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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
 EARNINGS INCREASE

Savannah, Ga, October 25.-The net in- come of the Central of Georgia railroad for the fiscal year of 1915 shows an in- crease of $110,964, according to a report submitted at the annual meeting of the board of directors here today. The total net income was $l,9O2. OO5 for 1915 as com- pared with $1,091. .O41 for 1914.
 The report shows the road operated 1,92409 miles of track during the year. Operating revenues for 1915 were SIP, ,1s4 against $14326,575 for 1914. Operating ex- penses for the year were decreased $1,s12,- 252
 Officers and directors of the Central of Georgia railway and the Ocean Steam ship company were reelected today. c. IT. Markham of Chicago remains chair man of each board.
 The annual report of the Ocean Steam ship company is to be made public to- morrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26

reason Is attributed to the disastrous fire in the Mutual Film exchange at Atlanta several days ago. In place Of the popular serial, Manager Colley an nounces a Selig comedy, "Shoofly," in two reels and Kalem's Hazards of Helen"
 c. Aubrey Smith of the better known English actors and leading man Tor Miss Ethel Barrymore for several sea sons, appears today at the Odeon Two in Pathe's John Glade's Honor New York critics have spoken very highly of this production. Miss Mary Law ton and Ben Hendricks appear in sup port of MT. Smith, who will, of course, have the name part
 Edith Storeys local admirers enjoyed the opportunity of watching her in rather different role at the Tr1anon yesterday, where "The Dust of Egypt was screened. The seven reels were found thoroughly diverting and the photoplay is up to usual Vitagraph standard. This feature is being shown again today.
 The old gang went to the Majestic last night and enjoyed Guy Voyer In What Do You Sell?" With MT. Voyer in the past eight weeks it has been cOmedy and laughs mat ne Hds eo Scii and his fun factory seems to have an inexhaustible stock on hand. Everyone seems to regret that this bright young man and his clever associates will be allowed to drift out in the cold, cold world after this week.
 The film fire in Atlanta also put the of Manager Wise of the Odeon One on the fritz. but he daily opnorpcaa an ,in1laual offering, Today MT. Wise will have Winifred Green wood and Ed Coxen, in "Out of the Ashes" a drama and Falstaff com edy with Riley Chamberlain entitled "Tillie the Typist."
 As for the Orpheum 1t is girls, girls, girls, and Charlie Gramlich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
HEFLIN EXPLAINS
 EXCUSING JURIES
No Other Cases Were Ready for Trial and Not Because of Superfluous
 Initial, He Says

In order to correct possible wrongful impression as to the reasons that prompted him to excuse the criminal juries from duty last Wednesday, Judge Harrington F. Heflin made the following statement yesterday:
 Ihe wrongful impression seems to nave been made that the juries in the criminal court were excused by me or last Wednesday from further service dur. Ing the balance of the week because oi an error in the initial of the name of ons or the defendants whose case was SC, Tor trial. This impression, if it exists is wrong and is not based upon the facts.
 lhe principal reason for excusing the Jurles Tor the rest of the week was be. cause of the fact that no other eases were ready for trial during the week on account of absent witnesses who had been summoned to court l did not fee that cases should be forced to trial un. der these circumstances, and by excus ing the jurors the county was saved the expense of paying them for the rest O! the week, and other considerable ex. pense.
 Motions were made to quash the venire in the E. w. Richardson and Earl Scha fe, cases, growing out of an improper re- turn of the sheriffs office as to servic,
 
 to serve d list of the jurors on. defend ants as the law requires, and other points or grounds set out in the motion The motions involved some dangero,l, propositions of law that might revers. the cases in the supreme court were the defendants put upon trial and : conviction had.
 "These defendants were not ready fol trial because of their witnesses being ab sent, and for that reason more than any thing else I allowed their cases to b, continued, and they will be tried at flu ture date
 These defendants are two young whit, men and are convicts how serving a tern of several years in the penitentiary There was no special reason that coult see for hurrying them to trial, whel they were asking for a postponemen till they could have their witnesses pres ent. I felt it my duty to give then further opportunity to get their witnesses HARRINGTON P. HEFLIN," Associate Judge of the Criminal Court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
NEWS 0F ENSLEY

l The Alabama Woman's Synodical Mis- sionary society will be in session at the
 Ensley Highland Presbyterian church be- 1 ginning with the first session tonight al
 [ 80 o'clock and three sessions tomorrow A large number of delegates are expected to be on hand tomorrow from the diff ferent societies of the state and the mem- l bers of the Highland Presbyterian church are making preparations to entertain them. Mrs. Fannie Jones of New Market is president of the organization and will preside over the meetings. At the first session to be held tonight, Mrs. Schultz 1 of Philadelphia, secretary of the Wom- ans Foreign Missionary board, will be the principal speaker of the evening. Dr. w. l.. Darby of Birmingham, synbdical superintendent of the home missions of this state, will also deliver an address. | Three sessions will be held tomorrow, one in the morning at o'clock, another in the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the third in the evening at 7:30 o'clock The ladies of the Ensley Highland Presby- terian church will serve lunch in the base ment of the church following the morning session tomorrow.
 The car service of the Birmingham Rail-
 way, Light and Power company was thrown out on all lines running into Ems ley last night when a trailer on a North Ensley car split a switch on the corner of Avenue F and Nineteenth street The trailer swung around after splitting the switch and barely missed striking several people who were passing by. The acci- dent happened about o'clock and the cars on the North and South Ensley and the Owenton-E -Ensley lines were out of commission for sometime, IS the trailer was across all the lines <
 Isadore piro candidate for city com missioner under the new five-comnlis- CT bill. was in Ensley last night and de- livered an address in the interest of his ca ndidacy before a large crowd on the corner of Avenue and Nineteenth street
 Sam Cusimano was fined $100 yesterday morning in the Ensley police court by Judge T. J. Lowry on charge of violat- ing the prohibition law The case of An nie Cusimano, who was arrested at the same time, was turned over to the juvenile court.
 Anderson Driver, a negro, was pain fully injured late Sunday night when he walked into a South Ensley car near Jefferson avenue on the Ensley High lands. The negro received bad gash over his eyes. besidese number of other injuries. It is stated that the negro was not looking where he was going and walked into the moving car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
JEWISH WOMENTO
 ENTERTAIN CLUBS Open Meeting of Council Thursday-Dr. EdmOnds
 to Speak

Thursday afternoon at o'clock the Council of Jewish Women will give their first open meeting of the year. To this meeting, all the clubs of the city are invited and other persons inter- ested in the work of the association are welcome.
 The Council of Jewish Women is not a club, although it is affiliated with the Alabama federation, and the club work If the city. Such work as cultural and civic study is only one branch of its endeavors. The local council is a branch of a national organization that has locals in almost every large city in the United States, all of these To- calls carrying out a similar programme. The work of the council, although con ducted by Jewish women. is in no way sectarian, and in their educational work, phlanthropic and civic work, consider no creed, class or color.
 Each year the council undertakes to inaugurate or carry out some pro- gramme of work; usually this work is suggested or eminates from the fountain head, the national council. This year the national asks that each local have meeting devoted to peace, peace programme, so to speak, universal peace in it's highest sense, brotherly love- community peace. sort of peace on earth, good will to man meeting.
 On this subject Dr. Henry M. Edmonds has consented to address the meeting. The talk will be called Universal Peace. '' and no one is better fitted to handle this subject than the man who has con- scented. The first number on the programme will be solo by Mrs. Chandler. Mrs. Chand- Ter, always gracious and generous with her voice, came into the meeting with not only her usual pleasant manner, but with delightfully."- fitting selection, 'Friedens Gebet' ("Prayer for Peace"), which is great song of Margurite Meridith in which she uses the Goethe words. The last number of the programme. which only includes three numbers will be a reading of Oscar Wilde's Happy Prince" with the Liza Lehman music.
 '"The Happy Prince is an exquisite story that belongs in the House of Pommegranate group. Liza Lehman hal put the music to it in her usual wonder. ful way, fitting the action and motif to the thought and making the music de- scriptive of each mood and fancy of this most poetic of writings. Miss Pear Rosenfeld is to be at the piano and the reading will be done by Mrs. Sidney M U1lnan.
 The meeting Will be held in the vestry of Temple Emanu-El, Twenty first street and Highland avenue.
 A social hour will follow the programme The council officers and chairmen of com mittees will act as the hostess.
 MRS. s. M. U.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26

the criminal prosecution of consider able Humber of men who have achieved greatly and who have heretofore stood high in the estlmatio of their communi- ties for alleged conspiracy with criminal intent to secure a monopoly of railroad transportation in New England results in a verdict of guilty other business men may reason that if these directors of the New Haven company were criminally guilty of conspiracy. then. in view of all the facts, it behooves them to pro- tect themselves by withdrawing their capital from their association with other large undertakings.
 Some of those who have been closely studying the later trend of public opin- ion are now persuaded that the Ameri- san people as whole have learned that the size of an industry or the amount of it's capitalization is not to be accepted as proof of illegal purpose. This public opinion will undoubtedly soon be reflect ed in Congress and in state legislation. All that is needed now for investment of capital on 8 very large scale in the de- velopment of resources and the expansion of railway systems and the perfecting of adeouate terminals Is confidence. and 1t is observed that some of the leaders in this city are now persuaded that political agitation of the kind which has been so prominent of late years is about to end, and that when it does confidence will be restored.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
PETITION FILED
 TO ADVANCE RATE ON EIGHT-GROUP ACT

Montgomery, October 25.-(Special.) ) All railroads in Alabama have filed a petition for an indefinite extension of the 10 per cent increase in the eight group act, except on fertilizer and fer tilizer materials, according to the Nov ember docket of the state public serv- ice commission, as announced yester- day The 10 per cent increase on these rates was granted temporarily by the state railroad commission several months ago. and the time limit for the increase expires November 30.
 Two other cases on the docket for the November session are petitions filed by the Southern and Seaboard Air Line railways asking for permission to advance rates on crossties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
SUIT TO RECOVER
 RICH OIL LANDS

Los Angeles, October 25.-Three new federal suits against 29 corporations, firms and individuals, to recover three quarter sections of Kern county oil lands, valued at more than $7OO, ,00o0Oo. were filed here today on behalf of the government just before Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe began consideration of six actions to re- cover lands valued at from s10,000,000 to O00. It is alleged the lands were filed on by the defendants in violation of the Taft withdrawal order in 1909.
 Among the defendants in the latest suits are the Standard Oil company, the Asso- ciated Oil company. General Petroleum company and the Columbus Midway Oil company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
FOOTLIGHTS AND SCREEN
By RICHARD F. LUssIER

Guy Bates Post one of the best known Of American character actors Is soon to appear at the Jefferson in Omar. the Tentmaker" an adoption of the famous "Rubyiat' of Omar Krayham. This, it is stated. will be the most elaborate production staged in Birmingham this season.
 Tt Pays to Advertise will be an early offering at the Jefferson. The local managers of the moving picture theatres are hereby warned that if they attend this performance they will learn something to their advantage.
 There are many more situations. of course, in the film version of "The Chorus Lady than the stage produc- ton and the acting and photography of the LaslSy company is much to be commended but somehow the slangy at mosphere of the stage play is missing in the five reels that was shown at the strand yesterday, and which ap- pear again today. However, The Chorus Lady" is mighty good picture, let there be no mistake about that.
 Of the cast all the stars of the highly efficient Lasky stock company have good parts and the bright particular ones that stand out are Miss Cleo Ridgely, Wallace Reid, William Elmer Robert Gray and Miss Marjorie Daw.
 Robert Warwick, one of the noted actors of the legitimate stage appears at the AlcaZar today in "The Stolen Voice." d five-reel feature made by the World company. It is story of a popular opera singer who loses his voice. fortune and fiancee, but regains all again by becoming q popular idol before the camera
 'The Diamond From the Sky" will not appear at the Princess today as- serted Manager Colley last night. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
INSURANCE MAN
 GIVEN TEN YEAR,

Los Angeles, October 25.-F. R. En cry. former head of the insurance dd partment of the Los Angeles Invest ment company. who is alleged to hav misappropriated $1s,ooO, was sentence d today to four years in prison.
 Emery's arrest came shortly aftd Charles A. Elder and number of fol mer officers and directors of the con] pany were sentenced for having use the mails to defraud stock purchaser!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
CLEARING DEBRIS
 AT BANNER MINE

Montgomery. October 5.-(Special.)-No- tice was received yesterday at the of flee of the state convict department that convicts have been enabled to enter the mines at Banner and are arranging to clear away debris caused by the explo- sion at that mine 10 days ago. It is stated that coal will be taken from the mine in a few days.
 For the first time in 10 days the con- yicts have been able to enter the mines with "open lights, heretofore having used safety lights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
"JUST THE THING"

A taiol's work is sedentary. That is why most tailors suffer from consti- patton. G. w. Roberson, Wichita Falls, Tex, says: q find Foley Carthate Tab lets the most delightful cleasing ca thartic l have eyer taken. They are just the thing They keep the stomach sweet and the liver active, drives away headache dullness, tired feeling, bilious ness bloat and other results of clogged bowels Prompt and effective, without gripe or pain Stout people praise them for the light, free feeling they give. Sold everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
Interference of the U. $.
 Wanted in Armenia

Washington, October 25.-H. H. Topak- van, Persian consul general to the United States, submitted to Secretary Lansing today an appeal urging that the United States government do everything in it's power to bring an end to slaughter and persecution of Armenians by the Turks.
 MT. Topakyan said he had received news that among the slain Armenians were many of his own relatives. In the mem orandum to Secretary Lansing, he de- clared that the uprising against the Chris tian Armenians had resulted in 50O,O0O per sons being driven from their homes, tor tured or murdered How many had been slain. he said, it was still impossible to estimate. Thousands, he declared, who had taken refuge in Egypt and Asia Minor were facing starvation.
 Secretary Lansing assured MT. Topak' yan that President Wilson had taken keen interest in the Armenian situation and that the government was doing al it possibly could under the circumstances He said he would present the appeal tt President Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were issued at the clerks office of the probate court yesterday:
 Battista Martingnone and Miss Teresa Giletti.
 James Carl Whitfield and Miss Sarah Underwood.
 l.. w. Payne and Miss Florence Smith.
 B. e. Thompson, Coalburg, and Miss Estelle Kelley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
Garnett N. Morgan Appointed

Nashville. October 25.-The supreme council of the southern Jurisdiction, Scot tish Rite Masons at Washington, has appointed Garnett N. Morgan of Tennes- see as sovereign grand inspector general Of this state. This post was held for some years by the late Maj. James D. Richardson until he was elected grand conn der.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at the United States weather bureau stations during the "A hours ending at 8 D. m., seventy-fifth meridian, October 25 1915:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast


 Washington, October 25.-Alabama: Fair Tuesday: cooler at night north; Wednes- day, fair.
 Tennessee: Fair Tuesday; cooler west and at night east: Wednesday, fair. Mississippi: Fair Tuesday,; cooler north and west at night southeast; Wednesday fair.
 Georgia Fair Tuesday; Wednesday fair cooler north and central.
 Local Data Local data for the 24 hours ending at D. m., October 25 1915: Highest temperature, degrees .. 80 Lowest temperature, degrees ..... 59 Normal temperature, degrees ...... 6. Deficiency In temperature since Jan uary. degrees ......................... 26S Rainfall, inches ...................... o Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches. APT Excess in rainfall since January 1, lhcnes ...................,..... 3.23 Relative humidity ...................... 64 p. .......................... 35 P. H.......-.. ,........-...........,.... 52
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-26
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PIowshares Made of Swords and
NiekeliPistad.,
Washington, Jan. 25.--Secretary Of
State Bryan has presented to Mr..
james NJ. Baker, the secretary or the
senate. one or hisi historic Deacs
souvenirs, which is ira ploWahard
made of steel, and nicBelplat tied. 2. Il Il
The steel used IS composed or melt
ed swords, and explains the insesip.
ton on the plowshate: They shall
beat their swords into plowBharess
Tho sentiments inscribed on the
beam OF the plow u are contfibuti0 ions
which the secretary OF sfate has
made to diplomatic phraseplogy
namely Noihilig Is inai between
friends. !" and iplotnaeg ts the art of
keeping cool. 2 q ss
Secretary Bryan used theee aucfA'
Lions on the menu cards for stiie
Peace Epnch icon. HeT gave after the
signing of the tfea atisss with Great
Brlfain, France, SPAIN and China.
The plowshafe is TO be used as a pa
pef+weighf, and bears the inscriptions:
..Froni William Jennings Is Bryan, ia
james M Baker, AUGUST i3, 1914 =
which Is the date tlEat Secretafy B&ks
Ell certified to tiiei Fatifl lcafinn of the
peace treaties ny tiis ts fis6te. - E..7
< Sgehler pap per-We, ,Bht adofne the
an X OF Secretary Baker and ID
much admired By his friends !, ),
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-26
Cleaason Wants
Lsdn From State

Columbia, Jan. 23-aT bespeaix Of
your earnest and careful considera.
tion." said Governor Manning In 4
message to the general assembly to-
day transmitting asmefaorial from the
board OF truetees OF Clemson college.
The memorial was sent TO the gov
ernor by Alan Johnstone, chairman if
the board Of trustees. The paper con,
tains a complete report on the finan:
cial AFFAIRS of the institution. II is
pointed out that the conditions have
arisen since the preparation OF the
annual report for the college.
The board of trustees did not feel
that they would have fully met their
duty to the people and to the general
assembly and to the college and its
interests without setting out the DOS
sible contingencies that may arise ON
account Of the conditions growing out
of the European war and It's common
disasters and, therefore. they are ask
ing, through my hand that you as
governor submit this information TO
the general assembly" says Mr.. John
stone in ais letter TO the governor.
I'VE desire 20 make clear at this
point that we shall not ask for an
appropriation" says the report by the
trustees. after reviewing the financial
Affairs OF the college. ].
The following requests are made:
That. in order to continue certain
phases OF the public work for 1916
1916, the state be authorized to bor-
row and loan ito the college s62,400,
III SO much be necessary: the loan
would stand as debt against any
excess of the fertilizer tax over the
amount required for the college prop
er during future years.
That, to continue the work planned
for the fiscal year, loan OF $25 GOD
be made, the fertilizer tax to stand
as security.
The trustees state that unless the
above loans are made tho public
work must be curtailed curing the re.
mainder OF this fiscal year and next
year.
1T Is Gcarcely necessary to add that
every possible economy consistent
with efficient operation is belng prac-
ticed. says the report.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-26

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