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Tht South' Greatest Newspaper MM; aSSi SsSBg- I Mixed Shower Given Miss Finke Hostess For Margaret Hickman To Margaret Hubbard Entertaining for Miss Margaret Miss Josephine Finke entertainer Adele Hickman, bride-elect. Miss Friday afternoon at a tea showe: Mary Virginia Williams was hostess honoring Miss Margaret Hubbard Thursday evening at her home in bride-elect, at the home of Mrs Gary McNabb in Colonial Hills. The honoree wore a yellow piqud Norwood at a miscellaneous shower. Guests were Mesdames Roy I Society Personals rs. Russell Lanier I Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew H. Knight ntertOinS NieCC announce the birth Tuesday, June; Russell Lanier entertained 24, of a son, whom they have named Thursday at her home on Pawnee Roy Finklea. Mrs. Knight and baby Avenue, complimenting her niece, are at Jefferson Hospital.

Miss Margaret Gibson, of Eufaula, Ala. The tea took place from 5 to Mrs. John H. Brothers has i Der guests Miss Lucy Mae Curry, of Charlotte. N.

Mrs. R. E. Elliott, Mrs. Lanier and Miss Gibson ceived the guests in the living room dress trimmed with black ribbon re-j Roden, Earl Field, Omar Middleton which was decorated with pastel Roden, Foley Hooper, Roben S.

garden flowers. Hickman, Jr R. F. Thompson, Otis and Miss Finke's dress was of blu Pink roses centered the tea table Cook, Grace Gamble, Charles Lacey, net. Mrs.

McNabb was gowned ii which was spread with a Venetian M. Sponsler. R. L. Curry, H.

G. hlarV lace cloth. Assisting in serving were i Clark. Anthony Covey. R.

S. Hick-1 Miss Jean Rountree. Miss Eugenia man Virginia Williams and Misses I Wimberly, Miss Lilia Anderson, Gertrude Weir. Eleanor Gray, Catherine Austin, Martha Louise Davis, Ruth Sponsler. Uni- Miss Alabama Edwards, Miss of lina Brown.

Miss Louise Cross, Miss Mrs. L. A. Finke presided at th tea table which was centered wit yellow flowers. Serving were Mesdames P.

of Carrollton, and Mr. and Mrs. John P. Brothers, Jr, of Leesville, Louisiana. 1 Mrs.

W. T. Warren and William Warren, of New York, I spending the week at Gulfport, las are Tubb, Judson Hodges, Sam Naff Misses Virginia Martin, Betty Jeai Tubb and Mary Elizabeth Cox. Louie Dolphus Parker Eunice Rooker Wed The marriage of Miss Eunice Gertrude Rooker and Louie Dolphus i Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs.

T. E. Parker, was solemnized at 8 p.m. Friday, June 20, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Rooker, in Ketona. Dr. Lee McBride White, pastor of I Springdale Baptist Church, offici-1 ated before an improvised altar ar-! ranged of woodwardia ferns, white gladioli, asters and branched candelabra holding burning tapers. The nuptial music was presented by Mrs. Lee McBride White.

The bride wore an ensemble of 1 dark blue accented with a corsage of gardenias. Miss Octavia Rooker was her sis-i ter's maid of honor and Audrey Owens served his cousin as best man. Mr. and Mrs. Parker are at home on Mountain Drive in Tarrant Wheelers Will Give Commencement Dance The commencement dance of Wheeler Business College will be held Saturday night at the Tut-; wiler Hotel, immediately following the graduation exercises.

Miss Bettye Davis and Gordon Forrester will lead the dance. The i 1941 graduates, present student body and many former students will Mrs Norborne Cocke, of the Eva-versity of Virginia is the guest Mrs. Lonnie Munger. Lloyd Smith and Miss Margaret Gold Smith. Miss Neida Mae Putnam and her I Members of the high school and grandmother are the guests of Mr.

college contingent were included in and Mrs. E. T. Putnam, in Amarillo, the guest list. Wild turkeys are easily William Smith Jr.f Miss Vivian inyard Will Wed At Home Dr.

J. A. Smith To Read Vows Before Gathering Of Relatives, Friends Miss Vivian Edna Vinyard and William Loftin Smith, will be married at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the home of the bride's parents. Mr.

and Mrs F. G. Vinvard, ip West End. with the Rev. J.

A. Smith reading the vows before a large gathering of relatives and friends. The altar will be decorated with standards of white gladioli having a background of palms and ferns. Tall cathedral tapers will light the setting. The bride, given in marriage by her father, will be pictured in a dress of white mesh with white accessories.

Her flowers will be gardenias and lilies of the valley. Miss Arline Hendricks, the bride's onlv attendant, will wear a dress of pink crepe with a corsage of roses and sweet peas A. J. Smith will serve his brother as best man. Mr.

and Mrs. Vinyard will entertain at a reception following the ceremony. The bride's mother will receive wearing a gown of black mesh adorned with Irish lace collar and cuffs. Her flowers are to be pink rosebuds. Mrs.

Smith has chosen to wear a gown of orchid chiffon and a shoulder corsage ot pink roses. The bride's table will be adorned with a lace cloth and centered by tiered wedding cake. Assisting in serving are Mrs. A. J.

Smith. Mrs. Store Hours: 8 to 5 :30 Second Floor Watts Bldg. Council Of Clubs To Have Picnic At Pineview Plans are completed for the annual picnic of the Birmingham i Council of Clubs to be held at Pine-view Beach Saturday, June 28. Clyde Guthrie, social secretary, is chaiman of the picnic.

Vera Cornelius Mills And Norman Kurman Wed Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mills, of Pin- son, announce the marriage of their daughter.

Vera Cornelius, to Norman Kurman. of Birmingham, June 1. The couple is residing in Miami, Fla. For a Safe Sane and Stylish Fourth KAUFMAN'S Offers You Your unrestricted choice of Every Print Dress In Stock Texas. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Wright and granddaughter, Jo Ann, of Hopkinsville. Ky are visiting Mrs. Mabel Ford-I-eake. who is ill at her home in Fairview Heights.

Miss Bartie Walton and niece also visited Mrs. Ford-Leake recently en route to their home in Nashville from Clearwater, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. James Frank Turner announce the birth June 25 of a son whom they have named James Frank.

Mother and baby are at Norwood Hosptial. Dr. M. R. Coffman has returned from a two-weeks visit to New York City.

Mrs. Henry Beach is seriously ill at St. Vincent's Hospital, having undergone an operation on ednes-day. Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Thomas leave Saturday for Daytona Beach, and later plan to be the guests of their daughter, Mrs. B. Hyland, and Mr.

Hyland, in Tampa, Fla. 9 Mrs. Caroline P. Engstseld Miss Olivia Prowell have returned and Chiffons Crepes Jerseys Elizah C. Shaw, Miss Dorothy Bel-more.

Miss Jane Gilbert and Miss Juanita Scarboro. Later in the evening Mr. and Mrs. Smith will leave for a wedding trip through the Smoky Mountains, after i which IHey will be at home in Roe- buck Springs. Out-of-town guests include Sergt.

Paul Vinyard and Corp. Allen Vinyard, brothers of the bride, from Camp Blanding, Fla. Miss to attend the marriage of their son and brother, Lieut. Pratt Brown, to Miss Betty Beaumont. The ceremony will take place Sunday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Early, Jr. (Elizabeth Rountree' of Cincinnati. who have been in Daytona Beach, arrived Friday for a brief visit with the latter's mother, Mrs, Walter S.

Rountree. Priced Troxt SI 6.95 and Ideal for Travel Women's and misses sites i stripes, dots and dashes and florals. VISITS IN MEMPHIS Miss Martha Vance (above) has returned from Memphis where she virited her uncle, Hugh Frank Smith, a former resident of this city, who showered his niece with many delightful attentions. from a tour of Virginia and visits in Washington and Philadelphia. Mrs.

M. E. Haworth, Miss Alice Jeanne Haworth and Mack Haworth Misses Anne Fadely and Evelyn i left Friday to visit Wahington, Patterson, of Woodlawn, are spend- New York, Pittsburgh and other citing the Summer with relatives in ies in the East. The Town's Smartest and Coolest Cottons $95 Upwards mu in um with COMMUNITY PLATES NEWEST PATTON Don't Join The 'Fourth Column' Jaycees Urge Caution Over Independence Day As Plans For Deathless July Are Announced Miss Juanita McFarland is the guest of Miss Carey Williamson in Montgomery. Mr.

and Mrs. T. E. Harwell and daughter, Mary Tom, and son, Charles, have arrived from Montgomery to make their home in Washington, D. C.

Miss Grace Sisson is convalescing at her home in Woodlawn from a recent appendectomy. Mr. and Mrs. C. E.

Straiton and daughter. Sara, of Tulsa, are visiting relatives in this city. Miss Sarah Straiton will spend the remainder of the Summer with her See Second Floor Watts Bldg. Entrance Through Lobby 1 Our Windows for 5tyle Ground Floor rhave the same traffic condition, much larger than in previous years, JULY, 1939 SEVEN KILLED. JULY.

1940 ONE KILLED. 1941 NONE KILLED. because of the increase of car own- cousins Misses Mary Lou and Dor-That is the way 60 young business ers here and in the defense and mil- othy yanni 0f Woodlawn. and professional men of Birming- itary camps nearby. ham, members of the Junior Cham-: The job will be bigger than in Mrs.

Herbert L. Harding, of New ber of Commerce, are going to make any other year, James Porter, 1 Orleans, left Sunday for Asheville, the traffic record of the city look if chairman of the Jaycee traffic safe-; N. after having been thehouse they carry out their plans to make ty committee, declares, and that i guest of Mr. and Mi's. Percy Parsons July a deathless month in traffic.

means that the public will need to for the Weidmann-Rose wedding. They went into action Friday aft- exercise more caution than ever tt 11 and Jean Mac- pep meeting at noon at the before. Fe WdS teMdi aUemoon or Pascagoula, to attend a boat er a pep meeting at noon at the before. Redmont Hotel. With the aid of the Police De- I Glasses WAITING FOR Y0U-Yor favorite rocor Isa a tot of lovoly libboy Safodgo Crystal Glasses for yow And theyre Ft If, too.

One with every 14 pound of fwN-flavorod McCORMICK Orango Fokoo Buy a packago today Bettor stiH, buy a pound ond got a sot of 4 glosses. AND YOU'LL BE PROUD of thoso Crystal Clear Glasses when you fill them with McCORMICK Too. Tour friendly grocer will toN you CxjfUUit 53-PIECE SERVICE FOR 8 Cost less Than Any Other Top Quality Silverplate Parley On Controversy In Health Department To Be Called By City Birmingham And County Governing Bodies, Board To Eye Problem The City Commission Monday will set a date for a joint meeting with the Jefferson County Board of Health, and invite the County Commission and Bessemer city officials to attend, in an effort to iron out a controversy now in process over functions of the Health Department, City Commissioner Connor said Friday, Increased appropriations were recently asked by the board for the Health Department which was said to be facing a crisis through lack of funds. Replying to a letter from Dr. Alfred A.

Walker, chairman of the County Board of Health, Mr. Connor said both Mayor Cooper Green and Commissioner Morgan were out of the city but would return Monday when a date would be set for the joint meeting. Dr. Walker wrote urging a joint meeting in order to correct any misunderstanding and arrive at a solution of the whole problem. Mr.

Connor said he, too, was eager to correct any misunderstanding that might have arisen. A delegation of clubwomen recently appeared before the commission seeking increased appropriations from the city for functions of the Health Department. I i ComeftJ me Kfflfctf HOLLYWOOD 7P Twentieth-Century-Fox Studio has been advised by cable that two British cameramen recording battle scenes for its forthcoming film, A Yank in the R. A. had been killed.

The message, received Thursday from the studio's London secretary, Leslie Baker, said the two fliers were filming official war movies as well as fight scenes for the American picture when they were shot down. "McCoe-mkk Ton is tho Best It makes a rich, sweat, full-bodied kod Toa-wHh NO BITTER AFTER. ON IU06IT TIRMS A pottsrB so lastly it inspired a now wedding Sown in Vogue's special osign. In the new Vogue Chest onli-tornish ond fadeproof. Ypu'll be thrilled by ill loveliness, loot TASK because Ms Vacuum Cleaned Foe Year Protection and blended from Woo hit grown tea.

the Flavor-Tight Orange Metal TM These men are members of com- partment and civic organizations of mittees and workers in an intensive men and women, we expect to make drive to make July in Birmingham an intensive educational campaign a month without a single traffic in an effort to impress upon motor-death, despite the fact that the Na-lists and pedestrians alike that the tional Safety Council predicts the i hazards are greater, biggest traffic jam in history, with wjjl be drive not faster than the heaviest death toll over the July 25 miles an hour at night and 30 afternoon for Pasca. 4 week-end. Smites an hour during the daylight leftFrid afternoon lot They are starting their campaign hours during July, because we ex- weekend with the cooperation of a Police De- pect motor vehicle drivers to coop-. me weex-ena. partment and commissioner of pub- erate with us in the idea that a Mr and Mrs william Enni and lie safety expressing determination lower speed limit at night is a safer' u' daughter and Mr.

and Mrs. to help stop the increasing toll of I speed limit. Stickers for autos and Clyde Ennis are vac at ion i ng at lives that 1941 has brought so far signs are being prepared now to im- panama city Fla 16 per cent above the same period press the 25-30' limit on the pub-, last year. lis as the fateful month of July ap-j Mr. and Mrs.

R. I. Ingalls, left proaches. Thursday for Pascagoula, re- Police To Clamp Down turning home Sunday evening. The Jaycee campaign follows the! aidson and son, ways uver me uirce-uay nunuaj announcement about a month ago th period this year, the national coun- 0f Commissioner Connor that Bir- wot.fl 6 lo a pil estimates, and travel something mingham police will start clamping i JfLn rtin like four billion miles.

down on traffic violators July 1, whlle attendln In proportion, Birmingham will and that drastic new traffic rules uon- are under consideration for the "loop area to expedite traffic and assure more safety for pedestrians. A big downtown parade will be staged about the middle of July, Porter said, in an effort to keep interest aroused in the July campaign for safety. With Birmingham one of great national defense industrial and centers in a time of great Held on a charge of blackmail emergency, when the nation is mus-extortion of $5. O. C.

Bradshaw. 20- Bering its vast resources ot wealth year-old crippled magazine sub- 1 and manpower, accidents are more scription salesman, of 1110 North than ever a needless and dangerous Forty-Fourth Place, was in South- waste, Porter declared. Mr. and Mrs. J.

S. Dumeresque, Birmingham, have taken an apartment at the Clift Hotel while in San Francisco for an extended visit. Mr. and Mrs. L.

N. Adams and daughters, Helen, Billie and Joan, of Woodlawn Highlands, have re-the turned from a stay of two weeks in Canada, Niagra Falls and New York City. 9 9 9 Mrs. W. L.

Bross and of Greenwood, S. will arrive Saturday to visit Mrs. A. W. Clem, of Norwood, mother of Mrs.

Bross. of i IT CONSIST OF: fid, er dloner) Fork, (f rill. I letter Knife Ju SpH COMMUNITY MATE SEKVICES STAKT AT IJ7.S0 A. A. ASH JEWELERS frank nelson bldg.

Cor. 2nd Ave. end 20th St. Mrs. Dyer F.

Talley has returned children, column. side Jail Friday. He is accused of using blackmail to extort $5 from John Jones, of 1427 Bush Boulevard, a tire sales manager. City Detectives Gilliland and Weir, who made the arrest, said Offers You One glass Free with i Pound 'iraWTri Two glasses Free with '2 Pound Four glasses Free with 1 Pound Limited offers So get yours today Your im unrestricted choice of entire stock Dont join the Stay out of that long column of home after a visit with her sister, casualties that will be left in the jvjrs Arthur M. Pitts.

She was ac-wake of Independence Day celebra- companied by another sister, Mrs. tions elsewhere. Birmingham has l. a. Hobart, of Blount Springs; her that record to remember from the daughter-in-law.

Mrs. William 1 last Fourth of July, and we can do Bvrd, and Mrs. Vassar Turner, both they marked a $5 bill, then watched jj again and make a similar record a Gadsden, nearby as Jones kept an appoint- for the entire month. ment with Bradshaw and handed 0nly 5ne person was killed in this Mrs. Darby Brown, Bestor and him the marked money in return city in juy ast year but seven Darby Brown, all of this city, and for a promise that Bradshaw would were billed in the same month of Tom Brown, of Louisvile, will leave leave Mr.

Jones alone in the fu- 939 Saturday morning for Meridian ture and make no further effort to molest him. The detectives reported Bradshaw first demanded $15 from Jones, but later agreed to accept $5. Jones said he had never met Bradshaw before the alleged transaction took place. Jones said Bradshaw called him by telephone on two occasions and threatened to damage his (Jones') reputation if $5 were not left for him (Bradshaw) at a downtown cafe. Jones finally reported the matter to police.

Bradshaw told detectives the name of Jones had been given him as a good prospect" for magazine subscriptions and he had called him in this regard. He denied having made any telephone threats and declared Jones gave him the $5 merely to help me out. 1,000 NEW HATS reg. hats Genuine Panomoj Fine Fur Felts Novelty Straws' Cool Sisals Rough Straws Drape Turbans Shop Eorly SATURDAY For Best Selections SUPER SUDS GETS EVEN VEEP DOWN DIRT OUT Of THE WHOLE FAMILY SINCE SUPER SUDS IS "RAYON -SAFE USE IT FOR WASHABLE RAYONS, TOO. NO NEED FOR 2 SOAPS NOW! i Rayon Experts O.K.

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n0'" 4. muss thatwnW-eeW iae 2. wit in tsstsl. irowstsi nuM, Easy on Hands Every mss Mrs. Hilliard Is President Of Bricklayers' Auxiliary Newly elected president of the Ladies Auxiliary of Bricklayers Union No.

1 is Mrs. Cecil Hilliard, who was chosen at a meeting in Union Hall Thursday night. Other officers elected were Mrs, J. J. Bowen, vice president; Mrs Georg Scott, secretary; Mrs.

R. H. King, treasurer; Mrs. Charlie Miles, conductor; Mrs. T.

A. Pitts, chaplain; Mrs. Festus Liles, parliamentarian; Mrs. Ol wen Holtam, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Ernest Trammell, warden.

Elected to the board of trustees were Mrs. George Scott, Mrs. Ed Scott and Mrs. J. J.

Bowen. Mrs. T. A. Pitts became publicity chairman.

Next meeting of the auxiliary will be held Thursday night, July 3, when new officer will be installed. Private Car Nabs Speeder Samuel Field, 24, Negro, of 838 Fourteenth Way, South, drew a six months suspension from driving in the city and $25 fine and costs in Police Court Thursday. Testimony in the case by Officer J. F. Carnes was that he was following the Negro driver in his private auto after the defendant had exceeded the speed limit.

The officer testified when two motorscout BAGS 69.

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