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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
TWO PAROLES ISSUED
 BY THE GOVERNOR

Montgomery, June 1S.-(Special.) The governor has issued paroles to Dave Nolan and Jim Cunning, two convicts serving sentences for murder. Nolan was convicted in Chambers county and was sentenced to serve a life term in the penitentiary. He was paroled for six months by the gover- nor. Cunning was convicted in Clarke county and was serving a 25-year sem tenoe His parole is based on future good conduct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
-Harold Conway

Fort Deposit, June 1s.-tSpecial.) ) Harold. the young son of Mir and Mrs. Andrew Conway, after short illness died this morning at the country home of his parents, few miles east of Fort Deposit. Interment will take place tomorrow at Little Sandy Ridge ceme- teYy The Rev. W. H. Winters will con- duct the funeral services.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
Deaths and Funerals
Mrs. Mary Boggan

Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Mary Boggan, wife of Thomas Bog gan. who died Wednesday afternoon, were conducted yesterday afternoon at S:3O o'clock from the family residence, 7oS Eighteenth street, south. Interment fol- lowed in the Catholic cemetery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
Mrs. Minerva Daily

Jacksonville, June 1s.-(Speclal.) )--News has been received here of the death of Mrs. Minerna Daily aged 92. at Pied mont, Wednesday. She was the wife of Jacob Daily, who with her, resided here for a number of years She was a con- sistent member of the Episcopal church. from which the funeral service took place. conducted by the Rev. w. T. Allan of this city. She issurvived by sister. Miss Sophronia Kiebler;, a daughter. Mrs. Alex McAllister, and six grandchildren.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
Turkey Conciliatorv

Constantinople, June 1s.-The reply of the Turkish government to the note of Greece is conciliatory. It expresses the hope that Greece. like Turkey, will take steps to restore order. but 1t evades the specific demands of Greece. for the reinstatement of Greek immi- grants and the restoration of the prop erty of Greeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
Go to Toronto Today

d., Oliver Cox and Jerome K. Sterne, the lfemaining delegates to the Ad club con- vention at Toronto, will leave at noon tcday. President John Sparrow of the
 club left Wednesday and J. Y. Martin
 and G. B. Marsh left Tuesday for To-
 rorto.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
Initiates Conference

Toward the end of the afternoon session Lord Mersey initiated a conference be- tween attorneys in the case Following this 1t was announced that 1t had been determined that charges of cowardice made against some of the crews of both ships were unfounded
 Before Galway was placed on the stand Robert H. Brennan and Robert Liddell. of the engineering staff of the Empress, corrohorated the testimony of Captain Kendall that after leaving Father Point the ship had been ordered "bull speed ahead" stop and full speed astern" and finally stop"
 While cross-examining the two engi- neers. Mir. Haight said he was skeptical that the Empress had been put from full speed ahead to full speed astern in three minutes. Both engineers stated empha tically, however. that such an op- eration had been carried out many times before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
BROWNSVILLE WILL
 HAVE WATERWOKS

Thomasville. June 1s.-tSpecial) MT. Kay. who is the engineer in charge of the waterworks here, is at work on ne wsurvey and just as soon as the material arrives MT Long of Bessemer. who has contracted to do the work. will put force of men to work. The well will probably be started next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
EMPRESS OF IRELAND QUAR- TERMASTER SAYS WHEEL "JAMMED"-oFFICERS DENY STATEMENT.

Quebec. June 1S.-Assertions hy James Francis Galway. a quartermaster, that the Empress of Ireland did not steer well, that her wheel ''jammed' only few hours before the collision with the collier Storstad which sent her to the bottom of the St. Lawrence river, and denial of these claims by officers of the lost Canadian Pacific liner were the cardinal points in the mass of testimony heard today by the dominion commission in- vestgating the wreck.
 During the day 1t was announced that contract to salvage the Empress had been let to the Canadian Salvage com pany. It is believed two months will be required to complete this work. It has not yet been decided whether an at tempt will be made to raise the sunken hull after the bodies and valuable cargo have been removed.
 Severe Cross- Examination Galway underwent a severe cross-ex- animation at the hands of Lord Mersey and Butler Aspinall. representing the owners of the Empress, but he stuck to his story. It was intimated during the proceedings that an attempt had been made to get him out of the country with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19
CONFLICTING TESTIMONY
 MARKS STEAMER PROBE

out testifying This was denied by Can adian Pacific officials.
 The suddenness with which Galway was introduced in the proceeding by C. S. Haight q New York lawyer repre- senting the owners Of the Storstad. ap- parently nettled Lord Mersey. He piled Galway with questions as to why he had failed to mention the alleged de- feet in the steering apparatus of the Elm press when giving his story to Canadian Pacific railway lawyers and to a Mon treal newspaper.
 After questioning Galway for sometime Lord Mersey severely condemned what he said he thought was an attempt on the part of counsel for the owners of the Storstad to keep back his testimony until the last moment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19

JOHNS Undertaking Co. Phone looe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-19

The Clarke county Sunday school convention closed here yesterday after a three-day session. large number of delegates attended. w. D Dunn pre- sided, but was not reelected on ac- count of the fact that he was recently elected as state president and T. H. Tyson of this place will succeed him as county president. The convention will be held at Salitpa next year
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
FRENCH SHIBBOLETH
TRAPS GERMAN SPY
- (By Associated Press.)

GENEVA, Dec. 22.-The story of how
a German spy braved and met death,
as told by French officer, is publish
ed by the Journal de Geneve.
When Won Kluck's army was near
Paris, large number of artillery
pieces were collected in the north of
the capital to resist the attack. Early
one morning the French colonel in
command was shaving, when the sem
try entered his room saying an officer
who had forgotten the password had
pushed him aside and entered the ar
tillery park. The Officer" declared
he would return soon and said not to
disturb the commandant. After dis
missing the sentry, the colonel, who
had already his suspicious, hastily fin
ished his toilet and walked out to the
grounds, where there we're about a
hundred guns of all calibre. There he
met the stranger and asked him his
regiment.
"You see by my uniform (Which was
newt ! belong 10 the military staff, and
/ am attached to the headquarters at
Paris" he replied.
"Well, let us count the pieces" the
Frenchman said.
"Un, deux, trois" the spy started.
mo, no." said the French colonel,
'let us say it first, second, third"
The French officer had a purpose. II
is a we'll known fact that sometimes
a German, however we'll educated, has
difficulty in pronouncing in French the
words "vingt-neuvieme' twenty
ninth without revealing his nation
ality. The two VS. with the ct" be-
tween them prove a stumbling block
When the staff captain pronounced the
words the colonel drew a revolver and
ordered the sentry to arrest him.
Send these things home to my par
ents," said the spy to the colonel. 81
WILL" said the latter. Goodbye" both
said. A few hours later the German
was shot.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
BELGIAN REFUGEES
NEED CLOTHES, SHOES
(By Associated Press.)

HAVRE, Dec. 22.-Lack of shoes is
causing so much suffering among Bel
gian refugees, particularly among the
women and children, that NJ. School
Tart president of the chamber Of repre-
sentatives of Belgium and head of
The Belgian Relief society of Havre,
has issued an appeal on their behalf.
This appeal is addressed especially to
Americans, since many letters of in
quiry have been received from them
at the Belgian government building in
Havre, asking what supplies are most
needed.
Women and children, whose clothing
was left behind in the rush to escape,
have been the first care of NJ. School
Tart. The able bodied men, especially
the laborers and mechanics, have no
trouble in getting work.
The refugees have been spread pref
ty well over France in order to pre-
vent congestion in the cities and to
provide more opportunities for self
support. There remain about 1900 in
Hayre. Edmond Vidal, who is in charge
of the distribution of supplies, says
that the discarded clothing he received
is entirely inadequate, independent of
the shoe question. Most of the refu-
gees had worn out their shoes in walk
ing before they reached France, he
finds, and donations of clothing sell
dom include shoes. During the icy
weather of the past week, the relief
quarters were packed with women,
begging for shoes for themselves and
children.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
100000 IN LOOT
FOR BURGLARY RING
CHICAGO CLEARING HOUSE FOR
ROBBERS USING POLICE "a
PLENTY" is REPORT
(By Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, Dec. 22.-Using Chicago
as a clearing house and operating with
the connivance of crooked policemen
in nearly dozen cities in the United
States, an organized ring of high-class
burglars have shared $1,000,000 worth
of loot in the past few years, States
Attorney MacLay Hoyne announced to-
day.
The basis for Hoyne's statement was
a confession he announced he had OBJ
tanned from Isadore Wexler, now in
the Joliet, ILL.,, state prison for burg
larry. According to Hoyne, Wexler M
plicated policemen in Chicago, New
York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, St.
Louis, Milwaukee and Seattle.
One branch of the ring Hoyne said,
pulled off" a 100000 job in Paris.
"Wexler's statement duplicates po-
licemen a-planty," was the phrase US
ed today by Hoyne who is directing a
police graft investigation in Chicago
that has already led to the indictment
Of four prominent police officials, in
Cludlng Capt John ]. Halpin, until re-
Gently head of the detective bureau.
Clearing stores and exclusive t1r-
r,er shops were usually the victims CT
the ring, Hoyne declares. Scouts would
be sent to visit these stores and learn
the value of the stocks. Then night
raid would be made upon store,
goods carried away and shipped to
Chicago, where they would be dis
posed of.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
TWO MONTHS HENCE
FRISCO FAIR OPENS
FORTY-TWO NATIONS AND FORTY
TWO STATES TO BE REPRE-
SENTED.
(By Associated Press.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.-Two
months hence the gates of the Panama
Pacific International exposition here
will be thrown open to the world.
Already the exposition stands as a
reality. The exhibit palaces were
long since completed. So, too, were
most of the state and foreign build
ings and the many structures in the
amusement zone" The gardens set
with the flora of every region, also
are all laid out.
The exposition presents today just
the spectacle it will present February
20, 1915.
Thousands of tons of exhibits are
arriving at the grounds daily from all
over the world, while within the eleven
exhibit palaces, hundreds of booths, as
the structures will contain the exhibits
are called, are being constructed.
Forty-two nations and forty-three
states will be represented.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
ONLY 50 MEN LEFT OF
FIRST QUEENS REGIMENT

LONDON, Dec 22.-Of the original
thousand men of the First Queen 5
(Royal West Surrey regiment, who
went to the front on August IL, only
fifty remain.
Sergeant Hudson, home on furlough,
speaking of the engagement on Octo-
Der 81, when the regiment lost CTS
men and officers, said:
Those who are left will never for
get the day. After a particularly fur
ious attack we suddenly found that the
remainder of the division had retired,
and that we were surrounded by the
enemy.
"The so survivors escaped in the
darkness"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
BEER FROM SORGHUM,
MOONSHINERS JAILED

JACKSON, Miss, Dec. 22.-Two
moonshiners, Grant Pierce and Tom
Colemand, colored, were brought here
this morning, arraigned before Com
missioner R. B. Bicketts, entered pleas
of guilty, and were remanded to Jail
to await the next federal court ses-
sion. The two officers captured four
teen gallons of a very crude quality of
beer, apparently manufactured from
sorghum.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
FRENCH FIELD GUN
BREAKS UP GERMAN
DINNER PARTY
(By Associated Press.)

HAVRE, Dec. ga French officer
writes his family in Normandy of the
way he and his comrades fare in the
trenches.
I'VE lack nothing" he says. For
three days l have eaten delicious beef
la mode, which they brought me cold
in little pot. This l have heated
up in the trenches under a couple of
candles, hanging the pot on a bay
onet.
Yesterday a brother officer, who
was examining the German trenches
with my field glasses, told me he could
see the smoke of German bivouac in
little neck of woods behind their
trenches. The inference was they
were cooking dinner. Five minutes
later, a shell from our rs fell ON the
spot where we sighted the smoke, and
| the German pots, pans and food went
scattering in the air while two German
cooks were chased into the canal
where we followed them with out rifle
fire."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-22
PRETTY Things

Ivory Combs, Brushes, Mirrors, Sets
Manicure, Travelling, Cigars, Candy in
fancy packages, Fine Pipes, mounted
or plain Razore, safety or straight;
Fountain Pens, all the best makes (;
Puff Boxes, Perfumes and lots of nice
things too numerous to mention, and
the prices are cheaper than ever be-
fore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-10
CUSTOM CUTTERS PLAN
TO ENTERTAIN GUESTS
International Association Convention
to Be Held Here in
February.

Arrangements for the, thirty-fourth
annual convention Of the International
Association of Custom Cutters to be
held at the New Willard Hotel, Feb
ruary to s. inclusive, were discussed
at the annual meeting OF the Wash
ington Custom Cutters Club. held last
night. Announcement was made that
the Chamber Of Commerce has offered
to entertain the delegates at luncheon
Wednesday, February 4. at noon.
Entertainment for the women at
tending the convention will be in
charge of the following auxiliary to
the cutters committee: Mrs. Charles
G. Volk, president; Mrs. John c. Wine
man. vice president; Mrs. Leo P. Grady,
secretary: Mrs. ]. Bernstein. Mrs. Har-
ry L. Burnham. Mrs. J. W. Campbell,
Mrs. A. DeCeasar, Mrs. James Filter,
Mrs. William Finkel, Mrs. /. Geraci,
Mrs Mrs william Goldberg; Mrs J.. e.
F. X. Heindrich. Mrs. Robert ]. John
ston. Mrs. A La Cavera, Mrs. Charles
+. Lightfoot, Mrs. Henry Hoeffken. Miss
Loretta McConville, Mrs. J. D. Neon
Vile, Mrs. Charles T. Neal. Mrs. L.: e.
TIN, Mrs. c. Simon. Mrs. E. B. Thiele.
Mrs. Louis B. Sprengel Mrs. w. A.
Morsell and Miss Leila Volk.
Following the business routine at
the Custom Cutters Club last night the
following officers we're elected: Presi-
dent. Michael Pipitone: vice president,
j. Bernstein; second vice president,
Chris Simon; recording secretary,
James Filter; treasurer. E. b. Thiele
financial secretary, l. e. Reed: master
of practical work, l. Geraci; assistant
master of practical work, Charles G.
Nolk; librarian. w. A. Finkel; trustees,
Charles G. Nolk. ]. D. McConville and
Leo p. Grady; delegates to convention,
f. B. Thiele and Leo p Grady; alter
mates, John c. Wineman and james D.
McConville.
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clerk class E (s1,000) to clerk class 1
(S12OOl vice William S. Deardon. re-

clerk class E (s1,ooo) to clerk class
s1.2o0) vice william s. Deardoff, re-
duced.
Roy NJ. Heller Of Virginia, from clerk
class E $1,000 to clerk class l
transferred.
A Stuart Page Of Connecticut, from
copyist of maps at $500 per annum to
copyist of maps at $1,000 per annum,
vice Mary F. Smith, transferred.
Charles S. Brundage of Nebraska,
from clerk class d (s900l to clerk class
E. ts1 10000, vice William De Long, trans
ferred.
Carl F. Stuhler of Iowa, from clerk
class p (s9ool to clerk class $4,000
vice Thomas Richardson, transferred.
Perry E. Taylor of Texas, from clers
class D, $4,000 to clerk class f $1,000
vice Mary E. Prick, promoted.
August Schneider of Illinois. from cler,
class D $500. to clerk class E $1,000
vice Estefla H. Meade, promoted.
Bessie B. Howard Of New York, from
clerk class d 5000 to clerk class +
Grover c. Mcconnell of New Jersey
from clerk class D (s9O0) to clerk elias,
e $1,000, vice Calvin W. HasselI. pro
NOTED
Clarence H. Freark of Illinois. from
clerk class D $500 to clerk class I
$1,000, vice Ef1fe 3. Hull. promoted.
Rutland .. Beard of Minnesota, from
clerk class d $4,000 to clerk class +
$1,000, vice Mary NJ. Brooke, promoted
William r. Hastings Of Tennessee, from
clerk class D $500 to clerk class J
$1,000, vice Edward C. Davis. promoted
Lawrence NJ. Leake of South Carolina
from assistant messenger at s720 per an
!. mum to clerk class d 5000. vice Ma.
Barlow, transferred.
James Mckay of Mississippi, from as
sistant messenger at s72O per annum t.
clerk class D $500, vice Alfonso T
Frame, transferred.
Nolie Nancy of the District of Colum
bia, from laborer at $3.50 per annum t.
laborer at $3.50 per annum, vice Sarah
NJ. Searle, transferred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-10
DR.. KObER CR|7|CISES
METHODS OF HOSPITALS
Charges Diversien Of Money Given
for Treatment Of the
Poor.
Urges That Treatment, Of INDECENT
Sick Be Divorced From Penal
Institutions.

That most Of the $747.856 appropriated
in recent years to the hospitals of the
| District, In order that they might re-
lieve the Washington Asylum Of some
Of its work, had. with the exception Of
the Freedmens Hospital, been used for
| new private rooms and operating rooms,
was stated by DR.. George NJ. Kober, dean
Of Georgetown Medical School, in his
lecture last evening at the Y. NJ. C. A.
on How the City's Sick Poor Are Cared
For"
He further stated that the Washington
Asylum Hospital had, in the Same period,
received but $4,000. and statistics show
that it has more work on its hands than
ever before. The lecturer strongly urged
the disassociation of such an Institution
as hospital from any penal institu-
ton.
DR.. kober, in his talk, the third Of a
series on Safeguarding the City's
Health" traced the growth Of the hos
pitfalls and allied institutions Of Wash
ington since 1906. when a combination
hospital and almshouse was estab-
lished, but which did not remain long
In existence. The hospital history OF
the city. it was pointed out. really
dates from the beginning of Provi
Freedmen's in 1862 and the Columbia
Hospital in 1866. The lecture was illus
trated with lantern slides, showing in
terror and exterior views of the vari-
Gus local institutions, and making APP
parent some Of their greatest advan-
tages and most pressing needs.
Not a Place to Die.
That great difficulty had in the past
been experienced with the sources from
which appropriations flow in making it
apparent that hospital was not mere
ly pesthouse to die in, but place to
get well in, was pointed out by DR..
Kober, and, In speaking Of Freedmen's
Hospital and its splendid work and
record. he expressed the wish that
Washington had as good facilities for
taking care of the less resourceful
white people as were furnished by this
institution. He further stated his be-
lief in the hospitals in connection with
colleges or universities as the highest
type of such institution, inasmuch as
they subserve two interests-care Tor
the sick and education. Moreover,
students are the most careful critics.
said the lecturer.
The progress in the care of smallpox
cases was exempliied by pictures of the
pesthouse of 1871, and the home OF the
resident physician of that time, and PIC
lures of the new quarantine station erect
ed in 1898 at cost of $4,000. In 1855,
said Dr. kober when President Andrew
Jackson's coachman fell Ill of this dis
ease, there was no institution in the Dis
trict that was willing or had facilities
to take him in. with the result that Mrs.
jackson quarantined a portion of the
White House and nursed him back to
health with her own hands. Smallpox
was much more prevalent then than now,
it was added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-10
idea was! impracticable and that feature
uEaa illuminated u

Iucd WdA iupfdCtlCdUl0 ana 1naG feature
was eliminated.
In the meantime the friends of home
opathy got Congress to appropriate
$4,000 for the hospital that now bears
the name Of that school: DR.. Kober
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital is strictly non-sectarian; in fact.
the minority of its cases belong to the
Episcopal Church.
In speaking Of the good done by the
acknowledgements treatment for nerv-
GUS and mental cases now in use at the
Washington Asylum Hospital. DR..
Kober said that largely through its
means 306 of the 573 cases received last
year by that institution had recovered
and had been saved the stigma of a
public commitment to the Government
Hospital for the Insane. Speaking of
the fight against tuberculosis, he show
ed its beneficial results by the fact that
In 1900 the death rate in the District
was 1874 per 100000. whereas in 1910 it
was but 119. DR.. Kober In his re-
marks on the Government Hospital for
the insane characterized that institu-
ton as one of the best, IL not the best,
Of its kind to be found anywhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-10
CITY STORE PLAN FOR POOR,
Chicago to Furnish Necessities of
Life Practically at Cost.

CHICAGO. January 1o.--A municipal
general store" at which persons with
limited funds may purchase the neces-
sites of life, probably will be estab-
lished in Chicago in the near future.
Council finance committee yesterday set
aside $4,000 in the city's one hundred
and ninety-first budget for tho ..unem-
ployed commission" which will have
charge Of the city store:
Only persons vouched for by the
county agents will be permitted to pur-
chase goods at the proposed store. Mer-
chandise and food will be sold at cost,
plus operating expenses,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-10
CARDINAL FORBIDs TANGO.
Women Of France Also Warned
Against Daring Dress Styles.

PARIS, JANUARY 10.-Cardinal Leo
Adolphe Annette, Archbishop of Paris. in
an admonition which will be published in
the churches here. forbids the dancing of
the tango as a sin which must be cen
fessed and require penance. The arch
bishop says: I'VE condemn the dance
imported from abroad known under the
name of the tango. which by its nature
is indecent and offensive to morals, and
Christians may not in conscience take
part therein.
TT will. therefore, be the duty of con
fessors to take notice of this in the .ad-
ministration of the sacrament of PEN
ance.'
Cardinal Annette also viii publish an
official admonition on the daring and &C.
centricities of modern dress.
1--WE remind the women" the cardinal
will say, that they should observe al
ways the rules of Christian modesty
which too often are violated. We ask
Christian women to unite in abolishing
certain styles of dress which are con-
trary to decency."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-10
Aorta Operation Fails to Save.

PHILADELPHIA, January 10.-The
recent attempt to remove a blood clot
from the aorta of Mrs. Sara Azato of
731 Wharton street has resulted in her
death. She was subjected to remark
able operation in the Jefferson Hospital
Wednesday, and her condition afterward
was so favorable that her recovery was
expected.