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TIM THl BIRMtNOHAM NEWS SUNDAY. MAY 20. 151 Drayton Trucks, 74, first head of Ensley merchants, passes Drayton Trucks. 74, pioneer merchant of Ensley, died Saturday at his home, 2904 Avenue after a short illness. He was one of the organizers and first president of the Ensley Merchants Association, now known as the Ensley Chamber of Commerce.

He was a member of the Ensley Highland Presbyterian Church and of the Ensley Kiwanis Club. Funeral services will be held at 3 pm. Sunday from the Ensley Highlands Presbyterian Church, Dr. Frank Cross, officiating. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Alice Franklin Trucks; three daughters, Mrs. Jessie Self, Mrs. Thomas M. Sutter and Mrs. Ro-maine S.

Scott; three sons, Fred Trucks, William Bonds and Ralph Bonds. Angwin-Servlce, Ensley, is in charge of arrangements. I is Pioneer diet Drayton Trucks. Brighton seaman killed on ship; body will be returned News of the death of Velpeau held at the chapel and at 9: Tny took port Their names have long been lost in the passing years, but the beauties pictured above took part in a tableau, "The Solid South," which was presented on the occasion of the first United Confederate Reunion held in Birmingham, April 25 1894 at the Winnie Davis Wigwam, 2205 First Avenue, North. All U.

C. V. gatherings soon to be ended City 25 years ago was host st Confederate reunion a.m. St. Barnabas Catholic Church.

Rev. Fr. George W. Keyes will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Cemetery.

Burkett the former Miss Frances Moreland, made her in Birmingham for more than years. She was a member of the Barnabas Church. SURVIVING are the husband; sons, Charles and Ralph Bur-- of Birmingham, and Chief Officer Robert Burkett of U. S. Navy, stationed in Philadelphia, a daughter, Mrs.

John also of Birmingham; a Eugene D. Moreland; four grandchildren and several nieces nephews. following nephews will serve active pallbearers: Robert E. Bobby J. Burkett Fred James W.

OHear and Wallace Stick. Honorary pallbearers will Include A. OHear. Eugene Jones, E. Burkett A.

D. Burkett Stiff, Wallace Franklin, Cody and John Grantham. (Buddy) Horton, 28, Brighton, who was in the U. S. Navy, has been received by relatives here.

Horton was in the Mediterranean Fleet and was on the U. S. S. Roanoke. He was fatally injured when knocked down on deck by a tidal wave, his family was informed.

He died of multiple injuries, the report said. Seaman Horton had served in the Navy for 10 years and was a veteran of World War II. He was reared in Bessemer, where his Mrs. Mae Horton, lives. Besides, his mother he is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Phyllis Horton, and a young daughter, Vickie, Brighton; two sisters, Mrs. Wilburn Carraway, Bessemer, and Mrs. Olga Tuttle, California; one brother, Billy Horton, U. S. Navy, stationed in California.

The body is being sent to Bessemer for burial. Funeral arrangements will be announced. Albert C. Evans Funeral services for Albert C. Evans, 33, of Route 1, Mt.

Pinson, will be held Monday at 11 a.m. from the Brown-Service Norwood Chapel. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Mr. Evans was killed Friday night when the car in which he was riding alone was in a head-on collision with a truck on the high- ness-way at Coopers, community seven' miles south of Clanton.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Mary Evans; three daughters, Mary Ann Evans, Martha Jean Evans and Janice Carol Evans; a son, Jimmy Dale Evans; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. N.

Evans, Birmingham; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Landrum, Satsuma, Mrs. David Wehunt, Mt. Pinson, and Mrs. Lee Cook, Birmingham; three brothers, L.

N. Evans, Samuel E. Evans, both of Birmingham, and J. Carl Evans, U. S.

Navy. at The Hill Mrs. Sara home 43 St three kett mother, Petty the Portera, brother, and The as Burkett Diggle, Frank Matthew Paul Jones Mrs. Mrs. Saturday 11th Mrs.

Joel and order past 172. 3 pm. daughter, 12th Buckalew 15 convicts are indicted in jail fiats MONTGOMERY, May 19 UP) Fifteen convicts were indicted by the Montgomery Grand Jury Friday, nine on charges, growing out of recent disturbances at state prisons. Their names were disclosed by Circuit Clerk John Matthews after warrants were served on all but 25 of the 86 persons named in indictments returned by the jury. Officials were still silent on whether any of the indictments in which arrests have not been made, concern parole matters which the jurors reportedly investigated.

SEVEN CONVICTS were indicted on charges of arson in connection with a series of fires in the Kilby Cotton Mill early in February. They were identified as Ernest Dillapree, Louis Marston, James W. Moore, Garland Sewell. Hubert Warthen, Charlie Lee Wilson and Leroy Wiseman. Murder indictments were brought against Joe Douglass, Jr, 22, and Louis W.

Forrester, 30, both for killing other prison inmates. Douglass Is charged with the fatal stabbing of William Patterson, 22, last March 6 in the Kilby visiting room. Forester was indicted in the killing of Melborne Kittrell, Feb. 24. Kittrell died several hours after being slashed with a knife in a prison fight Forrester was sent up from Montgomery County in 1948 for burglary and grand larceny.

He had 45 years added to his term in Escambia County in 1949 for killing an inmate at Atmore Prison, Chief Deputy Sheriff George Mosley, said. MATTHEWS SAID the other convicts Indicted were: Boisie Lee Carter, charged with carnal know! edge; Tom Davis, grand larceny; Calvin Gillette, burglary and grand larceny; Louis Pritchett grand larceny; Oliver Rogers, grand larceny, and Clifton Wilker-son, grand larceny. Some of the convicts were out on parole when arrested. Undec parole rules, they were sent back to serve their original sentences while awaiting Grand Jury action. ALABAMA LAW prohibits disclosure of names of persons indicted until they have been arrested.

The Grand Jury did touch on other penal matters, such as possession by convicts of knives or dirks, and urged that steps be taken to guard against it. Several convicts have been stabbed to death in prison fights. Members suggested that electronic devices be installed to detect presence of such weapons. The jurys report also urged that young and first offenders be separated from older and longterm convicts in state prisons. Without elaborating, the Grand Jury recommended holding private sales of state property to a minimum.

It suggested that such property be disposed of at publicly advertised sales. The 17 white members of the jury praised the work of the only Negro to serve. He was Amos Parker, head of the Negro refrm-atory at nearby Mt. Meigs. Pvt.

Philip Merrill going across for duty Pvt Philip D. Merrill, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Merrill, of 817 Princeton Avenue, is headed for overseas duty.

After 14 days furlough at home, he has orders to report to Ft. Law-son, for eventual transfer to the Far East. Before coming home, he underwent eight weeks of training infield' artillery at Ft Sill, Okla. Young Merrill, a former shipping clerk for Delta Airlines, is theL grandson of Mr. and Mrs.

R. B. pvt. mkrrill Toney, of 1213 Fulton Avenue. His father is a proofreader on The Birmingham News and his mother operates a cafeteria in The News Building.

THE FINAL REUNION held in Birmingham convened May 19b 1926, at First Methodist Church. At the opening session Gov. W. W. Brandon, J.

M. Jones, Jr, president of the City Commission; Val J. Nesbitt local reunion chairman, and Gen. W. B.

Freeman, C. V. commander in chief, spoke. Jluring tiie three-day session, 3,233 veterans registered. Visitors to Birmingham totaled 10,000.

Memorial exercises were held and support given to the Stons Mountain memorial project On the third day, 3,000 automobiles bearing veterans, pretty young women from each of the Confederate states, and bands formed a procession at Ensley and came into downtown Birmingham. This parade, the final passing in review of Confederate heroes in the Magic City, was seen by 100,000 persons. Marf E. Phillips Mary E. Phillips, 80.

died morning at her home, 3403 Avenue, North, after a long ill Twenty-five years ago this month, white-headed old soldiers of the South attended the last reunion held in Birmingham. It was the fourth time that the Magic City had been host to the United Confederate Veterans. May 30-June 3, this year, three or four veterans of the remaining thin gray line will convene in Norfolk, for the last time, then reunions will be history. The first Confederate reunion in Birmingham convened April 25, 1894. Convention headquarters were in the Winnie Davis Wigwam, a mammoth structure named in honor of Winnie Davis, daughter of the Confederate president It stood at 2205-2215 First Avenue, North.

At the opening of the convention, 10,000 persons crowded the gayly decorated structure. Grambs band played national airs and cannons stationed outside, fired salutes. Maj. Gen. Fred S.

Ferguson called the convention to order. The invocation was by Asst Chaplain-General J. William Jones. Gov. Thomas G.

Jones welcomed the delegates to Alabama and Mayor David J. Fox greeted them for Birmingham. Gen. John B. Gordon gave the response.

IN THE EVENING a tableau, The Solid South, was presented. Each Confederate state was represented by its most beautiful and popular young lady. Later, the girls, with their maids and chaperons, attended a reception at the Caldwell Hotel. High point of the second day was the laying of the cornerstone for the Confederate Monument dudterrag at the head of 20th Street A parade of local military. Confederate veterans, bands and officials moved from the Southside up 21st Street The procession turned west at Seventh Avenue and halted at Capital Park.

Rufus N. Rhodes, editor of The News and commander in chief of Camp Clayton, Sons of Confederate Veterans, introduced the orator of the day, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, of Mississippi. After the dedicatory address, newspapers, coins, letters, flags, portraits, and other articles were placed in a copper box for deposit in the cornerstone.

The Masonic ritual was read and corn, oil, and wine poured by little Carrie Little Cobbs, Nellie Thom Johnston and Lucille Lizette Lane. THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS met in Birmingham for the second time, June 9-11, 1908. Sessions were held in the Hippodrome Theater, southwest corner of Third Avenue and 17th Street The convention was welcomed to Alabama by Gov. B. B.

Comer and Mayor George B. Ward. On the second day, a floral parade moved through the downtown streets. The veterans, led by battle-scarred flags, marched on the third and final day while thousands cheered. Birminghams third U.

C. V. reunion convened May 16, 1916, and lasted three days. Sessions were held at the Bijou Theater. A resolution pledging loyalty to the government in its hour of in-ternational difficulty, was adopted.

The evening of the first day, Irvin S. Cobb, noted author ami son of a Confederate soldier, spoke to the gathering. He was introduced by Bennett H. Young, commander in chief. Cobbs talk, full of humor and pathos, was the outstanding event of the meeting.

The traditional parade was on the last day. The parade marshal was Henry Walthall, famed actor, who played the Little Colonel in "The Birth of a Nation." Walthall was born in Shelby County. They might agree In a trench on the Korean front, April 25, relax Marine Pfc. Richard Pantoliano (left) of Brooklyn, N. and Pfc.

Robert L. Curtis, of Torrance, Calif. In this AP wirephoto they seem to typify the service men and the things they might need fos comfort of body and mind. Probably they'd agree with Donald James Page's verses on the subject. On articles to send (or not) to service men this is penned BY NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE What to send the young men in uniform is always a moot question.

When Donald James Page left Fort Madison, Iowa, a few months ago, a group of fellow workers asked him to let them know whot he and other fellows in service found to be most helpful aids to existence in service. He sent back a reply in rhyme that may give a few clues not only what to send but also what to refrain from sending. It goes like this; Send me a pen that always writes, A pencil that's always trusty A lighter pal, that always lights Though the winds be raw and gusty. A wrist watch, that tells the hour, Even when lights are quashed And rush some wool socks, mine are sour Who knows when they'll be washed A toilet kit draped 'round my waist Would help me clean myself up (Sometimes we have to shave in haste Where no one's put a shelf up.) A smallish can of foodments rare Like figs sardines, or jams Can nicely spice our bill of fare. But keep your beans and spams! Maybe you'd like to mail a cake (Thinking to do your duty) But if you do, for bevvin's sake Just send a type that's fruity.

A clipper for my fingernails Makes my saluting snappier A flashlight, one that never fails, Makes nighttime errands happier. ip A kit for writing a letter Is welcome as it can be, And it would be even better If it fastened on my knee. Sending salami to guys in the Army Is fine if you don't cut the casing. The same with boloney, to your one and oney, It helps when the foe he is chasing. So there's your list of welcome stuff That makes our armed life better But when the going's really rough Ain't nothin' beats a letter! PIANOS HAMMOND ORGANS Phillips was the widow of T.

Phillips, a veteran city fireman. Born in Georgia, Mrs. Phillips her husband came to Birmingham in 1895. She was active in the of Eastern Star and was a matron of Aster Chapter No, Funeral services will be held at Sunday from the home of a Mrs. L.

E. Ayers, 3409 Avenue, North. The Rev. C. C.

and the Rev. R. L. Dill will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery with grandsons serving as pallbearers.

Aster Chapter, O. I. will have charge of services at the grave. Brown-Service, Norwood, is directing arrangements. Other survivors include another daughter, Mrs.

J. H. Knighten; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Funderburg and Mrs. L.

H. Schollian; three granddaughters, five grandsons and four great-grandchildren. Kerosene-fed fire kills mother, infant CHARLESTON, S. May 19 UP) A kerosene-fed fire flashed through a frame dwelling just north of here Saturday killing a mother and her 7-month-old son and critically burning the father and a 5-year-old son. The dead were identified as Mrs.

Pellum. father, underwent in an was admitted of burns of F. B. Clements Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday from St Marys-on-the-Highlands for F.

B. Clements, 86, who died at his home, 2315 10th Court, South, Saturday, after suffering a heart attack. The Rev. David Cady Wright will officiate. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa.

A native of Tuscaloosa, Mr. Clements had lived in Birmingham 50 years. Survivors are his widow; a son, F. B. Clements, Jr San Antonio, a daughter, Mrs.

Charles Brasfield, Birmingham; a sister, Mrs. Andrew R. Smith, Montgomery, and six grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be Griffin Lampkin, E. R.

Coulbourn, Gayle Riley, William Spencer, Wade Wood. Jr, John C. Pugh. Mrs. James B.

Burkett Tib mar FORBES E. E. FORBES fr SONS PIANO CO. 40S M. ZOffc SHeet.M Small hurricane increases speed MIAMI, May 19 (JP) The small persistent Atlantic hurricane picked up a little speed Saturday 280 miles off the Florida Coast, well away from any land areas.

It still packed winds up to miles an hour and caution was advised shipping in its path. The 3:30 p.m. (CST) advisory placed the storm near latitude 29.1 north, longitude 76.4 west, or about 280 miles east of New Smyrna, Fla. THE WEATHER BUREAU said it was moving between northeast and north northeast at a slightly accelerated rate of eight to 10 miles an hour. It had been poking along about five miles an hour.

Accelerated forward movement with possibly a turn to a more northerly course was predicted In the next 12 hours. Funeral services for Mrs. James B. Burkett 61, of 7741 Division Avenue, who died Saturday at a local hospital after a long illness, will be held Monday. Rosary services will be held at 5 p.m.

Sunday at Luquires Chapel. lullu UCuee Dl Monday at 9 a.m, services will be arms, feet legs and hands. Coralee Pellum and Harry At Roper Hospital, the extensive surgery effort to save his life. Elmer Gene Pellum, 4, at Roper for treatment second and third degree BECAUSE BEAUTIFUL B0NDEX KEEPS WALLS ORY Annexation, school tax bids to be aired Scenes IVe seen By Robert Qunthorpe BY FRED TAYLOR News staff writer More county school taxes for buildings and equipment and two annexation proposals will be aired before Jeffersons legislative delegation at the Courthouse Monday night. Chairman Larry Dumas announced that, in all, 14 legislative proposals would be discussed at the public hearing.

It will begin at 7:30 pm. in Presiding Judge J. Russell McElroys courtroom. Three proposals affecting schools will be presented by the Jefferson County Citizens Advisory Educational Committee. One calls for more taxes for school buildings and equipment in the county system.

Dumas said increased levies on tobacco and beer adn a tax on soft drinks have been suggested as means for raising more funds. This committee also proposes abolition of two school districts which exist for the purpose of levying the three-mill district school tax. STILL ANOTHER measure recommended by this group would not permit residents of Birmingham and other incorporated cities having their own boards of education to vote for members of the County Board of Education. Other cities having school boards include Fair-field, Tarrant and Bessemer. Both annexation proposals are backed by citizens living in areas that would be merged with Birmingham and would be subject to a vote by those residing in the re- 50 YEARS OF SERVICE 1 Perfect for concrete, brick, stucco, stone, and asbestos siding, tool Simply mix KONDEX with water, brush or spray it on.

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Dumas for discussion include: A bill to provide an injunction to prevent the owner from carrying on his business if he fails to pay any country privilege license or excise tax (proposed by county commission). A bill to permit Jefferson County to take an appeal and supersede judgment, without making an appeal or supersedeas bond (proposed by county commission). A bill to authorize the dismissal in the Circuit Court from judgments of conviction in criminal cases in Inferior Courts (proposed by Solicitor Emmett Perry). A bill to provide for taxing additional solicitors fees in cases of appeal from misdemeanor convictions in the Inferior Courts! proposed by Solicitor Perry). A bill to permit the sheriff orchis chief deputy to recognize misdemeanor prisoners on their own bond (proposed by Solicitor Perry and Sheriff Holt McDowell).

A bill to provide for the election of the clerk of the Circuit Court in Birmingham by the voters in Jef-fesron County, exclusive of the Bessemer Cut-off (proposed by Circuit Court Clerk Julian Swift). OPPORTUNITY will be given to any person desiring to present an objection to House Bill 152, which would change the designation of the Office of License Inspector to the Department of Revenue of Jefferson County, and also to House Bill No. 153, which would provide for the consolidation of the offices of license inspector and commissioner of licenses in the event of a vacancy in either of such offices. Besides Dumas and Sen. Albert BoutweU, other delegation members who will hear the proposals are Reps.

Jimmy Adams, Paul Meeks, Tom Huey, Hugh Haul, Henry Beatty and Jimmy Morgan. 1.30 OgMy 6.25 B0NDEX 1 rr yOUT LOCAL DEALER PHONE ANY WESTERN UNION OFFICE (by lumbar) ANYWHERE tba U. S. A. ASK FOR "OPERATOR 25" Tha magic glow of the Magic City The roaring, spitting furnaces at Sloss-SHeffield light up the sky in this striking picture by News Staff Photographer Robert Gunthorpe.

The glow con be seen for miles. The result is a soft light that tells one and all "This is Birmingham and all is well." (Another In a series.) HE 7-7111 BIRMINGHAM PAINT and GLASS CO. 2014 4H N. R. L.

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