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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH BUILDING IS BEING RUSHED
Amount Around $3OQ,OOO Will Be Expended
 On Two Units

The $30O,0OO building program of the First Christian church, which will give the organization one of the most magnificent edifices ill the south, IS now in full swing. The past week witnessed the start of construction of the lower floors and, pushed by con tractors, the initial unit, the Sunday school building, is expected to be com pleted by October 1. Just when the second unit will be commenced has not been determined, but it is thought that this will be launched soon afterwards
 The building, located on the north east corner of Seventh avenue and Twenty-first street, is under plans drawn by William Leslie Welton, archi- tect, designer of the new Ruhama Baptist, Walker Memorial, Simpson NJ. E. and number of other ecclesias- tical buildings. It affords beside the beautiful outward appearance made possible by modern architective and materials, embodiment of the civic center idea which has been included in recent religious buildings.
 Exterior of the Sunday school build ing will be glazed marble, finished i'll terra cotta, with pillows of marble. It pIcSChNo tHISc SlOIlcS anu AuA DdSC ment and measures 120 feet long by 110 feel at the widest portion. Base ment of the building will be given over to a social hall running 60 by 70 feet. with stage, and Boy Scout room, 32 feet square. Other features are large dining hall and up-tO-date kitchen. Dumb-waiters from this room serve kitchenettes on all three floors above.
 The First Floor
 The first floor, entered from the out side by massive flight of steps into q large foyer, contains the Sunday school auditorium, room 60 by 70 feet. At the end of this auditorium is a pull pit, chancel, choir loft, and baptistry, To the rear are the beginners depart ment, cradle roll, ladies parlor and a suite of three offices for administra- tive purposes. Specialties of the ladies' parlor include large mantle and orna- mental walls and ceilings.
 On the second floor are quarters for the senior, junior, intermediate and pri- mary departments, each leading from a central assembly hall. The Young Peoples department, with assembly and adjoining class rooms, is situated on the third floor. Here also is a roof garden. measuring 60 by 100 feet, with red promenade tile for flooring and balus- trade decorated by ornamental iron work.
 The church formerly occupied build ing at Fifth avenue and Twenty-first
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
TALKS ON REAL
 ESTATE AND .'BERDl(ING
By HAL SPEED

By HAL SPEED siIRE ANY retail concerns, mo- tably one or two of the
 chain store organizations, make their rent clear and even produce a profit from their lease transactions in various cities.
 They do this by leasing large corners in the center, with as much depth as possible on the side street and a building containing at least two stories cnd basement.
 The landlord, with the aver age layman's dread of build ing, has probably leased that corner to one or two tenants; but what does the chain store expert do when he takes it over on a long lease :.; what even the landl I'd considers is a fabulous rental?
 He reserves a 1O-foot front age-the amount. of this would depend on the nature of his busipess-on the corner lot his own quarters. The bal ance of the frontage on the main street he subdivides in stores.
 He then subdivides the frontage on the side street into small shops, say ten or twelve by twenty, leaving enough space for a stairway to the second floor, which is sub let In its entirety, and to the basement, which is also sublet.
 Where the landlord had two or three tenants, the lessee fills his building with fifteen or twenty. As a result he makes enough on his sublease to pay his owl. rent and more besides.
 This principle could be adopted by any established concern in any city or town. Let It take a corner as near to the center as possible, on a long lease, and subdiyide it into smaller units.
 The lessee would then not only be assured of a low rental Tn permanent location, but after a few years would find that the increased value of the sublease would pay for his own rent. This principle is being adopted more and more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
MARTIN BUILDING
 SPACE M DEMAND
Druggist Anxious To Land
 Quarters, Schultz Says

Despite the fact that ground for the Martin Office building will not be broken until next week, demand for space in the structure by doctors and dentists is already beginning to trickle in, according to Ray Schultz, rental agent, and guiding spirit in the promo tiOn of the building.
 Some leases are being dated April 1, Schultz states, although in all proba, bility the entire construction program will not be completed by that time.
 A feature of the demand for leases is competition for pharmacy quarters which are to be arranged on the ground floor. No less than six druggists have been attempting to land this proposi- tion since the building was first an- nounced, Schultz says, but as yet no decision has been made regarding the aecunant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

"Ve challenge any man in the city, v remarked Secretary Starke of the Bir- mingham Real Estate Board yesterday, ''to name any period in the last twenty five years that was marked by greater building activity in public, semi-public, and business structures than is now ac- tually going on in Birmingham. And this takes no account of the fact that I three of our largest apartment houses have just been completed or are near ing completion. Nor does the construc- ton work referred to above include new residences now being built, numerous as they are.' @
 The secretary called attention to the | fact that for some time scattered an- nouncements have been made in regard to projected buildings the aggregate of which has probably not impressed the public with the full force that the pres ent actual situation warrants. It is, then, well worth while, he said, to utter the challenge to any man to name a period in the history of Birmingham that even parallels our present unique situation in regard to heavy construc- | tiOn work. 1t is not necessary to give ! would be, the sum total would not carry for the average man the same impress siye force that list of the buildings will carry.
 Labor Benefited
 Again, many more men would be employed in the construction of twenty $50.O0O buildings than in the construc- ton of one million dollar building, con sequently the remarkably large number of expensive buildings now actually in course of construction means a remark able situation for all the building trades, the supply houses, the contractors, and the architects. We are in truly unique situation both in regard to enor. nous construction work and expansion of the old business area of Birmingham Both of these influences are back of the wonderful real estate market that has characterized the last several weeks"
 "It is to be hoped" added Secretary Starke, "that anybody with q bit of pessimism left in him. if there be such, will read. the remarkable list below of l buildings now under construction and will hear well in mind that the list is not only incomplete but that it includes no family residences" Buildings Listed
 City auditorium, Twentieth street and Eighth avenue.
 Southern railway shops, (near Acipco).
 Southern railway office building.
 Furniture factory (next to audi - Piedmont hotel. Fifth and Twenty First street.
 Doctors building, Fourth and Twen- ty-Third street.
 Athletic club, Third and Twenty, Third street.
 Stores and hotels, Fifth and Eigh- teenth street.
 Negro Masonic Temple, Fourth and Sixteenth street.
 Stores, Fourth and Twenty>Fitst street.
 Office building, Jefferson county building and Loan Association.
 Presbyterian church, Sixth and Eighteenth street.
 Christian church, Twenty-FiFst street.
 South Highlands Methodist Sunday school.
 Garage, Tenth Avenue south and l Twentieth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
ARREsTED FOR MURDER
Jordan Everest, Negro. Said To HaV NnrifaaaaN Tn Old Urine

Jordan Everest, Negro. Said To Have
 Confessed To Old Crime
 Jordan Everest, negro, is being held in the city jail, charged with the mur- der of Rosa Ramsey, negro, on Janu- ary 15, 1924, at Waynesboro. Miss The negro is said to have admitted the killing to Detectives Bragan and Mic Combs. who arrested him after a chase on First avenue and Eighteenth street Saturday afternoon. He is being held for Mississippi authorities.
 Wilman Evans. alias William Green, negro; who was picked up with Everest is being held on m investigation charge by the police He will be held in GUS. tody until the arrival of the Mississippi men, the arresting officers stated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
City Is NotO Experiencing
 Unprecedented Building
Starke Issues Challenge To Show Present Rec.
 ords Excelled, Citing Facts

Stores, avenue H and Fifteenth street.
 Mack Truck O.. Avenue F and Twenty Fifth street. r Chemical plant (near Boyles).
 Continenta. Gin company, (Avon- dale).
 South Coupon Printing company, Avenue D. Alabama Printing company, Twen- tieth street, near B.
 Stores, Twelfth avenue, north, and Twenty Fourth street.
 T. c. l.. overhead railway,
 Practically Completed
 Lumber finishing mills, Nineth ave- nue and Twenty Fourth street.
 Lumber finishing mills, least Bir- minhami.
 Standard Manufacturing company, Avenue B and Twenty-Second street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
PLAN APARTMENT ON TWELFTH STREET
EnsIen Announces S4O,OOO Pro
 ice: For Fall Occupancy

. Announcement of construction of q six-family apartment. house on the northeast corner of Eleventh avenue, south, and Twelfth street. was made Saturday by Carl Enslen of the Enslen Realty and Insurance company.
 The building will be of attractive brick finish and cost in the neighbor- hood of $40,OO0 upon completion Apartments will be of from five to six rooms. It will be erected in one unit with occupancy by October l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
BRAGG TURNS TWO
 DEALS FOR $50, GOO
Avenue E Piece Changes
 Hands During Week

A feature of real estate trading dur ing last week was two sales involving $3O,OOO swung by Ed Bragg of the Motion Realty company.
 Largest of these was the transfer of 100 feet on Avenue E between Twenty-fonrth and Twenty-fifth street from the Henderson Realty company to B. l.. and B. E. Hinkle. Sale price was set at $2OOOO.
 The other deal involved 5O-fOot lot on Fifth avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth street from D. Mims to R. A. Terrell. Around $1O,000 changed hands in this transactiOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
GROTTO TO PICNIC.

A swimming and dancing party Will be given August IS at Cascade Plunge for members of Kamram Grotto and their friends. Grotto committees in charge of the affair say that this event will be one of the most attractive staged at Cascade for some time. To insure a good attendance at the event.
 prizes are being offered to women who sell the largest number of tickets for the affair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
Realty Transfers

Arlington Realty company vs. w. A. Massey, lot 1, block 5. Arlington place, $3,OOO.
 Mrs. NJ. E. Johnson to Beulah E. Tyler, part of lot IS. block 24, ac- cording to Elyton survey, $5,000.
 Hannah Levy and husband, Joe Levy, to Albert Ash, lot s, block 5, sur vey of Milner Land company, $11, 1,0OO.
 Bessie Barton mad husband Arthur Barten, to w. W. Garrett, lot 17, block 142, according to Elyton sur vey, $4,050.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
AUXILIARY TO MEET

The August meeting of the Woman's auxiliary of the South Highlands Pres byterian church will be held Monday afternoon in the Sunday school rooms of the church. A good program in which each of the seven circles have a part has been planned. A special feature will be an inspiratiOnal mes sage from the Montreal summer school and missions by Mrs Augustus Forrest. A social hour will follow the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
REY. O. O. GROVES- sPEAKS

Rev. c. Q. Groves, pastor of Presby- terian church, KosidskO, Miss, will supply the pulpit of the South High lands Presbyterian church at both serv- ices Sunday. Mir. Groves is known to a large number of people here. Dr. W. R. DobyRs is spending his vaca- tion in California and Wiil be away all of the month of Auguft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
HODO CONTINUES PACE
Around Sa5,OOO in Transactions By
 Realty Agent

Mark Hodo, salesman of the Smith Schultz Realty company, continues to add to his long list of successfully engineered deals. During the past week, a ''dull" period in the market, Hodo turned around $25,OO0 in business and semi-business property A feature of his sales was the transfer of business block at 26l9-21 Ave nue G from ". c. Hagen to Tom 2ankey. Price was reported at $S.o00.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
TRAINING GLASS CLOSES

GoODwATER, Ala, Aug. 2.-(Spe- eial. )-The training classes, conducted here for the past week by Rev. c. H. Rodgers in B. Y. P. U. work, closed last night, and several in the three de- Bartments of this work received their diplomas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

street, the site of the Piedmont hotel, now under construction. Members of the building committee are J. R. Me Wane, chairman; W. s. Stallings, vice chairman; E. K. Linthicum. H. T. Bat tertoh, F, B. Pennington, H. 0. Bern ard, W. C. Knopf and Rev. Robert N. Simpson, pastor of the church.
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THE WORLD

New York-The Union Pacific
railroad expended $50, 100000 in
railroad improvements last year.
Christiania, Norway-Twenty per-
sons were drowned when the steamer
Haakon Jarl sank after colliding with
another vessel.
Moscow-Sixty nations, including
the United States, Canada, Mexico
and several South American repub-
lies are represented at the Third
Internationale in convention at Mos
COW.
Observation-Disclosures Carpenter, the
noted traveller and correspondent, is
dead.
New York-Bill Brennan, heavy
weight pugilist, widely known,
was called to the door of his cabaret
where five men confronted him.
Brennan was shot and killed, and
James Cullen, state trooper was
shot in the neck as he rushed to
Brennan's rescue. Two suspects have
been arrested.
and jazz music are responsible for
the rapid spread of goitre in the east
according to DR.. G.. w. Newell, re-
firing president of the National
Women's Medical association.
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WILD BUFFALO INVADING
RANCHES OF CENTENNIAL

A herd of seven buffalo were
roaming at large in the upper Gem
tenniaI valley recently, according
to word from rancher of that sec
great annoyancenn uuma cmfwy-
ton. They have been causing
great annoyance to the ranchers
there as the fences mean nothing
to them, and hay corra1s have
been invaded as well as farm yards,
the entire herd feeding at leisure
wherever they may happen to be.
The herd has been driven into
the mountains several times by
cowboys, but they return and seem
to prefer the Picnic Springs
ranches to all others. As it is dam
gerous for man on foot to APP
prOach them, the owner finds it
impossible to feed his hens ex-
cept by mounting his horse and
packing the feed across a small
creek, where his chicken coops
are located.
The buffalo belong in Idaho and
are said to be descendants of the
big buffalo bull that killed Dick
Rock several years ago at his game
corral.
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and in 1880 had been acquired by
the late Charles D. Mcclure, one
of the officers of the Hope Mining
company, then operating not very
profitably at Phillipsburg. The
wealth of the muontain was not
then fully realized.
After acquiring the property,
Mcclure went to St. Louis, first
granting his brother in law,
Charles Clark, at Phillipsburg, the
right to sell all his interest. In
December, 1880, Mr.. Clark, having
himself of the probable
richness of the mine, went to St.
Louis for the purpose of interest
ing capital. The disgruntled stock
holders of the Hope refused to sink
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any sound. The gag was about eight
feet long and Walsh was confident
of his ability to tie his captor Sc
curely.
Leave that to me-" Campbell says
Walsh told him when Campbell sug-
gested that perhaps the gag might
not accomplish it's purpose.
The knife Walsh had was table
case knife, which the prisoner had
sharpened to razor-like sharpness
on slab of concrete he tore from
the floor. The concrete he wrapped
in sack making an effective billy.
The knife Walsh told his fellow
prisoner, was obtained by means of
wire and hook. The condemned
youth filched it from window sill
four feet distant from the bars of
the cage.
Talked Again
The prisoners glib tongue could
not remain silenced. He told his
plans to Campbell and importuned
his fellow prisoners aid. Campbell
says he told Walsh he didn't want
to have anything to do with it,
1t was on Sunday, June 8th that
Campbell was incarcerated in the
Boulder jail. On the same day
Walsh told his plans and asked
Campbell for a string.
eff l had string, l could melt
these bars like so much BUTTER" he
is said to have told Campbell, at the
same time pointing significantly at a
bottle which Campbell believed con-
tanned acid.
Campbell armed himself with a
club and each time Undersheriff
Knight entered Walsh's corridor
Campbell stood nearby watching
Walsh.
Time after time Walsh entreated
Campbell's aid. "He said to me-"
Campbell declared, 'What do you
want to stay here for? They'll rail-
road you like they did me. You'll
be here from two to five years. .
Would Rob Bank
Walsh, according to Campbell,
drew a map of the route he intended
to take after escaping. He planned
according to Campbell, to rob the
bank at Victor, Idaho.
He told me- said Campbell, "that
after we got out, assuming that
was with him, we would steal a.
Marmon car in Boulder here. He
said he was going to drive all night
to the Snake river. If the water was
deep enough he planned to bury the
machine in the river. If not he was
going to burn it.
Then he was going to steal sad
die horse; if 1 was with him, two
horses. The robbery of the Victor
bank was to be a daylight affair
and Walsh said it was a pipe
Campbell Savior
Undersheriff knight is convinced
that but for the presence of Camp
bell Walsh would have worked out
his plan. Had Walsh known he was
going to Deer Lodge at the time he
did, Mr.. knight believes the prisoner
would have attempted an escape
Drawing the club in Campbell's hands.
Walsh could not conceal his disap-
pointment when he was told that he
was going to be removed to Deer
Lodge.
Walsh asked for a clean shirt.
While his captor was getting it the
prisoner, according to Campbell,
sliced the bottle believed to have
contained acid and smashed it in a,
lavatory bowl and flushed the bowl
IF I had that that the first time,
Walsh said, according to Campbell,
Il never would have been brought
back here"
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auto dealer then learned that Patti
kovitch had the car.
The youthful murderer was picked
up by l.. K. Kommers, then sheriff
of Cascade county, and taken to
the equity Jail for investigation. For
several days he stoutly denied any
connection with Tishma's disappear
ance and at one time he was about to
be- released, when circumstances
again tended to point finger of sus-
picion at him. His first story was
that a neighbor boy had told him of
killing Tishma. This boy was at the
county Jail when young Pattkovitch
sence of deputy sheriffs prevented an
encounter between the two.
Implicated father
All through vigorous examina-
ton conducted that night Pattko-
witch adhered to his story, but when
the questioning was begun again the
next morning he showed signs of
weakening. Finally he admitted the
falsity of his statement concerning
his friend, fold a number of conflict
ing yarns and eventually broke down
and confessed his own part in the
crime. Later on, he again changed
the story to make his father the
guilty party and the aged man was
tried, with his son as principal wit
ness for the state. Throughout the
fathers trial, officers sat between
father and son and at no time were
they permitted to be together The
father was acquitted.
The son then was placed on trial,
found guilty of second degree MUIR
der and sentenced to serve from ten
20 twenty years in the state peniten-
tiary.
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OPPOSE PARDON OF
CASCADE KILLER
WHO KILLED MINER OF
SAND COULEE ASKING
FOR LIBERTY
Motive for killing was possession of
automobile and money of victim;
Boy attempted to fix crime on his
father.

County Attorney f. A. Ewald Of
Cascade county has refused to re-
commend a parole for Michael Patti
kovitch of Sand Coulee, now serving
an indeterminate sentence of from 10
to 20 years at Deer Lodge for
the murder of Charles Tishma, a
Sand Coulee miner, who was brutally
killed on July 20, 1918. Ewald's ad-
verse recommendation to the state
parole board was emphatic.
In its communication to Mr.. Ewald
the state board sets out that Pattko-
witch was aligible to parole on May
21, 1924, as he had served one-half
of his minimum sentence. Mr.. Ew-
aid wrote the pardon board that the
prisoner should serve at least the
minimum sentence because of the
circumstances surrounding the MUIR
der.
The Circumstances
A Ford automobile and Tishma's
money was the motive for the MUIR
der, court records show. They also
reveal how Pattkovitch first tried to
lay the crime at the door of a neigh
Dor boy and later declared his father
" 10 LIE guilty OuS. Iu0 0lu6T HdtL-
kovitch was tried for thhe murder on
the strength of the boys testimony.
A jury acquitted him.
AS adduced by testimony from
score of witnesses, the story of the
trial which took place in the spring
of 1919 in the district court, showed
that the younger Pattkovitch lured
Tishma from his home in Sand Cou-
lee by telling him that he wanted
him to take his car, Ford, and aid
the elder Pattkovitch in repairing
some machinery.
Tishma agreed and drove to the
Pattkovitch ranch where he was
killed, his body dragged by a wire
attached to one leg and buried in a
pile.
Sought Tishma's Pay.
A few days after the murder, Patti
kovitch, not content with having
killed Tishma and obtaining the car,
decided to get the dead mans UNI
collected wages. He went to Great |
Falls and instituted attachment pro-
ceedings in justice court. In the
meantime Pattkovitch's downfall |
zane when Great Falls garage man |
vent to collect another instalment |
IN the car from Tishma. Tishma,
If course, could not be found ana the