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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

have appeared, at the churches, school picnics, dedication exercises, benefit performances and other like affairs.
 Radio fans throughout the United States have heard the blue-coated voices waited through the air and have picked up their program. Letters have been received by Fred McDuff, chief of po- lice, from practically every state in the union congratulatins him on the excel lence of his singing policemen. Plans are being perfected to com plete the double quartette and then to give one paid recital to raise money for uniforms for the eight members of the club.
 The club is always dad to help where 1t is thought they may be of service to the community. They like to sing and are delighted to be able to visit the different organizations and churches.
 Services Free
 Any one who wants the club to sing for them may make an engagement by calling Sergt: Eddie A.. Lyons at police headquarters, or an application can be left with the chief of police or ". B. Cloe, commissioner of public safety The members have requested that these applications be made week ahead of the, engagement So that proper arrange ments can be made at headquarters.
 The present personnel of the quar- tette is Detective Serst. Eddie A. Lyons, first tenor; Desk Sergt. c. Nj. Higgins, utility man, who sings every thing from second bass to first tenor W. A. Pritchett, first bass; E. F. Rig sins, second tenor; H. H. Ware, second bass, and J. D. Reed first tenor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
LEHMAN CLAIM
 IS DISCREDITED
He Got All The Money Says McLendon, Ridiculing Reports

Claims made Friday by William L. Lehman as he pleaded guilty to em- bezzling city funds that he did not Ret "all the money that is short" in City Comptroller c. E. ArmstronR's office. were generally discredited at the city hall Saturday.
 Our audit of the books shows clear ly that Lehman got all the money that was missing" D. E. McLendon, com mission president declared. He added that no further prob is planned by the city and ridculed reports that be- tween $15,000 and $20,O00 is short.
 However. Solicitor Jim Davis said the Jefferson county grand jury would immediately resume it's investieation into the affairs of the public improve ment department of the comptroller's office.
 Lehman was checked into Kilby pri- son Saturday and probably will be de tailed on clerical work. It is likely that he will be brought back here to appear before the grand jury before the investigation of the city hall sbort. tage is finished.
 Lehman, in pleading guilty. told Judge Fort he took between $2,500 and $3,0OO, and stoutly asserted that .'sone one else got the balance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
NEGRO CONFESSES
 TO WIFE MURDER
Allen Germany Held In County
 Jail Without Bond

Allen Germany, negro, Saturday en- tered plea of guilty when formally arraigned before Judge William E. Fort on a charge of murdering his wife by cutting her with q knife about three weeks ago.
 According to Alabama law, every person charged with first degree mur- der must be given a trial by jury be- fore he may be sentenced, and Judge Fort immediately set Germanys trial for June 16.
 The defendant is being held in the county jail without bond, following his arrest soon after the alleged murder. He is charged with making the attack upon her at the home of A n&ishbor. She died almost instantly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
SIBERT'S PLAN
 FOR CROSSINGS
 READY JUNE 20 Noted Engineer Expected To Solve Problem Of Long Standing
CITY AND CHAMBER
 TO WORK JOINTLY
Tentative Ordinances To Force Carriers Are
 Now Ready

Views of Maj. Gen. W. L. Sibert as to Birmineham's grade crossing prob lens will be ready for submission about June 20, 1t was learned at city hall Saturday. !
 The noted engineering expert, who is in charge of the Mobile port, took copies of proposed viaduet and under pass ordinances and other data home with him ten days ago, after thor ough personal investigation of local conditions.
 r He came to Birmingham at the re- quest of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, and his recommendation will be submitted to that organization. City commissioners are ready to take definits action towards crossing relief, but will wait until General Sibert's findings are made available.
 The chamber, immediately after re. ceivins and studying General Sibert's report. will pass 1t on to the com mission. H
 We will give earnest considerat ation to all recommendations made by such an eminent expert as General Sibert," !" President D. E. McLendon said.
 Moreover" he added, we are going to get down to braes tacks in this grade crossing situation, and start con struction work with all possible speed, just as 1 announced we would do at the time General Sibert was in the city"
 Tentative drafts of the ordinances the city expects to pass. requiring the railroads to begin work at the down town crossings, was completed Satur- day by City Attorney W. J. Wynn. In City Engineer A. J. Hawkins,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
TENTH AVENUE, NORTH
 (BirrninShAm)

Autumn comes here on flaming evenings To burn the niger shaekt Against the twilikht's
 SilveF and gold veFmillioH, While the Graphophone ereons Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Ths Fusbst evenings and the white
 folds% wash,
 The fleming autumn and the ''AiaSer"
 ', ShackS
 Cut their shadow patterns ...... Into the souls of eolored felkt Watching lead of 'empties' Rattle Nto Eternity ...
 A letter from E. R. Chayney, Park avenue, New York, in which he com. plimsAts The Eomad. says: T have been an editeF myself. though never of q magazine iA which could take such pride, ResenthAl, aS you are entitled to, and justly 50, in The Nomad. I know the toll, trials and tribulAtions of edi- tership. Eugene Jolas wrote me from Paris that he had seen The N0mad there at Tahaquil's. Congratulations on year foreign correspondents and in- tePhational status--as also on your statement of principles"
 it can be said that Birmingham has iA The NoHad magazine which any city Eould be glad to call its own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
SOUTHSIDE BANK
 TO OPEN DOORS
New Financial Institution Begins
 Business Monday

Doors will be thrown open Monday morning at the new Southside bank, at 127 Twentieth street, south. An invita- tion to the general public to visit the bank and inspect the quarters has been issued by officials. The new institution is located in the heart of the south- side business district, and is convenient ly accessible to the main section of the city. Its officers include men who tincial affairs in Birmingham and other parts of Alabama for several years They are President, John W. Maynor: vice president and cashier, Maj. John D, Elliott, and assistant cashier, R. Lacey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
NJ. w. CANISTER I'LL
Birmingham EngrAver and Civic LeadeE
 At NOFwOOd InfirlnaPy

NJ. w. GAnster, manager of the Ala bama Engraving company. is seriously ill at Norwood inifrmaPy Although his condition still is regarded as critical by hospital attendants. he is expected to recover, it was stated Saturday. Mir. Canister has been a resident of BirmiRg- ham for several years and has been identified with the social and civic af. fairs of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
SPIYEY RIlYR LANn

Ludd NJ. Spivey. dean of BiRminsAam Southern college has bought p aeTSI of land for S42,O00 from the college or a purchase money MeEtgaGe plan. ThC property lies east of the college 0a Eighth avenue, West End. Dean spivey aRHounces tAat road has been cut through the property and that it has been divided into D5 lots, IS oi which he has alre4dy seld F. R. Me David, Jsv X Co., are hsadli4g the dis poaltiqp ef thS l4ka.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
LUNCHEON POSTPONED
Birmingham Travellers Club to Ta
 Up PrOgram Safmrhnv

DH HIIIIbI.aW IIaNeIerS Club to Take
 Up Program Saturday Luncheon of the BirminRham Trsv. elers' club was postponed Saturday noon due to a conflict with other meet. ings The arranged program. featuring an address by Jack Adams on "Bir. mingham's Undeveloped Resources and Their Application to Needed Indus tries" was continued until next Satur- day when the meeting will be held in the St. Andrews lunch room of the Morris hotel.
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COMPLIMENT
 PAID NOMAD,
 BY LIBRARIAN

Mrs. Mabel Ford Leake, business manager of The Nomad, Birmingham s poetry magazine, is in receipt of let ter asking that The Nomad for Sep tember and December of 1923 and copies for 1924 be forwarded at once to the Philadelphia library. the request being made by the librarian, John Ash hurst. s..
 The Nomad has made many friends since its publication. especially in the eastern cities. Birmingham is indebted to the editor-in-chief, Albert Rosen- thai, young attorney, and to Mrs. Elizabeth Russell Beddow and Mrs. Ida ID. Schwartz, associate editors, for this magazine that is doing much to focus the attention of people, worth while, all over the country in a literary way.
 In the copies requested appears the following on the "FloridA Coast" by Elizabeth Russell Beddow:
 The whispering pines
 And silent palms
 Stand shostly sentinel.
 Far out at sea
 White-winged ships
 Thin as opal mist are etched.
 AFsosies,
 Painting the skies
 With dreams.
 And also Alfred B. Bealle's touching ode, "ro An Old Man Sitting In A Chair" which is herewith reproduced in part:
 T know, you have conquered cities sordewhAre that shPunken torso tor you within it) has been catapulted in heroic sannes. The approach of Death cannot fool me or what they call Death those hymning syeophants, these pious know-nothines, fearful of the next breath. They cannot understand the crouch Turks in you, the fighting cavalier, the eveFcomsr of cities only resting while for bigger adventures. !" ! Clement Wood, former Birmingham man, has two poems, "The Gold Hour and "At Dawn" that appeal to all lov- eRs of poetry, and Ida D. Schwartz writee of Autumn" The reader finds one of the bits of verse by Albert Rosen- thAl:
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pline in which certain worldly amuse- ments including dancing was named and fall back on the old Wesleyan rule pro- hibiting worldliness in general, which they claim covers all acts unbecoming Christian. The statement of the general rule is as follows: Tt Is there fore expected that all who continue therein (that is the church) should continue to evidence their desire of salvation by doing no harm but avoid- ing evil of every kind especially that which is most generally practised, such as....... doing what we know is not for the glory of God, taking such di- versions as cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus.
 Of course the comparative number in each church which could be denomi- mated "MOdernists" is impossible to ascertain and statements concerning this are wholly speculative.
 Another natural impeachment to the union of the two great Methodisms was the fact that the issues that separated them became closely related to the issue of the Civil war and that the attitude of the two churches at the close of the Civil war was of such character as to arouse permanent ani- mosities among those who participated in the affairs of the unfortunate situa- ton. Time, however, Gods kindly healer of all wounds, has removed from the scene most of the participants in the bitter struggles, has brought upon the arena a new generation and thus made much easier any effort of unifi- cation of northern and southern people on matters affecting the welfare of both sections. In the face of all these changed and changing relations, think any reasonable person will agree that the day has come and the opportunity has arisen in which any group of north ern and southern people can more read fly unite their efforts hand in hand and heart to heart for the Accomplishment of worthy purposes.
 In fact, our nation is becoming more and more a unit. The rapid transpor- tation that brings us more easily in touch with each other, and the fact that northern people come more and more to the south and enter into it's busi- ness, social and church life and south eRn people go north and do likewise, and unity. The World war that brought the boys of the south and the boys of the north into the same camps and upon the same battlefields and brought them to the extremities where they shared their blankets and their biscuits, fostered a fraternity and grouped us with kindlier feelings and closer relationships under our common flag. There is growing spirit in the country everywhere to ignore minor
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gether and organize as one body to arrange and supervise the general work of the whole church. In this article it is also provided that no bishop either of the Northern or Southern jurisdic- tion can be assigned within a juris- diction other than that by which he was elected except by the consent of the majority of the bishops of the juris- diction. involved. Therefore no bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, whether white or colored, could be as signed to hold a conference in the Southern Jurisdiction or perform any service in this jurisdiction unless elect ed so to do by the bishops of the Southern jurisdiction.
 Article provides that the bishops shall select by majority vote of the bishops of each jurisdiction one or more bishops from each Jurisdiction to preside at the session of the general conference composed of the two juris- dictional conferences.
 Article 8 provides that each juris- diction shall have a jurisdictional con ference possessing the full powers of the general conference of the church now constituting said Jurisdiction that each jurisdictional conference shall meet quadrennially where the general conference composing both this arrangement there will be three conferences called at the same time in the same city. The Northern juris- diction, composing the Northern Meth odist church as it now is, will hold it's jurisdictional conference, which will be exactly the same thing as it's pres ent general conference. The Southern Jurisdiction will hold it's jurisdictional conference-in another hall with its own bishops, preachers and delegates just as it now holds its general conference. At certain hours agreed upon by the Northern and Southern jurisdictional conferences, they will come together and hold session of the general con- ference which will be composed of the two jurisdictional conferences.
 Article 9'provides for judicial coun- cil composed of an equal number of members elected by each jurisdictionaI conference. This judicial council is to which all questions of law shall be appealed and it will have the supreme authority to pass on the constitution ality of all acts.
 Article 10 provides that the general conference at its first session shall pro- vide in harmony with the existing pro- cedure of the two churches a method of amending the constitution.
 Article II provides that the rules of government in the discipline of the re- spective churches shall be of full force and effective and binding only upon the jurisdictions respectively.
 There was added to these il articles recommendation that financial SUD- port of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church be continued by the jurisdiction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
NO IMPROVEMENT
 NV CLOTH, MARKET
Production Continues To Decline
 Prices Stationary

NEW YORK, June 14.-Little or no improvement has taken place in the cot ton cloth markets. Prices remain about stationary, more through the latent effect of curtailment than through any demand. Production has been falling steadily and is believed to be under 70 per cent capacity. The call for brown and bleached goods, ginghams, percales, wire sheetings, tickings, denims, and other staples is very quiet. Owing to unusually ad- verse weather wash fabrics have not moved well at retail, and unsold bal ances of styled goods are now being fquidated, making for very irregular prices. In retail channels and in some wholesale centers, prices for novelties and styled fabrics have been broken, but without stimulating sales in any
 notable way. Export trade continues light, most of the orders coming from Cuba, South America and the Philip pines. Far eastern demand \is negli- gible. Cotton dress goods hold in prices about where they were week ago, but quotations are nominal and there is more or less trading at lower prices than open quotations would indicate. Knit goods have been dull. The usual spring demand has been lacking and duplicate fall business is non-existent. Staple hoisery is very quiet. Prices quoted in primary markets are nominal and rule as follows: Print cloths 2S- inch 64x64's 7ssc; 64x60's 73sc; 3S15- inch. 64x64's CSC; brown sheetings, southern standards, ,15a4c; .denims 220's Undo, .22c; and 241ac; tickings i. S-ounce 26c; staple gingham 15c; prints 9%c; dress ginghams 1S15 and q cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
NEGROES FACING.
 : ASSAULT CHARGE
 TRANSFERRED < Brought To Birmingham Jail For Safe
 Keeping

To avoid possible mob violence, 0. H. Myatt, 17, and Frank Welcher, 18, negroes, alleged to have made an at- tack on a 6-year-old Birmingham girl in Attalla Friday, were brought to Bir- mingham Saturday and placed in the county jail to await trial. The trans fer was made by county authorities of Anniston.
 No actual demonstrations against the two negroes have been attempted, it was stated Saturday, but officials feared the feeling against them, would increase in case the young girls con- dition should become much worse. Her condition was said to be serious Satur- day afternoon.
 The girl is alleged to have positively Identified Myatt and Welcher, as the two who made the attack.
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all they have to do is to vote against it, and that will settle 1t.
 The gist of the whole matter is that these two churches as now constituted will come together under two separate jurisdictions and cooperate with each other in all matters of common inter. est, especially in our great foreign mis- sionary work, so that both at home and abroad friction will be allayed over. Tapping will be avoided and oTerhead expenses will be reduced. Thus,a tre- mendous power will be gained by unit ing under one name and as the "Trans- initial" suggests, "One in origin, in be- lief, in spirit, in purpose and in policy, we shall by actual organzation and ad. complish great things and command the respect and confidence of the world" ministration throughout the world ac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
SHIP NEWS OF .< MOBILE PORT

MOBILE, Ala, June 14.- -(special Leased Wire .)--The end of the week found two departures marked up on the bi6ckboard in the pilots office. One of these was the Norwegian steamer Jose to the United Fruit company, which cleared and departed for Puerto Barrios in ballast after bringing a s cargo of bananas to Mobile from Puerto Castilla. The second outbound vessel was the American steamer Chalmette, prematurely reported as sailing Friday evening. The Chalmette went to Ha- vana, Matanzas and Sagua with a gen. eral cargo.
 West Hardaway United States Ship ping board, Waterman Steamship com pany, agents), on berth for Hamburg and Bremen, shifted to the oil dock for bunkers yesterday afternoon and will shift back to loading berth at Turner terminals Sunday morning.
 Effingham Omitted States Shipping board, Waterman Steamship corpora tion, agents) will arrive from Gulfport Sunday, afternoon to load for London, and will go on berth at Turner ter minals. <s
 The American schooner Isabella Par rnenteE (van Heynigen Brokerage com pany) will shift to the upper stream and start loading deals for Philadelphia. With the Parmenter, the American schooner Thann also Is loading deals for that port. The Isabella has besn at Pier. discharging bauxite.
 The German steamer Boloma is due Sunday from New Orleans to the Aluminium Lines and will go on berth here for the north of Africa. The Spanish steamer Mar Adriatico -(J. B. < Oliver & Co.), how at Pier 2, is expected to be loaded, and sails for Spanish At lantic ports on Monday or Tuesday,
 The Swedish steamer Irene sailed from Rotterdam for Houston May 25, and the Finnish bark Loch, Linnhe sailed from Havre to the West Indies May 10, according to information here Both vessels have been chartered by Hunter Benn 6 Go. for full cargoes to the United Kingdom. The Bark is due the end of June and the Irene about the middle of the month.
 The American steamer HOcmulgee is due Monday from New York via Tampa. to load for New York via same port, and the Suboatco (Transmarine cor poration) is due Monday to load for port Newark. The ocmulgee is due to the Mallory, Lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

to which it is historically related and to such an extent as that jurisdiction may deem wise. This means that the Southern Methodist church, since 1870, has aided the Colored Episcopal church by certain financial support which it may continue at its own discretion.
 Now, this is the whole of the plan May I make few general statements in reference it it. First, in all it's or ganization, membership and work, the two churches will remain just as they are now under what is called above the two jurisdictions. Each church will have its own bishops, its own preach CTS and its own conferences and it's own territory just as it now stands and no bishop or preacher can be removed from one church or one jurisdiction to the other without the consent of the
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bishops in that Jurisdiction. This means of course that there will be very little changing of preachers from one juris- diction to the other.
 Second, no rules or laws can be passed changing anything whatever now existing in the Southern Methodist church unless the members of the Southern Methodist church shall so vote. There will never be anything like combined vote of the two jurisdic- tions. They will always vote separately and nothing can pass any conference in which they are associated unless by majority vote of the members of the Southern Methodist church. If any thing is proposed in the general con- ference composed of the two jurisdic- tions which is not satisfactory to the members of the southern Jurisdiction,
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 the Catholic church with intense interest because it would constitute the largest and most aggressive Prot estant movement in the world. The Mohammedan church would be interested for the same reason The other Protestant Christian denominations of the world more dr less divided, will be interested in the union of these churches because it would furnish basis, example and inspiration for other denominations hav dspace friction, overhead expense and gain the prestige and enthusiasm which large bodies furnish
 We are, therefore, Methodists facing ques- tion and epoch not only of immense interest and importance to ourselves but of extreme interest and importance to both the religious and secular world.
 think it would be generally conceded that the Methodist church is of the most enthusiastic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
HUSBAND DIES TO PERMIT WIFE
 TO WED BOARDER

M ETROIT, June 14-Joseph ED Movicki, 34 years old, is dead
 today of poison, selfadminis- tered yesterday, he said before he died, so his wife might collect his ln- surance and marry a boarder at their home. Mrs. Takla Movicki, the wife, 2S, admitted, according to au- thorities, that she was in love with Tony Tausicki, the boarder, and in- timated she intends to marry him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
By REV. GEO. R. STUART, D.D.

NTV
 
 United States the present proposed union the two great Meth accomplished, would the largest Protestant the This movement of organization the because this if accomplished will affect all of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15
NO SACRIFICE BY SOUTH
 IN METHODIST CHURCH
 UNION, SAYS DR. STUART

Pasto1. Gives Details Of Proposed Union Where by Northern And Sottherp Bodies Function Under Jurisdictions, Each Retaining Autonomy Dhjcb Meets Difficult Rdce Problem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

financial the Centenary and the dve during which the great bodies Methodm subscribed approximately hundred million dollars great revivas held in which of additions made in time than other