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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
DR.. BRYAN TO PREACH
TO G. A. R. VETERANS
Annual Ceremony To Be Observed
By Organization In Birmingham

The Memory of the Just is
Blessed" will be the topic of the
sermon to be delivered by DR.. James
A. Bryan, pastor of the Third Pres
byterian church. corner Avenue G.
morning at IL o'clock when he will
of the Republic and their auxiliaries,
the Woman's Relief corps and the
Sons of Veterans. United States OF
America. Members of the organiza-
lions will meet at the corner of
Avenue F and Twenty-second street
at 1890 a. m. and march to the
church.
The Grand Army Of the Republic
and their auxiliary bodies observe
Sunday prior to Memorial Day and
always attend church in body. The
assembly Sunday will be small be-
cause many veterans have passed
away during the year.
This organization and its auxiliary
bodies will observe Memorial Day
Wednesday. Committees have been
appointed to be at cemeteries at 9
o'clock Wednesday morning and
place flowers on the graves Of vet
Grams of all wars.
During the afternoon from the
hours OF IL until o'clock dinner
will be served to the veterans and
their auxiliary bodies at the home Of
Mrs. Agnes Chaplin Shipman. 1908
Thirty-first street, north. Immediate
ly following the dinner the ritual
service will be carried out and
speakers will address tho veterans
and their friends.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
Fiue Hospitals To Graduate
Forty-Nine Student Nurses

Student nurses from five of the
largest hospitals in Birmingham will
be graduated next week and in
July. There will be 16 graduates
from the Hillman hospital including
three sets of sisters, one of the pairs
being twins, IL from the Baptist
hospital. nine from the South High
lands infirmary, five from Norwood
infirmary and seven from St. Vim
cents.
Under the direction of Miss Lucille
Dugan, superintendent of the Hill
man nurses. program has been
arranged for commencement night,
May 20. Graduates from the Hill
man are Lucille DuBose, Jessie
Ervine Pratt. Roma Thomas, Eugene
Austin, Catherine Eedbetter, Callie
Mae Henderson, Mary Lou Perry
Lois LENT, Sadie Mason, Hazel
Wright Wesson. The twins are
the sisters. Anna and Lena Mccain
and Lydia and Eva Holland.
From the Baptist hospital the fol-
lowing will receive their diplomas
under the direction of the nursing
superintendent, Miss Dorothy Ely;
Ferndale Sheriff., president; Carrie
Lee Martin. vice president Katherine
Elizabeth Hutcheson, secretary;
Annie Elizabeth Sawyer, treasurer;
Pearlie Leila Martin. Frank Lee Car
roll, Agnes Ruth Riddles, Bessie
Lee Draper and four will come from
the Frances Berrein hospital at
Rome, Ga, to complete their courses
as required by Alabama law. These
are Eva Belle Carnes, Lily Arbelle
Hudsins, katherine Rebecca Scrog
gins and Ferol Gaddis.
Rev ]. r. Hobbs. pastor of the
First Baptist church, will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon for the Baptist
hospital class at the First Baptist
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church Sunday night. Commence
ment exercises will be held at the
First Baptist church, May 80. DR..
Hobbs will deliver the address. The
intermediate class will entertain the
seniors with moonlight picnic on
Shades Mountain Monday night and
the women of the board will give the
graduates a luncheon at the Country
club at 10 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Nine cadets will be graduated
from the South Highlands infirmary
Tuesday. They are Grace Riley
Zeta Lee Mann, Lucille Little, Matte
Mae Henderson, Angeline Sessions,
Annie Mae Ledbetter and Ida Mae
Milstead.
DR.. D. S. Moore will present
diplomas and DR.. Henry M. Edmonds
will deliver the address A violin
solo by Mrs. l.. H. Dent and a vocal
solo by Miss Mildred Jones are fea-
tured on the program. A reception
will be held at the officers home.
1135 Twelfth street, south, following
the exercises
Diplomas will be presented to
Catherine Richardson, Lucille Pat
and Olive Alexander, who pomplete
their work at Norwood hospital. DR.
c. n. Carraway will present the GER
tificates. Exercises will be held at
the First Methodist church Tuesday.
Two members of the class, Misses
Julia Berthon and Olive Alexander
will take a post graduate course at
the Woman's hospital in New York.
Seven cadets will graduate from
St. Vincents hospital at the exercises
to be neld in July. Those to graduate
are Laura Adams. Gertrude Giles
pie, Genie Campbell, Martha Reuf
Mary Louise Cutcliff, Lyrtle Luckett
and Clara Sokira.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
.:.CONV|CT'S CHARGE
Of BAD TREATMENT
DENIED BY THOMAS
Former General Manager OF
MontevaIIo Co. Claims Aid
rich Situation Good

IS In a letter to The Age-Herald Sat
urday, d. A. Thomas, former vice
president and general manager of
the Montevallo Coal company, denied
ssthat, during his period of connection
+, with the Montevallo Coal company,
that there was any boasts for such
statements as were made in letter
handed a reporter of the Montgomery
Journal recently by convict work
ing in the Aldrich mines of the Monte
svallo Coal company under the con-
Wet lease system. Mr.. Thomas was
! connected with the coal company
= from 1906 until 1922.
In his letter the former vice presi-
dent says working conditions in the
Aldrich mines are good and declares
that any ill-treatment to the con-
victs is due not to the company's
foreman, but to the state officers in
charge of the prisoners. His letter
is as follows.
~ I'm The Age Herald of May %,
there appeared on the front
page letter purporting to have been
handed a reporter of the Montgomery
journal from a convict now at Kilby
Prison, who was formerly worked at
the mines of the Montevallo Mining
company at Aldrich, Ala
The convict's letter published was
evidently written by a white convict
: named Jesse Despair, who operated
small hoist at the ninth east ell
try inside the mines This man is a
{ white convict from jefferson county,
who was convicted for robbery and
sentenced to 20 years. He came to
A.drich in 1924, and according to his
own statement, worked on coal only
three days. His duties were to run a
small electric hoist at the bottom of
q M n C1n iph cd l,n
trips for the main hoist. These
trips averaged about one each fifteen
minutes and Despair could pull up
his trips in from three to five min
utes.
This mans record, learn, is as
Convicted of robbery in 1913.
broke jail shortly afterwards, and
was captured. BY this offense he
sacrificed his short time allowance
for good conduct. In 1919, he was
given a temporary parole he worked
for some time for the Montevallo
Mining company and received pay as
a free man. After his parole had
expired and he was taken to Kilby
prison. he wrote three letters to
Warden Dannally al Aldrch, beg
ging him to use his influence with
the convict board to have him re-
moved from Kilby prison and re-
t med to Aldrich.
fs Certainly these facts do not cor
roborate this mans absurd state
fnents made in the letter published.
Z. 'At this time, and since the fall of
1922, l have had no connection or in
terest, either directly or indirectly,
with the Montevallo Mining COM
epany, and have no motive in writing
this letter other than one of fair
play. l was connected with the Mon
tevallo Mining company from 1905 to
1922, and am reasonably familiar
with its affairs, both before and
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SENATOR BROWER TO
FIGHTLEASE PLAN OF
WORKING CONVICTS
(Contiued From Page one)

great number of men and women
who are now in the penitentiary. l
believe in punishment for crime and
in making the punishment fit the
crime. I, however, believe in a scien-
tific' handling of criminals and this.
am frank to say, is not being done
and has not been done In the state of
Alabama. Men who are charged with
very trivial offenses are imprisoned
with hardened criminals. Young boys
are imprisoned along side of old
criminals. Men who are convicted Of
offenses that do not involve moral ter
pitude under our laws are sent, in
many Instances, to the penitentiary
and leased out as galley slaves to
private individuals whose sole inter-
est in them is the wringing from
them of as much profit as possible.
My knowledge of the lease system
and of the criminal himself. gathered
from experience in the criminal
courts, together with my sense of
right and wrong, impels me to say
that l feel that l would be untrue
to myself and to my state If I should
leave any stone unturned to end for
ever this nefarious system at the
coming session of the Alabama legisla-
tive body"
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Coplcn, English; Arthur Simpson
Daniel. Jrq scientific; James Edgar
billiard. Jr, general; Jay Gregory
Driesbach, English; Leonard Edward
Egerman, general; Stanley Marx
Erdreich scientific; Earle Mentz
Evans, scientific; James Milton
general Clarence Louis Fossett,
general; Frank Freedman, CONNER
cial; Arnold Morris Friedman, gen.
eral; Edward Culp Glenn, scientific;
Robert Lee German, Jr., English; Sol
Harry Harelik. general; Telfair Hen
don, Jr., English; Edwin Pruitt Hurt,
scientific: Cullen Gordon Lackey,
mond scientific; Thomas Edward
Lavender, general; Walter HClzer
Levy, scientific; John Samuel Lloyd
English; Laurence Cook Mcintyre
since convicts were employed by
them
In 1914 it was decided by the
management to replace free labor
with state convicts. This was done
February /. 1914, and this class of
labor is still employed there.
Since the employment of convicts,
the company has expended large
sums of money in mine equipment
anu idbpl SD ' luB devices, which
greatly decreases the physical labor
of loading coal
THE hours of actual labor for the
convict. as well S for the free men
employed in this mine, are from I
a. m. to i. m. Convicts who work
after 3 p. M do so voluntarily, and
receive for their work the same rate
of pay that the company pays the
state for them.
During my connection with the
company it employed face forenen to
supervise the convicts, and except In
cases of extreme provocation. when
ever these men had abused the con-
victs, the company has either sus-
pended them from work or dis
charged them permanently. The
state also has representative in the
mine to see after the convicts well
fare.
The mines are in good condition,
as is shown by the state mine in
spector's report, for during the year
1922 not a single fatal accident oc-
CURED.
L am informed, out of a total of
216 convicts now at Aldrich camp,
that at this date only three are, in
the hospital with minor injuries.
The state leases its convicts, and
the state is responsible for the pres
ent system. The lessee has nothing
to do with feeding, clothing, housing
or Furnishing the convicts, and l can
say without hesitation that while l
was in the employ of the Montevallo
Mining company every effort was
made to see that the convicts We're
fairly treated, and that with perhaps
a few exceptions this was done. Dur
ing the months of February, March
and April, 1922, no convicts were
worked at Aldrich, but about 60 free
men were employed. and during that
period only one very slight accident
to mans hand occurred which
certainly indicates a safe condition
in these mines.
ut appears to me that the high
standing of the four companies in
the state employing convicts should
make any fair minded person hest
tate before accepting the statements
of convicts that these people would
be parties to the inhuman practices
which are claimed by these con-
victs. Respectfully,
ID. A. THOMAS,
Formerly Vice President and Gen
eral Manager, Montevallo Mining
Company"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
AXIS CLUB MEETS MONDAY

DR.. Hendrix VIII Talk On "Better
Homes, New Committees To Work
The Axis club will hold its first
meeting of the new fiscal year at
1890 o'clock Monday afternoon in
the ball room of the Tutwiler hotel,
when DIR. w. r. Hendrix, pastor of
the South Highlands Methodist
church will be the principal speaker.
DR.. Hendrix will talk on Better
Homes" in keeping with the Better
Homes in America" campaign to be
waged during the week Of June 4.
The campaign in Birmingham will be
sponsored by the club.
Mrs. Erie Pettus, newly elected
president of the club, will preside
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
PASTORS OFFERED
SUMMER COURSES
Birmingham Southern School
Expects 800 Ministers
From Three States

A summer school for pastors of
Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi is
to be held at Birmingham Southern
than 500 ministers are expected to
attend. The school first was organ
lied in 1922 with an enrolment of
$50. The teaching staff will include
Is members of the college staff, be-
sides numerous Sunday school and
platform speakers. DR.. Guy E. Snave-
ly. president of Birmingham South
ern will be in charge.
Among the special speakers en-
gagged are Bishop w. Z. Murrah, D..
D., LII. D.. Memphis. Tenn, and DR..
commission on evangelism and life
service OF the federal council of New
York city. and DR.. Henry r. Cope,
general secretary of the Religious
Education association of Chicago.
Instructors include Rolvix Harland.
department of rural sociology at
Richmond college, who will give a
course in Bible, and the Minister'S
Message for the Needs of the Day;
DIR. Judd NJ. Spivey, head of the de-
partment of history and sociology at
Birmingham Southern. who will teach
on organization and administration of
the rural church and the church in
its relation to country life; Dr. c. n.
Clark. pastor of Lafayette Park Me
mortal church, st. Louis. on Evan
gelism;" DR.. Robert H. Huff, direc-
tor of the projected summer school
and secretary of the board of mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal
church, Nashville, Tenn, who is TO
give course on Rural Church Meth
DDS" and another on Pulpit Study
and the Principles of Teaching
Other courses in the summer school
will be by Prof. Edwin l.. carp,
Drew Theological seminary, Madison.
N. J., biblical Background for Rural
Message" and Rural Church and
Community Welfare" DR.. James G..
Coale. superintendent of city work,
Baltimore Presbytery. organization
and administration of a staff for a
city church, and program of city
church; DIR. II. II. Harris, of the de-
partment of religious education at
Emory university. Emory. Ga, or
ganization and administration of the
Sunday school and educational tasks
of a local church.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
Industrial High school (Negrs)

First section-January. 1928:
BoysEHenry Bennett; J, Butler
Pismuke' Carl e. Bunch. Roosevelt
w. McTyer, Lawrence Newton. Jo-
seph r. Shivers. Samuel Sullivan
Robert L. White
Girls-Leola Afford. Sara L An
thony. Margaret 2. Clark. Annie L.
Davis, Kate e; Edwards. Margaret
Grant. Mary B. Hardy. Margaret j.
Holmes. Bessie E. Harris, Ethel e.
Harper. Ruth e. Haywood. Annie NJ.
Hicks. Bessie o. Irons. Susie I.
Ivory, Mabel r. Jackson. Golden JEFF
ferson, Fannie D. Jordan, Elizabeth
Lowery. Anna NJ. Mitchell. Hattie L.
Mosley. Geneva B. Mckinney. Annie
NJ. Peters. Nina M Pearson, Ruth "A.
Perry. Ruby B. Perry. Gertrude B.
Prowell. Alice V. Rousseau. Lucy A.
Smith, Vivian j. Simmons. Mabel L.
Sewell, Ethel Lee Tate. Viola Tate.
Mary A. Weaver.
Second Section-June. 1928:
Boys-Joseph E. Britton. Joseph
II. Carter, George Forney. Robert e.
Jackson. Vogoethe Lindsay. Castor
Pearson, Willie E. Smith. William A.
Tisdale, Theodore Williams, Thomas
w. Mosley.
Girls-Willie NJ Afford, Catherine
Bogus, Johnnie w. Chambers. Ivy l..
Clifton. Lula E. Ensley, Danella o.
Frazier, Wilma M. Gibbs. L. Vivian
Hardy, Lucille T. Harris. Juanita E.
Harris. Beatrice Hayes. Mary e.
Henderson. Essie L. Heath. Jessie E.
Heath, Anna B. Hit. Maggie Hol-
land. Ulysses E. Hubbard. Julia B.
McAlpine. Gertrude Mccain. Minnie
Mccoy. Willie B. McGhee Claude NJ.
Marshall. Clara l.. Marshall, Evelyn
A. Mason. Pearl Morgan, Elizabeth
Parrish, Lucinda H. Parrish, Joanna
Richardson, Bessie Sears, Annie M.
Sherman. Edith Shivers, Daisy Smith,
Roxce N. Sterrett. p. Julia Tate, Ida
NJ. Thomas, Lola NJ. Townsend, Emma
Towns, Hattie L. Wallace, Lena
White. Mary A. Winston, Myrtle Will
liams. Maxine White, MaudeIle r.
Williams. Orlean Rice.
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WoodIawn High School

Boys-Frank Eugene Barrett. COM
mercial: Herbert LeGrande Bigham.
English; Albery Amos Brown, COM
mercial James Albert Hightower,
general; William Raymond kremser.
commercial: Jack Dobbs McSpadden
English; William Schoettlin, COM
,nercial Oscar Chatter Shelton, Eng
lish; John Amos Smallwood, English:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

Lucius Helfin Walden. English;
Charles Prentiss West. English.
Girls-Margaret Elizabeth Barrett
commercial; Sara Maude Best, gen.
eral: Ella Stuart Brown. general;
Floyd Mignon Boyd, general Vallie
Margaret Durham commercial; Grace
LAHORE Hamilton, commercial; Het-
tie Estelle Hardin, general; Nellie
Grace Karnes. commercial; Mary
Emma McPhail, English; Virginia
Louise Moore, scientific; Mabel
Claire Nesbitt, scientific; Katherine
Parker. commercial; Pearl Pyron,
English; Ruby Ruth Setter, CONNER
cial; Arnice Bertha Shelton, English:
Margaret Katherine Tehan, CONNER
cial; jamie Roselin Tucker, CONNER
cal; Carrie Lula White. English,
Louise Stevenson Winston. English
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

Sixteen thousand people may be
Ky.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

and will announce the new executive
COMMITTEES. department heads, and
set the machinery in motion for the
vear's work
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

Both Germany and France were
represented by buyers at the recent
winter fur sale in London.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
FEDERAL BUREAU PLACES ms

FEDERAL BUREAU FLAONS -"
Report of the state federal en-
ployment service, II. F.. Oliver, senior
examiner, Saturday showed that LOT
the week ending May 26, appllcations
for jobs numbered 20. ORDERS Ior
mer 535, and placements 23S. Gas
silica zion of the placements was un-
skilled and domestic 14S, skilled co.
and clerica. and professional ~
First school for mentally defective
children, apart from medical treat
ments, was established in Munieh IN
1882.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
MINERAL CITY MAsONs MEET

Mineral City Chapter No. 101, Royal
Arch Masons, held their regular con-
clave Thursday evening at o'clock,
balloted on.
A good attendance was present and
work in comforting degrees was part
of the program. Mark Master and
Past Master degrees were conferred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
TOWN TAXES CASE TOSUP PREME COURT
TownIey Waging Fight On Act Of Legislature Abolish
 ing Corporation
JASPER BUREAU l THE AGE-HERALD 1 Jaaner. Ala. Nov. IT

Mandamus proceedings were insti- tuted in the circuit court here this week by Horace Wilkerson of Bir- mingham, representing Townley per- sons, seeking to contest the legality of recent act of the legislature abolishing the town or corporation of Townley. Judge R. l.. Blanton sus- tained demurrers to the mandamus and the case has gone to the supreme court. The town of Townley Is a mining town, 10 miles west of Jasper and had a population of 1,554 in 1920, according to the United States census. Visitors in Jasper from Townley state that there is great deal of dissat- isfaction at Townley over the aboli tion of a successful government there and a fight will be made to have the town of Townley incorporated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
CLEVELAND SAYS DEATH ACCIDENT
Defense Argues Oyster King Was Killed In ScuffIe
 Over Gun

MOBILE, Ala, Nov. 17.-(By the Associated Press s.)-The defense in the case of Tom w. Cleveland, charged with the killing of Stephen Tossing, S9-year old merchant at his home on West Fowl river, August IA, last, had it's witnesses on the stand today and when adjournment was taken at o'clock this afternoon only small number of them had been heard. The taking of testimony will be resumed Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock and 1t Is the belief of the attorneys for both sides that the case will go to the Jury Tuesday morn ing.
 The mass Of evidence of the de- fense Is to show that the aged man was killed by the accidental dis charge of his own shotgun while Tom Cleveland and his sister, Miss Will helmini Cleveland. were struggling to take 1t away from him.
 Mrs. Jack Cleveland. mother of the defendant, Mrs. Tom Cleveland, his wife, and Captain Jack Cleveland, county commissioner and father of Tom Cleveland. we're among the wit nesses examined by the defense to- day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
Brandon Appoints Members Of NeU State Board Of Education
UNION SPRINGS GETS BOOST IN POPULATION
New Conner Cotton Mill To Add
 Fifty Families To City

UNION SPRINGS, Ala, Nov. IT, Special. )-The problem. of caring for the children of the 50 families soon to come In Union Springs with the opening of the Conner cotton mills. was taken under advisement at the weekly luncheon of the Union Springs Exchange club Friday. With the improvement of the public roads, centralization has been carried on to point where the public school is already in an overcrowded condition. The club appointed a committee. to confer with the city board of educa- tion and formulated plans for the housing of these pupils.
 The city floated a bond issue last fall and increased the tax rate in order to make certain improvements and with the present increase, the problem is again multiplied. A new building will probably have to be built, although the present struc- ture is one of the most modern in the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
TURN HAIR DARK
 WITH SAGE TEA
If Mixed with Sulphur IL Aarkens So Naturally
 Nobody Can Tell ,s

The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair Is grand mothers recipe. and folks are again using it to keep their hair good. even color, which is quite sensible, as we are living in an age when a youthful appearance is of the great est advantage.
 Nowadays. though, we don't have the troublesome task of gathering the sage and the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready to-use product improved by the ad- dition of other ingredients, called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound" It is very popular, because 5 nobody can discover it has been ap- piled. Simply moisten your comb or a soft brush with it, and draw this through your hair. taking one small strand at time; by morning the gray hair disappears. but what de- lights the ladies with Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound, is ,hat,- be- sides beautifully darkening tho hffr after few applications, it also pro- sdaces at soft iustre and ap ,earansc of abundance which is so attractive Adv. .t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
TO ATTEND CONFERENCE

Congressman W. B. Bankhead left Friday evening for New Orleans, where he will attend the conference on reclamation and home making. Imm ediately after the conference MT. Bankhead will go to Washington to attend the 18th session of Congress. Mir. Bankhead favors the plan of con- structing power plant on the War rior river to replace the big Gorgas plant as unit of the Muscle Shoals project. MT. Bankhead says he goes back to Washington feeling confident that Congress will accept the Ford offer at this session on terms satis- factory to Mir. Ford.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
THANKsGIvING REORGANIZATION

Gov. William w. Brandon. today issued a proclamation Joining with the President of the United States in proclaiming Thursday, November 29, as Thanksgiving Day. In his procla nation Governor Brandon eulogized the first settlers of the United States and urged the people of Alabama to gather on November 29 to give thanks for blessings received and ask for continuation of divine blessings on the state and nation.