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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
French Loan Is ApproUed
 By Chamber
lRx Associated Press.l ]

PARIS, Nov. 21.-The senate and the chamber of deputies tonight passed the loan bill under which $1OO,OO0, ,OOO is to be advanced to France by Amer ican financial interests headed by J. r. Morgan and company. The bill passed the chamber of deputies by a vote of 535 to 20. In the senate the vote was unanimous 290 to 0.
 The new French loan will be issued in America at 93, it was stated by a deputy who is a member of the cham ber's finance committee, after the com mittee had approved the bill, which was arranged with the Morgan inter- ests by Finance Minister Clementel.
 The other conditions of the loan in- cluding the issue price, will be an- nounced later. Nj. Clementel explained the terms of the loan today to the cabinet which gave its approval and au- thorized him to present bill to the chamber of deputies this afternoon.
 The previous loans negotiated in New York were under blanket authority extended by parliament which has since expired; consequently the government must have specific authority in the present case.
 In presenting the bill for reference to the proper commission of the chamber this afternoon the finance minister an nounced the loan to be for period of twenty-five years and said the total proceeds will be turned over to the bank of France to reduce the sum of it's advances to the state.
 M. Clementel said the previous loan had the appearance of mortgaging Frances gold reserve while the present loan bore a different aspect as the gov ernment would have full freedom to pace the $1OO,0O0,00O as it wished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
City Football Classic
 WiU Be Decided Today On Rickwood Grounds
Birmingham-S Southern And Howard Colleges Tc Clash This Afternoon At O'Clock-Stu dent Parade Through Downtown Streets This Morning At l0:30 O'Clock

aration for the Howard game at Rick wood this afternoon, were climaxed with the big student assemblage at chapel Friday morning. Witt, the exception of the regular announ cement by Presi dent Snavely, the meeting was wholly of ''peppy" nature, being in charge of the cheer leader and his staff.
 The student body of the college will assemble at Capital park Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and will be i'm mediately placed in the various parade units, in order that the procession will be ready to march by 10 80. The regu- lar downtown parade route will be GOV cred by the student procession.
 sponsort Named
 Birmingham-Southe sponsor for today's game will be Miss Flora Roberts Her maids will be Misses Frances Led better and Sadie Marable. X special car will be provided for these co-eds. All girl students will ride in decorated cars, while the men will walk six abreast. A large, stuffed panther, mounted on wooden base, will head the procession and will be followed by the Birmingham-Southe thirty-six piece band. The other units will follow in their respective orders.
 Throngs of Birmingham-Southern alumni were at the college Friday and are arriving on all trains. Classes will be dismissed in honor of Saturday s event.
 The Birmingham-Souther eleven will likely be directed by young quarter, with the veteran Greek Griffin on the
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

The culmination of weeks of practice and months of thought has been reached and Birmingham-Sou and Howard college will reach the peak of their res pective football seasons at Redwood field this afternoon. The two teams have been putting in extra time during the past two weeks for the game today, and the best strength of each team will be on the field.
 Captain Farr. the main cause of worry for the Gold and Black follow CTS at Southern, has come through, and will be in his regular place at fullback to lead his team in the fracas. The Panthers were fearful lest the plung- ing captain fail to get into the game due to injuries received in the s. F. U. game. He has not been out for prac- tice but two days, but stated Friday afternoon that he was in fine shape and ready for the game.
 Kelly To Be In Game
 Towards chief worry, OK Kelly, will also be in the game. The Bulldogs packers have been somewhat dubious about their hard-playing tackle. He has been out of one or two games on account of injuries, but has finally come around for the big game and will be in his regulation togs.
 Novel and original stunts are prom ised in the Birmingham-Southe college parade Saturday morning, according to Russell Johnson, cheer leader, who is in charge of this branch of the student ac- tivities, today.
 Pep meetings, which had been held all week at Birmingham-Southern, in prep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
Mrs. Harding To Rest Beside Her Husband In Marion, Ohio, Tomb
World Sends Sympathy
 To Relatives Of Pres ident'S Widow
Ieased Wire to The Age Herald.)

MARION, O., Nov. 21.-As the wires into Marion bring from all over the world messages of sympathy to the few remaining memDers of her family, the people of Marion are preparing to bury their most famous daughter, Flor ence Kling Harding wife of the twenty ninth president of the United States.
 The funeral of the former first lady of the land will be held at o'clock Monday afternoon, when two clergy men of the town and a host of its citizens will pay NIarion's final trib- ute to the lady beloved by all the com munity.
 Death Came Friday
 Mrs. Harding's death came early Fri day after a protracted and painful illness. Most of the messages of sym pathy are being addressed to George B. Christian, secretary to the late President, who was at the bedside of the Presidents widow when she died. Late in the day, brief statement about Mrs. Harding's death was given late Brigadier General Charles E. Saw yer, who succeeded his father as her personal physician and cared for her until the end.
 "She fought valiantly to regain her health against insurmountable odds,' said Sawyer. Death, he said, resulted from chronic nephritis, myocarditis and hydronephrosia.
 Buried Beside Husband
 The body of Mrs. Harding will be laid beside that of her late husband in the receiving vault at the Marion cem- etery. The funeral will be held at the Epworth Episcopal church, where Mrs. Harding was member since her girl hood The Rev. Jesse Swank, pastor of the Epworth church, and the Rev.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
CHEMIST DENIES
 WOMAN EXPIRED
 WITHIN FURNACE
Mrs. Sheatsley Was Dead When Body Placed On
 Goals, Says Report
(By Associated Press. ]

COLUMUBS, O., Nov. 21.-Mrs. Addie Sheatsley, found practically cremated in the furnace of the parson- age of Christ Lutheran church, in Bexley, suburb Monday, was dead before her body was placed in the fire vault, it was disclosed in a preliminary report submitted to County Prosecutor John R. King by Chemist T. c. Long shortly before midnight tonight.
 Mir Long declared no trace of carbon monixide poison was found in three ounces of good blood taken from the lungs of the victim. Practically all the known tests were made in attempts to find traces of the poisoning. he said. Intense congestion was noted in each of the lungs, he stated.
 Had Mrs. Sheatley breathed after she entered the furnace, her lungs immedi- ately would have been filled with the gas, which would have been absorbed at cnce by the blood, MT. Long declared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
TO BE 6 STORIES WITH l20 ROOMS AND OF CONCRETE Definite Announcement Of Plans Expected In
 Few Days LOCAL AND EASTERN CAPITAL INVOLVED Several Sites Said To Be Under Advisement
 For Project

A six-story fire-proof hotel costing approximately $400,- 900 is to be constructed at the intersection of Second avenue and Twenty-sixth street, it was learned from reliable sources Friday. The site at the corner has not been defi- nitely determined by the build CTS who, it is stated, hold sale contracts on three pieces of property there.
 According to plans in the hands of a local architectural firm, the material will be of reinforced concrete, with brick facing and limestone trim. It will be built to carry from six to ten additional stories at a future date.
 | The structure is to be promoted by n combine of Birmingham and eastern capitalists and will be leased to an out of-town operating company. Official announcement of the program Is ex- pected within the next few days, or when the lease has been signed by the hotel agency.
 The hostelry will be slightly smaller than the Motion, also six-story build ing, containing 120 rooms, with private or connecting baths. It will have 50- foot frontage and 140-foot depth..
 Developments Pending
 To some extent the building program accounts for the activity of property in the section to the immediate northeast of the business district. During the past two weeks around 40 pieces of reat estate have changed hands, large percentage of it falling into the hands of investors who are backing the hotel project. That other proposals are held for the section is believed true in the light of prices paid for sites and the reports current in trade circles. Some of these plans are the paving of Twenty eighth street, a white-way along Twen- ty-sixth from the Terminal station to First avenue and the Twenty-fourth street viaduct.
 The new hotel will also mean new epoch in lower Second avenue, which has been known as the Rural Retail Trading Center of Birmingham. For q number of years it has been a strong hold for merchants catering to the nearby country trade.
 The building project will make the ninth commercial building of size to be announced here within the last nine months and the second new hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
Will Afford Easy Means Of Accumulating Cap
 ital, Says Spokesman
NO RATE SLASHES
 ARE CONSIDERED
Hone To Effect Saving Through Dividends, Manager
 Explains
By RAYMOND CHAPTER (By Leased Wire to Age-Heraidl
 fCnnvright. f024l

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.- Organized labor has begun an. other invasion into the field of capitalism which, if success ful, will be as significant a de. velopment as the spread of labor banks, now an important cog in the country's banking structure.
 An old line life insurance company has been organized by the International Brother hood of Electrical Engineers and will begin doing a general insurance business January l.
 The sale of stock has been completed and the organization has $1OO,0O0 cash in hand as working capital and another $1O0,0D0 in cash as surplus. lntormal saDpficat ions for insaf Ance are talrfa being received. Those in charge Of tn' work say that these applications lndi cate that $1 ,400,00 worth of insurance will be written at the start. The com pany has been incorporated under the name of "Union Cooperative Insurance Association" and will not confine its business to members of the electrical union or to organized labor:
 Three Years Experience
 This venture was decided upon after three years' operation of mutual bene. fit insurance in which a reserve fund of $S6O. 900 was built up out of insur- ance written on limited group plan for members of the union. 1t was decided , that if the union could handle its own members insurance this successfully il could broaden out and write poilcles for any one desiring them. .,,
 The rates of the new company VIII be about the same as the lowest com mercial insurance companies.
 "We are not contemplating any rate cutting." said Charles F. Nesbit, man. ager. eve hope, however, to save our policy-holders considerable through div idends." tal and credit is highly useful; that it enables them to speak in terms winch command respect in some places where they could not get it before.
 So the next step is to enter the in Surance husiness, Life insurance con- cerns have command of tremendous capital through their reserve funds.
 Must Be Fighters
 "Union labor must always be fight ing Organization" said Charles F. Ford, secretary of the new company and sec retary of the Electrical Workers. "ln this fight, one of the greatest factors is financial power. We wonder If 1t IS not the greatest factor. The heavy ar tillery is financial power. Life insur- ance affords us one of the easiest ways of accommodating vast amounts of capi' tai for our own advantage, and of han ding it ourselves"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22

ANNTSTON, Ala, Nov. 21.-Comina as an unexpected bombshell in the testimony being presented in the sen sational murder trial of Bud Thomp- son and his son, Irwin Thompson charged with the death of Lawrence Curd, young Ragland business man, the 1S-year-old youth took the stand shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon and ab- solved his father of all blame in connec- tion with the fatal shot and admitted shooting Curd, as the man was alleged to have been reaching for a gun with which to shoot the elder Thompson.
 Irwin Thompson gave an account of the tragedy vastly different from that told on the witness stand Thursday aft erno0n by Edith Capps, pretty young girl companion of Curd, who witnessed the alleged encoupter and who is the states star witness in the case.
 Young Thompson testified that his father, young brother and himself had been searching for his 13 year old sister, Ivey Thompson when they met the Capps girl in Curd's parked auto mobile near wooded stretch of road a few miles north of Lincoln, When the girl saw them approaching she attempt ed to start the car but they arrived in time to ask her if she knew the where about of Ivy Thompson, it was testified by the young man.
 A few minutes later a girl was heard to scream and the voice was recognized as being the voice of Ivy Thompson, the witness testified. The sound came from place about 16 yards from the road and upon investigation they found Curd and the young girl there, the youth told the court.
 After all had gathered at the car with Curd cursing and swearing that he would kill Thompson, young Thompson stated that Curd made an attempt to reach for gun on the back of the car.
 The Youth Said He Then Shot
 The defense closed without putting Bud Thompson on the stand.
 The morning session today was fea- tured by the evidence presented by Mrs Bud Thompson, wife of one of the de fendants and mother of the other de fendant, and the evidence of Ivey Thompson, daughter of Bud Thompson During the cross examination by Prose cutting Attorney Jim Embrey of Ash vile frequent sharp tilts took place with J. C. Burt of Talladega, one of the at tOrneys for the defense, filing objections to practically every question asked.
 Testimony Excluded
 When the prosecution sought to show bv Mrs. Thompson that Bud Thompson was intimate with another woman, who was said to have been in his home for { period of two years, the jury was takeI from the room while the attorney! orouad over the admittauce of the testi mony. Judge R. B. Carr, who is pre- siding over the case, refused to admi the evidence on the grounds that it haC no direct bearing on the case.
 Mrs. Thompson's testimony also re futed considerable of the evidence offer ed by the Capps girl Thursday. Sht testified that she had seen Miss Capp, on the night of the killing and that thu Caps girl was in an intoxicated condi tion. The defense also introduced al most a score of character witnesses in aI effort to impeach the character of thu states star witness. ]
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
CHAMBERS MUST
 BOOSTALABAMA,
 SAfSDR. THOMAS
Educator Addresses Open ing Meeting Of Junior
 Commerce Group

The diffenrence between cOmmuni ties, one progressive and another un desirable for residence, is merely the willingness of the citizens to go down in their pockets for taxes-the price O! civilization-Dr J. s. Thomas, director of extension work at the University oi Alabama, said in an address before the Alabama Junior Chambers of Commerce Ut the Southern club Friday evening Dr. Thomas was the leading speaker at the meeting, the first of two sessions which opened the third annual con yention of the body.
 Alabama can be brought to the font only by hard, conscientious effort of the chamber of commerce in advertising the state and individual localities be declared. Taxes are the actual markers of civilization.
 Progress and building of cities are not only how many newly paved streets have been laid, or how many buildings have been constructed; it is how far the intellect and virtues of the in habitants have been carried over a previous period.
 Scheuer Speaks
 
 gram were: B. w Scheuer, president of the Litewear Manufacturing com pany, Montgomery W. T. Galloway of the Galloway-Latham Coal company Huntsville; Armistead Leake, of Bir- mingham; and Fred Nelson, of Duck worth Morris Insurance agency, Tusca' | lOosa.
 Twenty-Five delegates from various parts of the south registered Friday with number more expected Saturday The registration list included: H. A Wheeling, D. w. Mcleod and w. T Galloway, Huntsville; James Crawford Dothan; Leon Williams and Frank W Harrison, Atlanta; B. W. Scheuer, c E. Johnson, George O. Starke and W F. Black, Montgomery; Hartwell F Ayers, z. l.. Strickland, B. D. Bank and l.. B. Cannon, Anniston; NJ. D Ainsworth, Macon; William Cannon , Opelika 0. F. Nelson, J. B. Brosiu and J. o. Bowers, Tuscaloosa Josepl S. sGelders, A. J., Thomas, Armstroni Cory, R. w. Roberts and Thad c Holt, Birmingham.
 The initial business session of thu convention was held at the Chambe of Commerce Friday afternoon. W. W Kennedy officially welcomed the visit ing members, with E. D. Banks, stat, president, making the response.
 Following an address by William R Lloyd, manager of the safety depart ment of the Alabama Power company NJ. D. Ainsworth, director of tn, United States Junior Chamber of Com merce, made q strong plea for affilia tion of the state chapters with the na tional body. As result of this address MT. Banks appointed committee com posed of l.. l.. Cannon, William Can non, E. w. Mcleod, A. J. Thomas, o. Bowers and 0. E. Johnson to in vestigate and advise on such a move A safety council, composed of W. T Galloway, Joe S. Gelders, c. E. John son, William, Cannon Hartweil F Ayers, c. F. Nelson and James Craw ford, was named.
 Saturdays program includes a busi ness session. a luncheon and the annua football game between Birmingham Southern and Howard colleges. At thu business meeting 1925 officials of thu state body are to be selected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
SILVA BEGINS WORK
 AT BANNER MINES
Convicted Burglar To Be Trans
 ferred Later, Says Warden

Ivanhoe Silva, sentenced to serve from 10 to 20 years in the state penitentiary by Circuit Judge William E. Fort last Saturday after being found guilty of burglary and grand larceny in connec. tion with the robbery of the Hill Gro cery company, has started to work as miner at Banner prison, Warden Morley announced Friday.
 It, is not planned to keep Silva in the mines permanently, the warden stated. "Silva can be one of the most valuable men in the prison, if he so desires" MT. Morley told Assistant Solicitor, John Mccoy, ''or he can be one of the worst"
 In discussing the Silva case, Mir. Me Coy asserted that Silva's confession of guilt had been made in a very guarded manner last Sunday afternoon, when Silva requested Mir. Mccoy to use his good graces in keeping him at Kilby prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
FRIDAYS DRLZZLE FAILS TO BREAK 53DAY DROUGHT
Rainfall Here Only A Trace, Says Weather
 man Horton

Friday may be considered an unlucky day by some folks, but no longer will superstitious Birminghamians regard it as such. For Friday, November 21, brought the first rainfall here since September 29.
 "While technically the 53-day drought was broken by the precipitation, v Weatherman B. c. Horton said Friday night, from the farmers viewpoint the long dry spell still exists. The rain, unless it was of longer duration in the outlying regions, was scarcely more than a trace and was not enough to be meas ured by the bureaus instruments"
 Tomorrow Fair
 Tomorrow is to be fair and slightly cooler, MT. Horton said, with no indi- cation that another shower will moisten the city's desert-like surface.
 Considerable pandemonium. was caused by the rainfall Friday. Residents, ac- customed to day after day of clear weather for almost two months, re- garded the pattering drops of moisture with something like awe. Several per sons were heard to remark, after the TO- minute shower had passed on, that its appearance had caused as much excite ment here as would a snowstorm in Cape Town, South Africa.
 The normal rainfall here for the first 21 days of November is POS inches, Mir. Horton said. The total for the month should be 3.39 inches, which means that rain will have to fall vir- tually every day from now on to the end of the month if the average precipi- tation is to be attained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
YOUTH REPUDIATES
 ALLEGED ADMISSION
Jackson Now Denies He Knows
 Miss Dudley

Hugh Jackson. 23, who is held in the county jail in default of $3,5O0 bond on charges of atemtpted criminal assault upon Miss Anna Dudley, 23, of Fair field, was emphatic Friday in his de- nial of the charges. Jackson is al- legged to have thrust Miss Dudley from a moving automobile last Sunday. Miss Dudley positively identified Jackson in the city jail Wednesday.
 Jackson asserted Friday that he did not know the young woman and that he never saw her until she identified him at the jail. According to Miss Dudleys story, she entered Jackson's automobile with the understanding that he was to drive her to her sisters home in Norwood, but that Jackson drove out into the country and made improper advances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-22
BURGLARS ENTER
 2 GROCERY STORES
Amount Of Loot Undetermined Early Saturday Morning

Burglars broke into the Hill Grocery company store, Eleventh avenue and Twelfth street, and the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company store, 1905 Four teenth avenue, south, Friday night, es- caping with an undetermined amount of loot. Managers of the stores had been notified but no estimate of their losses was obtainable early Saturday morning.
 Entry in each case was gained by breaking the large plate glass window in front of the store. Police are cer- tain. they said, the same robbers en- tered each store and they believe the same gang which has made a long se- ries of similar burglaries in Birming- ham during the past two months is responsible.
 City Policemen Robinson and Rig gins discovered the broken windows, No clues to the identity of the robbers had been found.