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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
ISTTNSON STORY
 BRANDED FALSE
 BY DAUGHERTY
Formal Statement Issued By Attorney General
 Denies All

WASHINGTON, March 14.-(By Associated Press.)-Attorney General Daugherty tonight made general pub lie denial of the insinuations against him made in testimony before the Senate Investigating committee.
 Any inference, direct or indirect" be said, .'that ever participated in any way with the late Jess Smith or any one else, for a consideration, either monetary, political or social, in any dis honorable way, in connection with the administration of the liquor laws or any other laws, is false and untrue"
 The Attorney General then proceeded to deny in detail, in a formal state ment, the inferences as to wrongdoing on his part contained in the testimony of Roxie Stinson, Smiht's divorced wife, whom MT. Daugherty described as "a disappointed woman who planes me be- cause her divorced husband did not make her sole legatee under his will. v
 He declared he had. mo interest watever" with Col. James G. Darden in his western oil company; that he had not been a party to any speculation to make money out of violations of the law or out Of the showing of prize fight films or that Jess Smith ever ap- preached him at any time on the sub ject of cfemency for federal prisoners.
 "On several occasions" he continued. ''it has been intimated by person osten- sibly acting for Miss Roxie Stinson that for consideration, silence could be purchased any documents in her pos session delivered all of which attempts at blackmail have been absolutely and unconditionally rejected
 This statement was one of four is- sued from the department of justice to- night, mostly directed against Miss Stin- son's testimony. One contained copy of letter to Senator Wheeler, giving list of prosecutions brought and sen tences imposed in the fight film cases i; another related more in detail to the story about an alleged attempt to secure clemency for a relative of Joe Weber.
 The statement making general denial of the inferences aganist him was issued over the signature of the Attorney Gen eral and said in part:
 The Statement
 Tt had been my purpose to make no public statement in connection with the hearings before the Senate committee until the completion of the committees s work. In view of the fact, however, that Roxie Stinson, the divorced wife of Jess Smith, deceased, was reported ill and unable to appear before the committee to conclude her statement this morning, my counsel have been de- prived of the right of cross-examination upon her statements of the two preced- ing days. I feel. therefore, that ought
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
MORE HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATIONS ASKED OF BOARD Delegation Of Physicians Call On County To Im-
 prove Hillman TWENTY NEEDY PATIENTS TURNED AWAY DAILY Cramped, Out Of Date, Inad- equate, They Say, And That
 City Should Help

Unless the city of Birmingham is will ing to help finance additions to Hill man hospital and other needed improve ments there, the board of revenue will be obliged to resort to bond issue for this purpose, President D. c. Ball of the board said Friday to a delegation of physicians comprising the medical advisory staff, who urged that immedi- ate steps be taken to relieve conges- tion there.
 Ball pointed out that no other means of raising the necessary funds was available, as the county tax rate was already practically as high as permit ted under the state constitution.
 No Bond Issue
 He added that he thought the new court house could be financed without bond issue and believed the people would be glad to vote for such bond issue as might be necessary to finance the hospital addition, if the need should be properly presented to them. The hospital committee, consisting of T. E. Huey and Lacey Edmundson, was in structed to confer with the medical ad- visory staff and make specific recom- mendations at later meeting.
 pr. E. P. Hogan, physician in charge at the hospital. appeared as the head of the delegation and described conditions as he and the other doctors had observed them while treating pa tients. He was followed by other mem- bers of the delegation, all of whom urged that improvements be made at once. The cost of the proposed ad- dition was estimated at approximately $2o0,000.
 Worn Out
 "The hospital is old and worn out and poorly adapted to the county's r.eeds," Dr. Hogan said. "Overcrowd- ing has reached such a stage that some thing must be done. Wards built for the accommodation of from seven to ten patients are now being used by 15 to 20. There is no room for all the pa- tients who come to us, and every day we have to turn away about 20 who need attention"
 The doctors recommended that the present facilities be enlarged immediate ly by 100 per cent and so arranged that other additions may be made from time to time. It was pointed out that the hospital was attempting to care for 161 patients with only 140 beds, the others being accommodated by means of cots.
 Tbe suggestion was made that, inas- much as 60 per cent Of the patients at the hospital lived within the city limits, the city commission should provide at least a part of the money required to provide the improvements asked for.
 Members of the board of revenue agreed with the doctors in their recom- mendations and promised their full CO., operation in providing the necessary money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
PRINCE OF WALES
 BACK IN SADDLE
Scheduled To Ride Saturday De
 spite Fractured Shoulder

LONDON, March 14.-The Prince of Wales will try another fling, or fall, with fortune.
 Although his recently broken collar bone is still mending, the prince is back in the saddle, and intends to participate in the closing amateur steeple-chase races.
 He is scheduled to ride Saturday in the steeple-chase at ArbOrfield Cross, and has declared to friends that "arm or no arm," he will ride in the Welsh guards cup at the Household brigade steeplechases at the beginning of April.
 He won this difficult race last year, and his immediate ambition is centered on winning it again.
 A little more than 10 days after the dangerous fall which resulted in a broken collar bone, the prince cast aside his arm sling and went for a quiet ride in Hyde park. Despite his steeple- chase ambitions, however, he does not intend to do any more fox hunting this year,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
MIXED MARRIAGES
 VIEWED WITH ALARM
Registrars Warn English Girls Against Marrying Foreigners

LONDON, March 14.-The increas- ing number of marriages between Eng fish girls and men of foreign nation- ality is viewed with some alarm by the authorities.
 These mixed marriages mostly take place in registrars offices, but many occur in churches. "We are bound by law to marry them," said a registrar, ''and all we can 10 is to point out to the bride. the seriousness of the mar riage and give her some idea of the customs prevailing in the country to which the man belongs. From my ex- perience not one in ten of these mixed marriages turns out happily"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
POINCARE GRANTED
 CONFIDENCE VOTE
Gains Authority To Conduct
 Economies By Decree

PARIS, March 15.-Premier Poin- care won victory for his final program when the French senate late Friday night gave him a vote of confidence in passing the measure which gives the government authority to effect certain economies by decree.
 Poincare demanded that the vote be one of confidence in his government, and had threatened to resign unless supported. The decrees were approved by vote of 154 to 139.
 In a fighting speech Poincare declar- ed that the government did not de- sire dictatorial powers in asking au- thority for the decrees.
 "Depotism or a dictatorship cannot accomplish durable reforms," he said. Tt is a question of making economies by the simplest methods without grant ing the government undue powers"
 Throughout Friday the improvement in the franc continued, the currency being quoted here at 21.53 francs to the dollar. Reports from foreign cities indicated that hundreds of spectators in the franc had been caught short when the rise of the franc began.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
VICTIMS BARE WORK
 OF "SPY MACHINE"
Bribery, Looting, Wire Tapping And Tram
 ing" Charged
tLea.ed Wire to The Ase-Heraid) (Copyrieht, 1924, fer The Age -HeraId)

WASHINGTON, March II When Gaston B. Means, soldier of fortune ar" investigator extraordinary, told the Daugherty Investigating committee his amazing tale of intrigue and graft, he only scratched the surface of a story, the ramifications of which rival Nick Carters dime thrillers and the spy ma chine operated in czarist Russia.
 After Means had testified before the committee that the department of jus tice shadowed senators and congress- men who were regarded as hostile to the Attorney General, versions of num- bef of those said to have been spied upon were obtained.
 These stories center around the brib- ing of employees. rifling of senator's desks in the middle of the night, wire tapping, trapping of servants in their homes, and in at least one instance, the framing" of a married official by lur- ing him into room where woman had been planted.
 Shadowed Tell Difficulties
 There have been hints of such pro ceedings for many months. Some vague complaint had been made on the floor of Congress, but not until Gaston Means told his story did the shadowed mem- bers reveal any Of their difficulties Tn detail.
 Means said he had been ordered to in vestigate Senators LaFollette, Caraway and Bruce, and Representatives Keller and Woodruff, all of whom, except Bruce, are hostile to Daugherty.
 He even investigated Secretary of the Treasury Mellon-and "got the goods on him." he told the committee. This, he said was done at the request of Harding.
 Other members of the bureau of in vestigation, he said, had probed into the activities of other congressman and high officials, one of whom was Senator Wheeler, the ''youngster" of the upper house, who has stirred official Washing ton to the depths by the mercilessness of his attack in the opening sessions of the Daugherty investiga ton.
 Now these men, whose footsteps were dogged by the American "Cheka," have told of the methods which they allege were used against them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Senator Caraway. of Arkansas de- scribed how he had been investigated by the department of justice soon after his election. He named former Senate employe. who, he said. was paid SIP a day to follow his activities and make daily reports of the. bureau of investi- gation. Shortly after his investigation was instituted, one of his employees was bribed, his files broken into and many valuable letters carried away.
 LaFollette Home Ransacked
 LaFollette told a dramatic story of two unknown men. late: found to be de- partment of justice agents, standing guard over his home and following him wherever he vent. shortly after he in troduced the resolution to investigate Teapot Dome. His mail was tempered with, and one night when the family was absent, someone broke into the house and carried off letters from his extensive files. Means said an agent arranged with colored servants so
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
WILL PROTECTED LOSERS

CHICAGO, March 14.-Closing of the estate of Julius W. Lowenthal, for mer president of a securities company. has disclosed that he established at his death in 1915 $275,000 fund to re- imburse investors who bought bonds through him for any losses they had in cured thereby. As the fund had re- mained intact it was ordered distributed among the widow and children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
MANY OLD INCOME
 TAXES UNSETTLED
Those Pending For 1917 Num- Der $500

WASHINGTON, March 14.-More than $500 income tax return cases for 1917 still are awaiting settlement in the internal revenue bureau, the Senate committee Investigating the administra- tion of that bureau was told today by Commissioner David H. Blair. He pre- dicted, however, that the bureaus work would be current within another year.
 Commissioner Blair and several of his assistants were before the committee practically all day giving evidence as to the present status of the governments income tax returns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
HAT BANDS, OIL PAINTED,
 TO BE MODE

PARIS, March 14.-Hatbands painted in oils by noted artists are going to be the distinctive mark of the Parisienne who wants to wear something exclusively her own.
 It may be merely bunch of flow CTS, or perhaps a landscape, or a strange animal out of the world of dreams but it must reflect the own CTS personality.
 The price of Milady's hat will vary, according to the prominence of the painter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
FOUND IN CALIFORNIA
Son Of w. P. Eaton, Missing Flo
 Weeks, Is On Way Home

W. F. Eaton, who requested the as- sistance of Coroner J. D. Russum and other county officials in locating his son several weeks ago. announced Fri day that he had received letter from one of his sons friends in Los Angeles, stating that the young man had been seriously sick there for some time but hoped to be on his way back to Bir- mingham soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
H. K. TRAVIS SANITY
 SET FOR JURY TRIAL
Court Grants Petition To Re-
 hear Famous Case

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 14.- Common pleas court No. 6 late today granted petition for jury trial to determine the sanity of Harry K. Thaw. Ten days notice must be given to his mother, who is committee of his person." and to the trustees of his estate before the case can proceed.
 Thaw is confined in the Pennsylva- via Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases here. Recently civil suit for damages brought by Frederick Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, for an alleged assault in New York some years ago, was settled out of court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
LENINE"S FOLLOWERS
 SEEK WIDOWS AID
Mime. Oulianva Appointed On
 Several Committees

MOSCOW, March 14.-In order that the persons closest in life to Lenine may advise the late bolsheviki premier's fol- lowers in the ways he wished, Mime. Oulivana, Lenine's widow, has been made member of several important soviet government bureaus.
 Chiefly she will work along cduca- tional lines. The department of edu- cation has always been her hobby, and it was one of the principal theories of Lenine that, by careful training of the youth of the nation, the next generation could be brought up to consider com munism as natural and desirable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
YANKEE DELEGATE WINS LEAGUE FIGHT
Memel Convention, Davis Plan,
 Is Completed

GENEVA, March 14.-Norman H Davis. New York. head of the League of Nations committee on Memel. won a complete victory and one of the se- riOus problems of Europe was settled today when the league council, repre- senting the great powers and Lithuania, for the administration of Memel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
THE WEATHER

Alabama: Fair to somewhat warm CT Saturday; Sunday cloudy, un' settled: warmer.
 Tennessee: Cloudy Saturday and Sunday.
 Georgia: Fair Saturday.
 Mississippi: Fair and somewhat warmer.
 Complete weather data will be , found on page A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
D. A. R. REFLECTS OFFICERS
Pin Is Presented Miss Emily Ferguson
 Charter Member

SELMA, Ala, March 14.-(Special Leased Wire. .)-Cherokee chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution today reelected all former officers. Miss Emily Ferguson, charter member and life regent, was presented with past regents pin by the chapter.
 Church Gets Gift-Harry Reed, artist and manual training supervisor of the Selma High school has presented to St. Pauls Episcopal church hand- carved box to contain valuable papers of the church.
 Legion Holds BanQuet-Ninety mem bers of the American Legion post held banquet and get-together meeting Thursday evening to discuss future de- velopment and expansion of the Organi- zation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
HODGES BUSINESS
 SECTION DESTROYED
Drug Store And Post Office
 Among Buildings Burned

HAMILTON, Ala, March 14.-(Spe- cial. "A fire occurred at Hodges this morning at 1 o'clock destroying the following business houses: Conway Drug store, post office and grocery store of Postmaster Cofield. Barber shop, Will Greens cafe and Ayers X Laller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
AWARDED DAMAGES

BELFAST, March 14.-Danis Me Cullouch has been awarded $53, ,410 damages by the Free State for the de struction of his music shop in Dublin during republican troubles He was formerly Irish envoy to the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Your Bon of Martini Washington Caady Is Waiting for You At E.Wnnt i'd Corner" Today

It's trouble all find the Want Ad Department of The Age-Herald, and today you'll find box of Martha the sign Want Ads at the main entrance of The Age Herald building corner Second and Twentyfrst street and in the first office the right the ground foor-you have steps climb and no long walks.
 With every ed brought office today and paid for at the time of insertion will give absolutely free half-pound box of delicious Martha Washington candy consisting of assorted chocolates fruits nuts. If you have for rent. books for sale to swap, write attractive ad and bring it The Age Herald today Take peek in the attic this morning the basement and the number of articles for which you have that you dispose of profit self. Bring list of these things Want Ad Corner day. and we'll do the Plenty of candy for everyone but only one box to each person.
 Main 1000 calls the Want Ad Department of the Souths puingest paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
GIBSON IS NAMED
Present Minister To Poland Slated Flo
 SXtrikzarlnnh
cuNNC

SWILZerIhnd
 WASHINGTON. March 14-Hugh s. Gibson of California, now minister to Poland, was nominated today to be minister to Switzerland.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-03
KNOCKED OUT BY FLU.
HE FOUND QUICK RELIEF
Rosslyn, Va, Man, Unable
to Work for Six Months,
Says Todd's Tonic Was a
2"Godsend." Quickly Put
ION Weight and Gained
3 Strength.

fright now, today, there are thou
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irfgton suffering with coughs and
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GUS. If not quickly checked a
cold may lead to serious trouble,
such as pneumonia, bronchitis and
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to, throw off slight colds. Keep fit,
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attacks so common at this time of
year. Read what Mr.. Hilbert says
and profit by his experience. Mr..
Hilbert has message for every
man, woman and child in Wash
ington.
zone year ago I was taken down
with severe case of the flu. 1
had neglected what / thought was
only slight cold. AS result
OF. the flu. / could not work for
six months and had to keep to my
bed at times. l had no appetite
and could not keep anything on my
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medicines without results. Then,
q friend recommended Todd's Tonic.
Words cannot express my praise
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Only the people, who saw me and
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-03

gained much Roadway before dis
covery, Is unknown. The building
was occupied by William B. John
son, whose home is at 171S Thir-
teenth street northwest. The stable
was destroyed.
Fire in a two-story frame house
at 20SF F street southwest, occupied
by Elias Berry, was put out early
today before much damage had
been DONE
Number Engine Company, has
reported the loss OF a hose pipe,
while responding to small fire at
Third and B streets southeast,
last night
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-03
Contracts for Lights

q Sheboygan, Wis, has Just signed
a ten-year contract with IN electric
service company for the lighting Of
it's streets.
This contract involves total of
321 lighting units and win cost the
city but $4,000 year, which is
only about twenty-nine cents per
night per lighting unit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-03

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-03
4 HORSES BURN
INST ABLE
BLAZE
Fire Of Unknown Origin De.
stroys Building Frame
Dwelling Damaged

-Four horses were, burned to death
and damage estimated at about
$1,000 was done by a fire in the
stable in the rear of 906 B street
southeast, early today.
nIhe cause Of the fire. which had
The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-10

stand Tubing, and any little lady Is
sufficiently well dressed In them for all
her usual occupations. A very pretty
model for gingham frock is pictured,
with collar, cuffs and Trimming of
heavy white cotton cloth. This may be
made as skirt and jumper or as n
one-piece dress. Skirts of plated serge,
to be worn with jumpers of white drill,
do wonderful service for outdoor
frocks. Blue jean is used for collars
on these jumpers.
Pongee, which is made in several
colors, is thoroughly practical and very
pretty for dressier frocks. and flannel
lends itself to the simple cross-stitch
and other needlework decorations
that are used. Fine voiles appear to
lead for party frocks. with cross-stitch
The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-10
LINEN RIDING HABITS FOR SUMMER;
GIRLS FROCKS FOR INDOORS AND OUT

folks fare about equally well-it takes
so little to make their clothes and the
stuffs used are within everybody's
reach. Much more depends upon the
Ingenuity and efficiency of the seam
stress than upon the size of her allow
ance for spending when the business OF
making chlldrens frocks is in hand.
When the talk is Of play frocks 1t is
also of ginghams, which hold first
place, year after year, as the best
choice. Checked plaid and plain glng-
hams, in many stable and pretty COL
ors. are unrivaled for dresses that must
The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-10

revealing a black or brown coat. worn
with English Bedford cord breeches.
Then there are those cheerful red,
green or black flannel coats to be worn
with white breeches. Coats are all
straightline and split at the back to
accommodate the saddle.
Among those present-and always
welcome for midsummer-are linen
habits, with their coats sometimes
sleeveless but quite as often having
sleeves. One of the sleeveless models
is illustrated here, of impeccable style
and finish. Note that the high boots
are straight and tight about the top.
Colored shirts are worn and powder
blue, yellow and green are In demand.
In hats straw derbies or tricorns are
fashionable and practical but there
The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-10

CHE who possesses n good-looklng
- riding habit of reasonably recent
vintage, need not concern herself about
the latest wrinkle-Or lack of wrinkles
lin the brand new ones. Riding habits
are quite stable as to style and only
the variation of minor details and ac-
cessOries. marks the difference be-
tween this and yesteryear's products.
But the seasops cannot come to us
empty handed and so stylists have set
the seal Of their approval on a few in
novatlons in riding togs. Among these
and foremost is the combination habit,