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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
CARRANzA REJELTS
 A. B. (. PEACE PLAN
Refuses to Enter Conference to Dis. cuss Internal Affairs of
 Mexico.

Washington, Sept. 10.-General Car ranza in his reply to the Pan-Amerl- can Conference, it was learned here today. will agree to any international aspects of the Mexican situation, but will decline to enter conference on inte rnal affairs.
 Carranza's answer, which is expect ed today or tomorrow, is said to de- cline the offer extended by Secretary Lansing and the Latin American dip lomats to arrange a conference of the Mexican factions to choose a proVl- sional government.
 Carranza's main contention, it is said, will be that his forces are in practical control of the country, ana that to enter into such conference would have no beneficial effect.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
Washington Officials Amaz- ed at Reply and Lame De-
 fense of Kaiser.
NO DISPOSITION TO
 ARBITRATE ISSUES
Attempt at Justification of Snbma- riue'> Attack on Liner After Prom ise tO Give Full Satisfaction Re-
 wives Talk of Radical Action.

Washington. Sept. 10.-The sinking of the Arabic by a German subma- rlnc looms up again as an incident which still may be denounced by this government as a deliberately un- friendly act"
 This possibility has caused reviv- al of thN suggestion that diplomatic relations with Germany may have to be brok,n off. Tha state department has as yet no official information that Germany is about to send a second note of explanation on the incident. The reply of Germany on the Ara bic was received with amaZement and intense dissatisfaction by the highest officials, and the president himself considered ii for several hours. It was ascertained that the official text differed very slightly from the text as published in the newspapers. The general comment is that Ger many has made very serious mis- take by offering an explanation which can scarcely be accepted. Officials are not slow to point out that all ac- counts except those from German sources stated that the German sub marine was not seen at all, and, | therefore, inc infer nee was strongly against the story that the Arabic changed her course for the purpose of ramming the submarine.
 Germany Breaks Word.
 At the state department, it was ad- mtt q Germany's note is hardly clear. | Officials were unable to reconcile the defense offered with the recent assur- ances to Secretary of State Lansing that Germany would give full satis- faction to the United States if it were l proved that a German submarine sank the Arabic.
 Instead of that Germany has set up the defense that the Arabic at- tempted to ram the submarine, and has indicattd that the commander had no proof of that theory, except his own. "that such was the intention of the liner"
 The one thing which state depart- ment officials understand in the Ger man note is that this government is requested to submit to The Hague for arbitration the question whether Ger I many is liable for indemnity for the loss of American lives on the Arabic.
 The United States will gather all in formation possible from the survivors of the Arabic. and from the British official records. It will also obtain everything possible from German sources. Then it must either decide the case for itself on comparison of this evidence or agree to the propo- sition that the evidence must be sub . mitted to The Hague tribunal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
DISCUSS. FLOUR MILL. Milling Company Will Install Macl'in.
 sery If Farmers Furnish Grain.

Two reside nts of the county, who raised considerable quantities of wheat this season, and exactly doz- en local business men, attended a meeting at the chamber of commerce yesterday morning, and dicussed ways and means of cooperating with To- cal milling concern, to the end that flour mill will be established Here.
 The need of a local market for wheat grown in this county was stressed by some of the speakers, while others agreed it would be a good thing to use the home grown wheat at home. It. is understood the sale of some stock and the guarantee that certain amount of wheat shall be grown in the county, is desired by the milling company before it puts in the proposed flour mill.
 The meeting decided to make eff forts to create interest in the matter among local business men as we'll as among the planters, and there will be another meeting at another date.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
One High in Authority Says Scheme Will Undoubtedly
 Succeed. +,'
COMMISSION MEETS
 LEADING BANKERS
Financiers to Arrange Plan, and Then All with Money to Invest Are to Be Invited to Participate
 in Loan.

New York, Sept. 10.-World inter- est in the financial side of the war centered today behind the wide mar ble walls of the famous library of J. P. Morgan in this city. .
 There the Anglo-French finance and credit commissioners who arriv- ed in this country early in the day on the Laplan nd. to raise a loan Of be- tween $5OO,00O 900 and s1,0O0.0OO,OOO, met the American leaders of finance.
 It was the first step toward estap- fishing an entente cordiale between the commissioners and the leading bankers of the United states and Canada, The afternoon meeting was purely informal-a sort of "glad-to- meet-you, good-day" affair-and was not in the nature of a conference. But after it was over, it was stated:
 "The bankers are to arrange a plan and suggest "a way in which the credit can be established. The banks, trust companies. and insurance com nanies and others who have money to invest, are to then be notified or the plan and invited to participate Tn the loan."
 Tho length of the commissions stay in this country is at present mat1er of coniecture. No definite program has heen arranged. The members who are ouartered at the Biltmcre will consult with the big banklns bouses of the country during the next few weeks. From one high in author itv, the following statement was op- tained this afternoon: ,...
 "The estimated figures publlsheu are not too high and the mission o' +ho commission will undoubtedly DC success" .ho ouos+s
 The commissioners were tne sues:s tonight at dinner at tne 'Meslopo,,, ian club, and will do nothing lur'hei if is understood until Monday.
 Commissioners Issue statement
 formal statement issusd in the commission behalf was the only eX' nression made by any member or tns partv fer publication. This state ment reads: . ,,,ss;or under the chairmanship Of Lole Bedding. which has been sent 10 th' 11n;ted states in connection with tn' question of the exchanges oe.wes, ?, New York. London and Paris, arrlve' .h;s % morning, by the Red Stal steamer Lapland. +h,
 "Th,e British delegates are 1n' In, p;ah+ Hon. Lord Bedding of Erleigh % r R. K. c. V. o. (the lord cnle justice of England): Sir Edwsr' Hclden. bart: Sir Henry baoins.o; U; Smith. K. c. B., C. s. l.. and MT. Bas, IS, p D. Rlackett, c. B.. of the Britlsl treasury. The French delegates ar Mons Octave Homberg, representa-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
AERIAL FORCES
 NATIONS AT WAR
 ACTIVE IN WEST In Raids of Past Five Days ll7 Persons Killed at Various Points. .r-
ALLIES LOMBARD NOTE
 GERMAN AERoDR:olMEl: ]:
Zeppelin Destroyed and 1o3 Men Kill ed at Gonrade,. and Ten Slain at Roulers,Two French Die When
 'ft.- fttt@ 'f ,ie E
 Bomb EXplOdes.

Paris, Sept 1O-There has been great air activity along the western front during the past few days. Ac- cording to dispatches received today 117 persons have been killed at vari- ous points.
 The most important action was at Gonirad's, where allied ,aeroplanes bombarded a German aerodome. A Zeppelin shed was destroyed and 103 men killed. 5sa1 ...9. Allied aviators have also bombard- ed Roulers, killing ten persons and inflicting material dama ge. VI A German aeroplane, adorned with 16 iron crosses. was forced to de- scend near Calais, after the tank had been pierced by bullet. The ma- chine. with it's two officers, was cap tured.
 Two, French officers were killed at Ceyingen, in AIsace, when an explo- sion of bombs aboard the aeroplane occurred as they were making land ing. The airmen were buried by the 1 Germans with military honors. | Six German aeroplanes flew over Nancy for 40 minutes today, dropping 30 bombs indiscriminately. Two per sons were killed and ten wounded. Considerable property damage was done. .s.gr -e4.l..t | St. Max, a suburb of Nancy, also was boTbarded, and there were sev- eral victims. French artillery fired at the invaders and French aviators pursued them. On of the German chins evidently was damaged. r
 A eppelin, flying at a great height passed over Rocsendaal last night Dutch frontier guards fired at it. and Tt Immediately returned and 'disap- | peared in a southernly direction.
 Six aeroplanes, believed to be the
 same ones that bombarded Nancy PllTade an attempt to fly over St
 Menehould. They were forced to de tour by fire from French batteries. r.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
Government Will Proceed Against 4 Other Involved
 in Inclting Strikes.
GERMAN MILITARY
 ATTACHE INSULTING
Captain yon Papen and Austrian Con- sml.Gcneral at New York Expected to Be "kicked Out" of the
 United States.

Washington, Sept. 10.--The concon- slls of opinion in official circles to- night is that the request by this gov ernmcnt for tho recall of Pr. Con stantin Thoedore Dumba, the Austri- an ambassador. will be followed Ey action against the following persons:
 Capt. Franz von Papen, of the Ger man army. military attache of the German embassy.
 Tho Austrian cOnsul-gencral at New York, Mr. von Nuberg.
 The editor of tho Hungarian news paper. Szabadsag, a New York publi- cation, who prepared a memorandum for Dr. Dumba on plan for melting strikes in certain American factories.
 James F. J. Archibald, the bearer of the discriminating correspondence. The case of Dr Dumba. therefore appears to have developed into the most sensational incident of it's kind in American diplomatic history. The growing opinion is .that the United States will be forced to ask Germany to recall Captain von Papen | for two reasons:
 That he has ben shown by the l intercepted letter from Dr. Dumba tC the Austrian foreign offiea 10 have been equally interested in the plan l to cause disturbances in American intuition factories; and that in let jfE .1es wrote to his wife he referred I 1@sitfrfngiy to this government. It is T r{pi, Dor Tyr of a statement he had prepared ais something which Washington off cialdom would swallow"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
OLD BOMB EXPLODES.
Shell Fred by Sherman's Army Into
 Chattanooga Wrecks Furnace.

Chattanooga Tenn, Sept. 10.-A big boIhbshell, probably fired into Chatta- nooga by Gen. Sherman's invading army, exploded this morning at a local brake shoe and foundry com pany plant A section of the smelt- ing department was wrecked, but by a miracle no one was killed or in jured. Through an oversight the old bombshell had gotten into heap of scrap iron, and with the scrap iron found it's way into the big. cupola fur mace. Immediately a terrific explo- sion occurred and about a ton of melted and unmelted iron went sky ward. ' saE4
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
Dumba Meets Eernstorif.

New York, Sept. 10.I.Dr Constantin Theodore Dumba, ambassador from Austria-Hungary, today conferred in his suite in an uptown hotel with Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador. The subject of the con ference could not be learned. Both Dr. Dumba and Count von Bernstorff remained in exclusion in their re- spective hotels the better part of the day. Officials of the hotel repeated assertions that Dr. Dumba had left for the summer embassy at Lenox, Mass. Y '.'F
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
|fhANS ATTACK FEROCIOUSLY.
|'mM to Break Thru French Line Aost Desperate of All.

ila, ~aaon, Sept. 1o.-With a terrific
 Avay auel raging on every mile of
 .es.ern battle front, from the
 S tS tne Vosges. the Germans dur
 .t ,ae past 2i hours have launched
 as e Afgonne and in the Vosges a
 ss so' ol attacks which, for ferocity ua.s .us lhe wire variety of engines pv;a, va,lafe employed, surpass an bnis sas eliort on either of the major ta. pa. everywhere s, these attempts to
 s ~ ax .ne French defense proved Eklnas s'ept spt in the vosges, where. at (rnosoas ns 'ae French trenches from kemnopi using asphyxiating shells, k nrpurary na.y foothold was gained by Ee,o usimans, and at schranIelle. ecu.tl v vne French were forced to |pissnee, an advanced trench before lepcsn essn.ic flame of burning liquid. krtmaas held by the French on brm mahiliswellerkopf h were taken by ere ,a uy the German forces, but kht ea'hed by a counter attack at Ipteste oi Souehez, a scene of bitterly Fayevosa oaltles for possession of the an rano some'Nweeks ago. the Ger as oart, o,. states French trench the Si5u' no; and very occupant fell In 'tbeV polnt of the bayonet.
 
 fince,s Argonne. where the crown cks bo army has resumed it's a,- g, folIomo lIIomo and hand grenade fight in hss' by furious bombardmen1 llley G y caiibre guns against the e z, Fontaine aux Charmes and iled tc 1azse,Saint ra. Hubert road
 S V net the Germans any gains
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
WALLACE DAVIS TO 7 BE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Fort Smith Candidate Comedies Late senator's son Will Receive
 Plum.

Fort Smith, sept. 1O.-That Wallace Davis, aged 23, Little Rock attorney and son of the late United state Sena- tor Jeff Davis, will tomorrow be ap, pointed attorney-general to succeed Vim. l.. Moose, deceased, is learned here on good authority tonight.
 United States Assistant Dlstrlct Attorney John D. Arbuckle, ieadlhs \, candidate for the office, comedies the selection of Davis.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
Police Court Cases.

B. T. Scallion was haled into police court yesterday and fined $5 for ped ding without license. Anna Black and Jane Griffin. negresses. held on charges of disturbing the peace. will be tried this morning
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
HELENA NEGROES WIN OUT.
Church Rev at Chicago Terminates
 FayOrablv to Arkansas.

Helena. Sept. 1O.-The following telegram from Chicago, dated last night was received here today by w. s. Conner, a local negro, the signers heinz delegates from Helena to the annual convention of the American Baptist association, a negro organiza- ton in session at Chicago:
 "To W. S. conner, Helena, Ark. Two days wrangle. pr. c. E. Morris enioined while delivering address. Won out in courts today. Country with us. Militants on knees tonight Morris elected by 1,400 ma jority.".
 The telegram was signed by D. A Morris, D. s. Schadd and H. w. Hello way
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
More Light for Little Rock.

Little Rock, Sept. 1O.-!ne poa1u o1 public affairs has just let the the con. con. tract for the installation of 2OS more re electric street lights, which will cost CO., U s25.ooo It is the largest installation a simce tho establishment of the mum eins1 nlant and will make Little tpcl tPpct. me of the best lighted cities ol o tSa % country There are now nearly 1ooo @ street lights in the city. It mas been made possible by the c' saeH. e,". IF = ancial ability of Mayor ona''es A Taylor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
Newport Hotel Burns.

Newport, Sept. 10.-The Rock Is- land hotel was destroyed by fire early today, causing loss of $2,50O, with insurance of $2,000.
 The furniture was valued at $5,00o, with insurance of $3,O0O. Guests lost all of their belongings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
to Stronger Po-
 |,ns First Command 1 If Russian Ruler.
bNANs RESUME
 ACTION IN WEST
\ Attacks surpassing All For |vxerts for Feroclty and Variety |.,, Engines Used-Bayonet
 h occupants French Trench.

bdOn, Sept. 1O.-The first move
 czar since assuming direcf
 and of the Russian armies, has
 to crder a general retiremen,
 "a greater portion of the, front.
 sins to official news reaching
 sn from Petrograd today.
 s retirement which is being
 slowly and in perfect order,
 to the occupation of stronger
 Ions, and apparently was made
 sary by the success Of the Ger Iceater in pressing more de2p.y |the Russian front than had been
 Ned.
 M the news from Petrograd of |car's strategic retire ment, ad- ! have been received from Vienna 5 tell Of a decided Austro-Ger- fsdvance against the fortrs ss of Io last Of the Volynian triangle tsngholds still held by the Rus Evacuating kieff.
 krshadowing this local success |e Teutons, however, is the semi Hal news from P5trograd that the |ro.German aggression ill the is viewed so seriously by Rus military authorities that a par eyacuaticn of Kieff has been red. e Germans claim progress on the Ter mart Of the front but their have been for the most part ] and all the action reported
 been almost purely local in acter. T Hindenberg appears to be at a 'ete stands,ill on the Dvina, his $ reporting the capture of only
 prisoners in a days fighting. her South, in the region east of no, other armies. of this group
 achieved success in storming Aleskl heights, near Skidel, on river. About 1900 ners were taken.
 Russians Claim Success. 3 principal activity at present is e southern wing, where the Aus report their advance on Rovno g driven considerabl Russian across the Stubel lowlands. Russians are still on the of- 'e in the Tarnopol district, recently they hay reported apture of 17,000 men and a num- guns, but the Teutons claitni to repulsed all of their attacks. attack on Rozany by Austrian winch have worked their way 'ne Jassolda and Orla swamps ported, while Austro-German %pol. :"
 Ieuton advance on Ostrag, 70 east of Dubno,, which was oc- Dy the Austrians on Wednes- menaces tho Russians nlng in Galicia. They face the laFlye Of driving back the Aus slmans Fl or of retreating hastily ler to escape envelopment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
Not a Cnnarder!

{ New York, Sept 10.-rAt the Cunard
 pier office, it was said tonight there
 was no record of a steamer Alex andra owned by that company. Lloyd's register. does not carry any Cunarder sAlexandra. s esa ae -s9at...
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
War.Doe officially Praised.

Geneva, Sept. 10.-One of the French war-dogs has been publicly praised in special regimental order. The dog, beautiful collie. is at tached to the ninet-ythird French sin- fantry regiment and has three times saved this troop from surprise att tacKS,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
Women Shot as Spies.

Cracow, September 1O.-The .Ga- zeta Wieczorna" reports that eight farmers and two women, who were arrested as Russian spies in Northern Galicia, have been convicted by court martial at Lemberg. Tnelr exc cution took place within SIX hours after their conviction.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
CUNARDER TORPEDOED.
Report from Snain Tolls of Sinking 0l
 Alexandra.

Paris, Sept. 1O.-A Hayas dispatch from Madrid says the steamship Alex andra. owned by the Cunard Steam ship company. has been torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean, oil Cape Palos, Spain. Twenty-eight of her crew have been landed at Mazar- ron, Spain.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
FROTG HAS "GASSER..
Well Producing 5O.00O Feet Daily
 Comes i'm on Jewish New Year.

Will Froug, nephew of Louis Froug of this city is now the owner of "gasser" producing 50,O0O feet of the combustible hot air every; "A HouIS.' ef5f 145.~li fx5 ar.
 MT. Frcug, who has frequently visited .Pine Bluff p some time ago leased 80 acres near Gushing, Okla. and began. drilling. At depth of. 1s0D feet, hel struck gas. the we'll coming in on the first day of the Jewish year
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-11
The Weather

Fair Saturday and probably Sun day; cooler Sunday.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-24
"The Birth of a Nation"

While the extent of the preparations
necessary for the presentation of The
Birth of a Naton,p which comes to the
Jefferson all next week, in a theatre
gives one a fair idea of the massiveness
of the production, it is only after one
has witnessed the spectacle that he can
appreciates it's grandeur and realism. 1t
is the most stupendous undertaking ever
visioned and realized by a human being
within thes realm of dramatic art. Some
facts of it's vastness are given herewith
The play contains 5000 seems; presents
1900 actors and 1900 horses; cost 100000
for actual production expense and took
eight months to produce, The story is
divided into two acts and the total time
of performance is two hours and 40
minutes.
Some of the greatest battles of the
civil war are re-enacted. Atlanta, as it
was in 1864, is built up to be destroyed
by fire, in the picture of Sherman s
march to the sea. Lee and Grant are
shown at AppomattoX. Ford's theatre,
Washington, is reproduced to the small
est details for the Lincoln tragedy
Events of the reconstruction are pic
torialized in the actual South Carolina
scenes climaxing with a series of wild
Klux-Klan rides that Communicated q
county FOR a day and cost $4,000.
Wonderful artillery dues are shown in
Which real shells, costing $50 a piece,
were used One sees miles of trenches
thousands of Confederate and Federal
fighters-and war as it actually is"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-24
ADMISSION HUNS
WITH INDUSTRY
Plants of City Going at AL
most Full Capacity
PIPE PLANTS BUSY
Night and Day Shifts Busy at Plant
of Admission Ordnance CO.-Manu-
facture of Munitions to Begin
Soon After the New Year
PIPE PLANTS BUSY

Admission December 23-(Special.)
Every industry in Admission, with two eX-
ceptions, is now working at almost full
capacity, and according to information
obtained at the plants nearly all of them
will be closed only for Christmas Day
and Sunday during the holidays
The two plants idle are the Woodstock
furna ces and the McWane or Lynchburg
foundry. J. B. Darlington, president of
the Woodstock, is now in New York with
view of starting up the Woodstock
again, and it is hoped to have the Lynch
burg plant repaired and in operation
again by February /.
Several of the pipe plants are working
on orders for shipment abroad, and the
plant of the Kilby Locomotive works is
now working extra time on a large order
for the government to be shipped to Pan
ANA.
Night and day shifts are busy at the
plant of the Admission Ordnance company,
where munitions will be manufactured far
for the first shipment of steel for the six
inch shells, and the work of manufac-
ture will be started soon after the New
Year. following which the pay roll will
be materially enlarged.
Most of the plants have paid off for
Christmas, and the merchant interests of
the city had about the busiest day of the
holiday season Thursday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-24

Ballot boxes have been prepared for the
election to be held Monday, December q,
when the people of the county and state
will vote on the proposed amendment to
the constitution giving the people of Biz
mingham the privilege of deciding
whether to raise the tax rate or not. The
regular county polling places will be used
as the new voting districts have not yet
been advertised as the law directs
1t is stated there is a growing interest
in the election as the need for the pro-
posed amendment as applied to Birming-
ham is apparent to those who have in
vestigated the question. The average tax
rate for other cities of the United States
of the size of Birmingham is over 171a
mills, which is three and a half times the
rate for general purposes allowed this
city.
The proposed constitutional amendment
does not increase the tax rate of Bir-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-24
Martin-Vest

Hartselle, December 23.-(Special)-At
Il 80 o'clock Wednesday at the home of the
brides parents, Miss Mary Lou West and
Mr.. Isaac A. Martin We're quietly mar
ried, Rev f. l.. Aldridge officiating. Miss
Vest is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
young women who ever grew to young
womanhood in Hartselle. Mr.. Martin is
an employee on the Louisville and Nash
vile shops at Montgomery. where they
will make their future home Mr.. Martin
was formerly of this place and the mar
riage of these two young people will be
of interest to their many friends who
wish for them happiness and prosperity.
Immediately after the ceremony the bride
and groom left for Montgomery.