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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-09
wEEvIL SCARE PREMATURE.

Athens, July S.-tSpecial. )-There is much uneasiness among the farm CTS. in many sections of this county over the boil weevil scare that has been spreading for the past week or ten days. There are some weevils in this section but owing to the state ment made this week by the county farm demonstrator, there is no reason for such scare and If everyone will act accordings to his instructions in this matter, 1t is hoped that there will be no material damage realized from this pest in this county. Mir. Stewart, the demonstrator, is asking the cotton growers here to beware of agents who may appear selling so called weevil killing agencies such as Is thought to be at this time car ried over the country. His statement is that if the farmers will keep hust- ling with their work in the cotton crop, there will be fairly good pro- duction made unless there Is an un- usual amount of rainfall later in the season. So far as can be learned the general condition of the cotton crop in Limestone county is very good and there Is as good crop of corn in this county as has been seen here in any previous year, however. some of the older crops are suffering to some extent for rain, there having been only local showers during the past two weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-09
A RIVER OF MYSTERY
Floyd w. Parsons. in the Worlds

Work.
 From it's source to it's mouth the Colorado river drops almost two miles. At some points along it's course. particularly in the Grand Canyon, it has cut it's channel more than one mile below the level of the surrounding plateaus. The Colorado is the lest known stream in the western hemisphere. It is the tomb of civilizations that flourished In ages past. The stark cliffs, chis- eled by the river. are furrowed with the deserted dwellings of peoples of mystery. Centuries ago these early races constructed irrigation systems which are still visible in part and which command the respect of epes- neers even today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-09
For Good of
 the Community

means constructor.
 There are more items of road and street construction in Alabama cities and counties listed in the Manufacturers Record of the current issue than any other southern state presents.
 The list follows:
 Birmingham-F'iv miles of paving on Eighth avenue to Ensley, $30O,OOO.
 Birmingham - Improvements o n WoOdlawn avenue, Fifth Place and 1hlf- ty-first street, $39,0OO
 Chatom- highway commission receives bid for S47, 900 for three miles of road in Washington county.
 Gadsden-City lets contract for S44, 500 for sidewalks, gutters and driveway.
 Greenville Butler county will con- struct roads to consolidated schools, S2OO,O00.
 Lafayette State highway commission will construct AZ miles of highway, S62,000.
 Mobile-State highway commission received bids for building road between Axis and Calvert, $112,000.
 Montgomery State highway commits sion will construct 12.39 miles of gravel road, s75,0Oo.
 Montgomery-St highway commis- sion approves building road in connection with bridge over Alabama river at Reese's Ferry.
 Moulton State highway commission approves project for building road to Morgan county line.
 Talladega-State highway commits sion has received bids for road building in Talladega county.
 Tuscumbia- highway commis- sion approves road projects in Colbert county involving highway to Lawrence county line $200,000. Other structural items listed here and there in the Manufacturers Record are: Walter Fordyce will build 100-room hotel and block of stores at Tuscaloosa, $150,000.
 Mrs. King will build hotel at Marion to replace one that was burned. State Normal School at Florence will build $30, 900 unit of S10O,000 building.
 Jefferson county board of education Will UQIlu pCO,OOV OCllOOl eAV DOA e.
 City commission of Birmingham will build 2O-room school at Avondale, 18- room brick school at Wylam, 4-room ad- Il ditions at Central Park, Fairview and II North Birmingham, enlarge Robinson school at East Lake, Baker school at Ems ley and Ullman school in Birmingham, besides erecting negro school at North II Birmingham, Pettiford school at East II Thomas and complete Pratt school. First Presbyterian church, Birning- II ham, will spend S60,000 .remodeling II church and erect Sunday school building. II Fairfield Baptist church will erect $60,- M 900 building.
 N Montgomery county is to spend $3OO,- II 900 in the building of six new schools II Akron Bank and Trust company, cap II ital S25, 900, has been organized. Many more items in the Manufacturers II Record mention bond sales for roads, the II incorporation of new enterprises and the Notation of securities for the structural enterprises that are being undertaken. On top of it all we are to build forth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-09

Gadsden, July -(Special.)--A statement of the three Gadsden banks published today shows a very healthy state and total of deposits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-09

amounting to over s2.oOo,OoO. All the banks in this section are weathering the financial crisis in a good man ner and business is moving along in the regular channels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-09
MONTEVALLO COLLEGE

Montevallo. July S.-(Special)-Th second graduating exercises of the twentyfifth annual commencement at Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women in 1921 will take place Friday, July 8. at 8 o'clock in the evening at the college au1i- torium. Of these, Misses Dona Banks, Jacksons Gap, and Mittye Lambert, Lasca, have completed the two-year normal college course. while Miss Ellen Leonora White. Hamilton, has finished the three-year vocational home economies teacher training course.
 An address to the graduates and the presentation of diplomas will be made by Miss Mary Goode Stall- worth, director of the summer ses- sion, in the absence of Dr. T. W. Palmer, president of the college, who is in Des Moines. la, attending a meeting of the National Educational association.
 The graduating exercises will con stitute the last formal public enter tainment of the summer session. Final examinations for the summer students will take place Saturday, July g, and many students will be able to complete their work and . leave by Saturday afternoon.
The evening world., 1921-04-05

Chinese EmbroiderieS
Chinese Furniture
Obs and Tinsel Brocade
Table China
Incense and Burners
Japanese Novelties
Vases: Porcelains
Figures: Bronzes
worries: CloisonneS
Rock Crystals
Satsuma
Lamps and Lamp Mounts
The evening world., 1921-04-05
Chinese Scarfs
and Centerpieces

Exquisitely hand embroi-
dered in blue and white on
fine Chinese grass linen.
The evening world., 1921-04-05
CRAIG TAX PAYING
BILL is DEFEATED
Senate by Vote Kills Measure Adj
vancing Date-Would Save
City 100000 Year.

ALBANY, April 5.--Comptroller Craig 3
bill that provided for advancing the date
from Oct. / to July for payment Of the
second instalment Of taxes on real es-
tate was killed in the Senate last night
when. 10y rising vote Of rs to 3. Sen
ator Burlingame's motion to strike out
the cnacting clause was sustained.
Sitting as a committee OF the whole.
the Senate was considering a proposal
OF advancing to third reading the bill.
which was introduced by Senator
Downing, when Burlngame's motion
was pushed through despite opposit ion
The purpose Of the bill. as explained
by Senator Downing. was to save New
York City about $4,000 600 annual inter
est charges through early collection OF
taxes, thus Obviating the necessity OF
considerable borrowing by the city A
number OF Sena tors opposed the meas
ure, declaring II would impose an un-
warranted burden on small property
owners and in many cases precpitate
foreclosures.
The evening world., 1921-04-05

Japanese Umbrellas
House Wares
Pictures and Prints
Luncheon Sets
Slippers
Baskets
Umbrellas
Tea
Handkerchief
Shirt Waist Boxes
Printed Wooden Challis
Mems japanese Bath Robes
and Dressing Gowns
The evening world., 1921-04-05

Chinese and japanese Silks
Kimonos: Robes
Leather Goods
Screens
Jewelry
Stationery
Rugs
Toilet Articles
Toys
Perfumes
Candy
Art Needlework
The evening world., 1921-04-05

Yesterdays best news is still today's best
news. MORE goods arrive in the Vantine
Sale. Wherever possible depleted lines are
being brought up to full strength again.
Philadelphia sends collection of authen-
ticated objects dart Going at just HALF
PRICE.
The evening world., 1921-04-05
ADVERTISING MAN
HELD FOR BIGAMY
Cincinnati "Wife" Says She Found
He Had Another in New
n York CITY.

Especial 20 The Evening World.l
CINCINNATI, o., April 5.--Robert
Rhlnehardt, New York advertising
manager, waived examination on the
CHARGES Of bigamy preferred against
him by Mrs Rose Pashin Rhinehardt
OF No. 1871 blackberry Street this
city. to-day, and was held for the
Grand Jury in $1,000. The jury will
also investigate the charge that
Rhinehardt passed several false
checks fer $4,000 each at a bank in
this city
Mrs. Rhinehardt says that after her
marriage here Rhinehardts wealthy
relatives in San Francisco and New
York refused to receive her, claiming
that Rhinehardt was already married
TO n New York lady or wealth, Later
Mrs. Rhinehardt says she found her
supposed husband living with his
irst wife in a hotel in New York city.
The evening world., 1921-04-05
CONVERTED 3 INTO 10.
Honest PeddIer shocked by
WOman's Financial SIKH.

William Boyd, a pedder is so honest
that his customers believe he Is &c
centric. In making change for woman
who bought l6 cents worth OF shoe
strings from him the other day he gave
her an old-fashioned three-cent piece In
place Of dime.
When he reached Wauregan. twenty
miles below here, he missed his pocket
three-cent piece and trudged clear back
here to make good. But he found that
the woman had "geared" the rim OF the
coin and passed it for "A dime.
The peddler called her IA high imam
cier
The evening world., 1921-04-05

A rare purchase of jades is ours and
yours-again at Just HALF PRICE.
There's more tea, more coffee, more candy.
In the goods come-out they go! Best
to those who come earliest-of course! For
buying and selling in the Vantine Sales the
neal est thing to perpetual motion we know!
The evening world., 1921-04-05
Store Your Furs NOw

Cold dry storage vaults the premises with efficient service
and protection against all loss "Furrers since 1922
Charges Pennsylvania $780, "a and
will take elevator 6. 7 3. TENTH FLOOR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
Ball Player Stirs Up
Trouble in Restaurant
Alabaman Says Notify NscCraw
When He Goes to Station
Alter Hurting Class

Charles Street, who says he is pro-
fessional ball player and likes plenty
of elbow room when he eats, was locked
up at the West SXty-eighth Street
police station last night, charged with
felonious assault, as a result of the
cramped quarters in which he found
himself in restaurant at 1925 Broad
way
George Settle. broker, of liz West
Seventy-thrd Street, who was sitting
near Street with Mrs. Settle, objected
to having Street dig him N the ribs
with his elbow at every mouthful, and
told him so. Street was vexed. any
how, at not having room enough to eat
in, and at the brokers' circumstances
is said to have seized glass and
thrown it at him.
He had lots of speed. but lacked con-
troll. The glass struck the table and
flew into a hundred pieces. One Of
them hit Mrs. Settle in the face. cut
ting her slightly. A policeman was
called and Street was ARE sted. He
asked the lieutenant at the desk at
the police station to please notify John
J. McGraw.
Street said his home was in Alabama
bat that he was staying at the Ansonia
Hotel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
Girl and Escort
Beaten by Five
Men on Drive
Youth Resists Three While
Two Carry Miss Burke
Down Embankment; Po-
lice Capture Two Suspects
Mob Threatens Lynching
Prisoner Is Identified by
Victim but Denies Guilt:
Others Said To Be Known

Miss Margaret Burke, eighteen years
old, of lr77 Lexington Avenue, was
beaten into unconsciousness last night
at II o'clock and her escort, Richard
McKenna, twenty-five, of 1875 Seventh
Avenue, was black lacked and kicked by
five men who approached the pair as
they sat on the grass in Riverside
Drive, near Grants Tomb. While Nc
Kenna fought with three of the men,
another struck Miss Burke in the face
with his ist. closing both her eyes and
cutting her cheek to the bone.
McKenna, finding himself over
matched, shouted for help as two of
the men carried Miss Burke down the
embankment, one holding her feet and
the other her shoulders. McKenna s
shouts brought Patrolmen William Cox
and Charles Zeller, of the West 125th
Street police station, who found him
in a dazed condition. He pointed to the
slope leading to Riverside Park, and
the patrolmen found Miss Burke few
moments later, lying on her face unable
to speak. Leaving Patrolman Zeller to
care for the young woman, Patrolnlan
Coz pursued two men he saw running
and caught themsat 18th Street.
One Of the men captured, who gave
his name at the police station as
Michael Walsh, and his address as
lA27 Am sterdam Avenue. was positive
y identified by Miss Burke as the man
who ssruck her in the face. The other
prisoner gave his name as James Evil
ston, and his address as 449 West
l2oth Street. He described himself as
q clerk in Wall Street.
The police said Walsh had blood on
his knuckles and that strands of Miss
Burkc's hair we're found clinging to
his coat. A crowd attracted by the
cries Of Miss Burke and by the pur
suit threatened to lynch Walsh, who
was hurried to the 125th Street sta
ton. He denied the attack and said
he had been mistaken for some one
else. Miss Burke's Identification was
said by the police to have been COM
pletc.
Dr. Glass. of the Knckerbocker Hos
pital, was summoned to attend Miss
Burke He restored her sufficiently to
permit her being taken home. Detec-
tives sought the other three men en-
gagged in the attack until late hour
last night. Their identity is said to
be known and further arrests are eX
ppctcd tO-u3V
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
Weiss Demands 100000 for
Love OF Wife Who Killed Self

time of her suicide at 4G Fort Wash
ington Avenue.
Stern, according to Weiss's com
plant, came between him and his wife,
acquiring an Improper influence" over
the latter and enticing her from her
home and husband.
Mrs. Henrietta Weiss died at Belle
vue and her mother died at Flower Hos
pital. Their suicide agreement had APP
parently been carefully planned. Be
fore retiring on the night of July
they emptied twelve bichloride of nler-
curry tablets into a glass of water, di
vided the potion and went to bed.
They suffered greatly during the
night and the next morning they
asked doctor for morphine, saving
they wanted to die without furthc,
pain. While being taken to hospitals
both insisted that they didn't want tc
live and said that if the attempt tina.
they had made failed they would try
again.
Weiss visited his wife at the hos.
ptal and it was reported that they had
become rcconciled. For hours before
her death she chung to baby shoe and
rubber dog, both of which belonged
to their three year-old son. Robert. Mr.
Weiss refused to discuss the case whcr
seen at the hospital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
Priest Shot to
Death i'm Home
By Clergyman
Methodist Preacher Says
He Killed Him Because
He Married Minister'S
Daughter 10 Catholic
Claims He Was Attacked
Surrenders 10 Birmingham,
Ala, Police; known as
the sSMarrying Parson''

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Aug ll.-Father
James Z. Coyle, for many years pastor
of St. Paul's Catholic Church, died at
a hospital tonight after having been
shot three times, according to the po-
lice, by the Rev. L. R. Stephenson,
Methodist minister.
Immediately after the shooting Ste
phcnson went to the COUNT jail and
surrendered, admitting, according to
officials there, that he shot the priest.
Officers quote Stephenson as declaring
he shot Father Coyle because the lat
ter had performed a marriage cere
mony between Stephenson's daughter
and Pedro Gussman, Catholic.
Known as marrying" Parson
Mr.. Stephenson has been a familiar
figure around the Jefferson County
Courthouse for years being known as
the marrying Parson." because of the
large number of marriage ceremonies
performed by him at the courthouse.
In q statement to newspaper men to-
night Mr.. Stephenson declared that he
shot Father Coyle in self defense, after
the priest had struck him twice, knock
ing him 30 his knees. He said that he
was passing the rectory when Father
Coylc called him N, and that in an
argument which developed he called
Father Coylc a dirty dog" Father
Coylc then attacked him, according TO
Stephenson, whcreupon he pulled his
revolver and fred three shots.
ONLY one bullet took effect accord
ing to Coroner }. d. Russum, who eN-
amined the body. This entered the
left temple and passed out at the back
of the head
Priests Sister Hears Shots
Father Coyle was sitting in swing
OF the porch reading, according to his
sister, Miss Marcella Coyle, who was
in room next to the porch, when she
heard some one come up and begin
talking to him. Shortly afterward she
heard three pistol shots and ran to
the porch. where she found Father
Coyle lying On the floor and saw Mr..
Stephenson walking away.
policeman who heard The shots IA n
after Mr.. Stephenson, who went direct
y to the jail. The officer overlook
the minister just as he reached the
door Of the prison. whcreupon Mr.. Ste
phenson handed him the gun and sur
rendered.
Father Coyle was born in Ireland in
1878 and was ordained priest in Rom
IN 1896. The same year he went to
Mobile as 4 missionary of the cathc-
dral there. whore he served until 1899
From 1889 to 1904 he was rector at
McGill Institute. He came to Birming-
ham as pastor of st. Paul's that wear
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
ZR-2 Trials Unfinished
Big Dirigible Has Yet to Make
Her Acceptance Flight

WASHINGTON. Aug. While the
tentative date Of August 25, weather
permitting. for departure Of the great
British built navy airship ZR-2 from
England for the United States remains
unchanged, there is possibility that
the trip will be delayed, it was learned
to day at the Navy Department. The
ship has still to pass her full speed
acceptance trials and bad weather has
held up the tests for ten days.
The date was set on the assumption
that the ZR-2 would be formally &C.
cepted we'll prior to that time. On
builders trials, however, minor defects
we're developed which have since been
corrected. No opportunity for flight
has been presented since owing to
weather conditions. Officers here still
are hopeful, however, that the big ship
will get away for Lakehurst, N. j., on
schedule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12

Mortimer Weiss. whose twenty year
old wife. Henrietta, and her mother,
Airs. Frances Weiss, thirty-siN years
old. swallowed poison AZ the Hotel
Commodore on the night Of July / and
died from its effects, yesterday in Su-
preme Court hlcd Il suit for 100000
damages for alienation of affections
against Jack Stern. jobber OF cotton
fabrics, at COS Broadway.
Mr.. Weiss charges that the defend
ant WAS responsible for the differ
ences that developed between him self
and his wife. A. the time the two
women took poison neither would give
Il reason for her act, and the com
plant is the first light TO be shed
upon discord in the Weiss household.
Mortimer Weiss married Henrietta
Weiss in January, 1918. az Benning
ton. Vt. While their names were the
same there was no blood relationship.
Henrietta's mother had been a widow
for thirteen years at the time OF
her daughters marriage. Mortimer
brought his bride to New York. and
they lived together virtually up to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12

velopmcnts to-day in the anti-liquor
crusade here.
One arrest was made, Claude Field
Ter. saloon keeper, of 2400 Attic Ave
nue., being charged with smuggling,
and the members of the crew of the
Schooner Henry l.. Marshall, arrested
early in the week, were arraigned on
both Federal and state charges They
were held for hearing Saturday.
The seized boats are the Uncle Sam
and the Sea Cannot, open motor sea
skiffs, and the Edward H. Berke, a
gasoline motor boat The seizures
were by Chief Deputy United States
Marshal W. B. Snowden. These craft,
it is alleged, operated between ships
off shore and the mainland
The announcement by United States
Attorney Pearse raises the total Of al
legged "ringleaders,' as proclaimed by
Special County Prosecutor Gaskill yes
terday, from three to six. Warrants for
the arrest of the six, Mr.. Pearse said,
had bcen issued
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
Schoolboy Lured by Two
Men TO Become Addict
Cigarettes Containing Drug
Given to Child Until He
Was Slave of Hahsi

Joseph Bruno, OF PA Mulberry
Street, a sixteeE-year drug addict
just out Of school, was sent by Acting
Chief Magistrate John 4. Mcclellan to
Bellevue Hospital for physical and
mental observation yesterday at the re-
quest of Dr.. Carleton Simon, head of
the Narcotic Division of the Police De
partment The boys mother and
younger sister were In court when ne
was arraigned.
Bruno told Detective Sergeant John
FurlonG that a year ago. while he was
attending Public School 81, on Spring
Street, he was approached by two men
who gave him cigarettes with white
powder in them. He became addicted
to the use Of these cigarettes and the
men have beer supplying them to him,
he said. according to DR.. Simon. the
boy acted as q lookout for these men
and held the cigarettes and drugs for
them while they made sales. When
arraigned in court yesterday he was so
exhausted that he was unable to give
q good description Of the men and at
times his story was incohcrent
When Bruno refused to act for the
men any longer they cut off his supply
and he became iii. DR.. Simon said
that the lads mother took him to the
Board of Health for examination. He
was then sent before the commiss ioner.
The nature of the drug which The boy
had been taking has not yet been de-
termincd. When his condition i'm
proves he viii be questioned again.
Carmine Marinelli, fifteen years old,
who was arrested in his home at SO
Bayard street few days ago by De-
tective Kramer of the Narcotic Divi-
sion. is at the Inwood Shelter in the
care Of the Society for the Prevention
ii Cruelty to Children. The boy was
found with bottle conta ming heroin
and nineteen empty bottles. He is
charged with drug selling and is being
held pending trial in the Children S
Court
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-12
Packet Company Clerk
Admits 1000 Thefts
Arrested for Forgery, He Con
fesscs Stealing From EN-
PLAYER: Known as 'Spcnder'


Lael T. White. youthful clerk in
the accounting department of the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, was
arrested on q charge of forgery last
night and 5 said to have admitted the
theft Of about $4,000 from his employ
ers. He was locked up at the West
Forty seventh Street police station. He
lives at the s.. George Hotel, Twelfth
Street and Broadway.
The sum involved in the charge OF
forgery Is S3A1.O7. White is said to
have forged the name of f. B. Zabris
ke to a check for that amount and
cashed it at the Rose Garden, Forty
ninth Street and Broadway. Leo Bern
stein, proprietor Of that resort, is the
complainant.
1t was at the Rose Garden thai
White, who is said to have been spend
ing money freely along Broadway fol
six months, was found and arrested
last night. The police said that he
is married, but had not been home
for four days.
The spending mania seized him about
six months ago, the police say the
young man told them. Ele had about
81 800 in Brooklyn bank at that time
but drew out $1,000 to buy an auto
mobile. According to the police, tbs
young mans dim. nished savings were
drawn on again to make good the
amount of the forged check, the cash
being given to Bernstein by Whites
father.
The money which White is said t.
have admitted taking from the steam
ship company was in the form of re-
fund deposits being held for passen-
gers from Bermuda who had turned in
their return fares and planned to make
a longer stay than they intended in
New York