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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
GAME FISH HELPS
BUTTON INDUSTRY
Essential In Development of In
FAINT Mussel Bivalves

Dust what has game fish to do with
making pearl buttons?
You've guessed wrong if you. think
this is foolish question, for the sim
pie fact is that if it were not for these
fishes there would be no pearl button
industry in the United States. AS it
is, virtually every man, woman and
child in the United States wears pearl
buttons, from the Mississippi valley,
made with the aid of certain accom-
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THE WEATHER


Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma: sum
day and Monday generally fair; little
change in temperature.
East Texas: Sunday fair in north, part
~ cloudy and probably showers in south
portion; Monday. partly. cloudy. Moderate
to fresh southerly winds on the coast.
West Texas: Sunday and Monday fair
virginia; Fair and cooler Sunday; Mon
North Carolina. South Carolina and
Georgia: Fair and mild Sunday and Mon
day. t#
Florida, extreme northwest Florida,
Alabama and Mississippi: Generally fair
sunday and Monday; no change In tenn
erature.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair and mild
Sunday and Monday.
summary Of observations made at sta.
ttons Of the United States Weather Blu
reau. during the "a hours ending at I
p. m.' Goth msridian time, May 8. 1s24;
TEMPERATURES
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carried out in Syria under the direc-
ton of NJ. Franz Cumont.
lon the banks of the Euphrates relics
have been found of civilization which
flourished even thirty centuries before
the Christian era. The exhibits in the
Louvre include number of statuettes
which, although mutilated, yet bear the
stamp of beauty impaired to the stone
',"'is0nds Of years ago. One will won
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United States bureau of agriculture

OHAtou oIdleS bureau OF agricultural
economics issued today.
Due to relatively higher prices in
eastern markets, shipments to eastern
markets were largely due in part to
light supplies there and a belief that
prices were close to bottom.
A slight increase in shipments were
accompanied by reports of slowly in
creasing production. Although the
Minnesota Cooperative Creamery as
ISOLATION for the week ending April 26,
showed a decrease of I.25 per cent from
the preceding week the American
Creamery Butter Manufacturers assoc
citation reported an increase Of 5.3 per
cent over the previous week and an
8.3 per cent increase over the corre-
spending week last year. The quality
of receipts was only fair. There were.
practically no imports.
While 90 score butter at wholesale
3T15 at Philadelphia for the six days
stood at 81 cents at New York and
ending May 4, the price at CHICAGO
feeeded from AZ 70 and e Boston
tKnah 881S TO 81 csnis.
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A HARP $500 YEARS OLD

Instrument Was Found In Excavation
On Banks OF Euphratcs
A harp whose strings were touched
by fingers which crumbled into dust
3,70O years ago is among number of
interesting new exhibits which have re-
Gently found a. place in the collection
of antiquities in the Louvre Museum.
says the Continental edition of the Lon
don Mail. They are the proceeds of ex-
cavations which have recently been
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Every child between 10 and Is Of
who is physically capable Of attending his her daily
duties is eligible to this exceptional offer provided he
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Of subscribers family residing in his home Those who
are NOW subscribers and those who WISH TO BECOME
subscribers equally entitled to the offer matter
where they live There positively strings to this
offer
It straightforward and smpe; the only provso being
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OPERATORS ARE SHY
IN BUTTER MARKET
Week Marked By Conservative
Trading, Review Declares

(. CHICAGO, May 3.-Conservative
trading with lack of confidence BY
operators marked the week ending TO-
day 10 the butter markets with no keen
demand for fancy top scoring butter,
according b the weekly review Of lhe
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HIDES AND TALLuw
LOCAL SECURITIES


STATE AND MUNICIPAL BONDS
ALABAMA sHs, 1895 ........,..s........- 81 95
Hiaodme ~ 1850 :.......s..'.s....s..s' w "
CITY Il Birminshsm $50 10 $40 pst. basis.
jefferson csunty. AIS to pst. hasls.
basis.
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BirminEham, Aia.-For the "a hours
ending at Z p. m, May 3:
Highest temperature .....,......... so
Lowest temperature .............,.. 81
Mean temperature ......,...s.... IS
Normal temperature ............. IS
Deficiency in temperature since Jan
uary s!....-........,. = 42S
Rainfall ................. 90
Total rainfall since january 1 !. =. 21.03
Excess in rainfall since January 1.... lis
Relative hamidtky,s a.. m....,.... So
"a noon ,....f... -. .i.,....s.. 80
p il1...s.'. ..-..., -.s...i.....s..: az
Dry Thermometer. Z a.. Hn...........s SO
IL noon ..ss.............. ~
p. ....,..,....i- ,.I..4......... II
Wet thermeneter, q. W..*ttstsss..s "a
Noon sstt. - $50. ss..i.i. l1.... 61
- "a, tsssVss %
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der. too. what manner of beauty it was
that gazed into the mirror of FURNISHED
silver mounted on gold which forms
part. of the collection,and one may
speculate on the treasure once contained
in the carved chests, one IF which is IN
the for moi sarcophagus.
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BOSTON PLANS
TO MAKE IRON
Will Import Ore For Fur
naces Under Proposed
Arrangement
~ n q. FORBEs

BOSTON, May 2.This announce
rnent win interest the country: 3.
Boston capitalists are completing
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that of our dependents all our ambtons all our acco
an IF we are not taken by death.
We do know today shall live We
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pianB TO launch the
production Of iron
locally.
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AyIu you huUW LndL AMERICAN coal IS
NOW beginning to offer British coal keen
competition in foreign markets?
You probably do not have the faintese
conception of how important a bearing
this has upon the outlook for the
American merchant marine, and for
that matter, upon the ability Of the
American navy to hold its place on the
seas.
The development viii be presented in
a later column,
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Now I do not pretend to be able to
pass judgment on the feasibility Of pro-
ducing iron economically at Boston, but
presumably the level-hcaded business
men who are behind the enterprise
know what they are doing.
BE that as it may, the development,
as I see it, is significant of what l
believe will become very pronounced
spirit locally, a spirit of determination
to throw off dissatisfaction, the leth-
argy, the easy-goingness which has been
too prevalent in Boston and in some
other parts of New England during the
recent years.
, 1924-04-30
CITY WOULD
BUY IN CODY IF A
ROAD WAS OPENED

The people of Cooke City are eager
to see an automobile road up the
Clarks Fork river and to this end u
citizen of the famous old mining camp
high up in n subdivision Of the Absar-
oke range writes to the Enterprise as
follows;
1--WE look for quite a boom here this
summer owing TO the price of lead,
and, in case the government does
something for silver, n real boom,
which mea lots of business.
"The Cooke City people would like
to trade in Cody and your town would
get a liberal share Of the business
which now goes to Livingstone. The
people Of Livingston do not try to
boost our camp at all and this is re.
sented.
San automobile road up the Clarks
Fork river would make it easily poss-
ible for Cooke to purchased supplies
in Cody and are anxious TO see this
come about"
, 1924-04-30
HIDE Buyer TOOK
IT OUT OF RIVALS
HIDE; FINED $500

j.. Redmond, a hide buyer from
Lowell, was fined $500 and costs by
Judge Marsten last Wednesday for
trying to take it out of the hide" Of
Sam Letwak, a hide buyer from Ba-
sin, during a chance meeting on the
road.
Redmond stopped his car and asked
Letwak, his hated rival in the hide
business, what he was paying for
hide. When Letwak told him what
he was offering, it was plain why Let
wax was able to ship a carload of
hides while he had been able to pur-
chase only a truckload.
Redmond told him he could clean
him on a sheep pelt. Letwak declar-
that it would take n space at least as
large as n COW hide.
There was but n thing for Red
mond to do in the circumstances, and,
anyway, a man who paid such a price
for hides should be prepared 70 take
the consequences, so Redmond reach
cd out Of his car and punched Letwak.
Letwak stepped on the gas and up
on his arrival in town had Redmond
arrested. His price for hides remains
the same.
, 1924-04-30
COP" Brings IN
MORE DRY Holes.
CONFISCATES CORK USED
AS "BOBBER"-RAIDS
FOUR M

Mr.. Goppert is up and at it again.
u~nabashed by the fact that 81 of
his cases were dismissed at the
last term of court, and that he Sc
cured but one conviction on a LIQUOR
charge, he is starting out to repeat
the performance. With a fistful of
warrants, issued upon complaints
signed by himself, in which he
charges personal knowledge of the
possession of moonshine whiskey, and
entirely surrounded by sheriffs and
deputy sheriffs, the intrepid prose-
cutting attorney of Park County is
searching private houses, hotels,
pool halls and lodging houses, with
one arrest up to date upon no strong
er evidence than a collection of corks
and empty bottles.
Accompanied by Sheriff Loomis and
two deputies from Powell, Mr.. Cop
pert last Saturday presented Mrs.
Katie Primm with a warrant charg-
ing her with the possession of moon
shine whiskey and searched the Cody
Hotel and the shack in which Tom
Davenport lives in the rear of the
building.
Mr.. Goppert's search was fruitless.
1t was discovered that he had made a
slight mistake of al blocks in describ-
ing the premises in his warrant, locat-
ing it upon block so when it happened
to be block 9.
What is a small matter of Al
blocks, however to a Jealous prohi-
bition officer?
He snooped through the home of
James Armstrong and came out emp
ty handed. He searched Joe and and
Johns pool hall and was again disap-
pointed in his hope of being able to
arrest someone.
In a lodging house in the east end
of town kept by Blanche Gokel,
he served a warrant charging the pos
session of moonshine liquor upon r.
G. Landreth who occupied a room
there. His haul consisted of some
corks and four or five empty bottles,
two of which, according to Landreth,
he had already taken as evidence up
on a previous occasion when he had
searched but concluded not to prose-
cute for lack of evidence. Among
the corks was a fishing cork which
Landreth had fixed for a "bobber".
The "bobber" was taken to the court
house as an exhibit. Landreth wa
arrested and taken to the county Jail
where he remained from Saturday
until Tuesday without a hearing.
When he appeared before C. A. Mars
ton the hearing was postponed for a
week at the request of the prescott
ing attorney in order to enable him
to get a witness here.
, 1924-04-30
JUDGE METZ DE-
CISIONS UPHELD
SUPREME court
AFFIRMS OPINION OF THE
DISTRICT UDG IN TWO
IMPORTANT CASES

The Supreme Court has affirmed
Judge Metz's decision in two cases in
which an appeal was taken from the
decision of the district court.
In the case of the Interstate Con-
struction Company against the Lake
View Canal Company, the Fertile
Valley Canal Company and Burnham
and Dean, wherein a dispute arose ov-
er a contract made in April, 1920, be-
tween the Lake View Canal Company
and the Interstate Construction Com
pany for the enlargement and COM
pletion of the Lake View Canal.
Judge Metz rendered a decision in ia
vor of the Lake View Canal Company
and Durham and Dean when the case
tried before him in 1921.
The Interstate Construction Com
Continued on Page 81
, 1924-04-30
COWBOY
RETURNS after
ABSENCE 81 YEARS
REEVES STORY OF DROWN.
ING OF MEETEETSE GIRL
IN BIG HORN RIVER

Some weeks ago Sheriff Loomis was
notified from Meeteetse to keep a look
out for an old, grey haired man named
Al McComb, who might take the Cody
way out of the country from the
Greybull valley.
He did not come and has disappear
ed for the second time as if the earth
had swallowed him, but it is believed
that he went out by Gooseberry creek,
making his way through that sparse
ly settled country to the railroad.
The name of AL McComb aroused
memories of sinister stories in the
minds of the oldest old timers in the
Greybull valley when, for some mex
plicable reason, he returned after 81
years to renew acquaintance with
persons he had known when he was
a young and good looking cowboy on
the M-Bar ranch.
Continued on Page 81
, 1924-04-30
IL. NEWTON ASKS $500 FROM
AS. McCLA|NFORK KICKING HIM
Brings Damage Suit Alleging Great Mental An
guish and Expense Result of Being Elected
From Defendant Office


Charging that he has suffered great
mental anguish and incurred consid-
cradle expense investigating the in
JurleS he received as the result of n
KICK which A. 5. McClain landed up
on the west side of l.. l.. Newton'S
anatomy as he stood in McClain's of
nee facing the sunrise on May Sth,
l923, Mr.. Newton is now bringing
SUIT against McClain in the mount of
$3,loO through his attorney, f. j.
Goppert.
The papers were served upon Nc
Gam by the undersheriff on Monday.
One peaceful afternoon on the date
stated IN the petition, the passersby
were surprised to see the then editor
of the Herald shoot through the door
of the electric light office on Third
street with the broad toe of McClain's
shoe planted firmly on the bosom of
his trousers.
IL was the more surprising to those
who saw 1t because McClain is the
personlhcation OF good-nature, and
probably has as few enemies, or fewer
than any person IN Cody.
1t appeared that Newton had quar-
relied with McClain in the street, and
afterward followed him to his office
TO renew 1t. McClain who stammers
had little chance in an argument with
the fluent tongue of the local orator
ne TOOK TINS method of ending h
controversy
mad nm arrested n Nc
Claln was nneQ SlU and costs.
McClain has retained j. Il. McEl-
yam and John u. Skinner OF Red
Lodge TO defend the suit.
In ms petition drawn up by T.. j.
Goppert' Len l.. Newton alleges and
mat upon or about the 9Th day OF
, 1924-04-30
TOO BURNED MANY
PEOPLE" SAYS JOE
JONES OF THE EAST
WANTS TO GET BACK TO
MAJO AND HIS MULES
is PLUMB HOMESICK

II is high time Joe Jones was get
ting back to camp, and from the
minor note in the interviews which
are appearing in the New York pap
ers, there is reason to believe he will
soon be packing his flour sack and
heading west. Something of his
frame of mind may be gathered from
the following article which appeared
in the New York Tribune and says
in part:
"Joe Is keen minded, but nature
neglected him in stature. In fact,
back in 1898, when he went to the
Philippines with the LIST Idaho In
fantry, he was the smallest man in
the army-fve feet two inches, and
weighing 1is pounds. His legs new
er will be straight.
ale was m%ournful yesterday. He
probably would have cried right into
his strawberry ice cream soda IL he
had had one, but he was so nervous
he didn't dare go out on the street.
Joe IS different at the summit Of a
mountain crag back home. He shook
his head.
"Iemme get put where there amt
so doggone many people, he sighed.
Gimme my pack mules and saddle
bosses. Gimme the altitude of the
mountains und the camp fire, where
n man tells you his life history. Lord,
but | want to get back! I'd grease
a mans boots to be there"
, 1924-04-30
MARGARET HAYDEN
PRAISED FOR WELL
WRITTEN FOLDER

Margaret Hayden is receiving many
compliments from the newspapers of
the state upon the good looking and
well written Cody folder which has
just been printed and is being distri-
buted.
Mrs. Hayden deserves all the praise
that she is receiving. She has work
cd hard to produce something worth
while in the way Of advertising liter
AZURE and has succeeded.
The Forest Service, too, is indebted
to Mrs. Hayden for more publicity
than the local Office has eve had, and
the unusual interest taken in Forest
Protection week was due solely to her
efforts.
, 1924-04-30
VOTERS!

The pubGcs attention should be called to the fact that by
reason of a statute passed by the last legislature, voting on
any questions OF the issuance of bonds is restricted to persons
who can show either n tax receipt showing that they pay taxes
on real estate within the Town, or a certificate from the coun-
ty clerk showing that they own such real estate.
These restrictions do not apply to those wishing to vote
for the town officers. but no one can be permitted to vote on
these questions unless he can show these qualifications.
The last day for registration for the Town election will
be Thursday, May LIST.
, 1924-04-30
WORK STARTS SOON
ON S0NNERS LEASE
IN OREGON BASIN

The Ohio Oil Company will start
development work on the Sonnors
lease in Oregon Basin as o as the
roads are passable for heavy trucks.
The first man on the operation, n
carpenter, arrived last week and 9TH
ers will follow in a few days.
The company proposes to replace
the eight inch casing, which is now
down 1900 feet, with twelve inch and
drill to the last oil bearing sand, 3i00
feet, IL necessary.
, 1924-04-30
AS seen FROMThEW WATERMELON
9mEzzz CAROLINE @ckhayf S7#k

IL would seem that after four years
of prohibition, the workings of the
law would have ceased to astonish US,
and that by now we would read of
injustice, graft, fanaticism and the alb
surdities which have followed in the
wake of the Eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead Act, without my
emotion whatever. But it seems as if
we neve arrive at that stage, and
still find ourselves quite as amazed,
indignant, contempuous, amused, as
the case may be, as ever we were in
the beginning.
We quote below some happenings
CLEANED from the news of the State
and country which we doubt if any
fair-minded American, who has been
proud of his country and its boasted
liberty, can read with entire equinim-
ity:
A banker in a small Ohio town has
a pharmacy adjoining his bank. He
is licensed as a pharmacist to sell
liquor for medicinal purposes. To
safeguard his stock he stored it in the
vault in his bank, which necessitated
moving it a few yards. A prohibition
agent caused his arrest upon the
charge of transporting liquor. The
man was fined 500 and the appellate
of Ohio sustained his sentence.
WV
The sincere but fanatical view s of
Govener Ross upon the prohibition
question are well known. He Is, as
an admirer declared when introduc-
ing him at a banquet, $50 dry he rat
ties" An illustration of of the mag
nitude which a violation of the liquor
law assumes in the chief executives
eyes, as compared to other offenses,
was published sometime since in the
Kemmerer Republican. As we never
have seen the story contradicted, we
venture to give the facts as stated in
the Republican.
"Just after the Anti Saloon League,
full in "sticking-up" the Wyoming
Legislature for 100000, to finance its
operations in Wyoming, one of the
hangover members of the depart
ment, arrested a man for having a
large number of beaver hides that
were not tagged. This offender was
taken into court and fined, and the
law was upheld. But forthwith, Gov
rno Ross wrote a letter to the Of
fcer, ordering him to pay no atten-
ton to any law violation other than
prohibition hereafter, and it wasn't
long until this mar was dismissed
from the service"
Another "high class man" has been
hired by Mr. Wachtel's prohibition
enforcement department to preserve
the majesty of the law and uphold its
dignity in the State of Wyoming, ac-
cording to the Rock Springs Rocket,
which seems to know what it is talk
ing about.
A man of the common or garden
variety of hobo was arrested at Rock
Springs for beating his way on the
Union Pacific mail train. He was
, 1924-04-30
FLORENCE OIL CO.'S.
CREW ARRIVES TO
DRILL ON LEASES

The Florence Oil Co. that is to drill
On the Spring Creek nnticline 8 miles
oeyond Meeteetse where IL has ac-
quired 1900 acres through leases, is
setting down to business without any
loss OF time.
a portion of its crew came in from
naker' Montana, on Saturday. The
meh are kemish Anderson, Dave Mar
sn and son Wesley. They were nc
.9mpanied by M. ID. Miller, manager.
"r. Miller went out again on Monday
W meet Mr.. Paul Ache In Denver.