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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
.DR. WA|TES TELLS C|WTANS OF GOOD }
 TIMES OE THIS DAY
International Club to Meet In Birmingham June Hand 15, Board of Directors Hav-
 ing Approved

Announcement of the first annual meeting of the International Associa- tion of Civitan clubs, which will be held in Birmingham June 14 and 15. was made at the meeting of the local club held yesterday at 1 o'clock at the Southern club.
 A letter announcing the meetinA was read by Dr. C. W. Shropshire, in4 terEational president. The invitation of the local club has recently been ac- cepted by the board of governors.
 Dr. Shropshres letter carried the information that there were now II Civitan clubs and that by the time Of the convention he confidently expected the number would be increased to at least S5 or 40, as beginning Januard l there will be six men constantly af work in the extension work of the inf ternational association instead of ons These six men will give their entire time to the organization of Civitan clubs in the principal cities of the east ern haf of the United States.
 Another feature of the meeting was the address by Rev. B. IT. Waites, pas tor of the Walker Memorial Methodist church. He was followed in short talk by E. c. Coombs. representing Herbert C. Hoover in the present cam i"iS .o Aoise Au'iuS iVt the Stdi V ing chiidreD of Europe.
 The Rev,/Mr. Waites talked on "The New Year" He said in part: "We arc living today in the best age of his tory. So often I hear one speak of the good old days now passed away and sigh that never arc they to come. again, but those days. as I have heard of them, were not so good as these we are having now. One hundred years ago there were no hospitals in Ameri-. ca, no institutions for the education of young women. if one wanted 10 take q, trip to Washington he must ride 2j, days in a stage coach, ex posed to aa kinds of weather if doctor came tJ see a patient about all he knew of to do was bleed him, and so on through the. list"
 MT. Waites was warmly applauded at the close of his address.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
GENERAL INCREASE

l Bank clearings have gone 40 per cent ahead of 1919, and touched the billion dollar mark for the first time. l Building permits show 20 per cent Iincrease over 1919.
 1 Reports of public utility activities point to 10 per cent growth of popu- lation during the year. gas and water meters and number of passengers hauled making this uniform showing. ! Birmingham's advantages as point Iof distribution has caused the location of number of plants, largest of which l is that of the Lehigh Portland Cement rant City, on the eastern outskirts of Birmingham, fora 1000, 900 barrel fac> | tory to cost $3,000,0 900.
 l The first of the 10,000-ton ,cean ifreighters built at Chickasaw, near Mo, bile, of Birmingham steel was launched | just two days before 1920 was ushored l in. Five sister ships have followed; a seventh is about to be launched, and seven more, each containing 4,500 tons of Birmingham steel, are to be built in 1921. Each of these ships on her maid on voyage carries 5000 tons of Bir- mingham steel, delivering it all over the world.
 THREE MARKED EVENTS lhS tITS6 iHdIhtN eNeHlS III tn6 ut- velopment of hydroelectricity in 1920 were these:
 Building a transmission line (now in progress), connecting the service of the Alabama Power company with that Of the Georgia Power company, which in turn is connected with that of -Ten- neSsee and the Carolinas. This mems the consolidation of the water power of five states for distribution of maxi mum load at will to points in any of the states desiring it.
 Building of a new unit at lock No. 12 on the Coosa increasing the current there from 90,0oo to 115,0o0 horsepower Gin course of erection).
 Building of $10.0O0, 900 dam at Dun cans rifle on the Coosa by the Ala bama Power company (work begun. This dam will generate 125,0oo horse power. thereby increasing Ala5ama's. supply of hydroelectricity by more than 100 per cent.
 KEPT GOING
 When other industrial sections this late fall and early winter were closing down mills, Birmingham continued to send abroad her monthly quota of 14,000 tons of steel products from the T. c. I. mills, her sugar-house machinery to Cuba, her steel rails to Cuba and South America, her coke to Chile and Mexico, her coal all over the world, her cast pipe to Japan, to Cuba. to Brazil and Argentine and 25,0o0 tons of it by ship out of Mobile via Panama canal to the Pacific coast.
 IRON MANUFACTURE
 Pig iron manufacture shows an
 increase of 10 to I5 per cent over
 1919, hut the values were perhaps
 the most satisfactory of any year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
PORTER TO INSTRUCT
 Y. M. C. A. CREDIT CLASS

R. A Porter of the Tyler Grocery cum pany will be the instructor of the credit management class, which is being con ducted by the Young Mems Christian as- sociation and the Merchants Credit asso- ciation. The advisory committee is com posed of Donald Conner. chairman; E. k Irwin, Caheen's; c. Freeman, Oster Bros; w. W. Wilson, Antwine, Mcclure & De- Shaxo; H. H. K. Jefferson, American Trust and Savings bank Foster Hamil- tcn' Bank of Alabama W. E. Hooper. lSoveman, Joseph & Loeb; O. E. Rollins. Odom, Bowers & White: w. " Tram meli, Merchants Credit association. There win be several others to be added to the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01

Relatives of s. E. White. who was found dead in bed at S1S Twenty-second street last Sunday, have been located by John R. T. Rives, assistant coroner in Ransom. Kan. White was an um- brella nender and died as result Of heart failure, according to the verdict of the coroner. The body is being held pending the arrival of relatives ora in- structions to send it to Kansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
SOME NEW INDUSTRIES

Lehigh Portland Cement company,
 stalking off ground for 100000
 barrel factory ........, ,........... .S3, ,ooO, oU0 National Steel Products company 500,OUl Steel Cities Chemical Qrebuilt. 500, ,OOO Continental Gin compaqy. building
 new plant .......s.... }............. 5oo,UV By-product plants, referred to in
 another column ....t .t............ Is SOU, ,ou Unit Stove and Range} company :. 5OO,OO0 Iron City Pipe and Fittings com
 pany ................ .I............. 5000 Kilby Pipe and Fittings company 100000 Birmingham Pipe and Fittings
 company ............ .,............ 100000 Electrification of tho Sloss-Shef-
 field mines. mills and quarries . 1,5oo, QUO Pressed steel car worXs of Chick
 asaw company at lfairfield .... 4.0ooO0U Preston Motors corpofation .. 7bO.OOU Auto Rim company .A........... 100.OuU American Cement Tile Scompany.. 10u,UUu Birmingham Metallic Ca,sket com
 pany .....................f..-.... lp,Uu
 The sanitary pipe shoks of the district were doubled in numbkr and capacity during the year. The prbduct is shipped all over the United Stated and extensive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
District Fairly Bristing With New Enterprises With Ram ifications Reaching Hundreds of Miles-1921 to See Many Projects Completed-Hundreds
 of New Businesses Incorporated and
 Increased During Year
By RICHARD F. JOHNsTON.

lSzo, It IS easily seen where more than $1OO,' been invested in industrial and structural line directly affecting Birmingham.
 Some of this investment laps over into 1921 1t has been completed. Leading items are as New money invested in corporate enterprises Six ocean freighters built with eight more to be built in 1921 New by-product plants completed in 1920. New buildings in Birmingham proper New buildings in industrial suburbs. Hydroelectric development completed in 1920 and under way
 Plant expansion and betterments by Gulf
 States Steel, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road Co.,, Sloss-Sheffield, Republic conn pany and many others. rs.............. Structural operations under way and to be
 completed in 1921 (high schools, postoffice Masonic temple, auditorium, etc.) ..... Pressed steel car plant t............. industrial plants ike National Steel Products, Steel Cities Chemical, etc., completed in 10AO s.sss ss..... .,........ ..,....-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
Nex Game Warden

Scottsboro December 2i-- Special )-A. B. Brandon of Scottsboro has been ap- pointed county game warden for Jackson county by John H. Wallace, Jr., state gam and fish commissioner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
21,0O0,Oo0 15,5OO,OOO 4,500,O0O 2,5O0,000 2o,OOO,000 lo,ooo,ooo
 5,OOO,OOO 100000
 100000
100000

enabling the manufacture of shi1 shapes and pressed steel cars simul taneously by the same machinery.
 From financial standpoint, The outstanding feature of the year has been the new high record of invest mept of new capital in the going concerns of the district. and the establishment Of new ones. The 1920 record is I43 per cent ahead of that of 1919. and 20 per cent ahead of the combined totals of 1918 and fN1O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
BUILDING OF STEAMSHIPS

 BUILDING OF STEAMSHIPS Six 10,000-ton ocean freighters of most modern type, fashioned in Birmingham steel mills and put together in Chickasaw yards at Mobile .......................... .se.ooo.oco These six ships have carried to faraway places around the globe S5,000 tons of Birmingham steel, valued at ........................... 2,5oo,ooo them) ............. .12, ,ooo. 900 A FEW PRODUCTION FIGURES Pig iron, 2.5O0O00 tons at $40 per ton .SlOOO00,oOV Steel-1, 10000 tons at $60 per ton ........................... 72,OU,OW Coal-15,000, tons at A per ton ............................ soooo,ooo Coke--4, ,ooo0oo tons at 50 per ton .-......................... SbUp,VW Total .......................... .$26S O00 000 N. B.-The tonnage figures are fair estimates as are the average selling prices. It is also to be borne in mind that the coal, ore and coke entered large ly into the pig iron and that half of the pig iron went into steel
 NEW CAPITAL INVESTED New capital invested in Birmingham district corporations. old and new, in II months of:
 1920 .$15, ,oss, 600 Same investment in same period
 of 1919 ..!...... 61S2,5 800 Increase for 1920 ....,......... >S,S5S.50
 Increase for 1920. 143 per cent.
 Increase over totals for 1918 and 1919 combined 20 per cent.
 Clearings of Birmingham banks
 of 1920 .s9oS 6os, 900
 BANK STATISTICS Clearings for i, months of 1919 <. 6SS, ,SSS, 900 Increase for 1920 .................. 274.761 900
 The inc ease is 43 per cent.
 Savings deposits in Alabama
 state bai as in June, 1917 ....... .$14 900, 900 Same in tof cr. 1919 .....-........ 2, ,000.000 Same in Oct Der, 1920 ............ Z. .0o0.0oo Two Birmingham banks dis
 bursed to depositors in Christi
 mas savings clubs .............. 20. 900
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
CIVIC APARTMENTS

iy exported, especially to Cuba, Mexico
 and South America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01

| Community sing reaches high point of real merit, delighting Sunday afternoon audiences of all the people. l Community band established by the city.
 Junior Chamber of Commerce organized 1 by young men of the city. Alabama Retail Merchants association organized and attains membership Of 4000.
 Alabama Manufacturers' association or ganized and welds big interests of the state into common effort for their com mon good.
 Merchants and Manufacturers associa- tion of the Chamber of Commerce or ganizetl and will give rebates on trans portation to out-of-town customers and conduct campaign for extension of Bir- mingham's trade territory. Old Colony club places southern branch in Birmingham with elegant quarters in the Tutwiler hotel. and has 200 leading Birmingham business men as its mem bers.
 SIGNS OF GROWTH
 Electric meters in use in Birmingham November 1, 26, ,295, an increase for the year of 2,452, or 10ik per cent.
 Gas meters in use in Birmingham No- vember l, 17,9o7 increase for the year of 1,621, or 10 plus per cent.
 Number of passengers carried on the street cars of Birmingham in II months of 1920 62,7f0,7S0 an increase of 5,367 U7B, or between and 10 per cent increaset
 THE WARRIOR IN 1920 Raising locks on river from to feet, minimum stage of water Chalf completed) ......... s20O, eco Building port of Birmingham 300,600 Building port of Cordova. 100000 One hundred and twenty steel con tainers for merchandise freight. S1 ,o0o Four especially designed self-pro- pellers of 2000 tons capacity each (s2Booo each) .......................1 JOG. GOO Three 90o-horsepower especially de- signed tow boats ($l57 900 each).. All ,Ge0 Twenty wooden coal barges (s7,000 each) ........................ 10000 Old equipment purchased for river 1S5, 600 Self-propelling gas barges and collier ....................... s2,eoo Forty thousand ton coal terminal at Mobile 4oo, ,ooo Twenty thousand ton coal terminal at Cordova ...................... 76,0oo Grand totaI ........................ .So,Vf3V VVU
 Ela
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01

HYDROELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT Dam at Duncan's RiffIe on Cocsa
 river to generate 10000 horse
 power and clear navigation to lock 12 (woriS begun) ........... s1o, ,ooo, 900 New unit at lock F to generate 20, 900 horsepower and increase to- tai to 1i5,000 horsepower (work under way) ...............s..,...... 75o.eoo Transmission lines connecting power of Alabama Power with that of Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas (work progressing 4.0oo.0oo Work done On Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals to generate $50000 horsepower Gin 1e2o) ............. 10000. GOO Total s24 75G COd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01

All tnlS money mas been eXpenOeu WitH the exception of that set aside for tho coal terminals at Mobile and Cordova, both of which are assured
 Eutaw has offered $i5,00O and free water front for a terminal. The government has signified willingness to accept that proffer and build the terminal,
 Federal government has taken over ports of Cordova and Birmingham and is operating both, the latter being leased from the owners, the Port of Birmlns- ham corporation.
 Twenty per cent freight rate dfferen- tials on traffic via the Warrior from and to Mobile and New Orleans applies to territory extending south to Montgom- cry, west to Mississippi, north to Chat tanooga and east to Atlanta.
 Atlanta has already made use of these rates. getting sugar from New Orleans via the Warrior.
 Survey has been made of the upper Warrior with view to building a lock at Sanders Ferry above Cordova, thus plac- ing vast coal field directly on rlver banks No immediate action is expected,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01

Total
DEVELOPMENTS

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
IRON MANUFACTURE

Pig iron manufacture shows an increase of 10 to I5 per cent over 1919, hut the values were perhaps the most satisfactory of any year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
Relatives Found

sylacauga, December -29. 1920,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01
OVER $1OO, 900, 900 INVESTED LN BIRMINGHAM DURING 1920
 ONL Y SUGGEST ITS GROWTH

The 2.5OO,OO0 tons came very near
 realizing n selling value of $40 per
 ton, making the total value around
 SfOO,0O0,0OO. Steel production vas
 about 100000 tons, valued at $75,-
 100000. Coal mined has been about
 I5,OOO,0O0 tons valued at S6O,OOO,OOO
 to $7O,0O0.0O0. Coke has been about
 6,00O,OOO tons valued nt s1S,OOO,000.
 Some of these values, of course, run into one another, the ore going into pig iron and half of the pig iron into steel made here at home, but the values of each product are given to show what each amounts to in the selling market.
 CHEAPER GAS
 The city did not fail to forge ahead. Quitting many other things, leading event of the year was securing by product gas at SS cents now with pro- vision for lower prices as time goes by.
 The city has selected an auditorium site, and this s5oO,OO0 adjunct to the community's pleasure and welfare is about to rise.
 Two high schools are being built at original outlay of more than $1,o00, ,000 The marble s1,000,000 post office Is nearing completion. The Masonic order of Alabama is building beautiful temple and auditorium in Birmingham at a cost of $750,000
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
At unitsd Congregational olnrsl.

At the United ConEresation9. church the Eastern Connecticut Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions will meet a. the Community house on Monday. No vember 18th, With sessions at II q. IT. and f.30 p. m. pr. Harriet Parker. Of Madura. India. and Airs. Dickson Leav- ems of Chsngsha, China. will speak. and reports from the annual meeting Of the board and short missionary play will be given. Basket lunch.
 Regular meeting of the Soizditzs, Mon- day evening. Those attending are tn bring needle and thread.
 The Junior Guild will meet a. four O. clock in the Copmunity house.
 AIid-weel. worship Thursday evening ai 7.25 MT. AhbcTt will give tte nostpon- ed talk on "Deuteronomy." at the peri5l of instruction
 Friday, November IS. all cay meeting Of the Missions Department Of the wo mans Guild. Sewing and quitting vii be provided. Box lunches with ho bou.lion and hot drink served as smai ! charge. Tn the afternoon Rev. William S. Beard, promotion secretary Of til Congregationai Home Missionary S0ciet, will give an address.
 The Camp Fire will hold . frs air me ing at the home Of t;iei: guar an, Mrs A. C. Freeman, at GAS. Frida i evening.
 At 6.30 Friday evening the 18th. all of ficers and teachers of the church schoc are to gather at the Community hous
 for supper and meeting.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
A Bulletin To Lei
 Advertisement Will Rent l,
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Breed Theatre.

"The Blot" Lois Weber's- latest pro- to-drama. which opened at the Breed theatre last night was received by an enthusiastic and packed theatre
 This human drama far surpasses any thing yet. produced by the gifted Miss Weber. She has in The Blot a ft- man-interest story as pig as '.Hu- moresque' and other productions of this type.
 Her acting cast is iawiess and if the work of Claire Windsor and Marie Wal camp in this picture is any indication, we can look for some big things in the future from these two beautiful girls. Philip Hubbard scored with an excellent bi of character acting and Margaret Mc- Wade and Louis Calhern come in for special mention fer their pleasing and realistic work in 'HThe Blot"
 The story is one that Is timely and will hold your interest throughout. Ii deals with a situation existing in every pity ard town in the country today. the neglect of our school teachers and the poverty that they undergo to educate z nation. f you are the k,nd that likes a real human story, produced and enacted in a realistic manner, do moi fail 10 see Lois Weber's "Tile Blot
 The Blot' will be the feature attrac- ton again '3day and tomorrow and oth- { CT pictures on the bill include Ben Tur. | pin in Love and Doughnuts." MacE i Sennetts greatest comedy, and the Pathe | News
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
At the Strand.

The B. r. Keith vaudeville acts at ghs Strand are becoming better and better as time goes. This weeks billing Is no exception.
 The four big New York acts viii con- sist of Chicsdeeas whlifiers Barefoot Boy" Everyone knows whi;tier's Bare foot Boy with cheek of tan. -n makeup Chickaaes cnpersonates wh'ftier's ta- mous cha racter and his whistiinr fs nothing short Of absolute music. mum Der Of clever limitations are also intro- duced-
 Clark and Wilson are two clever rfri comediennes- They introduce a number Of original funny comedy and sing comi- cal songs with real joy. Wilson and Kelly are the man comedians and they certainly are coinsFians They prom : iss to keep all n al. up-oar from the time they appear on the stage until The f finish Of their funny act Seibini and Grovini appear in Foif'es Of vau'eville. Fo,lies from a showman's standpoint means humorous diversified amusement ard if this Is the proper def milton the above named two ce-ta iniy i fill the bill Ti,eir act is humorousiy i smusirg throughout.
 4 photop,sy dealing win an u-urrz' situation is Common Sense.' a Republic i picture which begins a three ~ay show. ing at the Strand theatre today ! How a disi'iusioned man be-ame a her. init and tried 10 shut himself cut from ! the world. and how the truth came C i him al last wisb love provise the theme for the story.
 Ra,ph Lewis and vois Vale gave eu. cefient performances as the leading play
 CTS. The camera registered some bean tifui woodland scenes.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chicago Stock Company Opens Engess
 ment Here Today

The Chicago Stock Company begin weeks engagement at the Davis theatre today at which tine they will present the Merry Melody play -Buddies,'' iron ths pen of George V. Hobart
 The company arrives this morning and It will take the local transfer company al i the forenoon to hrul their equipment from the sixty-foot baggage car to the stage of ihe Davis theatre where ever available inch of space N1n be utilized to accommodate the scenery. etc. usec to stage the s.x big hits to se presented this week.
 The company has been touring ths [ United States for tweuty-sevsn yezrz { but have never before played Norwich out it hoped that they win make such @ [ nit here this week that they will return l every season in the future with neE { repertoire or plays
 Tomorrow the company offers tilt ! Psjams froiic, -Nightie-Nighi" l three act comedy with a prologue that Is guar
 anieed 10 cure tas worsl case of -bues | in Norwich. It is such a mirth provoksI
 that IL even nlsde pr. Frank Crane for i sake his studious editorials and say. Ls'
 Ns have more. plays like -Nighiie-Nisnt' ] which are good for the wise and other. i wise and this world wiIl be a better plsc. | AR AAst AA n sA Can dAl-hE Als VI
 for an entire evening surely you too car
 fine two hours of merriment in l. TT7
 IL. we'll guarantee the success. ] Wednesday the company present ! Scrambled Wives" Thursday bring
 smooth as SHk." Friday the rnatrlnon
 lal mixup Wedding Bells" viii hold th stage and Saturday the last play of tn
 week will be The Woman in -Roon l3."
 For prices etc. see advertisement < | another pa-7 of this paper.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
INVENTOR LAKE APPROVES
 sECY. HUGHES PROPOSAL

Bridgeport, Nov. 13.-Simon Lake. submarine inventor and long considered an authority on naval affairs tonight ex- pressed his approval Of that portion of Secretary Of State Hughes proposal to the disarmament delegates which would limit the submar arine tonnage of the Unit ed States to so.0oO tons.
 'If that 90.00O tons Is put Into defenI sive submarines of the smaller tyne it would provide about 150 submarines Thas should be sufficient to give protec- ton to the coast, and Is more than NC have now. f.cubt If We have over half that nTnber now in up-to-date ef- ticient submarines.
 "The cost. of battleships and cruisers is going to bankrupt most any country to keep on in the race for pig ship con- troi.'
Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
FRENCH PRESS PRAISES
 HARDING AND HUGHES

Paris. Nov. 1S-Dispatches out ming the developments at the opening of the armament conference In Washington take first place in all the Paris newspa- pers this morning. Extensive excerpts are printed from President Harding's address the speech by Secretary Hughes giving the American program for ten year naval holiday and the comments thereon by Premier Briand and A. J. Balfour, acting head of the British del- egation. The newspaper comment is generally favorable.
 ''The Washington conference convened with the formal intention of reaching positive results is the trend of the editorials in newspapers of all, shades | of DO itics. excepting those representing the communists, which insist that 3