The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-04
CONFERENCE WILL
MEET ON APRIL "A
Educators of South Turn To-
ward Atlanta
CONVICTIONS HARD TO GET
Montgomery Juries Fail to Find Con-
victing Evidence Against Alleged
Prohibition VioIators-Prepare
to Receive Dr. Eliot.
CONVICTIONS HARD TO GET

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Montgomery. March S.-tSpecial.) -Edu-
Gators and school enthusiasts in all sec
tions of the United States are looking
with great interest to the annual confer
enee for education in the south, which
will be assembled in Atlanta on April IA
next. Robert c. Ogden of New York who
is president, has written that he antiei-
pates this spring the most profitable meet
ing ever held. the outlook being that
much interest is felt in the matters that
will come up for discussion.
A feature of the conference this year
will be the discussions of great educa-
tional movements in Minnesota and Wis
consin. President Coulter of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, and President Hise of
the University of Wisconsin, will make
the addresses. Secretary ]. Wickliffe Rose
has received assurances that these two
great educators will make comprehensive
exposition of the ways and means that
have proven effective in their respective
states.
It will be a source of regret to every
man interested in the work that Edgar
Gardner Murphy of Montgomery has been
forced to give up the work as secretary
as he had been in that place since the
organization of the conference II years
ago. He announced at the meeting last
spring in Memphis that he could not
longer meet the requirements and insist
ed that he be left off the official roster.
However, he remains on the executive
committee and will have active part in
the plans that are being made for the
meetings this spring and the future Mr..
Murphy will come to Montgomery in a
few days to spend a few days prior to
going to Atlanta.
DIR. Wickliffe Rose of Nashville, general
agent of the Peabody fund.- has been
chosen to take UP the work of secre-
tary. The list of officers, therefore, Is as
follows: President, Robert C. Ogden. New
York; vice president B. j. Baldwin,
Montgomery; executive secretary, Wick
life Rose, Nashville; executive commit
tee, Wickliffe Rose, chairman; S. c,
Mitchell, w. H. Hand, s. A. Mynders, G.
J. Ramsay, Harry Hodgson, ]. H. Kirk
land, Paul II. Sanders, ]. H. billiard, John
H. Hineman, J. Y. Joyner ]. B. Aswell,
Edgar Gardner Murphy and H. B. Fris-
SELL
Among the notable speakers will be
DR.. e. E. Brown. United States COM
missioner of education. Coy Hoke Smith
of Georgia will also speak, as will Cliff
ford Pinchot forester of the United States
at Washington
Failure to Convict.
The first efforts to bring about en-
forcement of the prohibition laws of the
state, SO far as Montgomery is con-
cerned, seem to have failed. Three in
dictments were secured at the last sit
ting of the grand jury, one against H.
X. Alexander and two against Thomas
F. Harrison. The jury in the trial of
Alexander acquitted him in ten minutes
and on a showing by the state of about
the same evidence against Harrison as
against Alexander, Judge Brown ordered
a nolle PROSE- in one case and allowed
the other to be continued.
So far as can be found out there was
every effort made to get convictions in
these two cases, as they were the re-
suit of the examination of about so wit
nesses by the grand jury. They were
taken to be somewhat of a test indi-
eating the tenor of the local mind on
the subject of the law. Be the evidence
what it may in the trials noted the
outlook Is that it is going to be mighty
hard to get juries to convict in this
county. 1t is said by men who know
that the sentiment is very much against
prohibition law in the city and that con-
victions are likely to be quite infre-
quent.
State Rate Cases.
The state will be represented in Wash
ington on April l when arguments will
be heard in the fight on the grain and
packing house rates from Chicago to the
southeast. These rates went into effect
last August, when Gov B. B. Conner
and the members of the Alabama rail-
road commission made fight against them
Attorney General CARRIER may be able to
go to Washington at the hearing. which
will be by the interstate commerce COM
mission, this being a development of the
first protests made last summer at a
meeting in Atlanta.
For DR.. Charles w. Eliot.
In order that the negroes may have a
chance to hear DR.. Charles W. Eliot.
retiring president of Harvard when he
speaks at the Grand opera house hero
next Monday, the entire gallery will be
reserved for them. The first balcony will
be given over to the school children and
the main orchestra to the citizens gener-
ally. Executive officers of the women's
clubs will occupy the boxes. com.
mittee Will be named to meet and care
for visiting ladies by Mrs. Phares Cole
man, head of the local federation of
womens clubs. Leading men and women
from all parts of the state are COM
ing.
Howard Case Again.
In the motion for re-hearing in the
J. Finley Howard case there is another
peculiar action along court lines, like
unto that of the state in seeking a re-
hearing in the franchise tax cases, even
though the commonwealth secured affirm
alton of the act and its case. Howard
went to the supreme court with a SEN
tence of so years over him for the killing
of a man named Bagley at Andalusia. On
the ground of incompetency of the jury
the cases was reversed. Now he, the win
ner, is asking that the court take up the
case again.
The point in asking for a re-hearing
is to try to get change of venue. The
defense is willing to risk possible change
of view on the part of the tribunal in
order to get the place of the trial moved
away from Covingtoh county. where it
is thought he cannot get justice on ac-
count of the feeling against him. Howard
is a young man and killed Bagley as a
result of reported SANDER of his young
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