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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
0WENTON SCHOOL
COMMENCE N T n 7
To BEGIN MAY u
Bishop Dobbs To Preach Sc.
nior Class Sermon-38
To Graduate

Commencement exercises at Bir-
mingham- Southern college will open
Sunday morning. May 81, with the
delivery of the senior class sermon
by Bishop Hoyt NJ Dobbs, d. D., LII.
d., an alumnus of Birmingham
Southern, closing with the presenta-
ton of diplomas by President Guy ".
Siavely on commencement day,
May 90
On Sunday evening, May 81, Rev.
r. r. Ellison, presiding elder of the
Andalusia district of the Methodist
church, will address a joint meeting
of the Y. NJ. c. A. and the Y. w C. A.
in the annual sermon of the two or
PLANTATIONS. Baccalaureate address
is to be given by Chancellor Joseph
Neely Powers, University of Misss-
sippi, an alumnus OF Dirming ham
Southern. Many alumni are expected
to be present for the alumni dinner
and other exercises.
Officials of the college express the
opinion that visitors for the exer-
cises this year will greatly outnum-
Der those of the past because of the
fact that the enrolment this year is
more than double that of the last
session. Present indications are that
the college will show another phe-
nomenal increase for 1924.
Wyatt Hale Gets Honors.
Class honors for the year have
gone to Wyatt w. Hale, as valedic-
torian of the 1928 class, and to John
Keith Benton as salutatorian. Both
Benton and Hale are Birmingham
youths. Among the commencement
activities which will absorb the in
and oratorical contests, the presen-
tation of Booth Tarkington's play.
Clarence" by the Paints and Patch
cs dramatic club of the institution,
and special music under the direc-
ton of Prof. O. Gordon Erickson,
college musical director.
List of Graduates.
Members of the graduating class
are as follows:
Rufus Beauregard Bagley CA. NJ,
Goodwater; Paul Lee Abernethy, Ste
venson; John Keith Benton, Birming-
ham; Richard Edwin Branscomb, An
niston Eugene Hobson Clark. AL
bany: Henry Watterson Dark. Alex
ander City: William Neal Dark,
Alexander City; Rufus A. Duvall.
Birmingham; Edward Redding En-
mems. Trinity; Lerah Lille Emerson,
Birmingham j. CASTOR Golsan,
Greenville, Tex; Wyatt Walker Hale,
Birmingham; John Lincoln Hall,
Florence: Percy Leon Howard, Ash
land; Erwin Jackson, Birmingham
Mary Amelia Jackson. Birmingham
Harold Bray Johnson, Tekonsha,
Mich; Reuben Aaron Jones. Biz.
mingham: Tracy Mitchell Kegley,
Birmingham: Waldemar Hiram LET
stead. Thorsby; Allen George Loehr,
Birmingham; Grady Wilson Miller,
Evergreen; Miriam Miner, Birming
ham, Virginia Nixon, Birmingham
Annie Louise Moon, Bessemer; Rob-
ert Edwin Moore, Valley Head: Mar
vim Eugene Moorehead. CORTLAND.
Miss; James Edgar Moreno. Mobile;
Catherine Harriet Newsom, Birming-
ham: Anna LaPage Neese. Birmlng-
ham: Ethelbert Brinkley Norton, Biz
mingham; Lorena Norton, Birming-
ham, Ida Taylor Roberts. Birming-
ham; Pauline Sanders. Birmingham
Frances Elberta Taylor. Birming-
ham; Nellie Waldrip, Goodwater;
William Marion Westbrook. Biz
mingham; Francis Pope White, Good
water.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
HEART FAILURE VICTIM
Funeral OF Herman Ii. Litten Will
Re Held Monday Morning

Herman r. Litten, CT years old
pioneer business man of Brmingham
who was found dead in bed in his
room at the Motion hotel Friday aft
ernoon. died of heart failure, accord
ing to the opinion of Coroner j. ID.
Russum following an Informal in
vestigation Saturday morning.
Funeral services are to be held al
10 o'clock Monday morning from the
residence of y. u. Cberdorfer. l4ib
Flora avenue, with burial following
in Emanuel cemetery by Johns. Lit
ten is survived by one sister, who
lives in Germany.
Active pallbearers are: Leon Fried
man, H. b. New, Roy Vaughn, virgil
r. Lockhart. Emmett frost, Leopold
Loeb. l.. b. Joseph, Loe II. Lovrnan.
Honorary pallbearers are as follows;
Dr. II. T. Helm. Sidney Hart, Morris
Burk. Morris Lenk, William. wise,
Lew Lazarus. l.. Schulhoffer, Herbert
Levy. Lewis Phillips and Henry
BaTuCh.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
NEW SHOE STORE OPENS
w. j. King And w. l.. Daniels Have
Place ON Nineteenth Street

The Kings Shoe Reviewer COM
pany, new shoe repair concern,
has opened for business at 413 Nine
teenth street. north. adding another
business to Brmngham's downtown
district. The new shop is under the
management of w. j. King, with w.
T.. Daniels as superintendent. Both
Mr.. King and Mr.. Daniels are men OF
wide experience in the shoe repair
business. A special parlor where
women may stop and have their
shoes repaired while they wait has
been provided.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
DATES ARE NAMED FOR
SIGMA NUs GATHERING
National Convention Coming Here
December 1881. Burr States

The national convention of the
Sigma M fraternity will be enter
tanned in Birmingham December rs
to 81. Borden Burr. general Chairman
Of the committees in charge of en-
tertainment plans, announced Satur-
day. Mr.. Burr has just returned
from New York, wnere he conferred
with national officers of the frater-
nifty.
Information received from active
and alumni chapters from all sec
tions of the United States indicate
that the attendance will number APP
proximately 1000.
Committee chairmen We're an
nounced and tentative plans for the
convention outlined at a meeting
Saturday at the Tutwiler Among
features will lie a dance at the
Country club Friday night, Decem-
Der 20, and the fraternity banquet
Saturday night. December 90.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
FITZPATRICK TO TALK
Hallway Trainmen Will Meet Sunda
Afternoon At Frnternal Hall

A joint meeting of Lodges $50 and
Ss4. Brotherhood of Railway Train
men. is to be held at oatlck Sunday
afternoon at Fraternal hall, when Val
Fitzpatrick. vice president of the
grand lodge of the national organiza-
ton, will make an address. Mr.. Fitz-
patrick has his headquarters at CO.
lumbus. o. In his address Sunday
afternoon he Will discuss questions Of
vital interest to the railway train
mems craft All members of the or
CARNATIONS in Birmingham are urged
10 attend the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
YOUTHS BROUGHT BACK
Alleged Auto Thieves Arrested BY
Pierce Agency Opcrative

Ray Conell and D. c. CIary, two
young men. are in the city Jail charG-
ed with the alleged theft of an auto
mobile rented from the Saunders
Drive-It Yoursely garage April rs.
Both men were arrested by c. w
Rogers, operative of the N. l.. Pierce
national detective agency, in Au-
eusta. Ga. last Tuesday.
Following the Arrest. the trio drove
through the. country to Birmingham.
Clary lived in Harlem, Ca, before
coming to Birmingham Rogers
stated, and Augusta officials were Of
the opinion he might be connected
with the alleged theft of several cars
driven through the country to Miami,
Fla, and sold.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
BOY HURT IN ELEVATOR
Lift Falls Two Flights At Packing
COmpany's Plant

Willard McCutcheon, 10 years old
1901 Fortyfirst street, north. was
severely injured when an elevator
fell two stories with him, at the Bir-
mingham Packing company, 2314
Twenty fourth street, north, at 4
o'clock Saturday afternoon. Nc
Cutcheon was carried to the Fraternal
hospital for treatment where attend
ants stated that he was resting very
we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
RUTH STEPHENSON BACK
Leading Figure In COyIc Killing Two
Years Ago Refuses To Talk

Ruth Stephenson, whose marriage
to Pedro Gussman, twc years ago, is
alleged to have been the cause of the
killing of Father James E. Coyle by
her father. Rev. Edwin r. stephen
son, shortly after the ceremony, has
returned to Birmingham.
Mrs. Stephenson Saturday refused
to give any information on the case
except admitting that her daughter
was al home. When asked whether
her daughter was divorced and If
she had returned to the Protestant
faith. the violent closing of the door
in the reporters face was the an
swer.
DIR. stephenson was acquitted OF
the killing of Father Coyle after one
of the most sensational trials in the
history of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
HILL GETS GOLD BADGE
Popular Chief Deputy Sheriff Recip-
lent OF Deputies Gift

Chief Deputy Henry Hills chest
expansion increased six inches Sat-
urday. Saturday afternoon he was
proudly showing to all corners a new
gold badge, presented by the Jeffer-
son county deputies. Hill had been
wearing an ordinary depnty's badge.
Inscribed on the reverse of the
badge was: ITO our esteemed
friend. Henry S. Hill. Chief Deputy
Sheriff. jefferson County. Ala, BY
the Boys of the Sheriffs Office, May
s, 1928" Henry will have to pack
new gun now to protect that gold
badge" one of the deputies remarked,
referring to Hills practice of not
carving a gun except when going
out on raid or on special business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
coRDo MAN HELD FOR u. $.

Lloyd Bennett, Gordo, Ala, is in
the city Jail held for government
authorities as an alleged deserter
from the marine barracks at Guam
t!co Va. Bennett was arrested at
Jackson, Ala, and turned over to
Police Officer n. {. Propst and Ser
geant l.. F. Hill of the marine re-
cruiting station at 1880 o'clock Sat
urday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
M'DUFF is GIVEN PIN
Members OF Police Department Pre-
sent Chief With Shrine Emblem

Members of the Birmingham police
department presented Chief Fred Nc
Duff with u beautiful platinum and
diamond Shrine pin at the regular
meeting of the department held in
the council chamber of the city hall
Saturday afternoon. John p. Mccoy,
assistant county solicitor. made the
presentation speech.
1t was surprise to Chief McDuff
and when Mr.. Mccoy had finished.
the chief did not have words to ex-
press his appreciation of the gift.
Following the presentation Hugh
Locke talked on Murder"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
TO FEATURE SILVER
Birmingham jewelers. Plan Elaborate
DikplaYa During Week

Flans have been laid for the OBJ
servance of National Sterling Week
by Birmingham jewellers, under the
direction of the jewelers. division Of
the coming week. jewelers. of Bir-
mingham. Ensley and Bessemer will
participates. Julius Jaffe is in charge.
Encouragement of the use of ster-
ling silver in American homes is the
purpose Of sterling week, Mr.. Jaffe
said. jewelers. are to feature win
dow displays of sterling silver arti-
cles. The affair is being sponsored
by the Birmingham association, of
which T. Fl. Linnehan is president
and William Bromberg secretary. A.
A. Ash is president of the state jew
elers' association.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
TALKS OF FAIRGROUNDS


Supervisors Of Birmingham play,
grounds met i'm the city council
CHAMBER SATURDAY morning for a
general discussion of the coming
seasons work which will officially
start June l.
j. V. Pogue, supervisor of parks
and Fairgrounds for the city, pre-
sided and outlined the work to new
playground supervisors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
TRAIN STRIKES DAIRYMAN
North birmingham Man Hurt In Col
Iision IL Expected To Recover

Iision In Expected To Recover
W. T. Brice. North Birmingham
daryman, injured Saturday morning
when the truck he was driving col
lided with Frisco passenger engine
No. 1922. at Twenty-second avenue
and Twenty-sixth street. north, was
reported by attendants at Fraternal
hospital to be improved.
Witnesses said Brice, who was
driving a closed milk truck, ran
across the crossing diectly in the
path of the train. The automobile
was badly damaged, heing hurled 80
feet over an embank ment, turning
hottomside up.
Traffic was blocked for some time
and hundreds attracted to the scene.
The engineer was Jack Dennis and
the train was In charge of Conductor
H. V. Trayman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
BUM THINKS
LONGER DELAY
IS DANGEROUS

Chamber Of Commerce Dr.
rectors Called For Wednes-
day-Entire Case May Be
Taken To Interstate Com
merCe Commission At Once
PREVIOUS ATTITUDE WAS
FAITH IN MANAGEMENT
9rent's Request For Delay Re-
suited In Mississippi River
Getting Discriminative Po-
Sition To Serious Disadvan-
tage Of The Warrior River
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
Gifts to Railroads
 Paid For By Donors

Washington, June 1.-The rail roads have received a gift of 155,ooo,- 900 acres of land from the govern ment, also many valuable grants of terminals and rights of way from mu- nicipalities," says the Farmers Aa- tional Council. "These gifts were made for the specific purpose of keep ing down the capitalization of the rail roads and enabling freight rates to be kept down, so as to. encourage agr1- culture and other legitimate business. The railroads seek to capitalize the increase in selling price of the Ian" over the price they paid therefor, oi the complete increase if donated to them This increase is estimated at billions of dollars.
 "The interstate commerce commls- sion Is now making tentative valua- ton of the railroads, and the repre- sentatives of the carriers are actually trying to have the commission accept theories of valuation which would per init them to include in their capital ization all these increases plus sur plus earnings which have been put back into the roads.
 Tt Is stated that the difference be- tween the theories of valuation ad- vanced by the carriers and by some public authorities amount Nto about $1oooo, 900, ,ooo in the valuation of the railroads"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
SEEKING PAY RAISE.

Detroit, Mich, June I,-Increases in wages for practically all of it's 4oo,- GOO members throughout the country have been asked by the United Broth erhood of Maintenance of Way Elm ployes. Increases have been granted this class of workers on Y railroads and 28 other cases have been filed with the Railroad Labor Board, 1t IS said
 At the brotherhood headquarters in this city 1t was stated that recent survey showed two out of every three maintenance of way men to be in debt because of low wages, that but one in every seven has bank account and that half of them are without life in
 surance.
 During the last year, it is declared i the average worker of this class spent 1 $23 for clothing, while 6.3 cents mea for each person in the family was the avc1 age food allowance of the average worker
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01

of workers education and will con- tnue to seek the cooperation of the ablest university teachers in the de- velopment of this movement The bureau welcomes every generous eff fort at the extension of higher edu-
 cation and believes profoundly that higher education is an indispensable aspect of democratic citizenship and,
 should be universal and lifelong. ! The committee is likewise of the opinion that as the workers educa- ton movement represents the delib- crate effort on the part of the labor
 movement and working people gen orally to serve the educational aspi-
 rations of workers that it should en-
 courage workers to the fullest meas
 ure of responsibility in the initiative and democratic management of their efforts at self-education. That work
 CTS education should spring from the sion and rest upon them as their col
 lective responsibility is tthe wisdom
 of education and the wise policy of the trade union movement.
 In addition the committee gave
 consideration to the development of weekend and summer schools for
 workers, and authorized it's sub-com-
 nittee to prepare programs for all
 workers groups that intend establish ing such weekend and summer
 schools. One of the first of these
 wor rkers' summer schools to be estab-
 lished west of the Mississippi will be
 held from July Ist to 9th in Estes
 Park, Colorado, under the auspices
 of the Denver Labor College. A training school for teachers of work
 ers' classes was also favorably acted upon.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
ARTHUR HOLDER IS ELECTED
 AS FIELD SECRETARY FOR
 WORKERS EDUCATION BUREAU

By International Labor News Service.
 New York City, June I-Plans are perfected by the executive committee of the Workers Education Bureau of America to carry into effect recom- mendations of the third national con ventlon held here last April.
 Among the many important decl- sions which were made was the deslg- nation of field secretary of the bu- reau to carry the message of workers education to the workers in different parts of this country and assist in es- tablishing workers educational enter prlses in the various industrial cen ters. For the position of field secre- tary the executive committee unan1- mously selected Arthur Holder, mem Der of the Machinists' Union, author of the Vocational and Rehabilitation Education Law which was enacted by Congress and for four years member of the Federal Board of Vocational Education as a representative ot la Dor. In the opinion of the commit tee, MT. Holder combined a unique, background in the field of labor, edu- cation and of public service.
 Another matter Ot importance to come before the committee was the question of the definition of workers educational enterprises. To correct certain misstatements which appeared in the daily press after the last con vention and to set forth their opinion in the matter, the executive commit tee gave full consideration to the question and to the convention reso- lution. The committee desires to make unmistakably clear that the Workers Education Bureau of Amer ica is not antagonistic or in opposi- ton to any American college or uni versity nor to any instructors in our universities. On the contrary 1t has had the most cordial cooperation of
 some of the most distinguished teach CTS in our colleges in the promotion
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
HERE'S EXAMPLE OF WHAT UNION MEANS IN PRACTICE

By International Labor News Service.
 Washington, D. C., June I.-While bricklayers in some of the larger cities of the United States are receiv- ing from $1o to SIP a day with time and half for overtime, brick and clay workers in Sayreville, N. J., are strik- ing to raise wages 20 per cent above the present scale of $3.o4 to $3.7o.
 The lowest wages in the industry have been paid by the Sayre-Fisher Company of Sayreville, and for 75 years the workmen have submitted without protest to the low wages and the poor conditions under which they work
 Ten months ago the United Brick and Clay Workers Local No. 3oI was organized with 75 per cent of the employees in the union! When the in crease in wages and an agreement be- tween the union and the men demand ed a 20 per cent firm for one year, 1t developed into a strike. Now the
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
WARD BAKING COMPANY SCORED :.> BY PENN. FEDERATION OF LABOR
Products of Concern Deemed zoo P. c. Unfair to Labor" at Harrisburg Convention to Be
 Given Union Bakery Workers.
abeled bread, and be it further

Labeled bread, and be it further
 Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor go on record to put their power behind the organized Bakery Workers and that bakery products not bearing the Union Label be placed, upon the We Don't Patronize List" and that a special letter be/sent by the Penn sylvania State Federation of Labor to each affiliated union advising them of the action of the Bread Trust, and the arbitrary action of its reactionary leader, Mr. George s. Ward, President of the Ward Baking Company.
 The Ward Baking Company has ex- perienced trouble in Connecticut for some time as a result of its failure to obtain stores to handle its non-union products Several advertising schemes have been tried by the concern, in desperate ef- fort to gain the desired business.
 The latest publicity stunt is carried out with the aid of steam calliope which is piloted throughout various cities and states. There is no doubt that the player of the calliope renders sweet tunes as he booms business in congested districts The sour chords come later, however when the concern endeavors to negotiate contracts with stores in behalf of the Ward products. Evidently 1t will take more than circus parade musicale to aid the anti-organized labor outfit in its quest to reap rich profits in Connecticut
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01

workmen are 100 per cent organized, and all GOO of them are waiting for the employers to listen to reason.
 A willingness to increase wages 10 per cent indicated that the men might have increased their wages long ago merely by the act of organization. But the company would not go any farther toward the 20 per cent increase, in spite of the unions willingness to compromise with a Is per cent in crease.
 The company has been short 300 men for some time because of its re- fusal to raise wages. They could run their plant at full capacity and make money by attracting a full force through 20 per cent increase. They are not that kind of employers, however, They are the kind that are talking about the labor shortage and the need of bringing cheap labor into the United States from Europe. Such IS life!
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
PLEAD FOR AMNESTY.

Washington, June 1-Governors col 1ege presidents, editors, lawyers, clergy men a dnother prominent citizens have petitioned President Harding to release oz prisoners convicted under wartime laws.
 The governors include Hunt of Ari- zona, Sweet of Colorado. Davis of Kan sas, Dixon of Montana, and Walton of Oklahoma. Among the educators are the presidents of Vassar college. Mount Hoyoke college, Smith college, Univer- sity of Wyoming, Oberlin college, Trin- ity college, Bryn Mawr college. Swarth- more college, Temple university, St. Stephens college, and Catholic univer- sity. Other signers are William Allen White. Kansas newspaper publisher j; Rabbi Stephen s. Wise of New York i; Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Union Theological seminary Miss Julia Lathrop, former chief of the federal children's bureau, and Francis B. Sayre of the Harvard law school, son-in-law of former President Wilson.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-01
PENNSY RAILROAD
 DEFIES LABOR BOARD

Chicago, June 1-President Req of
 the Pennsylvania railroad has notified
 the Railroad Labor Board that the
 company will not obey it's decision that organized railroad clerks shall i have the right to select their own , representatives in voting for the cleo
 ton of employe representatives. The company takes the same stand it did against organized shop men, when they demanded the right to vote for representatives of their choice, rather than the company's handpick- ed slate" This Is the def of the rail executives:
 We conceive it to be not only the right but also the duty of the man
 agement to adopt a policy in dealing
 with it's employees which will, in its
 judgment, enable it to operate effic- iently and economically, with justice
 to the employees, even though the la
 bor board, in it's advisory capacity,
 may not approve of the adoption ot
 that policy"
 This stand was reaffirmed by E. H.
 Sennes, counsel for the road: We claim the legal right at any time, any where, regardless of the question ot
 majority or minority representation to negotiate with our own employees. The Railroad Labor Board has ruled that the company has no more right to dictate to workers who shall represent them, than the workers have to dictate to stockholders who shall represent them in the annual stock holders meeting.
 The company, of course, can not
 grasp this reasoning because 1t classes l it's workers as a commodity while its stockholders are human beings.