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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
BIRMINGHAM BOYS ARE ENJOYING CAMP R. o. T. c. Units of High School Are In Training
 at Camp Jackson

Seventy Birmingham boys, members or the R. O. T. C. units, at Central and Ems lev High Schools. are enjoying the won ders to be sen at Camp Jackson, S c. and environs, according to letters being received by their home folks.
 The boys arrived at the scene of their summer camp last Thursday afternoon They were given time to look over the camp and visit the state capital at Co- lumbia before buckling down to work yesterday morning.
 According to letters received by reia- tives the boys are delighted with their surroundings, fare and clothing. They were issued new suits out and out. Ample time for recreation and reading is fur nished. The boys are in charge of non commissioned officers who have had sim- liar training at the colleges and uniyer- sities.
 A number of the boys have made men tion of the good meals they are peins served, both in quality and quantity. The rations are the same as are served the West Point cadets. The young soioiers are housed in two-story frame houses' which are well ventilated and sanitary
 camp hospital and medical attention is furnished in case any Of the boys get sick Walter Grevlee of 20ll Fourteenth avenue, in writing to his mother, stated that the band which has been deslgnateo as the official band of the camp mas already placed Birmingham on the map
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
CITY DEMANDS |!S SHARE OF ROAD TAX County Officials Withhold Payment, Claiming Inter-
 est on Road Bonds

Action of the county officials in re- tainng the s52,Oo0 due the city as their share of the 10-cent road tax fund for this year, has aroused the officials of the finance department of the city with the determination to fight the battle to finish.
 The situation has already gone too far" says City Attorney Fred G. Moore. The county officials will again be asked to turn over the money which belongs to the city by every legal right. If they refuse then the city will fight, and legal proceedings will be started at once."
 According to the city officials the coun- ty is holding S52,000 which is half of the amount of the road tax collected during the past year.
 For the past ten years county officials have been collecting the road tax within the city limits and turning half of the amount over to the city. r But now county officials are holding tho city's half of the road tax fund. they say. because the money turned over to the city each year should have been assessed to pay the interest on county road bonds.
 But city officials firm in their be- lief that the law requires the payment Of half the tax collected within the city limits to the city regardless of any in- terest on road bonds. and a statute to that effect passed in 1909 holds good over any law or statute passed before that time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
NAME TWO SITES HERE
 FOR BAPTIST HOSPITAL
Underwood Place and Old Water
 works Grounds Suggested

Members of the general committee to secure for Birmingham the Baptist Hos pital are making efforts to find a suitable site to offer the location committee
 The old Underwood place. for many years landmark in Birmin gham. sit,iat- ed at Sycamore Street and Rose Ave nue, is/being seriously considered by the committee. This place is admirably To- oated, being only eight blocks from the Terminal station. This would permit ac- possibility for out-of-town patients who will come to Birmingham if the hospital is located there
 The site of the old Birmingham water works, in North Highlands, is also being mentioned.
 Members of the city committee. having placed themselves at the call of the chair man, pr. J. D. Eeacock, will be called together one day this week. the chair man indicated. The meeting will be. to consider the preparation of pamphlet which will be handbook of information for the members of the location com mittee. It will contain in detail all the advantages and disadvantages of the city.
 Dr. J. R. Hobbs, chairman of thk loca- ton committee. will return to Birnin ,- ham in a few days. He was recently op- erated upon in a Memphis infirmary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
Retail Merchants to
 Meet This Evening

Members of the Retail Grocers and Butchers Association tonight will dis cuss the new bylaws and constitu- tion, now being framed if is announced ty President Robert Emond- This business is considered the most impor- tant to be taken up this year, and all members are urged to be on hand at s O clock at the Civic Association.
 The bylaws and constitution com u.ittee has been busily engaged during tlr past week in framing the new con- sritution. and their report tonight will be of special interest to grocers and Butchers who are members of the as s,ciation Final action and adoption is expected at this weeks meeting.
 Another matter to receive the conSid- era tion of members will be action on selecting permanent meeting place for the association.
 An attractive prize will be offered a, this meeting in the regular attend ance contest. During the past two or three meetings the prize winner was not present and consequently there was none awarded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
ALI CITY CLUBS
 IN MASS MEETING Chamber of Commerce, In Annual Gathering, Invites
 Institutions to Attend

The lives. gathering which the Cham Der of Commerce has ever had is the fore cast of the annual meeting to be held in the Southern club. second floor this even- ing.hs- b m ei s Notronly members of the chamber, but members of all other civic organizations and business organizations have been in- vited to attend. Judging by the interest displayed, they will all be we'll repre- sented
 There is not going to be set of hum drum and fixed addresses. President Northington, for one, is going to slde- step his completely by informing the audience that General Manager Bum is the chambers spokesman. Former Presl- dent R. A. Brown will let his successful administration speak for itself, and MT Bunn while known far and wide for the meatiness of his remarks, has never been guilty of extended oratory.
 It bids fair to be a real live-wire mass meeting of citizens at large with the wei fare of Birmingham of sole and foremost consideration.
 There is no pre-arranged schedule Any man. who has thought for the good or the community, will find ample oppor- tunity to spring it and a bunch Of gooc listeners to lend their ears
 The chamber was never in stronger position to accomplish real work than now under the management of Mir. Bum and the presidency of Mir. Northngton. These two men have pulled together III the Traffic Bureau, making it an or, standing achievement, and the forecast 's that they are to make new high reccro in the chamber
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
Judge Fort Visits Scene of Assault on
 Chinese Laundryman

When the case of Polly Lawson charged with assault with a weapon was called before Judge William -ia. Fort in the criminal division or the court the aid of an interpreter was necessary. It was alleged that the as sault was committed upon the person of Loo Yot, a Chinese laundryman, who spoke little English.
 Practically all of the testimony was completed and Judge Fort was asked to visit the scene of the alleged fight at All Eighteenth street. north. before the case was concluded. Judge Fort enjoyed this novel experience after court adjourned yesterday afternoon, and he declared it was the first time since being on the bench that he had been called upon to visit the scene of the offeRse.
 Arguments will be taken up today and the case completed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
WHAT BIRMINGHAM DOES WITH
 EACH DOLLAR CITY RECEIVES
By BERT COLLIER.

Seeking information about. the expendl- lures of the city, man entered the or flee of J. NJ. Jones, Jr., city comptroller. yesterday, and asked the question: 'Jnst
 what does the city do with each dollar it receives?"
 Based on the latest report of the imam cial department, MT. Jones figured out the
 amount of each dollar the city expends on each of it's activities
 The result was that salaries of city employees were found to form by far the largest expenditure of the city, 52 cents of each dollar going for this purpose. This, however, includes the salaries or school teachers, policemen, firemen, em-
 ployes of the street and health depart ments, including in all several thousand men and women.
 The next largest single expenditure or the city is that of interest on outstanding bonded debts. Out of every dollar, 10 cents is spent for this item. Due to the
 increased sinking fund, the city IS grad ually absorbing some of these ponds' thereby saving some of this money. The purchase of new equipment is also a large item on the municipal expense book Five cents goes to this end School
 expenses, other than salaries, come next with 4.3 cents.
 The city spends a large amount annual
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22

ly for the erection of new buildings. Oul
 of every hundred, cents goes for this. In these days of efficiency when speen is the watchword, the police and detec tive departments are completely equipped with cars, motorcycles and bicycles Other departments also have cars. to.
 the repair and maintenance of these .. cents of the citys dollar goes. Ever then, horses and mules are not bacl numbers, it being necessary to put l.. cents aside for feeding and housing these necessary additions to many departments Appropriations to the sinking funt take another 2.7 cents of the dollar The maintenance of the lighting systen costs 1.9 cents. Fire hydrants and water cost, respectively, Is and IA cents
 It costs something to punish evildoers | for .S cent goes to the cost of keepins the convict labor. General expenses talk, 1 g cent; general supplies 1,2 cents wnil, repairs and replacements take 1.47 cents | Public institutions and charity are no l forgotten. For these purposes .0 ceni l is given. The maintenance of the pubIi, 1 libraries costs 2 cent, while similar | amount is refunded to the taxpayers. Mis-. | cellaneous expenses, ? cent and insur ance on public buildings .o6 cent com plete the budget of expenditures of thu l city, and the dollar as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
TODAY IN
 BIRMINGHAM
OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Statement May 4, 1920.
 RESOURCES

Meeting of the city commission CTS at 10 a. m.
 Meeting of the Retail Grocers and Butchers Association at CIVIC Association rooms at p. m. Georges Carpenter at Jeffcr- son theatre tonight.
 ADJUSTMENTS.
 Trianon Thcatre-Douglas Fair banks in s.1he MOllycOddle."
 strand Theatre-Hobnrt Bos- worth in "BeIow the surface" AIcazar Theatre-Marjorie Ram- beau in "The Fortune Teller" Rialto Theatre-NazimOva in ~Toys of Fate"
 Colonial Thentre-Mary PickfOrd in repertoire week.
 Princess Theatre-Seriai rtc- lures and comedies.
 OdcOn Theatre-Scrfals, vest erns and comedies.
 BijOu Theatre-LOew's vaudc- vile; feature pictures.
 Lyric Thcntrc-keith vaudeville; feature pictures.
 New Najcstic-Fenture pictures. Bathing at East Lake.
 Bathing and dancing at West Lake. Bathing nnd dancing at Edge wood park.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
BOND COMMISSION IS
 TO RE PASSED ON BY
 THE SUPREME COURT


 Solicitor Joseph R. Tate yesterday sent briefs to the supreme court in the man damus proceedings seeking to compel NJ. V. Henry. country treasurer, to pay a commission of $50 0O00 to John B. weaklev and Eugene Fies. on the sale of s50o,000
 ,unty road bonds.
 This case was brought by the board of revenue to test the right of the county to sell bonds in an emergency, below par.
 Tn his brief. Solicitor Tate maintains that the decision of the court in denying the right of the board to transfer from the sanitary fund money to the general fund in order to pay some road bonds settled the present case. The opinion of the supreme court in this issue was set out in his brief. It is probable that ruling will be made by the supreme court within the next few. days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
Few Applicants for
 Civil Service Jobs

The civil service commission invites snecial attention to the fact that in ex- arinations held recently in Birmingham and other cities throughout the coun- try for calculating machine operators. addressopraph operators and feeders. and nostine machine operators, mechanics and experts. departmental service (Wash- ington. D. C). apprentice fish culturists, bureau of fisheries and domestic scienc" teachers Indian service. applicants were not secured in the number desired. and that these examinations will again he held July '.
 Persons interested in these or other ex- aminations should apply to the secretary of the U s. civil service board at the local pnstoffice for detailed information ano application blanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
ERWIN TO ATTEND !. ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Professor F. B. Edwin, assistant su- perintendent of education for Jefferson county. will leave this morning for Flor hence. where he will attend the annual conference of county superintendents. This conference will be in session Tues day. Wednesday and Thursday and coun- ty superintendents from all sections of the state will be in attendance. Edu- cational matters of importance will be discussed by this body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
CAPTAIN MURPHY
 SENDS GREETINGS FROM OUT AT SEA
Commands Boat Built In Alabama of Alabama Ma terials and Laden With
 Alabama Products

The Age-HeraId yesterday afternoon received the following wireless;
 "Birmingham City, via Mobile. Ala, I0;31 D. m.. June 2t, tg:u.-Thc Agc-Hcraid. B;rmin nGham--Stenn,- ship Birmingham City passed out to sea o'clock this morning. Fine weather. sea smooth; ship steaming well. Greetings to all.
 "CAPTAIN MURPHY" In reply The Agc-Heraid sent the following radio message to Captain Murphy;
 "Tbnnks for greetings. Age Hernld and people of Birmingham wish you and all aboard hon voy- age. Keep us posted.
 AAGE-HERALD.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
S4O.OOO NEEDED ID ENTERTAIN BOYS OF
 RAINBOW DIVISION Raising of the Fund Will Start Tomorrow With Scores of Teams Scat
 tered Over City

More than 10000 visitors and delegates will be in Bir- mingham July 12 to attend the three-day reunion of the fa- nous Rainbow division.
 Twenty-seven states win be repre- scented. Officials of the Allied armies in charge of the arrangements for the event say that Birmingham is going to extend a royal welcome to the mem bers of the famous division who have thus honored the city with their first reunion.
 Tomorrow morning active work will be started toward the raising of a s40,000 fund for the entertainment of the ex-service men during their stay in the city.
 Numerous committees have been ap- pointed. and before the week is over all employees in downtown office build ings and business concerns vii. be called on to subscribe something for tue euttTldlHlileHl lufu.
 Four minute speakers who stirred the people into buying Liberty bonds while the boys were across the ocean have again taken the stand for them ment. Four minute speakers will speak at all the local theatres tonight urging the people to give something toward the entertainment of the body notice.
 QUARTERS
 place to stay during their three days in the city must also be found The people of Birmingham are asked to take many of the boys into their homes as possible. There will be something in the neighborhood ot about 5000 of them, and officials in charge of the reception in the city say that it would be almost impossible to find rooms for them at the local hotels
 At l o'clock luncheon at the South ern Club yesterday the -four minute speakers were instructed as to just what they should tell the people about what is going to be done with the s4o.oco which will be raised for the entertainment of the veterans.
 Some of the best fighters and box ing experts in the country will be brought to Birmingham to perform before the ex-service men. Plans that have already been made include many theatre parties, ball games, and many outings to places about the city.
 Other features on the program in clude big dances. big barbecue al East Lake, and several watermelon feasts special committee has beer appointed to take charge of each one of the many different events. and plans are being made so there will no, be single dull moment for the ex service men during their three days tr the city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
Commerce Commissions Rule on Coal Car Distribution
 Expected to Help Greatly
Many Southern Points Dependent Alabama Coal Breathe Easier, But Operators Are Being Guided by Past Disappointments and Are Not En-
 thusiastic Yet While

Coal operators that coal priority order of the Interstate Commerce Commission should increase production merchant mnes lift the coal famine in this section and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22

rot included in the commissions sched- ule of port movements"
 Asked with regard to the effect of restriction of production in merchant mines in Alabama, that supplied bunk craze coal for Mobile, Pensacola and New Orleans, coal dealer sad:
 The assigning of cars preferential ly to mines producing coal for railroads has had the effect of holding up snips ih southern waters waiting for their bunker supplies. In this way one arm of the transportation system, by dis eliminating in favor of mines produc- ins railroad fuel has handicapped an- other arm of the transportation sys- tenn.
 WORKS TWO WAYS
 But this discriminate mas worked in another peculiar way and is doing that fight now. In Mobile there is a steamship line that has It's steamers tie d up at this time waiting on bunker age coal. which is hauled to it by a railroad system. with which it has con riections. This railroad issues through bills of lading via this steamship line and fills it's holds with goods carried to the port in its cars. Yet the ships cannot get coal for their bunkers and the railroad system suffers the incon- veniences and delays of through freight traffic the same as it's connecting steamship line by reason of the car assigning practice.
 Coal men are not making optimistic forecasts. based on the recent order of tho commission, because they claim to have been disappointed in prior orders which were intended to relieve the coal car shortage, but they are hopeful and do look for some Improvements
 On the other hand, furnace operators do not know just how they will fare in the new order of things, because much of their product is shipped in open cars suited for coal movements. Slag snippers are in the same fix.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22
TO MAKE EQUIPMENT

The Chicsasaw company is also to manufacture steel and wooden barges both will te used in the transportation or rich ores from the Latin-Amercas to Mo- biIe and thence up the Warrior to the Tennessee Coal Iron Railroad Company and other corporations using these ores.
 So quickly has all this come about .has lit is almost as if the hand of magic mas waved a wanC and had it done.
 First earth was moved on the ChicNa- saw shipbuilding plant and vii ages in the autumn of 1917.
 To be now shipping Alabama steel 10 the nations of the earth in magnificent freehters built of Alabama steel on Ala hama waters is making progress with the seyen-leagued boots of real achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22

In so far as export coal is concerned Alabama will not feel the effect of the order 10 restrict movements to domes- .ic destinations for the very simple req son that at this time it is doing little or no export business.
 There has been a limited export busi- ness with Italy and France of around 10000 tons per month, but no recent orders have been booked for that move inent
 On the other hand there is a large ounkerage business done by Alabama coal with Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans. This is declared by those in a position to know to amount at this time to around 30,000 tons per week.
 New Orleans no longer receives any Pittsburg coal either by rail or by river Pittsburg coal travels no farther south now than Cairo. Asked as to the extent of bunkerage coal supplied hy Alabama at the three ports. an expert said:
 Pensacola gets all Alabama coal.
 Mobile gets practically all Alabama coal with little from western Ken lucky.
 New Orleans gets. bunkerage coal from Alabama, western Kentucky and southern Illinois, Alabama supplying as much as the other two sections put together
 The same authority observed:
 MINES BENEFIT
 If the commissions orders are car. ried out, Alabama mines should benefit by it and produce more coal You will notice that the commission in it's order with reference to priorties on coal movements via tidewater gateways comes no farther south than Charles tor, $. C., and the order does not af- feet ports south of that point, but does affect tidewater coal movements north of that port. Mobile and Pensacola are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22


 AAGE-HERALD..
 This means that the second o,eoo-ton steel freighter built at Mobile of Birming ham steel has started out on a trip halt way around the globe, carrying a cargo of Birmingham steel to peoples of the Orient
 The "Chickasaw City" first product of the Chcllasaw Shipbuilding and Car com pany, rcntely completed her maiden voy- age to Rotterdam Holland. to which she carried like cargo of Birmingham steel mill products
 Tn the neghborhood of fifteen thousand tons of Alabama steel have thus been conveyed to two continents in two sisters ships built on Alabama soil of Alabama steel
 The cycle of the steel industry in Ala bama is thus graphically completed and Illustrated.
 The steel came from ores in Red Noun tain, atop which are now the handsome homes of the descendants of the pioneers who first dug into the recesses and brought forth the wealth that nature had put there. These pioneers also penetrated the bowels of sister hills across the valley and produced the coal to make the coke to smelt the ores. and blasted out the fluxing limestone lying in the bosom of the valley between.
 DEVELOPMENT
 Then the blast furnace, then the ingot mill then the blooms and billets, then the finishing and shaping mills to make the forms for shipbuilding.
 Then. in addition to railroads. the War rior river down which the forms were floated to the ways where the ships were being built
 Next the finished ship. Finally the cargo of Alabama steel for Europe and for Asia. An all-Alabama product from the ore, the coal and the limestone to the ship money producing burden, with which a permanently carry on this Wondetlu rhythm of achievement. The "Chicl.asaw City, and the Fir mir gham City" true to Alabama trad!- tiors, are coal-burners Their twelve sue cessors will burn oil. but the maiden products of the Chickasaw yards are Ala bama throughout. In time, mayhap, Ala bama will furnish oil also. The Birmingham City will stop al San Francisco after passing through the canal No official reason for stopping al San Francisco was given at the loaa offices of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in the absence of Of ficiaIs. but it is presumed that the ves- sel may take on coal there The next stop will he made at Honolulu There coal will be again placed in the bunl.ers.
 The ultimate destination is Yokohama Japan. with her cargo of steel shapes TOT the Japanese steel market. Capt Murphy who is in command. was recently visitor to Birmingham on thls first inland trip, being lifelong seafarn'' man He expressed himself as delighteo with the steamer that he was to com h ,and and was flush with eagerness TOT the trip Those. who met the genial cap tain will read his wireless, with interes' and are pleased that he males start on his long voyage under such favorable auspices.
 Sundays advices from Mobile are to the effect that the Chickasaw plant has sew eral other vessels on the ways and -ha' endorsements and improvements are to he made at the yards. Among other innova- lions there it is stated that ship equp- ment will be manufactured. TO MAKE EQUIPMENT Tho CbicisasaW company is also tt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-22

More than 10000 visitors and delegates will be in Bir- mingham July 12 to attend the three-day reunion of the fa-