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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

and avenue so as to necessitate the construction of any viaduct or under pass or any other facilities for grade separation. nothing herein contained and no right hereby created shall be construed to affect the right of the City of Birmingham to enact such ordinances, nor to exempt the grantee from the operation thereof, or from the duty of conforming thereto.
 Sec. s. This ordinance shall be who'll ly void and of no effect unless the railway company hereby enfranchised shall be constructed and put into op- eration within F months from the passage and publication of this ordi- nance
 Sec. 9.-The grantee shall pay the expense of the publication of this ordinance. and for such purpose shall deposit with the city comptroller the sum of $25 to cover the cost of such publication. and any unexpended bal ance shall be returned by the Comp trolter to the grantee after the cost of such publication has been ascertained and any deficiency in the amount of such deposit shall be supplemented by the grantee on demand after the cost of such publication shall have been ascertained
 Approved December A. 1912
 N. A. BARRETT.
 President of the Commission A true copy H. s. RYALL,
 City Clerk. Age Herald, December 27, 1919.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
FLORENCE

Florence. December 26.-( -(Special.)-De utX sheriff Carl Anderson who was shot ana fatally wounded by Tom Stephenson last Sunday night four mfes east of Florence, died today at the Coffee hos pltaL It is stated that the sheriff and his deputies caught Tom Stephenson in the act of selling moonshine whisky to a negro, and when the officers command ed Stephenson to consider himself under arrest, he opened fire, with the result that Deputy Anderson was fatally wound ed and Deputy Dewey Mitchell had narrow escape, one shot passing so near his head as to burn him just above the ear, Deputy Anderson was the son of MT. and Mrs. W. w. Anderson, and had a large circle of friends throughout this county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
NEGRO WOMAN KILLED

Anniston, December 26- Special )- We fell out and l killed her" was the brief and only explanation made by Abe Crankfield, negro, who walked 15 miles from Maxwellborn tc surrender to the authorities for the killing of Flora Hudgins, a negress, al that place Thursday night
 Crankfield came to Anniston aftei shooting the Maxwellborn woman to death with pistol and seeing a uni formed man on the streets made in quiry as to the location of the jail ex- blaming to the officer that he wanted to give up. The officer was from Ala bama City and accompanied the negro to the county jail
 The negro woman was shot through the breast one time, laccording to the reports from MaXwellborn. and died in- stantlyf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

provided for. such license shall be one- fourth of the annual license provided by this Ordinance, and the quarters shall be calendar quarters, commencing on the first of January. April. Juiy and Octo- Der. Quarterly license may be taken out on the following classes of business, viz: Assignment of wages, short mof4-y lenders, billiard and pool tables.
 Sec. 13. No license shall be required of any dentist, physician, surgeon or lawyer for the first two years succeeding his ad- mission to the practice of his said pro- fession.
 PROVISIONS SEPARABLE AS TO IN
 VALIDITY, ETC.
 Sec. i4. Should any section or provision of this Ordinance be for any reason held void or invalid, it shall not affect the validity of any other section or provision hereof which is not itself void or invalid. UNLAWFUL TO DO BUSINESS BE
 FORE OBTAINING LICENSE
 Sec b. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in any Of the aforesaid businesses or voca- tions ii1 the City of Birmingham during the year 1920 without first having pro- cured d license therefor, and each day during which said business or occupation is so engaged il, shall constitute sep arate offense.
 FALSE OATH TO PROCURE LICENSE See. l6 That it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly and wiltuifY make any false written affidavit as to tho amount of stock on hand, or volume of gross receipts. revenues or business. or amount of capital invested in business or number of employees or vehicles used, and 10 file such affidavit with the City Comptl oller, or any License Collector or inspector, or any deputy license inspector or collector, for the purpose of defraudinE the City of Birmingham by procuring license for a less sum than is lawfully due by the affiant, or his principal.
 FEE FOR ISSUING LICENSE
 Sec. r. Be it ordained, that at the time of taking out and paying for said license there shall pc paid to the City Comp troller. or License Collector. for the use of the city, a fee of fifty cents for each license,
 PENALTY
 Sec. IS. Any person, firm or corpor atloh violating any Trovision of this Ordinance shall upon conviction be punished within the limits of and as provided by Section 1216 of the Code of Alabama.
 Approved December 20, 1919
 N A. BARRETT,
 President If the City Commission. A true copy.
 H. S RYALL. City Clerk.
 Apa-Hera1d December 27 1919.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
PARKER CAPTURES STILL

Anniston. December 26.-( (Special)- Sheriff w. E. Parker headed a posse of deputies and went into the noun tains between Iron City and Chosea Springs Thursday evening and de- stroyed an S0- gallon illicit dstillery in full operation.
 Three well-known men of that com munity are said to have been at work at the still when the sheriff and his posse approached. but succeeded in making their escape for the time. The owners and operators of the plant are known to the officers and will be prosecuted by the sheriff.
 The sheriff poured out between. 400 and 300 gallons of beer and destroyed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
SAWYER VISITS RELATIVES

Anniston, December 26.-(SpeciaL)- Esten w. Sawyer. who is now engaged in United States army recruiting sery- ice for the Georgia district, with head quarters in Atlanta, is spending the holidays with his parents, Judge and Mrs. A. B. Sawyer. and is receiving a cordial welcome from his local friends.
 Mr. Sawyer states that recruiting for the regular army is brisk and that 6s per cent of the enlistments are of world war veterans, according to the official statistics of the United States army.
 The Georgia recruiting officer is im- pressed with the fact that the younger generation of men are coming to real ize the advantages that the different branches of the service offer for earning while you learn many of them being sent to the various schools of the army for instruction V
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
NORRIS SENDS GREETINGS

Anniston, December +(Specia1)= Norman l.. Summers, secretary of the Company M chapter, Alabama branch of the Railbow division veterans, is in receipt of a beautifully engraved card from Mapor Ravee Norris, which is addressed to all the members of Com pany M, l67th infantry, and which reads as follows.
 ITO you whose fellowship l appre- ciate. whose friendship I hold sacred, a Merry Christmas,
 Major Norris also desires to be re- membered to Rainbow division vet erans and to his many Anniston friends. He is just recovering from a recent operation for the closing and cure of wounds received in July 1918, at Chateau Thierry. while in command of Company M. 167th infantry, and at St. Mihiel in September, 1918, while in command of the third battalion of the same regiment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

Anniston, December 26.- (Speeial)-- Sheriff w. E. Parker, Deputy Collector Bob Ferguson and Deputy Sheriff Newt Lindsey interfel'ed with the Christmas plans of Coppett Mckenzie, negro, who lives near the Four-Mile church, when they went to his place Wednesday night and destroyed 2 ard-can distilling outfit and a barrel of syrup beer just ready tol be made into Gnristmas booze.
 The alleged owner of the plant was mot at home when the officers ruined his homemade plant, but was arrested in the city following their return to An- niston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
MRS. HuGHES IS DEAD

Ana3 ston, December 26, Special l-Mrs, Annie Elizabeth Hughes wife of j " Huehes, keeper Of the Annlston wago'', varI. died at her home at Eighth ani Noale streets Thursday afternoon at o'cloctz, and the funeral services were helI Friday afternoon al Edsemont eeine- terv Rev R. NJ. Phifer officiating.
 Ms Hughes death carried sorrow lnr' the homes of many Anniston people, she was one of the u.dest and most highly re spected residents of the city ana univessall, lovel for fer sweet chr's.ii,,
 ideals and lova0le disposition be ',.,' her bassanE she is survived by three enns. anl three lau.hters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
CHRISTMAS RAIDS MADE

Anniston. December 6.-tSpecial)-- Deputy Collectors J. E, Edwards and John H. Draper made successful Christmas raid against the moonshili CTS south of Muscadine in Cieburns county, destroying three large outfit and pouring out about 1900 gallons of beer along with considerable quanti- ties of fresh made whisky.
 The operators of the three plants vamoosed before the raiders reached the scene of operations and made their escape into the hills.
 The raiders used their hatchets and made scrap out of the stills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
HARRY GETS A WATCH

Anniston. December 26.-(Special.)- Capt. Harry M Ayers, publisher of the Anniston Star. was remembered by his fellow workers on Christmas Day by the presentation of fife gold watch and the men were in turn re- memhered by the gift of five dollar goldpieces.
 The Star workers also presented IT. R. Gordon the editor of the Star. with a handsome pipe, as Christmas token. and the entire force was happy in their exchange of Christmas presents and greetings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
MATTIsoN MOVES HERE

Anniston, December 6,-(special)- G A. Mattison has recently moved with his family from Ashland 70 An- niston and has been accorded warm welcome by the Anniston people.
 MT. Mattison has several very inn portant railroad contracts and is rap idly taking his proper place as a pro gressive citizen of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
PITTS GETS DISCHARGE

Anniston. December tSpecial9- First Class Mechanic Claude c. Pitts. who has been serving in the naval aviation corps since his discharge from the army last January has been discharged and returned to his home here
 Mechanic Pitts spent several months in France and other countries with the American forces, and took part in sew eral of the hardest fights of the world war. He has made good records in both branches of the service, but is entirely willing to re-establish his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
oFFICERs CAPTURE BOOZE

Anniston, December Special)- Possession of three quarts of whiskey in a Franklin ear was responsible for the arrest Thursday in Oxford of Nir- gil Poss and two negroes by Marshal Burrows and Deputy Collector John H. Draper
 The three defendants were charged with violation of the prohibition laws by the Oxford officer and the federal officer will also prefer charges against them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
TEN GAMBLERS FINED

Anniston. December 26.-(special) )-De- tectiYes Wade arc Wordlow broke up a Christmas crap game in West Anniston by arresting ten of the alleged particl- pants, all of w,tom pleaded guilty and paid fines of s1o and costs in the police court Friday morning.
 The same officers mixed up with Tom Rote Camp Mcclellan soldier. Thurs day night while ine latter was celebrating Christmas The soldier was fined B ana costs under a drunk charge and s25 and costs under disorderly conduct charss in the police court Friday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
PIEDMONT VISITORS

Anniston, December (Special)- pr. and Mrs. B. w Ward, MT. and Mrs. George w. Turnipseed and Miss Helen Turnipseed spent Thursday on motor trip to Piedmont and other nearby places.
 Dr. Ward has recently returned from a combined business and pleasure trip to Louisiana and Texas. in which states he has extensive oil property interests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

Anniston, December 26.- Specially J. A. Callahan, highly respected citi- Thursday night at his home in the northern part of the city after long illness. MT. Callahan had lived in An niston for upwards of 25 years, moving to this city. from Jacksonville about that time and establishing a shoe and harness shop, which he had conducted since coming here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Reaterdahl on the Job

From ~rhe T. $ Navy Transatlantic
 Flight: with sketches and Notes
 lN- Henlw Reuterdahll ins Seribr ar's.
 The artist. while fuuy impressed win inc navy job done for the pur- pose of finding out things and the simple modesty of the fiiers acting as if they had pust crossed the liuG- son river on a ferry instead of over fhe Atlantic through the air. was per- haps more interested in the pie- turesque possibilities He writes
 ~In the Azores nature is not real if is all d stage; you want to look be- hind for the props of the scenery The landscape is like that in the Isle or champagne' where Thomas Seabrooke broke out the Joe Miller Joke book, only the chorus has more clothes From the sea you enter Ponta Delgada through the cutest little water gate ever set up by any stage carpenter Close by there is q comic opera cathe- aral though built around 100. on it's steps comic opera beggars lounge in traditional attitudes A gendarme a la the Follies with hat that would make De Wolf Hopper envious, gives YOU the starey eye. The chorus, i. e.. the fishermen, lie in picturesque poses in their boats which are pulled up on the beach. 1Tue to SNeescf tidoiei'ilos the fishers have purple knitted caps nonchalantly tossed over the star board ear and are, of course, bare footed with red sashes around their cross sections. Their sails are red of lateen rig. and in color their crafts look like freshly set palette
 Portuguese officers in dolmans. with clanking sabres and window glass monocles. mingle with the ladies of class, navigating over the cobble- stones with difficulty on French heels four inches high The native women are not what you might call lockers, but Azoean traditions have providde each with perfectly good set of binders. Your sense of beauty is not offended unless you see her bow on, for her head is engulfed in a cowl- like top piece that precedes the face by about four inches
 "Beyond--the blue water and tke gray U. s. ships from which your boat-loads of happy 'gobs' in Pina- fore clothes scampering up to tho water-gate to this isiand of make- believe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Movie Man Study

The United States general staff, in 1918 decided to utilize the screen as a means of intensive instruction. Maps had to be used and understood Tn order to break the boche. Contour lines. which meant little to the average soldier, were eX- plained graphically in a reel devoted to map reading.
 A miniature mountain made of modelling clay and soil, with steep slope on one side and gently declivty on the other was constructed on the floor of day light studio. On curved wooden track covering 90 degree arc, the camera. all ways feet from the mountain, faced it and a grayish background.
 The observer first sees the, mound against the sky from the horizontal line, produced by white worsted gradually appears at the base. card marked sea level" flashes in on the line. At frequent intervals similar lines appear at the proportionate Ofoot heights. Cards announce 40 feet 60 feet etc. When the summit is reached, at 100 feet in this case, the student has a realistic idea of elevations and slopes.
 A map is formed on the screen by a gradual elevating of the camera through are made at every minute progression The perspective changes as if viewed from a rising balloon.
 A series of elliptical white lines are seen from the perpendicular. The stu dent notices that they are close together on the steep side and more separated on the gentle slope He is then better able to interpret typographical maps and to help win battles. The interesting appa- ratus is described and Illustrated in the Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
aQAV p. ROckEE-ELLE LLER
NE WIS OF ANlVSTON
J. A. CALLAHAN DEAD

considerable quantity of new whis- key which had just been run off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
UNIQUE PLANT DESTROYED

civilian status and retire to private life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

A recent study, including more than 20,000 women employed in factories and stores in New York state, revealed that week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

The principal reason why Argentine railway securities slumped so badly dur ing the war is that this huge country has always depended on imported coal, and of late the companies have ben pay ing s30 ton for coal from the United States There is coal in Argentina, but it is not yet worked on any considerable scale .IslIt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
TERMS FOR WHICH LICENSE IS
 ISSUED

Sec. 5 The above schedule of licenses shall be for the calendar year, except in case the license on any of the fore going occupations be taken out after the first of July only one-half the li- cense shall be charged and collected, except those subjects for which weekly or monthly. quarterly or semi annual license are provided above.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
LICENSE TO BE EXHIBITED

Sec. g. Each license shall be posted in a conspicuous place, where such business or occupation is carried on, and the holder of such license shall immediately show such license to the License 1nspec- tor or Collector or his deputy or any po- lice officer of the city upon being so re- quested by such inspector, deputy or off cer so to do.
 Sec. 10. On all licenses which shall be delinquent for more than ninety (9O) days there shall be due and collected an add- tional license equal to 10 per cent of the original amount of license, provided same shall in no case be less than fifty cents, which may be paid prior to arrest, in lieu of fine or Imprisonment for doing business without a license.
 Sec il No provision of this Ordinance shall be so construed as to tax inter- state commerce or any United States or government business.
 Sec. F. Where quarterly licenses are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
EACH BUSINESS DEMANDS SEPA-
 RATE LICENSE

Sec. s. That any person. firm or cor poration dealing in two or more of the articles or engaging in two or more of the businesses, vacations, callings or professions enumerated in section 1 of this ordinance, and for which license is required of each such person shall Fay for and take out a license for each line of business vocation, calling or pro- fession
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
TRANSFER OF LICENSE

Sec. 6. That no license issued under the above schedule shall be trans ferred except by the consent of the Commission of the City of Birmingham, and no transfer shall be valid until same has been endorsed across the face of the license receipt by the City Comptroller. and no license shall be transferred in any event more than once and never from one business to another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27

Sec. :. That any person desiring to en- sage in any trade, business. occupation, for which a license is required and for which a fixed place of business is re- quired shall designate the place at which said trade or business or occupation is to be carried on, and the license to be issued hereunder shall designate such place, and such license shall authorize the carrying Son of such trade, business or occupation only at such place. For each place at which said trade. business or occupation is carried on license fee and tax shall be paid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Ordinance No. 671-C

A true copy. H. $. RYALL, City Clerk. Age-Herald, December 2. 1919.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-12

OF the church. Is noted for his radical
tendencies In January of this year he
threatened to quit unless II ceased to
continue along the conventional lines
Of Unitarian parish church. Shortly
after that he changed the name OF
the church TO that which It now bears,
Community Church." and made II a
non-sectarian organization. Before thu
war. too, DR.. Holmes was the subject
OF much comment because Of his
pacifist tendencies.
Among the paintings which were
saved yesterday was portrait of the
Rev. Rober Collyer. for decades pastor
OF the church.
The Murray Hin section, in which h
the Community Church. has been the
scene OF several big fires. About two
years ago a fire started in the cellar
Of the Community Church, then the
Church of the Messiah. And recently
an inconsequential fire started In the
organ loft from the same cause which
Is believed to have started Yesterdays
blaze-defective wiring. II was In 1904
the Seventy-frst Regiment Armory, on
the southeast corner of Thirty-fourth
street and Fourth avenue, and the Park
Avenue Hotel. on Thirty-third street,
blazed together, mourning the loss OF
many lives
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-12
HILLYER SUED FOR
LOAN ON OIL LANDS
Yonkers Trust Co. Wants
Broker to Repay $43,26I.

William Hurd Hillyer, an investment
securities broker, was made defendant
In a suit filed yesterday in the Supreme
Court by which the Yonkers Trust Com
pany, through John J. Walsh. it's presi-
dent seeks to recover s43,261.23. This
sum, It is alleged. the defendant obtained
by false representations and pretences.
Endorsed on the face of the summons
which was served on Hiilyer at so Wall
street, are the words plaintiff claims
the defendant is liable to arrest and
imprisonment"
The complaint alleges that in Decem-
ber 1917, the Yonkers Trust Company
through Thomas Brown, its secretary,
loaned $4,000 to Hillyer and Stephen
l.. Snowden being secured by the per-
sonal collateral notes of the borrowers
and stock of the Virginia-Midland Oil
Company.
1t was stated at the time the loan
was made, 1t is alleged, that this COM
pany was a going concern with l.4O0
acres OF choice oil land in the West
Virginia fields. This land was said to
be proved acreage and had shown no
dry holes, there being eight producing
oil wells and one gas well on the prop
erty. According to the plaintiff these
representations were found to be false.
Snowden is alleged to have returned
moro than $4,000 of the money borrowed,
He is not named as a defendant in the
present action.