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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
OYER ALABAMA

MOBILE-Effectiv Friday, the of flee of assistant general manager of the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern rail road was established, J. A. Caviezel, formerly assistant general manager, was promoted to the position of general manager, reporting to the president. EUTAW-W. J. Hardy, two marshal of Eutaw, overhauled tman giving his name as Claude Smith, near Tisha- bee, IS miles from Eutaw. Smith was driving a car said to belong to local garage, and was arrested on charge of auto theft.
 ALEXANDER CITY-The First Methodist church of Alexander City is planning big revival, to begin August 1. Dr. J. NJ. Bass, of Macon, Ga, will be in charge of the services, while M. l.. Lifsey, also of Macon, will conduct the singing.
 MONTGOMERY-In the court of justice Saturday, Joe Scurlock, negro, who several days ago is alleged to have killed Clarence Fields with a hoe while the two were at work in field near Fitzpatrick, was given a preliminary hearing. He was sentenced to jail without bond to await trial.
 
 HEFLIN - The Twenty second United States infantry, now in training at Camp Mcclellan, is scheduled to pass through Heflin next week, en route to Fort McPherson. One night will be spent here by the soldiers.
  OPELIKA-The descendants of the late Simon Whatley, held family re- union at the old homestead, now the home of w. NJ. Whatley, near Opelika, Thursday. About 175- direct descend ants of Whatley attended the reunion.
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 SELMA-Deputies Gaddy, FulfOrd and Sinclair found three stills 10 miles across the Alabama river, bringing back four negroes, who were placed in jail. None of the stills were in opera. ton, but several barrels of mash were found The mash was fed to an old SOW and eight little pigs, which i'm mediately produced a genuine state of intoXicatiOn, the denuties said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
Shopping Orgie Shows
 She Had Only 1O4 Suits

The real Flora McF1imsy of Madt ison Square" has been found at last. Echoes from divorce court inca little New England city indicate that Flora's address should have been Medford, Mass, instead of Manhattan, and The New York World.
 The Flora of fiction is believed tc have been the owner of six hundred dresses of all kinds. The Estella of ac- tuality is known to have purchased two suits a week, exactly 104 in all; in year; and these did not include ex- tra dresses, house gowns or even fur coats.
 Tailor Kept Busy
 The mania of a woman for adding constantly to her wardrobe started the rift within the lute" that speedily made all the harmony of married life resemble jazz orchestra. That's the reason it must be written that Estella was" the wife of Joseph Hart, owner of a prosperous bus > line running through the towns north of Boston. in- stead of lis" the wife. She ceased to be the partner of his prosperous days when he found that she was keeping one tailor constantly busy altering clothes.
 Joseph Hart looked up from his plate of ''ham and" in restaurant a few years ago and saw the waitress approaching with his steaming coffee. He experienced a peculiar thrill. The waitress was not pretty, but she seemed kind. The lonely man at the table pie tured his two motherless children at home.
 Estella became the wife of Hart. At the time she possessed the small ward- robe that would belong to any hard working, decent girl making 80 a week. When she left his home she took with her six modern wardrobe trunks cEammed full of clothes, and there were more owned by her that were never kept at home.
 Divorce Action Bomb"
 The story of the two suits a week came with the suddenness of an ex. ploding bomb in the middle of the di-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

vorce action brought by Mrs. Hart. In a voice that was dry and matter of fact, Hart, contesting the suit,- an- nounced the fact. Even the judge came to life.
 Do you mean that your wife aver aged two suits a week for solid year?" the court asked.
 Hart answered that he did. And Mrs. Hart admitted that 1t was true. There were soft browns that harmonized with the deep brown eyes and the lighter, auburn hair. There were deep blues and grays that afforded an effective back ground for a clear complexion c0lOring. There were suits with fur collars for the chill days of early fall and lighter suits for the warm days of summer.
 And now the husband insists that five years of paying his wife's bills ate away his savings of lifetime mad dis posed of $50,000 that he had made by working early and late experimenting the running of his motor business.
 A Busy Husband
 Could it have been loneliness that started Mrs. Hart on her shopping or gies? Joseph Hart admits there were days when he was up at dawn and re- turned home only a midnight, so hard was he working and so many demands were there upon his time. Some women fill in their time with club interests, some with bridge and matinees, Mrs. Hart was not interested in any of these diversions. Shopping engaged her spare time and was sport in which she could indulge throughout all sea- sons of the year-so long as the money held out.
 When Hart began to check up it was too late. The money he had worked so hard to earn had been transformed into gorgeous wearing apparel. Mrs. Hart iS living now on a boulevard where Hart's motor busses hum busily along all through the day and well into the night. If she regrets the comfort and surety she exchanged for clothes, she declines to voice that regret. Her ward robe has diminished since she left the Hart rooftree. Now she admits that, all told, she doesn't believe she has more than 50 dresses to her name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
GIVEN
 FOR UNION MEET
A. c. T. U. To Open ses- siOns At Camp Home
 August II
[TuscaloOsa Bureaul

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Aug. 2.-The official program, for the first annual meeting of the young peoples branch of the Alabama Christian Temperance union was received in Tuscaloosa Sat urday.
 The sessions will be held at Camp Horne near here beginning Monday, August Il, and lasting until Satur- day, the 17. The address of welcome will be made by Mir. J. G. Turner and responded to by Mrs. Maud B. Per kins of Syracuse, N. Y., who will be director of the camp activities. Among those to take part are Mrs. Mary Y. Jefferiesi president; Mrs. Chappell Cory, vice president; l; Mrs. k. A. Clay ton, treasurer, all of Birmingham, and Mrs. w. J. Renfroc, recording secre- tary, of Dothan, of the state w. c. T. U.; A. G. Patterson, president of the state public service commission Mrs. B. NJ. Jackson, state director of Chris tian citizenship; Congressman w. B. Oliver, Mrs. Lamar Smith of Attalla, Mrs. J. B. Moore of Birmingham, Mrs. Clarence Candler of Bunkersville, Miss Maurine Hauley of Attalla, Miss Lillie Mae Lipscomb of Bessemer, Mrs. J. D. Mills of Birmingham, Miss Mary Wood hil of Gadsden, Mrs. Maude D. Per kins. The election of officers will be held on the closing day
 Paving PrOgresS-Work of putting down concrete paving from the bridge to the main street of Northport to the state Byler road is progressing rapidly and in q few weeks will be open to traffic. This is a state road project and when completed will cost about S5O,OOO. Part of the work through the town cis being paid by NorthpOrt.
 Trustees To Meet-The board of trustees of the Alabama School of Trades and Industry will be here Mon- day morning at 9 o'clock to again take up a fight for the institution. East Gadsden is making strong effort to locate it, as are several other sections of the city.
 Pennies Are LOst-The store of R. W. Kelly on Ninth street, north, was entered by burglars Friday night, but police say they took nothing but few pennies. They entered after smashing front window with a brick.
 26 True Bills FiIed-The St. Clair county grand jury adjourned at Fell City Friday after returning 26 true bills. Most of them were for violation of the prohibition law.
 To Speak At Picnic-L. N. Duncan, director of extension work, and M. J. Funchess, dean of the agricultural school at Auburn, will be the speakers at the annual picnic of the Etowah county farm bureau at Black Creek falls next Friday. All members of the bureau and their families and all farm CTS outside the organization are es- pecially invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
CANOE HITS ROCK,
 STUDENT DROWNS
Brother Works HerOically q
 Recover Body

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, Aug. 2.- Marshall Ambard, 16, a student at Castle Heights on the Wataugua miliS tary camp at uAstin Springs, drOwnded in the Wautauga river late yesterday afternoon when the canoe in which he was riding was damaged on rock and turned over, throwing him into the WI ter. He disappeared from sight at once, according to information, given out and the body has not yet been re- covered.
 A younger, brother of the drownded boy, also a student in the school worked heroically with others in an effort to recover the body.
 Another brother, E. N. Ambard of New York city it was learned, was en route last night to Johnson City for visit to the boys here, the first in two years, and officials of the school sent telegraphic advices to him to ba delivered on the train, advising of tho tragedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
DATES ANNOUNCED
 FOR PYTHIAN MEETS
Plans Being Made To Raise
 Funds For New Home
(State Capital Bureau)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. a.. Dates of annual district conventions of a number of Pythian districts of Ala bama were announced today by M. ". Aldridge, grand keeper of records and seals. Plans for raising funds for the Pythian home to be built at Montgom- cry will be an important feature of all district conventions. A plan whereby each lodge will raise the equivalent of $5 per member to go into the Pythian home fund will be presented to each of the district conventions. This plan was indorsed by the eighth district convention, recently held at Shorters.
 Dates of district conventions an- nounced today are as follows: Second district, to meet at EnSley, August 26; third district, Guntersville, August 2S; fifth district, with Almond lodge, Wad- ley, R. F. D., August 22; seventh district, Linden, August 19; ninth dis trict, August 21, Opelika twelfth dis trict. Pinehill, August 20.
 Dates of the district conventions of the first, Efourth, sixth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth districts will be announced later.
 Addresses will be delivered at the district conventions by Grand Chancel- Tor S. L. Johnson of Anniston, Grand Keeper of Records and Seals NJ. W Aldridge, Montgomery, and other prom inent Phythians.
 Allen Crenshaw of Andalusia, W. H. Weakley of Huntsville, R. H. Hangum of Selma, will leave about August 8 or g as representatives of Alabama grand lodge to the supreme lodge which meets at Toronto, Canada, August IT, 21. Mir. Weakley and Mir. Crenshaw gre members of the Pythian home com mission. and after attending the su. preme lodge, will visit Pythian and other fraternal homes in a number of states to get ideas for the Alabama Pythian hcme, returning to this state September 5 to 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
GOODWATER MEET
 TO BE CONTINUED
Services Are Attended By Large
 Crowds

GOODWATER, Ala, Aug. 2.-(Spe- cial. )-Revival services at the Baptist church. will continue until some time next week, The services are growing in interest and attendance. Rev, w. c. Henson of Lineville is doing the preach ing.
 Friday mornings services was "An Old Folks Old-time Meeting. A large number of old people were in at tendance.
 Friday nights services the subject was, "The Greatest Crime Three judges were selected and a member of the congregation was prosecuted for this offense and the judges returned yer dict of guilty. The crime charged was "Unbelief,' and the defendant escaped punishment by accepting substitute for his.sin,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
l47 NEW SCHOOLS
 BUILT TLAST YEAR.
Over A Million Spent On Construction And
 Improvement
(By Associated Press.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. D. One hundred and forty-seven new rural and small town school buildings were erected in Alabama during the past fascal year; 152 were repaired and 205 were equipped, according to a report of R. E. Ledbetter, supervisor of con struction work of the rural school di- vision of the state department of edu- cation, just submitted to the depart ment statisticians.
 The total cost of this work for the year ending September 30, last, was $1,211 ,949. Of this amount $254, ,9S7 was state aid, granted from appropria- tions made by the legislature. A total of $509,974 was local funds voted to match the state aid, making a total of $764, ,961.
 State Granted $192,OO1
 For new buildings, the state granted $192, 2,OO1, which was matched by $3S4,- 002 of local funds, and the total esti- mated cost was $960,005. It will be noted. that the estimated cost of the buildings exceeds the combined state and local funds. This amount is made up by residents of the communities.
 For repair of buildings, the state ap- propriated $S4, 1865, and the local funds voted for this purpose totalled 69, ,730. A total of $139, ,460 was spent on this item.
 For equipment of buildings, the state voted $2S,121, matched by $56.242 To- cal funds, and the total amount ex- pended for equipment was $112,4S4.
 19 Brick Buildings
 In the 147 new school buildins . there are 4S7 class rooms, S6 mahuai training rooms, AS domestic science rooms, 27 offices and library rooms and g auditoriums. Of the total of new buildings, 19 are of brick con struction.
 The report notes that the cost of drawing the plans, preparing specifica- tions and making from two to five iu- spections of each new building during the course of erection and a final .ii1- spection when completed is $11, ,S95 to the state, which is less than one and one-half per cent of the cost of the new buildings and the repairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
FARMS INCREASE
 1924 PRODUCTION
Farmers Have Little More Than
 Held Their Own

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. g. Alabama farmers have little more than held their own in the matter of attempted operations this year, bull letin issued by F. w. Gist, statistician of the United States Department of Ag- riculture, says. The average of all land in farms in this state this year is about One-half of one per cent greater than last year; the acreage planted to the principal field crops is about four-tenths of one per cent greater; the total cul- tivated acreage is z per cent greater the acreage devoted to interplanted le- gumes is 4.5 per cent greater, and the total crop acreage is 4 per cent greater.
 Comparison of the crops and the acreage planted last year and this year follow: (f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
REASON DROWNED
 IN CANOE CREEK
Gadsden Boy Strikes Rock When He Dives In
 Water
{ Gadsden Bureau.)

GADSDEN, Ala, Aug. 2.-Cornelius Beason, 1S-year-old son of Mark Bea- son.. was drowned in Canoe creek near Whitney Friday afternoon, according to news reaching here Saturday. He and Robert Cook, who had been in specting timber, went to the creek to swim. Beason dived into 12 feet of water and, it is said, struck q rock. stunning him. As he came to the sur face, he called for help, and Cook went in after him, but was forced to let him go in order to save his own life. Bea- son was a student at the EtOwah cOun- ty high school.
 Orders Wires DOwn-Mayor ChristO- pher Saturday ordered all trolley wires on the abandoned mountain car line to be taken down, also all poles and stays that may be menace to the public The property is in litigation that in wolves ownership and for that reason complaints from the city never amount ed to anything, it is claimed.
 Injured In Battle-William Weather ly, alleged moOnshiner, was shot and seriously wounded in battle with fed eral and state officers near Bridge port late Friday, according to reports brought here Saturday by members of the raiding party. Bon and Allen Kigdon, companions of Weatherly, sur rendered after their ammunition gave out, officers said, and all three were landed in the Scottsboro jail. Thirty shots were fired during the fight, two stills and 5000 gallons of beer were de- strOyed.
 Scout Camp ClOses-The camp of agricultural boys and Boy Scouts of the county, which has been held during the week at Camp Horne, came to a close Saturday.
 Alex Simpson Dies-Alex Simpson died at Genine, Washington, Wednes- day, according to word reaching rela- tives here Friday. He was for many years a policeman here and known as No. one." The deceased is survived by two sons in Tuscaloosa, Dr. Roy Simpson and Quinn Simpson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

fascisti served their purpose-they were a passing phase" these returned soldiers. students, young men who at the close of the war had just reached conscription age, were not only or ganized throughout Italy, but every trade and profession, peasants, all classes. had been quietly marshaled into perfectly disciplined network Of efficiency.
 This was proved by the fiascO of the strike when fascist took the places of the strikers and national life went on. Two months later Mussolini at a party convention at Naples, where half million were assembled declared tas- cism to be a movement which IS as once political, syndical, military and mystic, uniting in one bond all the necessities, the hopes, the passion or the new Italian soul"
 Governments Offer Refused
 He declared tha tthe parliament had proved during the recent strike to be no longer the expression of the people s will and was therefore illegal, that the fascist state was called for by the na- tion, The governments offer of com promise was refused by MussOlini and while Premier Facta and his associates had not even grasped the situation the fascists were at the gates of Rome. The Kings refusal to sign the degree pro claiming martial law, which the minis ter had issued, was followed by Victor Emmanuel's entrusting MussOlini with the formation of a new cabinet.
 EVasive Methods Ended p On November 6, whMr-shrdlueta wrecked all the old-school evasive meth ods of Italian statesmen by demanding full powers of government. He declared that if the chamber refused him vote of confidence he would dissolve parlia- ment and appeal to the country. Need less to say full powers were forthcom- ing.
 The man who in 1920 organized fas- cisti into a political party and who had been merely one of twenty-One fascist deputies was Premier of Italy. As to dictatorship it must be remembered flat in the disorder which was ltatys only an iron hand, an adamant will could accomplish anything. Otherwise the whole fascisti movement of natlOnalism would have been what so many pro- claimed it-an opera bOuffe gesture.
 As for the meaning of fa,cism 1t comes from the word fasciO: This in turn is derived from the Latin ''fasces," '" meaning a bundle. It refers to the bundle Of rods carried by the ancient Roman lictors. And, significantly, in these rods was an aX
 The Original Fascii
 The original fascii or groups were veterans organized by Mussol.ni into associations called fascii ii combat timento. The black shirt and the black cap were the insignia of those famous shock troops, the Arditi. Women, old men, boys, all those who wen: inspired with &the faith and ideals for which Italy fought and won her war were later admitted. But it was youth that hlnzed the way t. the seats of govern ment, singing tLe stirring song Clio venezza, Giovenezzo," (Youth.' Youth ] And their battle cry is that of the old Roman legions, echoing down through centuries Eja-E Eja-Eja--Aiala."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
ANDALLHSIA GUARD
 LEAVES ON MONDAY
Three Units To Entrain For
 Camp Mcclellan

ANDALUSIA, Ala. Aug. 2.-CSpe- cial. )-Three units of the Andalusia national guard will leave Monday mOrn- ing on a special train for the training camp at AnnistOn to encamp with the Thirty-first division for 15 days. The medical unit, organized here last week, will make the trip.
 Crowd Attends Concert-A record crowd greeted the faculty of the sum- mer school of music Thursday night at one of the series of concerts given through the summer months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
TO REMOVE BODY
Pope Leo XIII. To Rest In BasiIica
 Of St. John Lateran

RUME, Aug. 2.-The body of Pope Leo XIII, who'd jed in 1903, will be removed next February from St. Peters to the Basilica of the Church of St. John Lateran, says the NuovO- passe today. Burial of the late pope in Basilica, asked for him in his will, has not taken place before, because of the fear of anti-clerical demonstra- tions, the newspaper recalls. It points out, however. that nothing of the kind is likely to happen now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

In addition to interplanted Iegumes, about 115,000 acres of cotton is found to be interplanted with corn this year, a practice confined chiefly to the black belt counties.
 The number of blows estimated last year was 350,0OO, this year 357, ,000; the number of tenants last year was 1S5,0O0, this year 1S7, ,000.
 The condition of all crops on July 1 rnnt unf hn nrrnctnh in chn,rrr, nr frlIr,..u
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
Black Shirts Step Tn

But once again, and this time with definite authority. Mussolini and his black shirts stepped in. All the months that people had been saying, s,-''o Oh, 4he
Evening star., 1924-05-09
Local Radio Entertainment
Friday, May 9, 1924.
Radio Station, Radio, Va

NAA-NavaI Radio Station, Radio, Va
CABS Meters).
3:25 p.m.-Live stock reports.
3:45 pm.-Weather bureau reports.
4:05 p.m.-Hay, feed. crop reports.
specials.
4:25 p.m.-Dailv market reports.
7:f5 to s p.m.-Public health serv-
ice broadcast No. 22S, National Hos
pita1 Day
1905 pm.-Weather bureau report.
WMU-DoubIeday-H Electric Com
pany (261 Meters).
4:30 to $40 p.m.-Musical program;
base ball scores.
& Lothrop, t273
Meters).
p.m-Piano solos; talk, 1.-THE
Home eautiful-Artificial Silks" by
Miss Celestine B. Hodges; phonograph
Early Program Saturday.
1880 am.-Third of a series of
twelve talks on celebrated composers
and their works by Raymond Decker,
subject: Beethoven and His Compost
tons; piano and phonograph selec-
tions.
A0uo corporation Oh America
t460 Mefersb.
"a p.m.-"Fashion Developments of
the Moment" by Eleanor Glynn.
$40 p.m.-Song recital by Arthur
Mccormick, baritone.
so p.m.-"Beauty and Personal
ity," by Elsie Pierce.
3:35 p.m.-Piano recital of iazz
music by Gertrude kreiselman.
3:50 p.m.-Current Events by the
editor OF the Review of Reviews.
p. p.m.-Song recital by Janet Win
tefs; soprano; Mrs. Samuel Norman
at the piano
4:l5 p.m.-The Magazine of Wall
Street.
Sis pm.-Instruction in interna-
tional code
pm.-Stores and songs for chill
dren' by Peggy Albion and Mary
Frances Glenn.
$3.50 p.m.-Base ball scores.
Evening star., 1924-05-09
RADIO NEWS

WRC has planned an especially
amusing and excellent program for
this afternoon. Miss Gertrude KreiS-
Gilman, a newcomer to Washington,
will make her initial appearance as
the Jazz specialist" when she plays
a generous group of lively jazz num-
bers. Miss Kreiselman, an accom-
plished young pianist gifted with a
sense of syncopation and time, is
unique as girl musician. since she
headed one of the most celebrated
groups of dance players in Akron,
Ohio, from whence she comes to
Washington. WRCs program de-
partment declares that she is one Of
the most xcepuonl ragtime pianists
they have ever presented on a pro-
gram.
Janet Winters. who has been ap-
pearing regularly at the ShrinerS
fashion show in Convention Hall,
and who has entertained on several
occasions at the cabarets in the city,
will entertain at O'Clock with a
Evening star., 1924-05-09

group of four or nve songs. Mrs
Samuel Norman, wife of Samuel
Norman, who directs the Willard
Hotel Orchestra, will be her accom-
panist- Miss Winters is a capable
musician with a charming personal
ity and has won many admirers
through her local appearance. She
comes from Ned Weyburn's studios
in New York.
Arthur Mccormick. WRCs mys-
terious baritone, for whom rorty or
fifty phone calls requesting his ap-
pearance on programs are received
each afternoon, will sing group of
songs particularly for his MANY lis
teners and admirers at Forest Glen
Seminary.