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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
PTZITZ ANNOUNCES
 .MONTEVALLO DAY
Five Per Cent Of Mondays
 Sales To Go To College

Monday, July 27, will be "Monte- vallo Day. at Pizitz department store, according to announcements by Louis Pizitz and officials of the Million for Montevallo' drive.
 Mir. Pizitz has promised 5 per cent on all sales Monday to the fast growing Montevallo fund, and to make the sales unusually attractive has arranged that bargain sales shall be held at practical ly every counter. In addition, he said, tables will be placed throughout the building, where hot weather lunches Will be served during the day.
 The 5 per cent of gross sales that the Pizitz store will donate to the Ala bama college has no bearing on Mir, Pizitz's own personal gift, MT. Pizitz said. His own gift will probably be made Monday or Tuesday, officials said.
 Drive workers are making special efforts to bring to the public the news of the offer of Mir. Pizitz with the view of swelling the fast growing total to within striking distance of the $30O,- 900 quota which should be reached be- fore the drive is scheduled to end on August 1. It is expected that this gen erous move on Mir. Pizitz's part will aid greatly in realizing their hopes of oversubscribing this quota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
MARKET IS URGED l
 HOME
Civic Organization Con- siders Location Suitable
 For Headquarters

The municipal market is being pushed as new headquarters for the Chamber of Commerce, it was learned Thursday, and, although no overtures have been made by either the commissioners or the organization, both are said to favor the proposition.
 Just how much space the chamber would need in the building is a matter which may hold up an agreement, it is asserted. o. l.. Bum, secretary man. ager of the body, declares that a mini mum of 5000 squareNfeet would be nee essary for his office personnel and the commission may not be inclined to al low rental of that much footage.
 Supporters of the move to place the chamber in tho market argue that the location would give members a lunch room and quarters for secretaries of other civic clubs, plans which have been proposed for the chambers new building IL would also afford the organization a central location among new develop ments to the northwest of the business district.
 In case this project does not mate rialize it was said Thursday that the chambers housing committee will con tinue shaping plans for new home. While this structure cannot be ready by October l, it has been announced that the organization will move from present quarters in the Lincoln Life building regardless. Temporary offices will be selected until the new building is completed, it is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
US. AIDS FIGHT
 ON ANTHRAX
Dread Disease Continues To Spread In Mis-
 .sissippi

JACKSON, Miss, July 24.-Federal aid is being given in Mississippi in the anthrax outbreak, which is reported as spreading. Dr. R. Y. Rafnel, United States bureau veterinarian, has re- turned to Mississippi from California, where he was in charge of hoof and mouth disease work. He will direct quarantine regulation, vaccinations and the disposition of diseased animals in the infected counties.
 Federal aid was given after appeals had been made by the state livestock sanitary board and several citizens in infected areas. Lack of funds for the state livestock sanitary board is blamed for the spread of anthrax, according to Dr. Wilbur McPherson, inspector in charge.
 Hundreds of head of stock and which in some instances has taken human lives in the twenty.three counties in which the disease is prevalent.
 In IssaQuena county in the delta, animals have died so fast the carcasses have not been burned. Dogs, vultures and flies are spreading the disease among the people. Even fishing has been abandoned in some parts of the county for fear of the disease.
 The first case was reported in Harri- son county a month ago. In northwest Mississippi the charbon has taken a heavy toll in cattle. Some farms have lost all work animals. Southwest Mississippi is badly effected.
 Southeast and east Mississippi are now developing many cases of anthrax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
GOVERNOR DEPLORES
 THIS MOVIE AGE
Morrow Of Kentucky Speaks
 To Business Women

WEST BADEN, Ind, July 24.-(By the Associated Press. .)-Likening this motion picture age in America" to the decadent hippodrome period in Rome, former Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky, speaking at the annual ban quet of the National Federation of Bus mess and Professional Women here to- night, urged women to do their part in stemming the flood of political indif- ference.
 A unique musical setting was pro- vided by Alyce Taylor Sweeney of Springfield, H., formerly of Atlanta, Ga, who played a medley of aL the state songs on the chimes as the thou sand delegates from the various states took their seats. The improvisation came to a close with the playing of The Golden Key" written and dedicated to the national federation by Carrie Ja- cobs Bond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
SUBCOMMITTEE
 OFFERS CHANGE
 IN MAYOR RULE
Would Pay Mayor $1O,OOO
 Aldermen Are given l Boost

Three important amendments to the ordinance providing for modified mayor aldermanic government in Birmingham were recommended Thursday by the subcommittee appointed at the mass meeting held in behalf of the movement week ago.
 The mayors salary would be in- creased to $10,000 a year, aldermen would be paid $50 per month instead of 6 maximum of $20, and the recall pro- vision of the original ordipance would be radically changed, under the sub provides that the mayor could be busted at any time by a three-fourths vote on the common council. The sub- committees amendment provides as follows:
 Tn order to recall the mayor, the aldermen, by a two-thirds vote of the entire council, shall recommend to the ! voters that the mayor be recalled and shall, within 30 days from the date : of the vote on such recommendation, call an election at which the people shall vote on whether the executive be held not less than 20 days nor
 
 recommendation by the council.'
 Mass Meeting Called The subcommittees findings followed 2 week of careful consideration and i were signed by T. s. Smith, chairman; ; l.. K. Bowen, secretary; s. w. Flaw kins, J. c. Hopping and NJ. H. Me Dowell. The report will be laid before the next mass meeting, which is being planned for one day next week-prob- : ably Wednesday. The committee de- cided against recommending any pres 5 ent changes in the representation on the council from the various districts. With the exception of the changes pro- posed, the original ordinance was ap- proved in toto.
 Hunter Armstrong, register of chan ; cery and leader of the mayor-aldermanic movement, made no comment on the . subcommittee report. He said the approval or rejection of the proposed amendments would be left in the hands Of the forthcoming mass meeting A clty-wlde campaign committee will be :. organized at this meeting and a per- manent chairman and speakers bu. reau selected, he announced.
 Move Gains Strength ,-.
 N4I' AImStfOuS dSSeTIe0 that several thousand voters already have indorsed this campaign to end commission gov- ernment and go back to a democratic basis" After copies of the proposed ordinance and generally distributed, he believes sentiment will rapidly be crystalized
 Some citizens" Mir Armstrong de- Jared. "are laboring under the impress sion that we are seeking to restore the old-fashioned plan of straight alder manic government. Such is not the :ase, as any one will see by reading |. 'ur tentative draft. The plan, we offer "entralizes control and makes the mayor inc head of the government in fact as well as in name, giving him the right 70 employ and discharge employees and holding him strictly accountable to the 'oters. Thus, the mayo, under our plan, IS really the manager of the : clty, with the evils of the city-manager ,; form Of rule eliminated"
 i The, leaders of sAAe movement will meet Friday afternoon to perfect pre- iminary details and complete plans for he next general mass meeting, Arm trong said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
I er1ant Farmers In Kansas /.
 Get Wealth In Wheat Boom

TOPEKA, Kas., July A. Wheat has replaced oil as the source of rapid wealth in Kan sas.
 Poor tenant farmers who have struggled for years, many of them in the southwestern part of the state, who were compelled to ap- peal to the. public for seed wheat loans last fall to seed this years crop, today find themselves wealthy. Many others who had purchased farms with small pay ments and who expected to have mortgages hanging over these farms for years, are in a position to pay off those mortgages, buy more land, build new houses and and other things they have denied themselves for years.
 Kansas unprecedented wheat crop, which has produced all this wealth, with rising prices, prom ises to convert this wealth into even greater wealth before all the crop is marketed.
 Hundreds sf' farmers, antici- pating price hikes caused by poor crops in Canada and other wheat producing countries, are holding their wheat for the gain they feel sure will be theirs by not market ing it at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25

No one section is cornering this wealth-the condition is similar throughout the entire wheat belt, comprising the western two thirds of the state. But the contrast with last years conditions is especially pro- nounced in the southwestern part of the state, where busted" farm CTS of 14 counties last year ap- pealed to grain dealers, chambers of commerce and other organiza- tions throughout the country for help in buying the seed necessary to make another crop possible.
 ''The seed pool" fellows who joined the farmers in gambling on the weather will get a good re- turn on their investment, as they agreed to financing the crop for a small share of the wheat pro- duced. If the fourteen counties had had a poor yield these men would have received little or noth- ing in return for their donation to seed funds. But predictions freely are made that the yield in this section of the state, which frequently averages five bushels or less to the acre, will average more than 15 this year, with some fields yielding about forty bushels to the acre,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
PACIFIC FISHERMEN
 PROTEST PRICES
Boats Tied Up And Canneries
 Idle During Strike

SAN DIEGO, July 24.-Fifteen hundred fishing boats were laid up here at San Pedro today, and more than g. 900 cannery employees were out of work as a result of strike of fisher men began yesterday in protest against reduction in the price paid by can neries for albacore.
 A phenomenal run of albacore, or white meat tuna, was indirectly respon- sible for the strike, according to can nery officials, who said the fishermen insisted on an increase of $20 a ton despite their greater profits because of the big run. Delegates of the Fish ermen's Protective association and the Japanese Fishermen's association asaid the operators not only refused the in- crease but sharply reduced the price offered. The retail price of the canned tuna was reduced recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
NEGROES RETURN

JACKSON, Miss, July 24.-Missis- sippi negroes who joined the northern exodus during the last two years, are returning to the state in large numbers according to statements of local rail. way officials.
 Unemployment, it is stated, Is driv. ing the negroes homeward, especially the common labor class. The Illinois Central is operating a special coach on the South-bound limited passenger train out of Chicago each night for- the ac. commodation of negro passengers head. ed for points in Mississippi and Louisi. ana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
CHARGES DENIED
 AGAINST HOTELS
Immoral Practices Are Not Knowingly Permit
 ted, Heads Say

B. Corenblum, manager, and Ike Adler and E. NJ. Tutwiier, owners of two of the properties, Thursday filed answers to recent complaints filed in the chancery division of circuit court, alleging that the Bencor hotel, the United States hotel and the Exchange hotel permitted immoral practices within those places.
 Denial was made of the charges that immoral practices are knowingly per- mitted and it was asked that Solicitor Jim Davis, who filed the charges, sta- tion an off at each of the three hotels in question, expenses of said of- ficer to be paid by the hotels, in an effort to help the management enforce the law with respect to the charges complained of.
 Corenblum says he has always en- deavored to have the affairs of his hotel conducted as to comply. with the law and points out that it is practical ly an impossibility to forestall all &C., tion of the kind complained of. Each of the hotels are said to have shown a desire to cooperate with and aid the solicitors office in every way possible to prevent immoral practices of every kind upon their premises,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
NEGREsS IS HURT

Callie Collins, negro, address un- known, was slightly injured at 10 :15 o'clock Thursday morning when she was struck by an automobile said to have been driven by J. c. Russell, 2400 Eighteenth avenue, north, at Fourth avenue and Twenty-first street, north, according to a report made at police headquarters by Traffic Officer c. B. Greswold. The negro, who received iu- juries about the shoulders and arms, was removed to her home in a private car, the report stated. No arrest was made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
CHARTER SOUGHT
Alabama Motorists Association Is
 Formed Here

The Alabama Motorists association, the purposes of which are stated to be to protect the interests of it's members and to compile and distribute informa- tion, Thursday filed application for a charter with the probate office of lief ferson county. The concern has no capital stock and will be operated, it is said, without financial benefit to any of the officers or directors.
 The directors are stated to be o. R. Murphy, A. S. McElroy, Ed S. Moore, 0. o. Woodward, Charles H. Hilty, Basil o. Wood, A. J. Arrant, Carlton P. Smith, E. R. McDavid, Jr., Dr. H. A. Elkourie, A. R. Pryor, B. P. Allen, J. B. Proper, Roderick Beddow, J. P. Mudd, J. D. Chichester, Paul H. Earle, Robert Mcclure, T. A. Hanna and Von L. Thompson.
 A. R. Pryor is named as president ; T. A. Hanna, vice president; B. P. Al len, treasurer, and G. P. Caldwell, exec. utive secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
BISHOP LEO HAED !
 ' DIES AT ABBEY
Dean Of Catholic Hierarchy
 Aided Many Schools

CHARLOTTE, N. O., July 24.- Right Rev. Leo Haid, bishop of North Carolina, dean of the Catholic hierarchy of America and since July, 1885, abbot of Belmont Cathedral Abbey, near here, died at the abbey tonight following sev- eral weeks illness.
 Bishop Haid was one of the best known Catholic churchmen of the Unit ed States, his reputation being builded largely upon work along educational lines. He either founded or helped found Belmont Abbey and Belmont col lege, Belmont, N. O.; St. Leo's Abbey and college of Florida, the Benedictine school, Savannah {; the Benedictine col lege, Richmond, Va, and St. Joseph's Industrial school, Bristow, Va. He was 75 years old and was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
SILVER TO HEAD
 GRAIN MERGER
Farm Bureau Representative
 Is President Of Company

CHICAGO, July 24.-Gray Silver, of West Virginia, Washington repre- sentative of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation, today was elected as president of the $26,000,000 grain marketing company, representing a merger of five of the largest grain companies in the country, which even tually is to be farmer owned and con- troIled, according to plans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
FORESTALL
 DREADED CHILLS AND FEVER

No one need suffer the seasonal recurrence of Chills and Fever, with its terribly weak ening effect. Wintersmith's Chill Tonic will kill your Chills and take all the Malaria out of your system. If you are subject to Malaria the best plan is to take Winter smith's Chill Tonic beforehand. It will often prevent development of the disease. Itputs rich, red blood into your veins, giv- ing you the strength necessary to ward off Malaria.
 Fifty six years of continued success have made this the standard tonic in thousands of homes throughout the malarial districts of the United States, Central and South America and elsewhere.
 The system easily assimilates Winter smiths Chill Tonic and there are no bad effects on the stomach or nerves. You should have bottle in your home. Popular size, 60 cents; mammoth size, $1.O0. All drug stores. Wintersmith Chemical Conn pany, Inc. Louisville, Ky. ----Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
BEN M. JACOBS co.
 FORMS CORPORATION
' 1Ormer Partnership Is Dis
 sOlved-Capitalized at $S3,5OO

Ben M Jacobs and Bros. dissolved ! artnership and reorganized into a cor
 oration to be known as Ben NJ. Jacobs md Bros. Furniture company, Inc, with a capital stock of $83, 800, ac-
 ording to incorporation papers filed the judge of probate office Thurs lay by Bertram Jacobs, Robert Jacobs and Leroy Jacobs
 The new company will take over the stock of the old company and will :arry on business as usual, the papers stated. Bertram Jacobs was named as president and treasurer of the new com pany; Robert Jacobs, vice president, and Leroy Jacobs, secretary. The stock Of 585 common shares at $10O was di- vided equally between Bertram Jacobs, Robert Jacobs and between the three as executors of Ben NJ. Jacobs estate. The company will issue 500 shares of preferred stock at $50 a share.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
AMERICANLEGI0N

American Legion forces at the. old post office building have done much to speed the work of having application blanks for adjusted compensation for ex-serYice men filled out, it is stated. A foree of clerks are on hand to assist the men in every way possible to obtain their compensation.
 Compensation is due dependents of all men who enlisted in the army during the war, provided, it is stated, the per- sons are dependents in the strict sense of the word. Clerks will be glad to furnish all necessary information. Blanks will be filled out for men un- able to fill them out for themselves for a fee of 25 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
SILHOUETTES OF STATE CAPITOL
: fState Captlal Bureau.)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 24.- A library for prisoners will soon be established at Speigner prison, accord ing to Miss Frances Hail, in charge of library extension work for the state department of archives and history. The department of archives and history in cooperation with the state board of convict supervisors, has already es. tablished library at Kilby prison in which prisoners are taking a great in- teTest. It is planned to gradually ex-' tend the system until each prison of the state has a library.
 Miss Halls acknowledged a donation of 100 volumes, which will be used in starting the Speigner library, from the Daughters of the King of All Saints church (Episcopal) Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. Sherwood Higgs of Atlanta, represent ing the church organization, offered the donation, through Mrs. Will Marks of Montgomery.
 Attorney General Harwell G. Davis expressed satisfaction today at the re- cent action of the federal trade commis- sion in condemning the "Pittsburg- Plus" plan, which compelled the Steel consumer to pay the Pittsburg price plus the transportation cost from Pitts burg, though the steel was produced and shipped from Birmingham. Attor- ney General Davis joined in the brief against the "Pittsburg-Plus" imposi- tion, along with others seeking its abolition.
 L. 0. Frank, representative of the United States public health service, on duty in Alabama, left today for Vir- ginia, to explain to the health authori- ties of the old dominion the method of milk control employed in Alabama. The success of the better.milk campaign be- ing waged in Alabama by the state health authorities, in conjunction with the United States public service result cd in a special request to the surgeon general for some one to be sent to Vir- ginia to explain the Alabama method. Mr. Frank was selected for the duty. A similar request has been received from the state board of health of Texas, and MT. Frank will go there after vis- iting Virginia.
 
 State Treasurer George W. Ellis re- turned today from attending a meeting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
NEGRO PYTHIANS BUILD

The Knights of Pythias, grand lodge, negro, will erect two-story brick busi- ness block on Fourth avenue, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, at a cost of $75,OOO, it was announced Thursday. The structure will measure 100 feet on Fourth avenue and have a depth of 140 feet, accord Z to an an- nouncement of the Jackson Realty com pany, agents for the property. Plans call for six stores ith a large garage in the rear on the ground floor. A hotel will occupy the upper story. It will be ready for oeeupancy October l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
SIMPLY
 UNEXCELLEnM

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 dents. Pays from FIRST DAY as long As
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
OLIM TO ATLANTA

Milton Olim, assistant secretary of the Association of Retail Credit Men, left Thursday evening for Atlanta, where he goes ih the interest of the personal service bureau department of the Merchants Credit association with which he also is connected. Mir. Olim was also to spend several days in Chat tanooga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
EXEMPT GOODS IN TRANsIT

TOKYO, July 24.-The government has notified the American embassy that the 100 per cent tariff on luxuries re- gently passed by the diet, will not apply to goods in transit before July 5, if ap- plication is made for such exemption before the tariff act is promulgated. This is expected within two or three days. This ruling meets the principal diplomatic objection to the new tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
Marriage Licenses

William o. Smith, age S9, and Maye Hawton, age 20.
 Andrew Jackson Slade, age 25, and Frances Doran Koby, age 27.
 Mike Sparammeo, age 21, and Jenny Levoy, age 19.
 J. A. Boone, age 27, and Clarence Simpson, age 26.
 J. W. Hawthorine, age 23, and Mel! Snroill. age %.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
WIFE FOR MANS DEBTS
Berlin Tax Collectors Used Novel
 Means Of Persuasion

Berlin Tax Collectors Used Novel
 Means Of Persuasion
 To our vaudeville managers we dedi- cate the following little anecdote from Berlin:
 A Lettish merchant recently opened shop in the German capital. The shop was a failure. At any rate, its pro- .prietor refused to pay his taxes and, to make matters worse, attempted to leave the country without settling the &C., count.
 What did the fiscal agents of the German republic do then? Simply seized the debtors wife as hostage, declar- ing that she would be held until he made good his indebtedness.-Le Figaro, Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-25
HANEs TO TUSCALOOSA
Evangelist Pleased With Attendance At
 Jonesboro Meetings

Evangelist J. o. Hanes is making ar engagements to conduct revival meet ing in Tuscaloosa following the close Sunday of the big tent meeting now in progress at Jonesboro, it was announced Thursday.
 Crowds attending the Jonesboro meet inss are said to have almost daily taxed the seating capacity of the big tent to the limit, many persons driving miles to attend. Rev. Hanes declares the series of meetings among the most successful and enthusiastic he has ever conducted and says many converts have been made. The song services are a feature of the meetings. The meetings will be concluded with the regular Sun day evening worship at z AS o'clock.
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