The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-25
WILL SOON TRY
! MAIL FRAUD CASES
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN TOMORROW.
GREER SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE CO.
ING TO HAVE BIG LANDSLIDE IN
COMING ELECTIONS

Admission, September 24-(Special.) AS
sistant District Attorney Joseph H. Mont
gomery of Birmingham will in all proba-
bility conduct the prosecution when Lon
Price, L. L. Melton. L. M. Melton and
Price A. Melton are arraigned before
United States Commissioner G. B. Ran
dolph in this city on next Tuesday in
preliminary hearing on a charge of using
the United States mails to defraud
Announcement to this effect has been
given out here, and it is said that the
government has issued order at the
department of justice in Washington pro-
viding for the bringing of witnesses here
from Texas and Chicago, where the larg-
est of the alleged frauds are said to have
| been practiced.
| So far as is known, Price and the Mel
tons will not likely offer any evidence at
the preliminary hearing, though they will
enter a plea of not guilty and hope to
get their bonds reduced. They can be
| tried on only three cases of the several
frauds which they are said to have car
ried through recently. Their final hear
ing will come before Judge Oscar r.
| Hundley, the maximum penalty being
$500 as fine and sentence of Is months
| in each case.
Admission public schools has completed
arrangements for the formal opening of
the schools next Monday. The indications
are that the schools will be crowded and
the city is better prepared this year than
| ever before to take care of the pupils.
Len F. Greer has returned to his home
here. where he recently moved, after
week of active campaigning In connec-
ton with Congressman ]. Thomas Hef-
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at Gadsden and several points In north
Alabama. He says that there is not a
genuine republican stronghold in the state
and that the democrats will get one of
the biggest landslides in history In the
coming elections, as he finds that har-
monv prevails among the members of the
party in all sections of Alabama
big educational rally was held at
Weaver, north Of this city, Friday even
| ing. at which County School Superinten-
dent II. T. Persons and c. d. Kline of
Admission made the principal addresses.
A feature of the meeting was the vale
d,ctorv address of Prof. o. b. Myrick,
who has been teaching at the district
school there for three years, to his pu-
nils. during the course of which he broke
| into tears and had to get Mr.. Persons to
finish his talk.
Alleging that they have been sailing
under false colors by masquerading as IN
| denendent candidates in an effort to cap
ture the unpledged votes in his district,
Fred L. Blackmon, democratic nominee
for Congress, paid his respects to the re-
publicans of the Fourth congressional
district in a speech at big rally held at
the Howell Memorial tabernacle at
Chosea Springs today. Instead Of being
independents, he says, they stand hat
footed on the Chicago convention plat
form and are pledged to abide by all of
| its most iniquitous provisions He was
accorded a large audience and his ad-
dress was we'll received He is opposed
by J. M. Atkins. a banker and merchant
OF Heflin, Cleburne county. where he will
speak soon in series of addresses.