The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-07
ADMISSION PEOPLE
MAY SEE PICTURES
The Situation of Municipalities
Makes Ban Doubtful
MAYOR WILKES OPINION
Government Agent Thinks Damage to
Crops Is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
study PeIlagra-Dr. Stage
Returns From Tour
MAYOR WILKES OPINION

shown an afternoon paper containing
|dispatches with reference to the actions
Of various cities throughout the Unit
ed States in prohibiting the exhioi'ioh
of mixtures of the Jeffries-Johnson prize
fight and asked If he would take SIM
liar action, Mayor ]. L. Wikle OF An
niston stated that he would not DO SO
hastily, but that he would prooaoiy
await results and see what effevt the
exhibition of the pictures will have IN
other places.
Mayor Wikle said that If he thought
that the pictures would have an I'M
moral tendency or have the ehect OF
greatly accentuating prevalent race
feeling he would use his influence 10
secure the passage of an ordnance
prohibiting the shows in Admission; but
that In his opinion, the trouble Which
followed the returns from the nght
In at Monday was due In large meas
IRE to the idleness resulting from the
celebration of the Fourth and to tho
intense disappointment and the exuper-
ance Of the losing and winning races
at the time. The worst has come, he
tn inks, and nothing could have more
injurious effect than the publication OF
the minute details of the fight while
the neople were still wrought up over
the result. $1,000 -----...-.- --- .-,,.-
An interesting feature has arisen In
conn ection with this feature In An
niston, and that Is that even though
tho MAYORS of Admission and Oxford
were to secure the passage of ordi-
nances prohibiting the fight, the mayor
of Hobson City, the exclusively negro
r,unicipality between the two places,
would still have the responsibility OF
commencing or prohibiting the hght
show in that town where there is
spa cious auditorium that could be used
for the purpose. Addison Snow, that In
diyidual, has been asked what MS az
titude would be, but he has not yet
made a reply, 1t being necessary to
address him through the mail on ac-
count of the absence of telephone COM
munication with the city over which
he Is magistrate.
Still another question which mas
arisen In Admission is. If the mayors
of Admission and Oxford should place
the pictures under ban. could they be
shown at oxford Lake park? At the
office of the Admission Electric and
Gas company, the owners OF this park,
this question was asked and answered
In the affirmative, but Mayor Wikle Is
of a different opinion. Quoting from
tho code he showed that cities of more
than 5000 inhabitants have police juris-
diction three miles beyond their cor
porate limits. while cities under 5000
exercise control a mile and half be-
yond their limits. This would place
the park under the control OF Mayor
w. r. Norton of oxford. The park
authorities, however. think that this
would apply only to cases where there
is a breach of the peace, but Mayor
wikle says 1t applies to all ordinances
that have to do with police or sanitary
regulations.
In the final analysis. 1t SEEING that
the people of Admission. where Bob
Fitxsimmons first sprang into. promi-
nence by defeating Shack Dye, local
negro pugilist, and Willard zuber, an
other would-be pug; where brother
of Jack Johnson now resides, tho peo-
ple of the city thus renowned will
see the Jeffries-J ohnson set-to as 1t
is represented by the mechanism of the
cinemetograph.
Turner Thinks Damage Slight
Despite the general impression that
the rain has been falling In the An
niston district almost necessarily for
the mast week has done great damage
To the cotton crop for this year, ]. Ro-
land Turner, agent In Calhoun county
for the United States demonstration
work department, Is of the opinion that
the damage thus far has been but
slight.
Mr.. Turner was In the city today and
he stated in an interview that small
per cent Of the crop. particularly that
in the lowlands, has been permanently
injured, but that II the farmers are
now allowed two weeks In which to
weed their fields and to overcome the
efrects of the recent rains. all will come
out all right. He says present indica-
lions are that this county will raise
the largest corn crop In its history.
MedicOs study PellaEra
Pellagra. the new disease which has
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