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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
BRYAN ESCAPES
SERIOUS INJURY
Vice Presidential Candidates
Auto Is Hit Near FairmOnt

FAIRMONT, Ncb., Nov. Gov
ernor Bryan, democratic candidate tor
vice president, narrowly escaped serious
injury tonight when an automobile ran
headlong into his car at turn in the
road between here and Sutton, Neb.
Governor Bryan was en- route to
Hastings to spend the night when about
u mile outside Of Fairmont an auto
mobile containing four young people
of Fairmont and vicinity negotiated a
left-hand turn in the road on the left
hand side.
Milton Gates, who was driving the
governors car had come within fifteen
feet of the turn of the right hand side
of the road, when seeing the approach
ing car coming directly IN his path,
came TO a complete stop and released
the brakes to absorb tine shock.
The governor, Gates and an Asso-
ciated Press reporter, were thrown for
ward but not hurt. Glass flew in all
directions and the other car was badly
damaged, one front wheel being knocked
off. Miss Mabel Patton of Fairmont
was cut about the face and hands and
suffered a sprained ankle. Governor
Bryan, after seeing that she was under
a doctors care proceeded on his jour
ney.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
IN THE AIR TO-DAY
Program For November 4.
Courtesy OF Radio Digest)
10y Associated Press.)

ITOBEdHl TUT -NVNShDS' -
WSB Atlanta (429) SO McConnei!s
10:45 Bernard and Robinson
WEEP Boston (303) Big Brother
club $3.50 musical; Z soprano; 7:2o masi /
cal; Ever Ready hour; musicai' III
organ.
WGR Buffalo (s1s) $50 news.
WGN Chicago Tribune (370) organ:
6.3O concert: SILT election returns.
wMAQ Chicago News (447.5) Chi
cago theatsr organ: $50 orchestral lee
tion returns.
KYw Chicago $3.50 6:S5-1o concert
stage revue, speeches.
wLw Cincinnati 42sl 10 concert &c. !,
quartet, instrumental; 1880 Arabian
Nights.
WAX Cleveland News $500 $50 bed
AWFAA Dallas News 47s) s:so-s:S6
voc Davenport t4SD election re-
WHO De, Moines t5ss) 1880 music.
WV Detroit News GID 1880 orches-
WBAP Fort Worth Star Telegram
wDAF Kansas City Star. ND s-7
school of the Air; 11:4b Nighthawks. On
children; 10 instrumental, vocal; II dance.
WHAS Louisville Times (4oe) 1909
VINO Memphis Commercial Appeal
t5oo) $3.50 election returns; IL froiic'
WCCO Minnea polls. st. Paul N17)
80 concert; . orchestra, election re-
CKAC Montreal t425> $50 orchestra
1880 entertainers; $3.50 orchestra. an
soprano; SO A. and P. Gypsies. .
WY New York (405) $50 orchestra
7:15 current events; talk; s:16 organ.
WIZ New York (455) dogs: 6:16 or
chestra; Wall Street Journal review;
ton returns; talk; $3.50 entertainers.
WOR Newark (405) orchestra.
KGO Oakland (312) election returns.
WOAW Omaha $3.50 advice to dove
lorn; 6:25 dinner program; program
wi WDAR philadelphia $3.50 80 talk.
WEI Philadelphia $3.50 $3.50 orches-
WIP Philadelphia 5000 sos orches-
ira; 6 talk; $3.50 dance.
'KDKA Pittsburg $3.50 $50 election
WCAE Pittsburg (462) $3.50 Uncle
Kaybee; SEAS special; election returns
KGW Portland H92) 10 election re-
KPO San Francisco t42S) 7:ao orches-
ira; 8 orchestra; 10-1 talk, solos, French
WKAQ san Juan $500 Z election -e-
WGY Schenectady $500 election re-
turns; GAS orchestra; 1920 organ.
-WBZ Springfield (33O sos bedtime
6:15 world market survey: 6:30-10 or
chestra. talk; 1880 organ. election re-
turns.
KSD ST. Louis Post Dispatch (54s) s
election returns. music.
wRC Washington (4es) election re-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
HARVEY PREDICTS
COOLIDGE VICTORY
Former Ambassador Sees 4O4
Electoral Votes For Coolidge

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Here's
the way George Harvey, CORNER
to Great Britain, sizes up
the election. He is confident" Coolidge
will receive 1853 electoral votes, thinks"
the president will carry two other states
than those of which he is confident"
New Mexico and North Dakota, giving
Coolidge 361, and "guesses" five others
will be in the republican column,
Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, and Tennessee, making 4O4.
He gives Davis only ten southern
states, with ia electoral votes, and
says La Toilette will carry only Wis
cosin, and that with the smallest
majority he has ever received from this
obsessed state"
Harvey has missed picking a winner
but once since 1S92-when he chose
Hughes in his prediction which APP
peared in the Washington Post of
which ne is editor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
FALL RIVER MAYOR
FLAYS PHONE DRIVE

FALL RIVER, Mass. Nov. "A
complaint to Chief of Police Martin
Feeney that the local telephone com
pany is violating the labor laws by
permitting operators to call all sub
scribers and request that they vote
for Coolidge, has been filed by Mayor
Edward o. Talbot.
Mayor Talbot, who is one of the
leaders in last minute democratic at
tack against Coolidge prosperity" in
Fall River, claims he was recipient of
one of the vote for Coolidge" messages.
In a statment to police inspectors,
Mrs. Eva Cook, chief operator, said
the operators making the calls are not
being paid, but themselves volunteered
to do it and the telephone company
gave them permission. 1t was said later,
however, that the company only gave
the girls permission to call subscribers
and urge them to vote. .-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
MPAIGN ENDS
NPOLLDRIVE

certainty, which appears TO weigh on
the minds of all party managers alike,
that unusual efforts are to be made
by each group on Tuesday to round up
at the voting places all possible
strength. Those who are really conf
dent by virtue of reports from their
local leaders want to avoid last
minute surprise party engineered by
the silent vote" In the same way each
group is hoping that the silent vote"
will turn the trick for it.
The democrats have far-flung get
out-the-vote machine in the network
of Davis victory clubs which have been
organized by the thousand over the
country for that very purpose. A
similar organization has been mapped
out by republican managers, reaching
down to wards and townships. The
La Toilette supporters. who have in
herited less of compact party machine
than either Of their older adversaries,
are placing their reliance in the zeal
of local leaders who have been imbued
with the idea of founding an enduring
group in American politics.
So far as the state contests are con-
cerned, there haze been so many con-
flictins currents of campaign opinion,
so many unusual combinations and so
many pleas for the election of split
tickets that party managers at national
headquarters privately admit they
scarcely know what to predict In some
states La Toilette supporters have
openly Endorsed democrats and in
others they have cast their lot with
republicans. The khan issue has washed
out party lines to a great extent in still
other sections of the country, while
other local issues and three-cornered
gubernatorial contests have envelopeG
the whole prospect in a fog of I'M
certainty.
Split Vote Watched
1t has been supposed generally that
II any presidential candidate swept the
country or any section of it, his party's
state tickets would be CORRESPONDENCE
strengthened in the states in question.
But the trend of election returns Cor
the severa! campaign years has been
away from the straight ticket and
many forces have been at work to in
duce voters to scatter thier support
among the representatives of more than
one party. Thus the split vote" like
the silent vote has become this wear
somewhat Of crossword puzzle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
POLITICS
AS DAVIS RESTS

Continued from Page One.)
today and gave himself up to virtual
complete relaxation.
A Single Exception
1t was but in keeping, however, with
his personal wishes that q single excep-
ton was made to the program he had
outlined for the Sabbath holiday. The
exception, it was learned, was the writ
ing of letter to Mrs. Jessie b. Black,
Of Mansfield, Ohio, the Gold Star moth
err who sent him the check for $3.50,
which she had drawn from the United
States Veterans bureau in payment on
hero.
Mrs. Blacks letter explaining that
she had sent the insurance check as a
contribution to Davis campaign fund
because her son would have sent it, "
was acknowledged in this way by the
candidate:
Dear Madam:
Nothing which has occurred during
this campaign has more profoundly
touched my heart tban your action in
sending to the treasurer of the demo-
cratic national committee the proceeds
on the insurance of the life of your son
1t is gift doubly sanctioned by your
love for him and his love for the coun'
try to which he was willing to give his
life.
ITO know that had he lived he would
have sent such contribution himself
makes me feel that not only you and l
but your son also, are still co-workers
in the cause of putting forward the com
ing of the kingdom of righteousness
among men and nations.
81 am more grateful than l can say
for this expression of your confidence
and whether we win or lose in this cleo
ton, none Of us, hope, will cease tc
strive for those high ideals which alone
can make and keep a nation great.
To Tell Nation
The contribution made by Mrs. Black
it was understood, will be further &C
knowledged by Mr.. Davis in his radio
address Monday. Mr.. Davis has re
peatedly insisted that he would not ex
change it for twice the sum collected by
Joseph r. Grundy for the republican
campaign fund, and has made it an out
standing feature of his closing cam
paign addresses. 1t is his intention Il
tell the nation about it before the cur
tain drops, and he has made his flna
appeal to the voters.
In contrast to the quiet and peac'
which prevailed today in Locust Valley
there was n marked buzz and whirl II
all activities and departments of thu
Davis eastern headquarters here. Glen
L. Shaver, chairman of the nationa
democratic committee. Senator he!
Pittman, George l.. White of Ohio
! Thomas J. Spellacy of Connecticut, ant
others were at the desks early and re
manned there until late tonight, busil!
engaged in rounding up state report
and shaping the program to be fol
lowed during the last "A hours of tn
fight.
Expect Heavy Swing
1t was the consensus of these demo
cratic leaders that the Swing to Davis
said to have been reported by variou
state headquarters has assumed pro
portions of tremendous drift and woul
be stimulated still further. Particular
was this true, it was said by these OF
ficials, of the situation regarding labo
pledges previously given to Senator l.
Toilette and now reported to be break
ing in favor of the democratic nominee
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
G. @. P. POLICY
SEEN IN LETTER
TO STATE FIRM
Verbena Concern Receives
Insulting Missive From
Chicago House

Modern tactics employed by the Re-
publican party in their efforts to re-elect
President. Coolidge are clearly shown iii
the following correspondence between
Gulledge Brothers, Verbena, Ala, firm,
and The Simmons company of Chicago,
III. The Age-Herald repreduces the ex-
change of letters at the request Of Gull
ledge Brothers. The Simmons COM
pany letter follows,
Central Division,
666 Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, Ill.
To Our Trade: We have just received
reliable information which indicates be-
yond any question the election of Cool
idgc and Dawes, November 4th, 1924,
What does this mean to you and to ey-
CIV man, woman and child in the United
States?. 1t means the beginning OF, a
long era Of sound prosperity, unequalled
in the history of the United States, and
it consequently spells happiness for the
American people.
If YOU wait until after election day to
buy needed goods, our firm, for one,
will not be able to serve all at once.
why not 60 ahead Immediately, trusting
the solid, sound judgment of the Ameri-
can people who have yet to go wrong.
The man who hesitates and holds Off
does not believe in the good judgment
of his fellow-citizens. We are SO sure
of Coolidge's and Dawes election that
we are going ahead, and we unhesitat-
inCly advise our trade to do likewise.
Yours for Bigger and Better Business,
Insured by the electorate on November
4th, 1924,
By Y. G. Simmons. President.
To which Gulledge Brothers replied
Verbena, Ala,
Oct. 20, 1924.
The Simmons Company,
Chicago, ILL.,,
Dear Sir: Your letter of October is
is nothing short of an insult to southern
gentlemen living in Alabama. After
having bought from you as long as we
have, we are surprised that you would
write us a political letter suggesting
that we vote a republican ticket. No
doubt Mr.. Coolidge's and Mr.. Dawes
election on November 4 will mean q
profit to you, because the Republican
PARTY has always Slapped the life out OF
the masses and dumped it into the
Golfers of special interests, which in
cludes the majority of the manufac'
turers and especially those located in
the north. There has been no greater
prosperity in the United States than
that enjoyed during Mr.. Wilson's ad'
ministration, and we fail to agree with
you in what you say as regards pros
perity of this country under republican
rule. We have always been able to gel
all the goods we wanted, and expect to
flo likewise in the future
Yours truly,
GULLEDGE BROTHERS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
DAWES SMOKES PIPE
UNTIL VOTING TIME
Through With Politics Until
Election Day, He Says
(By Associated Press \

CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-Charles G..
Dawes smoked his pipe calmly today
IN the quiet library of his North Shore
home in Evanston.
The republican nominee for vice pres
ldent early today completed his final
campaign tour; he previously had
announced that he would have no pre-
election statements to make; he let it
be known that he had no desire to
participate in any further political con-
ferences, and he said he wanted to en-
JOY today and tomorrow getting &C.
qqainted again" with his family and
with his books. Until Tuesday, he
told his friends, he was through with
politics" Then he and Mrs. Dawes
will go to the polling place in the first
precinct of the first ward in Evans
ton, and cast their ballots. Tuesday
night he will receive at his home with
few friends gathered around the re-
turns which will tell whether he or
Governor Bryan or Senator Wheeler
or whether anybody was elected vice
president.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
WHEELER TAKES
NO INTERMISSfON
Third Party Man Makes Several
Sunday Addresses
lBy Associated Press. J

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Senator
Wheeler of Montana pushed his cam
paign as independent vice presidential
candidate in the New York area to-
day, without Sunday intermission.
AT midnight Saturday, an impromptu
parade was organized to take him to
the New York East Side and on Ave
nue. C, at that hour he made a brief
open air address.
Today he swung into New Jersey,
Mt Newark, early in the afternoon,
brought back to New York for a speech
in Harlem at 6 p. M, and placed in
Jersey City for an 8 p. m. appearance.
With that, his program ended and he
left the city late at night bound for
Baltimore where his campaign ends.
= In the talks today, he leveiled. eriti-
cism at local labor union officials in
New York who have recently indorsed
John w. Davis, urged his listeners to
disregard intimidation which he de-
clared was involved in predictions Of
business slump accompanying repub-
lican defeat and dismissed democratic
opposition with the assertion that
there is no Democratic party left and
ought not to be after it went to Wall
Street for presidential candidate"
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being unusually dry and since the mid.
die of September, the only shower of
any size was on September 20. The
normal amount of rainfall during Octo-
Der is 223 inches, Mr.. Horton said.
Weather forecasts for the coming
week hold out only slight possibilities
of rain. The official prediction from
Washington forecasts showers for Ala
bama the latter part of the week, but
Mr.. Horton explained that the show
ers are likely to be local in charac-
ter and may pass up Birmingham COM
pletely.
Cattle Suffer
Birmingham's water supply has been
affected very little by the drought,
however. At the North Birmingham
pumping station, a depth of nine feet,
two inches was reported Sunday night.
During normal periods, the stage is
about ten feet, officials said. Reports
to the fire department from the Lake
Purdy reservoir were that the effects
of the dry weather have been scarcely
noticeable at the reservoir and that the
city is in no danger from lack of
water.
In outlying districts, dairymen re-
port that pasturage is becoming scarce
while farmers report very little, if any,
damage to cotton crops.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
COOLIDGE ROUTINE
NOT TO BE SHIFTED
lRy Associated Press !

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-Presi-
dent Coolidge rested today at the White
House after the last week of the cam
paign.. Tomorrow night from his study
he will make his last talk of the con-
test IN a radio appeal asking the
citizens to vote in Tuesdays election
The address will be broadcast to every
part of the nation.
The President and Mrs Coolidge at
tended services today at the First
Congregational church. The afternoon
was spent by both in the White House
but Mr.. Coolidge took a walk about
the city, as usual, late in the day.
Regular daily routine is the program
Cor the last day of the campaign in
the White House tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
COTTON MOSTLY PICKED

HEFLIN, Ala, Nov. 2.-(SpeciaI.)
This section has experienced month
of ideal weather, every day being clear
and pleasant, and as a result unusual
progress has been made by farmers in
gathering their crops. Within a couple
of weeks the cotton will be practically
all picked in Cleburne county. The
fields that were white with the fleecy
staple are rapidly giving away to the
cotton nickerS
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TWO ARE KILLED
IN AUTO CRASH
Continued from Page One.)
were driving in Il Dodge touring cal
which was demolished in the crash.
STILL UNCONSCIOUS
C. b. Conway Believed To BE Suffer.
ing Eram Skull Fracture

C. b. Conway, 100 IL Twentieth
street, south, was still unconscious at
an early hour Sunday night at the Hill
man hospital, where lie was taken fol-
lowing an accident in which he was
struck by a car driven by Mrs. Irma
Crawford, SIT Eighteenth street, south,
Saturday morning.
Conway suffered numerous cuts
about his face and head. Physicians
attending him Sunday believed that his
skull was fractured, although an X-ray
had not been made.
Jack Warner and C. 1. Buckner, in
jured Friday in an accident on the
South Ensley road that resulted in the
death of Dewey Mize, were reported to
be improving at the Birmingham Bap-
fist hospital Sunday night,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
POSTAGE
VOTE TAG DAY
.a+s.'. e
Continued from Page One)

League. of Women Voters; Mrs. e. o.
Sanders, Alabama Federation, of Wo-
mems clubs DR.. James e. billiard, pas
tor of the Baptist church: Miss Annie
l.. Williams, Women's Missionary I'M
ion; Dir. Morris Newfield, Rabbi Tenn
Pile EMANUEL: Mrs. Joseph r. Estes,
Daughters of the American Revolution
George Lewis Bales, American Le-
gion; Mrs. John, Morris, Farm Blu
reau; G. r.. McElderry, Farmers I'm
ion; DIR. John W. Abercrombie, state
superintendent of education; Miss Lila
May Chapman, Alabama Library as
sociatibn; Miss Agnes E. Harris, Home
Demonstration agents Mrs. j. f. earle,
Women's Fraternal orders; Oliver D.
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ROADS INCOME
!. s54Q,74l,
Revenue OF Class ! Car
riers One Per Cent Be-
low Sept. 1923
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-During
September class one railroads had OPP
expenses totaling 1881 .753, $50, with
q net operating income of SIG, 1lS,O00
according to reports compiled by the
bureau Of railway economics.
While the revenues were one per
cent under the corresponding ones last
year, the operating expenses were de-
creased by 81 per cent. under those
Of September, 1928. This, the report
said, was due partly to reduction Of
$23, 919,0 900, or about IL per cent, in
maintenance expenses, as compared
with the same month last year.
For the first nine months Of this
year, the bureau said, class one rail-
roads had total net operating in
come of $G77 1927 800, equivalent to-; a
return of All per cent on their prop
erty investment For the same period
last year the, return was given as 4.62
per cent. ~
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
FOXES NUMEROUS

BERRY, Ala, Nov. Foxes near
this city are as numerous as rabbits,
farmers living in this section report.
Raids on chicken roosts show the foxes
holiness. Losses have been so great
lately that, hunting parties have be-
come popular with the farmers. AL
most any night the sound of fox dogs
trailing their prey can be heard.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
WOMAN TAKES POISON
May Die AItet
In ffOtoi

Mrs II. ii. Barrier, age %, was in
Il serious condition ut the IIillman hos
pital early Monday morning from
poison she is alleged to have swal-
lowed in her room ut the ST. Charles
hotel Sunday night. The woman was
practically unconscious when the house
physician was summoned and could
give no reason for her act She was
removed to the hospital by Johns am
bulance
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
AUTO HITS WOMAN

A Mrs. Coleman, giving her address
as 1924 Alois avenue, was slightly in.
jured at $40 o'clock Sunday night
when she was struck by an automobile
at Second avenue and Nineteenth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03

Street, Mems Fraternal orders; Miss
Mollie Dowd, organized labor; Mrs.
Charles j. Sharp, Democratic party;
Mrs. r. G. Gladden., Progressive party,
L. ]. Reynolds, Republican party; DIR.
H. A. Elkourie, foreign-born voters;
Hugh A. Locke, Exchange club; Edgar
Bowron, chamber of commerce.
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To Cure :. Cold in One Day,

Take LaxativeaB QUININE Tab
lets. (The First and Original Gold and
Grip Tablet.) A Safe and Proven REM
edy. The box bears signature of E. w.
Grove. 30c.-Adv.
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street, said to have been driven by
J. ]. Williams.
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MADISON DAIRIEs INSPECTED

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Nov. 2.-(Spe-
cial.)-A general inspection of all the
diaries of Madison county is being
made by the health department and the
provisions Of the milk ordinance re-
quiring the pasteurization of all milk
sold here are being put in effect gradu-
ually. :, St,.. III,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-12
Dollar a Year Is
Salary of Pastor

The parson, described by Goldsmith,
who was passing rich on f40 year.
will hardly be envied by many modern
clergymen, but even today there is at
least one minister of religion whose
salary is considerably less than this
amount says London Answers. In
deed, it is probably the smallest sal
AIRY in the world.
The pastor is Rev. Dr. G. w. Cor
con. better known as Ralph Connor,"
the author of 1.-THE Sky Pilot and
other famous novels. He is minister
of the Presbyterian church at Winni-
peg, but finds so much Of his time TAX
en- up with outside engagements that
an associate clergyman has been APP
pointed to carry on while he is away
from home This associate gets the
lions share of the salary, the novel
list being content with the modest sti-
pend Of a dollar year for his services
TO the church!