The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-29
EXPLOSION AT PIPE FACTORY FATAL ID I WO
Stockham Plant Foreman And
 Ministerial Student Meet
 Death Under AnneaIing
 Ovens In East Birmingham FRIEND SLAYS FRIEND IN REAR OF S0UTHSIDE HOME Adger Man Dies Instantly When Struck By L. & N. Train There-Negro Ends Life Of EnsIey Worker

Five persons were killed and sixth injured in a series of accidents and fights Sunday, marking the busiest day Coroner J. D. Russum h. had in three months. Sundays deaths came on the last Sunday of what seemed likely to be one of the lightest months of the year from the point of view Of the coroner's office.
 Cornelius G. Turner, 55, 312 Thirty ninth street, south, and Roy McDon- killed by gas explosion at the Stockham Pipe and Fittings com pany's plant in East Birmingham about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon Turner was foreman at the plant and Mcdonald, a ministerial student at Birmingham-So Southern college. paying his expenses by working in spare time.
 Turner came to Birmingham about seven months ago from Atlanta. where his relatives live. He was making his home with his sister. Mrs J. M. Brooke.
 The eXplt sion occurred under the annealing ovens, which are heated by gas. Remains of the two men were taken in charge by Johns. Coroner Russum made a preliminary eXami- nation Sunday afternoon and will hold a formal inquest Monday. An investigation is also being conducted by the Stockham Pipe and Fittings company.
 Friend Kills Friend.
 R. o. Clayton, 50. 714 Thirty-first Hicks, A, a friend Cf Clayton's for many years, is in the city jail charged with murder, asSa result of a shooting affray in rear of Hicks home, TIP Thirtieth street, South, at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
 ( the chest and died instantly, soon after alighting from taxicab which he had rented at the Termi inal station shortly before the shoCt- ing, telling the-driver to go to the rear of Seventh avenue and Thirtieth street. whero he had several lots.
 Police officers stated as soon as the cab drove up on. the lots. di- rectly in the rear of Hicks home. t,iat Hicks walked out to the auto mobile with a letter in his hands, and is said to have told Clayton that he did not like what he had written in the letter to him." Hicks pi .ied uE brick, threw it at Clay ton and immediately drew revolver and fired three times, each bullet ta,-.ng effect in Clayton's chest.
 Detectives McAdory. Brannon and Helton investigated and arrested Hicks in his home. He is said to have told the officers that he had been a friend of Clayton fer many years, and the letter which hc re- ceived from him caused the shooting. Officers stated there was nothing in the letter which might have prompted him to shoot Clayton. as it was strictly personal letter.
 Hicks is married and has several children and Clayton was reported by the police to have been estranged from his wife. Coroner J. D. Rus sum had net completed his investi- gation late Sunday night
 Clayton's remains were turned over to Lige Loy Undertaking company, pending funeral arrangements.
 Killed By Train.
 Remains of Romer T. Hathaway, %. of Adger, Ala, who was instantly killed when struck by Louisville and Nashville train No. at Adger early Sunday morning. were brought to Birmingham and ken in charge by Johns, where they will be prepared for burial and sent back to Adger. ITallaway was a truck driver em- ployed by q construction company working the public road at Adger. Sol Scales, a negro steel plant worker at Ensley, was shot and killed by Joe Latham, another negro, in quarters Sunday afternoon as a re- suit of a quarrel growing out of do- me 1tic trouble. After Scales had been shot he shct Latham in the le without inflicting serious injury. Coroner Russum held a preliminary inquest Sunday, and formal in- VesttRation will be held Tuesday,