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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04

cording to Detectives Smith and Will Hams, is that he stole the Ford runabout or the Jefferson Powder company sev- eral weeks ago. removed some Of the 1 parts of the car and Lad it repain.ed and made into a miniature racing car. which he sold on March q to ]. H. At
 hlns, an insurance broker whose offices
 are in the Chamber of Commerce build ing for s313
 MT. Atkins paid $50 in cash for the car and was to have paid the remaind- CT yesterday afternoon. Ford in q signed statement before witnesses in 1 the detectives office admitted selling
 the car to Mir Atkins and also hav- ing it repainted and retouched in vari- ous parts. He stated. however, that he had bought the car from young ne- gro for s15 and also stated that he had gone to Jasper because he had heard that the detectives were on his trail.
 The entire detective department is now following up the operations of Ford in the last six months. The rec ords of the police and detective de- partments show that at least one au- tomobile a day has been stolen for the past several weeks-most of whicn
 were Ford runabouts.
 Many of these cars were recovered but none were ever recovered. but what had been rndered partly useless by having important parts removed and the tires stolen.
 We got on the track of E. C. Ford. :"
 sad Detective R. G. Williams. when the
 Ford runabout of Mir Lalande was stolen
 few days ago. It is merely a case of
 taking the pitcher to the well once too
 often.
 Tn the past automobile thefts We no-
 ticed that all cars stolen were usually
 recovered in a stripped condition some
 where on Shades mountain. Therefore
 that was the locality to watch and that
 was where the Lallande auto was recov-
 cred a few days ago The man who
 brought the Lalande automobile to
 Shades mountain will be identified this morning. It is Mr. Ford.
 Also in various ways we found out that MT. Ford had sold a runabout to J. II. Atkins, an insurance man in the Chamber of Commerce building Bg this time the trail was hot and Mir Ford left town. We missed him and finally got track of him through his wife. She was to meet him in Jas per Friday afternoon but we met him instead. Ford took his arrest quietly and readily admitted that he left Bif- mingham to escape arrest. He stated that his intention was to send his wife back to her mothers and that he was going out west to start over again.
 "When we arrived in Birmingham
 Ford made a statement admitting buy ing the car he sold to Atkins from a5 negro boy for $15, but he could give no accurate description of the boy Ffe stated that he had taken the carEd do the garage of ". II. Lequire on Ake-f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
TWO MOBILE PAPERS
 WILL CONSOLIDATE
The Item and Post Will Hereafter Be Published as One Paper, Accord
 ing to Report

Mobile, April 3-Announcement was made today that the Mobile Post and Mo bile Item. the two afternoon papers pub lished here, will consolidate and be pub lished as one paper.
 All the details of the merger have not been worked out, but the consolidation Is expected to be>completed tomorrow.
 ~ The Item has been one of Mobiles lead ing papers for years. While the Post en- tered the afternoon field only about four months ago, it has made great strides since then and is recognized as one ot the states livest and most up to date newspapers. The field here. however, IS hardly large enough to support two after noon papers and the consolidation is the result of business expedicncy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
THINK AUTO THEFTS WILL BE CHECKED BY MANS ARREST Eugene C. Ford Arrested on Charge of Taking Various = Ford Automobiles FOUND IN JASPER
 BY DETECTIVES Specific Charge Is Theft of Car From Jefferson Powder Com-
 pany and It's Sale to
 J. H. Atkins

Eugene c. Ford of the l.. C. Ford Mer- cantile Agency. 922 Empire building, is a prisoner in the city jail charged with grand larceny. He is alleged by City De- tectives R. G. Williams and Marshall Smith to be the mysterious person that has been harassing the motor car owners of Birmingham for the past six months s Ford was arrested in Jasper yesterday afternoon about 1 o'clock.
 Ford was asked by an Age Herald re- porter for a statement last night. but none was forthcoming. He was not in a talSative mood and would not even see his relatives who called. He is being held without bond pending the swearing out of a warrant this morning.
 The specific charge against Ford, ac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
SCHOOL TEACHERS
 TO HEAR WEATHERLY

The regular meeting of the teachers of the public schools will be held this morn ing at the Central High school and the study of practical sociology under the direction of the teachers study course committee. The previous meetings have been held at 9 o'clocs put the sessions iris morning will not open until 9:30
 There will be three addresses, as fol- lows: Why a Boy Should Read" by Carl H. Milan. director of the Birming- ham public libraries; "The Influence of Discoveries and Inventions During the Last Century by C. s. Bssell and "The Problems of the city as They Re- late to Social Development" by James Neatherly, city commissioner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04

Mr. Greer was born in Troupe County Georgia in iS60
 Was educated at the North Geor- gia Agricultural and Mechanica al College at Dahlonega.
 Has been a resident of Alabama 45 years.
 Thirty years on the daily and weekly papers of Alabama.
 Was managing editor of the Age Herald for two yearS
 One of the promoters of the Birmingham Ledger and for time its general manager. and associate editor.
 Bought The Marion Standard fourteen years ago and is the pres ent owner and editor.
 An editorial printed in his paper published at Lafayette formed the neuclues for the enactment of the trial School at Montevallo.
 He assisted in making the rough draft of our present State School law.
 He inaugurated the campaign when managing eoitor of the Age Herald for State Uniform Text Books which has not only saved the people of the State thousands of dollars but revolutionized our public school system.
 Through his individual efforts he secured for his county, Perry, the first government soil survey made in the South.
 Through his activity his county obtained the second rural mail ser vice established in Alabama and among the first in the South.
 Through his individual efforts he obtained for his county, a rural telephone service from the Ben Telephone Co.,, whose annual report at one time gave his county a greater number of rural phones than any other county in any state in the entire South.
 His editorials in the interest of improving highways have been quoted throughout the South and he has aided in the building of over 60 miles of permanent roads in his county during the past year.
 Through his efforts the lnterna- tional Harvester Company was in- duced to locate in Perry County, one of only three of it's demonstra- tion farms in the south for the education of farmers in the use of improved machinery.
 The only political office he ever held Was to represent the 18th Senatorial District in the Consti- tutional Convention in 1901, to which he was elected without opposition.
 He was candidate for Secretary of State against the present incum- bent and made most creditaole race, and under Democratic pres tige is in line for promotion.
 His ability to fill the duties of the office of Secretary of State IS hAt questioned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
UNION STATION
 FOR SYLACAUGA
Louisville and Nashville and Central of Georgia Will Erect Passenger
 Depot Shortly

Sylacauga, April 3.-(SpeciaL)-S cauga will have a new union passenger depot as early as arrangements can be consummated.
 Chief Engineer O Donnell of the Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad company mas been in town with crew and sur veyed the site. The new structure will occupy a lot near the Ss iacauga Oil Mill on the crossing of the Louisville and Nashville and Central roads. and on the right of way of the Loulsville and Nash vile.
 it is said the work will begin in q very short while and that plans would bc drawn up for building to cost about S45.000
 The new building will be used exclu- sively as a passenger station.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
RECORD MADE BY PUBLIC LIBRARY
 DURING MARCH

More books were circulated from the Birmingham Public library for home use in March, 1914, than have been circulated in any month since it was established, according to repola just issued. This was due largely to the work of the branch libraries. each of which exceed all previous records.
 The total circulation from all libraries in the month just passed was l7,S26 vol tunes In March, 1913. the creslation was only l1.99l
 Other records also are high. Six hun dred and fifty-nne new borrowers were registered as compared with 256 in March. 1s13 1oS9 books were cataloged as com pared with March. 1913 and thousands visited the adult readi.lg room at the Central library.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04

at columbiana next Tuesday on the charge of embedding more than SS5ao of state funds.
 The governor returned on the Il o'clock train and repaired immediately to his of- flee at the capitol where he went into conference with Attorney General Robert C Bricken Ben F. Crum, special counsel for the state in the prosecution of Oakley and others The attorney general re. turned with the governor from Birming- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
: FERNOR BACK
 IN MONTGOMERY

gomery. April s-(speciaLi-The zsf or ef Alabama returned today from
 gham, where he went to confer
 states attorneys relative to thc ,-.4, against James G. Oakley. former president of the state board of convict inspectors. who will be tried at special term of the shelby county circuit court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
OLIVER MAKES FIRST
 SPEECEEAT JASPER

Jasper April g. 7AspeciaD-Mr W. B. Oliver of Tuscal lsosa, candidate for Congress from tfe sixth congressional district, made {fhis first campaign speech in Jasbety at the courthouse Friday, beginfing at Il o'clock and speaking for nearly two hours.
 Friday beihg registration day, many more eitizeHs were here than would have been ptherwise. coming from ev- cry sectionaof the county.
 Capt Frank $. White, candidate for the short senatorial term. will make the final speech, as far as is known al present here tomorrow at 10 o'clock. He wul also speak at Cordova tomor- TOW Afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
T. P. A. Meeting Tonight

The annual meeting and election of of fieers of Post B, Alabama Division Tray elers' Protective association, will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the Chamber of Commerce A delegate will also be chosen to the state convention at Mont gomery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04
 Sheriff McAdory's Answer For Gus Lee
THOS. J. BATSON
{ Advertisement
To the Voters of Jeffersctl County:

To the Voters of ,Jefferscn County:
 In big display .'bd in the News and Age Herald, Gus Lee candidate for slf issues statement headed: What Docs This Mean charges and deputies with support ing another candidate sheriff and trying to dictate who successor shall be, er
 think haveA right American citizen for whom please.
 I have neverasked requested single one of my to vote and or for any man for sheriff They tn exercise thciyright of citizenship they please.
 Gus ee vded and worked for candidate opposing for sheriff four ysals ago. am doing the toward him. do not owe him Anything.
 Wby Gk Lee fit bring into the present sherfs race I can Understand.
 He mist think tile McAdory bunch gang,' he calls them haf some influence consider his methods "dirty politics.H
 If $c play politics and play it dirty he has sruckthe wrong bunch.'
 Gus will have 10000 circulars of his advertisement printed deliver at the sheriff. office by Saturday, will that they distributed at the various poll ing places by o'clock Monday morning
 If Gus Lee will candidate for sheriff four years ago a the he supported and from him the cartoon of sold Sow Bunch of Pigs and other cartoons used that campaign and have 10000 circulars printed and dev o the sherffs office will that they distributed ag o'clock Monday morning, also
 think Dr. McAdory is fully capable of taking of him. self at any and all times, politically.
 If Gus Lee scrap politically from the 'McAdory Gus Lee sees his defeat and will "diry campaign .p1athods" Respectfully,
 Walter K. McAdory
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
ATHLETIC CLUB
HAS TRACK MEET

The Fifteenth Avenue Christian as
ISOLATION held track meet at Pros
pect park in Moline yesterday after
noon, with the following results in the
various events:
Senior division:
so yard dash-Frank Thompson,
first; Adolph Levin, second; Ray
Baughman, third.
100 yard dash-Frank Thompson,
first; Adolph Levin, second; Louis
Eihl, third.
220 yard dash-Frank Thompson,
first; Louis Eihl, second; Adolph
Levin, third.
High jump-Adolph Levin. first
Louis Eihl, second; Frank Thompson,
third.
Hop, skip and jump-Louis Eihl,
first; Adolph Levin, second; Edward
Erickson, third.
Broad jump-Louis Eihl, first; Frank
Thompson, second; Adolph Levin,
Third.
Three continuous jumps-Louis Eihl,
first; Frank Thompson, second; Ed
ward Erickson, third.
Running jump-Frank Thompson,
first; Louis Eihl, second; Adolph Lee
vim, third.
Mile run-Frank Thompson, first;
Louis Eihl, second; H. Hamp, third.
Total points-Frank Thompson. 80;
Louis Eihl, 2S; Adolph Levin, II.
This is the second consecutive year
in which Frank Thompson has won the
gold medal Prizes were also given
for second and third places in the
senior events.
In the junior meet Ray Hit took
place with so points, R. Carlson sec
ond with 81 and c.. Harding third with
IL points. In the girls meet Miss
Helen Kerr won first with Is points,
Miss Blanch Washburn second with
IL, and Miss B. Wood third with 2
points
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
SOME WARM CAME
: ON SUNDAY CARD
Rock Island and Davenport Pos
tai Clerks to Settle Dia-
mond Differences.
PLAN TO SERVE LEMONADE
National Postoffice Drink VIII Be Civ
en- Away on the Grounds-To
Smoke Bijou Cigars.

When the Rock Island and Daven-
City park at . o'clock tomorrow after
noon to settle their baseball differ
ences, there will occur one of the
warmest games of the present season.
Davenport is the challenger. Nothing
daunted, the local clerks plan to give
them the surprise of their life, and
with an invincible lineup in the field
they expect to take their Pretzeltown
brothers to a real and old-fashioned
cleaning"
Some time ago the Davenport clerks
issued the aforesaid challenge to eth
er of their Illinois brethren, and while
the Pillow City workers kept mum il
was not so with Rock Island. They
organised a team. started practice and
formally accepted the defy. Tomor-
row the tale of supremacy will be
told in nine slashing innings of blood
curdling baseball.
Lemonade to Drink.
One OF the two big features of to-
morrow's pastiming will be the serv-
ing on the grounds of the postofflce
clerks national drink-lemOnade 1t
will be free to all participants in the
struggle, including the umpire and the
scorekeeper. When it comes to serv-
ing lemonade on the diamond to base
ball players one gets the opinion that
this old world is quite stylish after all
The second feature of the fray will
be the smoking of a box of free cigars
donated for the occasion by Kahn &
Reinhardt to be smoked on the
grounds. The Bijou proprietors feel
that they must in some manner live up
to their enviable reputation as base
ball men, and thusly they take this
manner of proving their sterling
worth.
No admission will be charged at the
gate and one and all are invited to
journey to the park and witness the
battle. 1t is planned to put on some
20 or more extra cars to accommodate
the monster crowd which is expected.
The local clerks will line up as fol-
lows: Murphy, 2b; Guthormsen, SIS;
Hedburg, CT; Burns, IF; Miller, If; Nc
Donald, 1b; Strate, 3b; Collins, C; En-
man, p.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
HENDERSON SIGNS
TO MEET WHITNEY
Rock Island Welterweight and
Cedar Rapids Scrapper Will
Meet at Empire Theater.

Earl Henderson, scrappy little well
terwcight boxer OF this city, will meet
frankie Whitney OF Cedar Rapids in a
10 round boxing exhibition at the En-
pire theatre Wednesday evening, June
"a. in what promises to be one of the
classiest bouts local fans have wit
messed for some time. The local pug
is in the pink OF condition and has been
training in this city for the past few
months preparing for a number of
future bouts which his manager,
Thomas Kline, is arranging. Kline
plans to have Earl meet some of the
best men in the country of the weller
weight division, and local fistic follow
ers who have watched Hen at work,
are predicting championship honors
for the Islander if he continues his
onward stride at the present rate.
The exhibition at the Empire will
merely be a test of strength for the
local kid and will be a no-decision af-
fair. II will be purely an exhibition
Of foot work and NIT handling.
Whitney is a man to be reckoned
with when it comes TO seeking first
place hQnors, as he has met and de-
feated some of the best ring men of
today. The two kids have scrapped
before and the Island City athlete sue
ceeded in getting a shade on the Dies
Moines boy.
There will be a preliminary wrestling
match which will be arranged later.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
SPORT GOSSIP
BY n. E. POD.

With the Chicago Feds now leading
| in the race for the pennant in base
balls newest organization, the Windy
City can at least boast OF one winning
team. The Cubs are tobogganing to-
ward the bottom at a record-breaking
rate. while the Sox are sticking around
seventh place like blood suckers. 1t is
something unusual to see the Cubs
near the bottom, as in former yearN
they have always been pennant con-
tenders. But then the old Cub ma
chine has now practically gone to
pieces. Never again viii there be a
team like the old Cub organization,
which won three successive champion
ships back in 1906, 1907 and 1908. Then
Johnny King was behind the bat, but
he is gone now, but where we are I'M
able to state. And then there was
Reulbach, Brown, Pfiester, Overall and
Cole, all premier mound men at that
time. Reulbach is now with Brook
lyn, while Brown is with the st. Louis
Feds. OF Overall, Pfiester and Cole
we have no record, but they are prob
ably playing minor league ball. Then
with Chance on first, Evers on second,
Tinker on short, Steinfeldt at third,
and three such outfielders as Schultz,
Slagel and Sheckard, is it any wonder
the Cubs had an invincible team?
Evers. Chance and Tinker are still in
big league ball, and plenty fast enough
to perform on the Cub team, but
Charles Murphy's greed for gold was
the ultimate cause OF the breaking OF
the cid machine. The Sox have never |
been considered pennant possibilities |
with the exception of two or three |
years. For the past five. seasons Com |
iskey's team has not had look in. |
Back in 1906 the Sox won the pennant |
and the worlds championship, but /
Fielder Jones was plotting the squad at
that time. and he so far outshone |
James J. Callahan as a baseball man
lger that the present SoX head could
hardly be seen at all. Undoubtedly the
5ox have the best pitching staff in big
league ball, but with an assortment of
bush league hitters behind them what
ian one expect? And especially when
Callahan fails to use his dome in man.
aging the team and places such gold
bricks as Alcock and Blackburne in
he lineup, the team can only be ex-
)ected to finish somewhere near the
1ottoIn As for the Chifeds. they doubt
ess have an excellent team. faster,
perhaps, than either this years Cubs
)r Sox. Tinker has gathered a collec-
ion OF real stars about him, and they
urely ought TO cop the bunting. The
race this year is one OF the
closest major league pennant races II
las ever been our fortune TO watch,
mi with only a measly hundred points
first and last places sudden
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
An fnduIqent Father.

The Duke de Richelieu one day Wis
tied his son. who was a student in the
University of Paris. do you need any
money!" he asked in the course OF the
conversation.
NO." said his son. 81 still have 20
louis from last months allowance"
On bearing this the duke took the
boys purse and. handing it to his serv-
ant. said: There. John. are 20 louis.
My son. the Count de Fronsac, presents
them to you. Go and drink his health. z
But to his son he said: Young man.
remember that you are the son OF the
Duke de Richelieu. Be more generous
with your money"
How many youths in college today
would like to have so thoughtful q
father.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
ANNUAL REGATTA
OPENED BY YALE
Old Ellis Blue Clad Warriors
Victorious in an Exc1t-
ing Finish.
WIN BY FOUR-lNcH MARGIN
Judges Of Race Undecided at Finish
crowds Line Banks of Thames
and Cheer Historically.

New London, Conn, June 20.-By a
varsity four-mi1e eight-oared race on
the Thames river here late yesterday
afternoon after a struggle which will
stand out in rowing history when the
competing oarsmen are mythical he
roes of a forgotten decade
Through a four-mile lane of steam
yachts and motor boats the 16 crew
men toiled at the crimson and blue
tipped oars az no galley slaves ever
labored under the lash, while thou
sands of spectators on shore and one
observation trains shrieked hysterical-
ly.
When the knifelike prows of the rae
ing shells had cut past the final line of
flags and the oarsmen dropped with
heaving chests and sweat-dimmed eyes
few of the thousands knew whether
had perched upon the bow of
the Yale or the Harvard racing craft.
Judges Are Undecided.
On board the judges boat at the fin
ish line could be seen the arbiters of
the race frantica1ly gesticulating in
conference, while first black flag and
then crimson one was waved at the
end of a long pole. On the white can
gondolas of the observa.
ton train the clans of Yale and Har-
yard cheered by turn, catching hope
and inspiration from the waving flags
Of those aboard the yachts clustered
close about the finish.
Slowly the Harvard colors began TO
sink as the judges finally resorted to
he megaphone and screamed across
he water that Yale had won its first
race in seven years by less
han a foot in 21:16, with Harvard
crossing the line one-fifth of second
alter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

Two base hits-Good. Zimmerman.
Home runs-Leach, Becker. Struck
out-By Lavender Killifer): by Che
ney CPaskert- Mayer: by Jacobs Cor
riden); by Rixey (Schulte): by May
er Cheney. Bases on balls-Off Ia
bel. /; off Lavender, :; off Cheney, l !:
of Jacobs. i; off Rixey. .. Double
plays-Phelan to Safer, Zimmerman
10 Sweeney to Safer. Rixey 10 Irelan
to Luderus. Hits-Of Lavender, 4 in
four innings none out in SIXTH: off
Cheney, 3 in five innings; off Jacobs.
3 in two and one-third innings: off
RiXey. 4 in three and two-thirds in
nings; off Mayer, in four innings.
Hit by pitcher-By Jacobs Gavender)
Passed ball-Needham. Left on bases
Chicago. g; Philadelphia, 8. Time
2:16. Umpires-Hart and Rigler.
Benz in Good Form.
Chicago, ILL.,. June 2O.-Expert bat
ting team work by Lena Blackburne
and Shane Collins, linked with the
moist-ball pitching of Joe Benz, sent
Boston's speeding Red Sox down to
defeat yesterday in the second combat
of the set with the White Sox at Co
miskey Park, 3 TO .. Ray Collins, the
Vermont side-wheeler, was curving
when the deciding punch weLt home
in the seventh inning, a tumble by
Scott. followed by Blackburne's sacri-
fee and singles by Messrs. Collins ard
Chase. putting Callahan's crew on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
REALTY CHANGES

William Miller to A. c. Edwards, lot
and half lot 5, block 1, Ransom &
Young's addition Coal Valley, $1.00.
A. C. Edwards to Mabel Winnie Mil
Ter, lot and half lot 5, block 1, Ran
som & Young's addition, Coal Valley,
$1.O0.
Mary A. Golden and husband to Ed
ward A. Stephenson, lot 1 and 2, block
A, village of Barstow, $1,000.
Rudolph Wiechert and wife to Har-
~ Block and wife, lot 5, block 4, e. s.
Woodburns addition, Moline, $3.50.