The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-03
'COMM|TTEESA ARE
 NAMED BY WALDROP
Hugo Black Chairman Pyth-
 ian Judiciary Committee
SHIRETZKI MONUMENT
City Solicitor Presented With Knights Templar Fob From Patrolmen and City Employ and
 Sixty Days for Tigers

Annis.cn, June 2.-(Speclal)-L. c. Wal. drop, who was elected grand chancellor
 of the Alabama grand lodge, Knights
 Of Pythias, has appointed R. T. Simpson 1 of Florence to vacancy on the grand
 tribuna. and reappointed J. Lee Holloway
 of Montgomery as member of the board of trustees.
 In his first circular letter to the subordi. nate lodges of the state. issued Monday MT. Waldrop announces the officers elect ed at the Montgomery meeting and names the following committees:
 Judiciary, Hugo l.. Black, Birmingham
 R. G. Maxwell. Cordova; R. H. Hayes.
 Tallassee
 State of the order, Dewitt Paucett, Gadsden D. w. McCarson. Tuscaloosa c. l.. Smith, Mobile.
 District work D. c. Cooper. P. G. C., Oxford F. P. Nichols, P. G. C., Roanoke; i; F. G. Schuster, P. G. C., Selma.
 Fraternal correspondent. Thad L. Rose. Georgiana.
 Special committee on widows and or phans' home, Jacob B. Bloch Mobile; Herman M. Beck, Birmingham: Andrew G. Patterson. New Decatur.
 The district deputy grand chancellors are as follows; L. M. Davis, DeArman- vile, first; w. H. Weakley, Decatur; T. R. Walker, Vivian, third; S. w. Fried man Tuscaloosa, fourth l.. r. Parrish, Sylacauga. fifth; E. B. Robinson, Marion Junction. sixth; Monroe D. Bloch, Mobile. seventh George Steed, Montgomery eighth; l.. G. H. Williams, Dothan, ninth; Charles Schaeffer, Opelilxa, tenth; Lewis Loveman. Gadsden, eleventh; twelfth to be supplied; J. w. Thurmon Castleberry, thirteenth.
 The fund which is being collected as a memorial for Harry Shiretzki, Anniston's martyred chief of police, is growing daily and now totals nearly s10Oo Mel P Sterne took up the active work of raising the subscriptions Tuesday and a petition circulated among business mon was lib- erally signed Some subscriptions are be- Ing received from other cities where the work of shiretzki was appreciated.
 As another expression of the law en- forcement spirit which now exists in Anniston and is made manifest in the movement to raise a memorial fund to the city's martyred chief of police. Harry Shiretzki, the city is also hon. bring its living officers who have been conspicuous in law enforcement Judge S. W. Tate. cty solicitor, having been presented beautiful Knights Templar watch fob Tuesday.
 The gift was a present from the pa- trolmen and city employees, and recog- hilton of services rendered by Judge Tate in prosecuting cases that have been made in police court and appealed to the higher tribunals J. w Mallory chairman of the police committee of the city council. made the presentation speech and Judge Tate responded very graciously.
 Cases against W. K. Rayfield. H. H. Kelly, Will McNeal and J. v Robert son, the first named a frequent defend ant in blind tiger cases, netted the city $500 Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, in addition to which street sentences aggregating SO days were fixed The cases were tried in police court before Recorder Greene and prose- cuted by City Attorney $. w Tate.
 Rayfeld and Kelly were jointly charged with storing whisky. which had l been concealed in the wall of a store built by Rayfield and occupied by Kelly. l They were each fined $100. McNeal was fined $100 and given street sentence of 30 days Monday.
 The other case against Ray field was for storing liquor in the reelhouse of the Glen Addie fire department, for which he was fined $100 and given street sentence of 30 days. J. V. Rob ertson, driver of the reel of the de- was also fined $1o0. but was not given street sentence, there being extenuating circumstances in his case.
 pr. E. D. McDougall, president of the Alabama Presbyterian college, has re- turned from Kansas City, where he at tended the meeting of the general as- sembly, preaching at the largest Pres byterian church in that city last Sun day. He Is now completing plans for the A. F. c. commencement exercises