The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-30
REDS SHOWED UNDER BY RIVAL GROUPS IN
 THE |. OF |. DRIVE
Fifteen Hundred Fifty-Tw0 New Members Added in Four Days-Bryan to
 Speak at Luncheon

Birmingham ChdmDer or COlfHelSo today is more than twice as strong finan- cially and numerically as it was on Mon day morning last. It then h,d 744 mem bers. At the noon luncheon of the cam paign teams yesterday reports were made of 252 additional pledges, bringing the grand total of the four days of the drive to 552 Today and tomorrow will surely finish the job of putting the membership at 2000 and a few more.
 Ma jorr Jack Adams of the red out fit started something when he challenged the whites and blues combined to con- test yesterday. Together. Majors J. Chapline Hodges and w c. Bonham and their teams rolled up total of 142 mem bers to 110 for the red crowd. The con test is on for another day, for the cour' age of all three groups is undiminished. n Fnnk Butler president of the Real Es tate Exchange, presided at the fourtn luncheon It was Realtors day and all the members of the exchange were pres ent In his opening remarks MT Butler said he thought every member of the ex- change was working on Chamber ot Commerce membership team. However if there happened to be one who wss not. he urged him to get into the campaign at once, for he could how a live cham Der might be of the greatest value to the real estate business and the men engaged in it.
 BRYAN SPEAKS TODAY Today will be Civitan day. Presiden, .. w. Shropshire has the definite prom ise of William Jennings Brynn to be at the head table and to speak 10 or 15 min utes on the subject of Cooperation. Fred Shireman. who is one of the cap tains in the white group, spent yesterday hunting up all the chairs in the Tutwiler to accommodate the expected crowd. R. A. Brown, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said he had intended to make an announcement of no less inter est to the citizens of Birmingham than that of Wednesday concerning the War rior river rates. but he had at the last minute been forbidden to do so until Saturday. On that day the members ot the Community club will unite with the Chamber of Commerce workers. Most ot it's members have been serving all the week on the campaign organization. l G. w. Hopson, who took captaincy , yesterday and Ted Brownell were the I individual honor winners. The former turned in g signed applications and the I latter 2O There was q lot of specula' /; tion as to what Mir. Hopson would have done if he had been enlisted earlier. MT Brownell's S total of 5S memberships IS SC high that the captain who aspires tt overtake him will have to work more 1 than two hours a day.
 INSTALLATION PLANS 1 Yesterdays speaker was C.. E. Jenks who has been sent to Birmingham WILT l N l.. Stear, to conduct the installatior period of the new Chamber of Commerce Mir Jenks outlined briefly the plan' which will be followed in the election l the building of the programme of wori and the formation of members forum | He emphasized strongly the wide degre' l of democracy which will characterize al the acts of the new chamber and thu opportunity at all times for the member ship to exercise full control over ever, l function of the body.
 Walter Parcelle, one of the group O men who have been in charge of thu campaign here, left last night for Hous ton, Texas, where similar drive will b'
 made at once for the Young Mems Bus 1 mess lea que.
 | The standing of the teams is as follows l totals for the four days only being given RED GROUP
 l Major w. J. Adams, 230; Captains E. w Brownell. 5S; Victor Gage, 32 Joseph E l Pool, 30 Tom G. Estes, g6. J. Eli | man. 21: George McCleery, 20: E. F. Al l man. 9: Ceoree McCleerv. 2n. E. P. Allen | 1s; J. P DeJarnette. IS; H. w. Taylor, 16 R. H. Trick. 16; Ed s. Moore, Is; D. A 1 Piatt, 15; Joseph K. Saks. 15; J. B. Yeat man, 15; w. A. Currie, IA; Julien s. Ca | heen. 13: A. J. Arrant g; Herbert Steiner
 g; Ensley- Fairfield, c. c. Burke. 34; bus tness women. Mrs. H. F.. Pearce., F; to l tals, previous, 575: May 29. 110; four days
 WHITE GROUP
 l Maj. J. Chapline Hodges. 190; Capts
 & D. Crawford. 4s; w. V. Bartlett. 4 Fred Shireman, 35: R. F. Burnett, 3d Clarence Lloyd. 27; W. F. Tyler. 25: W
 B Fowlkes. p: Hill Ferguson, 1s; J. l ODeil. 19: G. w. Yancey. IS; F. c. Shep
 ard. Jr.. +; A. c. Montgomerys Is; R. ( Thompson. 13; D. B. Dimick. S. A. Davenport. 6; Eugene Munger, 3: Prat City. C. A. Hass'er. 6; totals, previous AS; May 29, s1; four days. 5s9.
 BLUE GROUP
 Maj w. c. Bonham, S1; Capts. Ed War ren, 37: R. A. Porter. g; H. J. Porte Jr, 23: W. c. Phillips. P; Henry \ Dozier, 16; F. H. Ganord. 15: Rev. NJ. $ | Rarnwell, 13: Sigfried Steiner, ,s13; Dr. I | H. Woodall. 13: Claude Estes. Il: w. / 1 Steadman. II; W. L. Caldwell, 10; C. l Hagan, 10: Frank Stevens. 9: F. H. Bea, | mont. &: W. V. Trammell, 4; totals. prs
 vious. g77; May, 2s, 51; four days, go.
 Grand totals. Monday. 570; Tuesday. 43l
 Wednesday. 29s; Thursday, 52; four days
 1852.