The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

noise ceased. My new auditors speak vaguely of court action"
 I'll meet m in court any time. Ellis said.
 You'll have a chance" was the chairwoman's quick retort
 Ellis continued to talk of alleged mis- management of the oil field. 'I don't think you're much of an oil man, MT. Ellis" interrupted Mrs.
 lionore. And your statements are not true.
 T don't think you're much of an oil woman, Mrs. Honore,' replied Ellis. Mrs. Honore shattered her gavel.
 REPORT STIRS DOUBTERS
 During the morning session Mrs Elizabeth Doyle. secretary, read a re- port.
 'I don't know whether that's an annual report or a pipe dream of the future,7 said a stockholders man.
 A gentleman from indiana rose to go. This is an outrage-it's a fIameup, she shouted,
 A recess for an hour was declared The hour sped by and meanwhile, in the counting room men were laborins with proxies. Scattered over the room were sample ballots Mrs. May Brom- ley Milroy, S21G Harper avenue, headed the Holmes list and Mrs. Honore the other.
 The stockholders returned and asked , that the meeting go on. Three times men-mind you, men-rose and mo- toned that the meeting be reopened, Mrs Honore refused. The counting in the anteroom continued. Two more men asked that the meeting be opened and then Mrs. Milroy rose, stretched forth her hand and shouted for recos- nition
 What is your name?" Mrs. Honore asked her rival.
 Mrs. Milroy,r was the answer.
 70! You are Mrs. Milroy! O! and Mrse Honore's friends made the Odd Fellows room in the senate Ma. sonic temple shiver.
 ELLIS HANDED HOT ONE Throuehout the meeting Attorney Holmes held his peace. He made no direct accusations and did not even an swer the ones made against him. Before the banoting started Elhs jumped to the floor.
 "'The secretary of state has report from this concern that wouldn't look good in print" the former auditor Probably it's your last audit de murred Mrs. Honore. Finally the sounding of the proxies was finished and the tin ballot box was brought out. Amid riot or cneerS anu : ieers the two tickets were nominated Mrs. Honore then pressed the throttle of the roller open. It took 10 min
 utes for her to collect 32,427 votes Roger Sullivan is a novice,' said Ellis. when he heard the results.
 MRS. HONORE FINISHES STRONG Despite the eight and half hours of fighting Mrs Honore was as vigor- ous as when she opened the meeting. She rose and with the assurance of senator told everybody that the Wom- ms Federal oil Company of America in two more years would be the
 mightiest corporation in the country, not barring Rockefeller and that it will be strictly woman's accomplish ment and organization. The company paid dividends last year, but has not paid any this year. There are 21 well developed wells Tn Kansas and leases on 350,OOO acres In Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.
 The company has a national advisory board of women, which is given as fol- lows:
 Chairman. Mrs Ethel M. Durfee, first vice president Arche club; Mrs Hen- rietta Cosgrove, Joplin Mo-, vice presl- dent Missouri southern conference of women and child labor; Mrs. Zella Rouse Thayer, Buffalo, N. Y, member Woman's Suffrage party of Buffalo; Mrs T. Oliver Foster, Shreveport, La; owner and operator Liberia plantation; Mrs Genevieve Meeker, Atlanta, Ga. artist Mrs. Dora Earle, Chicago, df- rector Republican Women's association of Illinois; Mrs. K. R. Jaggers, Hot Springs, Ark, real estate investments;