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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
TRUCK FARMER IS SHOT AND KILLED ON EAST.LAKE HIGHWAY
Second Victim of Unknown Assassins This Week. Body Found on Wagon;
 Valuables Untounched

Funeral services for vincenzo Digrodo Hilton station. near Birmingham. whose body was found shot to pieces and lying upon load of vegetables which he was bringing to Birmingham 10 dispose Of early yesterday morning, will be con ducted from St Paurs church this after noon at o'clock, with interment in Oak Hill.
 The gruesome find was made by John E. Tyler, ST, John k. Tyler, Jr., and \. O. Tyler of 3Sls Twelfth avenue. north. who had started to East Lake to jon a fishing party, The motive tor the mur- der remains undetermined, but if it was robbery, supposed by many. the mur- derers were frightened away before they accomplished their purpose, as $10o was found on the farmers person.
 After arising early and bidding his wife and seven small children goodbye, Di- grodo started to town to dispose of his produce In the meantime the Tyler fam fly had started in an automobile on fishing trip. When they reached a point not far distant from Birmingham on the East Lake and Vanderbilt road, they beheld a one horse wagon standing mid way on the highway.
 They stopped alighted and led the horse to one side. On the wagon they saw the form of a man, but 1t being dark, they passed on for the time being, coming to the conclusion that the driver was asleep. But after they had gone a few yards, they decided to return and make Investigation A light was pro- cured and a dreadful sight met their eyes. With a portion of his right breast torn off and one of his arms blown to pieces, lay form of a man amidst tse blood spattered vegetables. The weapon used was shot gun MT. Tyler noti- fled a farmer living near and Coroner Rives was notified. He ordered the body turned over to Johns undertaking estap- lishment.
 Sheriff Hartsfeld has assigned several deputies, headed by M G. Smith, to the case and they went to the vicinity of the murder in the effort to locate the mur- derers No clues had been obtained at a late hour last night
 The affair yesterday marked the sec ond cold blooded murder of the week Last Sunday night. while closing up his esta blishment Frank Troncilla, well known Italian merchant of Southside. was shot down and killed by unknown parties. City detectives have been worK- ing on the case. but as yet no definite clues to the murderer of Troncilla have been obtained Although robbery was thought to have been the motive. no money was obtained from either or the victims
 Assistant Coroner John R. T. Rives went to the scene of the Digrodo murder yes terday afternoon to investigate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
MORE JUNE BRIDES
Little cupid. little cupid. why such

VenS nunCet
 You certainly caused the probate clerks to give . great amount of theA time to your victims 3ester- day. It was your victory and you were evidently celebrating the signing of peace for the world.
 It couldn't be the springtime habit, for that's thing of the past just now. You must have been just about as busy as the clerks. but your work must have been far diRerently-you do not speak, 50 your thoughts are unknown. but you have won the first prize and you rank next to the signing of the paper that makes the sworld safe for democracy," but are you sure you are right all the times
 Little cupid. take . peep at thnt 125 divorce pleas and let your eyes weep. You never meant to do 1t, but fate is battling with you and to succeed you will have to make . speedy race. Your efforts of the day prove that you are not asleep, even though fll-fate tries to help crush you.
 Saturday was perhaps the great est day locally h the fasuance of marriage Iicensen, since the termi- nation of hostilities In Europe.
 They came from fer and wide to appear before the probate clerks to Eet that little sheet of paper that leads to s'I do.s and in all there must have been several more than . srore Of applications granted.
 Little cupid. let's hepe that your arrows lave h1t the tnFget IIl-fnte ean never foueh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
FIRST DEMOCRATIC
 STATE ID RAT|FY Local Suffragists Elated Over Action of Texas
 Legislature

Enthusiasm prevailed at suffrage head quarters yesterday afternoon when the news reached here that Texas had rati- fled the federal suffrage amendment This is the first real democratic state to ratify and the local suffragists are most gratified and encouraged over the situation. The other states that have rat flied the amendment are Illinois, Wis
 consin. Michigan. Ohio, New York. Kan sas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas.
 ''The Alabama legislature has been ad vised by an editor of one of Birmingham S newspapers to follow the lead of Texas said Mrs. Solon Jacobs, chairman of the
 Alabama Equal Suffrage association, "and we sincerely hope the legislature will see fit to do so when it meets in July"
 Mrs. Jacobs returned yesterday from south Alabama, where she went in the interest of the ratification of the amend- ment by the legislature in July and where she made several talks She de- clares that things are looking most en- couraging and that in her opinion women will be voting in 1920, whether the Ala bama legislature ratifies the amendment or not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
,SHIREY DENIED
 NEW TRIAL AND TAKES AN APPEAL

w. c. Shirey. charged with embez- element, was denied new trial by Judge F. Lloyd Tate, in the criminal di- vision of the circuit court yesterday, and a sentence of from four to five years in the penitentiary was imposed upon him. The sentence was suspended pending an appeal to the supreme court. Judge Tate fixed the appeal bond at N,5O0.
 Judge William E. Fort, of the criminal division denied motion made by solicitor James G. Davis to increase the appeal bond yesterday. He stated that Judge Tate had already set the bond, and he would not interfere.
 The defendant was charged with the conversion of certain funds to have been collected by him as automobile license Tor the state while acting as assistant to A. P. Stephens, county license inspector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
COMMUNITY CLUB
 ID AID CONCERT Erskine Ramsay Makes Ad- dress on Behalf of Memo
 rial Campaign

One of the most enthusiastic meetings of the Community club held in some time was that yesterday at 1 o'clock al the Southern club when John W. Sibley
 made splendid talk on Good Roads. |"
 He spoke of the urgent necessity of per
 manent roads and declared this would
 be one of the livest issues of the future.
 Thousands of dollars worth of perish able food was lost last year on account
 of the poor roads and the inability of the farmers to bring their products into
 town" said MT. Sibley.
 Following his talk he showed some stereopticon views of roads in the north and west as well as through Florida and
 urged that the men get behind this mat ter of building permanent roads through Alabama and take advantage of the gov ernment's offer to assist in this work.
 Dr. C. w. Shropshire. president of the
 Civitan club, was introduced by Reese Adamson and made a talk in the interest of the concert to be given by the Boys
 Industrial school band at Woodrow Will
 son park on Wednesday evening, July 8. ''The war is over and now 1t is time
 for US to turn our energies 10 the Worf
 at home" said Dr. Shropshire, and there is not a more worthy organization
 than the boys band. The members are in need of new uniforms, shoes and va rious other things and these little fellows have served in every patriotic drive along
 with the allied armies. doing their bit. II
 is but fair that we should get oehino and make their concert a grand success. President Claude Estes of the Commu-
 nity club pledged the cooperation ol the- organization and tickets were dis tributed to all members to be sold py them.
 Erskine Ramsay, Jefferson county chairman for the Alabama memoria' campaign made a brief talk in the in- terest of this drive and urged every mem- her to get behind this movement to as sist Jefferson county subscribe her quota If is stated that the Community clun had more men in service during the war than any other organization its size m the state. ,,- Culpepper Exum also made brief taik on the memorial drive and in closihE paid a splendid tribute to the mempers of this club. The two teams in the membership cam paien tied on this occasion, each havlns l the same number present, but the rlVatry | ia Increasing and it is expected that .he attendance at the meeting next Saturoay will be the largest in the history or ehe club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
Sergeant Burgin Captures
 27 Germans Single Handed
Bessemer Boy Talks of Visit Kaisers Palace the Rhine and of Soldiers Fearing Mistake in Delivery
 Eating 1000 Scrambled Eggs for Breakfast
By ETHEL GILLEN

, been absent for four years The inter- preter who was with me didn't seem to believe she was telling the truth, so he insisted that the Americans must have the room. After some talk with her she consented and as we left the house the interpreter said, the beauty will have to sleep on the floor.
 "The soldiers can really have no com plaint to make about the treatment we received at the hands of the Germans after we went into Germany. They were anxious to do everything they could for us and the woman where we were pil ieted would bring us in waffles and cor fee every afternoon about o'clock. l used to give her soap and coffee and she was so appreciative. When we left the Germans whom We had known all cried and I really believe they were sorry. But you can bet we were not It was a happy day when he left that country for we were getting just little nearer to God country and that was the thing all of ths boys were looking forward to.
 Our boys were not only good fight CTS but some eaters. While we were in Germany we had 649 dozen eggs sent to us They were the first we had seen since we left the states and we thought surely there must be some mistake by them sending us many, so we decided we had better eat them in a hurry or they would come and get them. With this idea in view we scrambled 1000 one morning for breakfast and I don't think there was any left
 "At Flames we captured a German band and worlds of supplies and horses, as well as about 200O rabbits. We certainly did feast for a while and, believe me, those German hares are just fine, II was here that we also captured large amount of beer and as we were unable to open the kegs one of the officers Juat shot a hole in. the top so the boys could drink the beer.
 HIS HAPPIEST DAY "As we went into Belgium we were met with a band and you should hear them play. Of course they were trying to play American melodies and they had gotten onto the ragtime syncopation so
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
'PRE-WAR POSTAGE ID GO INTO EFFECT
 Birmingham People Have Paid $140,000 Annually on Extra Postage

The pre-war first class postage rate in anticipation of this change 100000 g. cent stamps and 100000 1-cent post cards have been received at the local postof- flee. Since the increased rate became effective on November ?, 1917, 1t is esti- mated by Postmaster R. E. Smyer that the Birmingham people have paid out in the extra 1-cent postage on letters and cards approximately $2sO,0o0 or an average of $14o000 annually.
 The additional postage occurring from the increased rate has gone to the treas- ury department as revenue and not to the postal funds as was thought by many. According to MT. Smyer the treasury department has received between $12o,- OOo.oOo and 600 revenue during the time the war postage rates were effec- tive.
 A large number of stamped envelopes have been received and more are expected to arrive early this week These envei- opes will be distributed to the various sub-stations. the local postoffice being the sub-agency for stamped paper
 All Scent envelopes and 2-cent post cards will be redeemed from the orig inal purchasers during the month of July at full value, postage of any de- sired denomination being given in return. The 3-cent stamps will not be redeemed as they will be used in mailing articles which come under the parcel post head,
 On August 1, only stamp value will pc given on all Scent stamped envelopes and 2-cent post cards, which are not redeemed during July.
 With the return of the old postal rate the officials at the local post office are expecting a large increase in business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
New Schools Planned

The Jefferson county board of educa- tion issued call for locations and plans for the proposed $35,0co high school build ing for the Little Warrior (2A) school district, at it's meeting in the courthouse yesterday.
 The board adopted plans for the con , struction of 5000 to $7o00 four-roon : school building for the Maxine district This building is to serve the consolidated school district oe Maxine. Hubbard and Proco.
 Owners of the New Hope school district offered their school building to the coun- ty with the understanding that new roof be put on the house. The board ac- cepted the offer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
Legislators Will Be
 Civic Association Guests

All members of the legislature who will pass through Birmingham on July 2. on their way to Montgomery, where the legislature reconvenes on July &, have been invited to luncheon which will be given by the Civic association Tt 12:30 o'clock July ', in the cafe of it's club rooms, in the Jffferson Coun- ty Bank building.
 The purpose of this meeting Is to ex press appreciation of their services in enacting legislation which has benefit cd Birmingham and to also acquaint them with some of the municipal prob lems that have recently come up for consideration in this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
Toole Buys Property

avenue and Twenty first street. south, was sold to Joseph J. Toole of Mont gomery, for s1O.000, by Richard w Massey and Bessie Massey. his wife, Saturday. The property faces 12S feet on Humbolt avenue and 154 feet along Twenty first street. The deeds for the old Peerless corner on Second avenue and Nineteenth street. which was sold to MT. Massey by Joseph J. Toole for the record price of $240.000. for a lot 25x100 feet, was recorded in the pro- bate office Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
ILOCAL POSTOFFICE
 TO OBSERVE FULL
 HOLIDAY ON FOURTH

The Birmingham postoffice will observe full holiday on the Four'n oi '''' according to an announcement maoe ps Postmaster R. B. Smyer yesterday For the benefit of the travelling punnc' the general delivery window will open rom to 10 olcock in the morning, ana tnere will be delivery of parcel post pachase' to relieve congestion. All other depart ments will remain closed all day.
 Tt is customary to give full nohoay on the Fourth,'' said MT. Srnyer. put II will have a double significance this year as we will celebrate the signing or the peace treaty and the Declaration or ln- dependence at the same time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
S13.o00 for Lot

J. M. Darlington purchased the cor
 ner of Avenue F and Seventeenth street yesterday for $13.00o. The deal
 was negotiated by J. Wilbur Cole of
 the Reid 6 Ford Land company. The
 lot is 100x190 feet and contains sew
 eral buildings.
 It is said that MT. Garlinton bought
 the property solely as investment.
 Several sales have been made recently in this locality and 1t Is claimed that investments there rapidly increase in value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
Musical Features

Preparations are being made by the en- tertainment committee of the Civic asso- ciation to make their regular weekly reception and dance. which VIII take ulace at 6 O clock Monday night in the cafe and on the roof of the Jefferson County Bank building, success Severa' musical numbers will be rendered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
REQUIRES HARD WORK

While the reports received to date are excellent" said State Director Stallings Saturday night, we are convinced that all county directors will have to make a great effort if every county goes over in this campaign. This is due to the fact that the farmers have been unable to give much time to the campaign and are unable to attend public meetings
 Canvassers must be obtained who will go into the county and obtain the sub scriptions from the farmers as well as from other persons Alabama can put over this campaign if the workers will give their undivided attention to the movement until July 4"
 Erskine Ramsay, director for Jefferson county, yesterday urged all persons who
 have been invited to attend the dinner at the Tutwiler Monday evening to De
 present promptly at 7:3O o'clock Tt is
 important that those who are to do she real campaigning beginning Tuesday morning attend the dinner in order that final plans may be made, territory dis
 tributed and supplies issued," said Di- rector Ramsay. 'It is desired to begin this campaign early Tuesday morning and to end it with the quota over-subscribed
 by Wednesday evening.
 Jefferson county cannot fail in this movement for the soldiers. The soldiers did too much for us. It Is little thing now that we should do in showing the men what value we place upon their serv ices. Those who are to attend the din- ner should see that their names are re- ported to county headquarters by Monday morning."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

After having seen active service on al,
 the fronts in which the famous 167th
 infantry regiment took part, Sergeant Joe Burgin of Company D, 1e7th regiment,
 who escaped without even a scratch.
 talks interestingly of his experience over
 seas. According to Lieut. Ernest Ball of
 the same regiment Sergeant Burgin cap l tured 2 Germans singlehanded, and when asked about this feat he modestly re. piled he didn't do anything at all but
 just happened to be the first American { soldier to find them After numerous
 questions it developed that he had cap
 tured these prisoners during the drive or St. Mihiel
 "On one of these Hun prisoners" said
 Sergeant Burgin. was paper on which was written in German the following in- scription: Don't blame the German sol
 diers for the war, as they are powerless.
 All of the plume should be placed on the
 war lords
 When the news that the armistice had
 been signed reached the boys we shot up
 all the flares we had and all day long
 excitement reigned. Of course, we all |
 home in very short time. as the war was over, but we learned better. Four days later we hiked to Brandevile where
 we were equipped and started on our hike
 into Germany. One of the most impress sive scenes I think I ever saw was when we reached the Rhine river. Colonel Screws stopped and the regimental band played Dixie. The boys almost went wild and I always thought that was the way 1t should be done.
 BEAUTY SLEEPS ON FLOOR T was sent on ahead of the regiment to arrange for the billeting of the men In Coblenz and l had to do some reat talking in many instances to secure quar- ters for our officers. On one occasion went into a house and informed a Ger
 man woman that I wanted room for our officers and she refused, saying her brother would soon be home and he had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
OVER ONE-F|FTH OF TOTAL MEMORIAL
 FUND SUBSCRIBED
 FIRST DAY OF DRIVE
Reports to State and County Headquarters of Most En- cOuraging Nature, But
 Hard Work Neces-
 sary for Success

With reports received from less than fifth of the states total quota of s50o.000, was subscribed for the Alabama memorial Friday, the opening day of the seven day campaign. This announcement was made by w. s. Stallings, state campaign director, yesterday evening. Reports are believes the total subscriptions opening day will exceed s100,ooo when all counties have reported.
 Among the counties in which substan- tial progress has been made are Jeffer- son, Montgomery, Mobile, Calhoun, Eto- wah and Morgan. Dallas county will not begin it's canvass until Monday morning. but H. c. Armstrong, county chairman. wired state headquarters Saturday after noon that there should be no worry about Dallas. we never fail,'' he said.
 H. B. Rudisil, director of Calhoun coun- scriptions were and stated that no defi- nite figures would be given until Tuesday morning. However he did state that the campaign was progressing well and that there was no cause for complaint.
 T. J. Bedsole, president pro tenn of the senate and director of Clarke county, wired that one-third of the county's quota was obtained on the opening day.
 Of the $1OO,0O0 actually reported Jeff ferson county and Montgomery county had subscribed s22,500 or nearly one fourth. Jeffersons subscription is esti- mated, based on the contribution of the public schools and the corporations which have not been able to report what their total contributions will be. Jefferson actual campaign for it's quota will not be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
CAMPAIGN INDORSED

Announcement was made at Jefferson county headquarters yesterday afternoon that the Community club, United Com mercial Travellers and Travellers Protec- tive association had decided to support the memorial campaign and had called
 upon all members to take part in the canvass when it begins Tuesday morning.
 The Civitan club at it's meeting Friday
 endorsed the campaign and decided to take part as an organization
 Women's committees of the memorial are in the lead in Jefferson county, ac-
 cording to Culpepper Exum. associate al rector, who stated that already they had
 raised about s4000, which Is a greater percentage of their quota than the amount raised by the other committees. The wo- men have arranged to open booths in the down town section Tuesday and to keep
 them open three days. Miss Olivia O'Neal
 has general charge of the booth com mittees and they will maintain booths at
 the Tutwiler hotel, First National banS Nunnallys Twentieth street establish ment, Jefferson County bank building, I,oveman. Joseph & Loeb Brown Marx building and American Trust and Saw ings bank. At each place two young women and a soldier will be stationed throughout the drive
 ROTARIANS WORKING At a meeting of the colonelS or the French army, Rotary club. held at the Hotel Tutwiler yesterday at noon, it was unanimously agreed that the French army should get behind the Alabama memorial drive, and use every effort to make the campaign a success B. B. Burton was selected to head the Rotary l teams. The Rotarians will take the same territory they have had in the previous campaigns. and will begin work Tuesday morning.
 Notices were mailed from the Rotary headauarters yesterday afternoon to ev- cry member of the French army, request | ing that they be present at the head ] quarters Tuesday morning at o'clock, ready for work. The notice also request ed that each Rotarian attend the prelim- mary dinner which will be held at the Tutwiler Monday evening at o'clock. Final instructions and details of the campaign will be outlined at this latter meeting.
 The lineup of the French army is as follows:
 Company No. Hill Ferguson. colonel; | J. H. Finder. " J. Wheeler. R. A.
 Brown. J. s. Pearson. George Knox. Al (Continued on Page Thirteen)
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-06
VILLA a BACK NUMBER
(Bv Associated Press)

FORT WORTH, Ten, Dec. 6-The
forces of Francisco Villa were SO badly
demoralized when they were shelled
near Juarez several months ago by
United States artillery that the bandit
chieftain never will be able to regain
his prestige and 'come back. in the
opinion of Captain Frank Tillnan, who
recently resigned from the army after
serving six months at Fort Bliss. near
FL Paso, with the 32nl field artillery.
He also served in France.
When the bandits were shelled by
American altillerymen. Captain Till
man said, the slaughter was fearful.
Many of the outlaws had never before
heard a shell explode and when the
missiles began falling among or near
them they broke and ran. throwing
away their arms. Many more bandits
were killed than have been reported.