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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
WORK GROWING AND
 COST INCREASING
Garbage Problem Causing City No
 Little Worry

Handling of the city's garbage has become a serious question. says Henry Page Burruss. commissioner of streets.
 Cost of removing the trash has mounted higher and higher during the last few years with little addition to the appropriation for the purpose The population of the city has also been greatly added to. which should be taken into consideration in estimat- ing that cost. says the commissioner.
 In regard to the garbage problem and the general dependency of the peo- pie upon the city government. Com. missioner Burruss says:
 "During the last fifteen years. the things done for the people of the city by the government have doubled in cost. because so many things which formerly were done by the private citi- zen is now the job of the city. II is a growing proposition all the time, and it is necessary to the civic and municipal life that it continues to de- velop and grow.
 People in cities are growing more and more dependent upon the service rendered by the municipal govern ment Hence it is a great pity that the budget appropriations of the city grow less as the expectations of the citlzens grow. Health. cleanliness and civic beauty depend upon the Affcrt of the municipal service. {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
SLEEPER SERVICE
 0N THE A. B. AND A. Will Insure More Convenient Connections With Many
 Southeastern Cities.

The Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic sleeping car Pullman service between Bir- mingham and Brunswick, Ga, via Talla- dega and LaGrange, which bids fair to prove not only of greax service to It's citizens Journeyng to Savannah, JacK- vile and points in those directions, but will also serve to make of Birmingham a large gateway for through travel. by way of its connections, for Memphis. St. Louis, Chicago, Texas and California.
 The Pullman service will be established Sunday evening, May Is. the first one leaving here at 4:O5 o'clocx. Among the connections which this Pullman service will make are these: Waycross. with the Atlantic Coast Line for Jacksonville and Sayannah at Cordele. Ga, with the Sea board Air Line for Savannah; at Thal- man, Ga, with the same road for Jack sonvlle, and with the GeoIpa, Southern and Florida at Cordele for Jacksonville.
 Meal stops have been arranged at Tal- ladega and Offerman. Ga.
 Among the cities besides Birmingham to be affected by the new service are Bessemer Talladega, Roanoke and Line vile, in Alabama and Cordele and others in Georgia.
 The eastbound Pullman will leave Brunswick at 615 o'clock D. m. and ar rive in Birmingham at l0.45 a. m. Tha' will enable connections here with mum Der of westbound through passenger trains.
 The new service will add considerably to the prestige of the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic, as well as to the con venience of the travelling public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
START ELECT|NG
 TEACHERS TODAY Instructors for ApprOxi- mately 3O,OOO Children
 Needed by County

Election of teachers for the coming year will be started by the Jefferson County Board of Education at It's meet- ing today.
 Approximately 626 teachers for the rural schools will be elected for the next term. White schools of the coun- ty will require a teaching force of AGO, and 165 teachers will be neces- sary for the negro schools of the county.
 Seven new four-year high schools will begin operations with the open- ing of the next term. These alone will necessitate an increase of about thirty teachers over the number em- pioyed during the present term.
 Contracts for five of the new build ings have been let and the work is already well under way. The con- tracts for the two additional bufld- days.
 New elementary schools will be asked for Lipscomb and New Castle. It is probable that delegations from these two places will present petitions for the schools to the Board of Education in 8 few days.
 The present term of the Jefferson county public schools closes on May 2l. During the present term the total enrolment amounted to approximateIy 2S,OO0 children. Owing to the fact that the board decided it was inadvfsabla to delay classes by the enrollment of additional children during the asst few days of the term there probably will be a considerable increase in the .en rollment at the opening of the neNt term in the fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
ORDER BUILDINGS
 FOR SUMMER CAMP
Sunday School Association IncOrpor-
 ates-Resort Opens June 1

The board of directors of the Bir- mingham Sunday School Association, at it's monthly meeting yesterday, laid extensive plans for the summer camps for boys and girls.
 At this meeting J. A. Smith, chair man of the young peoples work com mittee for the association. gave in detail the plans for five new build ings, the largest of which will be recreational hall which will comfort ably seat 200. The hall will be used for lectures, social gatherings and games when the weather will not per- init the use of the out-of-doors.
 Another building will be the in- structors' building for the physical di- rectors, swimming instructors, Bible and Sunday school methods instruc- tors, the nature instructor and the camp mother. This building will be a four-room hut near the huts where the boys and girls stay Other build irgs will be an administration build ing, directors building and a now hut with a capacity for thirty-two camp CTS.
 Papers were drawn up Incorporating the Birmingham Sunday School Asso- clation, with the following as trustees: J. A. Smith, Charles A. Plosser, D. II. Marb bufy,s fs. lS. LlHtnlcuIl, w. IT, stockham and A. L. Smith.
 During the coming week the camp grounds at Winnataska will be pur- chased by the association The con struction of the new building will be- gin this week, and most of them will he completed by June, when the first boys camp will start.
 The camp property comprises 120 acres and is an ideal camping site.
 Improvements in addition to the buildings will be equipping an ath- letic field boring a well, fencing and making the grounds attractive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
R0TAR|ANS ALSO
 |NDORSE REPORT After Discussion They Con- cur in Findings Regard
 ing Plumbers

Members of the Rotary Club en- dorsed the report of the committee which investigated the plumbing situ- ation, after warm debate, at their weekly luncheon yesterday at the Tut wiler hotel
 The committee, composed of mem Ter of each of the civic organizations of the city, upon investigation, found an intolerable state in the plumbing conditions of the city. The entire situ- ation, they found, was in the hands O. slxty-seven union plumbers. who con trolled all work and charged $l2 day for their services. The committee rec commended concerted action to improve the condition on the part of the civic o1 1ganizations.
 Whether the matter was one on which the Rotary Club could take q stand was a question for discussion. Speakers on both sides debated the question It was moved that the re- port of the committee be placed before the club for their endorsement by F. w Barnett. The motion was declared out of order by the president. Tae club overruled the decision of the president and voted that the report be endorsed
 Maj. W. J. Rushton reminded the Rotarians of the tWo-mill tax election Saturday and asked that they cast their vote on that day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
VICTOR DEALERS MEET HERE TODAY PurveyOrs of Musical Discs From All Dixie to Hold
 COnclave.

More than 250 music vendors of both the jazz and hlghbrow variety will in- wade the Magic City this morning to attend the second annual convention of the Southern Victor Dealers Associa- ticn. Representing practically every mercantile shanty in democratic terri tory where His Masters Voice" is in- scribed on the firms shingle these pur- veyors of "condensed Caruso," rivals though they be, will clasp paws and rub elbows in one of the snappest forty eight hour conclaves ever staged within Major Tutwiler's lodging emporium.
 Delegates began drifting in last night and by breakfast this morning a full at tendance is expected to report Reg istration has been set for o'clock. at which time all visitors will be suitably tagged and warned to avoid the "chicken run'' Dealers from the mountainous re- gions of Tennessee and the corn-growing sections of Kentucky are expected to be accorded rousing reception, although grapeiuice has been officially adopted as the convention beverage
 Following registration, the delegates will convene promptly at 10 o'clock for business session, during which informal addresses concerning trade matters will be heard. The convention will be called tb I4utt DN IIbSluenI r. k. ManOneY or Chattanooga, who will preside through out. After a two-hour morning discuss sion of problems affecting the talking ma chine dealer, the convention will ad- Journ at noon, reconvening at o clock for another business session.
 Vice President Ben Hammond who has been in active charge of arrangements for the convention announced last night that Mrs. Francis F. Clark, head of the pdnCa tiOnql. of Talking Machine Company and one of the foremost authorities on music in the United States, would deliver the principal address. Mrs. Clark will also make a talk to the Music Study Club of Birming. ham during her visit here
 Festivities for tonights entertainment of the delegates will consist of banquet given by the Talking Machine Company to be held al the Tutwier Hotel at [ go o clock A. R. Boone. president of the host concern will act as toastmaster and call on guests present for informal talks.
 The Southern Victor Dealers Associa- ton, though but a little more than twelve months old, is one of the husSiest in- fants in the organization field. It's mem bership comprises dealers from the At lantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to the Mason and Dixon line Birmingham Victor dealers are hanging out the well come sign to all visiting brethren and are busily engaged in acting as hosts and guides
 The business meetings of the conven- ton will be held on Tutwiler lounge and the banquet tonight in the main dining room The officers of the association are,
 r. E. Mahoney of Chattanooga, presi- dent; Ben Hammond of Birmingham. vice president; Leroy Webb of Atlanta, sec retary' w. II. Cummings of Huntsville. treasurer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
NUMBERS JOINING ASSOCIATION OF
 BUSINESS WOMEN

The Birmingham Business Women'' Association has gained more than 4G' new members in the brief course of tho drive for 1000 of them. This raises tn total membership to over 700 The drivt will be continued until the full quota is obtained.
 Reports are made by the twelve commit tees making the canvass at the weekly meetings held on Tuesday. That the 100 will be obtained is considered certain judging by the alacrity with which tho women. who have been conferred with are joining.
 The outstanding slogan of the Bushes; Women's Association is "efficiency''-th efficiency of the business woman. Class are maintained for the instruction O. women in business avocations, and of special interest is the plan of co-opera- tion. by means of which the association intends to have employers inform it of the defects of women recommended for employment with the view of having these defects remeded by further train ing. This is in line with the efficiency" slogan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
RECEIVING BIDS ON
 CITY PAVING JOBS

Sealed bids are being received by the city engineer for paving certain streets in Birmingham and other inn provements on sidewalks and gutters.
 The work upon which the engineer is asking bids includes asphalt paw ing and the laying of brick gutters on certain streets named in city ordi- nance SID. This work is for streets which must be placed at once and work will be started as soon as the bids are accepted. Some sanitary sew CTS will also be placed by the city.
 The city engineer has prepared plans of the proposed work, which are at the disposal of those contemplating bids. Bids will be received until Tues day, May II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
PIPE PLANT READY
 BY END OF MONTH
New Concern Will Have Output on
 Market June 1

On the site of the old mill of the Ala bama Rolling Mill Company at Gate City there has already risen one of the cor rugated iron and lick structures of the Birmingham Pipe and Fittings Company
 K. A. Conville and other men connected with industrial enterprises recently in- corporated this concern, purchased the twenty-acre site of the old mill and con- struction began al once. The opera tors expect to be manufacturing sanitary cast iron pipe and fittings by June 1.
 The demand for sanitary pipe is ahead of the output in spite of the several new factories that have been built in Annis- ton, Bessemer and elsewhere, and even the incoming plants will fail to produce a surplus so long as the country needs homes. Into every residence and business structure sanitary iron pipe enters as one of the large and necessary items.
 Alabama leads the union in the manu- facture of this grade of pipe and Annis- ton leads all cities in that respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
SALVATION ARMY
 APPEAL INDORSED
Letters From All About State Favor
 Movement

Showing the interest which is be- ing centered on the Salvation Army homo service appeal for 1920, letters and messages are coming into the local headquarters from all sections of the state.
 These communications are sent from organizations who are voluntarily talk ing up the work of the appeal in their respective communities The follow ing resolutions, passed by the com mittee of allied labor of Walker coun- ty, at Jasper. Ala. recently, Is typical of others received at the headquar- ters:
 Whereas the Salvation Army Is put ting on a drive for funds throughout the country, and whereas we know the Salvation Army to be a worthy organization, therefore be it resolved that we, the committee of allied labor of Walker county, pledge ourselves to do all We can to make the drive d sue cess'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
A3 Per Cent Building
 Increase OUer Last Year
First Four Months of 1920 Show o72 Invested Here in New Structures-Indications Point to
 $6,00O,0O0 for the Year

There has been no bluff about the music of the saw and the hammer and the swish of poured cement in Birmingham during the first four months of 1920.
 Building permits for that period
 of this year amount to $I,5Os, ,972
 an increase over the same period
 in 1919 of $SS9,965 or 143 per cent
 The post beilum building movement in Birmingham did not establish it's pace until July of 1919. The high peak of 1919 was made in that month with permits amounting to over $500 000 August, October and November fol- lowed with a record of around S50O,O00 each. The total for the year was nearly s4.000.000. At the rate permits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
SPANISH-AMERICAN
 CLUB MEETING SOON

J. w. Carlisle of the Gulf States stee' Company is an interesting speaker on the programme of the Spanish-American Club, which will hold a meetines thi evening at o'clock in the directors room of the Civic Association.
 Mir. Carlisle has just returned from three mcnths tour over the country ir South America. and while he was sen there for a commercial view of the coun try, his talk will no doubt prove of in- terest to all persons interested in Latin American subjects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
BESSEMER CROWD
 IS FOR HEFLIN
Inc Editor of The Age-Herald

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 In your statement in the mornings is- sue you said by your correspondent in Bessemer that when Mir. Hefin called on the audience at his speech Tuesday night in Bessemer to stand up and only 3 or 10 people stood up. The truth is that it was very large audience and prac- ,tically al the audience stood up and in- dorsed him. I was present and can sub stantiats by 10) or others that my state ment is correct. EUGENE TODD
 Ressemer Nav 8 1920
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
700 ABSENTEE VOTERS
 WILL PARTICIPATE IN
 PRIMARY ELECTION

Approximately 7O) Jefferson county citi- zens. who will be out of the county on May H. will vote in the primary under the new absentee voting law. Yesterda r was the last day on which ballots could be sent out to the absentee voters, and election Commissioner M r Nc~~'r h qn eleventh-hour rush. More than 101 ballots were mailed out yesterday before he office closed for the day Monday q were mailed out and Tuesday there were S3.
 All of the ballots of the absentee voters must be mailed back to Commissioner Morris properly filled out and accom- panied with the necessary afhdavits, so that they will arrive hv May 10. On the morning of May Il all of the at,.a ballots will be sent out by the members of the county democratic executive fom. mittee and will be placed in the balloT boxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Marriage Licenser

The following marriage licenses were issued in the probate court yes terday:
 J. s. Tomlin and Miss Mamie Allen.
 Robert Hearn Wood and Mrs. Elsie Eliza beth Palumbo.
 Euin c. Cosby and Miss Willie Kim trough.
 H. F. Malone and Mrs. Annie Mae Scott.
 J. H. Grigg and Mrs. Sophia L. Pow CTS.
 Center E. Nipper and Miss Ruth H Welch.
 J. Hawkins and Mrs. Mary H Holman --
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Convict Acquitted

Gus Kimbrough. negro convict, was acquitted of charge of murder before Judge William E. Fort in the criminal division of the circuit court. Marlborough was charged with having killed Clarence Christian. negro, a fell low convict at Flat Top mines. Kim brough proved a good case of self-de- fense and the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
MASONIC NOTICE

Birmingham FraternaI Lodge No. 3Ss s. F. & A. M. All members of Birmingham Fraternal are requested ia meet at the Masonic Temple at 2 D. m, to attend the funeral of our late grarher Edward II. ColIey. Services ,4 the grave. Intcrmcnt EImwOOd cemetery. All NasOus fraternalIy i'm vited. W. LAWHON. W. M.
 N. W, RANSOM. Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
ALABAMA COAL ID
 FRANCE AND ITALY
Pensacola Has the Handling Facilities and Takes
 Business from Mobile.

Seven thousand tons of high-grade Ca- mines. left the port of Pensacola about week ago for Italy.
 Similar movements take place through that port about twice per month Much more would move at this time but for the car shortage. France is also taker of Alabama coal in quantities that are limited principally by car shortage.
 The shipments to Italy and France, as well as regular business with Cupa, are made through local coal sales agency, which, in turn, secures the busi- ness through various export associa- tions.
 through the port of Mobile, but Penss- cola has more adequate facilities for load ing coal on vessels, hence the movement is via that port instead of Alabama own
 The rate to Pensacola is SLIGO per ton, wkile the ocean rate to Europe is from SIG to $20 per ton. Even at this n'sn cost, Italy and France, especially italy, must have coal. A local agency, in touch with this business, declares that con tracts for 500O00 tons for tIaly could be booked any day if there were facilities for moving that amount in the time de- sired.
 At this time last year there were few ships in southern waters. Now, owing to allocations by the emergency fleet cor poration, there is a supply ample ap' parently for all current needs, but the car shortage prevents full utilization Of this ocean-going transportation capacity An expert declares that the present car shortage, as it affects the Alabama coal mines, is at least 30 per cent. Under these circumstances, and with the domes- tic consumer elamoring for far more than the. present coal production, the ex- port demand cannot be cared for in the measure which the operators would de- sire.
 Both the Louisville and Nashville and the Georgia Florida and Alabama have coal tipples at Pensacola for placing the coal on ships.
 NEED TERMINALS
 What the Birmingham coal operators especially desire, and are now working hard for, is ample coal terminals at Mo bile, which would prove double ad- vantage, because the 20 per cent rail diff ferential for shipment down the Warrior would also be available.
 The Corona Coal Company has also been participating in the export coal movement.
 Not long ago Walter Moore of the Elm pire Company turned down firm offer of contract for several hundred thousand tons of high grade Alabama coal TOT Italy on account of lack of handling de- vices at Mobile.
 The matter of having the goVernmeNr brild a coal terminal with 25,00o tons ca. pacity at Mobile, interest on the invest ment to be guaranteed by the Alabama coal operators has received strong back ing. but no final decision has been rem dered by the authorities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
ATTENTION. KNIGHTS

You are requested to attend the funeral of Brother E. 4. Galley, which will be held from his late residence G22? First avenue. Thursday, at P. m. Interment will b. in EImyvood
 GEORGE CHINERy. Wise Master.
 ALBERT l.. REESE Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
BIRTH IN
 BIRMINGHAM FOR
 ANNUAL MEETING
Convention of Seven States Opens in Tutwiler With Welcome Addresses and
 Official Speeches

With several hundred dele gates from eight states present, the forty-seventh annual con- vention of the district grand lodge No. 2 of the Independent Order of B'Nai B'Rith was opened yesterday at the Tut wiler Hotel.
 Men and women from Alabama, Mis- siHslppi. Florida. Tennessee. Arkansas. OE ahoma. Louisiana and Texas gath cred to hear the cordial welcome by men high in public fife and in B'Nai BRith.
 The convention was called to order by the Grand Lodge president, A. Leo Oberdorfer. who introduced the first speaker, Irving T. Engel. Mir. Engel welcomed the delegates to Birmingham on the behalf of the local lodges. We have looked forward to this conven- city in the south in which the spirit of BNai B'Sith las been so cultivated as in Birmingham"
 Including the lodges at Bessenier. here are 800 members of B'Nai B'Rith Ghich is second only to New Orleans n the South. Mr. Engel paid a high ribute to the Birmingham men who nave stood high in the ranks of BNai Q Rith. In concluding. he said q can only say we are de1.shted to have in Birmingham the leaders of Jewish nOup6t in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
VALIDITY OF VENIRE

Lengthy demurrers were filed by Solicitor Tate and Assistant Solicitor Davis. The principal grounds. set out were that the validity of the venire can be attacked on only two grounds, one of which is fraud in the actual drawing of the venire and the other fraud by the sheriff in the serving of the yenire. IIe maintained that the motion set up neither of these grounds
 Judge Fort sustained the demurrers MT. Vaughn declined to let his client plead to the indictment and a plea of not guilty was entered by the court.
 At the opening of the afternoon ses- sion the second motion to quash the yenire was filed. Charges of fraud in the making of the jury lists and of the illegality of the names in the box were contained. The motion alleges that the jury box was not filled in fair and impartial manner. The names of the jurors placed in the box were not selected in a fair and impartial way by the jury commission, it al- leges. and charges that the jury com mission confined it's selection of jurors to such male citizens only as were desired and preferred by the jury com mission. Because of such conduct. it was alleged, the venire Is not com posed of and does not contain names Of such qualified jurors as contem plated by the law in fraud of the rights of the defendant The closins count of the motion alleges that the jury box contained the name of one individual on several cards at the time the present venire was drawn.
 Demurrers on numerous grounds were filed by the solicitor. He con- tended that the motion does not show any fraud in the drawing or service Of the venire. After the arguments Judge Fort took the case under ad- visement and announced that he would rule on the motion this morning at the opening of court.