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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
DAM WORK STARTS AT DUNCAN RIPPLE Alabama Power Company to Spend S1O,000,OO0
 on the Job

Work has begun on the new siO.00o 010 power dam of the Alabama Power com pany on the Coosa river at Duncan Rifle, eight miles from Verbena.
 The work makes little show, because it is of preliminary nature
 Borers sounding the interior of the earth for foundations.
 Surveys are being made for the eigh: miles of standard gauge railroad which the company will build out of verbena toeconnect with the Louisville and Nash vile for the feasible handling of the materials going into the dam construc- ton.
 Formation of the cliffs on either side of the river suggests that the masonry will be about 1,500 feet long to stretch from point to point.
 The elevation of the lock will be 30 feet. The waters of the river will bs raised that much and pool 80 feet deea at the dam will have been created.
 The new dam will have 10000 more horsepower than the dam at Lock r. which, with the added unit now under contract, will have a total of 11G.o00 horsepower.
 It will require about two years to build pie of Alabama will have something over twice the amount of hydroelectric power now available.
 All the permits necessary have been ot tained. The lock at Duncan Riffle will proceed continuously until it is com pleted and is in operation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
REALTORS TO AID IN SELECTING SITE
 FOR MO0SEHEART

Confidence that Birmingham would be successful in the endeavor to secure the southern hor7e of the Mooseheart for the Birmingham district was ex- pressed by pr. George Stuart at the weekly ,Heetins ef 2Ge Real Estate board yesterday afternoon.
 pr. Stuart enumerated the many eco nomical and commercial ways that bringing the home to Birmingham would benefit the district, and said that he believed, after giving the other two competing cites. NeH Orleans and Jacksonville. Fla. due consideration, he of the opinion that the committee would decide on Birmingham as the best location for many reasons.
 Many sites ranging from Ia to 1000 acres each were talked over for the home among the members of the board present, and it was generally conceded that the district had almost any kind of 2 site that the Moose might desire.
 q believe that the Real EstatC board is the organization that can do More in submitting suitable sites for the home to bring the home here than anybody that l know of" Dr. Stuart said. 'Bir- mingham has the most ideal climate of any district that is being considered New Orleans and Ta 'ksoNNihe being perhaps too warm during the summer months.
 pr. stuart told also ot the value in dollars and cents the home would mean to Birmin gham. "Gentlemen. that home is the fipest thing I know of. Let's go after it for Birmingham" pr. Stuart said.
 A committee to submit sites and work with the general committee in bringing the home to Birmingham has been named by the Real Estate board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
KILLING JUSTlFIABLE
Coroner Investigates Killing of Negro
 By City Detective

JustiiiaNble homicide was the e-verdict of John R. T, Rives, assistant coroner, fol- towing an investigation into the death ,,f Frank Garrett. negro, who was killed hy City Detective George Hendrix Monday afternoon on Eighteenth street between Avenues X and B, south. M
 Detective Hendrix and Detective Ste pllen tst.ad had arrested the negro at First alley and Eighteenth street, south on suspicion when they saw him jump from a freight train according to the testimony before the coroner The ne- gro was searched by the officers and n hot water bottle containing liquor found on him. and when the detectives at tempted to take it from him Garrett pulled a pistol and began firing. It was stated that one of the bullets narrowly missed the officers. Following a fight of several minutes. the negro was shot in the neck and killed, according to the testimony of witnesses
 The negro was identified by several persons. the officers stated as being the man who had held them up and robbe.t them at the point of gun during the paSt few weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
LOCAL CHAPTER OF ARCHITECTS TO PLAN
 CITY AUDITORIUM

Yesterday at an adjourned meeting of the city commissioners, Dr. N A. Bar rett, president of the commission, an- nounced that the municipal auditorium committee had, subject to the approval of the commissioners. appointed the local chapter of the American Architects as- sociation to be official architects for the building of the auditorium. Hugh Mar tin. of the firm of Miller & Martin, and president of the focal architects asso- citation. will have charge of the work.
 The architects association has recom- mended to the committee that a super vising architect with experience ana knowledge in the building of city audi toriums be appointed to oversee the worK. The supervising architect will be appoint ed immediately.
 Members of the committee will visit other cities, go over audtoriums exain- inc buildings and have conferences with their architects in order that clear ideas abc ut Birmingham auditorium may be brought to the conference on plans. Members of the committee which will visit other cities are: Commissioner J. Ellis Brown, Mrs. Houston Davis and Mrs. W. D. Smith.
 The plans of the auditorium commit tee were unanimously approved by the board of commissioners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
BUSINESS DISPUTE
 CAUSE OF ACTION
Tarrant and Pollock Issue Statement Regarding Grand
 Jury's Action

Dr. Felix I. Tarrant and George D. Pol lock- officers of the Peanuts Products corporation, yesterday issued a joint statement bearing upon the indictments returned against them in connection with the company's affairs. Their statement reads:
 ''To the Public: 1t seems easy these days to have indicted ones neighbors and fellow citizens by the grand jury.
 '"The undersigned have been indicted by the grand jury of this county on charges. we insist, which have their only source in the partisan mind of one man, who is determined to rules or ruin the Peanuts Products corporation. of which we are stockholders and officers. and which are the outgrowth of commer- cial dispute. Failing in Coffee county, where the corporation had plant for the manufacture of it's product, and where the court sustained demurrers to similar indictments. this partisan has proceeded against us in Cherokee county and in Jefferson county. All of these prosecu- tions will fail and we now simply ask our friends and neighbors to withhold ad- verse judgment and to act on the prin- oiple of the bill of rights that every man is presumed to bs innocent until the contrary is proven
 FELIX I. TARRANT,
 GEO. D. POLLOCK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
MONEY COMING IN
 AHEAD Of APPEAL
Over 1000 Is Received AL ready to Aid European
 Children

Workers in the United States are striving to raise funds to relieve the suffering of S,50o,0O of starving chil- dren in central and eastern Europe.
 August Hirsch of the Hrsch Milli nery company in making cont-'ibu- ton to the fund, has written the fol- lowing letter to Erskine Ramsay chair man of the Alabama committee in charge of the work. telling of word |ceived from relatives in the famine stricken sections:
 I' My dear MT Ramsay:
 Enclosed find our check for s5O for the European children fund
 T recently received from my broth er-in-law in Germany the Frankfurter Zeitung, the leading paper of Frank- fort -on- the Main, in which there was an editorial dealing with this question. It was the most pitiful appeal I ever read in my life, speaking about condi tons in Germany, as well as Austria, concerning the little children.
 You have my very best wishes for q crowning success in your worthy calse. Anything I can do for you personally,
 
 Yours very truly,
 ''HIRSCH MILLINERY COMPANY,
 Per (Signed) August Hirsch."
 Although no active work on raising Alabama's quota of $100,000 to aid 'hese sufferers has started, newspaper s,p- peals have brought more than s1.o00 to the headquarters of the comm. tee. This amount has been in subscriptions mailed or brought to headquarters. and does not include many of the donations received at various churches, Sun lay or the money received by various news papers.
 Chairman Ramsay yesterday re- ceived a telegram from Herbert l1oov- CT, in which the former food director pointed out that Liberty bonds do lated to the child relief fund are to be c~cd- ited at par since the national commit tee will sell them to some philanthsoeic person, who will buy them at 100 cents on the dollar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
 FOR GUARDSMEN
Montgomery Boys Remem- bered By Home FoIks-100
 Christmas Boxes Given


 Montgomery boys who are members Of the Alabama national guard have not been forgotten by thier home folks.
 During the past two weeks the pastors, newspapers and the civic organizations of Montgomery have been carrying on a campaign to raise money to buy Christ mas gifts for the boys of their city now in the national guard and who are sta- toned in the coal fields in the Birming- ham district.
 They were successful More than s4O0 was raised. Yesterday H. E. Hopper, member of a special committee appointed to distribute the gifts, appeared in Bir- mingham with more than a hundred Christmas boxes. He placed the boxes in an automobile and started out for Re- public and the surrounding territory, where Companies A and B of Montgom- cry are stationed
 All the Christmas boxes were left with the captains of the companies, and will not be presented to the boys until Christi mas morning. The boxes contain a half pound box of candy, five packages Of cigarettes, five packages of smoking to- bacco, cob pipe, pound of mix nuts, dozen apples and oranges, a magazine and Christmas card.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
CASES SET
 FOR CAPITAL WEEK

Eleven cases charging the defendants with offenses punishable by death un- der the Alabama statute will be tried the week of January r in the criminal di- vision of the circuit court. This week has been designated as capital week, ac- cording to the docketS set for the month, which have just been received from the printers. Of this number eight will be called on to answer charges of murder in the first degree and three will be tried for highway robbery
 Several of these cases scheduled to be heard is that of J. F.. Allison, striking miner of the Sloss-Sheffieid Steel, and IT on company. who is charged with kill ing Sam Linn, non-qnion miner at Gin town a few days after the strike of coal miners in the Birmingham district went into effect last August. Frank Cook and C. L. Anderson will be tried on charges of robbery. They are alleged to have robbed l.. F, McE.aehern and William Travis several weekS-ago after they had beaten the former over the head with a pistol and left him tied in the rear of the store, where he was later found by a patrolman.
 w. l.. Sullivan Is charged with the kill ing of his step-father, William Yancey, shortly after his mothers second mar riage Other cases to be heard dur ing this week are Paul Locascio, robbery Clarence Reeves, murder; Nancy Lee,' Sr., murder; J. B. Miller murder; Jim Alexander. murder: Carmele Nuara, mur- der. and Porter B. Rutland.
 The docket set for month of January in this division of the court contains more than 3o0 cases in addition to the capital cases During the week of Janu- arv 24 appealed cases from the record CTS court will be tried All defendants to he tried on capital charges will be ar ranged in open court on Saturday. Janu- ary S. and their cases formally set TOT trial during the week devoted to the hearing of these cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24

diamond-encrusted turtles with long necks and no tails. The clerk, at the shoppers request slips on their blind side, nabs couple and turns them over for inspection. Nothing more exciting than a watch to be worn on ribbon suspended about the neck. They call them sautoirs when they are worn, though they continue to be watches, just the same.
 tray full of twisting, curling ser pents with diamond-encrusted plati- mum heads next catch the mortified eye. Flexible bracelets remarks the clerk laconically, and the shopper heaves a sigh of relief. Even platinum snake is not to be trusted unless it ise named first.
 That sn't all There are many other things, though not so much newspaper space. .f
 Besides the fur coat gifts, the femi- nine apparel mostly runs to filnis lace and flowing ribbons twisted into designs which are fearsome and iE- describable.
 For the men. Welt loose link cuff links are receiving a good deal of at tention. But that helps only a lit tle The distracted feminine shopper is still running around in circles. wild eyed as ever, begging someone to tell her:
 What in the world can l give man for Christmas, except socks, ties, belts and cuff buttOnS?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were issued yesterday at the office of he probate judge
 F. T. Boyd and Miss Irene Scott.
 Alvin Burton and Miss Bik]ie Ba.k IT. Andrew Goodwin and Miss Gus- inc Smith.
 Eugene R. Waggoner and Miss Lois Atkins.
 Thomas Wilkinson and Miss Willie Buaby.
 Howard D. Reese and Miss Frances Isabel Ford.
 Gordon Abney and Miss Rose Easter. Otis T. Howard and Miss Mary l.. Harcin.
 Eddie Barnes and Miss Mary Ora lam. A. E. Muncher and Miss Delphia Smith. | Ellis Lucas and Miss Alma Pickle
 J. A. Hall and Miss Minnie Lee Farm CT
 Robert L. McNutt and Miss Lillie Sue I.elmayne.
 H. G. Elder and Miss Grace D. smith. Robert Creel and Miss Hester Chap peli.
 Herman David Overton and Miss Eleanor Bernice Bald
 Lester Massey and Miss Maggie Good win.
 James Irby Day and Miss Grace Doss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
TWO MEN INJURED
 LIN AUTO ACCIDENT


 w. W. Buddy. 23ls Fifth avenue, north, and William Howard. sa Fayette street, Pratt City, were knocked down and se riously injured by an automobile driven by Police Officer B. H. Sellers at Fifth avenue and Twenty y-first street. north, about 4:S9 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 Both men had got off a Boyles street car and walked around the end of the trailer. The automobile was going north on Twenty-first street.
 Officer Sellers stopped his car immedi- ately and called Shaws ambulance and had the men removed to the Birmin gham infirmary. It was later reported that Howard was badly bruised about the head and face, but that Buddy was the most seriously injured of the two. It is believed that one of the wheels of the car passed over Ruddy's body.
 Emergency call officers investigated the accident and turned in a report later stating it was unavoidable. Officer Sellers accompanied the injured men to the hospital He was not placed under bond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
Science and Research NolU
 Dominate Christmas Wares
Prehistoric "Beasties' for Jewelry-CviI Engineers Dreams in Miniature for Small Boys-Al Startling
 to Those Who Do the Buying
BY HELEN HETHEA

Strange and fascinating are the gifts which are catching the eye of the 1921 Christmas shopper
 Literature, art, historical research, science-all Of those high -falutin ab- stractnesses' nave had their effect on toyland.
 The realm or the jeweled gift seems to be affected principally by re- cent developments in research in the history of animals, especially the creeping variety.
 The gifts coming under the category of ladies apparel-ah, they represent every known furry animal-many of which were invented by the furriers out of the common and garden va reties. Besides that. there are gar ments without names which are gleaned from every corner of the globe-that is, the styles of them are gleaned. The garments themselves are fashioned from Americas rarest fabrics and occasionally from some thing beautiful, though imported.
 Though the children still have with them the well-beloved Billy Bounce, who cannot be persuaded to lie down; the toy drum, horn, pistol and other old standbys, there are many rear some new toys. In fact, the average toy department looks like the exhibit ton of new inventions and construc- tion work at the federal patent ot- flee.
 Lining the sides of the room in or derly array are all of the newest de- signs in airplanes. In gazing at the wonders ones feet catch on the steel girders being hauled to the top of partially erected miniature sky scraper. As one gazes aloft the eyes are caught by a perfect concrete bridge spanning the gap between the doll and doll dress show cases. rms bridge, it is well to note, can De taken to pieces and packed into req sonably small box.
 A little farther alon gthe aisle one has a strange impression of )ou:- neying through tRe fossil secuon ol museum. Standing about calmly arc reproductions of the mammoth. the giant turtles and many others whlch are rarer and harder to name. Stanu- ing right along beside them are the known animals, two by two, just as they went into Noah's ark. A httie farther on is the ark, and the aver age grown shopper greets the it''e houseboat as long lost friend ana feels that one is returning to the toy department of another day.
 But enough of toys. The jewelry is fearsome, if one is not used 10 It. On one side of the door IS case containing number of dlmnutiF7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
MINERS CHRISTMAS

Following donations of sa0 by Judge Charles Teasley. owner of the Beltona coal mines, and s5e0 donated by miners employed at Beltona. there will be a Christmas tree for the families O. the miners of Warrior, Kimberley and Seioca.
 The United Mine Workers organization has contributed fruits and other Christ mas mementoes for the occasion. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
COM MUNIN CLUB

As tomorrow is Christmas Day the Community club will hold it's meeting this afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in the private dining room of the Southern club. This will be session for club members only and will be in the na- ture of fellowship and acquaintance meeting Each member is requested to bring gift for another member Plans for the annual Christmas dance to be given tonight at the Country club will be discussed President Edmund Armes requests all members to be pres
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
BRINGS HOOT OWL
w. C. Reese Presents Large Bird to
 the ASondale Zoo

". c, Reese. 2ols Twelfth avenue, south. an engineer the Louisville and Nashville railroad, broushtsto The Age Herald office last night a large hoot owl to be given to the zoo at 4Avondale.
 Mir Reese said that the bird was caught near Montgomery and placed 3n his engine yesterday afternoon while he was en route to Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
CHURCH INFLUENCE

The great binding force of Greek peoples the world ov is the national Greek church which has its ramifica- tions in this country and all countries. It is the arbiter of disputes and domes- tic troubles and all differences be- tween Greek and Greek. This accounts for the extremely limited Creek litiga- ton in the American courts The Greek is not a propagandist. He works and saves and suffers the obloquy that nat urally follows, but when the Greek character is better understood bet ter feeling is sure to follow. It must paratively new element in American national life, immigration to this coun- try having only begun about 20 years ago"
 MT. Mavrellis believes Greece will
 win all it's points in the present
 war with Turkey. "Greece," he said, ,-
 -has the moral. financial and to
 some extent the military support
 of the powers and the ultimate
 outcome hns never been in doubt.
 Turkey is an outlaw nation and
 eventually must he turned back
 into Asin from whence it camc."
 How about Constantine and the new monarchy? he was asked
 .. II do not favor it. Greece was drift ing toward republicanism under the leadership of Venzelos, whom every body comedies is one of the greatest statesmen the war produced but the national demand was for a constitu- tional monarch and venizelos was out voted. Having lived in AmeiSca for 20 years. l look at it as an American and feel that Greece has made big mis- take.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24

.Jt proves profitable, and within d year or so the newcomer has esta- hlished himself in the restaurant pusl . ness. From then on it is mereiy DUST ness aptitude and graspins the op- nortunities which America offers Le | me also say the first thing a IreeN immigrant does is to master the Eng fish language and from that time on if is his language to the exclusion or all others In almost any party or Greeks you will hear only Enghsh spoken, unless it is purely religious or fraternal gathering.
 "The Greeks are n clean, law
 abiding people. despite opinion
 ouite common to the contrary. In
 Sing Sing penitentiary, with 'sOoo
 inmates there is not a single con
 yict of Greek birth and yet the
 great center of Greek life in the
 United States is New York city.
 Tn the recent war S5 per cent Of all able bodied Greeks in the United States served in the army or navy, either or this country or with other allied forces. This is a record that cannot be ap- preached by any other people in Amer lea. not even the Americans them selves. l say these things, Qot boast fully, but because they maS give new angle of thJught 10 people who condemn all Greeks on general princl- DleS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
GREEK CONTROL OF AMERICAS FOODS
 WITHIN TEN YEARS
Over 5O0,O00 of Them In Uni ted States Engaged In Vari- ouS Forms of Edible
 Supplies Business t,

That within ten years the Greek population of the United States will control the food SUD- ply of the country is the belief expressed by Pete Mavrellis, a New York importer, who, with his family, spent yesterday in Birmingham en route for a short vacation trip to the gulf coast of Texas.
 eJ do not say that boostinEly.7
 he explained. but everything nt
 present points in that direction. Of
 the 75O,0OO Greeks in the United states. fully so per cent are en-
 gagged in the purchase, sale CT com
 mission handling of food products.
 The number is increasing yearly.
 "As regards the great food crops, such as wheat, corn potatoes and the like. Greeks have made little or no inroad into the field of original pro- duction, but the instant these crops leave the farm and the transportation companies which deliver them, Greek interests take an active part in their subsequent sale and dis ibution.
 CROWDING LAPS
 Tn the citrous fruit belt of Califor- mia the Greeks are colonizing and orowding the Italians and Japanese hard and they are getting a firm hold on the nut crop of the southeastern states, not so much as growers but as the> largest purchasers and dis tributors. '"The reason for this situation is not concerted action on the part of Greek character which these immigrants bring with them to this country. They are natural tradesmen anG being of an independent nature and jealous of restraint, the first thing they look about for is a business they can con- trol. They take naturally to the res taurant business and those who arrive without previous training in that line are given employment by successful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
WILL SELL BONDS

An ordinance authorizing the sale of $l00,000 worth of bonds to pay for out standing contracts for public improve ments was passed by the city commits sioners at an adjourned meeting held yes terday afternoon at o'clock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
PERSONAL

Hunter Armstrong. register in chancery, has returned from Florida, where he has been for the past two weeks for the bene- at of his health. He is much improved ane able to resume his duties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
GETTING STARTED

countrymen in need of helpers a,' they soon acquire the details ol the business.