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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
CLAYTON

Clanton, February t.-(Special) Al though 1t is only three days since the big fire here which destroyed the two principal hotels, church and somo smaller buildings. there is every indi- cation of rebuilding. William Williams the owner of the hotel sites, says that he will commence active building op- erations on q hotel which will be con structed of brick and stone and will be superior to the recently destroyed structures in every particular
 The Unity association meeting which was held at Big Spring church during the past two days was largely attended and much Interest was shown in church work. During two days addresses were delivered by clergy and church workers from all parts of Chiffon county.
 The Thorsby institute trustees have, owing to increased enrolment of pu- pills, employed another teacher Miss Lydia Colby of Illinois has just ar rived and been added to the faculty.
 The Helen Keller Literary society of Thorsby elected the following as Of 1cers Tor the year 1915: D. l.. MCKAY, president, II. l.. Maddox. vice president. Miss Pearl Bryan secretary, and Edgar Williams, treasurer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
LABORI WILL NOT
 DEFEND DESCLAUX

Paris, February 1.--(6 D. m )--Labori, the well known advocate. has notified Fran cois Desclaux, general paymaster of the army, that he cannot defend Desclaux before the ceurtmartial which is to try htm on charge Of sts<Aing military stsres
 M. Labori said he had agree to defend Desclaux when the case appeared to be a. purely judicial one. Since then, M. Labori added, Desclaux had been the subject of newspaper attacks because he was a wit ness for Mime. Caillaux, wife of the former minister of finance charged with the murder of M. Calmette. editor of the Fi- garo. and as he had been assured that the charge of espionage against Desclaux had been abandoned he preferred to retire from the case. -,s
 The Figaro intimates that the sudden return to Paris of NJ. Caillaux, for whom Desclaux once acted as secretary, means that he will intervene in favor of Des- caux
 Desclaux and wealthy woman in whose mansion were found military stores said to have been stolen by Des- claux, were arrested last week. The wom- an was said to be the wife of German.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
ANNISTON

Anniston, February 2.-(Special) ) After the call of the docket in the city court Monday morning, Capt. A. F. Agee called a meeting of the bar association for the purpose of consid- ering proposition submitted by for mer City Attorney C. H. Young to es- tablish an inferior court in Admission. If the court is established it will be in lieu of all the justice courts in beats 15 and 20 and the court would have all the rights and powers now exer- cised by justices of the peace
 Although several hundred persons have paid their poll tax within the past few days. the records show that the number who paid this year is con siderably behind last year. On Satur- day 120 persons paid and on Monday. on account of it being the last day on which this tax can be paid, Tax Col lector c. Worth Whiteside remained in his office until 8 o'clock at night to accommodate those who could not otherwise get to the tax collectors of- flee.
 Saturday night about 40 prisoners were tine guests of Jailer Wales Weatherly at the Calhoun county jail. Ten of them were put in on Satur- day Deputy sheriffs raided a negro craps game at Hobson City Saturday night and captured eight gamesters Two white men were brought from Jacksonville and placed in the county jail on charges of burglary.
 
 District Deputy Guy White of Be- nevolent Protective Order of Elks will arrive in Anniston Wednesday, Febru- ary on tour of inspection. The local Elks are planning to entertain the visitor while here. A smoker will be given in his honor at the Elks' hall on Wednesday evening and all the members of the order in this city will attend the smoker to welcome the deputy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
EMERGENCY LOAN FUND ESTABLISHED Gary Announces Progress of Committee to Aid
 Unemployed

New York. February l.-Elbert II Gary announced today at meeting of the executive committee of the mayor g committee on unemployment, of which he is chairman, that s115,000 had been raised to establish emergency work shops for unemployed men and wom- on and to form an emergency loan fund. Mir. Gary said three times that amount was needed.
 . There are in operation now 3i emer- gency shops, 1t was announced. which in cooperation with other organiza- tions. offer relief to- $500 men and women. The plan is to relieve 10, 0,000 persons by giving them five hours Il day employment at h cents an hour and a lunch for cents.
 At one shop men make bandages and other articles used in city nstitu- tions and are permitted to repair their own clothing. About 900 women in an other building are making clothing for themselves and their families from ma terials furnished by the committee.
 It was announced that Vincent Asfor William M Child, Averill Hartman and Mortimer l.. Sehiff have been add cd to the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
NORTHWESTERN
 INDUSTRIAL PROBE
Denies That His Firm Con- trols Half of Country's
 Railroads

New York. February 1-J. P Morgan. testifying today at the federal commission on industrial relations inquiry into great philanthropic foundations and the cause of industrial unrest, denied that his bank ing firm dominated half of the railroads in the United States. The denial was called forth by statement attributed by Nor gan to Samuel Untermyer. when wit ness before the commission, that two banking firms virtually controlled all the railroads
 We certainly do not control half of the roads, Mir. Morgan asserted. He added with a laugh. T don't know anything about Kuhn, Loeb X Co.'S business, but MT untermyer was certainly wrong
 It was MT. Morgan's first public ap- pearance as spokesman for the vast finan- cial interests of the Morgan company When he arrived John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, and now a member of the New York state workmen's compensat ton com mission, was on the stand MT. Morgan had to wait more than half an hour be- fore the commission finished with MT. Mitchell, who testified regarding Colorado
 
 characterized as simply absurd the Rockefeller plan of settling labor troubles in Colorado.
 Lack of Knowledge
 Mir Morgan confessed a lack of Knowl- edge of labor conditions in corporations of which he is director. Some questions put to him appeared to amuse him. Sev- eral times he laughed before answering. Into other replies he sandwiched chuckles. Officers of corporations, as executive officials, are responsible for labor condi- tions among employees. Mir. Morgan de- clared. He is for the ''open shop and considers that in labor disputes the em- ployer should play the part of any de- cent man." Philanthropic foundations have done considerable good, he believes. Commissioner Weinstock asked MT. Nor gan for suggestions as to legislation that Congress might be requested to enact to better relations between employers and employees
 That's too big for me-, Ar Morgan replied. "The idea is an admirable one but I do not know enough about the question:
 We find it hard one." said Mir Vein stock.
 q should think you would" the wit ness replied
 MT. Morgan said he thought every man should have equal rights before the law. As to unions laying down conditions for workers in the United States Steel cor poration, Mr Morgan said that the unions had nothing to do with it.
 'The men certainly don't have to worn there,' Mir. Morgan said. 'Tf they are dissatisfied they can leave. That is every mans right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
POLAND SUFFERING
 FROM |NVAS|ONS
Conditions Horrible and People In Want-Imme-
 diate Aid Needed

Petrograd, January 1.-(Correspond : ence of the Associated Press )-Al- though several commissioners are in vestigating the devastation Poland has suffered during the German invasion, the acute misery of it's millions of in- hsbitants still is unrelieved The de- struction Is so universal 1t hardly seems possible 1t was the work of human agents.
 Normally Poland Is pleasantly roll ing country not unlike the American middle west; fertile, agriculturally de- veloped, productive and prosperous with it's landscapes chequered with well groomed farms and patches of wood 1t now is bleak and scared. Almost every house is in ruins and the mu- tilated roads are full of half starved half frozen people with no homes and no possibility of escaping from the charred remnants of what once was their habitations. The line of fugitive peasants is like a long black cord, knotted in places where they have as- senbled to consider means of escape, but with one end meeting abruptly the heavily massed Russian troops and the other recoiling from the advanc- ing German army.
 Prince to Aid
 Prince Dominique Radzilwill a mem- Der of Poland's oldest aristocracy, has come to Petrograd from his home in Minsk to devise some practical meth cd of assisting his unfortunate cDun- trymen.
 Il am afraid,' said Prince Radziwill to the Associated Press, the world has been so busy giving its help to unfortunate Belgium that our country. so far off from the western world. cannot expect full measure of sym pathy~ The tragedy of Belgium came first and that of course makes 1t seem more important; the Polish tragedy is not yet finished. In t-.is second German invasion it has suffered more than in the first and little is left. It now is more swept by battle than any other part of the world. The refugees, or rather those who would like to be refugees. have nowhere to go. There are not the same railroad facilities that one finds in Belgium; one cannot take a boat to friendly land where there is shelter and assistance. And this is a country almost 10 times as large as Belgium.
 Needs Immediate
 "It is not promises of help or con tributions to be made after the war that are needed now, but immediate assistance The starving peasants are in a frightful condition and their con dition is steadily growing worse with the march of winter and the scarcity of food and clothing.
 q wish the plight of our wretched people could be imprinted as vividly on the minds of other nations as it is upon the minds of those of Us who have witnessed 1t. If it were, am sure relief would come without being solicited"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
Money Rates Being Reduced in Spite of Enormous
 War Loans
STEEL DIVIDEND
 ANOTHER EXAMPLE
Passing of Common Dividend Came at Time When American Bank CTS Are Opening Branches
 in South American
By HOLLAND

New York, February 1-(Special. )-Sir Feiix Schuster is reported to have said an a recent address in London that one or the paradoxes of finance is the fact mat when the worlds capital is being equandered in war loanable capital in London is so plentiful that the rate charged for lending it is depreciating.
 Sir Felix is governor of one of the greatest of the banks of London, and it was he who on a visit to the United States some 10 years ago discovered that the foreign trade of this country in manufactured commodities was rapidly gaining upon our foreign trade in agri- cultural products He ventured to say at that time that if this gain were main tained the United States would in the course of few years present the un- paralleled spectacle of a nation which carried on an enormous foreign trade both in food and fibre products and in manufactured commodities. He detected in the promise of that consummation the certainty that at some time in future not distant the United States would stand pre-eminent among the nations of the earth with respect to foreign trade.
 The statement of Sir Felix to the pro- prietors of the great bank of which he is governor that London is now witnessing one of the astonishing paradoxes of finance might also be applied to the United States. In the past week we had evidence of a paradox of that kind. The directors of the United States Steel cor poration found it expedient. if not imper- ative. that the dividend upon the com fnon stock be passed for the present There was only one Interpretation of this action. which was that the recent earn 1ngs of the corporation were not suffi- cient to justify the dividend. Taken by itself, this action would have been ac- cepted as perfectly symptomatic of busi- ness conditions in the United States. But
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
Newsies Are High Gamblers

From the LOS Angeles Times.
 Patrolman Hook was walking along Broadway between Fifth and Sixth streets yesterday when he heard the shrlll cry, Give two I got high game"
 Gimme low"
 "Gimme jack"
 "Aw, how much you got for game?'
 And then came a great dispute over 2 and 2if and other totals
 The patrolman looked all around. for those are the disputes of card players. He could see no one. The wrangle con tirued. It seemer to be coming down from above.
 He investigated and on the roof of the building at 62s Broadway he found a game in full progress, newsboys contest- ing every point that might be debated.
 The boys were arrested and several dscks of cards conhscatsd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02

impending conflict so heavy that it was impossible for him to finance small issue of securities. Very likely he may now find the time propitious for enter. ing the markets
 Finance and War
 There begins to be suspicion, as vel somewhat vague, that it may after all be finance or the lack of financing which will bring the European war to a termination The best authorities in London and in Paris are now confident that it will be impossible to starve Germany Into sur render through lack of food. Germany is conserving her food and will presumably have plenty of food after the harvest of next summer.
 But 1t may be possible to exhaust Ger many by another kind of starvation. That Is the deprivation of munitions and ma terial needed for carrying on the war. England is prepared, it is well known in financial circles here, to finance to a con siderable extent the needs of her allies, and her disposition in this respect has recently been manifested by the willing ness with which she has lent a large sum to Roumania. The allies can secure, closer at home or abroad, all that may be needed in the way of war material. But the won- der is whether Germany is to have the ability to obtain steadily war material. especially ammunition. It Is known in this city that it Is the belief in Lon don that Germany has been wasteful of her ammunition, having expended enor- nous amounts of it without achieving very much.
 Germany can never be starved in the ordinary meaning of that term. Her re- sources are abundant to provide her peo- pie and armies with food for years. But it has only recently been suspected that it Is possible to starve her in another way. She may find herself lacking in ammunition even if it were possible to carry into Germany any large amount of this material All this however, is mere suspicion, but it does furnish a basis for discussion respecting the proba bility of an earlier termination of the war than was thought probable last fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
Railroad Asks Receivership

Detroit, Mich. February IA group of Michigan Central railroad stockholders petitioned the federal court here today for a receivership for the Michigan Cen tra lines. It was alleged business was di- verted from the Michigan Central by the New York Central for the benefit of other roads controlled by the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
,wINrER DOUpLns wonx

In summer the work Of eliminating pois0ns and acids from the blood is helped by precipitation. In cold weather, with little out door work or exercise to cause sweating. the kidneys have to do double work. Foley Kidney Pills help overworked. weak and diseased kidneys to filter and cast out of the blood the waste matter that causes pains in sides or back, rheumatism, lumbago, stiff ness of joints, sore muscles and other ills resulting from improper e1imff,a- tion. For sale by all druggtsts-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
Roumania to SuppIv Grain

Berlin, February 1.-(By Wireless via London, S:20 D. m.)-It is semi off cially reported from. Bucharest that Roumania is to supply Germany, by prearrangement, a large quantity of grain. transportation for which is to be furnished by Germany.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-06
TYPHUS Staying MORE
THAN ENEMY'S GUNS
Conditions in servia Caused by Disease
Have Not Been Exaggerated,
Writes w. T. Collins.

w. F. Collins, writing to the New
ark Evening News from Athens under
date of April 6, says:
Conditions in Servia, caused by dis
ease, are very bad indeed. The alarm
ing. reports as to this state of affairs
which have reached America have not
exaggerated the facts. If anything.
the facts have been minimized. Typhus
is striking deep terror-very deep. 1t
is Staying more than the enemy's guns.
It is said that almost every other house
in Nish has black flag, the mark of
the presence of typhus.
Heroic efforts are being made to
fight the plague. Some time, when the
history of Servia in this war is writ
ten, the most moving chapter of all will
be that relating the supreme self sac
rifce of the warriors against typhus;
the doctors and nurses who are carry
ing on the dread campaign If it had
not been for them things would have
been much worse than they are. But
| they are bad enough. There is the
greatest need of more doctors, more
nurses and, above all, perhaps of more
medical supplies. The insanitarv sur
roundings in the midst of which the
campaign against disease must mostly
| be prosecuted are welln-igh indescrib
able.
There are a number of American vol
unteers among the doctors and nurses
Two of the American doctors have died
one of them shooting himself in the
| delirium of typhus. Several of the
nurses have fallen i'll and there are re
lports of deaths.
An idea of what the doctors anC
nurses have to meet may be gained
from one story. Half dozen nurse
arriving in Servia were quartered il
a one-room house. There were abso
lutely no conveniences and the plac,
was alive with vermin. The pit pro
vided for refuse was directly unde
the house, a trap-door opening into il
The domicile was fumigated and clean
ed as well as it could be, but putin.
!, it into decent shape was impossible
First one nurse, then another, despit
all precautions, became i'll.
The inoeu1ation against typhus ha
helped wonderfully, but the bite of tn
louise is something especially to
dreaded, even by those who have bee
inoculated. When the flies and othe
insects come in profusion the danger
/ viii be greatly increased. So far ther
has not been much smallpox and cho
era has been kept in check
: Bulgaria has quarantined agains
/ Servia Very stringent measures hav
1 been adopted by Greece.
An American Red Cross unit ha
5 just left here for saloniki; thence I
e proceed to Nish and Belgrade as SOC
$ as railroad communications are resto
f ed. The communications have been i
: terrupted because of Bulgarian raj
+ for which Sofia discIaims respons
n bility. The men and women compri
n ing the party departed quite as if Il
$ journey uncertain at best-were
:, the days work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-06
HARSH WORDS CAUSE SUICIDE.
G. Corsini of Proctor Drowned Himself
Because of Dispute with Son.

PROCTOR, May 6. = Giuseppe Cor
SIM, one of the first italian marble
earvers to enter the employ of the Yer
mont Marble company, committed sui
eide yesterday by jumping off the iron
bridge over Otter creek about a half
mile south of this village. His body,
floating on the surface of the water,
was discovered short time later by
NJ. P. Casey, an employee of the Green
Mountain Marble company, and with
the assistance of other workmen it was
hauled out of the water.
According to letter found at his
boarding place his son, Araldo Corsini,
had been planning ON entering business
in ST. Louis, Mo-, and he needed the
loan of ''half thousand dollars.
This had been partially refused by the
elder and a telegram and letter showed
the Younger Corsini was out of sorts
and he said in one letter he did not
wish his father to speak to him again
if he did not loan him the money will
hngly.
This probably explains the odd note
found in his pockets which was en-.
closed in an envelope which read. Io
my son l leave $1,104. = The letter
read: Dear son. Forgive your father
kissing you. / had rather die than te
use the correction. Hoping clemency
of your ingenuity.
Corsini leaves wife and other chill
dren living in Italy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-06
ROOT FOR PRESIDENT TAFT.
Laughs Down Suggestion of His own
Candidacy

CHICAGO, May 6. = E1ihu Root is
the choice of ex-President Taft for the
Republican presidential nomination.
Taft came to Chicago yesterday
beaming with health and good spirits,
and he said the selection of Mr.. Root
would please him. Any estimate he
might have on his own chances for
third battle for the Presidency were
smothered in gale of laughter, which
constituted his response to nearly all
questions asked him.
A merry g Ha Ha; Keep on asking
me, was his reply when asked for
comment on the Roosevelt Barnes suit.
OF the probability of the next cam
paign being a three-cornered fight Mr.
Taft said:
lit is useless to utter prophecy at
this time; you people who live in the
center of the nation should be in better
position than I to Judge of the senti-
ment of the country
Mr.. Taft went to Madison to deliv-
er lecture.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-06
w. F. ROOTS UNUSUAL OFFER
Sells DR.. Howard's Specific at Half
Price, and Guarantees a Cure.

It is't often that 1 have faith
enough in the medicine put up by 9TH
er people to be willing to offer to re-
fund the money if it does not cure,
said Wilfred r. Root to a Reformer
man who dropped into his store, ''but
am glad to sell DIR. Howard s spe-
cifc for the. cure of constipation and
dyspepsia on that basis
''The DIR. Howard company, in order
to get a quick Introductory sale, au-
thorize me to sell their regular So
cent bottles at half price, % cents, and
although I have sold lot of it, and
have guaranteed every package, not
one has been brought back as unsatis-
factory.
am still selling the specific at half
price, although / cannot tell how long
shall be able to do so, and anyone
who is subject to constipation, sick
headache, dizziness, liver trouble, in
digestion or a general played out con,
dition, ought to take advantage of
this chance. You can tell your read
ers that if they are not satisfied with
the specific they can come right back
to my store and | will cheerfully re-
fund their money!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-06
MUCH DAMAGE DONE
BY FRENCH AIRMEN
Report Tells of Great Fire at St.
Quentin and the Destruction of a
Zeppelin.

PARIS, May 6.-An official note was
issued last night giving details of aeri-
al raids by allied aircraft, the 1n1or-
nation being obtained from the await
ors themselves and from prisoners. The
note says:
On March % a bombardment of che
railway station at Briey took place.
Damage was done to Contains, Briey,
and Metz, where provision depots were
destroyed and the railway line was cut.
On April Is the station at st. QUEEN
tin was bombarded and central depot
of munitions, $50 cars, many of them
containing benzol, were completely de-
stroyed by fire, which lasted fourteen
hours. Explosions We're heard through
out the night. Twenty-four soldiers
were killed
On April % in a bombardment the
Friedrichshafen hangers were damaged
and Zeppelin was destroyed. Bombs
were also dropped at Leopoldshohe and
| Lorrach, and on the station at HaItiu
gen. Two locomotives and two express
trains were disabled and all traffic be
tween Leopoldshohe and HaItingen wa.
suspended.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-06

WANTED Cottage at Spofford Lake for
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