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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
LEADERS TO TALK AT SCHOOLS HERE.
Physical Education To Be Observed As Part Of
 National Week

Friday will be Physical Education Day in the Birmingham schools when parents are invited to visit the classes during the regular hours set aside for that purpose.
 Statistics and material pertaining to health work will be used in all the schools together with visits from di- rectors, supervisors, dentists and phy- sicians who will make health talk to various assemblies in the schools.
 The outstanding present day educa- tional objectives in the Birmingham schools are character building and health, according to the board of ed ucation members. It is the hope of the school heads to assist in the introduc- tion of higher type of sportscman- ship. With this aim in view, Erskine Ramsay, president of the board of ed ucation, has offered a loving cup to the high school which shows the best type of sportsmanship in all the athe- tic contests for the year.
 The bulletin describing the work fol- lows.
 Outdoor Activities
 "Much encouragement has been given to out-of-door activities when the wealth CT permitted and the playing of games alternated with school room exercises. Elementary school athletic leagues have been organized for basketball and base ball. These leagues included practical ly every school in the city having six or more grades. The result of these school leagues has been the develop ment of new school and community spirit. Annual track and field meets for the boys and pageants or May fes- tivals for the girls have been held. More than 250 girls have participated in the pageants and more than 400 boys in the field day exercises. Suitable trophies have been awarded in these field day exercises.
 A new event has been inaugurated the past year in the form of a basket ball tournament for the elementary schools in which both junior and senior teams completed. This event was held in the Phillips High school auditorium gymnasium. Most of the larger schools participated.
 Some of the elementary schools were reorganized on the Platoon plan for a more practical applicat tion of the work than was possible under the old plan. The children were given full periods each day for exercises and free play under the direction of a teacher as- signed exclusively to playground super vision.
 In making plans for the new elemen- tary school buildings to be erected under the new $3,500,OOO school build- ing program especial provision is be- ing made in many of these buildings for playrooms or gymnasiums for secur- ing more efficient work in the physical education program"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

tinental Gin company $6OO, and the Batterton Coffee company $550.
 In the $500 class were: Douglas Johnson Dry Goods company, Lindley Arthur w. Smith. F. B. Winslaw con- tributed $350.
 The Guarantee Shoe company and l.. Sevier each contributed $500.
 In the $25O class were W. H. Che roweth, Jr., A. c. Crowder, Dunn Con- struction company and Laumer Lumber company.
 The S20O contributors were R. H. Bannister, Birmingham Publishing com pany, Thomas Cusack company, Mrs. A. l. Dexter, Little Jem Coal company, Tarrant Land company, Traders Nation al ban, John B. Weakley and wife. Elm ployes of the Alabama Engraving com pany contributed STA.
 The $50 contributors were: Alabama Engraving company, City Paper com pany, John H. Frye, Milner Land com pany, Patton-Pope Drug company and ner contributed $125 and Marshal Jor- dan and Keith $110.
 The list of $1OO contributors were {: Brookside-Pratt Mining company. D. T. Buel, John B. Cox, Mrs. D. H. Cron- helm, Educational exchange, Fowlkes and Hogue, Jaffe Clothing company, Jaffe Jewelry company, Fitzpatrick Lumber company, Monroe B. Lanier, Livine Abelson Candy and Grocery company Marc Link, Mrs. Minnie Love- man. Charles NJ. Marks, McLester Van Hoose company, National Supply com pany, William D. Nesbitt, Mir. and Mrs. Charles J. Sharp, k. A. Terrell. Geo. F. Wheelock company, J. Dew. Wilcox and J. l.. Yancey Real Estate and h. surance company.
 The list of contributors of less than S1OO have not been made public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
AFRICAN BLOSSOMS
 TO SHOW TONIGHT
ThorntOn's Fun Makers Promise
 All New Entertainment

"The African Blossoms" Birming- hams own minstrel organization, under the direction of Red Thornton, one of the best known amateur performers in the state, will play at the Wood lawn city hall tonight for the benefit of the Berean class of the Fifty-sixth Street Baptist church.
 Thornton claims that the show is bigger, better and brighter this sea- son than ever before and promises real entertainment. His lineup in- cludes: Al Fennell, Slick Smith, Red Thornton, Clint Dodd, Theo Smith, Vance Busby, Red Collins, Jack Ker- ney, J. Higgins, Ed Newman, Fred Wellbourne, and Miss Thelma Harrell, pianist,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
COUNTY TREASURY
 BADLY CRIPPLED
Laxity In Tax Payments Blamed
 By Hawkins

Jefferson county's treasury is prac- tically empty, due to slowness of prop erty owners in paying their 1924 taxes, Tax Collector J. F. Hawkins said Thursday. He warned that property taxes will be delinquent after December 31, and that January 31 is the dead line for poll tax payments.
 According to Collector Hawkins, none of the large corporations in the Bir- mingham district have paid their taxes. The state usually needs funds at this time of the year and calls on the cor porations to rush in their checks, but this has not been done this year, he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

Here comes Charles Dewel Hilles, re- publican national committeeman, bank CT, canfidant of the great of the earth. Tall, slender, youthful looking. Be gan life as a clerk in some reforma- tory institution in Ohio and has climbed ever since. No one sees him. He might stand here all day long and the rushing crowd would not see.
 Col. Jake" Ruppert, who quenched New York's thirst when beer was beer and is now owned of the Yankees. One would think some one might know him, but no one does. One day Ruppert waited on this very corner for chance to ford, when stranger at his elbow began to talk baseball. They walked on down the street together.
 Il whist I knew Ruppert," said the stranger. "Td like to knock his black off
 So they got acquainted and next day he was the Colonel's guest in his box. And here is Col. "Rhiney" Waldo. An other man New Yorks crowds should know. When he was commissioner of police he set on the foot of reforms that eventually made the force the most efficient in the world, all things considered. The Waldos have lived here forever. Easily remembered, be- cause his is the anguished face of man predestined to be fat who lives on spinach. Not even the cops on the corner know him now. Tex Rickard slips by unrecognized. Once I saw William Howard Taft stand unnoticed here. A wonderful corner for the re- duction of human vanity.
 But the man who denarts widely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
Manhattan Days 4nd Nights
By Herbert Corey

NTEW YORK, Nov. 20The of the earth has shifted It used to be Forty and Broadway. Now
 people pass the intersection of street and Fifth than other place in the known world each "A hours Twelve policemen sometimes hard put it to handle the the tracks eight the in the tower filled with that they miss each other the paint the lenders grand place in which to be fecly anonymous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
JURY EXPECTED
 TO NDICT WRITER OF MILK THREATS
Action On 'Flogging' Let ters To Health Heads
 Due Friday

Details of an alleged plot against Dr. J. D. Bowling and l.. c. Bulmar, officials of the health department, in connection with their alleged receipt of threatening anonymous letters during the recent controversy over the pro- posed "stabilization" ordinance spon- sored by 2S raw milk dairymen, were given the Jefferson county grand jury Thursday. An indictment is expected Friday.
 Dr. Bowling, Bulmer and number of other witnesses were questioned by the jury. Unsigned letters, which are said to have threatened them with floggings unless they withdrew their objection to the proposed ordinance, were int-o- duced.
 Solicitor Silent
 Solicitor Jim Davis is in personal charge of the investigation. He declined 10. make statement in advance of formal action by the jury.
 Information came to The Age Herald that only one case is being considered by the county inquisitorial body, and that two other cases are scheduled for airing before the next federal grand jury, which meets in January. Federal indictments charging misuse of the mails will be sought. In the state case, an indictment charging raw milkman with attempting to "intimidate public officials in the dicharge of their du- ties' is being asked.
 Arrest To Follow Writ
 If all indictment is voted Friday, an arrest will follow immediately, it was said at the courthouse. The "stabiliza- ton" ordinance still is pending before the city commission and will be dis posed of on December 1, when Com missioner of Health Mary Echols re- turns from trip for her health. A pool of the commission recently showed that it stands 8 to 2 against the ordinance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
Silua, On Way To Mine,
 Freely Confesses Guilt

Mccoy said Silva declined to dis cuss the case of "Cannonball" Wells, who is under indictment in connec- tion with the same robbery. Wells, on his first trial, was convicted and given a 15-year sentence. He ap- pealed and the supreme court reversed the decision. Wells is now in Flor ida, under bond, aud Solicitor Jim Davis announced that he would ask Judge Heflin Friday to set, his case for an early trial.
 Silva's first trial ended in mis- trial. His second trial, which con- sumed nearly a week, was bitterly contested throughout and the defend ant, in a statement to the jury, made a sweeping denial of any connection with the robbery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

Before starting for Banner mines Thursday to begin a 1O-to-2O-year sentence for the robbery of the Hill Grocery company in 1921, Ivanhoe Silva sent for John P. Mccoy, as- sistant solicitor, who conducted the prosecution in the recent hard-fought trial.
 T just want to say," Silva con- ifded, "that am guilty. Of course, I'd have been fool to admit it as long as I had a chance to go free, but now that its all over, l want you to know the truth.
 Silva congratulated Mccoy on the manner in which he handled the states case, and reiterated his in, tention to serve the sentence with out filing an appeal. He will be-: gin digging coal Friday at the mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
TO GIVE READING
 AT LITTLE THEATER
Miss Elizabeth Edland Here For
 Engagement Tonight

Miss Elizabeth Edland, teacher of dramatics of Columbia university, will give a reading at 80 o'clock Friday night at the Little theater. Members are requested to make reservations at the theater at 9 o'clock Friday morn- ing. Miss Edland is rated as one of the most interesting readers connected with the university and is in Birming- ham conducting a coure of lectures at the church school of methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
". B. CLOE RULED
 CITY THURSDAY
Absence Of. Other Department
 Heads Causes Shortage

City hall suffered Thursday from . serious shortage of commissioners.
 President McLendon was down in Florida on his orange plantation. Mrs. Mary Echols was on the gulf coast, re- cuperating from an operation William l.. Harrison was celebrating the opening of the bird hunting season. W. B. Dickson may have gone with Harrison, for he couldn't be located.
 That left W. B. Cloe with full sway over all departments of the city. He had busy day signing vouchers, giving orders, running the police, fire, health, street and financial departments--and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
DEATHS

Jack McGOwan-Jack McGowan, @, of Lewisburg, died Friday night at local hospital: Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock saturday morning. Burial will follow in Elmwood cemetery with Brown in charge.
 Mrs. Adele JemisOn-Remalns of Mrs, Adele Jemison, aged 62 years, who died in lecal infirmary Thursday, will be shipped to Frierfield, Ala, by Vice for funeral and interment Friday. She leaves a son, Murray Jemson, of Frank fort, H.; three daughters, Mrs, O.. B. nell. of Piper. Ala, and Miss Margaret Jemison' of selma brother. J. F.. Mary Lenore of Birmingham,
 J. B. Knlght-Funeral services for J. B. Knight, 63, who died Tuesday at the residence. 11s Halstead street, will be held at 1O:3O o'clock Friday morning from the Fifty-sixth Street Baptist church. Burial will follow in Forest Hill cemetery with Vice in charge. William Harry COe-Funeral services for William Harry Coe, 75, who died Thurs day afternoon at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. s. F. Coggins, 3O1 Rose o'clock Friday afternoon from the res Hni cemetery with Vice in charge He is survived by his daughter. Mrs adelphia. and Ives Cloe of Columbus, s. C.; sister, Mrs. Martha Coe Smith, of Los Angeles.
 DwIt GIenn-Dwit Glenn, three -year-old son of Mir. and Mrs. B, Glenn, 123S Wylam, died at 3:3O o'clock Thursday afternoon at the residence. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Bell of Fairfield.
 Mrs. J. w GiIbert-Funeral services for Mrs. J. w. Gilbert, 62, who died Thurs day at the residence in Wilsonvile Ala, will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning from the residence of her brother, sos Ethel avenue, Owenton. Burial will follow in Walnut Grove cemetery with. Johns in charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

from standard is spotted in a moment. Two young Frenchmen, 1.-the, hand some in clothes of obviously foreign cut, wearing Derby hats, carrying the 1arg- est sticks ever seen off the burlesque stage, swing by arm in arm. Men do not walk arm in arm on Fifth avenue. They do not carry huge sticks. They rarely wear Derby hats.
 Look" runs the whisper through the crowd
 People stop to watch them. The pavements gum up behind them as they swing on unnoticing. Half a dozen times they escape death by a miracle as they pause in the midst of traffic to exclaim at the tall buildings, the rushing throngs, the sights strange to their eyes. Gallic exclamations pour from their lips. I trail them because I think may save them from taxi cab and get the Croi de la Guerre. No need, for they always step aside at the last possible moment. Just like scene ill the comic films.
 And over the edge of bus top, so that it seems she must certainly go all the way over, leans a girl in the hu- morous habliments of the German peasant. She is as unmistakable a German as the two youngsters below are unmistakably French. A more stolid friend tries to restrain her, but she is not to be held. Her arms wave She points to the black and gold tower on Fortieth street which the dying sun is gliding over again. One sees her lips move:
 See! Seew
 The tears are streaming from her eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
AGREEMENT DENIED
Dickson Says No Plan Reached For
 ViaductS

Reports in realty circles that the city has reached an agreement with the railroads for immediate construc- tion of viaducts at Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth streets, were denied by Street Commissioner Dickson Thurs day. He said the commission had taken no action since it adopted ordinances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
I'D ADDRESS CLuR

Dr. Guy E. Snavely, president of Birmingham Southern college, will ad- dress the members of the American Business club at their regular weekly meeting at 12:3O o'clock Friday at the Tutwiler hotel. A quartet from the College Glee club will appear as an added attraction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
INJURED CHILD IMPROVED
Jack Williams Removed To Home Fol.
 lowing Accident

Jack Williams, 6-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. w. H. Williams, 425 Reese street, Woodlawn, injured Wednesday afternoon when he was struck by an au- tomobile said to have been driven by Mrs. R. G. Zimmerman, 1900 Fourt- teenth avenue, south, was removed to his home Thursday afternoon from the Bir- mingham General hospital.
 X-ray pictures failed to sustain the physician's belief that he had suffered concussion of the brain and internal injuries,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
AID CHEST

Thursdays subscriptions to the Com munity Chest included the National Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company, $2,- GOO, and the following $1,O00 contribu- tors Mir, and Mrs. E. F.. Linthicum, E. M. Elliott, Mir. and Mrs. Geo. w. Connors and Mrs. William Stockham.
 W. Oliver contributed $650, the Con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
PRATTYILLE NEGRO HELD

Antony Davis, negro, is being held in the city jail pending the arrival of of ficers from Prattville, Ala, who want him on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The negro is alleged to have shot Perry Johnson, Prattville negro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
COURT TO HEAR
 1000 OLD CASES
Chancery Division Aims To Re- lieve Congestion This Month

In an effort to clean up the congested docket in the chancery division of cir- cult court, more than 1000 cases, in- cluding some that are several years oids have been set for final hearings this month. Register Hunter Armstrong said this is the largest docket eyer set for one month in his division. The ma jority are divorce cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

requiring the railroads to eliminate the crossings at Fourteenth, Eigh- teenth, Twentieth and Twenty-fourth streets, and that nothing further would be done until the entire commission is back on the job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
RATLIFF BEGINS
 LIFE SENTENCE
Convicted Wife Slayer To Be Taken To
 Prison Friday

Charles Ratliff, convicted wife slayer, whose appeal for a new trial was de- nied by the supreme court in Montgom- cry, is now in the Jefferson county jail but will be transferred to Kilby prison immediately, it was said at Solicitor Davis office Thursday night when off cial word of the high courts decision was received. Ratliff was sentenced to life imprisonment by the circuit court here. .q
 Evidence at Ratliff's trial showed that he was riding with his wife on the South Bessemer road last February when she met her death. He contended that she fell out of their automobile, but the state charged that Ratliff beat her to death with blunt instrument and pushed her from the moving car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21
NAVY GETS SUB

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Nov. 20 Submarine S-42, built by the Electric Boat company for the navy department, was delivered to the government today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

hearing complaints that ordinarily would
 have been equally divided among the commission members. Es
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-22
COMMUNITY CLUB
 HEARS BOND TALK

Declaring that failure to pass the proposed school bond issue would be a "black eye" to the city of Birmingham and handicap to future industrial progress, T. O.. Young, principal of the South Highlands school, made a plea for better educational facilities before |m members of the Community club at a Luncheon in the Tutwiler hotel Thurs day at noorl.'
 MT. Young explained that the $5, ,OO0.- GOO asked by the board of education was not based on future needs of the schools but on the present. He quoted statistics from the recent school sur vey. to the effect that 5000 white pu- pills alone cannot be adequately taken care of and that almost every cent of the issue could be used immediately
 Birmingham stands next to the foot of the ladder in appropriation per pu- pill. Nashville is last among cities be- tween 100000 and 0,O00 inhabitants" !" he stated
 A three-mill lexy would not only take care of the schools but also leave enough for the public library, the speaker said, passing his statement on the recent re- port of Comptroller Armstrong.
 At the suggestion of W. V. M. Rob- inson,t ST., the Community club com lnittee, in charge of the Remember-the- People-in- Your-Will campaign. which was side-tfacked several months ago to swing support to the Community Chest drive, was asked to report at the next meeting with the purpose of reopening the plans. A report was made on the annual stag party of the organization which will be held sometime the latter part of March.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-22
CITY TELLS NEED OF
 $I,7OO,OOO IN BONDS

In addition to the need for better school facilities, there are several urg- ent and immediate needs for which the city of Birmingham shoudl provide, that will cost approximately $1,700,000 according to letter from the city com mission received Thursday by o. L.. Bum, general manager of the Chamber of Commerce. It is understand that . mass meeting will be held in the near future, with representatives present from every civic club in Greater Bir- mingham, to discuss a vote for a bond issue of this amount.
 The request came as a result of a joint meeting held short time ago by the city commission, the board of reye- nue and officials of thes chamber of Commerce. At that meeting it was suggested that budgets be made out for specific needs before the calling of a meeting to consider the bond issue.
 The letter from the commission listed the amount of money needed to care for the various needs as follows In- cinerator, $5OO,O00 two new fire sta tions and repairs on old ones, $200, 900 i; completion of auditorium, $200,0O0; i; widening of First avenue, $5O,0OO; a library, $750,000. The total amount will, be 100000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-22
SENATOR GREENE
 HAS GOOD DAY
Resolution Introduced To Pre-. vent Bootleggers From
 Carrying Arms

. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Increas hope concerning the condition of Senator Frank l.. Greene of Vermont was re- flectcd in physicians bulletin issued late today nfter an examination of the patient.
 Senator Greene has been resting quietly during the day and his condi- tion seemed improved" the bulletin said,
 Although right side paralysis now exists, it was learned, the doctors hope this will clear up if the Vermont sen ator recovers. His temperature. late to- day. was normal and he had taken nourishment.s
 As direct outgrowth of the shooting of Senator Greene last Friday night, when revenue agents and>suspected bootleggers engaged in a gun battle less than three blocks from the capitol, Rep resentative Foster, republican, Ohio, in troduccd a resolution in the House to- day to make it a felony for bootleggers to possess any firearm or other deadly weapon.
 In statement defending Prohibition Agent Fisher, who, has said he fired four shots during the exchange, which resulted in; the wounding of Senator Greene, after his party had been fired upon first, Representative Foster de clared he had three witnesses to prove that Fishers statement that he did not fire first was correct. He added, how ever, that whether shot from Fisher or a shot from the alleged bootleggers struck Senator Greene no one knew"
 That the responsibility for such con duct" by prohibition agents should be fixed on Prohibition Commissioner Haynes himself, was declared in a statement issued today by body de- scribing itself as the joint legislative committee of the American Federation of Labor, the National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, the. Constitutional Liberty League of Massachusetts and tire Moderation League.
 The committee demanded" that Con- gress immediately investigate the pro- hibition unit and put stop to the practices which are endangering the lives of our. citizens