VOL. LX JASPER, WALKER COUNTY, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1932 NO. 27 History Morning Dew 4,000 Like the THE MOUNTAIN EAGLE Circulation Walker Guaranteed FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS OF CONTINUOUS, HELPFUL SERVICE FOR THE UPBUILDING OF JASPER AND WALKER COUNTY LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY ALABAMA WEEKLY and JASPER GETS BIG FEDERAL AID PAVING PROJECT Archieses ECONOMY LEAGUE CALLS MEETING OF TAX PAYERS Big Meeting to be Held in Jasper The 11th Day of August. All Taxpayers Invited SEVERAL SPEAKERS TO DISCUSS TAX BURDENS Many Counties Already Have Units of the Ala. Economy League Functioning Attention is directed to a call for a public meeting of citizens by T.
R. Simmons, as local chairman of the Economy League of Alabama, to meet in Jasper on Thursday, the 11th day of August, to discuss economy in government. In 1918, Alabama collected in round numbers five and one-half million in taxes, and lived within her income, having no deficit. In 1930 she collected 23 million in taxes and we are told had a yearly deficit, at that time, of four million dollars. In other words the taxes collected increased 447 per cent during that 12 years but the cost of government increased SO much faster that we had a four million yearly deficit.
The Legisiature is to be called together in the near future we are informed, and with whip and spur taxes are to be raised and additional taxes levied to balance the most extravagant, and in many instances the most useless budget, Alabama ever had. The only remedy sought to be offered is raise more taxes from an already overburdened people in the present crisis. Why not take a pruning knife and look up the overlapping kureaus and departments, drop the useless clerks, abolish the needless officials, cut out unnecessary expense accounts and leave only enough to carry on the government efficientiy. Cut down the salaries of the remaining in with the times and with the conditions. Cut out the useless appropriations and cut down the others to fit conditions and see if we cannot live within our income.
Alabama has been on a spree of spending for the last several years; the tax payer has been taken for a ride. Why give to her more money while she still stays on the spending spree? Let the people in this county, and (Continued on last page) MANY NEW BOOKS ARE RECEIVED More Books Are Added to Large Collection at the Walker County Library Here A widespread interest in reading has been created during the last month with receipt of 850 new books at the Walker County Library. The public is invited to continue their reading of present-day questions in these new books and in the 50 periodicals to which the library subscribes. The library is open the following hours: 9-12, 2-5 daily. Saturday 9-5.
Monday night 7-9. The children's story hour continues to have a good attendance on Wednesday morning at 9:30. The following are among the new books received in the Walker County library: Lattimore-Manchuria, Cradle of Conflict history, and terpretation of the Manchurian question. Salter-Recovery, the Second Effort -The present crisis; easy and pleasant reading, obviously not written for the profesional economist. Cotton -Keeping Mentally AliveSuggestions for the development of poise and self confidence through improvement of conversational and reading interests.
Beard--America Faces the FutureSpeeches and articles by well known writers and public men on the present economic crisis and the need for intelligent planning. Coolidge--Fighting Men of the West, -Heroes and fighters on both sides of the law. Western pioneer days. Byers, Martha Berry--The Sunday Lady of Possum Trot--The story of: a great and noble woman, creator of the Berry schools. (Continued on last page) JASPER MERCHANT TO FORGIVE DEBTS AND START ANEW Mr.
Henry Shumaker, of the Shumaker Grocery Company, has a message for those who are endebted to him, which will certainly be good news to all of his debtors. Mr. Shumaker says he is going 1 to give each and every one that owes him, a receipt in full for his or her account, and the debt will be forgiven and forgotten. "All you have to do," says Mr. Shumaker, "is to come in, ask for your receipt in full and the slate will be wiped clean.
We know that the times are hard and that no one can help owing obiigations, so come down, get your receipt in full and let's be friends again." No finer deed was ever done by a merchant than to "forgive" the debts of his customers in a time like the present. Local Man Makes Attempt to Commit Suicide at Home Tim Donahoo. former blacksmith, who lives in the Bestville section of Jasper, made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide last Friday night. He had some "sleeping tablets," which were used for nervousness and insomnia and took all he had at one dose, having previously written a note to his family and put it in his pocket. A heavy sleep resulted, but a physician was able to arouse him Saturday morning.
Mr. Donahoo was out of work and despondent and didn't want to be a burden on anyone. His wife is blind and in poor health and his son, ter Donahoo, was blind for seven years as a result of an explosion of dynamite caps, but" a recent operation restored sight to one of his eyes. Mr. Donahoo seemed to be more cheerful after he recovered from his long sleep.
Schools Will Open On September The city board of education has set September 13 for the beginning of class room work in the schools of Jasper. Monday, September 12 will be taken up with the annual county institute. Contrary to rumors that have been circulated, pupils in both the elementary and high school grades will NOT have to pay incidental fees to attend school. There will be no general change in the text books to be used during the current year. No doubt pupils will have a ready sale for all second hand books available.
According to the biennial school census report, Jasper schools are to care for 1638 children during the session 1932-33. Of this number 275 are negroes and 1363 whites. This is approximately 9 per cent gain aver the census of two years ago. Following is the tabulation of the census of the past four enumerations: Year White Negro Total 1926 1122 233 1355 1928 1254 230 1484 1930 1248 252 1501 1932 1363 275 1638 Mr. Gallagher Expects Better Coal Business Mr.
James Gallacher of the Deepwater-Biack Creek Coal Corporation, says that the coal business is looking up considerably, that there has been more inquiries for immediate delivery of coal lately than there has been in a long time. Improvement in no other line cf business would help conditions more in Walker county than that of the business. Walker county mines are being put in readiness for handling the coal trade whenever prosperity returns. Jasper Delegation Goes to Montgomery Delegations from the several towns along the Great South Way Highway went to Montgomery Tuesday to confer with Governor Miller and Langdon G. Smith, highway director, in reference to paving the highway between Jasper and Muscle Shoals.
Jasper was represented by J. R. Burton and John Kilgore and Walker county by Judge E. W. Long, Pete McCleskey and C.
N. Atkins. No definite promise was made by the governor or highway director in reference to the road project. P. T.
A. COUNCIL CALLS MEETING A Very Important Meeting Is Scheduled For Jasper Next Saturday Morning In response to a request by our state president, Mrs. Edward H. Smith, the Walker county' council of P. T.
A. will hold a very important meeting Saturday, August 6 at 10:30 o'clock. The meeting will be held at the Filementary school of this city and should last about an Simiiar meetings will be held in every county in the state on this date for the purpose of making plans for the opening of schools. Mrs. James E.
Bartley, county president, has appointed a resolution committee, composed of Mrs. Joe Conwell, chairman, of Jasper; Mrs. Haddon Gilder, Carbon Hill; Mrs. A. A.
Delk, of Empire. A round up committee composed of Mrs. Tom Plummer of Jasper; Mrs. S. N.
Morris, of Oakman and Mrs. J. E. Bartley, of Parrish. Each P.
T. A. organization in Walker county is requested to send representatives to this meeting and all friends of education are asked to attend. Due to the recent illness of Mrs. Bartley, the president, Mrs.
J. M. McCutcheon, vice-president, will preside at this meeting. Dr. John McClure of University of Alabama, has been invited to speak.
GASOLINE MEN TO ORGANIZE Automobile Dealers, Gas and Oil Dealers and Others to Form A Relief Association In one of the first of its kind, but the forerunner of others to be formed immediately in ail of the counties of Alabama having excessive local, county and city gasoline taxes, pump censes and truck taxes, Jasper and Walker county oil and gasoline men, automobile dealers, garage men, accessory dealers and bus and truck men will meet at 8:00 p. m. August 5 (Friday) at the Mattingly sales room in Jasper to form the Walker County Motorists' Tax Relief Association. The object of the organization is to secure the repeal of burdensome taxes which, it is claimed, are ruining the business of the classes represented, as well as to fight any other increases in the state gasoline tax. The temporary chairman of the association is E.
R. Mattingly and the temporary secretary is F. A. Theroux, both local men. It is the intention to increase the membership to several hundred in Walker county and to organize a state association with branches in every county.
The first objective in Jasper is the repeal of the county two cent gasoline tax. Statewide Organization The new association, which is of a general movement among gasoline and automobile dealers and motorists, truck operators and bus and taxicab men throughout the state and country will be self-supporting. It is proposed to hold meetings regularly at least once a month to be addressed by speakers and to appoint committees to handle the various phases of the organization's work. Objects of the organization not only include the removal of the county tax on gasoline, but determined opposition to the im-25 position of more gasoline taxes and wheelage or other county or city taxes on motor vehicles. The organization not only will seek a reduction of city license fees on filicoaling stations, bulk stations and garages, (Continued on last page) Two Warehouses Are Being Built Plans are being made and material is being assembied for the erection of two large warehouses at Linn's Park, nine miles east of Jasper, on the Bankhead Highway.
Linn's Park is situated ot the head of navigation on the Warrior river, and cotton and other raw materials have been shipped down the river from that place recently. Warehouses are being built to store goods awaiting shipment on the Warrior. Linn's Park is only 36 miles west of Birmingham on a good highway, and also a convenient shipping point for other towns. Cullman has been shipping cotton from Linn's Park. CORNERSTONE IS OPENED HERE Box Containing Many Relics Is Taken From Box in Northeast Corner Courthouse Last Thursday evening workmen engaged in tearing down the walls of the Walker county court house removed the cornerstone, situated in the northwest corner.
The men insisted at first that the marble stone was solid, but when they rolled it off of the corner a metal box fell out, scattering coins and other things among the slabs of marble, brick and other rubbish. Some of the paper contents of the box were rotten, while part of them was in a fair state of preservation. There were two copies of The Mountain Eagle and two copies of The Walker County News, ail of which were well preserved. There was a list of officers of the local Masonic body, also a list of the county officers at that time and a list of city officers of Jasper. The following lists were copied: List of the county officers of Walker county, deposited in the corner stone in the new court house November 15, 1907: James J.
Ray, Judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit, composed of the counties of Walker and Winston. William C. Davis, solicitor of the 14th Judicial Circuit. Thomas L. Sowell, judge of the (Continued on last page) JOHN S.
STONE DIES SUDDENLY Brother of Mrs. Carl Shepherd, And Well Known Lawyer Of Birmingham Dead John S. Stone, 49, widely known attorney and president of the Birmingham Bar Association, who died in Birmingham last Thursday afternoon, following a stroke of apopiexy, was a brother of Mrs. J. Carl Shepherd of Jasper and well known here.
Several Jasper people attended the funeral services, held at the home Friday. The following account of Mr. Stone's death and burial was taken from Friday's Birmingham News: Funeral for John S. Stone, 49, widely known attorney who died Thursday afternoon at his home, 1447 Milner Crescent, will be held at the residence at 5 p. m.
Friday, with Dr. S. T. Siaton, pastor Ensley Methodist Church, officiating, and burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Johns in charge. Active pallbearers will be Richard Cobb, Wallace Cobb, James Cobb, John A.
Cobb, J. C. Milner, W. R. Latimer, Jesse L.
Drennen and Dr. Earle Drennen. Honorary pallbearers will include judges of the Alabama Supreme Court, the State Court of Appeals, the Federai Court, the Jefferson County Circuit Court and other Birmingham Bar Association and officials and of the L. N. Railway.
Mr. Stone, whose death followed a stroke Thursday morning, was born in Sulligent, the son of Capt. and Mrs. W. M.
Stone. He was educated in the public schools at Sulligent and at State Teachers College, Florence, and received his legal education reading in a law office. He was admitted to the bar in 1903 and began practice at Vernon. About years ago he moved to Birmingham and was connected with the jaw firm of Stone and Fice. This firm later was dissolved and in recent years Mr.
Stone had practiced by himself. He was one of the most widely known corporation lawyers in the state and was attorney for the L. N. Railroad as well as a number of other large in(Continued on last page) The Mayor Pleased With Road Project When seen by a representative of The Eagle today, Mayor J. H.
Cranford said: "I am pleased beyond pression to know that the state has decided to pave the unpaved link of the Bankhead Highway through Jasper and between Jasper and McCollum. I worked four years on that project and I had the definite promise of Governor Graves that he would have it paved but he failed to fulfill his promise." On the account of the illness of my stenographer, Miss Pauline Black, my feature article 'Mayor Cranford Says' will not appear this week." TAX COLLECTOR ARGO EXTENDS TIME FOR TAXPAYERS TO SETTLE For the third time during the year Tax Collector Monroe A. Argo has decided to grant the delinquent tax payers of Walker county more time to pay their taxes. The final date fixed by Mr. Argo for paying taxes is August 15.
He says he realizes that the delinquent tax payers are having a hard time settling for their taxes, and he sympathizes with them, and that is why he has decided to extend finai date for payment, but after August 15 he will be obliged to advertise all property on which taxes have not been paid. The tax collector says he wants the people to know that he cannot grant another extension of time for payment of delinquent taxes, however much he would like to do so. "I do hope the people will be able to settle for their taxes on or before the 15th," Mr. Argo said, 'and save the additional cost of advertising." Woco Peppers Win One and Lose One In Double Header Five errors in the fifth inning here Sunday afternoon contributed to Acmar's eight runs scored that inning and their 8-6 win over Jasper in the first game of a double header. The Peppers copped the second, a nineinning affair 2-1 with several hundred fans witnessing the double contest.
Manager Borders' outfit showed fine form in taking the second game and but for the bad fifth inning, played a wonderful game earlier in the day. Henderson took batting honors for the day hitting five times in six chances getting two free trips. Whelchel, a big lefthander, relieved Tingle in the first game and came near blanking the visitors in the second tilt. The former Acipco hurler was in fine form and plenty good in the pinches. First game: R.
H. E. Jasper 220 002 000-6 13 6 Acmar 000 080 000-8 9 3 Tingle, Whelchel and Nix; Mullins and Jackson. Second game: R. H.
E. Jasper 010 100 00x-2 4 1 Acmar 000 000 100-1 6 2 Whelchel and Nix; Weaver, Ware and Tucker. Mass Meeting at the New Jasper Theatre The citizens of Walker county are hereby requested to meet at the Jasper New Theatre at Jasper, on Thursday, August 11, 1932, at 1:30 p. m. for the purpose of protesting against any increase in taxes.
The meeting will be addressed by prominent speakers. T. R. SIMMONS, Walker Co. Unit Economy League of Alabama Mrs.
Abbott Passes At Local Hospital Mrs. J. M. Abbott died at the Walker County Hospital Friday, July 28 at 4:45 p. having been sick only a few days.
She was born July 16, 1865, in Walker county, married Louis R. Faught, who died in 1896; four sons by this union were born and all are living. In 1900 she married J. M. Abbott.
One son was born. Surviving are the husband and five sons, Bert Faught, Dora; J. R. Faught, Grady Faught and Chesley Abbott, Jasper; and Norman M. Faught, Parrish.
Slye was a devout Christian and numbered her friends by her acquaintances. Funeral services were in charge of Rev. F. M. Leith, of Arkadelphia, held in Mt.
Vernon Church at 3:00 o'clock Saturday. She was laid to rest in the New Hope cemetery Legg and Sons in charge. Pallbearers were Clarence Lamon, Raymond E. Faught, Tasca Kilgo, Miles Dutton, C. P.
Hayes and Fletcher Hudson. Flowers girls were Misses Macie Kiigore, Ozella Faught, Agnes Faught, Minnie Lamon, Beatrice Faught, Erline Staggs, Christine Faught and Lora Clark. American Legion to Meet Here Thursday Woods Post No. 9, American Legion, will hoid an important meeting at the new Jasper Theatre next Thursday, at 7:30 p. m.
New officers will be installed at this meeting and a good program will be rendered. All members are urged to be present. BIDS ARE ASKE 5 FOR BIG PAVING PROJECT HERE Four -mile Link of Bankhead Highway to be Paved by State an Early Date STATE HIGHWAY DIRECTOR IS ASKING FOR BIDS Eagle is Carrying An Advertisem*nt Asking for Sealed Proposals on Project Here is a good industrial news item for which Jasper has been waiting a long, long time. The unpaved part of the Bankhead Highway between the cotton mill in east Jasper and McCollum, west of town, (approximately 4 miles), is to be paved right away. The Eagie is carrying elsewhere in this issue a notice to contractors, by Langdon G.
Smith, state highway director, asking for sealed bids for paving the above described link of the federal aid highway. The bids will be opened in Montgomery on September 6. The principal items of the work are 50,000 cubic yards of excavation, 000 yards of pavement, and 240 cubic yards of bridge concrete. On this project, employees will not be. permitted to work more than 30 hours per week.
In the employment of labor on this work, preference will be given ExService men with dependents. The minimum to be paid unskilled labor is 20 cents per hour, and skilled labor 30 cents per hour. That is the minimum, higher pay would be permitted. The contractor shall employ labor as far as it is available from lists furnished by the Relief Organizations designated by the highway director except that he may employ such men as are necessary for the supervision of the construction and for the operation of the power equipment permitted, requiring skilled operators without regard to such lists. The road has been graded in East Jasper by the city, with the understanding that the abutting property owners pay for the grading, as soon as the state paves the project.
Now that the state is to pave the road with federal aid money, the question arises as to whether property owners will be required to pay for the grading. Jasper is fortunate in getting this project, especiaily at this time. MALLORY MEETS KNICHELS HERE Former Jasper Wrestler Will Appear in Jasper Friday. Hallock Wins Bout Matchmaker Chris Jordan offers four unusually good matmen for Friday's mat card here this week and in addition a continuation of gold and other awards to fans. Awards of gold and other prizes will be handled as heretofore.
Freddie Knichels, the reckless youngster, will grapple Bulldog Maliory in the main event. It will be Mallory's first appearance here since early last fall. Both are in fine trim and Mallory shows indications of considerable improvement. For the last few months he has been wrestling in western exhibitions meeting some tough matmen. Two light heavyweights comprise the semi-final.
They are John Mauldin, Atlanta, a nd Jack Hollanback, Pensacola, Fla. Both weigh around 190 and Matchmaker Jordan says they are "tough It will be their first show in Jasper. Popular prices will prevail, with tax to be paid by Matchmaker Jordan. Dale Haddock won a very popular decision here last week in taking Billy Romanoff 'for a ride'. The Russian junior title holder dropped 2 straight falls to Haddock, caused partly by Romanoff's condition.
The fighting Mississippian sustained a strained back and broken nose earlier in the week and was not in condition for his match here. The Nashville school boy, Joe Gunther, continued his winning streak in the Jasper arena with a decisive win over Buck Lawson. Gunther copped the second and third falls after ping the first to the Knoxville ace. Both put up a good scrap..
