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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
JUDGE ABERNETHY SPEAKS TO NEGROES
 AT FROLIC THEATRE
Negro Board of Arbitration Seeks to Aid in Suppression of Crime and Is Given IndOrse-
 ment

At the Frolic theater yesterday after noon Judge II. B. Ahernethy of the county court of misdameanors, made a timely and instructive address on How the Negro Can Help to Reduce Crime. :" at a mass meeting of negroes held under the auspices of the Negro Arbitration Board which was .n attended
 Judge Abernath briefly recounted the principal causes tn led to the comms- sion of crime and made practical sugges- tions as to how the better element of the negroes could help by dong their part to remove these causes. He inter- spersed his remarks with many flashes of keen humor which were much enjoyed, and he gave the negro arbitration board his unqualified indorsement.
 The board of arbitration has for it's the standard of the negro both morally and spiritually: to administer to the needs of the poor and prisoners; to aid in the suppression of crime; to seek in. formation that the innocent may not be punished; to seek tho cooperation of the ldw-abding citizens, by so doing that the crime of one person may not be charged to the whole race to solicit the cooper ation of the write race to aid in this work.
 J. J. Pearson, president of the board Oscar Adams and others spoke on the subject. rising vote of thanks was given Judge Abernathy for his helpful address. \ splendid programme of music preceded the speaking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
BUILD WAREHOUSES
 AND SAVE MILLIONS
Commissioner AllgOod Tells of Heavy Losses to South
 ern Cotton Planters

Commissioner Miles C. Allgood of the State Department of Agriculture, spent last night in Birmingham on his way back to the capital after flying trip to Guntersvllle and Albert vile.
 Besides his work as head of the state farming and cattle industry, Mir Allgood not long ago, was elected president of the Alabama division of the American cotton association. Since that time he has organized or helped form the county branches of hte state body in about thirty counties, and that was what he was doing in the two towns named.
 Marshall county farmers and business men have organized to erect ware- house for the association and as soon IS few more preliminaries are ar ranged the work of erecting 1t will start.
 Here is what I want to get before the people of the state" said MT All good last night accurate government tests show that bale of cotton left out in the weather will lose from 65 to I5 pounds in six months. That  means, at the present prices. about $25 dead loss to the planter on one bale
 "In their. test the government off cials did not confne their research to one bale. but studied the situation throughout the cotton belt and conser- vatively estimate that the southern states annually lose just about $50 000 . 900 in cold cash, of course at the prices prevalent today, by leaving their GO tton exposed.
 That sum of money would build enoguh warehouses to house the cotton crop, in conjunction with the housing already built.
 Don't you see, by building the ware houses now we can save in one year this great amount of deal loss for all the years to come.
 The most economical thing the planters can do Is organize their coun- ties for the cotton association. get the warehouses built. and save the money they are now losngn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
CONDITION OF CITY
 STREETE TO BE AIRED
 BEFORE GRAND JURY
Meet Again Today and Large Num- Der of Witnesses Will Be Ex- amined-Controversy Several
 Weeks Ago

Just what will happen at the. session of the grand jury which starts today can only be predicted. They will meet behind closed doors, while numbers of citizens of this city and county are com ing forward with what is expected to bring sensational developments concern ing the streets of Birmingham.
 The controversy of several weeks ago will be recalled following the inspection of the streets of Birmingham, when the committee of grand jurors "got stuck in the mud" City Commissioner Henry P. Burruss was interviewed and letter sent him. The controversy continued for several days. It was all about the condition of Birmingham streets. and the letters sent to the commission by Solicitor Tate mentioned the penalty for such conditions
 Just what action will be taken by the grand jury is not known, but it is an assured fact that number of witnesses and citizens of Birmingham have been summoned to tell what they know of the conditions of the streets of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
RAINBOW VETERANS COMPLETE DETAILS OF DANCE TONIGHT
Event to Celebrate Second Anniversary of Entrance Into Trenches-Screws
 and Smith Arrive

Final arrangements were completed yesterday for the dance to be given in the Tutwiler hotel tonight by mem bers of the Mortimer H. Jordan chap ter of the veterans of the Rainbow di- vision.
 Veterans from all parts of the state are coming into the city to be in at tendance. among the notable arrivals being Major William P. Screws and Major Dallas F. Smith.
 Yesterday afternoon at 330 o'clock the officeholders in the chapter and members of the several committees in charge of preparations met in the rooms of the Civic Association and worked out the remaining details
 More than 300 invitations have been sent o1t, including those to members of the several dancing clubs of the city. The officials want it to be thor oughly known that every member of the Rainbow division is especially in- vited to be present
 The big ballroom of the Tutwiler is being decorated literally with every color of the rainbow. Red and orange purple and blue green and yellow. will festoon the balustrade of the balcony in streamers, and festoons will swing above the heads of the dancers
 In celebration of the second anni- versary of the entrance of the Old Fourth Alabama regiment into the trenches during the late war in Flu rope. in the Toul sector, the dance is given. The date of the official anni- versary is February 22, but as that date happened to be Sunday this year the celebration was held over until to- night.
 Every man in attendance at the dance has the option of appearing in uniform or civilian garb, as he wishes but all are requested to wear any dec orations they received while in the military service, regardless of their garb.
 The dance, although given epn the second anniversary of the morhentous event, Is the first celebration the boys have held of the occasion in this coun- try. The military units that composed the l67th regiment did not return to the United States until last summer and the dance tonight is really the first celebration held by the organiza- tion since their disbandment and re- turn to civilian life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
REPORTED SALE OF
 L.,A.&L. DENIED
Leo Loeb Says Sadowsky Interests Have Net Pur-
 chased Any of. Stock

Positive denial of the sale of an in- terest in the Loveman. Joseph & Loeb Company to the Sadowsky Interests of New York was wade by Leo Loeb, vice president and general manager of the company. on his arrival home from New York yesterday
 Mir. Loeb stated that none of the stock of the Loveman, Joseph & Loeb Company had been sold to Sadowsky or others and that no deal was on for the sale of any of it.
 The report that the New York people had bought an interest in the big Br- mingham department store had been in circulation for several days and it was reported by last Friday that the deal had been consummated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
TRAGIC ECHO OF
 WAR IN EUROPE Local Syrian Hears Dis dressing News of Home
 Town In Syria

Glancing over a copy of Syrian newspaper called the Eagle, and pub lished in New York, which he received yesterday George zegyer, AIS South Eighty fifth street, read the news from home. A belated dispatch from Syria stated that Merj jAeeon, his home town, had been destroyed, January 1, by a mob of Arabian and Syrian Mohamme- dans and the Christian population put to flight. He doesn'ti know whether his mother, sister and nephew, who lived there. escaped or not
 It was just another tragic echo of the war in Europe. Meerj Aeeon, which means Spring Meadows.". was one of the fairest cities of Syri
 uated in one of the most fertile
 of that ancient country. It la t 25 miles east of Lebanon and wa a three miles distant from the spot ae Abraham and Lot pitched their as told in the Bible.
 A small body of French troops recently been garrisoned in the
 which had a population of about a0a people said MT. zegyer. Because they were angered at the French and wished the country to remain under Arab con- trol, mob of 4,000 Arabs and Moham- medan Syrlans marched on Meerj- Aeeon. The first day they were re- pulsed by the poulation, but renewed the attack and devastated the city the following day, after having presumably put the French troops to flight.
 The Eagles correspondent did not say what had become of the Christian Syrans. who were driven out of their homes, but it is presumed that all who did not escape were either massacred or killed during the fighting.
 Mir zegyer left Syria 2S years ago, but has always kept informed of what was going on in his native land and talks interestingly of the chaos which followed in the wake of the European war. Tt was bad enough before." he said yesterday, but unhappy Syria is now worse off than ever My coun- trymen have jumped from the frying pan into the fire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23

Our soldiers fought other enemies than merely the armies of political foe, they fought nations that had dethroned God and that had exalted in His stead the worship of human mentality, The enemy had been taught to believe that might was right. and fought that might would prevail. Our soldiers won q greater vfc- tory in crushing such a sentiment and such teaching than in the battles they won against the German soldiers.
 THE PRICE THEY PAID
 As those men whom we honor today lived and fought and suffered and dieS, so we must live, and if need be, suffer that ignoble things may not follow their sacrifice. We must not rush to join the giddy throng of pleasure seekers who view life from the standpoint of douars and cents. but we must bear in mind what they fought for, what they gave, the terrible price they paid in nobility, for nobility.
 How unworthy of the graves that honor France and humanity we would be if we slipped back to sordid things They paid a terrible price, but if they have won for the world worthier life. their sacrifice was worth the price. We must strive to be worthy of their sac- rifice.''
 Dr. Randolph closed the exercises with a brief statement of the purposes of the American Legion. Speaking of the mem- bers of the legion who are with it in spirit but whose bodies lie in France, he spoke of them as the mighty dead. They never fail to die in Gods great cause,' he concluded
 Assisted by soldiers and sailors from the army and navy posts in Birmingaam, Dr. Randolph and Mr Dixon dhtributed the certificates. There were many that were unclaimed. There were several families present who did not receive their certificates.
 Dr. Randolph explained that the dis tribution was going on in nearly every city in the country, and with so many to be given out, it was hardly possible that some mistakes would not be made, The names of those who failed to get their certificates were taken and all will be done as speedily as possible to rectify the egrors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23

Dr. Dixon said that all should pear in mind one of the axioms of the legion, that the men who did not return from of the legion, in spirit, that their families have an utilization with the legion sec ond to none, and that the legion exists that the men who made the supreme sacrifice should not have made that sac rifice in vain, for the object of the or ganization is to perpetuate that spirit of patriotism that was willing to give all that men might walk the earth free. to serve their God and their fellow man without oppression.
 Dr. John McNeill, pastor of the South Highland Presbyterian Church. spoke next, saying that the war and it's sac rifices was not in vain if it had advanced upon the earth the brotherhood of man.
 ONLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE
 T am thinking of those graves,1 he said, that were left overseas l would like to say that I wish they be not dis turbed. l would be glad if they were allowed to remain there. If only for little while
 'It is so easy to make glib phrases about the brotherhood of man. Yet what a difference we make of the blood of mankind, when it is all the sasle. W hen I was a boy the name of France and Frenchmen were still distasterui to us in our part of the world. Yet 1 lived to see the day when our people made common cause with the French against a common enemy.
 Even in this country I would be em- barrassed about making an address on Memorial Day. Here l could praise Lee and Jackson, but I would have to choose my words carefully if l mentioned the name of Grant.
 Even another war would ee a cheap price to pay if it drew mankind together as the last war has done. At least tfts grief and suffering have taught us that we are all of one blood in the eyes of God.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
DIES OF INJURIES
 IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Coroner Askcw to Hold Inquest This Afternoon--Negro Bystander
 Also Met Death

W. IT. Maddox of 4431 Third avenue. l south died at St. Vincent's Hospital yes- tcrday morning as the result of injuries sustained last Wednesday when a motor cycle he was riding collded with an auto mobile driven by E. Bostock of 1516 Thir- teenth avenue, south. The collision oc- cured at Twelfth avenue and Thirtieth street, north. The injured man was re-
 moved to the hospital immediately after the accident.
 negro man, whose name could not
 be ascertained. standing on the street corner at the time. was struck lay the automobile and instantly killed. Acting Coroner Aslew viewed the re- mains yesterday and at 2;3o o'clfs's ta:s afternoon will hold the inquest. Maddox S body was taken to Shaw's undertaking establishment yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Certificates Of France Are Presented To the Families
 OF Soldiers Who Died
American Legion Distributes Memorials in Appropriate Service Yesterday Afternoon-Dr. McNeill Urges That Sacrifice Made by Men Who Died Be Not
 in Vain-Dr Randolph Presdes

There military drectness and simplicity about monies in the First Methodist Church yesterday afternoon the certificates of the gratitude of families of Birmingham soldiers and sailors who died cent Europe, that sincerity the services.
 hymn the followed by solo, by Morton Wech Then O. D. Allen, the organst, "The Narseilais"
 D Oscar Randolph Marys Church. presided intro duced F. M Don
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
 TRAIN KILLS MAN NEAR IRONDALE

G. l., Butler, whose home is believed to be al Sheffield. was struck by a South -ern passenger train near Irondale yes- terday morning and instantly killed. He was walking the track at the time and it is suppised he did not see nor hear the approaching train.
 Acting Coroner Askew took charge of body and will hold the inquest today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Boys Missing From
 East Lake School

According to reports received by the local police department, Willie Trambell, age l6 and Odie White. IS. disappeared from the Boys Industrial School at East Lake yesterday afternoon.
 No trace of the boys had been obtained by the police up to a late hour last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
DECISION OF ENGINEERS ON
 INLAND WATERWAY
Wood Declares Position of Board Is Untenable-Says Warrior Traffic All
 Equipment Justifies

General Manager Charles F. Wood ok the Port of Birmingham corporation has filed a protest with the board of en- gineers for rivers and harbors at Wash- ington against the decision not to order the building of an inland waterway be- tween Mobile bay and Pensacola bay.
 Surveys for this inland waterway were made by government engineers and it's construction recommended, but after ex- amining the record the board of engin- eers held that the probable traffic through it would not justify the expendi- ture. Interested parties were given until January s1 to file protests.
 The district engineer under whose su- pervision the survey was made and who sebmitted a favorable report recommend e@ the construction of nine-foot water way 100 feet wide at an estimated cost ot st,ss00o0, with $25,000 annually for maintenance for the first three years and $i0,000 for annum thereafter.
 The board of engineers, in passing upon the recommendations, stated that justi- fication of the improvement depended largely upon the reasonable assurance of an extensive coal traffic from the War; rior fields, and added that experience has shown that since the completion of the slackwater system in 1915 traffic on the Warrior has not been extensive enough to encourage the belief that the Mobile bay-Pensacola bay proposition would be a paying investment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Song Service Wednesday

At Christ English Lutheran Church Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock and
 every Wednesday during Lent there will be special song services and pro-
 grammes of mission study under the
 auspices of the Woman's Visionary
 Society of the church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Mother of Railroad
 Man Died Yesterday

Mrs. NJ. F.. Pearson. aged 73. died at her late residence. 1885 Thirteenth avenne, south. yesterday morning. With her at the time of her death were her son. Clar- ence H. PearsoIS ssistant general freight agent of the >gma Great Southern railroad. and hssIb } daughters, Misses Susie J and Lula F. Pearson. She is survived by her son and two daughters and brother J. l.. Hunnicutt of Tus- caloosa and sister. Mrs. James E. Hodo of Gordo. Ala. The funeral will take place Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the late residence. Dr. P. B. Wells. pas tor of the Highlands Methodist church, officiating. Mrs. Pearson had been a member of this church for a great many years and was active in all it's work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
CRITICISM NOT JUSTIFIED

In his petition for hearing on the in- land waterway matter, MT. Wood sta es that the stand taken by the board of en- gineers is untenable, saying that "Thcre is no real justification for the criticism ef the conditions on the Warrior, and the representation is both unfair and un- warranted. Nor is there a reason why impotence should be shown at the lack oe growth of traffic on that stream, for it is not only growing as fast as condi- tions permit, but far faster than facilities have been provided to carry it.
 Government operation of the Warrior waterway has fully Justified itself con tinues MT Wood for the project is to- day an unqualified success, notwithstand- ing that it has been hampered by the pet tifogging vacillation of hostile rail in- fluences within the administration itself, the representatives of which have, by subterfuge, chichanery. and all sorts of Limitations. endeavored to prevent it's success and defeat the expressed pur. pose of the higher officials. Repeated ef- forts have been made to hamstring it, and the things which will benefit it are secured from the people who are being paid by public funds to promote and de- velop it, only with ball bat and spiked ShOae ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
LACK OF EQUIPMENT

MT. Wood says further: Commitments for S2,0O0 tons per month of coal timber and steel, down stream, are asked, while the total carrying capacity of the pres- ent fleet is about % 900 tons month No upstream tonnage has been taken yet be- cause there is no equipment suitable to handle it. The inquiries for space, how ever, insure that every barge going up- stream can, and will be, loaded to ca. pacity within thirty days of notice that freight will be accepted, notwithstanding which every effort to secure necessary equipment to handle this traffic is being fought by the rail interests in the ad- ministration.
 MT. Woods statement goes into details regarding the efforts to secure equipment for the Warrior river and calls attention to the many difficulties and obstacles that have had to be overcome before ob- taining that which has been secured. He asks for hearing sometime in April wien Birmingham, Mobile and Pensacola interests may be present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23

ence IT. PearsQI agent of the NJ
 railroad. and he
 Susie J. and .Lt
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-14
Shamrock oil Fields
ReUiUing

The second boom for Shamrock Is
now starting under way The Cos
den OF co. Is drilling three deep
tests on their holdings near town
and the Iron Mountain oil Co has
started three IN sight OF town In
their old wells. and many Others are
preparing to do likewise, and with
the numerous gasoline plants operat-
ing here there is every evidence Of
AN impending boom for the town that
will surpass any they have yet ex-
perienccd. There is "A constant NOV
ing nf trucks and wagons loaded
with material to tho different parts
OF the fields and there liz more stir
here now than there has been since
the pioneer days of the field. old
timers are returning from the Texas
fields glad tn return to their first
love and many new comcrs are NOV
ing here one OF the bilAdcals under
way is the sale of the Frank Ing iis
tract TO an outside company for more
than 100000 and the leasing up
and rcaleasing of overy available
tract In this vicinity. II II only a
question Of few months until thero
will be development In the sham
rock field that will far surpass any
thing ever before known In this
area,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-14

corner Of southeast quarter OF se
ton 10. Bunatic Asylum lands Is
flowing 1000 barrels Same com
panyH 40 IN southwest corner %
same lease, IL flowing 1900 barrels
natural
Virginia OH compnny's peek No. !
NJ southwest corner of town of
Breckenridge In stephens coun,y.
Texas. came In last week flowing
1900 barrels natural IN top of. sand
at 3.l32 feet.
Cooper a IIoYdcrson No. Mrs.
VI Martin ,at northwest corner OF
town OF breckenridge In stephens
county Texas. came IN last week
flowing 900 barrels natural In top OF
sand at 3.tS5 feet
Tho sapulpn OH Il Refining Co.
80 I ten miles north of the town Of
breckenridge. TcNaa has the top ~
the snnd at 3,222 10 3232 and has "A
nice showing OK both oil and gas.
This well. known ~ No. I on the
BHll farm iS a rank wildcat ana IL
creating much interest.
/ Tho Mid Kansas on cos Richard
son 40. /, ~ 'Hted six miles north
east ~ the town of breckenridge,
was given 50 quart shot yesterday
nnd is reported good FOR 800 barrels
/ In the 3.25f to 3.2g2 foot pay
Chapnan's 80. on the Johnson
farm northwest of the town of Ivan
In northern stephens county, Is a
/ $50 barrel producer IN sand encount-
cred ~ the 3,243 to $3.50 foot depth
This good well II near the Henry RI
ley we'll
Chapmnn's No. on tho Blasing.
has a nice showing OF oil ana gas
at 3.2is feet and will be- drilled In
the first Of the week This well ad-
joins the Johnson farm big producer