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PRICE: THREE MOAN vivt CIATOS 3 4 1 9 3 9 FR1 DAY AFTERNOON, MAY 2 -40 Pates, 320 Columns 4 A R-N 6 FORMER DEPUTIES U. JURY- 'INDICTS li Announces Drainage Program City ENDURANCE FLIERS ROAM SKIES NILE SIXTH DAY BEGINS MADISON COUNTY MEN ACCUSED IN VIOLATION CASES SENATOR ASKS PROBE IMO FIRES, BLAST WILKINSON LOSES HIS BOUT WITH U.S. Boxing Head Fails To Stop Maxwell Field Contest NEW THREAT Of VILLAGE CREEK To BE MINIMIZED OF FEDERAL RESERVE RAISE EXCITEMENT, King Would Learn If' Bank IN STRIKE VICINITY Fnellitiot Mara I rtnnori King Would Learn If' Bank Facilities Were Loaned Monoplane Sails On After, 120 Hours Aloft With Refueling Success Quartet Arrested At Huntsville Recently Freed Under Bond Of $1,000 Each; 64 Other True Bills Found LITTLE OMAHA MISS "SPELLS DOWN" 20 TO WIN PRIZE OF 21,000 FELLS DOWN" 20 TO SE OMAHA MISS IITTV PDT711! Alp ti nnn In Stock Trading DIRIGIBLE MARKS BEATEN, "GOOD RECORD" IS SOUGHT Several Volleys Are Heard About Home And Three Crosses Burned Removal Of Obstructions And Straightening Course Will Relieve Situation MONTGOMERY. May 24(W) Maxwell Field. government airport here, made ita bow to Alabama's tic domain Thuraday night dempite a last minute attempt by Horace Wilkinson, of Birmingham.

chairman of the Alabama Athletic Commiamion, to halt the fight program. Wilkinson iota Thursday requested Atty. (ien. McCall to file a bill in Federal Court to enjoin the boxing match on the grounds that no aPPIIcation had been presented to the athletic commission to stage the bout. The attorney general retooled to take any action on the request.

de-Oaring that in his opinion such a bill would have little merit. cited the Alabama code of 1923 which pro. videat that Alabama In ceding territory to the United States government for military purposes. surrendered its jurisdiction over such territory except for the service of criminal and civil processes. soldier Demarp.

of Fort Denning. won on a foul from Johnny Flynn, of Chattanooga, in the feature bout of the card. First Gasoline Spilled When Planes Lose Contact During Transfer WASHINGTON, May 24---0F)--- Final enactment of a farm relief measure and of the census rapper. tionment bill Is nee sssss before the Senate can consider a recess for the Summer, Senator Watson, of Indiana, the Republican leader, informed the Senate Friday in demanding a Saturday elision. PRIVATE QUARREL AND BOYS' PRANKS, OPINION OTHER STREAMS ALSO TO RECEIVE ATTENTION Beds To Be Deepened In Order To Carry Excess Water, Ensleyans Promised -11noiccrill ,11.

Civil And Military Authorities Clash Over Attempt To Arrest Guardsman FORT WORTH, May 24-- husband will not be down before next Wednesday morning." That was the confident assertion of Mrs. Repine Id Robbins. "Reg said when he went un he would stay two weeks. "I think he can." WASHINGTON. May 24 VP) Senator King (I)).

Utah, introduced a resolution Friday to authorize the Senate banking committee to investigate the operation of the federal reserve system and to recommend legislation to cure defects. if any should be found. The resolution listed more than a score of subjects for investigation. It also proposed that the committee determine whether facilities of the reserve system had been loaned for trading on stocks and whether member banka had afforded "unduly large accommodations to brokers." The investigation also would determine whether the banking laws ought to be amended to restrict the Continued on Pane 4. Fifth Column WARNING SOUNDED TO STEEL MEN ON OVER-EXPANSION OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Mc, May 24--(INS)Transatlantii "air derby" ob believed Friday the French fliers of the Paris-bound monoplane, Yellow Bird.

were preparing to steal a march on the Yankee birdmen who in the B.I. lance ship Green Flash, hope to hop on a non-stop voyage to Rome by Saturday morning. "Something doing within 12 hours" was the tip being passed. Thursday night Jean Acso lent and Rene Lefevre left orders for the Yellow Bird to be refuelled immediately and fitted with new tires. indictments charging four former deputy sherif fs of Madison County with conspiracy to violate the prohibition law on several counts, were returned by a United States Grand Jury here at noon Friday.

SixtHour other persons were indicted, after the body had investigated 86 cases. Tho former deputies. who were KENTUCKIAN NAMED TO employed In the. office of Sheritt Frank Riddick. of Madison, itre no-INTERNAL REVENUE JOB beet Lewis.

S. II. Worley, Hubert BY PRESIDENT HOOVER Brannon tind W. A. Record.

Indirtmente awaited the four former Madison officers cume as a result of an Investigation conchieted by S. W. Miller. federal prohibit ion agent working under Deputy Prohibition 'N Administrator W. J.

Foxier. into al-, leged dry lav irregultirities In Mad-Won County. The quartet was arrested by United States Deputy Marshall John T. mi. If Hs and released untier $1.000 bond each titter a hearing before United Staten ttttt mitotioner S.

I. Richurd- er.11,, i A son at IttilltSVillet several weeks ago. it wile stated at the office of District 4'. Attorney 11 torney C. H.

4 According to District Attorney Kennitnier, the four officers were re. lieved by Sheriff Itiddick after they were The Grand Jury's report also in- S. eluded 16 no bilis, with two cases having been mussed. After the body had reported. Fed: eral Judge V.

I. (Bubb thanked the Grand Jury for its work and die- charged them. -w A large number of itnessem. In- eluding state law enforcement of- ficent and undercover dry agents who teetified in the recent Shelby County dealecelo, tiroiulol loilitcorreia 1 bowedrye during its investigation. ROBERT H.

LUCAS Severul indictments against peeWASHINGTON, May 24---(iP)Rob- sons in Shelby County in a second irt H. Lucas, of Louisville, has investigation into alleged dry law ieen appointed commissioner of in- inconsistencies in that territory, were ernal 00000 us by President Hoover. reported to be among the 68 charges. rim nomination was expected to go to A number of persons were indicted under the Jones law. it was said.

he Senate Friday. Lucas hos been 13ilector of internal revenue for Twenty of the 68 persons indicted by the Grand Jury are confined, in Western Kentucky eight years. He Jail, and several of this number are vill oucceed David H. Blair, of North arolina, who tendered his resigns- expected to enter pleas of guilty be- ion at the beginning of the Hoover fore Judge Grubb Friday afternoon, idminiotration. Selection of Lucas is the district attorney said.

'egarded in political circles as a vic- Investigation into alleged prohibiory for the Republican congressional tion irregularities in Madison County. lelegation which had urged his ap- was begun by federal officers. after 'ointment against opposition of Sec- their campaign which resulted in the I 'etary Mellon. indictment and conviction of Sheriff )pfiRr SIT IN I A Curtis J. Falkner, Calera Chief of deputies and others grs In oong.desnbuotlile)yC teyr.

KENTUCKIAN NAMED TO INTERNAL REVENUE JOB BY PRESIDENT HOOVER ROBERT H. LUCAS WASHINGTON, May 24---VF)Robert H. Lucas, of Louisville, has been appointed commissioner of in. ternal revenue by President Hoover. The nomination was expected to go to the Senate Friday.

Lucas haa been collector of internal revenue for Western Kentucky eight years. He will oucceed David H. Blair, of North Carolina, who tendered his resignation at the beginning of the Hoover administration. Selection of Lucas is regarded in political circles as a victory for the Republican congressional delegation which had urged his appointment against opposition of Secretary Mellon. PROBE SET IN LOT Despite Big Demand, Schwab Holds Industry's Returns Are Not Adequate solo, obstructions from tl.

part iif Village Creek and o'. er itt give temporary re- 11nt li 1 emillitiMIS in Eng leY 1'01 he ardertaken by the City Coln- lids Summer. to this effect Wadi wide lo rettooPotion members to representing the Ensley Iiiiil itaard at a conference in 0, 11 eitaltitter at the city hall VIRGINIA HOGAN trorrilmi. Miss Hogan, 13, of Omaha, Neb Deftntte plant have not been "spailed down" 20 competitors in the worked out but the city ngineering annual national spelling bee 'in Wash department and the City Commis- ington, O. C.

and won the prize oil soon are making a careful study to .1.000. determine what can be done to give 7 ton temporary atZe relief storm unt drainage i Im soproblem can be worked out. Surveys of both Wage and Valley Creeks and piens for widening and deepening both of these creeks to relieve the No powER ruNDs present flood situation are in progress. These surveys will take several months longer, it is said. have been subject to in recent months.

fi ii out Of their homes arii siii.iiiiiiiitie; street ear traffic i LAWYER TESTIFIES for many hours. Property eon has also been extensive. whili the ereekm have overflowed at throughout the history of the News' Publisher's Interest the situation has been growing I vorse due to the increased I I tVing the eonsequent additional was To Sell Machinery, drainage water into the Attrirnov riconbrAq VIRGINIA HOGAN Miss Hogan, 13, of Omaha, "spalled down" 20 competitors in the annual national spelling basin Washington, O. and won the prize of $1000. Attorney Declares BIDS TO BE OPENED AT WASHINGTON ON POSTOFFICE SALE Birmingham Capitalists Known To Have Been Interested In Old Landmark ELIZASFITHTON.

May 24-- (4)Two fires of undetermined origin and a dynamite exprosion near another home here Friday created excitement in- the strike area. No one was injured. volleys wars firsd about tho home of J. H. McIntyre, on the Johnson City Road whorl dyne-mite was exploded.

Three were burned near McIntyre's home during tho.shooting. Par Taylor, deputy sheriff, after investigating the disturbance at McIntyre's home. said he believed the incidents were outgrowth of a private ituarrel and credited the burning of crointes to pranks of boys. The first destroyed a vacant house In Elizubetheon, owned by Deen De-look. and the home of striker in Valley Forge.

Persona occupying the house were visiting when the fire broke out. A clash between civil and military authorities was precipitated Friday when Deputy Sheriff "Rod" Nave sought to serve a warrant on Howard urner, National Guardsman, charging him with carrying concealed weapons. John Gordon, tho sentry on duty at tho Amorican Glanzstoff plant, refused to admit the officer. Officers of tho guard announced the state warrant would be respected and would be surrendered to stato autheritios. Nave said he would arrest the guardsman Turner is charged with having fired at the feet of a school boy near Happy Valley School, Mayi 2.

but a warrant was not issued until Friday. NV. D. Ensor. strike sympathizer and deputy sheriff, reported to Eiheriff J.

M. Moreland Friday that he fired several times at men prowling about his home on Stoney Creek Thursday night. Another arrest for picketing was made at Johnson City Friday shortly before trials of 52 strikers on charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of an injunction granted the American Glanzstaff and American Bemberg Mills was resumed in Chancery Court. The picket was charged with intimidating workers and picketing at the Johnson City depot where workers board a shuttle train to come to mills hers. Although excitement was high early Friday, things quieted down by the time court opened, and taking of testimony was resumed without incident.

An orderly crowd Jammed Carter County Courthouse. Defendants are charged with violating a restraining order granted the mills prohibiting them from interfering with operations of the plants. BOND SALE AUTHORIZED SALE TO STATE BY HEAD OF NORMAL $250,003 Worth. Of Courthouse Securities Will Se Sold June 11 Bale t'A $250.000 courthouse construction bonds. was authorised, Friday by the Jefferson County Board of Revenue in a called session of the body.

The sale was authorized on the recommendation of the Jefferson County Courthouse Commission. The bonds will be sold June 11 to the highest bidder. The amount authorized Friday will bring the total of issued courthouse construction bonds to one-half the total voted several years ago for the construction of the courthouse. Bonds totalling 000,000 have already been sold. A bond issue of 000 was voted for the construction of the courthouse several years ago.

Graves To Look Into Charge Shackelford Sold Off Own Property FORT WORTH. May 24(W) On its sixth day in the air, the civilian monoplane. Fort Worth. Friday was driving on toward the world' endurance flight record of the army plane Question Mark. Reg L.

Robbins and James Kelley, pilots of the Fort Worth, passed the 122m1 hour aloft at 1:33 p.m. and had only a little more than 28 hours to go to better the Question Mark's time Of 150 hours 40 minutes and 15 seconds. At dunk Saturday, if the thus far smoothly functioning motor continues its uninterrupted roar, the rebuilt Ryan plane, piloted by It L. Robbins and James Kelly, will become supreme in the air. The refueling mark of-150 hours, 40 minutes and 15 seconds, made last January by the 'monoplane Question Mark, carrying a crew of five men, will be equalled at 6:13:15 p.m.

Saturday. An additional hour would set a record. The plane took off at 11:33 a.m. last Sunday. The dirigible endurance record of 118 hours, made several years ago by the French-owned Digniude.

was surpassed Friday morning. The record of 111 hours and 46 minute's made by the Graf Zeppelin on its flight to America. was passed at 3:19 a.m. Friday. Buoyant and happy in the face of their prolonged ordeal, Robbins and Kelly were cheerful as to the final outcome of the flight.

A note dropped at Meacham Field, their base, said, "We will try not only for a new record but a good one." The fliers brake the monotony of the flight Thursday night by idling over the "board walk" and swooping down over crowds riding amusement devices at the park on the shore of Lake Worth. Shortly after midnight a light rain began and the fliers pulled above the broken clouds. The first gasoline in 11 refueling contacts with the auxillary.mhip was spilled Thursday night. A few gal-tons were lost when the planes broke contact just as the hose was connected. Contact was made again a few minutes later and 110 gallons of fuel was transferred.

Care Is Requested Kelly's bride of six weeks has asked pilots of planes going up to greet the ndurance fliers not to fly too closely to the Fort Worth when it is contact with the auxiliary ship. At times five or more planes have gone up at once and Mrs. Robbins said she feared her husband's attention might be distracted and an accident would result. Everyone in Fort Worth is interested in the flight. Large crowds visit Meacham Field daily, although it is not necessary to go to the airport to see the plane.

It circles over the city dozens of times daily. In the last two days the fliers have received "fan" mail which has been delivered to them by the auxiliary ship. Ocean Planes expected To Fly Together For Time OLD ORCHARD BEACH, May 24(1P)The monoplane Green Flash, bound for Rome. and Armen Lotti's Continued on Pare 4. Third Column NEW TWO-CENT STAMP NEV.

YORK, May 24(A)Charles M. Schwab. chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, in an address Friday before the American Iron Steel Institute. of which he is president, declared that. while there is a greater demand for steel now than there ever was before, earnings of the steel industry are "far from adequate to provide for the industry's future service to the country." He said 70 per cent of the industry last year got a return of 6.35 per cent of its investment.

Mr. Schwab issued a warning against particularly at the expense of a diminiehing supply of raw material, and said the two most important problems now facing the industry are "intelligent Individual control over our productive capacity and earnings adequate to provide for the future requirements of our ever expending industry." Still Optimistic "I am itist as optimistic about business today as I have ever been In the past, and that applies with equal force to our industry," be said. believe that steel has really entered upon a new era of usefulness. "As the expansion of the country's prosperity proceeds, some enlargement of our steel producing capacity may be required. But never before was it more incumbent upon us to temper cur plans with good judgment, to avoid speculative building, and to profit by the errors and mistakes of the past.

Says Returns Low "Last year the return on investment of companies representing 70 per cent of the industry was 6.35 per cent. Not only in itself, but when compared with what other industries are receiving, this return is indeed very low." Mr. Schwab said the steel industry is now experiencing the greatest demand in its history. Production so far this year is 11.7 per cent higher, he said. than It was for the same period last year.

He predicted that the decadO ending this year would show an annual average production of 42,700.000 tons as compared with the annual average of 5.900.000 for the decade ending in 1900, and he pointed out the terrific drain this means on the raw material. Farrell Backs Schwab James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation, who spoke after Mr. Schwab. said that the latter had covered the steel situation thoroughly.

He again referred to an apparent over-production of 10,000,000 tons of steel a year ago, and said that today it was impossible to take care of the demand for some products. "We have been prosperous, but we must use our Judgment if we are to have continued prosperity," he said. Predicts Good Pear He concluded by saying that he believed the steel industry would have good business throughout the year, but added that efforts should be made to spread the demand over a longer period than in the past when all big business had been done in three or four months. Operations of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation during May were above 100 per cent of rated capacity, Eugene G. Grace, president of the reported.

John A. Topping, chairman of the Republic Iron Steel Company, said his company is operating close to capacity and that he saw nothing in the situation to cause uneasiness. The American Rolling Mills Company, George M. president, said, finds present business "excellent," with prospects for the future "never better." Offers for the purchase of the old Postoffice Building at Second Avenue, North, and Eighteenth Street, were to be opened at the United States Treasury Department in Washington Friday. The property is offered for sale by the government either for cash or on a basis of one-fifth cash and the balance in four annual installments.

with five per cent interest on deferred payments. It is not known definitely here whether there will be any bids to open. It is known that one group of Birmingham capitalists has been considering the submission of an offer. but no definite information was forthcoming on this point Friday morning. It is reported here that certain New York interests have considered the purchase of the property and the belief obtains that they have made an offer.

Another group of outsiders is said to have had the matter under consideration, but the last obtainable information was that it was not sufficiently interested to put in a bid for the property. The building, which is three stories high and stands on a site that fronts 170 feet on Second Avenue and 140 feet on Eighteenth Street, was constructed for the government in the early nineties and occupied by the postoffice until the present building on Fifth Avenue. North, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets, was completed about eight years ago. Since then it has been by the Alabama National Guard as an armory, under a lease to the state. For a while the Birmingham Public Library had quarters there between the burning of the City Hall in 1924 and the building of the new library building at Seventh Avenue, North, formerly Park Avenue, and Twenty-First Street.

The United States Veterans Bureau also had quarters there until it moved into the new Postoffice Budding about two years ago. In the event the old Postoffice Building is sold it will be necessary for the state to provide a new armory for the National Guard. An offer made for the property two years ago contained a provision that the buyers would buy the ground and contribute a specified sum toward the construction of an armory, but advertisement of the Treasury Department under which bids were to be submitted on or. before Friday at noon contained no such provision. President Jones in- 1 the committee that the cam- ist has discussed the advitiabil- BY RUSSELL BENT kn.

bta a ining steam shovel The Birmingh Nowa Washington ovel and Manager the work of removing ob- am Bureau. 1261 National Press Building from the lower reaches of wAsHINoToN. May 24Neither lilige creek this Summer to effort' the Alabama Power Company nor any 'rfnintrary relic( to the Tuxedo and other public utility has any financial Inner low-lying sections of EntslitY interest in The Mobile Press. the oraiglitening some of the worst newspaper recently started in the co.oks in the creek bed to facilitate port. so far as is known to Thomas flow of water has also been dis- M.

Stevens, a leading attorney. of he told the committee. that city and one of the central fig-IL s. chairman of the Ens- ures in organizing the new publishing informed the commis- corporation, he told the Federal I that the committee was asking Trade Commission Thursday in a from overflows in the section continuation of ite inquiry into acat-v Eighteenth Street, Ensley. He tivities of utilities.

that the area affeeted lies be- Stevens thus added his disclaimer I Ensloy Park and Tuxedo June- to those entered by It. B. Chandler, IS about three blocks Wide.lpuhlisher of The Press. and D. P.

attention to requests for I Bestor, president of the First Nationar.w storm sewer in this area whleh Bank of Mobile, in their testimony at previous conferences. last Friday. Stevens was in the West were E. L. Ingram, last week and came before the cora1 of the Ensley Beal Estate mission at the earliest opportunity.

John L. Walker and T. S. There has been a desire among a number of citizens of Mobile for an, other newspaper for some time. be- HOWARD CLOSING cause of diesatisfaction with the old newspapers there, of which FrederEXERCISES NAMED ick I.

Thompson is publisher, Stevlens testified. T. W. Martin, president of the Ala- bama Power Company, and his 1 college's eighty-seventh brother, Nolan Martin, knew efforts aunt exercises will begin were being made to start a new pa- rigLI with the formal open- per in AlobAle, but when some men- Ni1le Aiell Smith Hall, the per was made by Stevens whether f.r girls. The exercises the Alabama Power would yii.

,1,,,, Monday night with the i be interested in taking stock in such bututtiet at the Hollywood a paper, T. W. Martin declined and said he thought it poor policy for the At reception Friday night. Dr. 1 power company to have an interest 1.0o, I i i i of in a newspaper, Stevens testified with toomitors of the faculty Thursday.

of the board of train- Stevens asserted he has no knowl- ve guests. edge of what Influenced J. F. Mc- tlittstettl recital will be Cowin. wealthy Mobile resident, to 1..,1 night under Prof.

Paul arrange to lend $100,000 to Chandler H.ou, 0. students Of the music for the latter's half Interest in the kill be heard in various new paper. 3r: nts. A fosture of the pro- Summonses Uncertain NI til tw played by 18 Whether the commission will sum-instruments. The Mon AlcGovvin or any other of the ill begin at 8:15 p.m.

in persons whose names have been tioned in connection with the inquiry sormon will into The Mobile Press is uncertain, t.t 11 a.m. Sunday in the but the investigation will not halt at Church by Dr. H. C. its present point; it is indicated.

of the First Baptist Stevens is attorney for the of Dothan. The glee club. I tor Os will ce Bentley, national Paper Company of Alabama, a subsidiary of the International Pa- music. per Company, which in turn is held exercises will be by the International Paper Pow- to am, Monday in the college er Company. The Alabama corpora- illi judge Virgil Boul- tion operates a Kraft paper mill near 11 tustire of the Alabama Continued on Page 4.

First Column 1 irt. ttddressing the grad- la, 11DIES FROM "GAS" BURNS COTTSB00, May 24 be guests at the Capt. Frank construction bolouet a ap 7 p.m. Monday. Ira prtsident 14 the alumni foreman at a centvict camp across the river from 'Scottsboro, died Wed- in charge of arrange- nesday burns received when he Thursday.

Stevens asserted he has no knowledge of what influenced J. F. Mc-Cowin. wealthy Mobile resident, to arrange to lend $100,000 to Chandler for the latter's half interest in the new paper. Summonses Uncertain Whether the commission will sum-Merl Mc Govein or any other of the persons whose names have been mentioned in connection with the inquiry Into The Mobile Press is uncertain, but the investigation will not halt at its present it is indicated.

Stevens is attorney for the International Paper Company of Alabama, a subsidiary of the International Paper Company, which in turn is held by the International Paper Power Company. The Alabama corporation operates a Kraft paper mill near Continued on Page 4. First Column. DIES FROM "GAS" BURNS SCOTTSBORO, May 24-- Capt. Frank construction foreman at a convict camp across the river frowScottsboro, died Wednesday burns received when he Issue Will Commemorate Anniversary Of Light By Edison WASHINGT0N, May 24 UPI-- Postmaster General Brown has announced that the Postoffice Department Will issue June 5 a new two- cent stamp, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the production of the first incandescent electric light by Thomas Edison.

The new stamp will be standard size and printed in red ink. The de- sign features a picture of the first electric light bulb with rays of light issuing from it. The word's "Edison's First Lamp" will be printed above the picture. The stamp will be placed on sale at Menlo Park, N. June 5, and at other offtces as soon thereafter as possible.

1 1,000 Operatives Will Return To Woodruff Kills SPARTANBURG. S. May 24-- (INS)--One thousand operatives of the Woodruff Mills, unit of the Brandon chain, closed down by a strike since April 1, will return to work Monday, result of acceptance of terms of a new proposal submitted by strikers. Mill officials would not discuss terms of the agreement, but said they would be announced. Workers have been admitted to the plant to repair machinery.

51ONTGO'MERY, May 24An Investigation into the action of President E. M. Shackleford, of Troy Normal, In putting some lots of his own into property he purchased on behalf of the State Board of Education has been ordered by Gov. Graves. The governor.

ex-officio chairman of the state board, is understood to have ordered an audit of the transactions after he learned that land owned by Shackleford had been purchased by the state with Dr. Shackle-ford acting as agent for the state in the purchase. The question is expected to come up before the board at its meeting June 5. Part Of State Purchase The lots in question are part of a site the state has purchased for the Troy Normal School. Dr.

Shackle-ford was asked to make the negotiations for the site. Five lots owned by Dr. Shackleford were included in the property bought. These lots, according to court records, were bought by Dr. Shackle-ford from W.

B. Folmar and wife, Julia, on April 30, 1924, for 3350. The same lots were sold by Dr. Shackle-ford to the state in the sale he negotiated for $800. A report made by state auditors to Graves on the sale Is accompanied by a statement from Dr.

Shackle-ford, it is understood. This statement, it is said, sets forth that Dr. Shackleford himself valued the five lots at 9927.40 on the basis of the purchase price, paving assessment and interest on his but rIontinued on Page 4, Third Column CHINESE FINED IN ANTI-BOOTH CASES Martin Says Law Abiding Citizens Approve Of Rule Employes Back After Long Strike In Greenville, S. C. GREENVILLE, S.

May 24 (INS)The Poinsett Mills, unit of the Brandon Corporation, were operating Friday after all employes returned to work following an eight. week strike in protest against the "stretch-out," or efficiency system. Mill officials and strikers came to an agreement last Saturday. No demonstration marked the return to mistook gasoline for kerosene end used it in starting a fire. He was a native of Cordova, and is survived by a widow and mother.

RATES INCREASED SIX DROWN IN INDIA KARACHI, India, May Six persons were drowned Friday when a sudden squall overturned a fleet of small boats on the Indus, 40 miles above Hyderabad. Five other persons were swept down stream and were believed to be drowned also. HANSON IN BALTIMORE 1 The Quest 'tor FOOD Freight On House Heating Equip. ment Advanced 10 To 150 Per Cent GADSDEN. May 24Gadsden manufacturers Friday we notified that the rates on stoves.

ranges and house heating equipment to points north fthe Ohio River had been increased to a rate from 10 to 150 per cent more than the presetn rates. According to telegrams from the Interstate Commerce Commission. the rates will increase in the central Southern states to 60 and 150 per cent more than they are now. This rate will apply on all Southern railroads. FAIR WEATHER PROMISED Get Ready, Kids, For Coupon No.

4 To The News Picnic And Fun galore Publisher Undergoes Minor Operation in Hospital; Resting Comfortably Hanson, publisher of The NeWs and The 'Birmingham Is at the Union in Baltimore. lie a ininor operation there III-ming, and messagea from who 48 with him. are that he stood the operal'1 is resting comfortably. 1,, to return to a week. Operators of three Chinese restaurants in the city were fined $50 each In Recorder's Court Friday morning, charged with violation of the anti-booth law.

Those fined were P. G. Mark, 1807 Third Avenue, North; Joe Mansion, 412 North Twentieth Street, and Wong Leong, 1716 Third 'Avenue, North. The city ordinance makes it unlawful to place booths in restaurants. Judge Martin in fining the men said: "We confess our inability to discover anything in the ordinance that is unreasonably oppressive.

or which constitutes an undue interference with the conducting of a restaurant. "We have a right to assume that the purpose of the ordinance is merely toprevent persons of both sexes who have regard for neither the law or good morals from meeting late at night or at unusual hours and entering these booths where they can avoid detection and indulge in propensities for violations both of law and good morals. "It certainly cannot be said that law-abiding persons and those who frequent restaurants and public eating places only for the purpose of obtaining refreshments desire seclusion from the eyes of others, who may also be in the place for the same purpose. "We know. as all men know, that the best and largest dining rooms everywhere are open, and that law-abiding men and women do not seek closed booths or dark rooms when they go to a Public eating place.

"The fact that an ordinance like the one in question here was deemed necessary to regulate public eating places is no reflection either upon the good morals or the law-abiding pro- pensities of the citizens of ham." EAVES many housewives sore and weary at the end of the day. The modern method of shopping is to make up an entire list from the advertisements In The Birmingham News and Age-Herald before leaving the house saving endless miles of stepshours of yours and the clerk's time and making it far easier to keep within the "budget." Read the "Food" advertisements regularly. You will be able to keep up with seasonable foods and prices. In this issue, you will find the advertisements of the following food merchants and manufacturers TWO STILLS CAPTURED LIVINGSTON, May 24Sher. iff W.

T. Scales and his deputy, J. P. Jackson. with O.

C. Hitt, chief of police, have captured two copper ntilis of 80-gallon capacity each, near York, Ala. 1 THE WEATHER Coupon No. 4 will be here Saturday. so be ready to find it when the edition The Birmingham News reaches your house and cut it out.

Put it away with the other three and try to be patient until the big party colnes around. The party is the fourteenth annual picnic of The Birmingham News and it will be held at East Lake Park Wednesday, June 6. For 13 years The News has been giving this big party to its readers 15 years or less young and each year the party has been bigger. This year It is going to be the biggest and best of all. UI all.

1. U. Horton. Stetson lieldble Supplied by IL Weather Burets I safely stored away call for admission to the 1001 Troubles, the Whip and the Merry-Go-Round. The other three will give you a big box of popcorn and a balloon and provide admission to the Old Mill and the bathing beach.

There's something else you won't have to clip a coupon for. It's the pony and the cart that some lucky boy or girl will drive home after the picnic is all over. Everything Is set for the picnic now except the day, which is only a shzt time away. The Boy Scouts ar going to be on hand to help The News take care of its crowds and the Girl Scouts and trained nurses will have a special station to look after bruises and youngsters who go astray from their guardians. So you get ready and be on hand by 9 a.m.

Wednesday, June 6. at East Lake Park for the fourteenth annual picnic of The Birmingham News. Amusements Friday THEATRICAL Lyric Favorite Players in Eni Bough." Maekaill, Milton Captive Woman." VauI, ille. a FIRST RUN PHOTOPLAYS Alabarnaitiehard Arlen and 'I in "The Man I Love." Emture Belle Bennett Me." Stranditaehinova in "A Dan-woman." Moran In "Joy Moderate Temperature With Small Possibility Of Rain, Forecast. Fair weather with moderate temperature is the forecast of Weatherman Horton for Friday evening and Saturday.

The prophet adds there will be clouds Saturday but little possibility of rain. Rain is forecast for the southwest portion of the state, but the weather man does not believe it will reach Birmingham, although there is a slight possibility of showers due to unsettled conditions. Moderate temperatures mean the mercury will hover between 60 and NO. The high point Thursday was 79. while Friday's low was 62.

Aeo Tea Co. I. G. A. Stores Clarence Saunders Sanitary Market Quality Market Betsy Ross Bread Royal Cup Tea Check Bread Catanzatso Bros.

Merita Bread Alaga Syrup Banquet Tea C. et C. Ginger Ale Kellogg Corn Flakes Lippincott Apple Butter Sunshine Krispy Crackers Myles Salt National Biscuit Moonbeams Temtor Preserves Schlitz Malt Syrup Shredded Wheat Welch Grape Juice For Birmingham and vicinity: Partly cloudy Friday night and Saturday; moderate tamperature. For Alabama: Partly cloudy Friday night; Saturday unsettled, scattered thundershowers in southwest portion. Mississippi: Mostly cloudy, scat-tared thundershowers in south portion Friday night and Saturday.

faaorgia: Mostly fair Friday night and Saturday; gentle easterly winds becoming variable. Coupon No. 4 calls for admission to the Old Mill and you must be sure to get it. because you will want all of the set to exchange for the big ticket at EastLake Park on picnic day. The three that you should have.