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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
CLAY COUNTY IS
 k EAGER FOR ROAD
300 Attend Lineville Meeting In Interest Of State
 Highway

LINEvILLE, Ala, Feb. 2.(Spe- cial. --s.An enthusiastic road meeting was held at Liheville Friday night, at which some 300 men were present from Lineville. Barfeld and Delta. One sec ton of the road through Clay county has been constructed under the supervi- sion of the state highway commission.
 The commissioners court of Clay county has expended more than $8,0OO fin paying for blueprints and interest on money which Clay county borrowed to match federal aid money. The road from Lineville to the Cleburne county line has been surveyed, the blueprints completed and paid for by the county of Clay and the road has been once ad- kvertised for bids, but the bids were de- clared too high by the highway commis- sion and rejected. The citizenship of the county had been assured today both by the governor and the chairman of the highway commission that the road would be relet in the early spring. But it is reported that two of the highway commissioners have voted to leave this section of the road of the highway commissions plans of road construction for the next two years. This road leads from Montgomery, via Wetumpka, Equality, Nixburg, Goodwater, Milleryille, Lineville, Bar field, Delta and Hefiin to Anniston. It trayerses a rich and thickly settled agricultural section of the state and in case of war would be the most direct route from Montgomery to Camp Me- Clellan. It would also open up large trade territory for Birmingham.
 |A A committee of sixteen was selected Toy the meeting at Lineville Friday night to go to Montgomery Monday and present the claims of Clay county for the completion of this road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
ALBERTVILLE WANTS CREAMERY STATION
Plan To Use Trucks To Pick Up
 Cream At Stations

ALBERTVILLE. Ala. Feb D. Especial. )-There is movement on foot among the farmers to establish a cream shipping station in Albertville. A farmers meeting is called for Satur- day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the court house to devise some means of putting on cream trucks which will furnish tc all farmers in the Albertville territory a market for their cream at their doors It is expected that large crowd ot farmers and business men will attend.
 One of the loveliest affairs of the sea. son was the afternoon tea given Thurs. day by Mrs. John R. Thomas and her daughter, sAfiss Maurine Thomas. The reception rooms were gay with spring blossoms and potted plants, while the decorations were suggestive of the Hal lowe'en season. About 150 guests en- joyed this courtesy.
 Form Partnership
 Claude Scruggs, prominent young Marshall 9Ounty man. has recently graduated at the state university in law and has formed partnership with Col. D. Isbell at Guntersville. Mir. Scruggs taught school for several years and was for some time clerk of the cir cuit court at this place.
 Preachers' School on
 A preacherss school is in session at the Baptist church this week. Baptist preachers from all over Marshall county are in attendance and it is thought that much good will be accomplished from the gathering.
 Merchant III
 I. B. Hubbard. one of the best known men of Marshall county and who is manager of the Albertville Feed ing company and one of the directors of the Albertville National bank, is critically ill at his home on Baltimore avenue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
21 YEARS FAIL TO REFORM Parole Board Denies Freedom To, Jail
 breaker In Sing Sing

OSSINING, N. Y, Feb. 2.-Ernest Menett, hunchback -jailbreaker in Sing Sing, was disappointed today when informed that he cannot be freed because the state board of parole found that 21 years of imprisonment had failed to reform him. Mepett, also known as "Frenchy" Menett and Al, fonse Minett, was sent to Sing Sing in 1902 for 20 years on a charge of bur. glary. He twice tried to escape from Queens county jail in Long Island city and he also tried to escape from Sing Sing as soon as he arrived here. He made a getaway from Clinton prison after having been transferred from Sing Sing and was recaptured and sen fenced to three years for jailbreaking
 He was paroled few weeks ago, but was only out few days when he was found with hack-saw concealed in the sole of his shoe visiting in Duchess county jail, The authorities charged that he called there to liberate George Donaldson. another jailbreaker,' but was unaware until arrested in the jail that Donaldson had been transferred two days before to Sing Sing to start a new
 term
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
SPANKED LEADING
 LADY DURING SHOW

CHICAGO, Feb. 2-H0w far can . rah-rah go on one drink of sacramental wine?
 That important question, scientifical ly propounded and experimentally an. swered, is the dark secret Luck of three |expulsions, over which the shocked fac. ulty and indignant undergraduate body of the University of Chicago were ex, cited the other day. ss.
 Four fraternity men, devoted to sci. entific inquiry took aboard one drink each and set out on a mileage test with students. It was the night of the an tlement and the miles-per.shifter trial was made at the theatre.
 It was an amazingly successful trial The students proved themselves the fliv: vers of the drinking world. They went farther on their one drink than most could so on gallon-.o far, in fact, that the mortified faculty can't be- lieve the reported record of the prize winner and so hasn't expelled him with the others.
 Entries No. and No. 2 fizzled rather disappointingly. Their best was bang HE VI bSaLS anu SuuIltlnS or Icct Uc- fore the: curtain went up. They've to re- turn to the campus after a penitential semester or two, at. home.
 But No. 3 put on what one faculty member is said to have described as an attack of delirium tremens by rising from his seat in the middle of the sec ond act and shouting:
 The shows rottenG I'm going home 1"
 This piece of dramatic criticism was appiauded by students in the audience, but faculty members were so hurt by 1t that the young critic has been handed his hat and asked never to return.
 It was No. who won first prize, though. He went back stage, according to official observers, and established a new worlds record for one drink by spanking the leading lady as she was walking onto the stage.
 But the faculty can't believe it. Re garding the report as an impossible libel, they have refused to expel the winner. He's on the campus stilI-tbe "Old Soak" of the Midway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
END RHEUNlT ISM
 WITH RED PEPPER

When you are suffering with rheu- matism so you can hardly get around just try Red Pepper Rub and you will have the quickest relief known.
 Nothing has such concentrated. penetrating heat as red peppers. h. stant relief. Just as soonSas you ap- ply Red Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat. In three minutes it warns the sore spot through and through. Frees the blood circulation, breaks up the cengestion--and the old rheumatism torture is gone.
 Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from red peppers, costs little at any drug store. Get jar at once, Use 1t for lumbagos neuritis. backache. stiff Almost instant, relief awaifS you. Be sure to get the genuinhs with the name Rowies on each packaEa siy-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
SEEK LAW DELAY
Certain Racial Groups Hope To Open
 America To European Hordes

Certain Kaclal Groups Hope 10 upon | America To European Hordes l
 Taxation and the bonus. are not the only pressing questions before the new Congress, says the Worlds Work. Equally important, indeed even more so, is that of immigration. The final disposition of this problem can no longer be deferred. The present 3 per cent quota law expires June 1. If noth- ing is done at the present session, therefore, such. restrictions on immigra- tion as now exist will be abrogated and the influx on the old-time scale will be- gin again. Should the country revert to the policy of non-restriction the ar- rivals would reach vastly greater pro portions than in the days before the war. Something more than a million year then found their way into this country. This was sufficiently alarm ing, but the crowds that will at once start America ward, in case the bars are let down, will be measured only by the capacity of the steamships to transport them. One of the suggestive phases of recent European immigration is the thrush of eastern peoples into Germany, France and Great Britain. The greater number have sought these countries mercy as uaIIWay houses to the United States. Once makes Ellis island a free immigration port and they will immediately make their way to the Transatlantic steamers. The idea prevails in the emigrating coun- tries that the present policy of the United States is only temporary one. Great masses have prepared themselves for the westward trip and are now only marking time until khe exist ing quota. law expires or is repealed.
 The danger, in fact, is very real one. The opposition to the present measures is well organized and ex- tremely active. In certain cases it is we'll financed. There are racial groups determined to open this country to their compatriots in Europe and who are bringing all kinds of pressure upon Congress. Their policy is delaying one. Their one hope is that the new session of Congress will do nothing pass no immigration laws at all, In that case the present restrictive meas ures will die by their own terms June and the condition will thus be pro- duced which these agitators desire that is open immigration once more.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
MELLON REPORT
 IS BOOMERANG
Frear Of Wisconsin Says His Faction Will Not Support
 Tax Measure

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-(By As sociated Press )-Rumblings of dissat- isfaction among House republicans over the action of the ma jority mem bers of the House ways and means committee in deciding to report tax bill carrying the income rates proposed, by Secretary Mellon crystallized today in an announcement by Representative Frear. Wisconsin. a leader of the re- publican insurgents. that his faction would not support the measure.
 In announcing the stand of the i'm surgents. Mir. Frear revealed that a compromise on the Mellon rates had been virtually agreed to yesterday by some republican members of the com mittee, including the green and insur- gent groups. The proposed compromise rates which were upset by the decision of the committee majority, included, it is understood. 50 per cent reduction in the normal tax instead of 25 per cent cut as suggested by Mir. Mellon and maximum surtax of about 40 per cent instead of 26 per cent. Eleven members of the committee in- sisted upon the Mellon rates which were adopted.
 Mellon Issues Estimate.
 While the republicans of the ways and means committee worked on fur ther the details of the rate sections, preparatory to taking the bill up again next week in full committee, Secretary Mellon issued estimates showing the rate reductions proposed by Represen- tative Garner of Texas for the demo- crats would cost the government s$347, ,- 9S1, ,491 in revenue against loss of $2S7, ,S14, ,261 if the Mellon rates were accepted. He made no comment on the estimates.
 Commenting on the compromise pro- posal for rate reductions, Mir. Frear said it was generally commended by some republican members of the ways and means committee for it's fairness.
 "Of course every member of the House and of the committee Mir Frear said, understands that when the bill reaches the House the rates will be showed under. As politica proposal proposition the Mellon bill ii rival it's namesake before it get through Congress.
 The republicans of the committee to day rejected Mfr Greens proposal for gift tax which he urged as comple rnent to the estate tax to prevent eva sion of the latter.
 The democratic national committed issued report today showing that 6, 641 ,262 persons would be benefited under the Garner plan for tax relief against 9,433 under the Mellon plan The statement also said it was esti mated that either plan will raise an adequate amount of revenue govern. ment."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
t. OPP. ARRANGE
 FOR CONVENTION
District Meeting Will Be Held At Jasper On
 May 10
CASPER BuREAU)

JASPER, Ala, Feb. 2.-Members of the Republican executive committee for the Tenth district met in Jasper Sat urday and made arrangements for hold ing the district convention of the party. This convention will be held in Jasper on May 19, at which time a Republi- can candidate for Congress will be nominated and delegates chosen to rep resent the Tenth district in the Re publican national convention at Cleye- land, Ohio.
 Plan Examination
 A committee of Walker county teachers met in the county superin, tendent's office Saturday and drew up requirements and regulations for the county's seventh grade examinations, which. are to be given next spring. This committee was appointed at the insti. tute last fall and they have given . careful study of the problems from eve ry angle. County superintendent's au. thorities are expecting the standards of Walker county to be improved by con. clusion of this committee of teachers. Sow Has 19 Pigs
 1 Fayett Lay, former of Jasper, route 4, owns a Duroc Jersey SOW which has litter of nineteen pigs, according to County Farm Agent J. W. Sartain The first litter this SOW had was twelve the second fourteen, the third fourteen and the fourth nineteen.
 Saw NH Busy
 The Manchester saw mill is one of the few in Alabama that work six days a week during the entire year. The Manchester is one of the few con. cerns that has large tract of yellow long leaf pine in this section.
 Oliver O'Rear Back
 Oliver o Rear, popular young Jas. per citizen, arrived home from Wash ington, D. C., where he has been study ing law. He is well known and his aany friends welcome him home. Mir XRear will leave for Montgomery next Week. where he will take the lawyers examination which will be held there.
 Select Ridge Route ,s
 At a meeting of the board of county commissioners Saturday the route known as the bridge route was selected for the new Jasper to Oakmon highway to be constructed at an early date.
 Walker to Play
 Coach Jackson's Walker county Vi kings will meet the Winston county lads on the Walker court here next Friday afternoon. These two teams are the leading. teams in the counties A large crowd is expected to be pres. ent to witness the 1.final game ! that Walker will lay before she enters the tournament in Birmingham February 15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
TRUCK SHIPMENT
 LOSSES REPORTED
Investigation Started To Aid K Mobile And Baldwin
 Shippers

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. 2.--An- nouncement was made today by Cont missioner of Agriculture J. NJ. Moore of the appointment of committee to help investigate reports of tremehdobs loss on truck and fruit shipments from Mobile and Baldwin counties. due to some unknown cause in transit. Re ports of such losses were received at the recent conference between the state board of agriculture and representatives of agricultural interests ct Mobile, Mir. Moore stated. The committee was ap- pointed 10 obtain records of cars on which such losses were sustained. and will resort to the board of agriculture by February 1J or before.
 Cabbage, cucumbers. potatoes. sat Suma and other perishable fruits and vegetables are listed as having suffered loss which resulted in the investigation. The ultimate object of the investiga- ton is to get research work started by state and federal agents AS to the cause of the losses. It is hoped to get re- search work started on cabbage and cucumbers this spring. and satsumas by fall.
 The committee named to furnish the board with records of cars on which such losses have been sustained is com posed of the following: E. E. Davis, Mobile. chairman: A. J. Harkins. Mo bile Charles c. Ihach. Mobile; A. N, Troyer. Fairhope; W. c. Spencer. Bald win county; D. nJayne, Bay Minette :; W. G. McGowan. Bay Minette: T.. Sawyer, Citronelle, and I. l.. Thorn psor. Mobile.
 Gas Tax Proposed
 Another ordinance imposing tax of 1 cent a gallon on all gasoline sold in Montgomery will be adopted by the city commission Tuesday. /
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
End Catarrh With
 This Healing Cream
Clogged Air Passages Open at Once
 Nostrils Cleared

If your nostrils are clggged and your head stuffed because of catarrh or a cold, get Ely's Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply a little of this pure, anti septic, germ destroying cream into your nostrils and let it penetrate through every air passage of your head and membranes. Instant relief EA'-
 How good it feels.- Your head is clear. Your nostrils are open. You breathe freely. No mores hawking or snuffling. Head colds and tcatarrh yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed up, choked up and miserable. Relief is sure Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
,EMBEZzLEMENT CHARGED Theft Of $3,25S.85 From Mobile Bank sAe Alleged "

MOBILE, Ala.s Feb. 2.-(Special Leased Wire.1--Owen E. McEyoy, who was receiving teller of the Farmers and Mechanics bank of this city, whiof was liquidated two. weeks ago by the Merchants bank, was served with a warrant charging embezzlement of bank funds at the county jail late Sat. urday by Deputy Sheriff Moses Bern. stein. McEvoy was released at once on bond of $1,000. The amount that the former bank employe is alleged to have embedded is $3,25S.85. NJ. J, McDermott, former president of the bank, is the complainant.
 The warrant states that while act ing as receiving teller he embedded or converted to his own use or the use of another funds that came. into his pos. session in his official position, and that it was the money of the Farmers and Mechanics bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
Kills Catarrh Germs
 In Three Minutes

Chronic catarrh. no matter how bad. and cases of bronchial erhrsA now yield instantly to the AsnasIng a!4-o. cry of a French scientist. Tats drugls5s method called Lavex kiiiS he s1rYa ss. three minutes, yet is positils'3 hArmiesA to the most delicate tissues. Your hcs2 and lungs are cleared like magic s1f-s ferers are relieved in steeie nisht3
 To prove it and to introlvee I.avex to a million sufferers in e~s 'nontI, want to send a treatment s-- fec ,f1<l and postpaid, to any one who will write for 1t. No obligation. No matter what you have tried, just send me your name and address for this generous free trial offer and prove that you can be rid of catarrrh. W. R. Smith, 1900. Lavex Bldg, Kansas City, Mo.--Adv.n1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
USES TELEPHONE TO
 TESTIFY M COURT
Too Ill To Appear, He Tells
 Judge Over Wires

TALLADEGA, Ala, Feb. 2.-(Spe. cial. )-Testimony over the phone proved an important factor, in the case of George Cunningham, negro, who was fined $25 and costs on a charge of dis orderly conduct by Judge Mandiver Friday.
 Cunningham had a fuss with his wife over some water Thursday night. They live near the home of l.. J. Mo Cornell, MT. Mcconnell, who has been ill, was disturbed by the fuss and had George arrested. Too ill to appear in court MT. Mcconnell gave his testimony over the telephone. The arrest was made by Chief T. 0. Cliott and Officers Hare and Dickey. Celebrates Anniversary r The Talladega Furniture company Friday celebrated its twenty fourth an niversary and started on its twenty fifth year of doing business in Talla. dega. It is one of the five concerns which were operating under the same management in Talladega twenty years ago.
 To Inspect Company
 The Howitzer company of the Ala. bama National guard in Talladega will have its annual federal inspection March T. Capt. B. A. Bimms an noiInced Friday that Captain McMil Ian of the regular army will inspect Sergeant D. W. Dwiggins of the regu lar army is in Talfadega getting the outfit ready for the inspection.
 +& Liquor Expensive
 E. l.. Givens found possession of whisky an expensive luxury Thursday He pleaded guilty to the charge of having whisky in his possession and was fined $50 and costs by Judge Van. diver in recorders court.
 White Slavery Charged
 Roy Starr was arrested Thursday night by Sheriff George Burk on a charge of white slavery preferred by federal authorities. It is stated he is wanted in Atlanta. He is in the coun. ty jail awaiting federal officers to take him to Atlanta.
 Drunkenness Charged tt
 John Blankenship, Arthur Pettus and Clarence Allen were arrested Thursday on charge of drunkenness by Sherifi Burk and Chief Deputy Campbell Blankenship and Pettus were released under $500 bond, but Allen, whose home is in Birmingham, was still, in the coun. ty jail Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
Sure Way to Get
 Rid of BIackheads

D There is one simple, safe and sure way. that never fails to get rid of blackheads, that is to dissolve them.
 To do this get two ounces of calo- nite powder from any drug store sprinkle a little, on g. hot, wet cloth rub over the blackheads briskly--wash the parts and you will be surprised how the blackheads have disappeared. Big blackheads, little biackheads, no mat ter where they are, simply dissolve and disappear, Blackheads are mixture of in the pores of the skin. Ths calonite powder and the water dissolve the blackheads so they wash right out, Ieav- ing the pores free and clean and in their natural condition.-Adv. # ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

Bordeaux. Lisbon. Casablancal and Dakar. across the Atlantic to Pernam- buco, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires in South America
 In the initial working of the scheme, mails and goods will be carried be- tween Dakar and Pernambuco in the 25-knot steamer of the Compagnie Sud- Atantique, but designs are already in hand for huge multi-engined seaplanes which will make the ocean crossing and enable loads to be air-borne right
 from Paris to Ruenos Aires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
STYLE NV HAIR SPLITS GIRLS
 AT WHEATON

WHEATON. H.. Feb. 2.-The girls at Wheaton college are split into Whig and Tory comps. It's the ancient question of long hair or short come to a head again.
 The whigs. progressive as ever. are adamant for bobbing. The backslid- ing tories frown on 'the curtailed locks and now refuse to speak to bobbed-haired radicals. This action followed a debate and series of let ters in the student paper, heated exchange of views.
 silence won't make our hair grow" declare the bobbed brigade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
SOME QUEER DCELS

IL doesn't pay to be personal in the Balkans. The duef Is still an institu- tion there. and the weapons used in af- fairs of honor are sometimes rather awe-inspiring. For instance. \ duel was fought with sharpened scythes in, Jugoslavia recently. sT
 Stranger still was an affair of some years ago. The coAba tants quarreled over game of billiards. and decided to fight duel with single billiard ball-the red. A coin was tossed to see who should throw first. The winner hurled the ball with such force that 1t struck his opponents temple and killed him.
 Another queer duel was settled with the aid of two pills, one poisoned and the other harmless. They were but in box, shaken up, and picked out by the ''duelists.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
4 REVIVAL TO OPEN i Dr. Gnu Chinese, Will Preach At
 r3 = 1nAlika

A fsf3 Opelika
 < OPELIKA, Ala, Feb. 2.-(Special. ) Revival services at Saint Paul's Metho- dist church will begin Sunday and continue a week. The preaching will be done by Rev. J.sW. Rainhardt, the evangelist of the Alabama conference.
 Court to Convene
 . /The county court of Lee county will convene Monday with Judge G. P. Butler presiding. There are 56 mis. demeanor cases on the docket Chinese to Preach
 Rev. Dr. Gnu, a distinguished Chi. nese preacher, will occupy the pulpit of the Episcopal church here Sunday afternoon. Dr. Gnu is a representa- tive of the Chinese government and for this year is at Auburn studying agri- cultural conditions. Through the ef- forts of Bishop William Mcdowell the Episcopal church board was induced to have. Dr. Gnu go to Auburn and pursue his agricultural studies there.