances is not contem- plated.
 Even the surprising increase in the untitled orders of the United States Steel corporation for August failed to prevent steel common from closing lower. much less prevent the active selling of other industrials.
 Two-Point Spread
 The spread between the extremes Of the day for steel amounted to points. The increase of 102, ,505 tons in the un- filled tonnage for the month came at a time when only a small increase was looked for. Reports from mill centers indicate a gain in steel production, though the outturnl of pig iron is lag gipg far behind.
 if the railroad shares had hardened to the latest car loading figures, the trend would have been in the other di- rection. The final week in August saw freight loadings exceed a million cars for the first time since last fall. 1n- deed, sthe August loadings as whole were only slightly below those of last year, when record levels were attained.
 Cotton Is Disappointment
 The cotton market proved a great dis appointment. The break to new lows on the movement came at time when trade interests are beginning to report little better demand for cloths and speculative support faded before the steady increase in hedge selling. The weekly weather report indicated some deterioration, now that cooler weather has set in following some eight weeks of warm temperatures, but the general situation over the belt was not so un- favorable as private reports had re- lated. Weakness in Liverpool account ed for the early declines.
 Grains held steady during the early trading following the favorable govern ment estimates of probable yields. Re- ports of better export business stiffened the market for wheat, with corn holding generally firm. This situation prevailed through the later dealings and almost to the close, when corn broke fraction ally and finished below the previous closing levels. The official estimate of the Canadian crop placed the yield for fall wheat at 20,544,000 bushels, against 19.315,000 last year, but for spring wheat the estimated yield is 271, ,060 o00, against 454, 4,s44,O 900 last season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
SUGAR MARKET

NEW YORK, Sept. 1o.-Increased ac- tivity and an advance of 1sc to the basis of 6.03c for Cuban. duty paid, featured the raw sugar market today. Sales included 10000 bags Cuban at 5.S6c; 15s,7O0 Cubans, S0,OO0 Porto Ricans and 4,50O St. Croix at 6.O3c, prompt and September shipment, and 1000 bags Philippines due to arrive the middle of November. at 5.90c.
 Reflecting the higher spot market. raw sugar futures advanced 3 to z points on trade and Cuban buying, but met increased offerings later, losing practically all, the gain. Final prices were unchanged to 2 points net higher. September closed 4.20c; December, 4.11c; March 3.42c; May, 3.49c.
 Refined sugar was unchanged to Is points higher, list quotations now rang ing from 7.25c to 7.40e for fine granu- lated. r
 Refined futures were nominal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
HAY AND GRAIN RATE
 HELD PREJUDTCTAL
Unduly Preferential To Texas,
 Says I. c. C. Examiner

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1o.-Rates on grain, hay and straw and related ar- ticles taking the same rates from Okla homa to destinations in Texas, were found unreasonable and unduly preju- dicial to Oklahoma and Oklahoma ship pers and unduly preferential of Texas and Texas shippers in a recommenda- ton to the interstate commerce commits sion made today by Examiner John E. Keeler.
 Rates on grain and grain products in car loads from points in the Pan- handle of Texas and eastern New Mex ico to Kansas City, Kan, and Kansas City, Mo-, were found unreasonable and the relationship between them and the rates on the same commodities from the same points of origin to Shreve- port, La, and points in Texas were found unduly prejudicial to Kansas City and unduly preferential to Shreveport and points in Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
THE WEATHER

Alabama. Mississippi: Fair and slight fy warmer Thursday; Friday probably To- cal showers.
 Tennessee: Unsettled Thursday; slight iy warmer: Friday showers and warmer.
 Louisiana: Thursday fair, warmer; Friday partly cloudy. Arkansas: Thursday and Friday part ly cloudy to cloudy showers Thursday or Friday: warmer Thursday, cooler Friday in west portion.
 Oklahqma: Thursday and Friday partly cloudy. possibly showers in north portion: cooler in west portion Thursday and in east portion Friday. jt-
 East Texss: Thursday increasing cloudiness: Friday unsettled cooler in north portion. West Texas: Thursday and Friday part ly cloudy, probably showers in north DOT tion; cooler in the Pan Handle; cooler Fri day.
 Virginia. North Carolina: Fair Thurs day; Friday becoming unsettled and warmer.
 South Carolina. Georgia. Extreme North west Florida: Fair Thursday and prob ably Friday; warmer Friday
 Florida: Generally fair Thursday and Friday. "a -
 Summary of observations made at sta. tions of the United States Weather Bu- reau. during the 24 hours ending at T ?: m. 90th meridian time. September
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
POULTRY AND PRODUCE

NEW YORK. Sept. 10.-Live poultry, irregular; chickens, by express, 2703Oc; fowls, by freight, 2s02Scs by express, 24@s1c. Dressed poultry irregular; chickens, 2s645c.
 Butter firm; receipts, 19.1s7; creamery, higher than extras, sS% 9SSNc: cream cry extras. SSG3SAG.
 Eggs steady; receipts, 1s.5s5 cases. Pacific coast whites, extras. 53h@ 541sc; do firsts to extra firsts, 42953c.
 Cheese firm; receipts. 65.5Tf pounds.
 ST. LOUIS. Sept. 1O.-PouItry. butter and eggs unchanged.
 KANSAS CITY, Sept 1O.-Hens. 1c higher. FOG; other produce unchanged.
 CHICAGO. Sept. 10.-Butter unsettled; creamery extras, STAG; standards, 36c; extra firsts. $s5h&36h; firsts. S51s9 S6Sc; seconds. $229S2e.
 Eggs unchanged; receipts, 7,631 cases.
 Poultry alive higher; fowls. 1s@26e: springs. 25Sc: roosters. 16c.
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tatink lo ac.. .s. this stage. They keep on delaying and delaying, taking 1t for granted that they will be able to buy all ,tion, without having,sto wait for deiiv- cries and without having to pay any in- Grease in prices. b
 But are business men justified in this assumption? s fion turn out satisfactory to business, that tstmanufacturers will be swarnped with orders and that, in their haste to procure supplies buyers will bid prices up spiritedly?
 What Is the situation?
 Some of our most important indus tries have been producing only half of normal, or even less, for months and months.
 The country'cs stock of cotton goods, for example, must be extremely light, for mills have been shut down entirely or running on only par1 time for a long period. All through this period, how ever. the actual consumption of cotton goods has been going son at normal rate throughout the country, for shirts and sheets, and towels and underwear, land they have been wearing out at the ssame rate as usual, sSteei manufae- turers have cut prices very drastically--
 
 the industry--in the early part of this year. They simply refused to produce materials for which no orders were on hand. Therefore, it is to be assumed that there are no mountainous piles of iron and steel productS stacked up in manufacturers, yards awaiting buyers.
 The automobile industry has worked The rubber industry has followed a similar course, $ t5~s
 Woolen manufacturers have been pro- ceeding cautiously.
 The shoe industry has curtailed out put strictly in line with current demand.
 In short, the policy of keeping down stocks to the lowest possibie limit has been scrupulously followed in practical ly all lines of sbusinesss9rom producers and raw materials to retail merchants. Business, admittedly has been dull. This means, that only qPsolutely neces- sary buying has been done. The pessi- lnistn. which ruled so long doubtless Mad its influence on the rank and file of Econsumers, influencing~ them to keep down their expenditures to bare neces- sities.
 ! But things have been happening late ly-important things. And others are on the eve of happening. { For the first time in ten years Flu rope is definitely headed towards re- covery, It is everywhere confidently expected that American funds will be lent to European borrowers on a very large scale and this cannot but bring expansion in buying of American raw materials and other products.
 { Our agricultural population, constftut- ing one-third of our national total, is rapidly swinging from depression to prosperity. Borrowers are becoming buyers. Countless unified needs will be filled during the coming months, needs < embracing a very wide range of the na- tion's products.
 One of Wall streets soundest axtoHa is: .The time to buy stocks Is when nobody wants them" ,i-S
 Nobody apparently wants to lay, In generous stocks of merchandise today. Prices consequently are low in nearly all lines and Extremely low ins many lines. ' 2.
 Is 1t not time for business men to ask thenfselves whether there may not be greater risk in not buying than in plac- ing orders now?