The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-22
Department Of Justice Rep- resentative Says Case Against pr. Cook Is Only One Of Many
By THOMAS l.. STOKES


 WASHINGTON, Nov 21.-The de- partment of justice Is going to push prosecutions for mail frauds until the swindling game which has robbed thousands of people of millions of dollars has been completely stamped out.
 The fake stock business already is dead temporarily. It can be killed permanently by carrying every case still pending to a final showdown, which is the governments intention.
 This was the ultimatum delivered by John H. W. Grim, assistant att torney general, in charge of criminal prosecution, when he received word that the government had won its case against Dr. Frederick A. Cook, arctic explorer, in the federal court at Fort Worth, Texas, for swindles involving millions of dollars.
 we are going to push this thing right through with the legal machine which has been formed throughout the country until every case has been cleaned up." Grim said. When the next case is brought up, in a couple of weeks. there will be numbers of pleas of guilty right off the bat from those who have been indicted. Many Cases Left.
 There are still 400 cases left. Vigorous prosecution of these should lake as public bathing beach. as an abundance of water Is available for this purpose.
 DISCUSS BoND ISSUE
 The city council held 8 lengthy session Tuesday evening, much time being devoted to discussion of ad- vertising for bids for $150.000 in school bonds These bonds were re- gently sold to the City National bank and Ward-Sterne company of Birmingham, bringing $99. Attor- neys for the purchasers disagreed with the city attorney over the word Ing of the ballots calling the cleo tion, and the council, after a lengthy controversy, decided to resell the bonds.
 ENTERTAINs OLDER PEOPLE
 "Old Folks Day" was observed Wednesday at the luncheon of the Kiwanis club, when a number of the older friends of the members were guests. Special preparation had been made for their entertainment, and an appropriate program was rem dered. The purpose of the meeting was to give the guests an insight into the work of the club Is &C., complaining.
 Rev. B. T. waites extended the welcome address, and reviewed the accomplishment of the organization. The following were guests; Judge s. Smith of Birmingham, M. A. Smith of Ozark, Thomas A. Lacey, J. l.. Foust, J G. Robertson, G. G. Neal, J. P. Holm, Tom Byrnum and M. T. Champion. At the conclusion of the program a number of old fashion songs were sung, under the leader ship of J. R. Vance.
 VISIT NEGRO SCHOOLS
 Observance of Education Week at the negro schools of the city and county will be stressed Thursday, when supt. w.; K: Copeland and A. E. Ausman will visit the schools in this section. speaking at special gatherings. The colored schools have been observing the week, with the same program as the white schools and beside the visit of these speak CTS on Thursday, number of other civic workers will visit them later in the week.
 An outstanding event of the week will be the community celebration at Alliance High school Thursday, when the senior classes of all county high schools will gather to hear an address by M J. Funchess, dean of agriculture at Auburn. Another in- terestfng event will be the parent teachers banquet at the Wilkes school Friday evening at which a large gathering is expected. An en- joyable program was carried out at the chapel exercises of the Besse- mer High school Wednesday, when the principal address was delivered by J. E. Hassner
 A number of speakers will continue with daily programs at all of the schools.