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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1941 About Birmi itish Not Worried Greatly: They Trust Their Army Leaders Former Star In German Theatrical World And Wife Are Now Residents Of This City This Man Applied To Right Place For Data On Birth A copy of his birth certificate was mailed by the Health Department Saturday to a man, who was bom in the building now occupied by the offices of the department in Bessemer. He is Oliver Cromwell Johnson, 35. He was born at the residence of his father. F. Johnson, then postmaster of Bessemer, at 1715 Second Avenue, Bessemer, Aug.

24, 1905. A few days ago a letter was received from Johnson, now residing at Port Townsend, Wash. He explained that he needed the certificate to obtain employment on defense work. The certificate was completed and mailed Saturday. It was explained that the residence was leased by the Health Department from the Johnson family some years ago and is still in use at its office.

BY BETTY KELLY Celebrating a quiet Easter Sunday here in Birmingham are a man and his wife who a scant two vears ago were living under the iron rule of Nazi oppression. The man, Otto Blum, was a prominent and popular actor in pre-Hitler Germany, his vivacious, red-haired wife was a lyric soprano in the Berlin opera. Now at their apartment at 2125 Ninth Avenue. South, the Blums arrived in Birmingham last June from New York, where they had fled from German-occupied Austria. He left behind his 80-year-old father; she.

her parents and sisters. The fear of reprisals on these relatives keeps the Blums silent on most aspects of their life in Germany since Hitler's accession to power. Besides, says Blum, referring to the treatment of the conquered minorities One does not talk about such things. Magic Names Of Wavell And Wilson Keep People From Being Concerned LONDON i.Pi The magic of two! tiames, Wavell and Wilson, kept tire rvrage Briton from too much IWorry Saturday night about bad from the Balkans. Reports of fresh German successes in Yugoslavia and Greece dominated the news, but the man-of-thc-strcct felt confident that Gen.

Sir Archi- ald P. Waveli, commander-in-chief In the Middle East, and Lieut. Gen. i Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the commander of the British Expo- ditionarv Force in Greece, knew I Hvhat they were doing. There was general agreement that Hie Balkan BEF was in a tough 1 spot, but there was little disposition Afflgr (00 jN DO iflQ to express fear that the fighting i Greece would result in another Gallipoli or another Dunkerque.

In some degree, too. the calmness Was due to the reading publics difficulty in following day-to-day do-j Velopmcnts because of lack of familiarity with the names of stra-j tegic points. Traditionally, the British most, foreign names are baf-j fling and rather unimportant. There was a widespread feeling that Gen, Wavells conduct of the Balkan strategy paralleled the retreat before the present German- Italian thrust through Libya, and. for that, one heard: Wavell chased in opening the Red Sea and the them back across the desert once.

Gulf of Aden to American shipping after their recent hard-won victory over the Birmingham Country Club team Stanley Ma-lotte, organist, leaving the theater Sanitary Engineer Guy Tate driving up Nineteenth Street Herbert Tutwiler and Mrs. Robert Jemison. attending noonday services at the Church of the Advent More churchgoers: Charlie Webb. John Coe. Fariss Gambrill, Chilton Smith, Matf Grant.

WOULDNT TALK If news is anything unusual, then this certainly is news. It regards a Birmingham boy who went away to dental school in Atlanta, the Atlanta School of Dentistry. Now as you parents know, whenever your student-children achieve anything at school, especially in a scholastic way, you hear of it at once. And that's probably the way it should bc. But on with the story.

When Birmingham's Richard Westbrook went to the Atlanta School Dentistry, his father receiving glowing reports from school authorities of Dicks progress as a dental student. But when Richard came home, he never told his folks. Dr. and Mrs. J.

C. West brook, about his school work. Last week, DICK WESTBROOK MRS. BLUM OTTO BLUM and he can do it again when the an asinine policy" that might force If 'he 'feels it is better to fall the United States to fight single-back now. why should wo worry handedly "in all parts of the world.

Gen. Wilson shared fully in this i "The warmongers in France have feeling of confidence because he I destroyed the French Republic and was in direct command of the army the warmongers in England have all of the Nile when it rolled the Ital- but destroyed the British Empire, ians back into Libya last Winter. he said. The same type of war-Sucli an influential and conscrva- mongers will destroy the United live pillar of journalism as Tin Slates if we keep on letting our Daily Telegraph and Morning Post sentiments rather than our judg-put it this way: ment control our policies. It would be idle to pretend that Meanwhile, Sir Arthur Salter, the news front the warfronts this chief of the British shipping mission week has been anything but disap- jn this country, paid his first call pointing.

Both in the Balkans and on Secretary Hull Saturday. He Tuskegee Scientist Uses Persimmon In Treating Pyorrhea TUSKEGEK. Ala. Ifl-Dr. George W.

Carver, famed Negro scientist, has developed a now drug from the persimmon for treatment of pyorrhea. The new drug, still in the experimental stage, was described by Dr. Carver at the meeting of tlie dental division of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society at Tus-kegee Institute. Dr.

Carver said the persimmon, which grows wild in many sections of the South, was boiled for its juice and then combined with other ingredients to form a liquid with powerful astringent properties. Persimmons onc-third to one-half ripe are used, said Dr. Carver, and after the juices are drawn off a black mass is left which may prove valuable in the development of plastics. The plastics offer certain valua-able possibilities as a substitute for the expensive materials now used in constructing dentures, Dr. Carver said.

Dr. Carver asked that the drug not be put on the market until it had been thoroughly tested by members of the dental profession. The dental society agreed to appoint a committee for controlled experimentation with the drug and to return case histories to Dr. Carver for further study. First 01 Week To See I Howard Centennial Program Launched Baptist College Will Seek To Raise $500,000 As Anniversary Gift The Centennial Forward Program of Howard College, planned to raise $500,000 for the East Lake institution.

will be launched Monday with an organization supper for the 160 committeemen at 7 p.m. at Ruhama Baptist Church. The college will be 100 years old Jan. 3, 1942, and students, faculty and alumni are hoping to make the completed fund the birthday present for the Baptist school. Howard has been located in East Lake 54 years, ever since its removal from Marion to Birmingham.

The directing committee for the East Lake district, which includes Leeds, Irondale, Trussville, Huffman and Center Point, is headed by Dr. H. M. Acton of the faculty, It is composed of Dr. Lelias E.

Kirby, physician, East Lake Methodist Church: E. S. Bee. Alabama Power Company, representing Ruhama; E. Hewitt Pearce, of the East Lake Lions, and George L.

Pierce, Huffman Civic Association. The 160 members of the general Talladega, on the old road from i committee who will canvass East Talladega to Sylacauga. known as Lake wili meet Monday night for 1832. Talladega County, with a pop- the Jackson Trace because Gen. An- final organization.

Each committee BY T. CAPEL Up to 1832 the Indians owned and occupied the land now comprised in Talladega and eight other counties lying between the Coosa River and Georgia. Created by the Legislature In in Libya the enemy has had unex peeled and ping successes, which have changed the balance of the strategic situation to our disadvantage. But nothing of the grand issue has been decided. What it means is that we shall have a longer and harder row to hoe than wc had hoped for.

told newspaper men the president's action in opening the sea lane for American ships to Suez would give very valuable aid to Great Britain. For every ship placed on the North African run, he said, it would be possible for Great Britain to transfer a ship to the North Atlantic, where U-boat conditions have been increasingly serious. Ho said his conference with Hull was chiefly a courtesy call. Legislators Debate Convoys The question of convoys also figured in comment by legislators on the presidents newest moves in foreign affairs. Representative Fish N.

YL ranking minority member of the House foreign affairs committee, expressed doubt that the president approved Committee Chairman Sol Henderson Counting Chiefly On Publicity To Hold Prices Down WASHINGTON Leon Hei drew Jackson and his men once js composed of 10 men or women, passed that way, is Orangevale, also with a chairman of each group, known to the old timers as the I Another organization supper will "Lawler Place." the ante-bellum bc jieic at 7 p.m. Tuesday at First plantation mansion of Gen. Levi W. 1 Baptist Church when the Alumni Lawler and the scene of Augustus Association committee of 200 will Thomas romantic play, Alabama, assemble as guests of the steering descriptive of the days in Talla-1 committee. dega County immediately following i The alumni steering committee is ulation last year of 50,818.

is the tenth most populous county in the state, and with plans now well under way for the construction of the huge powder plant in the southwestern part of the county, its industrial future is more rosy than ever before. According to Miller's History of Bloom's advocacy of American con- derson, chid of the newly-created vovs f0I- war shipments. Off ire of Price Administration and Blooms approval of convoys. Fish Civilian Supply, indicated Saturday dedared. demonstrated that he is he was counting chiefly on puo- i now openly for war.

Iicity to prevent unwarranted price whi saving )ha, congress would increases disapprove convoys at present. Fish He told a rt conference Lis that jle strongly favored the agency biggest weapon of on- establishment of an air base in Jorcement would be the il Greenland -a step made possible support of the community, P10'. when this government took Green-sumably gamed by calling public an(j jnt0 j(s system of hemisphcn-hikcs whicn ap- caj defense earlier this week, tout adequate lea- senator Clark like Henderson is Whceler an opponent of Roosevelt I PaadVnas'Totar' Veached "44 just me- nild bo forciKn told rtPllcrs that .18 inches below the 1884 mark nriros Hr wc f00'-1 Fast enough we may The storm brought hail to aernev was abe tu tlierc (the Reo Sea) bal, Inglewood and heavy snowfall by the time the Germans do. to mountain areas. Delayed by the storm was the peak harvest of celery, a crop considerably damaged by blight.

Much of the strawberry crop also has rotted in the field, its harvested halted by frequent rain. California Still Wet LOS ANGELE lP- Rainfall records fell in Southern California as an overnight storm continued Saturday. It rained less than an inch at Santa Ana, but it was sufficient to bring the seasons total to 30.57. more than ever before recorded there. The previous record was 30.41 in the season of 1883-84.

Previously Santa Barbara and Anaheim had established records 'V, cbances on sending our ships where thai the one i-ure way prevent Alabama. Talladega County with a the Civil War, and which play had mace Up of J. Henry Wise, alumni mi presj(jel)t; Dr. J. A.

Ward. Dr. R. C. Greene, Miss Margaret Cox.

Everett Ingram. Andrew H. Knight and Col. W. A.

Berry. The alumni committee of 200 will call upon graduates of Howard for contributions to put up a $100,000 library on the campus. Included in the $500,000 campaign is a $150,000 auditorium and admin- population then of only 14.634. furnished 27 companies of volunteers for the Confederate armies: and among its distinguished citizens have been Dr J. M.

Curry, Senator John T. Morgan, Chief Justice William Chilton, Chief Justice Samuel F. Rice. Chief Justice George W. Stone.

Congressman Joab Lawler, Col and Congressman Taul Bradford. Gov. Lewis E. Parsons, John B. Knox, president of the Constitutional Convention of 1901; Congressman Sydney J.

Bowie, Educator Joseph B. Graham, and a number of others whose names in their days, were well known throughout Alabama and in Washington. When, some 30-odd years ago, Congress invited the states to place statues of two of their most distinguished citizens in Statuary Hall most likely to be blown rises was to increase production. fine old boxwood, with its green istration building, and a program blinds closed seems to be dreaming to clear the college of indebtedness of the happy days of the long ago. and improve the campus.

Orangevale is a fine type of the old double-breasted, white, antebellum, plantation mansions of the Old South: and, easily accessible, it is a favorite spot for tourists and visitors to Talladega. Unlike many of the old ante-bellum mansions, Orangevale has remained in the family, and is now owned by Mrs. George Robinson and Mrs. Perrin Rites For J. S.

Vann To Be Held Monday Services for J. S. Vann. 67. of Trussville, who was killed Saturday when struck by an automobile as he stepped from a bus on U.

S. up- In Berlin, authorized sources First Lady's Niece Weds Englishman DEDHAM. Mass. UP) Pretty, brown-haired Eleanor Roosevelt. who made her debut in the Wlule agecy said the presidents action called Mr.

Roosevelt's opening of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden ihe first open American intervention in European affairs and a violation of the European Monroe Doctrine. Die official Stefani Italian news though, while Richard was home for Spring holidays, Dr. Westbrook asked if he would make the honor roll this time. "I suppose so, Dick admitted reluctantly. His father continued the prodding and this is what he learned: The first year Richard attended the large Atlanta school he ranked fifth in scholarship; the next year fourth: the next year third and this year probably second! And the most ujiusual part of it all: He never once mentioned it Large Alabama Group To Attend Cincinnati Mining Exposition Alabama will bc well represented at the Eighteenth Annual Coal Mining Convention and Exposition, April 28-Ma 2.

at Cincinnati, when various coal and national defense problems are scheduled for study. W. C. Chase, general superintendent of the Alabama By-Products Corporation coal mines and chairman of the convention committee from this area, disclosed Saturday that indications are Alabama will be represented by the largest group ever to attend a coal convention from this state. Already, he said, many of the leading coal men of Birmingham and the nearby coal area have notified him they expect to attend the meeting.

This year's convention. Chase added, looms larger in national importance than other recent conventions, chiefly because the coal industry is filling such a major role in the defense program. Existing emergency conditions will be given special study, according to the program mapped out. In addition, safety measures will be spotlighted, along with latest developments in the field of mining efficiency and economy. Deep mining and open pit or strip mining also will occupy a prominent place on the program, according to Chase.

A special quiz session, designed to bring into sharp focus various problems of coal mining, he added, will be an entirely new feature. SiiU another important phase, he said, will be an exhibition of gadgets coal company workers have originated in recent years. Among other features will be a paper on Conveyor Mining in Alabama," to be read by F. J. Immlcr, assistant to the chief engineer of the Alabama By-Products Corporation.

This paper is expected to outline the history of conveyor mining in Alabama and to point out possible future developments. DeKalb Pair Arrested For Robbery, Burning 01 Cafe In Georgia FORT PAYNE. Ala Two De-Kalb County men were taken into custody by Sheriff W. R. Smith here Saturday afternoon and charged with participating in the robbery and burning of Louis Place, a cafe and dance hall on Lookout Mountain just across the Georgia state line, Thursday night.

Smith said the men are Matt Green, of Fort Payne Route 2, charged with assault with intent to murder, and Ralph Parrish, of Fort Payne Star Route, charged with arson and theft. The two men arc alleged to have come to the cafe-danco hall Thursday night and ordered beverages and while there to have engaged in an argument with a waitress, Inez Evctt. The sheriff said the waitress charged that Green beat her about the face, knocked her down and chased Louis Tatt. owner of the establishment. out of the building.

The building later caught fire and burned to the ground, Smith said. The two men were arrested on warrants issued in Georgia Saturday and brought to the Fort Payne Ja'l to await a hearing set for Friday. Tate told investigating officers that $15 had been removed from his cash register while the two men were in the cafe. in the capitol at Washington, the Bcstor, of Mobile, granddaugh-first name selected by the Legis- ters of Gen. Levi Lawler and daugh-lature of Alabama was that of Dr.

ters of the late Gen. Julian Wythe House three years ago. Saturday became the bride of a young English architect. Edward Proctor Elliott, hei nt -the First Lady of the land one of the guests was based on one of bis original a well as arbitrary" interpretations of international law. Stefani said the interpretation grew from a orv that Egypt, to which goods He will talk, however, about his life as an actor after school days in his native Vienna were over.

A school boy during the last World War. he began his studies in the university to be a naval engineer. Post-World War Germany had no navy, so at 19 Blum turned to the stage. AN ACTOR'S LIFE Rudolph Schildkraut, the great Rumanian actor, chanced to see him in an amateur performance, and with liis encouragmcnt. Blum started on his theatrical career.

Playing Shakespeare and the German classics under the stage name of Otto Waldis, he soon advanced to the front ranks of the German theater. A bulky album of pictures and newspaper clippings portrays the stocky actor in a multitude of roles. An artist in makeup, Blum's pictures show his face contorted into the likeness of the miserly Shylock. the bewildered King Lear, the crafty Brutus. His acting was applauded by Gerhart Haupfman, German dramatist and Nobel Prize winner, when he played the leading role in Hauptmans play, "The Weavers, in Berlin.

Another of his important -performances was that of Caliban in "The Tempest. in which he appeared at Frankfort-on-Main in one of Germany's foremost theaters. A director as well as an actor, Blum directed the last play. Sophocles Elektra, to be presented at- the Reichstaht before that legislative building was burned. After the fire, the Reichstag met at the Kroll Theater, where Blum had appeared in the leading role in Men in White.

j( GERMAN MOVIES Turning to the medium of the motion picture, Blum met with equal success. He played the lead in Heinrich von Kleist's classic, "The Broken Pitcher, which won first prize in an international competition held in Italy in 1934. The main difference between American and German movies, in his opinion, is that here even the smallest parts are played painstakingly, while in German movies the players concentrate only on the major roles. Despite this, he believes the German and French films have a certain feel which the high-powered Hollywood productions fail to capture. AFTER HITLER When Hitler came to power in 1933.

Blum, feeling that worse things were in store, and realizing that the death knell of German art and drama had been sounded, returned to Vienna, where he took up the study of photography. He found that his years as an actor-director were not lost in this new field, as his experience with the study of faces in his many character parts, and his knowledge of lighting techniques enabled him to bring out the character and personality of his subject. In 1935 he married pretty, petite Margaret Veith, whom he had met in Berlin several years before. Mrs. Blum, incidentally, during her operatic career, studied in Vienna with Joseph Langyel.

Imagine my surprise, she said in her charming accent, "when my teacher from Vienna is the first person I met when I come to Birmingham. Now in New York, Lengyel, who escaped from Germany three years ago. last year was the head of the opera department at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music. Work was hard to find after 33 in Austria, as the hundreds upon hundreds of Jewish actors whom Hitler had banished from Germany poured into that country, but Blum studied his new profession and did some acting on the side. Later, on March 12.

1939. Hitler followed those refugees into Austria. The Blums, who have never seen the man whose scourge they had felt, remember the day he came. Mrs. Blum described the sky as "black with planes which the conqueror sent ahead to intimidate the people, and the air filled with the deafening roar of their motors.

"Only about 3(1 per cent of the Austrians wanted union with Germany," B'ttm said, "but they had loud voices, and were heard." Many of the others who voted for Hitler thought they could get rid of him in an election if he did not improve conditions, but found out too late that their free vote was gone. In a few more years, the Blums will be able to vote in this country, as they have both taken out their first citizenship papers. Busy with their photographic studio here, they are pot embittered by their treatment in Germany. They plan to spend the rest of their lives in this country, preferably Birmingham, but look forward to the day when Germanys present ills will be cured. "The real Germany, said Blum, "cannot die." ABOUTOWN Spare, erect, sun-tanned Mercer Beasley, Princeton tennis coach, watching his team relax with a rhumba at one of the downtown night spot Whiting and Ida Gracey Lawler Whiting, of Mobile.

On an elevated tract near Mar-riisville, several miles southwest of Talladega, 100 yards or more off the paved highway, and in a large grove of old oak trees, is venerable Thornhill high above the nearby rip- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, for many years a citizen of Talladega County, who was a member of the Confederate Congress, a colonel in Ihe Confederate Army, a member of the United States Congress, a minister to Spain, president of Howard College, author and national friend of education, and the general agent of both the Slater and Peabody educational funds. Several miles northeast of Talladega. on the road to Anniston, the old home of Dr. Curry still stands with a marble marker on the road- More than 1.000 persons, who be shipped tnder the new or jammed the square in this usually dcr, was a neutral. quiet New England town, crowded i 1 around the automobile of the pres- 1 1 I I wife -he ved at little, ufl AfP I InflPf KlTTfl St Paul Episeop.il Chuuk for the "1C UIIUCI ceremony and police had to open a way for her.

After the cererm ny and reception for 800 at the Dedham Country and Polo Club, she left for Washington MERIDIAN. Schwartz, service Sunday ti( ion picture operator, and D. K. Black, taxi driver and former mo- in Arlington Cemetery with the president before speeding across tmn pjctllrp operator, were at lib theJ J0LV aner erty on $2,000 bonds each Saturday wedding Monday that of her son 1 James, to his former nurse, Schneider, in Los Angcle night after being arrested on charges of alleged conspiracy to commit assault and with intent to side placed there by the Daughters Senator John T. Morgan was mar- of the Confederacy.

A few miles farther on the road to Anniston is the site of the old home built by William Curry, father of J. L. M. Curry, when he came to Alabama from Lincoln County, Georgia, in 1837. This old mansion was de- ried at Thornhill to a niece of John Hardie, and two infant sons of Senator Morgan are buried in he family burial ground there.

The private half mile race track, still visible at Thornhill, was constructed by the late J. M. Lewis, of Talla-stroyed by fire many years ago and (jcgai a son-in-law of John Hardie, all that now remains is an old brick aM(j one 0f jbe fcw millionaires in smokehouse, and 100 yards to tiie Alabama some 60 years ago. John ar. half hidden at the edge of Hardie was the ancestor of the cotton patch, the grave of Wit- Hardies of Alabama and New Or Field Day Will Close School Health Contest Highway No.

11. will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at Trussville Methodist Church. Mr. Vann is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Joel Samuel Vann: six sons, Sam Lester Vann, of Haleyville; Ernest, Charles James Joseph B. and Fred L. Vann, of Trussville; two daughters, Mrs. L. H.

Scott, of Dallas, and Mrs. J. H. Cragg. of Tuscaloosa: a sister, pling waters of beautiful and ever Mrs.

W. B. Hazelwood, of Portsmouth, 16 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Mr. Vanns nephews will be pallbearers, and burial will be at the Baptist cemetery, Johns-Service directing.

An employe of a Birmingham firm. Mr. Vann was getting off the bus at his own driveway when the accident occurred, according to State Highway Patrolmen J. T. Bryant and D.

M. Bryant, who investigated. County Investigator Gip M. Evans announced that Eugene T. Teague, driver of the car, was being held under $1,000 bond on a first-degree manslaughter charge.

Services Announced For Victim Of Blast Richard O'Barr, 50. of Bessemer Route No. 4. one of the three victims who died from injuries suffered in an explosion Friday at the Woodward Iron Companys main plant, will be buried at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Elmwood Cemetery following funeral services at the Walnut Grove Methodist Church which Mr.

O'Barr attended many years. Nine others were injured in the blast. Employed by the Woodward company for more than 20 years, Mr, OBarr was a foreman of the plant and widely known and highly regarded by both employes and officials. He is survived by his widow; a daughter. Miss Georgia Muriel OBarr; three sisters, Mrs.

B. Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Leona Dorough. and Mrs.

Sula Owens, the first two of Bessemer and the last of Texas, and a brother. Orvile O'Barr. Active pallbearers will bc nephews of Mr. O'Barr and honorary pallbearers will bc employes and officials of the Woodward planL tiers of the Mardisville community could have imagined, as they built their homes in the virgin forests, was that, little more than a century later, costing battery murder in connection with the I bombing of the Royal Theater here several weeks ago in which six persons were injured. The health contest, sponsored 1 The has be" thr larf 1 of among Birmingham elementary i sevfral rn-se? pened sev-schools bv the Womens Auxiliary fral nthf aS- Tcar Sas 'VaYe-of the Jefferson County Medical So- on.

lw occasons and las? c.ety, will close April 25 with field ln the cashiers cage and day and awards at Legion Field. fteem iy case cracked by bolts. The Decision of the in dees will be on has becn Picketed since it these points' Correction of defects Pened the management refusing to SnCgiene grpottu- on operators, it was cx- rifetrv The latest offense in which the, I tw0 defendants were arrested was Launching the annual Y. C. A.

whwh'm th? tbe Placing of what the court de- i World Service Campaign, 60 ln Ihe opinion of the judges scrjbec as a time bomb in the members representing till phases of repoits theater. the local program will gather for 1 dinner at 6:15 p.m. Monday at the Anundsen Will Speak Central The Phalanx Fraternity. Y. M.

C. Prevention of Mine Explosions a. young men's group, is sponsor-is the subject to be discussed before 1 jug the supper program which will the Alabama Chapter of the Ameri-1 feature an address bv George Hcldc, can Society of Safety Engineers by regional Y. M. C.

A. director for The Birmingham Council of Par-1 A Anundsen. of the United States South and Central China, rnts and Teachers has cooperated Bureau of Mines, at 7 p.m. Wednes- Y. Carson, local research en-with the project through MrW.

P. day at the Bankhead Hotel, ginecr who was formerly with Lord Tuggle, council president; Mrs. J. E. Hubert E.

Mills, chapter general Allcnby's forces in Palestine, will Dow. health chairman. Mrs. I. E.

I chairman, announced Saturday that I show slides of Jerusalem. Alton Morris. Mrs. A W. Henckell and Anuudsen's discussion will be one I Parker will preside.

Mrs. E. Elliott. I of two features of the program. The For inauguration of the 1941 other will be an hour-long motion World Service Campaign, committee Two Hurt In Auto Crash I picture showing in detail how cx- from the board of directors in- plosions and other mine accidents eludes A.

C. Montgomery. J. Chap When an auto she was driving may be prevented, went out of control at Eighty-First Hodges and Eugene Ireland Mr. Helde, in Birmingham liam Curry marked by a marble pedestal four feet high, from which the tall marble shaft has fallen and now lies half buried in the ground.

About six miles south by west from the city of Talladega, on the paved road to Sylacauga. was Mardisville. once the county seat of Talladega County pending its re- moval to Taiiadega. and the home mingham of some subsequently very distin- guished citizens of Alabama, includ- Alpine," the ante-bellum home ing Chief Justice William P. Chil- the distinguished Welsh family ton.

And in or near the old Mardis- Alpine, being within me boun-ville community are three old ante- daries of the land acquired for the bcllum plantation mansions which. bu8e powder plant, was to be razed, for more than a century, have I but was saved by the united efforts Weathered the elements and escaped Congressman Hobbs and Senator the too frequent destruction of such Hl.L landmarks bv fire In 'cat floods of the Spring Some three or four miles from of 1886. many Indian relics, such as Mardisville and about nine miles flne arrowheads and tomahawks, southwest of Talladega is august Pa beads, burial urns and pottery, Mount Ida. built by Walker Rcy-1 ce uncovered near the over-nolds, formerly a resident of Lin-1 flowed banks of the swollen Talla-coin Countv. Georgia, iibout 1833 dpSa ad Choccolocco Creeks: and about the last thing the early set- before all of the Indians in Talla City's Street Cars Have A Rather Hot Time; Two Blaze Up Street and Rugby Avenue late Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. T. J. Hinds, 8604 Second Avenue. South, and her eon-in-law.

Robert Lee Tate, of the same address, were injured. They were taken to Jefferson Hospital for treatment. Several other relatives lit the car escaped with minor a huge powder plant many millions of dollars would be constructed some 10 miles, more or less, away. And the good condition of these old mansions today Is evidence of the care and pains with which these early homes were built; and barring the hazard of fire, they will still be eloquent landmarks another century hence of the days of the early settlers of Talladega County. There are some fine old ante-bel i dega County had left their old hunt-i ing grounds.

Situated on the last of a chain of hills, behind rows of old oaks. Mount Ida commands a magnificent view of the green valleys to the south and cast, framed by a range of the blue Talladega mountains in the distance. With its marble steps, tall columns, iron-grilled balcony, imported etched and colored glass in the framework of the front door and its high ceilings and mantels and its large fireplaces. Mount Ida is a most impressive reminder of a chivalrous and home-loving period of the Old South. On an adjacent hill is the enclosed family burial ground, and temporarily, spent eight months in 1940 on a trip which once required two weeks, visiting Japanese-occupied cities in South and Central China.

On behalf of the international committee, he visited Hankow, Wuchang, Amoy. Swatow. Canton and Nanchang. despite difficulties to travel and danger from guerrilla attacks. Mr.

Helde. a native of New Mexico, first went to China in 1916 as an associate in the interior city of Chengtu. Later he went to Changsha and in 1937. when Shanghai was isolated by war, he carried on the administrative work of the national committee with soldiers and civilian refugees from Changsha. In 1937.

he was made regional director for the Y. M. C. in Central China. Dies To Be Candidate WASHINGTON (JP) Friends of Representative Martin Dies Tex.) said Saturday that he would be a candidate to succeed the late Morris Sheppard as senator from Texas.

Texas' governor. W. Lee O'Daniel, has been mentioned in speculation as a possible candidate, as have former Vice President John N. Garner, Cincinnatians On Visit Here I and'TwentierhStreet at mI 1 Cincinnati, the other, at 4 p.m., wa: Mrs. Diekmeyci arc visiting Mr.

teonth Street and Sec Fred build and blazes on street cars. One call was to First as 'French Are Anti-Italian And They Will Pay For It' ROME (4) II Giornale Dltalia complained Saturday that the French still were anti-Italian despite their defeat, and said that they "will pay for it. "They persist in their hostile attitude toward Italy in Ijaunting their nonchalance and tneir jealousy, said the paper, They lost a good opportunity to rehabilitate themselvee." The Fire Department was called twice Saturday to extinguish Avenue noon and to Nine- Second Avenue. North. Firemen said there was a short circuit in wiring in both cases.

A truck from No. 1 Station answered both alarms and extinguished the smoldering wiring. and Mi home In Norwoi Mr. Diekmcyer (donor J. W.

Mori ing Inspector H. Hall Saturday. Roberts at their i for a few days, ailed on Commis-m and City Build-E. Hagood at City lum homes in other sections of Iho 'Xi dlc 8ravp be master county, but it was only intended of Mount Ida is an unusual white here to give a brief description of marble structure, resembling a i the old homes in the historic Mar- mausoleum. and on its inside walls disvlllc community, and the home aie memorial and Biblical inscrip- of the man.

infercntially designated tion for Sheppard's unexpired term Among the descendants of by the Legislature, as Alabama's I must be celled bv the governor. This Walker Reynolds are a son, Mallory I most distinguished citizen. term ends Jan. 3, 1943. Judge Gerald Mann.

Representative Lyndon Johnson and E. B. Germany, who headed Garner's campaign for the presidency in 1940. Under Texas law, a special elec.