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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
Contracts for $1, ,l38,558
 Worth Of Road Pauing Let

Contracts for s1,13s.55S worth of paved highways were let by the board of revenue at it's meeting yesterday afternoon.
 All bids on three other projects, the cost of which is estimated at $40O,O00, were thrown out and new bids"asked for. Bids on the additional work will be opened by the board at a meeting to be held at noon on June [.
 Seven projects were let by the board yesterday and call for a total of twenty-seven miles of pavement. The roads will be of uniform width and all will be of sheet asphalt laid on base of concrete varying from five to six inches in thickness. The asphalt wearing surface will be two inches thick.
 All of the contracts were awarded to local firms. The Dunn Construction Company was awarded four of the contracts, while three went to ri. N' Bowdry. Bids on the remaining proJ- ects were held to be excessive by the board and the advisory committee and were thrown out.
 A large number of bids are expected on June :. when the remaining three projects will be let. These include the Ensley to Vivian road. the cost of which was estimated at $160,ooo; the road from Ensley to the Junction of the Mulga and Docena road the cost of which was estimated at SlVo,ooo' and the water works road from Miner Heights to the pumping station the cost of which is estimated at $140,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
PROPERTY VALUED S55,1OO DESTROYED
 BY FEDERAL AGENT
One Hundred and Nineteen Illicit Stills Seized During Month of April-Much
 Liquor Destroyed

Property valued at s55, 100 was de- stroyed orr confiscated in raids on illicit distilleries during the month of April. ac- cording to the report of x. l.. Pierce, federal prohibition enforcement officer which is now being made up If the value of corn whisky is added to the figures, they will be increased by a sum or at least $l20O.
 There were ll9 stills destroyed The value of these stills. together with other property and articles forming part of the plants which Were burned by the raid CTS otherwise destroyed, are estimated by Mir, P>erce in his report at ST 500.
 Fourteen automobiles were seized and confiscated by the federal officials dur ins the month The value of these was very conservatiVely estimated at S7,000, or an average of $500 each However included in the number were several ex- pensive 7-passenger automobiles almost new. Two wagons and two teams were also sized and these were all Jumped in an estimate of $500
 Sundry supplies were seized and the value of these was not estimated. ln- cluded in this list was 1000 pounds of sugar and some meal and shorts.
 During the month a total of 5000 gal Ions of beer was poured out and de- stroYed. In addition to this, total of 120 gallons of corn whisky was captured and destroyed This liquor estimated at value of $1O per gallon. would amount to S1,200.
 Fully one-fourth of the stills destroyed during the month were found in Jeffer- son and surrounding counties. Mir. Pierce was actively aided in his work by the sheriff's forces and gives full credit to the county officers for the re- suits obtained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
READY 10 RAISE
 RED CROSS FUND S75,OOO Needed at Once for Storm Sufferers In
 Alabama

Stating that people in the storm damaged district in Alabama are bad ly in need of help Col. T. 0. smith state finance officer for the relief of storm sufferers, returned from an in spection trip recently and began im- mediate plans or concucting the cam paign for $75, ,000 for relief work.
 The total amount received at the campaign headquarters so far is S4,9So. This sum has been donated voluntarily. as no campaign has yet been conducted.
 Chairmen in charge of the campaign in every county have been notified by Colonel Smith of conditions in the storm district and asked to conduct the campaign so that the amount might be raised as soon as possible.
 i've have waited oyer-long," Colonel Smith said. '''While all immediate re- lief was done by the Red Cross, a great umber of people are still living In tents and are unable to get started in their farming operations.
 The sum asked of the state is small. says Colonel smith. when the cost of the damage is tabulated. The cost of rebuilding the homes and refurnishing them with household goods will reach a total of $62,T44.
 ''The burden will. not be unequal. Colonel Smith continued Every coun- ty will be asked to contribute its share towards the total needed. and their quotas are worked out according to the value of the property in each coun- tv. Each person will be asked to give his share, which will not be large
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
MEETING TODAY
 OF ARMY WORKERS Executive Body Will Con- slider Final Plans of Home
 Service Appeal

Initial reports will be made by mem bers of the executive committee aiding in the Salvation Army's home service appeal campaign at their meeting this afternoon in the Hotel Hillman at ] o'clock.
 Formed two weeks ago, the executive committee met later, apportioned inc work and has individually been devel- oping the campaign in each sector" The various sector directors will submit their findings for general consideration at the meeting today.
 Next Monday the home service appeal will start and will continue for ten days. It's object is to raise in Birmingham a minimum sum of $40GOO for use in heln- ing needy home folks.
 Ncne of the home service appeal funds is-gong to Nijninovgorod, Ram chatka, Upper Navik. Ujiji or Somali- land. Tie money will be spent at home in Birmingham and it's vicinity. or in cases of dire need for the relief of suf- ferers like those in the recent storms Every penny of it will be put in circula- ton here, passing through Birmingham business and adding to home trade
 There are people hereabouts who. as Bert Williams, the darkey comedian, says:
 Needs eve'thing. from hat down. and from an oyercoat-in."
 There are widows in Birmingham with several children, trying to subsist on slO to $15 a week, fighting the unprece- dented eXorbitant prices of today, dying of attrition and enemia.
 For such home people as these the appeal is to he made
 In the meeting this afternoon the ex. ecutive committee. will give the names of the cooperating committee members name the team captains and apportion the final division of the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
Employment Bureau
 Got Work for Many

Activity in commercial and industrial circles of Birmingham during the month of April is shown by the demand for labor and help of all kinds at sthe city employment bureau.
 The greatest demand was for skilled labor. is shown in the report of the bu- reau for the month of April An average Of six mechanics a day were given jobs
 The total number of applicants during the month was 457, of which 356 were white and 101 colored. A large portion of both races were women. Of this 457. jobs were secured for 254
 One feature of the work of the bureau was that 65 servants were placed in homes during the month. IT. E. Oliver. ir charge of the bureau. reports that tfere is a great demand for domestic help> of all kinds. Other classes of en- ployment which were filled were clerical and unsklled labor. Positions in a cler- ical capacity were secured for 1l5 people and 54 unskilled laborera were given jobs during the month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04

The contracts let by the board yes terday afternon are as follows
 North Bessemer road eight and one half miles, let to Dunn Construction Company for S3S6.29f
 Road from Thirty-aycoyd street through Bessemer 10 Huey lane and forming part of the North Bessemer road, two and a half miles. let to the Dunn Construction Company for s116.S5O.
 South Bessemer road, two miles, let to H. N. Bowdry for $6l.4$0.
 Mount Pinson road. Norwood boule- yard through Inglenook, two and half miles. let to H. N: Bowdry for $91,729
 Jasper highway, Birmingham to Pratt City five miles, let to the Dunn Construction Company for st97,515.
 Eight Avenue road to Ensley. four miles let to H. N. Bowdry for st5S,9S1
 Leeds highway. Woodlawn through Irondale two and half miles. let te the Dunn Construction Company for $121, ,753.75.
 The meeting of the board was called at 10 o'clock and the board and ad visory committee went into confer ence. The contracts were not let until after noon.
 County Engineer $. R. Batson made written report. He was aided in go ing over the bids by Julian kendrick, city engineer; Col. W, A. McCalla, as-' sistant state highway engineer. and Federal Engineer V M. Morefield. The recommendations of the report were followed except in the case of the North Bessemer road, where sheet asphalt was adopted instead of btu- lithic, which was recommended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
LOCAL LODGES ID ENTERTAIN VISITORS Annual Convention of Grand Lodge B'nai Birth Open
 Here Tomorrow
of Birmingham, Ala. Statement February 2Sth, 1920,
 REcnITRCES

Birmingham Lodge No. 36S and Magic City Lodge No 725 are making elaborate plans for the entertain lnent of the several hundred delegates from eight southern states who are expected in the city tkis week attend ing the annual convention of District Grand Lodge No. of the lndependent Order of B'nai B'rith.
 The first session will be held to- morrow afternoon at o'clock at the Tutwiler hotel. President A. Leo Oberdorfer will preside.
 Wednesday evenin, the president will read his annual message. which will be followed by an informal dance n the ballroom of tae Tutwiler hotel. Business sessions will be held Wednesday afternoon, Thursday after noon and evening and Friday morning
 The visiting ladies will be enter tained at luncheon Thursday, followed bv a theatre party. and in the even ing a dance Will be given in theT honor at the Phoenix Club.
 After the final business sessions Friday morning the visitors Will De taken for an automobile i1de through the manufacturing districts C the city.
 The Bnai B'rith is social and charitable organization. and among it's activities maintains the Touro hos pitaf at New orleans. the Len Levi hospital at Little Rock and the JeWlsh hospital for consumptives at Denver Col.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
POWER COMPANY
 SURGEONS MEET
Medical Men From Many Parts Jf the
 State In City

pr, c. l.. Guice. of Gadsden, was elected president of ,ne Surgeons of the Alabama Power Company at their annual meeting, which was he,d al the Tutwiler hotel vesterfay.
 Dr. J. F. Alexander. of Jasper, was elected vice president and Dr. J. P. Stewart of Attalla. was chosen secre- tary and treasurer fer the coming year.
 By unanimous vote of the surgeons it was decided that he next annual meeting of the organization will be held at the guest house of the Ala bama Power Company at Lock 12 The surgeons also decided upon two-day programme for the meeting. which will be held some time next May, instead of the one-day meeting which has been the rule
 Thirty-five surgeons were in at tendance on the meeting and there were forty-five guests at the lunch con. which formed the social feature served on the balcony at the Tutwiler where the meeting was held
 Thomas w. Martin, president of the Alabama Power Company delivered an interesting address on the policies of the company, Col R. A. Mitchell, vice president of the company, deliv- cred the address of welcome Perry W. Turner, of the legal department delivered an address on the work mems compensation law large number of highly interesting papers were read hv the surgeons attending
 pr T. J. Brothers. of Anniston. re- tiring president, presided over the meeting and acted as master of cere- monies. Chief Surgeon s. R. Benedict aiGed in the entertainment of the wis itors to Birmingham. The programme for the session was elaborate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
GOOD TRADE WITH.
 WEST COAST CITY
 AND B|RM|NGPORT
Alabama Metals Going By Ship to California-Fruit Return CargO-Round
 Trip Each Month

The United States Cast Iron Pipe Company is moving another 5000 tons of cast iron pipe to Mobile, where it will be loaded on ship of the Elmer gency Fleet Corporation for transpor- tatlon to Los Angeles and Frisco.
 Portions of the cargo later will go to inland California cities that are adding to gas and water pipe lines.
 The first cargo of 5000. tons of pipe left Mobile in the steamship Delisle about two weeks ago and was bound for the same points via the Panama canal. The sailings between the two Ports are two weeks each way The returning vessels are expected to load with California canned goods and other Pacific coast products. In this way east and west bound cargoes are eX- pected to equalize the operations.
 The Fleet Corporation allocated ships to this route and efforts will be made to establish these monthly sailings be- tween Mobile and the Pacific coast on regular and permanent basis
 Seventy-five cars loaded with pipe are on the way to Mobile now to load fer the canal voyage.
 One unique feature of this movement is that the pipe and other district ship nents could as easily, and eventually will. move down the Warrior river to Mobile to load on steamers there, while Pacific coast goods can just as easily rtove by barge from Mobile to Birming- port. thence to district points. On the Pacific coast end, Los Angeles is simi- larly situated. It s twentythree miles from the ocean, just as Birmingham is twenty miles from the Warrior at Bir- ningport. San Pedro is to Los Angeles what Birmingport is to Birmingham. Movements from San Pedro and from Birmingham will be effected in pre- cisely the same manner.
 The ocean would not come to Los Angeles, so Los Angeles went to the ocean at San Pedro. The Warrior would not come to Birmingham. so Bir- mingham went to the Warrior at Bir- mingport, Substitute names and the enterprise is the same.
 The pipe that is now on it's way to Mobile to load did not come from Bir- mlngham only, but from the four plants of the United States Pipe Company To- cated in the south namely, those at An niston, Birmingham. Chattanooga and Bessemer. This indicates the advan- tages of the port of Mobile for ship nlents emanating from a broad terri tory.
 The pipe movement via Mobile and the canal is not being conducted as an experiment, but on basis of exact cal oulation. It is more economical from transportation standpoint to ship via Mobile and the canal than by train across the continent. That is the req son why the pipe is going that way.
 It is highly probable that makers of sanitary pipe and manufacturers of other products, for which there is de- niand on the Pacific coast, will help make up the next west bound cargo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
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. bI ick 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 at once. The opera tors expect to be manufacturing sanitary east 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 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., 1920-05-04
CAR SHORTAGE HAS
 HELD UP FISH SALE

With no prospect of relief in the
 aortage of freight cars the chances | f Birnlinghams municipal fish sale be held in the near future are ilieht.
 This sale has bean postponed sev- aral times on account of conditions which make it impossible to get ship fneats of fish here from Boston. stiikes and uncertain shipping condi- ions have made all attempts to set date for the next sale futile.
 Ed Mckinley, city purchasing agent, 1as just received letter from the Bay State Fisheries Company, of Eos- ton. who will supply the tish for the sale. The letter states that the fish company is overstocked with farcy fish which they cannot get to their customers because of uncertain freight conditions. The wr;ter as- sures MT. Mckinley lat he will ship the fish as son as conditions are such that this will be possible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
WOMAN KILLS MAN
 IN PISTOL DUEL

Mabel Forrest, negro woman. was lodged in the county jail yesterday by deputies Hurst. Burge, Smith and Sandi- charged with having shot and killed Jim Corbin, negro man, at Graves Mines yesterday morning at 10:3o o'clock
 According to the information at the sherff's office. Corbin wasI killed in a pistol battle with the woman He is all legged to have fired two shots from a 3S-calbre Colts revolver. and the woman three shots from a .32-20 revolver One shot took effect in Corbin's body, striking him in the side about the belt line An investigation of the case is being made hv the coroner,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04

Immediate canvass of the community is to be made by committees of business men to raise the remainder of the $s3,oOo still required to complete the capital stock issue. This is necessary if the work at Birmingport. the city's Warrior terminal. is to be completed and made to do the service for which intended.
 Of the original S134,OoO subscribed and collected for this purpose. all but $700O has been expended.
 That the expenditure has been effective as well as economical was demonstrated by slides shown by Manager H. G. Wood. There are shipping yards at Birmingport, derricks and power station: there are homes for the working men on the bluffs. the whole side of a mountain has been blasted away for the classification yards while the government is tearing out one side of the stream to make a turning basin A good county road now reaches Birmingport, so that citizens of Birming- ham who wish to see what has been done can do so by an automobile drive of little over an hour.
 SPENT $14,O0O,000
 The stockholders of the Port of Bir- mingham Corporation iand representative business men gathered Monday in the Tutwiler to hear explained what had been done to utilize the Warrior and what mained to be done. w. D. Nesbtt briefly told of the completion of the canaliza- tion of the Warrior at an expenditure of Sl4 100000 and what had followed the overtures made by the Warrior develop ment committee to the then railroad ad, ministrator, w. G. McAdoo, on Thanks giving, 1917. One result of these overtures was the order for $2,S00,000 of river craft especially adapted to the Warrior river traffic. The special craft includes the two self-propellers City of Birmingham and City of Tuscaloosa" just launched at St. Louis; two self-propelers of similar type to be launched soon. a number Of towboats and barges and 120 steel con tainers. All this equipment and all ap- purtenances at Birmiugport will be avail able by September l.
 CROWDED
 As high an authority as General Hines who is in charge of the inland waterways for the government, declares there is more freight in sight than even the new equipment will be able to handle.
 By January l. 1921, says Mir. Nesbitt the river will have an eight-foot channel from Cordoya to Mobile. It was at this point that the speaker made the sig- nificant statement that now and for the first time in the twenty-three years ot his residence he conld say that Blrming- ham, through the Warrior river. had Tn the way of transportation advantages what other cities should envy Taking cotton, for example, the all-rail rate to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
HEALTH SERVICE
 EXPERTS IN TOWN
Here for Conference With Physicians
 On Venereal Topics

Dr. C. C. Leake and Dr. Myers. ex- perts in the Tinted States public health service will address Alabama clinicia ns today at the government clinic on Ave- nue F.
 The physicians in charge of tho govern ment clinics in the state will gather to discuss the problem of fighting the spread of venereal diseases. number of phy-- sicons who are cooperating with the elincians, and those who are interested in veneral diseases will also attend the meeting.
 Dr. Ieake and Dr. Myers are both ex- perts on the subject to be discussed by the physicians. Mir. Myers has specialized in the study of arsphenamire. drug with which experiments are being made in the effort tc find cure for venereal dis eases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
BEAT IT, EDO!

Unlicensed dogs, beware!
 Today marks the beginning of the dog catchers rounds.
 All owrerless canines roam the streets at their own risk. Today, every dog who allows himself to be seen without the little license tag around his neck signs his own death warrant
 The dog laws are very stringent this year on account of the new state anti dog law. The city provides merely that a license must be bought. The state says that each dog must be muzzled unless accompanied by it's owner, anc must be kept shut up at night. While the dog catcher is a city official and will only take up dogs without li- censes, state officers will also be busy to catch stray dogs with nocturne hab- its, and those without muzzles. The county officials are equally inter- ested.
 Not every dog is in danger, how ever. Exactly 5,l23 will be unmo- tested, for these have been provided with license tags. Other owners who wish to protects their dogs should do so at once by getting a license from the city license department in the city hall. The price of these licenses now has advanced to $3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
Woman Pleads Guilty to
 Charge of Manslaughter

pea of guilty to charge of man slaughter in the first degree was entered yesterday afternoon by Elmira Gardner, 8 negro woman. before Judge William r. Fort in the criminal division of the circuit court. The woman was given sentence of two years hard labor for the county She was charged with having shot and killed Paralee Gillian with a pistol
 The juries for the week were organized by Judge Fort yesterday morning. and the docket of capital cases set for the week was sounded. A total of fourteen de- fendants were scheduled for trial during the present week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-04
Marriage LicenseF

The following nlJrrIaEe IIceHaes were issued at the probate court yes terday:
 Joseph Thomas Raburn and Mrs CaMie Bailey.
 Marion Holley and Miss catse I. Medley.
 J. F. Light and Miss Beatrice Ma quin.
 zeb Hutto and Miss Lucy Clements w. l.. Allen and Miss Essie Mae Stoudenmre
 Bennie Gothard anl Miss Novella Bryant.
 Frank l.. Sullivan and Miss Ldlie May Howton