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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-01
AUSTIN TEST|F|ES
 BEFORE COMMITTEE | ON COUNTY AIRS
Witness Tells of County Fi- nances and School Condi- tions Before Legisla-
 tive Committee

Connie ". Austin, former chief of po- Ice of Birmingham, former deputy sheriff of Jefferson county and at pres ent special investigator of Jefferson county affairs for the governor of Ala bama, was the star witness before the special legislative recess committee yes terday.
 He stated that he had discovered short ages in the offices of three of the muni- cipal court clerks, none of whom is now in office; that thousapds of dollars in fines and forfeitures in Jefferson county courts remain uncollected and that al- most 100000 of bail bonds executed in the county and forfeited remain unpaid. Since Sheriff Hartsfield took office last January, MT. Austin said, there has been marked change in the matter of bail bonds. In the past he said, no one deputy in the sheriffs office seemed to have charge of the approval of bonds, just whoever happened to be present when one was signed approving 1t With out Investigating the financial respons1- bility of the surety.
 Mir Hartsfield, he said, changed this. Either he or one of two certain desig- mated deputies approve the bonds, and no bond is accepted until the financial responsibility of the surety is ascertained' and no person who is on an unpaid for- feited bond is accepted until tie old bond is satisfield.
 LARGER HAND
 He recommended that the bond or the clerk in the criminal division of the cir cult court be increased from 5000, the amount fixed by law to at least S50O0, as he handles between $l5,000 and S25,- GOO a year. The clerk is supposed to make monthly settlements, but in the past. MT. Austin said, this office has not been checked up.
 He expressed the belief that one Of the two civil divisions of the municipal court ought to be abolished, claiming that one judge could handle all of the
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civil business coming into both divisions This is direct contradiction Of Judges Mcqueen, Lea and Abernethy, who con tend that the volume of business in the municipal court demands three judges
 A typographical error caused The Age Herald to state in its report yesterday of the preceding days proceedings that Judges Abernethy and Lea said one or the civil divisions could be abollsheo without impairing the usefulness Of the court, when in fact they stated that both are necessary to the expedition Of pusl- ness.
 COST BILLS NOT COLLECTED
 MT Austin said he had made out cost bills amounting to between 5000 and s1oOO0 which had never been collected and no effort made to collect them. He stated that some of the bills were against men we'll able to pay them. He also said that in some instances the con- stables collected the costs coming to them and left the others uncollected; in other instances they had made no report. or costs collected.
 Of the s1O0O000 or more of forfeited bonds in the past 10 or 15 years, not more than 10 per cent had ever been paid in many instances the sheriffs certing worthless bonds, knowing at the time they we're worthless, and in other il stances returning executions endorsed
 
 persons against whom the executions were issued were solvent.
 MT Austin called attention to the mat ter of chauffeurs' licenses, saying that in 1918 and 1919 the license collector and rerorted only $275 collected, whereas there are probably 5000 chauffeurs in Jefferson ceunty The license fee is s5 for the first year and 90 70 for renewals.
 NO INTEREST ON DEPOSITS
 ztxrr rx-on rov-N M " !, first witnes sbefore the committee yes terday- morning. His salary is $eoo0 year and he has. one clerk at s125 month, now increased to $175, and one he employs and pays out of his private funds
 County funds on deposit at the banks, he stated, averaged s616.o0o a month during the last fiscal year and upon hese the county received no interest, although it pays 6 per cent interest on all loans secured from the banks He bought the banks should pay interest on the deposits but there is no law providing for it.
 Dr. N R. Baker, county superintend- en+ of schools, produced statements slowing the number of schools, income and expenses, number and salaries of tea chers, supervisors and other data of interest.
 SCHOOL FUNDS DRAW INTEREST
 The banks pay per cent interest on deposit balances, amounting to about s1S00, and the school board pays per cent interest on loans made at the banks, the estimated amount of the loan being S14e,0O0.
 About 60 per cent of the total school
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DECISION REITERATED


 Berlin, Thursday, May 29.-The German foreign office reiterated categorically and emphatically today a statement made on behalf of the cabinet of May 20; that Germany declines to sign the tetms laid before it.
 In the meantime the statement which was giver. originally to the Associated Press. has been circulated throughout Germany by the official Wolff bureau, with credit to the Associated Press. The original statement was translated from the German into English after the German version had been the subject of a long debate at the foreign office. It was then sent from the foreign office to the correspondent by special messenger. The English version was then submitted to the foreign office for approval It was stamped by an official with fluent knowledge of English. It has been noted that the preamble to the German counter proposals con tained many phrases similar to those of the statement of May 20.
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NEGROES CULTIVATE
 VACANT CITY LOTS
Commissioner Burruss and Dr. Moton Make Addresses on Cultivation
 of Vacant Property

dressed nearly 200 negroes at Avenue c and Twenty-sixth street yesterday at 9 o'clock along the lines of city agri- culture and the necessity of cultivating vacant lots.
 Moton, president of Tuskegee institute who is travelling over the state in in- terest of the above matter. At the pres ent time quite a number of unoccupied lots between Twenty-sixth and Twenty seventh streets, on Avenue c, which are being cultivated by the negroes of that section. Dr. Moton also delivered an address to the negroes, wherein he complimented them on the work they were doing in that section of the city.
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PORTS SENTENCED TO SERVE IS MONTHS
 IN FEDERAL PRISON

R. R. Portis. convicted of embedding funds of the United States government few weeks ago. was sentenced to serve IS months in the federal prison at Atlanta yesterday morning by Judge W. I. Grubb in the United States dis trict court. Portis and Otto Schuster were arrested several months ago at Gorgas, where they were employed at the plant of the Alabama Power, coni- pany. It Is alleged that several thou sand dollars of government funds were embeSsled by the men. . large portion of which was recovered.
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fund goes to the schools of Birming. ham. | There are 602 teachers in the countv schools, 450 white and 152 colored The white teachers receive monthly salaries
 as follows:
 First year: Grade A, se5: grade B s60; grade c, $50
 .ss. second ono year; "a Grade A. so; grade B
 Third year: Grade A, s75; grade B S0; grade c, $57.
 Fourth year: Grade A, s775o; grade B. S7250; grade c, s60
 Fifth year: Grade A. $50; grade B S5.
 Sixth year; Grade A, ss25o; grade B S77.50
 Seventh year: Grade A, sS5; grade B, $S0.
 Colored teachers:
 First year: Grade A, sS5; grade B, sSo; grade c, $275O
 Second year, Grade A, $40; grade B, 1855; grade c, s30
 Third year: Grade A, s45; grade B, $S7.50; grade c, $32.50. l Fourth year: Grade A, $47.5o; grade B, $40; grade c, $35
 Fifth year: Grade A, $50; grade B, s42.50.
 Sixth year: Grade A, $525o; grade B, $42.50. ] Seventh year: Grade A, $55; grade B, $45
 COST OF SCHOOLS w | MT. Baker stated that about 10 per cent of the total school tax was pfid by the negroes and about 20 per cent | of it expended on negro schools. | Interrogated about the 10 supernumer- l aries at $110 month, Dr. Baker stated l that they acted as supply teachers and that this required the services of an average of one all the time.
 Don't you think higher class of teachers and better salaries are needed iE Jefferson county?" asked Representa- | tive Hawkins.
 "Yes" promptly responded pr. Baker | He explained that the mofey &to pay higher salaries was not available. He said that the available funds for the | next year for teachers salaries would average aboN s45 a month each if di- yided into 1o equal payments. He thought they should have at least $100 month for nine months in the year. 1 COMPULSORY POLL TAX LAW If there were a compulsory poll tax law. how much would that amount to in Jefferson county?" asked Representa- tive Harrison.
 l MT. Benners, answering, stated that l there were about 30,000 men in the county 1 subject to poll tax, and that at 8 each | that would amount to $90,000 Dr. Baker stated that poll tax receipts last year amounted to $2900 and estimated that they would be only about s2200 this year. Representative Dickson stated that when technically trained men were needed at Muscle Shoals and other government works they had to send to Massachu- setts and other eastern states to get 1 them. He said there should be more ] technical training in the schools of Jef- | ferson county.
 Dr. Hogan, county coroner, called 10 the stand, stated that the coroner's or I flee was necessary, that it initiated in vestigations into crimes that otherwise would not come to the attention of the sheriff until the criminal had got away. ] He did not think it was absolutely es- sential that the coroner be physician, although he had saved the county a con- siderable sum in the way of post mortem examinations by reason of his being a physician.
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JEWISH COMMUNITY
 MEETING TONIGHT
Will Be First of Series to Protest Against Pogroms
 in Eastern Europe

The first of a series of meetings to be held by the local Jewish community to pf otest against the pogroms and atroc- ities being committed against the Jews in Poland. Rumania and Galicia will take place tonight at o'clock in the Knesseth Israel synagogue, coyner
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THREE

seventh avenue and Seventeenth street, with A. Leo Oberdorfer presiding.
 There will be splendid talks in Eng fish by Rabbis Newfield and Mendei- schn and the public is cordially invited to this meeting and help the local Jew isb leaders form an organization to car ry out it's plans for the remaining meet irgs so that the protests from Birming- ham will receive favorable consideration the hands of the Alabama representa- tives in Washington.
 Similar meetings are being held in every city in the united States.
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READ TELLS OF TRIP

Plymouth, May 31.-"Our trip really was uneventful," Lieutenant Commander A. c. Read said to the correspondent we knew we would have trouble with fog. and did, but otherwise everything went off as we had planned.
 .Our machine worked perfectly ever since we left New Foundland, with the exception of our little radiator leak yes terday."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-01
Gompers Asks Investigation
 By Associated Press

Washington, May a.-President Con- pers, of the American Federation of La Dor, asked Governor Dorsey, of Georgia, in a telegram today to order an investi- gation of the shooting of members of the Textile Workers of America at Columbus recently, "and that those responsible oe brought before the bar of justice"
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THE WEAT
Weather Forecast

Washington, May S1.-Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi: Showers and thunderstorms Sunday and Monday, cooler Monday.
 Georgia: Local thundershowers Sun day and Monday. not much change in temperature.
 Tennessee: Showers and thunder storms Sunday and Monday, cooler.
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Local Data
Warrior Improvements Contemplated by U. s.
(Continued From Page one)

while there also are some from the 167th infantry regiment. A prelimin- ary reconnaissance has been made to determine how to go about the survey, and the party is now being organized COlonal Thomas stated a-t
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I. H. Stewart Very III

Childerburg. May s1.-(speciaL)--J. H. stewart continues quite i'll at his home here. The end is momentarily ex- pected. His wife died February Is. 1919.
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Mrs. Annie Millican-Aged 51. died at the residence of her brother T. H. Diseker, 1880 Seventeenth street, north, last night. The remains will be sent to Spartanburg. s. C., by Johns.
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Mercury Brings 3196 Troops

Newport News, Va. May 31.-The trans port Mercury arrived here late today with S196 officers and men of the Ssth divi- sion
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R. c. Lipscomb-Aged 35, died at the residence. 240s Eighth avenue, yes terday morning. The remains will be sent to Cullman this morning bycLoy.
 He is survived by widow and two children.
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at Washington, when questioned today regarding a press report from Paris that it would be easier to get him to sign the treaty than Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau, the head of the German peace mission at Versailles.
 eff our opponents sincerely wish peace" he continued, there is only. one way, to amend the unacceptable and un- fulfillable stipulations of the treaty.
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DEATHS

Mrs. Bettie Buckely-Aged 6S, died at the residence. S22 Nineteenth street. yesterday morning. The remains were sent to Oklona last night by Johns.
 Mrs. Mary F. Estes-Aged 52. died at the residence, 720 Twenty-fourth street, Thursday night. Funeral services from the residence this aft ernoon at 2:so o'clock. with inter ment in Oakland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-01
MANY APPLICANTS
 FOR CLERICAL JOBS
Office Positions in Demand at U. s. Employment Serv-
 ice With No Openings

With the great majority of appli- cants seeking clerical jobs the United states employment service. 105 North Twentieth street, discovered that the bickerings over the league of nations was a mere trifle in comparison to the demands of temperamental young men whose only ambition seemed to be in the direction of securing nice, soft office position with all the emoluments attached
 The facts are that there are no of flce positions open at the present time. Clerical work is about as rare as hens teeth. according to one of the officials at the United States employment ser vice. There aint no such animal" !" However, there are jobs on the farms.
 one of the curious phases of em- ployment work" said Sam L. Becker. the field agent of the war camp conn munity service. 'is the manner in which applicants are seeking clerical jobs. Clerical jobs are scarce. In fact, there aren't any at all There are openings for bookkeepers and ste- nographers and other specially trained men at various times, but as a rule what is known as clerical job IS seldom opened.
 Such jobs as file clerks and general office clerks can always be filled uo without applying at the United States employment service. And there isn't much pay in the proposition, so. on the whole, when young men waltz in and request clerical jobs. they do not make the best impression in the world st Is indicative that they are no, as ambitious as they might be-
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IPAN-GERMANS TO
 INVITE EX-KAISER
 TO RETURN HOME
 IN. RESOLUTIONS

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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-03-21

known fact that the Great Northern
Railway company has purchased sixty
acres Of land at Fairview for side
track purposes, assuring the perma-
nency of the division there. 1t is adj
mitted by all that Brockway is just
the right distance from Fairview for
the next division poi It. The rail
way company has taken yer a dea@
for ample ground for yama purposes
and it is generally conceI hy all
who have any knowledge of the mat
ter that Brockway has been selected
as a division point. There is no q,:es-
ton but the future of Brockway is
absolutely assured.
When it comes to location, consid-
cred with respect to the whole coun-
ty, Brockway has the best of the ar
gument from every point of view.
Draw a straight line east and west
through Brocway and you find that
the MAJ living on the extreme eastern
edge Of the county is II miles from
Brockway and the man on the extreme
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four months in the county Jail and
pay a fine of $500 today by Judge
Hurry on a charge of b~ootlegging. His
defense was that while there was H.
quor in his store it was taken without
his knowledge, while the state alleged
that he told witnesses where the IL
ruor was and permitted them to take
it, the money being left on a counter
in another part of the store. Stein
appealed. He was formerly a resi-
dent of st. Paul and is the owner
of the McQuaid building and other
valuable real estate in that city.
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BROCKWAY WANTS COUNTY
SEAT OF INCOME COUNTY

DIAL UT MCSOI<L IOON l. i
While it is true that Brockway was
opposed to the creation of McCone
county at this time, u town is new
ertheless a candidate for the temper
airy and permanent county seat. Pri-
marily we were opposed to creating
the county by legislative action be-
cause that gives members of the leg
islature living outside of the county
the entire voice in the matter and
denies the voters and taxpayers the
right to any "say" whatsoever. We
were opposed to the organization of
the county as first outlined because
territory on the south actually belong
ing with this territory was intention
ally left out and because of low val
uation (only $4,000, o00). That we
were right on this was shown by the
fact that the first bill introduced was
killed by the house committee. We
were opposed to the whole idea of a
half dozen men framing up county
division entirely in their w inter-
ests and the interests of a single
town for county seat. We believed
that a question like county division
should be thrown open to the whole
people.
We fail to see wherein or why Cir
Gle has any vested right in the coun-
ty seat, and we believe that we are
entirely within our rights when we
ask that Brockway's claims be con-
sidered. We believe that a majority
of the people of McCone county favor
Brockway today. We firmly believe
that Brockway is destined to become
the metropolis of McCone county. We
base this belief on our location and
natural advantages. 1t is a well
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western edge is 10 miles distant. Do
the same thing with Circle and you
find that the man on the eastern
edge is nine miles from Circle while
the man on the western edge is SO
miles from Circle. Draw a line
straight north and south half way be-
tween Brockway and Circle and you
will find that practically two-thirds
OF the county is west Of that line ana
one-third is east of it. A little fig
uring will show you that more of Nc
Gone county is nearer to Brocway
than Circle. This is strikingly true
of the south half of the county. Right
now Brockway is the logical location
for the county seat.-Brockway Bull
letin.
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of the state at par. The plan to get
under way with the hope of capturing
the next legislature and then have the
state issue bonds to buy the concern
and further build other factories, smell
ters, stockyards, grain elevators, es-
tablish mercantile and banking houses
and even engage in the newspaper
business." The taxpayer and farmer
will hold the sack and the Nonpartisan
league promoters will get the rake
off
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9Th.

QUIZ.
At 2 o'clock p. m. Board of County
Commissioners resumed. All men,
bers of the board and clerk present.
The Board, on motion, approved
the printing contract of the Glasgow
Courier. 1t is hereby ordered filed.
The Board then proceeded with can
collation. of warrants.
At 5 o'clock p. M, Board of County
Commissioners adjourned until 10
o'clock a. M, Monday, March 10, 1919.
PETER A. WEST,
Attest: Chairman.
C. w. Kampfer, Clerk.
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At 10 o'clock a. M, March 10th,
1919, Board of County Commission
ers resumed pursuant to adjourn
ment of March 9Th, 1919. All men,
bers and clerk present.
The Board proceeded in cancelling
of warrants.
At IL o'clock noon, Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners took a recess until
2 o'clock p. m. of even date.
PETER A.. WEST,
Attest: Chairman.
C. w. Kampfer, Clerk.
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AFTERNOON-MARCH 10th.
At 2 o'clock p. m. Board-of County
Commissioners resumed. All members
and Clerk present.
The Board proceeded with the
checking Of warrants.
At S o'clock p. m. Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners adjourned until 10
o'clock a. M, March 18th, 1919.
PETER A. WEST,
Attest: Chairman.
C. w. Kampfer, Clerk.
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proved. Yes, Anderson and West; no,
G. H. Pippin.
Moved by Anderson, seconded by
Pippin that J. w. Barr is hereby
appointed a clerk in the county treas
urer's office at the salary of $4,000
per month, beginning March 3, 1919.
Ayes, Pippin and Anderson; no, West.
At 6 o'clock p. m. Board took a rel
cess until Z o'clock of even date.
At Z o'clock p. NJ, March 18th,
1919, Board Of County Commissioners
resumed. All members present.
The Board proceeded to check war
rants.
No further business appearing, the
Board audited their own claims as
follows:
Peter A. West, mileage and
per diem IS.Oo
Carl j. Anderson, mileage and
per diem oo.oo
Calvin H. Pippin, mileage and
per diem 1000
At 10 o'clock p. NJ, March II, Board
of County Commissioners adjourned,
| subject to call from the chair.
PETER A. WEST,
| Attest: Chairman.
C. W. Kampfer, Clerk.
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