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THE BIRMINGHAM NEW A A' SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23-, 193 4 TWO The South' Greatest Newspaper COLBY MARRIED 50 YEARS INTERIOR DECORATOR'S BUILDING PORTRAYED GAL DISEASES TROPI LEGION TO FIGHT the park, leading over Dry Creek Hill, Pine Mountain. Horse Block Mountain and Blue Mountain, a distance of about 15 miles. The work is being done under the supervision of O. R. Head, park 1 1 fill -----vrw CONFERENCE TOPIC I OR DRIVERS project superintendent.

Through the cooperation of Capt. Jack D. Haynie. the camp commander, and E. C.

Merritt, educational adviser, the boys are afforded an opportunity to attend classes in diversified group of subjects, many of which I will be of value to them when they return to civilian life. These include building construction, dynamiting and blasting, auto Far Eastern Medical Group To Discuss Problem In Nanking Session State Commander Declares; Department To Sponsor License Program NANKING. China tP) The latest methods used in man's struggle 5 ffic fUnJCy jjrJfdffik- vBLsfl ssssssBSk seBBf mecnarucs, surveying ana mapping, applied electricity, tree culture and identification, bookkeeping, business and practical arithmetic, English grammar, algebra, reading and writing and first aid. Instructors are R. G.

Brassell. Raymond Sizemore, R. A. McConkie, Everett Drake, A. J.

Pow, W. W. Skinner, F. H. Randolph, George S.

Cox, Elvin C. McCary, Mr. Merritt, Lieut. Donald D. Flickenger and J.

B. Strickland. POSTMASTERS NAMED WASHINGTON P) The Postof-fice Department Saturday announced appointment of the following acting postmasters: Nora M. Wallace, Clayton, Eunice D. King, Midway, Ala.

Here is the architect's conception of the front elevation of the Hawkins-Israel Building, on South Twentieth Street near Eighth Avenue, now under construction. It will be one story high and divided Into rooms suitable for the display and manufacture of furniture and Interior decorations. J. B. and N.

P. Hill are own ers, Charles H. McCauley, architect, and the C. H. Muse Building Company, contractor.

The building, the contractor announces, will be ready for occupancy early in November. The Hawkins-Israel Company has taken a long-term lease on the property. against the so-called "tropical dis- eases." which annually take a toll of millions of lives, will be described before the ninth congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medi-, cine when it convenes here Oct. 3. Medical men from every country of the Fat East and from America will attend the sessions.

It has been four years since the last congress was held in Bangkok, Siam. and during that period intensive research has been carried on in the various member countries in quest of new knowledge on such scourges as cholera, yellow fever. plague, malaria and leprosy. The I coming meeting will give the investigators an opportunity to make known their discoveries and to compare notes. Among Americans who have signified their intention of being present are Dr.

C. J. Geiger, director of pub-, lie health, city and county of San I Francisco; Dr. H. W.

Wade, medical director of Leonard Wood Memorial, and Lieut. Col. Charles C. Denmer, I of the United States Army Detach-! ment at Tientsin. China.

I Dr. J. Heng Liu, Harvard graduate Impetus to the movement for a license law in Alabama was friven by the announcement of Col. i William S. Pritchard.

state com-1 mander of the American Legion, that the organization was including passage of such a measure in its legis-1 1 lative program. The move for a drivers" license law was started by the Alabama Motor-' V. ists Association several years ago and I the association has been working dilligently toward the enactment of a measure that will protect the inno- I cent drivers on the highway. LeRoy F. Hill, secretary-manager of the motor club, when informed of the legion's stand said he was gratified and asked the support of all other kindred bodies in the rhovement.

Col. Pritchard said the drivers' li-1 cense law was among the projects the Alabama department will spon- i- sor before the 1935 Legislature. "We want a drivers license law that will be a protectionary and not a revenue producing measure." Col. Pritchard said. "The law thnt our legislative committee will present to the Legislature is designed from the Massachusetts and New Jersey laws.

It makes the penalty for accidents very severe and does not permit any-t one to drive a car in Alabama until they have stood a test and given a drivers' license. 2 "The measure also will provide for I 3 the revoking of license for a certain period of persons found guilty of ac- cidents or owners who lend their Eats Nails A man who says he feela so food that ha eould now eat nails or old shod Is W. HuKkated, 1108 80. Harding Chicago, m. ni a stomach suffarar for 10 yttrs tad now ftras eradtt for his racorarr to iha Tdfa Traataent, baaad on a famoui stomach paclallat'a triple-action prescription.

IU purpose la to neutralise excess acid, soothe and heal the inflamed stomach lining and atop psln. Already 54,169 letters praising the Cdga Treatment bare been raeelTed from Tlctima of stomach ulcers, acid atomsch. Indigestion, heartburn, gaa paiai, belching and other symptoms or excess acidity. Writ TJdga, Suite 63. Foot-Schulaa St.

Paul. Minn, for a free sample. The T-day trial box of Cdga Tablets li sold on a money-back guarantee of satisfaction by Dewberry- Drusr Compaiiy, Wooda Drug Stores and good druggists structed at the highest point of the mountain, at an elevation of 2.407 feet. The tower will also contain a museum, a concession room and an amusement hall. Two hundred and fifty feet below the tower a stone dam.

also made of native stone, has been constructed, causing the accumulation of the highest body of impounded water in the state, at an elevation of 2,150 feet, and providing sufficient water for the entire mountain. The dam has created a reservoir of 250,000 gallons of water. Six cottages and a caretaker's home will soon be constructed near this reservoir, the cottages for the accommodation of overnight guests at the park. plague will be given special atten- I I i lowering Lneaha The Far Eastern Association of, Tropical Medicine was organized in If nil nfIf fl ViIFI Tfk 1908 at Manila. Congresses have been lllUUIlLUUl UUUIl I held at irregular intervals since then I rj I at Hong Kong, Saigon, Java, Singa- Hfi A 11710 1 (YtU pore, Tokyo.

Calcutta and Bangkok. I tllC 1 THIS LITTLE PIG GREEDY OXFORD, Ala. Towering Cheaha COLLINSVILLE, Ala. A pig with Mountain, which commands an im-five legs, six feet and two tongues pressive view of the surrounding was born on Ezra Wallace's farm in country in this vicinity, is rapidlv Big Valley, near here. It was born being transformed into" a beautiful dead but the other five of the litter i park by members of Companv 468 are living and doing fine.

The pig CCC. The park work is state park had a tail that looked like a rat's i project No. 2 tail and the fifth leg had two feet, A 60-foot tower, to be constructed one resembling a rabbit foot. 1 entirely of native rock, is being con- A beautiful road has been built to everywhere. Ad Pictured together are Mr.

and Mrs. Willis Dwlght Colby, 2931 Highland Avenue, on the eve of their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Colby and his wife, the former Mabel Esther Carroll, a descendant of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, were married Sept. 24, 1884, in Defiance, Ohio.

Both are natives of Ohio, but have resided in Birmingham, where Mr. Colby has engaged in the decorating business, for 44 years. The couple said they planned no special celebration of their golden wedding anniversary, but would spend the day quietly at home. Mrs. Colby commented that she was "glad we have reached this milestone together." The Colbys have one son, Carroll Dwight Colby, and a daughter, Mrs.

Ethlyn Colby Root. and director of the National Health Administration of China, is acting president of the association. The congress is being given strong support from the Chinese government. Premier Wang Ching-Wei is serving as patron and Gen Huang Shao-Hsiung, minister of the interior, and Dr. H.

H. Kung, minister of finance, as vice patrons. At least 100 papers on scientific subjects will be read by members during the six-day congress. Special round table conferences will be held on tropical diseases. Cholera and machines to persons without drivers' a license." Col.

Pritchard said the fight for I the drivers' license law as a safe- guard to highway transportation -jrould be carried into every post in -he state and legionnaires urged to call the attention of their representa-I tives and senators to the measure. i Members of the legion legislative "Stars" committee who will direct the fight for the law are: R. T. Rives. Montgomery; Horace Wilkinson, Birming ham; Percy Pitts, Clanton; Charlie Greer.

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