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LIABILITIES
Capital Stock.1
burplus and Profit*• 1.
Reserved for Taxes.....
Circulation . 1.
(Reserve for Dividends.
reserve for Interest.
Bills Payable Secured by U- S.
Certificates of Indebtedness
Customers* Letters of Credit. .
Interest Collected not Earned.
DEPOSITS
Individual.$24,285,815.65
Bank . 4,727,982.77
L. S.209,428.61
federal Reserve Bank
Atlanta, Fiscal
Agent. 1,190,000.0#
The First National Bank
•f Birmingham. Alabama.
Statement, December 31, 1919
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts.$19,592,177.3
2.118.1
Overdrafts
U. S Bonds (Par). 1.500,000
IJ. S. Treasury Certificates... 2,698,000.0
Liberty Loan Bonds . ..
State of Alabama Bonds.
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank
Other Stocks and Bonds......
Banking House...
Other Real Estate.
Customers’ Liability Account
Letters of Credit.
Interest Earned not Collected.
CASH
In Vault.$ 942,743.78
With Banks. ... 6,796,525.49
With U. S. Tr.. 7 0,000.00
Writh Federal
Reserve Bank 2,833,734.63
608,482.'
127.000. 0
90.000.0<
1,420,769.2
250.000. 01
16.350.6i
679.171.6
31,583.2!
9,643,003.9.
$36,558,656.8!
,500,000.01
691,814.7.
28.618.71
336,697.51
46.000.0!
130.800.01
700.000.01
679,171.64
I33.332.3i
30,413,226.92
$36,658,666.81
TO VISIT THE CITV
Lieut. Maynard Making
T^nr in Interest of Re
cruiting Campaign
jLieut. B. W. Maynard, the “Flying
Parson," is expected to arrive in Bir
mingham the first of next week, accord
ing to information received at the local
army recruiting station. He is making
a flight from Mitchell Field, Long Island,
to each main recruiting station along the
Atlantic seaboard, and as far west as
New Orleans, Little Rock, Louisville,
:Len through Tennessee to Washington.
He will fly from Savannah to Birming
ham, using the same plane in which he
Tiade his transcontinental flight. It has
)een recommended by the Birmingham
Flying Club, which is composed of avi
ators, that he land on the field of the
Dixie Flying Corporation at West End.
The flight of Lieutenant Maynard is in
lie interest of the recruiting campaign.
Maj. H. B. May, assistant recruiting
ifficer, returned yesterday from Etothan,
a here he has been in the interest of the
•ecruiting campaign. He reports splen
1 id results during the first month of the
Irive. The main party with Captain
Truxes of the Sixth cavalry in charge,
insists of thirty men, and will proceed
text to Opelika and then to Tuscaloosa.
Japtain Gordon of the Twentieth field
irttllerj' of Camp ^ragg, N. C., carrying
77 MM. gun and the necessary trucks
md tractors is in Anniston this w*e%k
jiving exhibitions and endeavoring to
eeure recruits, with fine results, if 7s
tated. This party will visit all towns
r. the northern part of the state, and in
l few days the Eleventh Infantry Band
ind a platoon will join the main party.
REALTORS DISCUSS
CLASSIFIED ADS AT
WEEKLY MEETING
A short but snappy meeting of the
(irmingham Real Estate Exchange was
eld at the Southern Club yesterday aft
rnoon. Various forms of advertising
■ere discussed by John C. Henley, Jr.f
nd members of the Exchange.
Display and direct forms of advertls
were advocated by Mr. Henley in
reference to the use of classified ad
ertising. He also advocated more ad
ertising for real estate men and said
lat in his opinion their business war
nted a large advertising programme.
The classified page as an advertising
edium was strongly defended by sev
■al members of the exchange and H. t*
arrish. Mr. Parrish told or the begm
ing of the “classified advertising and
id in his opinion it was much prefer
le for real estate advertising than the
"When you run a big display ad in the
unday paper and sit around listening
>r the telephone call of your client
ionda3> morning and the phone doesn t
ng and vou run a small classified ad.
uesdav and receive numerous answers
it during the day you are pretty sure
n, become convinced that the classified
> is the most effective in advertising
:a! estate," Jerome Tucker told ment
is of the exchange.
ohn C. Henley Speaks on Various
Forms of Advertising, Advo
cating Display Form
ANE TO ADDRESS
FATHERS AND SONS
pr, Charles Lane, southern humorist
nd lecturer, will be the principal
leaker tonight at 7.30 o'clock at the
inquet to be given at the Southern
ub, it was announced by the Birming
am V. M. C. A., under whose auspices
r i.ane is appearing in the city.
The banquet tonight is being held in
mnection with "Father and Son
•eck” and the speaker will address
ie -athering of fathers and sons on a
ibiect appropriate of the occasion.
Dr. Lane will remain over In Birming
am through the week-end, and will ad
ress the gathering Sunday afternoon
l the Strand theatre at 4 o'clock at the
,„,,lar Sunday afternoon services for
irn conducted by the Young Men's
hristian Association.
IORACE CHISOLM
TRIAL POSTPONED
ppp 0 case of Horace Chisolm, a
.-ro, at one time condemned to hang
r robberv, and whose case was re
used hv the supreme court. was
lied again yesterday, hut continued.
The action was taken on the motion
the solicitor who informed the court
at the state had applied to the su
•eme court for a rehearing in the
ise. Until a decree is rendered by the
gher court the case will remain
tnding.
The case should It not have been
LSSed by tbe state for the above
ason would have gone over for the
isence of Mrs. Lois Brus. the mairt
itness for the state, and one of the
torneys in the case.
m
•test Variety—Largest Stock la the City,
.WILCOX
ELECTRIC CO.
313 N. l»th St.
2 Phene*—Mein 422 end US9.
5ALES—'WIRING—REPAIRING
TO
OFFICES CREAT
BY 0. S.
INISTRAT
BE DISCONTINUED
Orders Effective March 1,
Birmingham District
Traffic Committee Will
Have Meeting Today.
Continue Office
Orders have been issued by
the United States railroad ad
ministration discontinuing all
offices created by the adminis
tration since it took over the
control and operation of the
railroads on January 1, 1918,
the order to become effective
March 1.
Copies of the order were received in
Birmingham yesterday and officials and
employes of the various bureaus, com
mittees and other agencies operating
under the railroad administration were
notified during the day.
The Birmingham district traffic
committee, Clarence IT. Pearson, chair
man; A. J. Ridgeley, O. L#. Bunn and R.
Q. Cobb, associate members, will hold
its final meeting this morning, sign all
necessary papers and reports and start
the files and other documents on their
way to Wahsington. Mr. Pearson and
Mr. Ridgeley represent the railroads
on the committee, and Mr. Bunn and
Mr. Cobb the shippers. Mr. Pearson
was assistant general freight agent of
the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
at Cincinnati prior to his appointment
on the committee August 1, 1918,'and
Mr. Ridgeley is assistant general
freight agent of the Louisville and
Nashville at Montgomery. They will
return to their former positions, it is
understood.
HELD FORMER POSITIONS
Mr. Bunn is secretary-treasurer of
the Birmingham Traffic Bureau and
Mr. Cobb is manager of the traffic bu
reau of the Mobile Chamber of Com
merce. They did not relinquish these
positions while serving on the district
freight committee. Mr. Bunn and Mr.
Pearson are the only members who
have been with the district committee
continuously since it was created nine
teen month ago.
The Birmingham operating commit
tee. of which Col. H. E. Hutchens is
chairman, wrill wind up its business
early next week, and Colonel Hutchens
expects to return to Washington the
last of the week, where he will resume
his position as special agent of the
Southern Railway. The order discon
tinuing the various offices, issued by
Regional Director B. L. Winchell, is as
follows:
“Effective March 1, 1920, by order of
the director general of railroads the
following offices will be discontinued
and all officers and employes thereof
will be released from service of the
United States railroad administration:
Regional director, federal managers,
general managers (federal), general
superintendents (federal), terminal
managers (federal), southern freight
service bureau, local operating com
mittees, southern export committee, car
efficiency committees.
TO RELINQUISH CONTROL
'‘On the above date the United States
railroad administration will also re
linquish control of the following:
Southern freight traffic committee, dis
trict freight traffic committees. Atlanta
freight tariff bureau, Louisville
freight tariff bureau. New Orleans
freight tariff bureau. Richmond freight
tariff bureau. Florida perishable serv
ice bureau, southern freight inspection
bureau, southern classification commit
tee, southern passenger traffic commit
tee. consolidated ticket offices.
“Please arrange to give necessary no
tice of cancellation of leases covering
office spaces so far as the railroad ad
ministration is concerned.
“Further instructions will be issued
as to disposition of offices and furni
ture.
“Employes who will be pleased un
der this order who have been trans
ferred from other cities and desire to
return thereto, and who will not take
service with railroads and so receive
free transportation after March 1,
hsould be released February 28 so that
they may receive transportation to
their home cities.
“B. L. WING HELL,
“Regic/al Director.’’
“Approved:
“WALKER D. HINES,
Director General of Railroads.”
Paul Raisley, chief clerk in Colonel
Hutchens’ offiee, will go with him to
Washington in the capacity of secretary,
which position he held before coming
to Birmingham the latter part of 1017.
Mrs. Louise Douglass, stenographer,
will not take another position.
JOINT TICKET OFFICE
The joint ticket office at 2010 First ave
nue, established in the summer of 1918,
will be continued for the present at least
by the railroads, it is understood, but the
impression is that eventually it will be
abolished and the old system of each
road maintaining its own city ticket of
fice re-established. This will not be done,
however, until the traffic departments
are reorganized and the owners get things
moving along smoothly under their own
management and control.
Whether the express companies will bp
reorganized when the government turns
them back to their owners on March 1 is
Ir.ot yet known. Following assumption of
control of all express companies by the
government they were consolidated into
one corporation under the name **' the
American Railway Express Company.
Prior to this action there were half a
dozen or more companies operating *ex
pifcss lines, among them the Southern,
the Adams, the Wells-Fargo. the United
States, the Pacific, the American and one
or two others.
SPENCER GIVEN
LIFE SENTENCE
Negro, Fugitive for Ten ^ ears, Con
victed of Murder of Capt. Byrd
Young In 1910
Fred Spencer, p r.egro. was found
guilty of the murder of Capt. Byrd
Young yesterday^ morning and sentenced
to a life term in the penitentiary.
The case had been given to the jury
in Judge Dan A. Greene’s division of the
civil court early Wednesday afternoon.
The crime for which Spencer was con
victed was committed in April, 1910, near
Dolomite Spencer at the time was in
hiding after having wounded a negro
woman in that vicinity. Captain Young,
a deputy sheriff, was riding on a road
near Dolomite and Spencer, seeing the
I deputy' approaching, is alleged to have
shot and killed him.
Following the shooting the negro wa>
a' large until captured about a month ago
by officers of the Philadelphia police
department.
Journeymen Plumbers
Ask Reconsideration of
| Repeal of Section Ten
Commissioner Burruss Opposed to Reconsideration of
Measure and States It Has Nothing to Do With Scale
of Wages Paid Plumbers, But Is Aimed to Pre
vent Combination to Destroy Competition
Commissioner Henry Page liurruss
told representatives of the journey
man plumbers in Birmingham yester
day morning that there would be ab
solutely no reconsideration of the re
peal of Section 10 of the plumbing
ordinance, if he could help it, and that
he believed the entire commission was
with him in this stand.
In effect. Section 10 provided that
plumbers, to ply their trade in this
city, must first pass an examination
to qualify as journeymen plumbers.
It was said that this provision was
excluding man after man from the
trade, some of them plumbers of long
experience and capable men. but who
did not pass the examination.
The number of available plumbers in
the efty was becoming so greatly re
duced, it was claimed, that at a recent
meeting of the board of city commis
sioners repealed the section, throwing
the plumbing business open to any
capable man who could hold down a
job, as far as the municipality was
concerned.
Yesterday morning at 10 o’clock a
committee of journeymen plumbers
appeared before the city commission
ers to hold a conterencc regarding the
possible reinsertion of Section 10.
It was explained that a journeyman
plumber is merely a trained artisan in
the employ of a master plumber, or
plumbing contractor. They held that
since the city required teachers and
others to qualify for their work
through examination, it was only just
that a trade that is so closely con
nected with the upbuilding of the good
health of the city should be protected,
and the citizens protected through an
examination being held to prove these
workers capable of doing the class of
work the well-being of the city de
mands.
PUBLIC HEALTH
They held that the public health of
the citv was jeopardized by the city
allowing anyone to take on a plumb
ing job. with the employing citizen
having nothing more to prove tht
worker by than the presence of his
kit of tools.
With Interested attention the com
missioners listened at length to what
the journeymen plumbers had to saj%
and when they had concluded Dr. N.
COUNTY INSTALLS
BERT1LLON SYSTEM
Begin Taking Pictures and
Measurements of Prison
ers This Morning
Criminals in the county jail will un
dergo a new experience tomorrow raorn
when, when several of their number will
be marched before the camera under th€
Bertillon system put in operation at th€
courthouse yesterday.
For over a year the plan has been
thought out by the sheriff and other
county officials, and yesterday a special
camera and all the paraphernalia con
nected with a first-class Bertillon office
were set up in the jury commission room
on the fourth floor of the courthouse.
A. M. Bivins, for some time connected
with the Bertillon office at the city jail
has been placed in charge of the county’^
system, and yesterday had erected
screens and backgrounds for “mugging'’
the various criminals whose pictures, be
sides their records, will be kept by the
sheriff.
\V. S. Brannon, head of the city Ber
tilion office, with whom Mr. Bivins has
worked, assisted the new' county officer
in starting the system, and W. < \ Wilson,
a local photographer, gave instructions
in the operation of the camera to b£
used in the work.
The camera for this work is a very
powerful instrument and capable of re
producing every facial mark of the man
who sits in front of it.
The new Bertillon system is expected
to add greatly to the work of the sher
iff’s department in keeping a minute
record of every criminal that is brought
to the county jail.
ART LEAGUE OFFERS
“CIVIC ART” LECTURE
Interesting Programme Arranged
For Meeting Tonight at the
Tu’twilcr Hotel
The Alabama Art League will hold a
meeting tonight in the ballroom of the
Tutwiler hotel at 8 o’clock, for which
an interesting programme and business
meeting has been arranged.
Dr. J. H. Phillips will be one of the
speakers of the evening and a most un
usual lecture has been arranged by D.
O. Whildln on “Civic Art.” Dr. X. R.
Baker will talk on the value of an art
organization for Jefferson county in the
Birmingham district. Hugh Martin will
I act as president, and after the pro
I gramme there will be a business meet
! ing for the purpose of the adoption of
i a constitution.
The Art League is a new' organiza
f tion. but Miss Margaret MeAdory. who
| is secretary, believes that its utility
will cause it to grow and prosper.
BIBLE LECTURES AT
HIGHLANDS CHURCH
This morning at Highlands Methodist
Church Miss Augie Manning Taylor will
speak on “The Condition of the world at
the Time of Christ."
The series of 10 Bible lessons under the
general topic “God’s plan for the Ages,
was begun by Miss Taylor last Tuesday
morning and will be continued at 11
o’clock *iaeh morning through next Fri
day.
The lesions are given in the auditorium
of the church w'hen people of all denomi
nations gather for the l>enefit of th*
spiritual truths so clearly presented by
this consecrated teacher. The subject
tomorrow morning will be “The Mission
of Christ.”
---1-—
| Naomi, Jetber’s sweetheart, finds bin
in the arms of Tisha.
“Who is she, so strange, so fair?” she
1 criod, tremulously.
Ahab bowed low.
•The joy of all Jerusalem-—the most
beautiful, the moat superb. Tisha, whom
all men worship—Tisha, the beautiful. By
what name shall 1 announce you?”
I “Naomi-” the girl hesitated. “Nay,
say nothing—I am gone.”
From “THE WANDERER” at the Jef
ferson Theatre tonight, tomorrow mati
nee and night.
A. Barrett, president of the board of
I commissioners, turned to Commissioner
Burruss. under whose department the
matter comes, and asked him for an
expression of opinion from the city’s
anu the citizens’ standpoint.
In part Mr. Burruss said:
“I recommended the repeal of Sec
tion 10 of the ordinance concerning
plumbing, and which repeal has been
made, because it had become the con
viction ot many citizens, as well as nfy
self, that this examination tended to
foster a grinding monopoly on plumbing
in Birmingham. It is a matter of uni
versal notoriety, and has been for
many years, that this business charges
exorbitant prices for its work. There
is a combination, in the belief of the
people of Birmingham, in this oily that
has destroyed competition and not only
kept prices'high, but has been forcing
them higher and higher, until today
they have reached intolerable, heights.”
At this point of Mr. Burruss’ re
marks the journeymen plumbers dis
claimed any connection with the so
called plumbers’ trust.
DESTROY COMBINATION
Continuing, Mr. Burruss said: “Then
if you have no connection with
trust, it is your duty to help the peo-V
pie of this city to destroy that trust
and combination, and in doing this you
will be rendering your town and Its
people a great service, and at the same
time pave the way to place the
plumbing business on a better and more
legitimate basis.
“Not only harassed citizens, but
many plumbers have called my atten
tion. from time to time, to this mo
nopoly.
“The city has never interfered with
the wages the journeymen plumbers
have made, therefore you should not
attempt to interfere with the city in Itr
effort to euro this evil. And it is up
to you men who work at the trade to
co-operate to that end.
“Section 10 stands repealed, and if 1
have any influence, it will stay re
pealed. I believe the other members
of the commission and the citizens
are with me in this attitude.”
The plea of the journeymen plumbers
will come before the commission later
at. a regular meeting for official con
sideration.
By-Product Ovens at Boyles
Are About Ready for
Operation
Influenza and car shortage together
caused a decrease in coal production
in the Birmingham district last •week
of about 40,000 tons under the previous
week, according to reports made to the
Alabama Coal Operators’ Association.
The output for the week ended Febru
ary 14 was 320,805 tons, compared to
about 360,000 tons the preceding week.
The car situation is getting worse,
the operators report, and railroad men
say there is no Immediate prospect of
improvement. The railroads haven’t
the cars nor the motive power to
move them if they had them.
No new cars have been bought by
the roads in a year or more and until
the private owners get control and as
certain their financial condition none
will be ordered liven after orders for
cars are placed it will be many months
before deliveries can be made, it is
stated.
At some of the mines in the Bir
mingham district, the operators report,
as high as 50 per cent of their em
ployes are out of service on account
of influenza, and as some of the men
recover and return to work others are
taken down with the disease.
Normal production is not expected
for some time, is the view of a number
of operators, and tome of them even
predict still lower production for a few
weeks. The output for the present
week may not exceed 300.000 tons,
whereas the requirements of the dis
trict and of the zone usually supplied
by Birmingham are something like
400,000 tons a week.
The by-product ovens of the Bir
mingham Coke and By-Products Com
pany near Boyles will be ready to go
in operation probably next week.
President Morris }\\ Bush of the com
pany stated that everything is about
ready for work to begin. This com
I puny has already contracted for th-v
j disposal of a large amount of the gas
malic at the ovens to the rivet com
pany and other industries in that
vicinity, and arrangements have been
made for the disposal of the other by
products.
Work on the Sloss-Sheffleld Steel
and Iron Company’s by-product ovens
at North Birmingham is progressing
satisfactorily and they will probably
be ready to go in operation by the
first of April. Delays in the delivery of
materials retarded construction work
at this plant, which officials of the
company expected to have completed
by last November.
NEW TITLE FOR
INSURANCE FIRM
Ed S. Moore and Bee McGriff. Inc., is
the new title of the well-known insur- j
anee firm that formerly was Ed S. I
Moore, incorporated, “Nothing lyit In- j
1 sura nee.”
| Mr. Moore will retain his position as t
j president of the company and Mr. Me-|
Griff will be vice president. The staff j
of men who have been with Mr. Moore ;
for so many years will not be changed. !
It was on January 1, 1911, that Mr. j
j Moore started the firm that has since!
known such pronounced success. This
j was after Mr. Moore had returned from
i a year's sojourn in Atlanta, to Birming
■ l am. bringing with him the agency of
J the United States Fidelity and (Juaran
i tee company.
' The business volume increased so
! rapidly that it was not long before Mr.
j McGriff was called from the local man
I ageinent of the Bradstreet office to
j take over a part of the business on a
! partnership .basis.
j From the start the partners held to
j the policy of nothing but insurance, and
I in this way drew to their offices the
j agencies of great institutions of inter
| national standing, and the company is
now recognized as one of the leading
insurance concerns of the south.
CYREYK C OM H \ >DEKY
The Sir linights are requested to
>0ee« at the Nn«onk< Temple Friday.
2sl.*» p. m., for the purpose of conduct
ing the funeral service of •Or Knight
Thomas It. Dlaiker. The aervleea will
be held nt the temple.
J. UlUiiL.il, Commander.
NO VIOLATION OF
BLUE SKY LAW,
MAJOR TEBBETTS
Prominent Man Arrested
Yesterday In Connection
With Advertisement.
Nothing Offered
Declaring that he had vio
acted by the legislature at its
last session, state officials yes
terday afternoon caused the ar
rest of Maj. William F. Teb
betts, who has been in Birming
ham the past few weeks in the
interest of certain Texas oil
properties. The warrant for
Major Tebbetts’ arrest was is
sued upon the affidavit of Wil
liam C. Oats, executive officer
of the Alabama securities com
mission, which is charged with
the enforcement of the “blue
sky” law.
The arrest was made at the Tutwiler
hotel, where Major Tebbetts is stop
ping-, by Deputy Sheriff \Y. M. Burge.
Major Tebbetts accompanied the officer
to Judge 11. B. Abernethy’s office,
where he was later released on $1,500
bond signed by A. R. Fulenwider and
Matt Murphy.
The “blue sky” act, one of the ad
ministration measures passed by the
legislature at the summer session last
year, imposes a heavy penalty for the
sale or offering for sale of shares of
capital stock of corporations not au
thorized by the state securities con|mis
sion. The penalty is a fine of not less
than $100, nor more than $5,000, or im
prisonment not to exceed seven years,
or both.
The preliminary hearing will come
up next Tuesday. *
The advocates of the measure, when
it was pending in the legislature,
stated that it was intended to pre
vent the sale of fraudulent or spurious
stock in the state, and to protect the
citizens against jobbers of worthless
stocks. As originally drawn It was
very drastic, hut amendments modified
it to a great extent.
SAYS LAW NOT VIOLATED
Major Tebbetts stated yesterday aft
ernoon that he had not violated the
law; that before performing any act
or doing anything in the state with ref
erence to his company he first had the
law examined and obtained the opinion
of legal experts as to its effect. He
says he was assured that what he in
tended doing would not be in violation
of any provision of the act.
Major Tebbetts came to Alabama in
1899. at the conclusion of the war with
Spain, in which he saw service as an
officer in the American army, and sub
sequently was appointed by Presidents
McKinley and Roosevelt collector of
the port of Mobile, which city he still
claims as home.
He joined the army at the outbreak
of war with Germany and when dis
charged a little over a year ago. be
came interested in the Texas oil fields.
When seen at the county solicitor’s
office Mr. Oates, executive officer of the
Alabama securities commission, who
swore out the warrant, stated that
Major Tebbetts had applied for permis
sion before the Alabama securities
commission to operate under a pro
posed syndicate plan.
He stated that his visit to Birming
ham was merely to assist the solicitor
in enforcing the law.
Speaking of his arrest, Major Teb
betts last night said;
blue sky” law en
MAJ. TEBBETTS* STATEMENT
“My only purpose In writing the ar
ticle on “The Great Oil Industry of
Texas’’ was to explain or illuminate ai
least to some extent the subject of oil
operations and developments in general
and about which there is so much in
terest at present,” stated Major Teb
betts. “My advertisements were but
a means of bringing to the attention
of several of my perosnal friends in |
Birmingham a plan of operations
which I formulated for the development
of some valuable lease holdings which
T control in the new Kemp-Munger
Allen oil field, Wichita county. Texajr
“Neither the article nor my advertise
ments referred to were ever intended to
be in any manner, shape or form an
offer for sale of ‘speculative securities,'
or any securities of whatever kind
or character in any way in conflict
with the act of the last state legislature
called the ‘blue sky’ laws. T am not
offering nor have T any such securi
ties of any kind or description for
sale, and even if I had offered for
sale or sold units of participation in
my proposed syndicates, it was clearlj
stated to me in person by the mem
bers of the state securities commis
sion. at a recent session of the com
mission in Montgomery, also by the
executive officer of the commission
personally, that under Section 2. sub
division 7. of the act such offer or sale
of interests in leases as contemplated
in my syndicate plans, in amounts in
excess of one twenty-fifth of the
whole, to any one person would not
be a violation of the act and is clear
ly and particularly excepted under that
act.
COMPLIED WITH LAW
“While 7. also, have a letter from
the executive officer of the state se
curities commission Getting forth cer
tain particular requirements of the
commission to be complied with be
fore a permit to sell or offer for sale
in Alabama units of participation in
my proposed syndicate in any amount
less than one twenty-fifth of the whole,
to any one person, which requirements
would ordinarily, in due course, have
been fully complied with, I wished in
my advertisements to bring my pro
posed syndicate plan of operations to
the attention of several of my friends
with a view to enlisting their interest,
at least to the extent, of securing then
acceptance of my invitation extended
them in person to be my guests on a
trip to the oil fields of North Texas
and particularly to the Kemp-Munger
Allen field, and with a further view of
possibly interesting them sufficiently
to form a syndicate among themselves
under my proposed syndicate plans or
some other and which they fully un
derstood.
“This trip was to be made, if possi
ble, at the same time when the execu
tive officer of the securities commis
sion could make the trip required of
him under the ruling of the commission
for the purpose of*confirming my state
ments regarding this field, my^lnterests
in some valuable lease holdings in tha*
field, also plans of proposed syndicate!
operations, thus saving considerable
expenses neoe*»ary and incident to the
j trip of the executive officer of the
' securities co amission, and particularly
I expediting 7. s investigations and to
I pave time fo~ my friends and myself
I which is mod valuable in a rapidly
deVeloping ©i. field'’
For Your
Children's Sake
provide for their future. A little self-denial and sys
tematic saving by you now may mean that they will
be educated instead of ignorant when they are
grown.
Try a Savings Account
American Trust & Savings Bank
ot Birmingham, Alabama.
Member Federal Reserve System.
OFFERS:
G. R. McCormack, Chairman of Board.
W. W. Crawfofd. President. C. M. Williamson, Cashier.
H. L. Bsdhnm, Vice President. II. H. K Jefferson. Asst. Cashier.
J. K. irk man Jackson, Vice President. Alan J. Daly, Asst. Cashier.
G. L. LEMON & CO., CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
BIRMINGHAM - - - ALABAMA
ANNOUNCEMENT
In order to expedite the handling of INCOME TAX MATTERS, including REFUND and
ABATEMENT CL.AIMS, we have opened a branch office in Washington, D. C., 1301
G Street, N. W., Telephone Main 994, with a competent accountant and tax expert ini
charge. Offices ATLANTA, BIRMINGHAM, CHATTANOOGA. WASHINGTON.
NOTHING BUT REAL ESTATE
We are offering for sale one of the best and most centrally located pieces of property
on North Twentieth Street. If you are interested in something unusually attractive
and close to the hub. see us at once.
Main 8.
A. A. GAMBILL REALTY COMPANY
Jefferson County Bank Building. Birmingham, Ala.
Between 2,000 and 3,000
Cases of Influenza In
Birmingham--Dr. Dowling
Health Officer Says Physicians Not Reporting All Cases.
Heavy Demand for Nurses and Death List In
creases—Dr. Dowling Repeats Warnings
Previously Issued Regarding Disease
Many more cases of influenza are present in Birmingham
than have been reported, is the opinion of Dr. J. B. Dowling,
chief of the municipal department of health.
in fact, the department is getting a
relatively small number of reports. The
reason for this, it is believed, is that
the doctors of the city are now too busy
to bother with making reports.
There has been a moderate increase
in the number of deaths reported, which
also indicates to the city health author
ities a wider prevalence of the malady
than the reports received would show.
Calls for nurses have been made from
day to day, but of late, in most in
stances, the department has been able
to put the callers in touch with nurses
FUND FOR SUNDAY
SCHOOLS GROWING
Encouraging Reports Received From
Canvassers at Luncheon of
Workers Yesterday
At the close of the second day of the
Birmingham Sunday School Association
campaign yesterday, the total of sub
scriptions to the 2W.OOO fund needed for
the next two years’ budget had been ma
terially increased, but renewed cffoct will
be necessary during the remainder of the
campaign, it was declared.
Encouraging reports were received,
however, at the noonnay luncheon held at
the Hillman, where the canvassers gath
ered to compare notes. Interesting talks
were made, and it was reported that great
public interest is being manifested in
the work of tiie association. Camp Wln
nataska. on which $7,000 Is to lie spent, is
one of the most popular items of the
budget. ■ *
W. H. Stockham, president of 'he as
sociation, emphasized the Importance of
the organization's activities. Dr. .1. M.
Broad.v gave an inspirational talk, saying
that I he Sunday school was second to no
Institution in the making of democracy,
and that it was the very foundation on
which all movements for good are
founed.
The canvass will be continued through
tomorrow, and owing to illnes of some of
the workers, may not be completed until
next week.
Free Instructions to
Auto Truck Owners
Free-^fn -it ruction for auto truck driv
ers will be given under the auspices of
the Firestone-Ship-b y-Truck Bureau
recently established here. Kellv K
Fpencer, manager of the local bureau,
stated yesterday that his company
would open a free night school next
week at which experts representing
the varnous truck companies will ex
plain the care, maintenance and opera
tion of trucks.
All drivers of auto truck, in Btr
mIngham and Jefferson Conroy will he
invited to attend these night schools,
and the truck owners, also, will be
welcomed to them.
As there will be no charge whatever |
for these instructions Mr. Speruer ex
pects every truck driver and .every
truck owner in the city and the county
to take advantage of the offer to learn
all about trucks and their care, main
tenance and operation.
or persons who can do the required
work in an influenza case.
hr. Dowling says flint from I hr
number of drallt* listed and the
‘•nil* for nurse* fhut hr uould no*
l»r surprised if fhrrr were noj from
2.000 to 11,000 cases of “flu” in flir
mlngliiim right now.
Hr. Dowling: repeats his former warn
ing:
"Keep out of crowds and crowded
places. Have plenty of fresh air ami
ventilation. Keep comfortably clothed
and avoid exposure to wet and cold
weather. Eat plenty of wholesome
food."
These, lie says, are among the best
preventives that can he utilized.
EX-SOLDIER GIVEN
JOB IN POSTOFFICE
Assigned By Federal Vocational
Hoard for Training to Become
Supervising Architect
.T. W. Palmer, an ex-soldier, has been
assigned to duty on the new postoffice
and federal building on Fifth avenue and
Nineteenth street by the vocational
board, and here will have the practical
experience necessary to become a super
vising architect.
This young soldier was a member of
the Eleventh engineers and was among
the first 25,000 men going overseas. He
has had experience that would make the
hair rise on a person's head, and he even
admits that his stood up on several oc
casions. With the exception of being
wounded twice and gassed once he is
back home after twenty-five months'
serv ice overseas.
Before entering the service Mr. Palmer
was a structural iron worker, but since
being discharged Is enable to follow his
trade, and is now talcing the federal vo
cational training offered by the govern
ment. He was ordered to Birmingham
for a year and will have the opportu
nity of getting the practical experience
hi this line as well as the technical train
ing.
TRIAL OF CURRY
PASSED YESTERDAY
rf he case of t’liff Curry, charged with
murder, was passed yesterday owing
to the illness of Roderick Beddow, at
torney for the defendant
Curry is charged with the murder of
HeWitt Flee her, a negro chauffeur, on
the Jasper road during last summer,
and already has had three trials, on**
resulting in a conviction and the othnr
two being mistrials.
The <*ast* was called yesterday in
Judge William K Fort's division of the
criminal court.
DIAMONDS
Two fine stones, very reasonable, for
queik cash. One 2 , carat, white and
flawless; o^her 2 carat, strictly blue
white and perfect. This is your oppor
tunity.
Address B. E.,
Care Age-Herald.
IN BUSY, BUSTLING
BIRMINGHAM
Scores of Accidents By
are recorded daily. Suits are numerous; judgments are
big
YOU NEED PROTECTION
USF&G CO.
ASSETS OVER $26,000,000.00
Just Phone Main 178
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