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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
ALABAMIANS IN
ASHEVILLE.

ASHEvILLE. N. c., Jan. 20
Thomas d. Haynes of Meridian, Miss,
general executive agent of the South
ern railway, is the guest IF MS
brother, J. w. Haynes, at Ashevile-
w. S. Croker has returned TO ms
home in Cottonton, Ala, after visit
ing relatives at Forest City, N. c.
Visitors and resident of AsheVllie
gathered at she Masonic Temple on
Friday for the annual celebration oil
Lee-Jackson Day, when Confederate
veterans OF the surrounding country
were honor guests. Dinner was
served the veterans and their wives
while honor crosses were awarded
Mrs. Mark w. Brown and Miss Eiiza
Holland directed the affair. They
were assisted by Mrs. T. S. Morrison
Mrs. John Waters. Mrs. Locke Craig,
Mrs. A. G. Bower, Mrs. Charles H.
Hughes. Mrs. A. G. Bennett and MIS-
Howard Etheridge.
Mrs. w. E. Collier of Birmingham
Ala, is sojourning for several weeks
at the Battery Park hotel.
]. II. Ralston of Russellville, Ala.'
has Joined friends in Asheville.
George Bonnell of Birmingham is
a guest at the Langren.
q. H. McGhee and G. B. Williams
have returned to their home in Biz
mingham, after sojurning at the
Langren in Asheville.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
OUCH! BACKACHE!
RUB LUMbAGO OR
STIFFNESS AWAY

st. Jacobs Oil stops any pain. so
when your back is sore and lame, o.
lum bago. sciatica or rheumatism has
you stiffened up, don't suffer. Get a
small trial bottle of old. honest ST.
Jacobs Oil at any drug store, Cour a
little in your hand and rub 1t right
on your aching back: and by the time
you count fifty the soreness ami
lameness is gone.
Don't stay crippled This soothing,
penetrating oil needs to be used only
once. 1t takes the pain right out anc
ends the misery. 1t Is magical yet
absolutely harmless. and doesn't burn
the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago. sciat-
lea, backache or rheumatism 50
promptly. 1t never disappoints.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
DEDICATION OF WYLAM SCHOOL
TO BE INTERESTING AFFAIR

The School Improvement associa-
ton of Wylam has issued invita-
lions to the public and all members
of the city school board and city
commissioners to attend the gradua
ton and dedication exercises OF the
Wylam school on January "a. 1928, at
1880 D. M, Wylam, Ala. The follow
ing program will be rendered: An
them, choir. CT: SIS history. Alfred
Martin. Song, class. Prophecy, EVA
dore Salses Glass will, Lucille Low
cry. Saxophone solo, Flora Berry.
Talk, Mr.. John e. Nolan. Uiano solo,
Mrs. Nolan and Miss Katherine
Talk, Mr.. John Z. Nolan. Piano solo,
Smith. Talk, Mr.. Erskirte Ram
saw. Solo, Miss Edna Chapman.
Address, DIR. C. B. Glenn. Violin
solo. Mr.. Edgar e. Poe. Presenta-
ton of certificates, Mr.. w. A. Rea-
gan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
THE "JOLLY 13" CLUB
ENTERTAINED

Mrs. James C. Reilly was hostess
for the Jolly 10" 500 club Wednes-
dav afternoon at the home of her
sister Mrs. Anna Mccormack on Ely
ton street.
A lovely plate luncheon was
served, after which series of games
were played. Mrs. Charley Lichty
made highest score; Mrs. Charles Nc
Gonegle second and Mrs. Frank Ca
raw drew the consolation.
Those enjoying Mrs. Reilly's hos
pitality were: Mrs. c. T. Lichty, Mrs.
James Calmback, Mrs. William r.
Roser, Mrs. Rudolph Brinkelle, Mrs.
Charles McGonegle, Mrs. Frank Ca
raw, Mrs. Charles w. Harris, Mrs.
Anna Mccormack, Miss Kathleen
Reilly and Miss Eleanor Freeman.
Mrs. Frank Caraw will be next
hostess.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
AUSTRIAN CROWN is
THOUGHT STABILIZED

VIENNA. Jan. 20.-That the Aus
tran crown will remain indefinitely
at about the present exchange value
of seventy thousand to the dollar is
the opinion of Austrian financiers.
The League of Nations plan for
restoring Austrian finances provides
that there be no further increase. in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
RANDOM NOTES

George Bentley has returned from
Mobile where he spent several weeks.
Miss Eleanor Marshall left yester-
day for Tuscaloosa to attend the
dances.
Miss Della Johnston of Atlanta is
arriving Tuesday for a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. Murray Brown, before sail
ing for Europe.
Mrs. Harry Thixton of Henderson,
Ky, is arriving Monday for visit to
Mrs. CASTOR Torrance.
Mrs Oscar R. Hundley is leaving
Monday for a visit in Montgomery
Miss Hattie Morton is i'll at the
louie Compton seminary.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.a Turnipseed
and Mrs. j. M. Winston. ST., motored
to Tuscaloosa recently to see Will
liam Turnipseed, who is student at
the university.
Mrs. John S. ffaden has returned to
her home in Gadsden after a visit
with Mrs. Eugene Munger.
Terry Beaumont. the young son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Beaumont, who
has been quite ill. is somewhat inn
proved.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Winston. Jr., are
spending the remainder of the month
at Fort Meyers. Fla.
Joe Haverty has returned from Chi
cago and Atlanta, where he attended
the wedding of his sister, Miss
Dorothy Havery, Thursday evening.
Miss Mitylene McDaid, Miss Anne
Lanier, and Miss Mary Alexander
went down to Tuscaloosa Friday to
attend the midyear dances at the uni
versity.
Mr.. R. P. Gerron of Huntsville,
Ala, is in the city on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carr Mccormack re-
turned Saturday from Montgomery
where they attended the inaugural
ceremonies.
Mrs. Il. r. Gates or snubuta, and
Mrs. J. r. Case of Jackson, Miss,
are the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
w. Collins on Fourteenth avenue,
south.
Mrs. r. c. Ellis has returned from
visit to New orleans after visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. l.. Casey, POS Cald-
we'll avenue.
Mr.. ]. r. Reynolds or Athens. Ala,
is in Birmingham on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Robertson
have moved into their new home.
2152 Sixteenth avenue. south.
Miss Julia T. Dainwood has been
called to Selma on account of the
severe illness of her sister.
Mrs. Martha A. Reynolds. Mrs,
James r. Reynolds and son, Jimmie,
Jr., left yesterday afternoon for
Goodwater to be the guests of Dr..
and Mrs. Eugene Argo.
Miss Jeane Lang Kitchell is spend
ing the week END with Mr. and Mrs.
Charles B. Leein in Admission, Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs William Bowman are
leaving today for New York after
being the guests of Miss Daisy Row
ley for several days On their way
they will stop in Gainesville, Ga,
where they will be entertained by the
2. T. A. sorority, of which Mrs Bow
man is national president.
Mr.. William Miner Kelly, who has
just graduated at the University of
Alabama, will arrive Monday to
spend the week with his parents. |
Judge and Mrs. r. B. Kelly before
going to Albany. Ala, to take up
his work as an instructor in the
high school of that city.
Mrs. Irwin Stein or Washington. |
D. c., who will be remembered as
Miss Phillis Ash of Birmingham,
will arrive today to visit her mother, |
Mrs. Henry Ash at sal Twenty ninth |
street, south.
Mrs. J. D. Stradley, general secre-
tary of the Y. w. C. A., and Miss |
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

Birmingham Chapter No. lis, o. e.
S., are giving a rummage sale Janu-
airy %, &c, and 81, at 1928 Third ave-
nue., north. All members that have
any articles for the sale please call
Mrs. j. T. Kemp, Hemlock 6S9-W, or
Mrs. S. A. Middleton, Hemlock 141S-J,
and the committee will call for them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
MRS. LONG HONOREE
AT BRIDGE PARTY

Mrs. Ben F. Ray will entertain in
formally at bridge luncheon
Wednesday at her home on Chestnut
Hill, complimenting Mrs. Hubert
Dent Long, who has recently come
to Birmingham to live.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
MRS. ASH COMPLIMENTS
FORMER BIRMINGHAM WOMAN

Mrs. Henry Ash will be hostess
for bridge party honoring MRS. IT.
win Stein. formerly of Birmingham,
Thursday afternoon at her home on
Twenty ninth street, south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

A drive will begin Monday, jan
uary 90, and last through the week
for the benefit of the public library
of Fairfield. All are urged to give
their aid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

The Ensley Highlands Delphian
club will meet Tuesday afternoon, at
2 o'clock with Mrs. Drayton Truck,
1924 Aenue G, Ensley.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

Frances Bonner, extension secretary.
will attend the Y. w. C. A. Industrial
conference this week.
Mrs. Oscar Berney and little son.
Bob have returned from Tuscaloosa.
where they were guests of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hope Hargrove.
Mrs. j. NJ. Page (Florence Hunt
and little daughter, Beth, of Crested
Butte, Col, is the guest of her
mother, Mrs. f. N. Hunt of West End
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

Psychology study club will meet
with Mrs. May Ayres Olive Tuesday
morning at IL o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

An executive meeting of the Par
ent-Teacher association of the
Shades Cahaba High school will be
held Tuesday, January 20, at z
o'clock at the High School building
on the Montgomery highway All
members of the board are requested
to be present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The City Mission board Will meet
Tuesday morning at $40 o'clock at
the First NJ. E. Sunday school annex.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
SAYS AUSTRIA SAVED

GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 2O-The
League Of Nations doctors who are
trying to cure Austrias economic and
financial ills are satisfied with the
way the patient is responding to
treatment. The members of the spe-
cial league delegation that has been
supervising the application of the
remedies. decided upon by the league
council in September, are confident
that the whole program can now be
carried out without a hitch, and that
Austria is saved
Austria has emitted no paper
money since November Is, and the
CROWN has remained stable since last
August. The cost of living has be-
gun to fall and savings bank de-
posits are on the increase.
All these are regarded as most fa-
vorable symptoms. The regime which
the doctors imposed upon Austria has
been complied with. and the new
bank of issue which is to control the
emission of paper money, putting a
definite end to the printing of un-
covered bank notes, is almost ready
to function.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

The annual meeting of the active
and advisory boards of the Mercy
Home will be held at the Home Tues
day morning, at 1880 o'clock. The
public is cordially invited.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Mervin Blach an
nounce the birth of a daughter, jan
uary is, whom they have named
Jane Marie. @ t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

Mr.. and Mrs. e. w. wkaley, Jr.,
have named their young son Edward
W. Whaley, third.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

A meeting of the w. c. T. U. has
been called for next Wednesday
morning by the president at 1920
o'clock at the Woodlawn city hall.
All members are urged to be present.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

The West End Catholic woman's
club will meet with Mrs. LaFollette
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Charles McGonegle. 1900 Second
avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

The Y. w. c. A. will have its an
nual meeting, Tuesday evening,
January 80. All members of the Y.
w. c. A. are urged to attend and any
who are interested, are cordially in
vited.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21

The st. Paul Improvement asso-
citation will hold its regular meeting
Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock at
the convent This will close the
drive for membership.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
Coffin Stealer
Given Ten Years
Appeals Case on Ground
That Cofins Buried Be-
1onged to No One.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 1S.-Sam. Ware,
the Atlanta undertaken who was in
dicted here few weeks ago for steal
ing coffins from the South View ceme-
terry, was tried here today and con
victed before Judge d. Humphries and
given the maximum sentence of not
less or. more than ten years hard Ia
Dor. 1t was brought out in the evil
dence that Ware sold one casket five
times here, and finally sold it to a firm
in Florida. Jones and Maddox, who
were indicted in connection with Ware,
will be tried here tomorrow.
Ware issued statement today,
through his attorneys, that he would
appeal the case from the decision of
the trial judge, on the ground that the
Georgia Criminal Code does not cover
the taking of coffins from graves, and
under the law even granting that Ware
took the coffins he has committed no
crime. His attorneys also contend that
when a coffin is once put under the
ground it belongs to no one, therefore
it cannot be stolen.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
Chop Body of Doctor;
Destroy 1t
Texans Throw Physicians
Mutilated Frame in Cell;
Set Fire to Prison.

~ ISHOP, Tex, Jan. Suffering
X the agonies of the machine
~ crushed victims of black-hooded
mobs in Louisiana, DIR. John Smith,
former Wharton county physician, is
reported to have been burned to death
in the Jail here after his feet and
hands had been cut off.
DIR. Smith was charged with crime.
His felony, sO-called, consisted of hav
ing collided, while driving his car, with
an automobile driven by whites.
The people in this section, ignorant
and docile to a great extent, have been
aroused to unprecedented action by the
murder of this leading citizen by the
Huns of Texas.
Body Torn Apart.
The physician was brutally and bar
baruusly treated, parts of his body torn
while he still lived and cried in pain,
and then, yet alive, put in the jail,
which was set afire.
Reports gathered from scattered con-
versation among the whites showed
that they had become angered after
hearing of the collision. DIR. Smith
had no trouble with the white Occu-
pants of the car. After he and they
had taken stock of their damages,
these being so slight, the whites re-
fused to accept damages or to insti-
tute charges against the doctor.
Later, however, the physician acci-
dentally injured Mexican woman
with his car and, while here, the
Wharton county Officers came for him,
arrested him and placed him in the
local Jail.
The dismembered body of DIR. Smith
as7found in the ruins of the burned
jailhouse How and why the bastile
was burned, outside of a desire to sat
isfy the craving of bloodthirsty Texans
for murder, and just who the firebugs
were, or the contributing cause, or why
the fire was not discovered and eX-
tinguished, cannot be determined. 1t
was just the usual Texas way of doing
things.
Law Doesn't Care.
Revolving, shameful and fiendish as
was the crime, officers of the law are
exercising no extra diligence, in fact
none whatever. to ferret out the crime
and apprehend and punish the Grim
inals.
The murder of white mechanic
and bootlegger in Louisiana arouses
the entire nation. The atrociOus tor
turing and burning to death of
Race physician in the wilds of Texas
proves nothing, save perhaps the sug-
gestion that he ought to have known
better than to have been there.
His brothers are awakening, now
ever, and the hOrdes of somber-hued
laborers dumb driven in the twilight,
are seeking and finding a way up-up
to the North.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
Bush Wireless
Mysterious But
Very Effective
Natives of Africa Able to
Communicate Quickly
In Puzzling Way.

r ONDON. Jan. 20-The radio has
nothing on the "bush wireless" of
darkest Africa, according to f. 5.
Joelson, author of "The Tanganyika
Territory" who tells of experience
with the native signals.
I'VE think it wonderful" he said,
that our advancing knowledge has
traveller in savage Africa has had evil
dence of the almost incredible swift
ness with which the natives can COM
municate with distant friends, this
bush wireless operating more speed
lily than our telegraph.
: "rhe} eXact means employed vary
with the tribe and circumstances.
Drum-beats are the usual signals,
smoke is often used, and in some parts
of the Gold Coast even whistling is en-
listed for the convenience of news.
More mysterious still is the so-called
weld or bush telegraph, Il phenomenon
which wise Europeans do not attempt
to explain. They merely know that it
does exist, and that messages are car
ried hundreds of miles in day or two
when neither drums, smoke, nor other
visible or audible means have been
utilized
Bush villages can call up one an
other very much as if they were on
the telephone. Each has its collection
of signaling drums, used for different
purposes, and by them the chiefs can
tell each other that there is n man
eating lion on the prowl, that the ma
tive commissioner has started his tax
gathering tour, or that there will be Il
big beer-drink at such-and-such vii
lage on the night of the full moon.
"The European who has lived long
in the bush and who hears the sound
of far-away drums, knows well that
to him unintelligible beats are far from
meaningless for the natives.
For instance, in August, 1914, was
forty miles from the East African
coast, but only four miles from tele-
graph office Immediately that sta
ton learned of the outbreak of the war
a messenger jumped on bicycle to
bring us the news. He need not have
troubled. Four hours before the tele-
graph clerk had had the staggering
news one of the plantation headmen
had asked me mysteriOusly why the
white men in Europe were at war. 1t
was my first intimation that hostili-
ties had started"
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
"Blackface" MOrOns
Hit White Girls

MT EMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 19.-Word
NI has been received by prominent
white citizens here that the men
called Negroes accused of attacking
two white women in the city parks last
week were not of the Race at ALL but
white men with their faces blackened.
1t is reported that the police depart
ment is of the same opinion, but has
not made the notion public for obvi-
Gus reasons. The police hold that they
would have been able to apprehend the
men had there not been such mask
on them as to make them impossible of
identification.
One of the white men seized a white
woman in broad daylight soon after
she had alighted from a street car
near the city, dragged her to ravine
in the park and held her captive for
eight hours, abusing and attacking her,
then throwing her over bluff into the
shallow water along the river bank be-
low. His victim is in Il serious condi-
ton.
The second white man, whose motive
is believed to have been robbery, fired
at Mrs. Thelma Cunningham, widow,
as she was riding with her finace near
the city. The woman's companion re-
fused to obey the mans command TO
stop the automobile and the highway
man fired three shots, one of which
struck the woman. She is not expected
to recover.
The anonymous letters did not in
any case name the assailants of the
women.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
Negro Asks $4,000
For Being Parked in
Blizzard i'm Kansas
Porter Seeks Judgment
From Rail Company That
Sidetracked Pullman.

San Antonio, Tex, Jan. pa lone
Pullman car sidetracked in n Kansas
blizzard is no place for porter from
Il balmy climate.
Paul Montimore of San Antonio
charges in petition for $4,000 dam
ages against the Pullman Company and
G. Il. Schaff, receiver for the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad Company,
that his health was permanently i'm
paired by such an exposure on Feb.
2S, 1922, when a disabled car was set
on a siding few miles from Parsons,
Kan, without heat.
The elements turned outlaw as soon
as the car was left, and the blizzard
of the next ten hours was one of the
worst-well, it was ever so much more
severe than the widest imagination
of New Orleans ''pusson" might con
ceive, according to the petition, and
the client is said to have been sorely
afflicted as result with chillblains,
frost bite, exposure, grip and various
other forms of physical maladjust-
ment.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
Hampton A Will
Meet in August

AMPTON, Va, Jan. ia call
has been issued for the fifteenth
/ triennial meeting of the Hamp-
ton Institute Alumni Association on or
about Aug. 1, the exact date to be an
nounced later. William Reid of the
class of 1877 is president of the ASST
citation.
Much work was accomplished by the
organization at its last meeting in
1920. At that time Il committee of
tees of the school and requested,
among other things, that the age limit
for the admission of students be low
cred from Il to 10 years, and that the
academic course be made the equal of
the recognized standard high school,
AS result of this and the favorable
action of the school board the associa-
ton reports the following.
Admission changed to 10 years.
An academy established, offering a
four-year standard high school course.
A one-year normal course above the
high school, granting at its completion
state elementary certificate for
teachers.
A college course covering four years
work above the high school, granting
upon satisfactory completion regular
bachelor of arts degree in education.
Business and home economics
courses covering two years, based on
the full high school course.
An agricultural college course based
upon the full high school course or its
equivalent, for which ON satisfactory
completion bachelor of SCIENCE de-
gree in agricultural education is given.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
Ask Deportation
Of n egrOes
From France

~ ARIS, Jan. ia branch of the
Ku KluX Kan has been organized
= here and its first official act was
to get Americans resident here to sign
petition to the French government
asking the deportation of all colOred
Americans now living in France. The
Klan, it is said, will seek to effect
this through the cooperation of the
American Embassy.
The anti-Negro feeling of white
Americans here is nothing new. Nei-
ther is their resentment of the fact
that the French people consider as
equals, and threat accordingly, the Ne
gro population here. But the flames
of hatred have been famed recently
by the exploits of two colored men who
soundly thrashed and deeply humili-
ated three American whites when the
latter attempted to introduce jim crow
laws unofficially and Independent of
the French government and people. In
fluential American whites had the col
ored men locked up on charge of as
sault, but they were released when the
colored men showed war service pa
pers.
The American whites thereupon re-
sorted to spreading the most vicious
and unfounded lies against the colored
men,. They allege that one of the col
ored men, Dick Billiard, was outlawed
from the French aviation service dur
ing the war for cowardice in refusing
to attack German lines. Bullard is
credited with having accounted for two
of the whites,
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
S e n. Frelinghuysen
Introduces Bill to
Provide Commits
sion to Investigate
Lynching.

Washington, ID. C.,-Senator Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey intro
duced in the Senate on Monday, Jan.
Is, a resolution providing for COM
mission to investigate the subject of
lynching. 1t was referred to the ju-
dietary committee.
The resolution provides for com
mission of five to be named by the
President, and to serve without salary.
At the same time it is provided there
shall be an appropriation of $4,000
for expenses.
The proposed commission is to study
fully the subject of lynching, its causes
and remedies, and make recommends
tions for legislation to the new Con-
gress. Democratic Senators from the
South will oppose it.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
INSURES HIS LIFE FOR
HOWARD AND MEHARRY

Washington, d. Cdr. John A. Ken
ny, director of the John A. Andrew
Memorial Hospital, Tuskegee Institute,
has notified the authorities of Howard
lege, Nashville, that he has applied for
endowment insurance in the amount of
$500 in favor of the two schools as an
earnest of his interest in medical edu-
cation of young colored men and
women.