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New Britain herald., 1924-03-08
STAGEAwSCREEN

The Palace thcater offers an inno- vaion on Monday when. in connec- tion with the presentation Of Gloria Swanson in The Running Bird. there will be a stage prologue by three performers from inc Moulin Rouge in New York. These Parisian danc- CTS will. among other things. faith fully execute the famous Apache dance which forms one of the big scenes or the picture. There also will be an augmented orchestra for this picture. Among the stirring scenes , is one iH which Miss Swanson. as an Apache girl. leads the wolves Of inc Montmartre" to service with the French forces during the world war.
 The Robbins Family. a household Of seven people presenting delight ful comedy sketch in which all take ! part from the father and mother down 10 the little tot" will be one ot the attractions at the Capitol start ing Monday, while an unusually good feature booked for the last half of next week will be The Springtime i Revue" direct from the Hippodrome in New York. The troupe has ten of the original Hippodrome girls in the cast The sketch is a lengthy one and ctaboraiely staged, three room scenes ! being used.
 Tiger Rose" one of the big photo dramatic productions Of the year. will open at the Lyceum tho seventeenth Of this month. This coming week the Lyceum retains the Checker Girls re- Nue. and the management promises something new and different each night as an added spcciaity.
 Among the big time features that are soon to show at tho Capitol arc Al Fuckers society orchestra and Ruth Budd. Concerning Miss Budd there has been much in the paper within the past few years. She is re- garded as one Of the prettiest girls on the stage and not so very long ago, according to newspaper stories, she and a well known female impersona- tor were enamored Of each other and sought a marriage license. For some reason the license was refused. This created quite a stir at the time. but the fact remains that Miss Budd sill Is unmarried and her erstwhie female impersonating lover is elsewhere do- ing his stuff
 Scaramouche, the famous story which ran as n serial in the Herald" 1 several months ago, has been filmed l by Rex lngraham, and will open at i the Palace on March l6. Last week | this picture broke all attendance rec l ords at the Capitol thoater on Broad- way. Another of Booth Tarkington's in- imitablo stories Boy O'Mine," has | been filmed and this attraction will be 1 brought to the Capitol theator within i the next few weeks. as will that fa- nous drama, Common Law" To give Brock rembcrton additional |
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08
NEWyY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC

Tn two of Charming Pollock's plays two actresses found their opportuni- ties to rise above obscurity. Ii was in '''The Little Gray Lady that Pau line Frederick made her first appeaez anic as an actress and in ''rhe Fool'' that Sarah sotherA found her greatest chance as Mary Margaret. the crip- pied girl. Mir. Pollock plans to write q play for Miss Sothern.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

Mary Ellis. now appearing in The Merry Wives of Got ham," signed five year contract with Arthur Ham merste!n and will bc featured by him next fall in a musical comedy now being written by Otto Harbach and oscar Hammerst ein. 2.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

Ira. I; k strvcHs thinks she is tHs unlr vomsH Boltea drsE sergeant fu fh" country. EIFe-s on duty in Los srge''a. I" her riiizsua report s-ar. thtHg .rem statn -iugs to mis- laid hUAyanls aud wives.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

\ branch box office for the Hippo dromc theater in New York has been opened in inc subway entrance at Broadway and Forty-second street, opposite inc Times building
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

Another of Booth Tarkingtons in- imitablo stories. Boy O'Mine," has been filmed and this attraction will be brought 10 the Capitol theator within the next few weeks. as will that fa- nous drama. common Law"
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

Scaramouche, the famous story which ran Is n serial in the "Herald" several months ago, has been filmed by Rex lngrahan, and will open at the Palace on March i6. Last week this picture broke nll attendance rec ords at the Capitol thoater on Broad- way.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

Marshall NeiIan. Goldwyn director. has been stricken with appendicitis. and his wife. Blanche Sweet. is his nurse. The latest telegram from CuI- yer City. Cal. is that an operation may not ba necessary.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

Josephine Drake has been engaged to play in Sweet Seveiteen," the new play Of Harvey O'Higgins and Harriet Ford, which opens in the Lyceum the Gter. New York. March l-.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

To give Brock rembcrton additional
New Britain herald., 1924-03-08

Gloria Swanson in The Running ird, "a tuneful title - a co'orful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30
ROOSEvELT'S TOUR
TO MATCH SMITHS
G. o. P. Nominees Program Calls
for 1875 Meetings in First Is
Days of Drive.
by the Associated Pres.

by the Associated Pres.
NEW YORK, September 30-Repub-
lican leaders have announced plans
for a speaking tou- by their guber-
material nominee, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, that will match, II not sur
pass, that mapped out by supporters
of Gov. Smith, the Democratic aspi-
rant. The plans call for 1875 meetings
during the first IS days of Col. Roose-
velt's upstate camIaign. Most of his
speeches will be delivered from the
rear platform of q special train that
will carry the Republican nominee
from one end of the State to the
other.
A notification ceremony apropos of
Col. Roosevelt's domination will be
held at his home Cove Neck. about
2 miles from Oyster Bay. tomorrow
night. An invitation to the ceremony,
signed by the Republican State COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30
OIL HEARING IN CANADA.
Contempt Charged to Witness in
Sinclair Case.

TORONTO, Ont, September 3o.-
Contempt OF court proceedings
against II. S. Osler, president of the
Continental Trading Company. for his
refusal to give evidence bearing on
the dealings of his company with II.
f. Sinclair, the United States oil mag
nate, Were postponed Indefinitely yes
terday because of a death in the fam
lily Of A. w. Anglin, counsel for Os-
Ter. Decision will be made tomorrow
as to the time the case will be pre-
scented.
Thursday was mentioned as the
possible date for the motion to COM
NIT Osler. and the condemnation
to set aside the commission appoint
ed to take the evidence or to set up a
Canadian commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30

mittee and sent TO the entire citizen
ship OF Oyster Bay. reads as follows;
col. Roosevelt invites all his friends
and neighbors to attend the notifica-
ton ceremonies at his home on
"Wednesday evening, October /. Music.
fireworks, automobile parade. Meet
at Oyster Bay town hail., at 1880"
Gov. Smith will open his campaign
Thursday night with a. speech at
Madison Square Garden, where John
w. Davis, Democratic presidential
nomine e, also is scheduled to speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30

Of tactics at the American War Col
1eGe in Washington in 1919. has been
made commander of the Legion of
Honor in recognition of his services
in the war and in the campaign in
French Morocco The citation recalls
that Gen. de Chambrun participated
in Is campaigns, was once wounded
and was once cited in an order of the
army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30

devotion of men from all walks of
life in an effort to find the best pos
sible safeguards against tfre hazards
of our complicated present-day life"
Officials estimate the attendance at
approximately 1000 delegates from
all parts of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30
SAFETY OF LABOR
SOUGHT BY DAVIS
Department Head to Ask
Appropriation to Begin
Research Work.
BY the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. September 30
Secretary Of Labor James J. Davis
disclosed in an address before the
National Safety Councilfi which opened
its thirteenth annual meeting here
yesterday, that he proposes to ask for
AN appropriation with which to pro-
vide for safety research work in the
Labor Department.
Our fundamental need in the
fight for safety in industry is facts"
Mr. Davis said. without them we
are working in the dark. We are,
nationally, like a physician, who
would undertake to treat a patient
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30
HONOR PERSHING'S AIDE.
Gen. AGelbert de Chambrun Made
Commander in French Legion.

PARIS, September 30.-Gen. Adel-
bert de Chambrun, who was one of
Gen. Pershing's aides during the
World War, and who was a professor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-30

without first making diagnosis Of
his ailment. You cannot MAKE a
true diagnosis without facts
Points to BE Covered.
Mr.. Davis declared he favored
legislation TO cover three major
points:
Provision for collection of all in
formation, data and statistics as TO
industrial accidents and their pre-
vention, together with industrial d.
seases and their prevention, by the
Federal Department OF Labor, CO.
operating with State agencies en-
gagged in such work.
Provision for publication and dis
semination of this information
throughout American industry By the
Labor Department.
Provision for maintenance by the
Labor Department in Washington of
an industrial safety exhibit where
plans and devices for safeguarding
the American worker might be as
sembled.
Now National Problem.
Safety as IAN essential Of national
progress was discussed by Richard F..
Grant, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States.
1T is matter of great public con-
Germ and interest" he declared. that
the question of safety has now as
sumed national proportions and now
is enliSting the unselfiSh work and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28

went to Paul Acton of Birmingham.
Biology prizes were awarded to John
w. Rooney and Miss Lila Mae Contey.
Degrees Conferred
DIR. Snavely conferred degrees and
delivered diplomas to 76 ef the II mem
bers of the graduating class, the abb
sent one, r. e. Tyler Jr., being at
Emory university.
Sixty members of the class received
bachelor of arts degrees /; twelve were
and five secured the master of arts
degree.
Four Mthodist leaders were honored
at this exercise by having conferred
upon them the Doctor of Divinity
degree of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES These
were: w. e. Morris, pastor of the
Norwood Methodist church; George
Stoves, pastor of West End Methodist
church, Nashville; r. r. Ellison,
presiding elder of the Montgomery dis
trict Claude Orear, pastor of the First
Methodist church at Tuscaloosa. All,
but the last named, were present the
Tuesday exercises.
Seniors graduating were, Miriam
Baker, Anne Greene, Earl McBee and
Louis William Sims, Mildred Baker,
Joe Cecil Cameron, Marjorie Craig,
Robert F. F. Hill, Sarah Latham, Mar
jorie Ormopd, Lafayette L. Patterson,
Leverne Preston, Ruth Williams, w.
o. Barrow, j. B. Beard, Elizabeth
Colvin, Raymond Grove, Chapman
Curry, Dwight Darke, Allie Bess Har-
per, John Hawkins. Mary Howard,
Eula Pritchett and Rosa Mae Warren
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
CORONER FINISHES
4 INVESTIGATIONS
Verdict Of Second Degree
Manslaughter In j.
T. Loves Death

Verdict in four deaths, three from
traffic causes and one from shooting,
were announced Tuesday by Coroner
J. d. Russum. Second degree man
slaughter was the verdict announced in
the death of Isaac Taylor Love, aged
newsman, killed Friday by truck
driven by Glenn Hooks, negro. Hooks
has been confined in the county jail
since the occurrence. His. bond was
fixed at $1,000 upon Recommendation
of J. r. Tate, special prosecutor.
THE evidence showed that Hooks
steering apparatus and brakes were in
bad condition, and he had no signal" "
the coroner said after the investigation.
ut was virtually a case Of criminal
negligence" he added.
Verdict of unlawful homicide was
returned in the case of John Coleman.
negro, charged with the killing of Isiah
Turner, another negro, several days
ago. Coleman escaped and has not
yet been arrested. No reason was as
signed for the attack, the coroner said.
Verdicts of accidental death without
criminality were returned in the cases
of billiard Harris, negro, killed when
struck by an automobile last Satur-
day, and Mary e. Black, negro wom-
an, killed in an automobile accident
at Thirty-sixth street and First ave-
nue. May Is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
THINKS ALABAMA
PLACE FOR SHEEP
E. A. Beeler Calls Attention To
Barbecue Next Month

E. A. BoA'er. Montgomery county
sheep raiser, I'd through Birming-
ham yesterday route home from
Arkansas, where lie attended the flu
neral of his father.
Mr.. Beeler is an enthusiast on the
possibilities of sheep raising ip Ala
bama. He comes from the western
country after years of experience in
the business and those who have asso-
ciated with him say he knows what
he is talking about and is giving visible
demonstration Of what can be done in
Montgomery county.
Just now we are particularly in
terested in the barbecue which our as
ISOLATION holds annually In Montgomery
county" said. Mr.. Beelers This year
it will be about June 20. At that time
we men who believe in sheep get to-
gether and try to show others what we
have been doing during the year.
Its all right to give an Alabama
farmer facts and statistics, but the
thing that impresses him most is what
he can see with his own eyes"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
FUNERAL OF BATES
TO BE HELD TODAY
w. d. Clark At City Jail On
Charge OF Murder

Funeral services for Samuel Bates,
age Is, who was shot and instantly
killed at 10 80 o'clock Monday night
by w. ID. Clark, Pearl avenue and
Sixty-fifth street, will be held at 2
o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Vices
Woodlawn parlors. Burial will be : in
Elmwood cemetery.
Clark told police Tuesday that he
would plead the "unwritten law" Ac-
cording to the story told by himself
and his wife, he killed Bates following
fight over a shot gun, after Clark,
returning home unexpectedly, found
him choking Mrs. Clark in her bed.
He stated that he and Bates both
tried to get shot gun that was in the
corner of the room and that he was
successful, only after he had struck
Bates on the head with a stick. Bates
body was found by police officers lying
face down in the back door, shot
through the back of his head.
Following the shooting Clark called
police headquarters and Chief Tom
Christian, Sergeants Rodgers and
Crump and Detectives Cole and Propst
rushed to the scene. Clark is in the
city Jail on a charge of murder.
Bates had been boarding at the Clark
home a number of months, according to
Mrs. Clark, and for the past few
weeks had been annoying her for some
time, .s
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
'DRElVNEN UNDER
BOND OF $1,000
Solicitor Says Indictments
viii Be Followed
With Vigor

Charles e. Drennen, charged with
reckless driving and driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated was rearrested
Tuesday bye Deputy Sheriff Henry
s. Hill, after grand jury ( indictments
were formally returned against him.
He made bond of 81 900 and was re-
leased Immediately. *
No date has yet been set. for his
trial, but Solicitor Jim Davis an
nounced that he hoped to begin it as
early as possible as step toward max
ing the public highways safe. Dreh-
men was arrested after a collision be-
tween the car he was driving and. one
driven by a negro ON the Twentieth
street hill over Red Mountain.
This bringing of reckless ,automo-
bile driving cases directly before the
grand jury" said Solicitor Davis, lis
something new, but we believe it will be
effective. When cases 90 into the rec
orders court they. are appealed and drag
along unfortunately until people forget
them. We want to get action and have
proceeded in thisi case because Mr.. Dren-
men was convicted in recorders court
Of similar offense before.
I'VE must make our highways safe
and we shall : roceed in this: case with
yigor." ,ss s.ass az
The solicitor also called attention to
the penalty in the criminal court for
such offense upon conviction, which he
said was a maximum of six months in
jail and $500 fine or both. +.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
PROF. ALLEN LOEHR
SPEAKS AT SCHOOL
rs Graduate From Jones Val
=. ley High This Year

Prof. Allen G. Loehr Of Birmingham
Southern college was principal speaker
at the commencement exercises of Jones
Valley High school. SO
Twenty-six senior students of the
school were granted diplomas at the
exercises by G. w. Phillips, principal
of the school, The exercises opened
with the singing of commencement
Song" by members of the graduating
class. Rev. NJ. NJ. Davidson gave the
invocation.
The salutatory address was given by
Miss Eugenia Baker and Glenn Sand
lin delivered the class presidents adj
dress. Miss Theo Lawson and Miss
Baker gave piano solos. Miss Alma Cox
was class valedictorian.
Those receiving diplomas were:
Gladys Acton, Eugenia Baker, Vivian
BOhanan, Pauline Chappell, Tom Con-
way, Alma Cox, Elizabeth Cox, Benja-
min Davidson, Myrtle Edins, Ruth Guy,
Anrea Hays, Maude Kennedy. Margerie
Lawley, Theo Lawson, William Laatsch,
Elsie Orr, Angea Hays, Glenn Sandlin,
Gladys Sizemore, Robert Smith, Lester
Townsend, Louise Veasey, Kathleen
Wilkins, Ruth Williams, Bessie Wooten.
James Waits.
: The ''Oraele." annual publication of
the students of Jones Valley high. has
been issued and is said to be one of the
most artistically arranged books the
school has issued in several years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
RATE CASES ARE
UP FOR HEARING
Public Service Today Is Holding
Sessions In Birmingham

The Alabama public service commits
sion was engaged ali day Tuesday in
Birmingham in hearing rate cases and
will continue in session Wednesday at
the Chamber of Commerce. Chairman
A. g. Patterson and Titzhugh Lee Of
the commission will leave Thursday for
Ashland, where they hear an applica-
ton for rate adjustments on the Ala
bana Northern railroad. Commission
er Frank Morgan will go to Hanceville
to hear petition for better loading ia
cilities.
The commissioners for the Birming-
ham hearing are Accompanied by j. ID.
Oliver, representing the Montgomery
Chamber Of Commences traffic bureau,
and q. M. Weatkerly, rate clerk of the
commission. Most of Tuesday was
given to hearings On the petitions for
adjustment of fruit and vegetable rates
from Birmingham, with especial refer
ence to mixed carload shipments. Pro-
duce men testified and the railroad rep
resentatives submitted their evidence
with the exception of the Southern,
whose representative was not present
but will be on hand wednesday, it was
stated.
Other cases set for hearing include
rates on stoves and ranges and the case
of the Birmingham Paper company in
connection with. carload rates on pa
per tables shipped from Birmingham
to j0bbing points in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
GENERAL SIBERT
And RAIL HEADS
KIWANIS GUESTS
Port Development AT Mo-
bile Subject OF
Address

Addresses by General w. L. Sibert,
w. L. Mapother, president of the Lou
isville and Nashville Railroad r. B.
Pegram, vice president of the Southern
railroad, featured the weekly luncheon
of the Birmingham Kiwanis Club
Tuesday in the Ballroom Of the Tut
wiler. hotel.
General Sibert, who, with the rail
road officials has been called to Biz
mingham to discuss ways and means
of providing adequate viaducts to re-
lieye the traffic congestion, was. intro
ducer by Robert A. Porter, one of the
members, as an engineer of interna-
tional reputation.
The general did not discuss viaducts,
but another project on which he has
been engaged for several months, the
development of the port of Mobile as
the natural outlet fol- the products of
Alabama and adjoining states.
He described in detail the difficult
ties he and the other engineers had en-
countered, mentioning specifically the
problem Of obtaining the cooperation
of the railroads and the unwillingness
of owners of swamp lands needed in
the ports development to accept rea-
SOudDl6 pElCG IOE Juem.
Our next problem is to attract COM
merce to that port" he said. ITO do
that, we are already building ware
houses, and other projects are also un-
der way. We hope eventually to use
it for the shipment of practically all
manufactured goods. from this part Of
the. country timber from the Pacific
coast and grain from the northwest"
The officials. of the Louisville and
Nashville and Southern RAILROADS were
guests of the club and not on the pro-
gram for addresses, but responded when
called upon by the POSTMASTER. They
spoke enthusiastically of Birmingham's
future as an industrial center.
Julian Saks spoke briefly on the
duty of members to the club and stress
ed the need of regular attendance and
loyalty to the organization and city.
Thomas M. Lide and T. A. Nickel
were formally introduced as new mem
bers of the club. In the absence of
Darby Brown, president, Cicero Black
well presided as POSTMASTER. Guests
included the five members of the city
commission r. ai-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
BIG CLASS READY
FOE THE GROTTO

Eight hundred candidates will be
initiated at the ceremonial session of
Kamram Grotto. Mystic Order of Yelled
Prophets, Wednesday night at the Ma
sonic temple.
All candidates are requested to re-
port at the temple Wednesday after
noon at 4:3O O'Clock for registration,
A concert by the band and kanters will
be staged at z o'clock, and at Z 80
o'clock the ceremonial session will be-
gin.
The usual parade and banquet will
be dispensed with, but after registra-
ton, lunch will be served to the candi-
dates and workers. in the dining rooms
Of the temple, Secretary Kirby re-
quests the candidates to report promptly
in order to avoid delay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
PLANT TO COMPETE
IN SAFETY CONTEST
Cement Branch To Enter Cam
paign For First Time

For the FIRST time SINCE 1t was open
ed. the Birmingham branch plant Of the
Lehigh Portland Cement company will
compete in the national safety campaign
that. Is put on annually by the head Of
fices Of the company,
The general plant Of the campaign is
to award a trophy to the plant that can
operate during the entire month of
June without an accident serious enough
to cause loss of time of any employe,
Mass meetings, circular letters to en-
ployes' families and series of stunt"
meetings have been adopted by the
safety committee of the Birmingham
plant as means to further interest in
the campaign. II. 7. MacFetridge, su-
pArintendent of the local plant, is back
ing the movement and a strong effort
Is being. made to bring the coveted tro-
ply to Birmingham this year.