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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
RECORD IS SET FOR DTVORCES
 GRANTED HERE

A record has been established in the number of divorces granted in chancery court during the last two days, according to Izer G. Hood. assistant register in, chancery. The records show that 35 divorces were granted Monday and Tuesday.
 So many applications were re- ceived that Judge c. B. Smith and Judge John Denson, of the civil division of circuit court, were busy Tuesday assisting Judge W. M. Walker of the chancery division.
 Although the total for the past two days was considerably in excess of the usual two-a-day average, Mir. Hood said four or five were granted practically every day., and about twice that many applications for divorce filed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
WOMEN PRESENT
 MEETING REPORT
School Bond Issue Reeonr- mendatien Is Presented
 10 City Commission

Reporting advocacy ef $S000.0O faa xehnnzs aud $750000 far q central Ii hr1ry. q csmmfste reTresenfing the mass ssee4img held Masaay evening in the Chamber @f CGmmerce wnited on the city eeznszissiem at its nesting Tues, day nnsxnim@-
 The cazniTtee was hS hr Mrs ThamAs Bowrua and Mrs Neil Wal Raee. who were aecsmpanied hy several @GheTS-
 Ressaut5ams were offered whieA named the ssunns mentieaed for the pro, posed bond issme fer the impr6Eemeni sf the sity7s e3neatienal facilities.
 Cpxnanixisminer Dseksprh asked if the sease af tAR vnzazs mee&in@ was that thR1e sAsu& he pEeFisiemA fer libraries in tRe <mesnfhsAs He ws1s tal& tkat thz central niArary. whieA serves the entirs casnmmmity. was the only eze eozaAid eTe& nm the present na@weim&nf.
 In rezP@nse to eaestiens bF the com missSanezx, 1t was said the persons whe ataem'Aea the naasS meeting did not et necessity @ffReSAllE Represemt orwaniza- tisms to wh6eh they helongad. and that this had heem breaghk cut at the naass meeting
 The vote fer the szm narned was re ported as 90 to % ait the mass meet. ing
 1t was sWgIes4e9 that the vote of the citiuems on the bond izsue ceu6 be east at the same time as the general elee> s5sm, savimg the city the expense of xnme $25D@-
 PrWszMEmt McLem1sm informed the csanmaFfee that he was fer the library pexxamAHsy, and thAt the eamnissien- CTS wUwka give the submitted reso1a- tlDmg cumsiAex@Einm at am early date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
ROBERTSON TO AID
 CITY ELECTRICIAN
Appointment At $175 Made By
 Commission 'TueSday

E. M- Robertson was appointed as- sistant city electrician of Birmingham by the board of commissioners at. their meeting Tuesday.
 The post carries a salary of $175 d month The new official begins his work as of March 15.
 The electrical department of the city comes under the supervision of Com missioner W. l.. Harrison. The great increase in the number of new houses and business structures being erected in the city has made it necessary, it is said, to increase the number of supervising officials in several depart a1ents during the last six or eight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
BIG BRICK ORDER
 PLACED AT TAMPA
Birmingham Man Produces An
 Order For 50O,OO0

A Birmingham man has stepped down in Florida and sold 50O,OOO Bir- mingham brick-iargest single order on record in the Gator state, to the owners of the Tampa Tribune, who are about to erect a new. skyseraper plant.
 John w. Sibley, secretary of the Bir- mingham Clay Products. company, tLFned the trick. The newspaper or dered Sibley face brick, named in honor af the man who made the record sale.
 Mfr Sibley teIegraphed The Age Herald about his good luck Tuesday night. He mentioned, incidentally, that Sibley face bricks have been used in the construction of several other large buildings in Tampa, notably the Citi- zens bank building, the Hillsboro hotel and the Stovall office building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
COURSE COMPLETED
Y. w. c. A. Cabinet Members At How
 ard End Training


 ard End Training Y. W. c. A. cabinet members at Howard college have just completed an intensive course in training under the instruction of Miss Stella Scurlock, na- tional field secretary of the Young Woman's Christian association.
 The new cabinet members who will serve in the session of 1924-25 are Miss Mabel Willoughby, Gordon, Ala, president; Miss Daisy Hoo yer, East Lake, undergraduate rep resentative to the national Y. W. c. A. Miss Willie Mae Hardy, Birmingham, vice president; Miss Elizabeth Foster, Birmingham, secretary; Miss Elizabeth Sadler, Birmingham, treasurer; Miss Virginia Wall, Huntsville; Miss Mayme Thompson, Alberyille; Miss Kather- inc Milking, Birmingham Miss Helen Bass, Bessemer Miss Vera Scott, Bir- mingham; Miss Katie Smith, Bir. mingham; Miss Frances. Newman, Bir- mingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
TRAFFIC MEASURE
 DELAYED 4 WEEK
Commissioners Unwilling To Kill
 Turns Just Yet

Elimination of both right and left turns at the intersections of Nineteenth and Twentieth streets and First and Second Twentieth streets and First mad Second avenues came up at the commis- sion meeting Tuesday morning, but went over for a week to give time for further consideration.
 Commissioner w. B. Cloe presented the measure and urged its adoption, but President D. E. McLendon and Commissioner W. E.. Dickson, though
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
TO SELL PROPERTE.
Preston Motors To GS Oa Amcs;s.
 Block ABriI 6

All property of the bankrupt Prnshun Motors corporation will be sead mf anc- tion April at the former Plant No. I on the Vanderbilt road, it was decided Tuesday at conference uf creaifprs, federal officials and Receiver John Coxe.
 The company was adJudged insoauenE May 10, after a stormy existence finally resulting in changes of wiaaafInx "blue sky" laws. The case was thrown out when the court held that the -1baae sky statute under which they were held was unconstitutional.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
INJURED NEGRO DIES

Jim Woods, negro, who was struck over the head by an unidentified assaiI- ant at the North Birmingham furnace of the Sloss-Sheffield company Sunday. ernoon. Outside of stating that he was struck by a negro following a gambling game, Woods was unable to throw any light upon his assailant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
DELEGATES NAMED
Howard College To Be Represented Al

HhOW1ru OU1icSo ID D6 TSepFesenteu Al
 B. Y. P. U. Meeting
 Howard college representatives to the western district conference of the Baptist Young Peoples Union, which will be held in Tuscaloosa Thursday and Friday, have been announced as fol- lows: George Albert Neely, of the senior class, and Mir. Avery of the freshman class, representatives from Joy union of the college B. Y. P. U.; Miss Maud Stacy and Ranzy Buckner, representatives from the IXL union.
 Mir. Buckner and Mir. Rogers, of. the college B, Y. F. U., have been chosen as speakers at the conference,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
CONDUCTING CLASS
Miss Hannah Reynolds Is Special
 Teacher At Howard

Miss Hannah. E. Reynolds, young peoples secretary of the Woman's Mis- sionary union, sen. out by the state Baptist headquarters at Montgomery, is conducting training class in Wom- ans Missionary union methods at Howard college this week.
 Glasses are being held each morning at the chapel hour and majority of the coeds are taking the training.
 Miss Reynolds is also conducting the vesper services in the girls dormitory each evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

open to conviction. expressed themselyel as unwilling to vote for the ordinapce until they had given the subject mofs Srniv ssl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

There is said to be more electric bulbs used per capita in Sweden than in any other country, not excepting America, but certainly far less current is used
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26
DEATHS

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-26

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
FARMERS TO BEGIN
USE OF PYROTOL
War Salvaged Explosive Clears
Lands Of Stumps

ENTERPRISE, Ala, Dec. 81. -
Especial. )-Farmers in this county are
becoming interested in using pyrotol, a
war salvaged explosive, for stamping
and clearing land. r. G. Arnold,
county agent, reports that several farm
ers have placed orders with him and
that he is combining them to forward
to the department of agriculture engi-
neering of the Agricultural college at
Auburn, where all pyrotol orders for
Alabama farmers are being handled.
Additional interest was aroused at a
demonstration on the farm of J. E.
Pitman this week where pyrotol was
used by L. G. LeBron and NJ. H. Pear
son very effectively in blowing up
stumps. The demonstration was at
tended by 25 farmers who became
convinced that pyrotol is not only
satisfactory, but that it is cheap
method for getting rid of stumps and
clearing land.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22

as an institution was not and is not now
justified. Many other states of the
unon operate successfully without it.
Alabama has done so and she can and
should do so again.
Tribute Paid Artist
Governor Kilby paid tribute to the
painting of the artist, Sasanoff, which
had just been unveiled, and which is to
remain in the corridor of the prison.
1T was a beautiful idea and it has
been handsomely executed" he said. He
referred to the helpful effect to be ex-
pected ON the lives of the prisoners
through contact and association with
the work of the artist. All men who
have committed crimes. are not crimi-
nails at heart, and it is a mistaken idea
that men in the penitel larry are not
susceptible to good influences, he said.
At the same time, he pointed out, pris-
oners who are NOT criminals at heart
can be made so by unjust treatment.
Not only should convicts be treated hui
namely, but when they are discharged,
the state and society have duty to per-
form to them, Governor Kilby declared.
"The state should maintain out of The
earnings of the convicts a sufficient
number of parole officers charged with
the duty Of assisting discharged prison
ers in securing employment and other
wise establishing themselves and in
keeping track of them until they get
good start in their new life," he said
Let us hope that such plan, or some
better, may be worked out"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
LASH DENOUNCED
BY THOS. E. KILBY
Continued From Page One.

building up of SURPRISES and the spend
ing of them for material benefits.
while I'm proud of the achievements
of my administration in material mat
tiers, L am much more proud of what
was done by it for the spiritual and in
tellectual welfare of the people of the
state.
Others Come First
"If were compelled to wipe out the
record of the establishment of the budget
system, the taxing system, the securities
commission, the workmen's compensa-
ton law, the good roads amendment,
the port amendment, and other things
which affect the material welfare of
the state, or to retain those things and
destroy the progress made in education
and public health work, the child well
fare department, the home for the
mental interiors, the expansion of the
boys industrial school and the training
school for girls, the new prison at
Speigner and the rebuilt prison at We
tumpka, this great prison where we
are here assembled, and the reform meas
ures for penitentiary administration, l
should not hesitate for a moment be-
tween those things of strictly material
benefit and those which were designed
for the better education and the better
health of our citizenship and for the
better care of the infirm and unfortunate
wards Of the state.
'"There are greater things than those
which concern food and raiment and the
comforts and luxuries of life. In my
opinion, the highest function of govern
ment lies in the making of better men
and women of the citizens of the state
and in safeguarding human rights. The
surest way of raising the standard of
the citizenship of Alabama is through
the education of the children of the citl-
zens and one of the most important
elements in the process lies in the con-
servation of the health of the people.
Public health is the foundation of which
rests the happiness and largely the in
telligence of the people. These are
common f.. e truismS, universally ac-
cepted facts; Blu they cannot be repeated
too often.
Lash Called Barbaric
among the human rights to which
1 refer is that of decent and humane
treatment of those unfortunate wards
of the state who are helpless to protect
themselves against oppression and mis-
treatment. l hate cruelty hate in
justice and l hate oppression, especially
the cruelty, the injustice and oppression
of the petty boss over those within his
power. L say in all sincerity that my
order for the adjustment of the whip
ping post in the penitentiary has given
me more genuine satisfaction than l
have derived from the order to the state
treasurer to retire half million dol
lars of the bonded debt of the state.
Moreover, must dissent from the opin-
ion held by some that the restoration of
that cruel relic of barbarism was ne
cessary to the maintenance of order and
discipline in the prisons, at the mines
and at camps where state convicts are
employed. l will not say that its tenn
porary use was not justified at the time
it was restored, to meet an extraor-
binary and difficult situation-an or
gained mutiny-but l do maintain that
the permanent restoration of the lash
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
HUGE INCREASE
MROADBUuDlNG
SEEN I'm NATION
Every City Of 5000 Popu.
: lation To Have I'm
proved Highways
LEASED Wire To Age-Herald.) J

WASHINGTON. Dec. p. Every
city of 5000 population in the United
States will be on an improved road in
1881, the federal bureau of roads est
mated today on the basis of a contin-
uation Of the present nation wide road
building program.
K Every state in the union met the
$75,0e0,OO annual federal road aid
dollar for dollar" in 1924, resulting in
the construction of 1900 miles of i'm
proved roads during the year. Differ
ent acting states, independently, built
about the same mileage, while counties
improved between 10000 and $4,000
miles.
Forty state legislatures meeting next
eral-state road system which contem-
plates III 900 miles of road under the
federal aid act. The act authorizes
federal aid totalling $54O,OO0,0 900 and
every state Is forging ahead with state
appropriations to match the federal
fund. ..e
In his message to congress President
Coolidge announced his opposition to
continued federal aid.
But even in the event congress ac-
off federal aid, officials of automobile
associations and others in touch with
the countrywide road building believe
construction will continue under the
impetus given it by federal aid.
The improvement of main highways
In almost every state has created a
demand from other sections of states
that the improvement be continued
these officials say, aud therefore they
expect the present accelerated construc-
ton to continue, until the country is
covered with a network of good roads
serving practically every community.
The $1,000, 100000 annual tax bur-
den for roads is being shifted largely
to the automobile owner, the figures for
1924 and estimates for 1925 show.
Motor vehicles are increasing at the
rate of 10000 a year, and next year
will. see total registration. of 1,50O,-
600, it is predicted. Under the motor
registration system, these vehicles will
pay $500, 100000 or nearly one-third of
the entire road building cost, into the
state treasures. Gasoline taxes also
contribute to the state building funds
in many states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
5 DEAD, 7 HURT
IS FINAL TOLL
IN 500 WRECK
G. M. Wittichen, On Way
To Visit Birmingham
Relatives, Escapes
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ivy ASSUCIdtCu hOcosJ
CHIPPEWA FALLS, s. D. Dec: 81.
The Identification today of the body
of Miss Mae Morrisey of Stevens Point,
Wis, set the casualties resulting from
the plunge of a Minneapolis, st. Paul
and Ste Marie observation car into
the Chippewa river yesterday definitely
at eight dead and seven injured. All
passengers of the ill-feated coach ap-
parently have been accounted for.
THE DEAD
Besides Miss Morrisey the dead were ::
Barbara Spencer, baby; Mrs. Harry
Jones, Sioux City Ia. Charles NJ.
Pardoe, Minneapolis; Miss Florence
Higus, daughter of Pardoe, also of
Minneapolis; Kenneth ]. Henderson,
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada !;
Richard w. Sharp, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, and John Dunn, New York
The list Of injured showed no change
today. OF those most seriously hurt
were NJ. L. Spencer, dean of the School
of Journalism of the University of
Washington and Harry Jones, Sioux
City. Spencer, whose wife's fingers
were frozen and whose badly died in
the frigid waters of the Chippewa, was
injured internally.
Car Is Removed
Work of removing the death car from
the river was completed today. Twisted
and battered from its fifty foot plunge
from the bridge after splitting switch,
the car was dragged from the water by
two huge cranes. Search of the wreck
age failed to reveal any additional
bodies and those in charge of the work
expressed the belief that all the victims
had been accounted for Reports that
two other hodies had been seen in the
water shortly after the coach took its
plunge could not be verified.
An official injury was started today
with Harold E. Stafford, district at
torney, and officials of the 500 Line
pursuing separate investigations.
Fight For Lives
Mrs. Spencer and a Miss Lawson,
the only occupants of the cafe section
of the car besides a porter and cook
were hurled from their seats when the
car turned over and were battered by
the movable furniture. Submerged in
the icy water that poured in through
the broken windows the two women
fought their way to the upper end of
the car where John Lewis, the porter
assisted them out. They perched on the
outside of the car for half an hour
before rescue came. Two men in the
crowG attracted to the scene of the
accident peeled off their sheep-lined
coats and cast them from the trestle
to the half frozen wcmen.
1T was all too horrible" Mrs.
Spencer said today, II can't talk about
it. 1t all happened so suddenly we hard
ly knew anything. There came bump
ing of the wheels of the ties and the
next minute water was pouring into
the car"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
MRS. DUGGER BURIED

AUBURN, Ala, Dec. 21.-(Special.)
Funeral services were conducted here
Yesterday for Mrs. J. +. Digger, who
died Friday night following a brief i'll
ness. She is survived by her husband,
Prof. j. F. Digger, for many years a
member of the faculty at Alabama
Polytechnic institute her mother, Mrs.
M. L. Camp of Auburn, three sons,
j. F. Digger, Jr., Llewellyn G. Digger,
both of Montgomery county, the Rev.
Ambrose Camp Digger, Baptist mis-
sionary in Brazil, and three daughters,
France, Magaret and Dorothy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
Girls OF Belrin
Snip Own Curls
And Blame Ripper
(By Associated PreSs)

BERLIN, Dec. 21.-Denied par
entail permission to have bobbed hair,
high school girls in the downtown
section of Berlin have resorted to
novel expedient.
Complaints were mad. to police re-
Gently that supposed Jack the
Ripper" had cut off the hair of a
number of girls. An investigation
was made and the suspicion of the po-
lice was aroused W! en- they learned
that in each case the girl had brought
home the braid of hair which was
supposed to have been cut off by the
ripper" 1t did not take long to
find that the girls shipped off one
another's hair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
IL WARRIOR BARGES
ON WAY TO MOBILE
Tuscaloosa To Be Converted
Into Packet Boat

MOBILE, Ala, Dec. 21.-(Special
Leased Wire)--Only the approval Of
Gen. T. Q. Ashbourn, director Of the
Inland Waterways corporation, and Of
Secretary of War Weeks is awaited
to launch one of the steps re commended
for the improvement of the Warrior.
This is confirmation of the contract
with the Alabama Dry Dock and Ship
building plant to convert the self-propell-
ed barge Tuscaloosa into a packet boat,
oil burning, with a capacity of 90 tens
of freight.