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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Landmark Changes Hands

Mobile, October 26.-(Special.)-One of the most famous buildings in Mobile. an old landmark, changed hands Wednes' day afternoon when the property at the corner of St. Francis and Royal streets was bought by J. Howard Wilson. C.. Lawrence Lavretta was the former owner The consideration was sS0,0oo. The new owner is president of the Mobile Light and Railroad company. He said he did not contemplate improving the property at least for the present. The deal included the two-story structure oc. cupied by James K. Glennon & Co.,, and an adjoining three-story building. In 1883 1t was occupied by the branch bank of the state of Alabama. Later it was occupied by the Mobile and Ohio rail- road, the old Bank of Mobile, a big in- surance company and the Alabama Ma tional bank. For many years the top floor was leased to the Manassas club. The late John Lawrence Lavretta bought tho property in 1884 from Hope H. Slater and in 1892, the date of his death, the property reverted to his heir, c. Lawrence Lavretta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
REALTY MEN ELECT
 NEW PRESIDENT A. M. Throckmorton Hon. Ored by Realty Exchange at Meeting Yesterday

A. M. Throckmorton was elected presi- dent of the Birmingham Real Estate ex- change at their weekly meeting held at the Hillman hotel yesterday afternoon. R. F. McDavid, Jr., was elected acting executive secretary, succeeding T. P. Hay, Jr., who recently resigned to accept the state secretaryship of the Alabama Chamber of Commerce
 Mr. Throcl1morton is a prominent real estate man, and is connected with the Smith-Mudd & Throckmorton Realty com pany of POPS First avenue In accepting the honor he made brief speech on '.The Possibilities of the Real Estate Ex- change"
 q heartily appreciate the honor you have bestowed upon me in electing me to this important office" said MT. Throck- morton. AS president of the Real Es- tate exchange realize that I have un- dertaken a work that Is important to the realty interests of this district. I feel glad of this opportunity to be in a posi- tion of service to the advancement and promotion of real estate matters of Bir- mingham. I feel that 1t will be difficult to operate the Real Estate exchange up to the mark set by our former president, Gus A. Pope. Jr., who made such uu envable record with the management of it's affairs" Several other important matters were considered, among which were the proposed ordinance on housing conditions in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
BIRMINGHAM MEN
 OFF FOR MACON ID
 MEET FARM BOARD
Chairman Wells Says Bir- mingham's Case Is Now Ready for Presentation
 Tomorrow Morning

Oscar W. Wells, E. w. Barrett and Sterling Wood. members of the local fed eral farm loan committee. left Birming- ham at o'clock yesterday afternoon for Macon, Ga., where they will attend the hearing of the federal farm loan bank board in that city today. MT. Wells is chairman of the local committee and was optimistic over the showing Birmingham has prepared to make when the board convenes here Saturday.
 T believe we have the goods to show for Birminghams claim, and to better en- able ourselves to present the data We have compiled delegation is going to be present at the hearing tomorrow in Ma con- We have a sufficient amount of data collected to show the real conditions in and around Birmingham, as well as the agricultural needs of our entire state. With the presence of the many delega- tions of farmers that have promised to attend. Commissioner of Agriculture Wade and number of farm demonstra- tions agents, we should be in good posi- ton to compete with other cities seeking the bank.''
 The members of the committee will re- main in Macon until after the hearing and return with the board to Birming- nam Saturday morning. The remaining members of the committee will meet the board upon their arrival in Birmingham. The hearings will be arranged to suit the convenience of the board in the court room of the federal building. No set programme has been arranged, the course iaf+ +a ,a of the board.
 According to MT Wells. many replies to invitations sent out for delegations have been received and large number of citizens interested in the location of the bank in Birmingham will be present These delegations will be composed largely of farmers while Jefferson county will be well represented through the farmers. A luncheon will be rendered the board at the noon hour by the commit- tee, this being the only entertainment feature of the stay in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
jOE FERL|C| FOUND
 GUILTY FOR ANACT
 LAID ID HIS WIFE
Contention Made That in Sale of Liquor She Merely Acted as Husbands
 Agent

After being out several hours, the jury in the case of Joe Ferlici, charged with a violation of the. prohibition laws for an act committed by his wife, returned a verdict of guilty on two counts and as- sessed fine of 500.
 Upon the urgent and sollcitous appeal of Assistant Attorney w. E. Sadler, Judge Harrington P. Heflin, added on 3t days on the county roads to the sentence of the jury. The prosecution claimed that they wanted to make lesson out of the Joe Ferlici case.
 Attorneys Frank Cahalan and M w. Dinsmore at once filed notice of appeal to the supreme court as soon as Judge Heflin pronounced sentence.
 Joe Ferlici, after enteraing a plea Of guilty to violations of the prohibition law before Judge Fort, over year ago, was fined, including the court costs, total of about $7O0 and two years on the county roads. The road sentence was suspended upon the payment of the fine and costs and the continued good behavior of Joe Ferlici
 The moment Ferlici was arrested after two "snitches'' had secured some liquor with marked" money from his wife sev- eral weeks ago, the police at once hur- ried to Judge William E. Fort, with the request that he invoke his suspended sen tence over the Italian. However, Judge Fort refused to do so upon the presump- ton that an arrest does not necessarily indicate guilt. Judge Fort elected to await the result of trial by jury be- fore taking any action
 When Judge Fort was informed yester- day afternoon that the jury had convicted Ferlici on two counts he indicated that he would consider carefully the merits of the case before he invokes his suspended sentence on the defendant. From the two-year sentence Ferlici cannot appeal and the moment Judge Fort puts 1t Tn force the defendant will be taken to convict camp and started at work on ms punishment.
 Joe Ferlici was convicted on the evidence that his wife had sold some whisky to two negro "snitches" and also that about three quarts of whisky was found in the house where he lived.
 The evidence showed that Joe Ferlici was employed by one of the local corpor- ations, that his wife operated the grocery store and owned the home they lived in, and also that he had nothing directly to do with the alleged sale of liquors
 In the arguments to the jury Assistant City Attorney Sadler demanded a con. viction on the ground that Mrs. Feriicl was merely the agent of her husband and therefore Joe Ferhci was guilty.
 The case has excited a lot Of interest about the courthouse among attorneys Ill the criminal courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
STEAM COAL PRICES
 REACH HIGH LEVEL
YCar Shortage Responsible for Steady Climb, Is Gen.
 eral Report

Steam coal is selling at a figure that has never been surpassed in the history of the Birmingham district ton For the small tonnage of the coal that the mines can offer after the great requirements of contracts with railroads and other big industries have been filled there is the keenest com petition.
 For industries are facing the propo- stion of shutting down their plants and the price of coal is incidental Un- less the car shortage becomes better it is predicted that steam coal, which once sold for $1 a ton, will climb steadily until the $5 mark Is reached 7 The large cotton mills in Georgia and Mississippi are seriously deficient in stores of coal They have sent agents into Birmingham to attempt to have coal shipped to them to relieve the situation. but the big coal dealers have been forced to tell them that they are helpless. The sales manager for one big coal company said yesterday that three large industrial plants in the south. two in Georgia and one in Mississippi had been forced to shut down temporarily while awaiting fuel.
 T have been busy for days listen ing to men in Birmingham from points in the south who want coal" K A. Conville. coal sales manager for the Pratt Consolidated Coal company, saio i, yesterday. Tt is hard that I cannot sell them, but we cannot get cars to ship coal to them.
 .The coal operators in the Birming- ham district are getting slightly over 50 per cent of the cars needed. Every railroad in the south is short of coal Lines that formerly kept vast stores in reserve are down to a comparatively < few tons. By virtue of the fact that they are in a position to get coal, they can always manage to operate, but they are really in a serious plight. Tt is matter of pure guesswork to state what is going to happen during the next 90 days. Unless some relief Wis afforded. the price of coal will climb steadily. I would not be surprised to see steam coal sell for $5 ton.
 Even with the price at this hg- nre, the coal companies will be able to make only small profit, for most of the output is tied up by railroad and other contracts. The available free Tonnage that can be shipped during the acute car shortage is very small"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
SCHOOL OF METHODS WILL COME ID CLOSE Teachers to Receive Degrees at Closing Exercises
 Tonight

The School of Methods. which has been in session all week at the First Baptist church. will come to close following the final address by pr. James w. Lee. at S:30 tonight. The school has been pronounced one of the greatest successes in the history of the organization, and following the completion of lessons today a large number of Sunday school teachers are expected to receive degrees and eX- tension in the teaching work.
 The opening address of the closing dav will be made by Leon c. Palmer of Montgomery, general secretary of the Alabama Sunday School associa~ ton. MT. Palmer is well known the state. being one or the best informed and most enthusiastic Sunday school workers of the state. He will make an address on The Elf 6c;ent Sunday SchooP' from 3:35 to 4:1O this afternoon.
 pr. Lincoln Hulley will occupy the rostrum at his usual period to com plete his series of lectures of the Psalms. Dr. Hulley has utilized the Psalms of David in such manner as to add more beauty and fascination to this book. which he declares Is one of the most beautiful and fascinating books of the old Bible.
 pr. Lee v,,s bring the school to a close tonight with the last of his fla nous lectures, using as his subject ..The Discovery of the Philosophers Stone."
 election of the officers for the Br- mingham Sunday School association will take place. The School of Meth ods is held under the auspices of this association and the officers are elect ed annually at the close of the school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Woman Stabbed

Rosa Davis, negro. was seriously in- jured at 430 o'clock yesterday after noon when she was stabbed with a knife by Mattie Thomas, negro, in Tenth alley, between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, north. The injured negro was removed to the Hi1lman hos pital in an ambulance of Davenport &s Harris, negro undertakers. where it was stated that she will reciver. No cause was assigned for the stabbing. The Thomas woman made her escape, and at a late hour last night had not been captured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Traffic Bureau

Birmingham is to have a traffic bu- reau in operation by December 1, ac- cordinga to information given out yes terday following a meeting of the finance committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Good progress is being made by the committees working to raise the $10,000 budget and they ex- pect to have everything in shape to begin operations by the last of next month or possibly earlier.
 The committee is working quietly but the report yesterday showed that results were being obtained and that it was only a question of little more time until the budget would be com plete
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
CAMP WILCOX
Huddleston Will Make
 Principal Address

Camp Wilcox. United Confederate vet erans, will meet this afternoon at Cable hall at 2:30 clock. Congressman George Huddleston will make an address and a musical programme has been arranged The delegation that attended the Gads- den reunion will make report
 All veterans, Daughters of the Con federacy and the public generally are n- vited to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Verdict for Defendant

The case of w. R. Sims vs. Bir- mingham Railway. Light and Power company was tried in the city court and resulted in verdict in favor of the defendant. This suit was for $1o,- 900 and grew out of an accident al Grady street in which the plaintiffs automobile was struck by South Bes- semer car and damaged and he also received personal injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
TODAY'SEVENTS
At the Theatres

Lyric-Vaudeville. Matinee at 2 clock Night performance at 7:30 and o'clock.
 Bijou-"My Mothers Rosary" Epochal drama Night performance at 8 o'clock. Matinee today and Saturday at 2:So 70 clock.
 Colonial-Musical comedy, "The IIeidle- burg Girls"
 Majestic-Musical comedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
General Mann Succeeds Mills

Washington. october 26.-Brig. Will liam A. Mann. commanding the army division with headquarters at Laredo, Tex, was today selected for chief of the division of militia affairs in the war department by the death of Maj. Gen. Albert L. Mills. He will assume his duties at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

her bedroom unconscious and bleeding profusely from wounds on her head. The bedroom looked as If a cyclone had struck it, depicting in the minds eye the terrific struggle that must have taken place.
 Dr. E. c. Farrell was immediately sum- moned and Mrs. Mauldin revived, and she then stated that a negro had assaulted her with 8 pistol. The police and sher- ifs office were then immediately noti- fled and in less than 15 minutes score of officers were on the scene.
 MEMBERS OF FAMILY ARRIVE
 Several members of the Mauldin family also arrived fully armed and with blood hounds from Joe Caldwell's place took to the trail. Sheriff Thomas J. Batson, with the dogs of the convict camp, arrived a few moments later and also started on the chase. The men in Woodlawn, in- cluding even the officers. were free in their predictions that the negro had little chance of being caught alive.
 An Age-Herald reporter arrived on the scene shortly after the pursuit started and with Officer Wolfe of the health de- partment interviewed Mrs. Mauldin, who told of the assault in calm tones:
 T hope" said Mrs. Mauldin, raising herself slightly out of the bed and strok- ing gently the head of her little daugh- ter who stood near, that when this negro is captured he will be brought to me. want to kill him myself-that' is if the members of the posse are not men enough to do So
 Tt was negro that I had never seen before. When he tiptoed in I thought that it was Grandma Mauldin coming in. The child was asleep and Grandma Mauldin usually comes in on tiptoe to avoid waking her.
 IS BADLY BRUISED
 Mrs. Mauldins face was practically blue from the blows she had received on one side of her head, and there was an evil dent swelling. Although she is not se- riously injured she is badly bruised, and it will be several days at least before she is about. The little child has only minor cut, which will heal quickly.
 When Mrs. Mauldin was asked by the reporter where her husband was she re- piled with emphasis
 He is out in the woods looking for the negro"
 At police headquarters last night the fear was expressed that if the negro was caught he would be summarily dealt with It was stated, however, that no trail had been picekd up and that it was quite likely that the negro had boarded a pass ing freight train and left the district
 It was also stated yesterday that the assault on Mrs. Mauldin. was the twelfth on white women so far this year in the Birmingham district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
At the Photoplay Houses

Strand-Edna Mayo Tn the Return of Eve.'
 Triangle-Dorothy Dalton in "The Jungle Child"
 Trianon-Francis Bushman in Romeo land Juliet Alazar--,rheda Bara in "East Lynne"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27

At 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. Maud Mauldin was brutally as saulted by an unknown negro at her home at 4930 Sixth avenue, South Woodlawn. The assault took place in the midst of rather thickly populated district, and although the alarm was quickly given, the negro made his es- cape to the adjacent woods.
 Mrs Mauldin, who is a member of one of the oldest families in Woodlawn, and the wife of H. J. Mauldin. a car inspec- tor at the Finley yards, informed the police that she was sitting in her bed room crocheting when she heard a slight noise of someone seemingly tptoeing. She looked up and saw a tall negro standing in the doorway. The negro, ac- cording to Mrs. Mauldin, at once drew a large pistol and pointing it at her head, he said
 If you scream I will kill you"
 II was stunned, stupefied, at seeing the negro so close to me- said Mrs. Mauldin, "and at first could not move. But some how or other I got up, knocked over a chair and started to open window to jump through
 "All the time my little three-year-old daughter was asleep on the bed. AS l reached to pull up the window it jammed. and I heard the quick rush of the ne- gro coming at me- Then all was confu- sion, as he struck me over the head with the butt end of his pistol.
 'The last I remember distinctly was my little daughter screaming and the negro turning from me to strike her. He did strike her. Look" and the officers were shown little Julia Posey Mauldin. pretty blonde-haired child of 3 years standing by the bed where her mother was swathed in bandages. They saw a cut place on the side of her right eye, a slight abrasion as If the negro's descend ing pistol had missed the mark and scraped the child's cheek drawing the blood The officers listened calmly to the story, but they left the house mur- muring muffled oaths.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
Officers and Citizens Scour Country With Dogs and Guns For Negro Who Attacked Mrs.
 Maud Mauldin in Her Home
MAN HAS IITTI IE CHANGE
 TO BE CAPTURED ALIVE|
Crime Committed in Middle of Afternoon in We'll Settled Portion of Woodlawn-Twelfth At- tack By Negroes on White Women in Bir-
 mingham District This Y ear

Pursued by boodhounds and large posse of armed men, negro brute making desperate attempt to escape the tolls vengeance in the woods adjacent to South Woodlawn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-27
NEIGHBOR SAW NEGRO ENTER

A neighbor of Mrs. Mauldin saw the ne- gro enter the victims home. She saw him knock cautiously and then go around the back She watched and after a few minutes seeing that the negro had nct emerged from the house she sent her son to investigate The son knocked at the door of Mrs. Mauldin, but as she lay unconscious on the floor he could gain no admittance and the neighbors were called They forced an entrance and dis covered Mrs. Mauldin, halfway out of
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-06-17

free trade league in this just at this time
AS the exercise of personal privilege it is all right
but a step toward stripping industrial system
OF all protection against foreign competition and for
eign under selling, there does not appear to be any
example of nearly that sort of thing they
dared set and the results have been srikingly
favorable. 1t their idea that they would flood
market with foreign made goods, and thus bring
down American prices to the level of foreign prices
foreign wages being about half large the wages
paid in this country-but the outbreak of this Euro
pean interrupted that arbitrary and ruinous I'M
dertakng The country has thus been saved for the
time being from the effects of this free trade
experiment. although it is fairly to be expected unless
a rational tariff is substituted for the we now
wade our market when the war ends But a
job of fiscal legislation the democrats have had
that their tariff for only is flat
failure. 1t has been in operation about three years
and half and already congress has had to patch it
up twice-Once with fine collection Of special war"
taxes and the second time by returning sugar to the
dutable list Instead of producing tariff for
only which what they undertook to do. they
produced tariff for treasury deficits only and these
treasury deficits still continue in spite of the
efforts by congress to make the ramshackle thing
government 1t does look. then. if this
life up for the purpose of
providing this country with any free trade
than we have on hand
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-06-17
Hiqh Finance in Mexico

Some of the letters home by members of
the punitive expedition into Mexico throw light upon
features of the campaign contained in the official
dispatches. Incidentally it transpres. the presence
of General Pershings troopers while theoretically it
was offensive to the inhabitants a OF
much profit. According to a correspondent of the
New York Evening Post, the vanguard of the expe
dition in anxiety get Villa quickly pushed ahead
of the commissary department and purchased sup
plies from the natives Some food requisitioned
and receipts given, TO be taken later by the
federal authorities but many articles were bought out
right At point SO per pound paid for
sugar and $l.6215 for dozen small cakes of
soap. Cigarettes changed hands 81 a pack in gold.
1t the first real money the Mexicans had for
time and they took advantage Of the necessities
of the troopers. Then the balance of trade to
a degree restored. The soldiers found that empty
food and oil cans were practically legal tender. In
trading with the they equalzed matters
what by demanding 81, one chicken and four
each for five gallon gasoline cans and egg each
for empty tomato
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-06-17
The Need of a Survey

The proposed survey of Phoenix, though not a
part of the salt River Valley Plan" is in line with
the preliminary of the plan 1t is proposed to
find out just where Phoenix stands, something that
nobody know In consequence movements
betterment started in the dark. carried along
in the dark and finally lost in the dark.
We heard old Phoencian, who had
Did You a place where many things were
started only TO vanish last into thin air."
That question suggests popularity of Arizona
rivers particularly the raging Santa Cruz
which after a promising beginning in the mountains
Of Mexico winds its way with less and less vim and
vgor, and gradually abandoning its purpose to sur
prise and overwhelm the Colorado with it's torrent
finally sinks into the sands and is lost forever The
Santa Cruz knows what it do and where it
go but it has well defined route to its
destination marked The country in front of it
its difficulties has been surveyed for it,
There few things in this world worth while,
that work themselves out accomplished by ac
cident Every great completed undertaking is the
complete and information. Impulse is
sometimes all right far it goes but unfortunately
it goes very far. 1t moves by short cuts
unexplored territory and in UNEMPLOYED territory
there are as likely be serious and unseen
obstacles against which impulse exhauss itself There
5 a way around every obstacle but it be
found only by study-by survey