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FOR TIB SESSION
Dr. Denny Admits That Sit
uation Is Unsatisfactory
to University
LEGISLATIVE FIGHT
NOW IS UNAVOIDABLE
Mobile City Commission Declining to
Turn Over to University City
Hospital Gives Rise to
Reports
George H. Denny, president of the Uni
versity of Alabama, states that the medi
cal department of the university will not
be moved this year from Mobile to Bir
mingham. Up admits, however, that the
indications appear to oe that the city
commission of Mobile will not carry out
its agreement to put trie city hospital
there in the hands of the university. It
becomes appare.nl therefore that the fight
after ail will be fought m the halls of the
legislature. Dr. E. P. Hogan, one of Jef
ferson’s representatives, will lead the
fight,-and will so conclusively, show Bir
mingham’s superiority, that his efforts
are almost certain to be successful.
Dr. Denny Interviewed
The following was filed by the Tusca
loosa correspondent of The Age-Herald
ai the request of the paper:
“Dr. George H. Denny, president of
the University of Alabama, stated to
day that the medical department of the
University of Alabama would not be re
moved from Mobile to Birmingham this
fall, and so far as he knew, would not
be removed at any subsequent date. He
assigned three reasons for this state
ment-first, the school could not be re
moved by vote of tHe trustees of the
institution, even if they were inclined
to change the location, this being a mat
ter for legislative action; second, the
school could not be changed this year
at any rate sine* it was too late to
make the move; third, lie did not know
that the city commissioners of Mobile
were going to settle the hospital question
in a way which would be unsatisfactory
to the university authorities.
“President Denny stated that when the
question of removing the medical school
to Birmingham was agitated a year or
more ago. the city of Mobile, through
its city commissioners, agreed to put a
•50,000 addition to the city hospital and
to place the control of the institution
in the hands of tHe university medical
authorities. This action was to be made
this year. The Sisters of Mercy* who
had conducted the hospital in the past,
were to be retained as nurses and in
other capacities, but the control of the
hospital was to be in the university’s
hands and the internes, doctors and other
employes were to be under the direction
of the school.
Bondurant Makes Report
“Dr. Denny states that some days ago
he received a letter from Dr. E. L>. Bon
durant, dean of the school, stating that
the Mobile city commissioners seemed in
clined not to carry out their agreement
in regard to placing the hospital under
university control. The statement of the
situation as outlined by Dr. Bondurant.
said Dr. Denny, was unsatisfactory both
to the medical school and to th-- uni
versity authorities. President Denny
states that lie then wrote to the city com
missioners of Mobile, explaining to them
that it would he unsatisfactory to the
university for the hospital to be under
the control *>( the Sisters of Mercy, and
reminding them of the understanding
reached some time ago that the Uni
versity Medical school was to control.
Rime that time, says President Denny,
he has received no word from Dr. Bon
durant or the « ii\ commissioners of Mo
bile. He says he tines not know what
a< tion the Mobile commissioners will
take, but he .admitted that from the s’ate
ment of the case he bad received, the city
commissioners had appeared not to be in
clined lo adjust the matter in a way that
was satisfactory to the university."
Hogan Not Informed
Dr. E. V. Hogan, w ho lias been active
ly engaged in the interests of the medical
department of the University of Alabama,
end who favors its nmoval to this city
from Mobile, was deeply interested, but
not officially informed as to any official
action having been taken to remove the
medical department. Dr. Hogan said
frankly:
“It should he done by all means. We
have many superior claims to the inedicul
department of the university. I am sure
Dr. Denny will make known his plans at
tin- proper time. I prefer not to make
any statement as to tin* situation until
the official action has been taken."
POINDEXTER DROPPED
FROM THE ARMY ROLL
Washington, August 28.—First Lieu
tenant Fielding L. Poindexter, retired,
was dropped from the army roll today
as n deserter. He had failed to obey an
order to appear at the war department
and answer complaints of creditors.
Previously the officer's pay had been !
stopped In a vain effort to make hint
communicate with the department.
Lieutenant Poindexlet is a native of
A irginia, 43 years old, and became a
lieutenant of coast artillery after serv
ing as a volunteer during the Spanish
Amcrlcan war. He was retired for dis
ability in 1908.
PERSONAL
George G. Crawford, president of the
Tennessee Coal, lion and Railroad com
pany, left yesterday morning for Atlantic
City, where he will join Mrs. Crawford
and their daughter.
Carroll Refused Parole
Montgomery, August 28.—(Special.)—It
Was announced at the executive office?
today that the governor has refused to
grant a parole to John Carroll, a white
man of Morgan county, who was sen
tenced to hard labor for violating the pro
hibition laws. Carroll was sentenced by
Judge Thomas W. Wert of the Morgan
law and equity court. He immediately
petitioned the governor to remit the hard
labor sentence.
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Borne of Mualc and Comedy
BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN
OPENING MONDAY NIGHT
**The Heart Charmers”
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OPEVS MO.VD.U- MATINEK-.VIUHT
Keith Big Time
Vaudeville I
•m Offtot Ksw Of«
I j_ IS HISTORY AEGLT TO REPEAT ITSELF?
EX-SLAVES HOLDING |
White People Will Furnish
Food for Big Dinner
Today
lCx-slaves of the Birmingham district
are holding their second annual reunion
at the camp grounds on Tenth avenue
and Thirty-first street, north. The prin
< ipal event will come today when a din
ner will he served to the old negroes from
food donated by the white people of the
community.
At II o'clock this afternoon there will
be u, special gathering at the camp
grounds at which Judge John H. Miller
and J. \V. Chamblee will be among the
speakers. Tonight in front of the court
house the ex-slaves will gather and sing
< Id-time plantation songs, tell stories of
slavery times and as a special treat, Simon
Phillips, general manager of the reunion,
will tell his famous story of the lawyer
and the darkle.
Phillips and others of the committee in
charge will drive through Birmingham
and suburbs this morning collecting the
donation of food stuffs for the dinner
today. There is a big day planned at
the camp grounds tomorrow to which the
white people interested In the old slaves
are Invited. A place will be reserved
for them.
Simon Phillips is a typical old-time
darkey and is possessed of a quaint fund
of humor. He originated the, idea of
having the old ex-slaves meet and have
a good time. He is of the type of negro
that Is rapidly passing away and has the
lespect of the white people who know
him.
Bessemer News !
Bessemer, August 28.—(Special.)—The
following are the teachers elected in the
Brighton public school for the 1914-1915
term: J. F. Huffstutler of Coleman, prin-;
cipal; Miss Marjorie Hall of Forest, Miss
. Hlei Eshelman of.Norwood. Miss Bessie
I Mh> Lovett of Bessemer, Miss Alma Sapp
• i Ensley, Miss Burson of Birmingham,
Miss Marie Huffstutler of Ensley, Miss
Pearl Veroy of Ensley and Miss Eliza
beth Walker of Brighton. The grades
will be assigned to the teachers later.
Myrtle Linton lodge No. 130, Knights of
Pythias, held 4ts regular meeting last
night at the hall on Twentieth street at
which time Edward 1*. Johnson, B. Clay j
Jones and J. W. McConnell, who attended j
the Third Pythian district convention ini
Cullman, made their reports to the lodge j
at the conclusion of which the routine |
business was disposed of.
Dr. T. F. Robinson received a long dis- I
tanee telephone message last night stat- I
ing that his father-in-law, Capt. John W. 1
Marshall, had died suddenly at his homo
at Spring Hill. Captain Marshall was 76
years of age at the time of his death and
had been in good health until stricken
suddenly by paralysis.
Arrangements have be- n completed for
the tliree-act comedy, ' Madame Jarley’s
Wax Work,” which will be presented
Tuesday evening at the nigh school audi
torium. The cast is composed of the fol
lowing: “Maidens All Forlorn,” Miss
Maude Buck; "Man All Tattered and
Toth,” Dr. R. T. Smith; Little Bo Peep,”
Miss Marion Neal; "Dame,” Grey Huff
man: “Two Headed Girl,” David Trotter
and Jack Clay; "Mrs. Wlndslow," Miss
Sadie Sturdivant; "Dude James Fitz
patrick.” John Alden, James Lovett;
"Priscilla,” Miss Mallie Downing; "Ti
tania,” Miss Mary Jacobs; "Grace Darl
ing,” Margaret Berry; “Little Jack
Horner,” Looney Ragsdale; "Waltzing
Girl,” Miss Emma Gum; "Sleeping
Beauty,” Miss Katie Lacey; Prince,’
Owen Williams; "Ophelia.” Miss Esther
Barrett; "Bachelor and Bride,” Miss Mary
Lovett and Herbert Milton; "Ruffan and
Smller,” L. N. Ward and Miss Lena
Terry; “Little Nell,” Miss Grace Judson;
“Little Miss Muffet,” Mrs. W. E. Cun
ningham; “Babes in the Wood,” Dr. R.
P. McTyeire and F. B. Buck; "Giggling
Girl," Miss Berney Gillen; "Deceased Mr.
Jarley,” T. J. Batson; "Peter and John,
two black faced comedians,” G. Dobbs
land Ellis Houstonable. The play is un
der the direction of Mrs. Beulah Martin
of Columbus.
Miss Julia Lawrence "if Livingston is
the guest of Miss Kllse Robinson, at her
home on Berkley avenue.
Mrs. Nellie V. Gaines haa returned home
after spending the summer with her ,
mother in Virginia.
Miss Ruth Worth has returned to her
home in Atlanta after a very pleasant I
visit to Mrs. Pat Moore at her home
on Berkley avenue.
Miss Lillian Ersklne and* brother James
left today for their home '.n Huntington,
Va.. after a three weeks’ visit to Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Cunningham on Dart
mouth avenue.
Walter McDowell has gone to Talladega, 1
where he is spending ms vacation.
J. E. Donohoo left last night for points
in Arizona, where he has gone for the
benefit of his health.
M’ADOO’S COTTON
PLANS APPROVED
BY CONFERENCE
(Continued from Page One)
rommodities are proper collateral for *
loans by banks, and should be so ac- ^
cepted with such limitation as to mar
gin. inspection and valuation as con- ,
servative hankers may each in their dis- ,
cretion see fit to impose.
"4. That the average market value of .
middling cotton for the past six years j
has been in excess of VI rents per pound, |
that the committee is informed that the ]
cost of producing cotton a verages through
out the United States about 9Vi cents ,
a pound, that it is a rule of economy j
and that the production of staple com
modities will decrease if they continue .
unsalable at le«s than the cost of pro- "
ductlon plus a reasonable profit. That
J cotton does not deteriorate w hen properly
warehoused, and is as good 20 years after
it is picked as when it is first gathered:
that it can, therefore, be carried over :
until the restoration of normal ,business <
conditions enables the world's consump- i
tion to absorb it. The committee is.
therefore, of the opinion that every ef
fort should be made to assist the pro
ducers to hold their cotton for a price
that will minimize their loss as far as
possible until such times as the chan
nels of foreign trade shall be opened.
That loans upon cotton made upon a ba
sis of 8 cents per pound for middling,
less such margin as the lender shall con
sider necessary, will afford reasonable
protection to hankers and will greatly'
facilitate the financing of our most im
portant crop In the present emergency.
Not Intrinsic Value
''5. That in suggesting 8 cents per pound
for middling cotton as a basis for loans,
it is not tlie purpose of (lie committee to
convey the idea that that figure repre
sents in their opinion the intrinsic value
of cotton, hut that it is sufficient In their
judgment to meet the requirements of
the situation and enable the fanner to
market his cotton In an orderly and de
liberate manner.”
“H. That in case of tobacco and naval
stores the committee is informed that
when these commodities are properly con
ditioned. stored and insured, they are
practically nonperishable, and that the
committee therefore recommends that
warehouse receipts for tobacco and naval
stores be accepted as security for loans
on a basis that has due reference to their
market value less such allowance as the
h nders shall consider reasonable in view
of the present suspension of the export
demand.
”7. Your committee recommends that
notes having not longer than four months
to run, when secured by proper ware
house receipts for the aforesaid commodi
ties, properly insured, be accepted for re
discount by the federal reserve hanks,
when organized, and that they also be
approved by the national currency asso
ciation as security for additional circula
tion to the national banks under the pro
visions of the Aldrich-Vreeland act as
amended by the federal reserve act.
”8. That a subcommittee be appointed
by you for the purpose of conferring
with the treasury department and the
hanking interests with a view of carrying
into effect the recommendations herein
made.”
The report was signed by a majority
of the committee, including Royal A
Ferris, S. T. Morgan, Lewis W. Parker,
R. G. Rhett. D. Y. Cooper, H. Walters,
Richard H. Edmonds, W. B. Thompson.
J. O. Thompson. William Elliott, F. G.
Ewing, B. L. Mallory, G. Gunb.v Jordan
and Theodore H. Price.
TRUMAN HOTCHKISS
DIES IN CHICAGO i
—
Chicago, August 2S.—Brigadier Gen
eral Charles Truman Hotchkiss, bre
veted for distinguished service in the
war between the states, died here to
night at the age of 82. Since the loss
of a considerable fortune he was once
possessed and the death of his son sev
eral years ago, the veteran had resided
at a home for aged men.
With F. W. Hotchkiss, his father,
General Hotchkiss constructed what is
said to the first telegraph line out of
Uhicago. when they strung wires to
Milwaukee in 1844.
In 1861 Mr. Hotchkiss enrolled in the
i Eleventh Illinois. March 13, 1865, he
was brevetted brigadier general. Gen
eral Hotchkiss took part in every iin
i portant battle in the Atlanta campaign.
Was En Route to His Home
in Florida After Visit
to Tennessee
W. F. Ryall, owner of the Ryall
Publishing: company, and uncle of H.
Scudder Ryall, secretary of the city
commission, while passing through j
Birmingham en route to Florida, died
last night at St. Vincent's hospital.
Mr. Ryall had been spending some
weeks in Tennessee, and had begun his
return trip to his hoftie in Auburn*
viUe, Fla. Me had been a sufferer of
an acute kidney disorder, and arriving
in Birmingham, was severely attacked
by tlie malady. He was rushed to the
hospital and there died. •
Mr. Ryall was 73 years old, and was
well known in the business circles of
Florida, Alabama and Tennessee.
GERMAN STEAMER
IS MADE PRIZE
Kongkong. August 28.—The German
steamer Senegambia, with a cargo ot
cattle and coal, was made a prize yes
terday jointly by the British cruiser
Hampshire and the French cruiser Dup
lied.
The German steamer Ferdinand Laelsz,
which sailed from Yokohama July 2b for
•New York, arrived here tonight, a Brit
ish prize. It is reported that the German
steamers Yorck and Prlnz Waldemar also
have been captured and are being brought
here.
The naval-prize court is sitting today
on its first cose, that of the captured col
lier Elsheth.
Baldwin in Washington
Washington, August 28.—(Special.)—A.
M. Baldwin, president of the First Na
tional bank of Montgomery, spent today
in Washington on his way home from
Annapolis, when* he visited his son at the
Naval academy.
v A Lasting Cure
From the Louisville Herald.
A well-known professor was often an
noyed by two Italians playing a street
organ before his house. Giving his ser
vant some money, he told her that when
ever she heard an organ she was to go
out and pay the owners to take it away.
This was a failure. The men, instead of
coming once a week, came twice.
One day the sound of the organ dis
turbed the professor while working at a
certain lecture. This so annoyed him that
h<* rushed out and ordered the men away.
They refused to go unless he gave them
more money. Enraged at. their imperti
nence. he raced down the street in search
of a policeman.
Just as he turned the corner of the
street he met a sergeant marching nine
patrolmen to their beats. Without speak
ing he turned and walked alongside the
procession. When they turned the corner
the Italians saw' the professor with the
policemen. It was enough. They went
and never came back.
Electric Fan for Yeggmen
From the New York Times.
Working under the glare of a gas light.,
yeggmen broke open a safe in the store of
the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea com
pany at 730 Broad street, Newark, and
stole $500. The loot was carried to the
second floor, where. In the breeze of an
electric fan, the intruders sorted out
scores of papers and envelopes from
which they took the money.
To get into the tea store the thieves
forced a door of a hallway of a building
In Commerce street, forced two more
doors on the fourth floor, placed a ladder
against the tea store building, and
climbed five feet to a skylight, which
they broke open.
P. M. Curran, manager of the store,
found that the combination of the safe
had been broken off and the cash box
chiseled from its place. Many cigarette
butts were scattered about*
Would Never Do
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
I “Ah, my day Is spoiled. I came off
| without my cigarettes.’’
“Algernon will let you have some of
his.”
“Dear me, 1 can’t smoke cigarettes with
another fellah’s monogram on them.”
Good, B’ Jove
From the Louisville Herald.
American Tourist (returning.)—The dear
old statue of Liberty! Say, do you know
what she stands for?
Algy (from Piccadilly)—Why, oi* chap,
■he 'a* no place to sit-ha, hal
! OFFICIAL MAP OF THE WE/
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
WEATHER BUREAU.
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II explanatory' notes.
Observations taken at 8 p. m.. 75th meridian time. Air pressure rndneed ... , .. .
of equal air pressure. Isotherms (dotted lines) pass tbroigb points of equal temperaturTh l uous ''hcsl pass ihr^Jigh polnW
°Clear; © partly cloudy; $ cloudy; ©rain; © snow; © report missing.'.; Arrows^flfwUh tbe'wfnd.^.^i^;^
Weather Forecast
Washington, August 28—Forecast for
Alubama-Georgia: Local thunder show
ers Saturday and probably Sunday.
Mississippi: Thunder showers .Satur
day: Sunday generally fa^r.
Tennessee: Thunder showers Satur
day; Sunday probably fair.
LocaJ Data
For the 24th hours ending at 7 p. m.
August 28:
Highest temperature, degrees .... 88
Lowest'temperature.70
Mean temperature. 79
Normal temperature . 77
Deficiency in temperture since Jan
uary l . 1.50
Rainfall . 0.56
Total rainfall since. January 1.30.24
Deficiency in rainfall since Jan. 1. 4.95
Relative humidity 7 a. m. 95
Relative humidity at 7 p. m. So
Weather Conditions
Birmingham, August 28.— (9:14 p. m.)
An area of low pressure overlies the
country south of the great lakes and
the Missouri valley on the map tonight.
With the exception of the extreme south
Atlantic coast sections. Rain has been
general from Texas. Oklahoma, Mis
soni”’ and lowa eastward, excepting
Georgia and the Carolinas. Showers
occurred also in Florida, and the central
Rockies, and cloudy skies prevailed
throughout most remaining sections
west of the Mississippi.
Temperatures have been moderate
throughout the interior during the past
21 hours. Readings of 80 degrees or
higher occurred at 7 p. m. between the
Rockies ami the Sierra Nevadas, over
Texas, Iamisiana and Arkansas and
over southern Georgia and the Caro
ln as. Fort Worth reported 1.04 inches
rainfall.
Summary of observations made at
United Slates weather bureau stations
during the 24 hours ending at 8 p. m.,
75th meridian time
Temp’ture Pre
High Low cip
To« Last ita
day.N’ht lion.
Abilene . 84 70 .02
Apalachicola . 94 76
Atlanta . 88 70
Birmingham . 88 70 .56
Boston . 72 60 ...
Brownsville . 96 78 ...
Buffalo . 68 rtf*
Uuvrwood . 90 78 .10
Calgary . 52 ...
Charleston . 94 78 ...
[Chicago . 66 6 1 .52
[Corpus Christ! . 90 80 ...
I Des Moines . 72 56 .34
Dodge CUy . 80 68 ...
[Duluth . 58 50 ...
[Durango. SO 48 ...
Fort Worth. 88 1.0 1
Galveston .. 88 82 ...
I Green Bay. 6 1 50 ...
Hatteras . 8 4 7 t ...
I T i ft v re . 76 56 ...
I Helena . 78 62 ...
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Huron . 74 54
Jacksonville . 92 78 .22
Kansas City . 72 58 1.30
Knoxville . 81 70 .30
Louisville . 80 68 .60
Memphis . 82 7 1 .38
Miami . 86 82 .08
Minneapolis . 70 .
Mobile . 88 74 ...
Modena . 82 4 4 ...
Montgomery . 88 70 .52
Nashville . 84 70 .90
New Orleans . 88 72 .14
New York . 72 68 ...
North Platte . 78 54 ...
Oklahoma . 76 64 .04
Palestine . 90 66 .58
Phoenix .•. 102 74 ...
Pittsburg . 70 64 .14
Portland .. 7'4 56 .
Raleigh . 90 70
Rapid City . SI 5<i .02
Roseburg . 80 52 ...
Roswell . 92 62 ...
Salt Lake City . 76 58 .01
Far- Antonio. 76 7 4 ...
San Francisco . 64 52 ...
Fault Ste. Marie . 68 52
Sheridan . so 46 ...
Shreveport . 88 72 .14
Spokane . 82 60 . . . f
St. Louis . 76 64 . 48
Tampa . 92 76 ...
Toledo . 64 64 .50
Vicksburg . 88 72 . 0'6
Washington . 76 68 .40
Williston . 86 44
Winnemucca . 86 44 ...
Winnipeg . 60 50 .08
E. C. HORTON. Local Forecaster.
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1 COTTON IN LAY
‘ PLANS TO ENFORCE
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Meeting in New Orleans Ad
journs to Meet Again
on September 29—Asks
State Representatives
j New Orleans, August 28.—Delegates to
. the Southern Cotton conference voted to
day that they were not empowered with
authority necessary to sustain important
actions they might take to relieve the
present situation ami decided to have
another conference here September 29.
, Delegates to that conference will have
power to enforce thir actions if plans
laid today matrialize.
3 ’Each state president of tlie Southern |
: Cotton association under whose auspices
this conference was held, will be asked
to have each county president call a
meeting of the planters, hankers and
| merchants in his county on September
19. Representatives to the state conven
tion will be selected and each state
convention will meet September 22. These
several state conventions will name del
egates to the conference here Septem
» ber 29. If plans laid today do not mis
' carry the state delegates will come to'
the New Orleans conference with in- I
Btruction8 or empowered to represent their
state in the proceedings as they see
tit.
Hopelessly Divided
The decision to call such a conference
cafe after the conference had become
hopelessly divided on whether a min
1 imum price for cotton should be decided
* upon and what that minimum should be.
* On a resolution to make it 12V& cents
the vote was a tie. Llarvie Jordan, pres
ident of the Southern Cotton association,
* who was presiding, said he did not be
1 lieve it incumbent upon him to cast their
vote on such a question. The situation
I was relieved by J. \V. McGrath of Mis
sissippi, who changed ids vote from
II “nay" to “aye” and moved a reconsid
eration. After extended and heated dis
e cussion an amendment providing for the
e new conference was offered by Prof. J.
W. Connell of Dallas and was unani
e mously carried.
r At the final session this afternoon it
p was decided to instruct state presidents
1 of the Southern Cotton association to
sound the business interests of their re
spective states upon what basis and gen
eral conditions upon which they would
crept, bunded warehouse cotton receipts
lias collateral. They are to report at the
next conference.
e Complete Arrangements
n St. Louis, August 28.—Arrangements
t have been completed for insuring the
n validity and integrity of warehouse cer
tificates issued on cotton stored in St.
s Louis, it was announced at a meeting of
[j the cotton warehouse committee today,
e 'Warehouse facilities for 250,000 bales of
r cotton have been found in St. Louis. The
i St. Louis banks h$ve agreed to loan
h $35 on each bale of cotton stored here.
Arrangements will be made to loan money
>, on warehouse certificates sent here from
e other points to wholesalers and manu
t facturera of St. Louis.
EXTEND TIME FOR
NEW HAVEN REPLY
f New York, August 28.—United Stat •
{ Judge Julius M. Mayer today extended
until September 25 the tipie in which
h the Sew York, New Haven and Hart
ford company and other defendants
may put in an answer in tlie govern
ment’s dissolution suit under the Sher
man antitrust law.
r Since the action was brought the
x government and the road have reached
an agreement and terms of a decree by
i, which the dissolution may be brought
About are under consideration.
INVESTIGATION OF
HOP FIELDS RIOTS
BEGUN BY COMMISSION
San Francisco, August 28.—Investiga
tion of the Wheatland, Cal., hop fields
riots, which resulted a year ago In the
killing of four persons and ‘the sentenc
ing of two Industrial Workers of the
World to prison, was begun today by the
federal industrial relations commission.
Widely circulated reports that testi
mony gathered by private detectives was
used against the convicted men, Fred
Suhr and Richard Ford, were denied
by W. H. Carlin, who prosecuted them.
George L. Bell, counsel for the Califor
nia immigration and housing commission,
declared the vagrant law was used in
California to oppress workers. It was
charged that under this law about 20 per
sons who participated in the Wheatland
riots were held without hearing for
periods extending in some cases to 90
days.
Passengers Transferred
Colon, August 28.—A wireless received
here today from the United Fruit com
pany’s steamer Metapan, aground in the
inner harbor at Cartagena, Colombia, says
she has transferred her passengers, who
will sail on the steamer Colon for New
York.
Files Bankrupt Petition
Montgomery, August 28.—(Special.)
William Richardson, a railroad em
ploye, today filed a voluntary peti
tion in bankruptcy in the federal court
here. Richardson’s liabilities are some
thing over $100, most of which is owed
to money lenders.
Jealous at Wife Leaving
Him, Shoots at Entire
Family in Dale
Ozark, August 28.-—(Special.)—Walter
Reese, colored, shot and mortally wound
ed his wife and her 12-ye.ar-old brother
near Clopton at 2 o’clock yesterday aft
ernoon. His wife left him and went to
Robert Travtors, her father, and all were
in the field picking cotton. Reese appear
ed with his gun and declaring he would
“kill the whole bunch,” he opened fire
on the old man first, but missed. Then
be turned on his wife and the boy.
Deputy Sheriff Teal of Clio phoned for
Sheriff Parrish here, and for dogs from
Abbeville. The dogs failed to 'come and
the negro made his escape.
Fitzpatrick Sworn In
Montgomery, August 28.—(Special.)
Postmaster Clem Fitzpatrick was to
day made custodian of the federal
building, to succeed John S. Hunter,
who was removed. Mr. Fitzpatrick be
came postmaster several months ago.
His designation as custodian of the
building was received in an official
order from Washington.
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