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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
JIGGS TO PLAY
AT JEFFERSON
Popular Comedy Here
For 8 Nights Start
ing Thursday

Bringing Up Father" will play its
yearly visit to the Jefferson theater Tor
three nights, starting Thursday with
matinee Saturday. This seasons pro-
duction will outclass anything that has
ever been attempted in the way of the
presentation of a play based upon the
popular cartoon of the Sunday Funny
Papers" y
Bringing Up Father in Ireland has
been prepared with especial care by ME-
George McManus, and it will contain
all of his latest and best comedy
sketches as shown recently more than
one thousand newspapers throughout the
entire world. No more prolific oppor-
tunity for hilarious comedy can be
imagined than the series of ludicrous
character sketches, conceived by the
worlds creates newspaper stall artist'
Mr.. George McManus.
The principal reason that the thea
tergoing public await with SO much
pleasure, the coming of bringing up
Father" is that they know Of surety
that it will be entirely new. Wlth no
hold-overs at all from any previous sea-
son. Naturally "Jiggs and Maggie ana
the cause of all their troubles 'Dinty
and the Flappers" will be there, but all
new faces-new scenery and costumes
and jokes-music and dances. 1t will
live indefinitely with the system now in
vogue. Crowded houses greet their
every visit, theaters are not large enough
TO house the applicants for seats. That
Father" and has been for the past ten
is the true history of Bringing Up
consecutive years, as this is the tenth
in the series.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
PLAN TO REDUCE
WASTEFUL,GIFE
Thanksgiving Exchange
Opens To Regulate
Social Service Work

Thanksgiving and Christmas for
number of years has been dreaded time
by the social workers of the city be-
cause of what they term the pauperiz-
ing effect of unwise, indiscriminate,
wasteful giving. To meet this problem,
as an experiment and as a short cut to
greater helpfulness, last Thanksgiving
was conducted Thanksgiving Elk
change" in connection with the social
service confidential exchange.
The following plan for this years
exchange, beginning November l
through November 26, was announced
by Mrs. J. w. Bugman, secretary of
the exchange. All social, medical or
religious agencies, all churches, Sun
day school classes, Young Peoples So
cieties, schools, fraternal organizations,
clubs, or any responsible individual in
Birmingham expecting to give Thanks
giving baskets, are invited to avail
themselves of the service of the Thanks
giving Exchange. They are asked to
mail to the secretary of the Social
Service confidential exchange, No. g
Steiner building, the names Of the fam
lilies to whom you expect to give
Thanksgiving baskets. In mailing this
list be sure to give the correct address
and also the given name, or initials
of the family name.
Upon receiving a Thanksgiving in
quiry, the exchange will look up the
name in the file, and will report to
the one making the inquiry, either by
telephone Main 1896 or by mail, the
name of any other agency or indi-
vidual inquiring previously about the
same family. When two agencies list
the same family, the exchange will
merely notify each agency of this fact,
leaving it to the agencies involved to
confer with each other and decide which
one shall give to the family. All inquir-
les should be received by the Thanks
giving Exchange before November 26,
as it will be practically impossible for
the agencies to make adjustments in
their plans after that date.
The THANKSGIVING exchange names
are not entered in the regular Social
Service confidential exchange index,
are not counted as ordinary inquiries
of the confidential exchange, and are
not permanently preserved.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
AT LOEW'S BIJOU

With the novelty dancing act of Mil
bred Lovejoy and Roy Stever, and their
four dancing partners, under the title of
the Dancing Pirates" and Stuart and
Lash, comedians of the first rank,
Loew's Bijou offers an unusually en-
tertaining program this week.
The colorful act of the Dancing Pr
rates, a snappy revue, with a plot, is one
of the livliest dancing skits that has
been billed at the Bijou this season.
With Lovejoy and Stever and Trim
Conkling, who leades the orchestra dur
ing the act with his saxaphone and
Mango dOrsay, Hazel Macfarlane,
Beatrice Dixon, Kathleen Verkooy and
Anna Woodell.
Ford and Brice in Dancing on the
Silver Thread" tight rope skit, are good.
The laughs of the program, however,
go to Stuart and Lash. These come
dams burlesquing Spanish and Argen-
tine characters and with their dance of
the duel, are a surprise.
Ketch and Wilma, with several new
stunts in ventriloquism and Klass and
Brilliant, musical friends complete the
bill.
'Tess of the Ubervilles," Metro
Coldwyn, super-special, starring Blanche
Sweet and Conrad Nagel is the photo
play for the week. 1t is considered one
of the best scheduled for presentation in
Birmingham this winter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
Salvation Army To Share
Community Chest Success
Wonderful Work Of Organization In Birming-
ham Not Generally Known To Citizens

Few, if any, social welfare agencies
of Birmingham are as fully apprecia-
tive of what the Community Chest
means to its work as the Salvation
Army in Birmingham. and its officers
and those who have its work at heart
are therefore looking forward with keen
anticipation to the success of the Sec
ond annual Community Chest cam
paign, November 1927.
The Salvation Army in its work here
is different to any other organizations
in the Community Chest from the fact
that most other organizations and
agencies feature only one line of work,
while the activities of the Salvation
Army are manifold.
IAN Salvation Army work is reli-
gious and all is charitable" says Major
A. p. Storey. There is our corps work
and the religious services as well as the
religious services in our auditorium.
The fact of doing that work among the
non-churchgoers as well as - poorer
classes of people creates the necessity
for relief and charity. In fact, in our
work the two dovetail."
Just how true Major Story's view of
the situation is, is shown by the fact
that the relief department, in charge of
the majors wife, now has $50 families
listed, each case having been investi-
gated by the "Army's" visitors, and not
being aided by any other agency.
Rescue Home Work
But there is one branch of the army's
work which stands out conspicuously as
showing the real spirit of the Army"
as well as the scope of good done by the
Community Chest in caSes of genuine
distress and the saving of bodies as
well as souls. 1t is the Rescue Home"
for girls on Fifth avenue, south, the
place where every inmate can tell a
story of tragedy, a story of deception
and of broken promises and hearts, but
also a story of having found a harbor
of safety and refuge from the storm
which for time seemed to threaten
their destruction.
DIR. J. Il. Garrison, in charge of
the division of obstetrics, says that he
himself has looked after more than 300
cases of child birth. and for the past
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Elk SERVICE MEN
URGED TO BOOST
ARMISTICEPLANS
Appeal Issued For Co
Operation In Exer-
cises OF Day

A plea to the former service men
of the late World war to; participate
in the Armistice Day exercises, Novem-
Der IL, and to forget business cares
for one day was made Monday by ].
Fred johnson, Jr., commander of the
department of Alabama, American Le-
gion. The statement follows:
"Armistice Day, November II, has
been written into the statutes of Ala
bama as a legal holiday. Let's observe
it. Let's observe it properly. 1t is
your day, comrades. OF course, it is
Americas day. But it is first Of all
your day, by right of having estab-
lished it. 1t is the anniversary of the
day when you brought to a success
full conclusion the most CHASTITY war
of all time. Tyranny was again put
down. American soldiery retracted in
sacred blood the immortal principles
which constitute the heart and soul of
liberty. Again, the star of American
destiny rode high in the heaven.
eve must solemnly and reverently
remember those, our comrades, who
gave the highest MEASURE of patriotic de-
votion. Green be the grass over their
resting place and green he their mem
DRY III Tie utdTtS VI Ihcir living COu-
rades.
But let us reflect the spirit of the
day we commemorate by making this
Armistice Day day of thanksgiving, q
day of patriotic Qualification, and at
the same time a day Of reflection, and
renewal of our loyalty, deepening Of
patriotic fervor and quickening of civic
consciousness.
''It's holiday, comrades. Forget for
a day your business and professional
cares. Join, or rather take the lead,
in making the exercises of the day not
able in your community. And con-
clude the day with deep resolve to be
a better citizen, to keep faith with our
more unfortunate buddies, I to hold
higher the torch which they from fall
ing hands have cast to us. tie our day,
comrades. Let's observe it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
ADJUSTMENTS
AT THE LYRIC

It's seldom that vaudeville act
really stops the show. Yet this very
thing happened Monday night when
Lyric patrons refused to let Al Wohl-
man leave the stage. The monologuist.
billed as the headline attraction, pro-
duced a line of comedy very different
from the usual run of patter.
His first appearance as ''rhe Grad
uate" gave way to a continuous dis
ortation of jokes, intermingled with
several songs, which disclosed good
baritone voice. His comedy was of the
kind that seemed Infectious and Who'll
man was compelled to take nine cur
tain calls.
Two other acts on the program for
the first half of the week were also
we'll received. Fred Whitfield and Marie
Ireland in "Umphs-ville" put across
their skit in rapid-fire order. And as
Paralyser, the belle of Umphsville, Miss
Ireland showed real talent as COM
edienne of the Marie Dressler type.
The only act with any semblence of
a plot was "a Writing Room Wrangle'
by Neil Mack and Vera Welmar. They
meet in hotel writing room ostensibly
as a cowpuncher and chorus girl.
Mack sings and Miss Velmar dances
and both numbers found plenty of APP
plause.
The first act produced some clever
tricks on bicycles. AS THE Furniture
Removers," Valentine and Bell convert
tables, clocks and floor lamps into
unicycles. They steered clear of the
hackneyed stunts during all the act
and the final stunt of the springboard
leap by Miss Bell to Valentines back
as he balanced on a tall wheel proved
worthy of the time spent on its per-
lection.
Dunbar's Bell Ringers closed the bill.
The quintet was versatile, combinding
vocal and instrumental music with their
bell-ringing. The show opened with
Pathe News, showing the inaugural race
on the Charlotte, N. G. track and
Aesop's Fables.
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month the record has been an average
of one baby born every two days. And
all of this in house, much overcrowd-
ed, with those in charge battling brave
ly against great odds to do work
which no other agency has been able to
do so well. During the last nine months
this home has taken care of 113 girls,
and here, between January l and Octo-
Der !, were born 101 babies.
Just what this work and its support
means is probably best stated by the
fact that, according to those in charge,
about IS per cent of the maternity cases
average girls 16 years of age, or under
II, and there are even a number as
young as IA and Is.
Emergency Home
The Salvation Army also conducts
on Eighth avenue, north, an Emergency
Home, caring for women and girls in
transient emergency cases where they
find themselves stranded here without
funds and friends. In such cases they
are not only taken in, but they are ad-
vised and sometimes sent back home or
other provisions made for their needs.
This home is also at all times well
filled.
The Industrial Home for men, at 1916
Fifth avenue, north, has been made a
self-supporting institution, for here the
waste material solicited by the Army"
furnishes the wherewithal to provide
for waste labor. This institution also
provides for the homeless man, who
may be down, but who, according to
Army standards, is never "out."
Other activities of the Salvation Army
include the department devoted to the
tracing and finding of lost ones, carried
on in connection with the relief work,
as we'll as the work in behalf of pa
rolled prisoners, and the Brighter Day
League" devoted to the rehabilitation of
convicts and paroled prisoners.
"The Community Chest is like the
star of hope to hundreds of these I'M
fortunates in Birmingham and no one
can measure the good and potentiali-
ties of what it has done and is doing,
and we all pray for the success of the
second annual campaign, November 49,
81" said Major Storey Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
COUPLE HELD HERE
ON FEDERAL CHARGE
Man And Woman Said To Have
Violated Mann Act

Charles H. Bradley, Pachantes, Miss,
is in the city Jail on government charges
of violating the Mann act, after he is
alleged to have brought a pretty 49,
year-old Atlanta girl to Birmingham
and kept her at hotel here for a week.
Bradley was arrested Monday morn
ing by City Detectives Bragan and Nc
Combs at local hotel where the couple
are alleged to have been registered as
man and wife. Both the man and the
girl are being held pending hearing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
I. C.. FIELDS HERE
ON SOUTHERN TOUR
Secretary Of Manufacturers
Record Visits City

I. G. Fields, secretary of the Manu-
facturers' Record, arrived in Birming-
ham Monday for a two day stop over
before resuming a swing through the
southern cities. Mr.. Fields is here
making final preparations for the "Jub-
lice Edition" of his publication which
is to appear the latter part of Novem-
Der.
He expressed himself as favorably
impressed with industrial conditions
and stated that the executives he had
interviewed were optimistic of the flu
ture. With Mrs. Fields he is stopping
at the Motion hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
MOTHERS

Watch for symptoms of worms in
your children. These parasites are
the great destroyers of child life. If
YOU have reason to think your child
has worms, act quickly. Give the little
one a dose or two of Whites Cream
Vermifuge. Worms cannot exist
where this time-tried and successful
remedy is used. 1t drives out the
worms and restores the rosy hue of
health to baby cheeks. Price 35c.
Sold by AlIcv's Seven Stores.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
COPS ARE THANKED
Birmingham Electric Company Appre.
ciateS Cooperation

T. G. Brabston, superintendent of
transportation for the Birmingham
Electric company, in letter Monday to
Police Chief Fred II. McDuff, thanked
the department for services rendered
the company and public on Halloween
night.
Mr.. Brabston said: at would be
gross gratitude on my part if did not
convey to you at this time my sincerest
appreciation for the most excellent man.
ner in which the property of this com
pany and the safety of it's passengers,
was protected on Halloween night.
Every great credit is due you and
your officers for the most excellent
and effective manner in which they pre-
served order and prevented depreciation
throughout the district"
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PAPERS ARE FILED
BY NEW CONCERN
Handy Utensils Company To
Manufacture Ironing Boards

The Handy Utensils company, Inc.
filed articles of incorporation with
Judge ]. P. Stiles Monday, asking per-
mission to manufacture and sell an
improved ironing board, patented by
w. G.. Nichols.
The applica ton also asks permission
to engage in wOodenware, household
utensil, general furniture and office
supply business. The stock in the new
company consists of 20 shares of stock
of no par value, IS of which are held
by w. G. Nichols, who is president of
the concern. One share is owned by G.
NJ. Parker, secretary treasurer, and G.
G. Anderson, vice president.
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specialize in supplying preliminary boys
to the fight clubs. He got half of the
five dollar purses.
II can be as tough as Muldoon," he
said to himself. 1.-THE big stiff" or
words to that effect.
He can be and u.s.. He has farm
up in the hills and he, too, is rated in
the thick of money. He looks like a
thin-legged broker but he acts like q
wasp. He brings tears to the eyes of
rich men who are impervious to Null
doom.
Must be something in this treat EN-
rough theory. l have always believed
that Ellis Island is about as well run
an institution as there is in the coun-
try, when one considers the inevitable
difficulties of handling too many raw,
frightened, stubborn, often filthy, often
cow-headed immigrants in too small a
space. I still think so. I do not be-
lieve any other country in this world
can or does treat the same sort of peo-
pie under the same conditions nearly as
well. The occasional bowls came, as a
rule, from softies or persons DESTROYS
of large first page place.
But, oh boy, Commissioner Curren
is hard-boiled. Curran was probably
left in the water about nine minutes.
Pop Momand, the cartoonist, called the
other day with warm letter from q
personal friend:
what do you want?" asked Curran,
after reading it. No handshake, no
I'm glad to meet you," no "sit down.
or 'have cigarette"
And when Pop" had explained Cur
ran said no, and turned his back and
left. You get efficiency that way.
Things hop. 1t may be little rough
on the immigrants, but shucks-
Senators and judges and bankers pay
Bill Muldoon and Bill Brown to be
talked to just that way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
MEN PLEAD GUILTY

A. ]. Johnson, PowderIy, Ala, and
l.. G. Taylor, 1927 Arlington avenue,
who were taken into custody Sunday
night by 20 robed members of the Ku
Klux Khan and brought to the Bir-
mingham city Jail, pleaded guilty to
charges of being drunk in front of
the Powdeyly church and paid So fines
in recorders court.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
SEEK NEGRO'S RELATIVES

The family of William Johnson, ne
gro, who dropped dead Monday in
Helena, Ark, are being sought in Biz
mingham by Western Union officials
who have telegram giving notification
of the death. Any relatives of the ne
gro are asked to communicate with
Cunningham and Haraway, undertake
ers, of Helena, who are holding the
body. The telegram may be obtained
BY calling At 1919 First avenue.
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FOR william Frank NaborS, so, who died
Monday morning at the residence, 4424
Avenue B, will be held at $3.50 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon from the residence.
Burial will follow in Forest Hill ceme-
terry with Vice in charge. He is sur
Vived by his widow, three sons and one
daughter.
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Jim Corbett told the other day of
his first meeting with Bill Muldoon.
He was to fight Jake Kilrain in his
first entry in the big time and Mouldoon
was behind Kilrain. He came to Cor
belts training quarters and heightened
the California boy. Always was hard
boiled, was Muldoon. He thought he'd
scare Corbett into the shivers. Cor
bett didn't scare. When i met Null
doom in the doorway I said very mild
like:
Good morning, Mr.. Muldoon."
you're eating too much" said he.
Getting soft"
That's may have been fact but it
wasn't pretty. Yet Muldoon has made
fortune by saying it. Senators and
judges and plump business men 60 to
his farm in the Westchester Hills and
tremble off their fat. Muldoon is the
patentee of the peterborough plan. /
passed his place on the road once as an
United States senator, wet with sweat,
crawled YEARLY through the fence;
THAT old so-and-so," said the sena-
tor, bitterly. 4I'm through. I'll not
let any man talk to me that way"
But he wasn't and he did. None Of
them talk back to the Solid Man. For
one thing, he's just as apt as not to
shake the daylights out of an impor-
tant citizen. He hates cigarettes and
says the poor cooks of this country have
done it more harm than all the liquor
that ever run through a worm. Is
especially down on soggy bread.
Eat what you like" he says, "just
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Mrs. Susan HaygOOd-Funeral services for
Mrs. Susan Haygood. rs, who died Mon
day at the residence. 1874 Fourth ave-
nue. will be held at o'clock Tuesday
Afternoon ofrom the residence with Rev.
Frank Mcdonald officiating. Burial
will follow in Forest Hill cemetery with
Vice in charge. She Is survived by her
husband, Thomas NJ. Haygood; four
sons. T. w. Haygood, w. II. Haygod, w.
5. Haygood, Earnest HaygOod and two
sisters and a brother.
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Fred Pechau-Funeral services for Fred
Pechau, Al, who died Monday morning
at the residence. 2516 Fifth avenue
north, will be held at 1880 o'clock
Tuesday morning from Ridout's chapel.
Burial will follow in Elmwood ceme-
terry with Ridout in charge. He is
survived by his widow and one son.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
Manhattan Days And Nights
BY Herbert Corey

NTEW YORK Nov. 3.--Met William Mudoon the doorway
of the hotel this morning They used call him solid Null
DOOM when he training John Sullivan and Jake Kill
and other mastodonc marvels Still solid 80 Body
like block Of warm marble Hard blue eyes, rough
They say the only Sullivan feared Muldoon
could and would lick the worlds heavyweight cham
pon Maybe by Marquis Or Oueensbery rules but the lick
ing would be delivered.
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+. M. Graham-Funeral services for +. NJ.
Graham, "a, who died Monday afternoon
at the residence, 7O4 Sixteenth street,
Ensiey, will be held at o'clock Tues
day afternoon from the residence. Bur-
iai will follow in Fraternal cemetery
with Womack of Pratt City in charge.
He is survived by his widow; three
sons, ]. +. Graham, 2. II. Graham, T. +.
Graham; three daughters. Mrs. o. A.
Downs. Mrs. Ida Walker. Mrs. Maude
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DEATHS

Mrs, Annie Freeman-The body of Mrs.
Annie Freeman ~, who died Monday
morning at a local infirmary, was sent
Vice for burial. She is survived by her
husband, L. L. Freeman. and five chill
dren.
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Mrs. j. H. Euiott-Edneral services for
Mrs. ]. H. Elliott, 81, who died Sunday
night at the residence of her son. j. G..
Elliott, 923 Thirteenth street, south,
will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday after
noon from -the residence. Burial will
follow in Elmwood cemetery with Lige
10y in charge. Her own sons, j. e.,
n L., C. L., and j. H. Elliott. and
grandsons, e. A. and j. w. Elliott will
serve as pail bearers. Besides these
s. j, McAllister Mrs. K. NJ. Stancill,
and Mrs. Amos Entrekin of Georgia, and
a son, ]. B. Elliott, of Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04

Bill Brown used to have little two
by-four gym down on Twenty-third
street. He made living out of it
or out of something-but he was on
the fringes most of the time. Used to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-04
Oriental Rugs Are Made
Entirely By Hand

Machinery and invention play part in their
production. Their exquisite patterns and color
ings and rugged weaving takes months and months
of patient labor by hands that extremely
skiful-and have known no other work-we
would call them specialists" in this country.
When you have examined them carefully-and
made comparisons-youll marvel that we can sell
them at the very low prices they are marked for
this sale.