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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
THE BATTLE CRY OF HELD OVER FOR ANOTHER WEEK
Manager Griffin to Show Patriotic Feature Today. Over 10000 Persons
 Have Seen It Here

After breaking all house records during the past week, it has been deemed advisable to retain "The Battle Cry of Peace" another week at the Alcszar. Incidentally, Manager Sidney Griffin will open the Alcazar today Tor the Sunday crowds.
 The Battle Cry of Peace will be shown at the Alcazar," said Manager Griffin, "all the week, including Sun day. Something like 10000 persons have already witnessed this great educa- tional spectacle ill which the helpless ness of the United States in case of war is thriliingly shown on the screen. l fully expect that 10000 more will pay their way into the Alcazar this week, as many have signified their in tentions of seeing the picture a sec ond and even third time.
 "The Battle Cry of Peace" is a pie ture that advertises itself. The first two days of the past week it did not draw so we'll but as the patrons of the Alcazar began to talk of "The Battle Cry of Peace" about the streets, it suddenly attracted attention and starting on Wednesday the theatre was packed to the doors at every per formance.
 Now, l do not care to boost my own pictures so very much, but 1 will state in all honesty that if The Battle Cry of Peace was being shown at any other theatre in the city I would say the same thing that l am saying of it at my theatre and that is that it is the greatest picture that has ever been seen in Birmin gham-bar none
 The Birth of a Nation might have been more artistic success than The Battle Cry of Peace but it only told of history--of the past. But in The Battle Cry of Peace we see a picture of the yirile present. The rigorous times of today are faithfully depict ed and it is brought upon the dullest mind the peri1ous age we are liv- ing in.
 q urge upon everyone to see The Battle Cry of Peace It is a maker oi better citizens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
ANDREW J. BETHEA
 GLAD TO GET BACK
Lieutenant Governor of South Caro- lima Says Time Is Not Propitious
 for Peace

New York, January 22.-Andrew J. Bethea, lieutenant governor of South Carolina, returned from Eu- rope today on the American liner New York He was a member of the Ford peace party.
 The time for neutral nations to move for peace has not yet ar rived Lieutenant Governor Be- thea said on his arrival.
 'In Germany the cry is for con- servation of resources" MT. Be- thea said. They say they have sufficient men and means for mill itary equipment. In England found the cry was for men and proper equipment"
 The South CarOlinian left the Ford party in Copenhagen and made his way int oGermany, from there going to Switzerland, and thence to England.
 The New York experienced one of the toughest passages in her history
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
"AS I LIVE, MY OLD PAL"

Luke stops, astounded The rattler has clicked off like a telegraph instru- ment the old call at the office where Luke worked when he had his pet snake Gus. Luke looks at the snake, who wags his rattles happily. It is Gus!
 While in the telegraph office Gus had learned the station call. Now ii saved his life. -'~
 Luke, overjoyed, starts to pick up Gus. Gus twists away into the woods (This will give suspense.) In minute Gus returns followed by Mrs. Gus and lot of little Guses.
 Luke gathers them all into his arms and takes them home and lives happily ever afterward."
 MT. Walthall was shown the scenario.
 "At last" he exclaimed. For years I have heard about 'rattling good plots Now I have read one!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
VAUDETTE ID OPEN DOORS ON SUNDAY
 Photoplay House Announces -it Excellent Programme for Week

The Vaudette theatre will be opened to the Sunday crowds today.
 "rhe Man Inside" a special five-part feature of the Universal will be shown today Tomorrow an old-t Charlie Chaplin comedy feature entitled Charley and Mabel at the Wheel" will be shown in conjunction with Craft the new sen- sational Universal serial.
 On Tuesday 'Discontent' and Hired Tired and Fired's will be shown
 Across the Line, a Victor Universal, will be shown on Wednesday with ! Knocks and Opportunities, with Billie Ritchie and "Sammie Johnson, Hunter" a cartoon comedy.
 On Thursday ''The Inner SouP' and Man Good For Nothing are offered
 ''The Red Lie,'' with Rupert Julian, comes on Friday with the picture Uncle Sam at Work"
 "A Daughter of Romance will close the week at the Vaudette. This is a special Universal feature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
SELMA

Selma, January 22.-(Specia1. )--Be- lieving that the acreage in corn will be the largest this year that has ever been planted in this section of the state, John C. Webb & Co of Domop- olis, merchants and grain dealers, have closed q deal with local machinery firm for the placing in their Demopolis plant of a complete modern meal and bolting mill The plant will include a corn shucker and cleaner, several ele vators and a patent bolter Workmen will begin the installation of the ma chinery within the next week. Webb & Co. are one of the largest concerns in this section and their new venture is started with excellent financial backing.
 Okel & Cooper, Montgomery archi- tects, will be in Selma Sunday for a final conference with members Of a committee from the Selma Masons on the changes and renovations planned for the recently acquired home in Ala bama street. The building, of three stories in brick, will be changed throughout the interior and made into a model Masonic temple. The front will be veneered in pressed brick and the entrance changed from the corner of the building to the center. The work will cost in the neighborhood of S7000.
 Close on the announcement of the Masons came the announcement that the Reid Lumber company of Bir- mingham would immediately begin the construction of their modern blaming and sizing mill which will cost about $15.000.
 A letter from the fourth assistant postmaster general received Friday morning brought the information that the Selma office had been made the distributing point for all supplies, eX- cept stamps, for the counties of Dal- las, Marengo, Perry, Wilcox and Mon roe. The supplies heretofore have been sent out direct from Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
WITNESSES ARMED
 FOR PROTECTION

New Madrid, Mo, January 22-Sev- eral witnesses at the trial of alleged night riders were authorized by the presiding judge today to carry fire arms These witnesses had received threatening letters. to plead guilty today. He told the court he "got in tine gang because they promised my wages would be raised
 The judge refused to allow him to plead guilty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
WEEKLY STATEMENT OF FEDERAL RESERVE
 BANK OF ATLANTA

Resources: Gold coin and certifi- cates: Gold settlement fund, $3,5S0,- 900; held by the bank, $5,4O1, ,436.54; legal tender notes, etc., $1S1, 1,136.90; to- tai cash reserves $9,162,573.44; due from federal reserve banks, net, s429,- 991.06. Bills discounted: Commer- cial paper. s6,974.5oo.OS. Investments; Warrants, $330,147.5s; United States bonds. $25,00O; all other resources, $1,- SS2,622.27 = SIS, ,S04, ,S34.43. Liabilities: Capital paid in, $2,422,700; United States treasurer's deposits, $6,O43,405.12 i;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
FREEDOM FOR GUS

"After several years Luke (Henry WalthalD gets a better job in the city and he lets Gus loose to rove the fields |again.
 "In the city Luke falls in love with a girl (Edna Mayo) who turns him down for a rich city fellow. So Luke returns to his old home town three years later and goes hunting. Out in the woods he hears @ rattle A snake is in the path coiled to strike. Luke raises his gun to shoot Before he can do so he hears the rattler rattle off Dash, dot dot, dash,' etc, on his rattles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23


 ter tEat accompanied them said so The paw paw is a fruit that looks some thing like a banana that has just had a big dinner
 The responsibility that necessarily is felt by person who owns six paw paws and doesn't know what to do with them weighs heavily upon Miss Mayo's mind and she wants advice.
 Miss Mayo was in New York last Sat urday, trying on gowns for "The Strange Case of Mary Page" that have been designed by Lady Duff Gordon. Not even in the dressmaking establishment, where they usually know all the gossip about everything, could they tell her whether a paw paw should be baked, fried or eaten on the half shell with chutney sauce.
 The paw paws remain on ice in Chica Go, In the meantime, hoping for assistance Miss Mayo will paw-pause for reply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
PERSONALITY DOPE ABOUT PRINCIPALS
 IN NOTED PICTURE
Would Star a Rattler in Film Play Offers a Scenario to the Essanay Company

Have you a trained rattlesnake in your home--a docile pet that will sit up and smile at the snap of a finger and eat out of the hand without taking part of a finger as lunch?
 If you have, perhaps you can rent him to J. Charles Haydon, Essanay di- rector, who is producing "The Strange Case of Mary Page" in which Henry B. Walthall and Edna Mayo are to be starred.
 An ambitious young man who lives in Baldwin, Kan, has offered the fol- lowing scenario to MT. Haydon, sug-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
fOc =: ADMISSION :-: 1Oc

reserve deposits, net, ss,ooo. 175.9s profit and loss, $S2,S04.47; federal reserve notes, net liability. $2,216,2O0: all oth- CT liabilities, s39, 9,54s.91-$1S, S04, ,S34.4S. Memorandum: Federal reserve notes outstanding, s17,990,000: federal re serve notes in hands of bank, s1573,- 800-16. 200; gold deposited with federal reserve agent, $14,200.000; net liability account federal reserve notes, $2.216.2O0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
Edna Mayo Eats Paw Paws"-Has Si- of Them and Longs for Expert Advice
How does one eat paw paws?

Edna Mayo, Essanay star, wants to know and she wants to know imme- diately-before the half dozen paw paws sent to her by an admirer in Pond Creek, Oklahoma, expire on her hands.
 Miss Mayo, who is appearing with Henry B. Walthall in "The Strange Case of Mary Page" lived most of her short life in the east, where the paw paw blooms lot. She is hopelessly ignorant of the habits and uses of the. paw paw.
 All she knows is that these are paw paws and they are to be eaten. The let
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23

gesting that MT. Walthall and Miss Mayo be co-starred with the snake. Read on:
 Luke, young man, is baggage agent and telegrapher at country station. He is so lonely he catches a rattlesnake named Gus and keeps it around the telegraph office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
Sink Two Ships

Petrograd January 22.--(Via Lon- on.)-Russian torpedo boats in the Black sea, it was announced here to- day, have sunk two Turkish ships load ed with war supplies. The crews were made prisoners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
Burt Bruised by Fall

Hardy M. Burt, manager of the Flor ence hotel, fell as he was about to alight from the running board of n machine Friday night at ' o'clock and was slightly bruised He was able to return to his office yesterday morning and resume work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-23
FLY TO THE HILLS

Yuma, Ariz., January 22. Yuma valley was covered to a depth of from one to four feet of flood water from the Colo rado river tonight after the breaking of government levees today. Business houses here were flooded and many older buildings washed away. Many residents went to the hills.
 Yuma was in darkness tonight A citizens committee maintained order, Mayor Charles C.. Moore having died of heart failure during the excitement that pre- vailed shortly after the levees gave way.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22
U. 5. and AExIC0
REACH AGREEMENT
Protocol Approved BY President VII.
son Meets Questions That May
J Arise in villa Chase.

Washington, March 21.-The United
States and the Mexican de facto gov
eminent reached ON agreement today
on the essential features of pro-
tocol for cooperation between the
military forces Of the two countries
in the pursuit OF villa. President
wilson approved the terms. and
First Chief" Carranza Is expected to
do Immediately.
The convention is designed to mes.
all questions that may arise here
after in connection with the chase for
Villa by American forces. The pro-
tocol sets forth the rights Of the
American troops, the nature Of the
cooperation expected from the Car
rama soldiers. and provides for such
matters as the use Of Mexican rail-
roads by American troops, although
the specific request 10 ship supplies
from Ell Paso will be disposed Of sep
arately.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22

Youngstown, O., March 15-The
Mahoning county grand jury ended it's
investigation of the strike riots last
January in East Youngstown by re-
turning indictments against Ebert H.
Gary, chairman of the United States
Steel corporation, and against six big
steel companies.
The indictments charge Gary, the
corporation of which he is the head,
one of it's subsidiaries and four 1nde-
pendent steel concerns with conspir-
ing to fix the price of iron and steel
products in Mahoning county in vio-
lation of the Valentine antitrust law
Judge Gary has been indicted indi-
vidually." said County Prosecutor A.
nj. Henderson, because the evidence
laid before the grand jury tends to
show that he is the dictator OF the
iron and steel industry in the United
States" ,,.
Mr.. Henderson said the trial of
Gary and the corporations would be
held within month. He added that
an effort would be made then to prove
that the alleged combination to fix the
price of labor brought about the I'M
rest among laborers which resulted
in the East Youngstown strike riots.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22
B||RIIOUGH TO VISIT ...,
vQs -a'.I 1tttkk\IuN IIuNukv
Mf JILL AssUVN aOOns
Candidate for Governor VIII Visit
Shops and Mills During
Afternoon.

Arrangements have been completed
in every detail for the visit to JEFF
ferson county today of DR.. G. Fl.
Brough, candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor of Arkansas.
DR.. Brough will speak at Redfield
tbs forenoon. A number of auto
mobiles perhaps as many as 20 O..
more will go there and accompany
DR.. Brough back to the city, as he will
make the journey overland, escorted
by officers and members of the JEFF
ferson county Brough club. He will
be taken direct to the Cotton Belt
shops, where it is expected he will
arrive about 1890 o'clock. to make a
short talk, after which he will visit
the Big industrial plants on the west
ern extremity of the city.
DR.. Brough will spend while at
the headquarters of the club in the
Citizens bank building, and later will
hold an informal reception at the
Hotel Pines. About 7:15 members OF
the Brough club and other supporters
Of the candidate will gather at the
hotel, to march in body to the court
house, from the steps of VIII CHI DR..
Brough will deliver his address.
Information received yesterday by
the Brough club indicate there will be
many visitors to the city today to
hear the talk by DR.. Brough. Many
parties of women have been formed
to attend the meeting at the court
house this evening. and most of these
will be IN automobiles.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22
TENNESSEE S0L0NS :. !,
IN SPECIAL SESSION 81 D.
@ '1fIIbt1
Legislature Meets to Sit as Court soi
Impeachment to Try Memphis ..n,
Officials. 'oaf

Nashville. Tenn. March 21.-The
legislature of the state, met here to-
day in extraordinary session as "a
court of Impeachment to try Jesse
Edgington, criminal court judge of
Shelby county, and q. Newton Estes,
district attorney general of that coun-
ty. &'
Memphis is in Shelby county. This
is the sixth impeachment proceeding
in the history of the state and is ex-
citing intense public interest. OF five
judges who have been, tried in this
way since the state was admitted to
the union, three were acquitted.
According to the forms prescribed
by law for impeachment, the lower
house acts as a grand jury. While it
is doing this, the senate simply marks
time. II the representatives find an
impeachment corresponding to an in
dictment in a criminal case) the low
er house then adjourns sine die and
the senate, with the chief justice pre-
siding. proceeds to the trial of the
defendant
In his proclamation of March IL
calling for the extraordinary session,
Governor Tom c.. Rye expressly
warned those who have brought the
charges against Judge Edgington and
Acknowledgement Estes, and all 9TH
or persons, not to do any lobbying or
commit any other act calculated to
Influence the state legislators, now
constituting high court, of justice
without appeal, either for or against
the wo defendants.
The legislature meets with four va
cancies in each body. the majority of
these vacancies being in the delega-
ton from Memphis; the home of the
two officials involved. In a state
ment issued last night, Judge Edging-
ton declared he had committed no
wrong and asked "only that they give
me fair and impartial consideration
and square DEAL" General Estes has
not appeared
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22
SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS-.

Little Rock, March 21.-A great deal
of interest is being aroused through
out the country in the approaching
sess on of the Southern Sociological.
congress in New Orleans, April 1915.
Vital questions pertaining to the
growth and upbuilding of the South
will be considered. Among the Az
kansas speakers who Will be heard on
the program are: Leo NJ. Favrot,
supervisor of rural negro education.
DR.. c.. w. Garrison. state health Off
Ger, and Attorney Charles Jacobson Of
Little Rock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22
Flames Beginning at 5 P. M.
Still Raging at Mid
night.
DALLAS SENDS AID
ON SPECIAL TRAIN
Several Hotels, Big Compress, Many
stores and Courthouse Among the
Buildings Rurncd-NO One Killed
or Injured.

Dallas, Tex, March Il III y. NJ
Fire. which started at } O'Clock this
afternoon at paris, Tex, destroyed TIC
greater part of the business district
and is now raging n the residence
district.
The Merrick hotel is destroyed The
Lamar county courthouse is badly
damaged Tne postofsice is reported
in ruins. The compress has bsea
burned to the ground, with thousands
of bales of cotton. Many bus ness cs
adjustments are burned Or Quilted.
The loss is between $1,000,OOO and
100000. 'e'7
Telegraph and telephone lines wee
burned out early in the night, and the
information that filtered through is
very meagre. =.
Two fire engines and hose COM
pany were sent with 20 firemen frcrl
Dallas on special train tonight
over the Santa Fe.
The FIRE started at ) O'Clock, and
at O'Clock tonight all the operate IS
in the Western Union were driven
from their office.
At 9:35 p. m. the Merrck and
another hotel were burning.
The flames were famed by heavy
wind from the southwest, ana the
spa, ks were carried to many sections
of the city. where fires broke out
stimuli aneously
The fire department was unable to
cope with the S tuation. No one was
hurt or killed, according to reports
received here.
1t is said 80 blocks of buildings
have been burned.
Paris is about 100 miles northeast
Of here, and has population Of
approximately 10000. 1t has numer-
OUR flour, saw and planning mills,
'fdnhafies and mach ne shops.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22
RUSSIANS TAKE
BRIDGEnEAO FROM
THE AUSTRIANS
Huge Masses of Men Being
Hurled Against Teutons
by the Slavs.

Lcndon. March 21.-Powerful at
lacks, carried out with great forces
OF men, have given the Russians
possession of the Bulwark positions
of the Austrian northeas. of Cznrno.
WITT. the bridgehead on the Dneister
al Mikhalapzhe.
The capture of this important for.
t fication. the first result of the Rus
sian offensive in the south, is an.
nounced simultaneously with a Berlin
admission that the German salient
south Of Lake Narrow, in the Dvinsk
region, has been driven in by the
Russians. ,sH
On both northern and southern
wings the Russians are reported EN-.
rloying huge masses of men in their
attacks. while further large concen-
trations are semiofficially said to be
under way in Southern Poland. 1t is
expected the next Russian move will
be a terrific drive on the front
stretching from Czarporysk to Kovel
the scene of much heavy fighting in
the early winter.
That the Russian preparations
h'cidiu general OIIGHS1Ve IrOm the
Baltic to Bukowina. with the coming
of spring, is the opinion of high mill.
tary men here.
The loss of the bridge head was
admitted in an official statement from
Vienna today. The position had been
held by the Austrians for months un-
der the greatest difficulty. With the
launching of the new Russian often
sive, the Austrian defenders are
hemmed in on every side, with their
defenses shattered by Russian artil-
lery and mining operations.
1t is felt m diplomatic circles that
the new Russian offensive will resul:
in the speedy entrance of Roumania
into the war on the side of the allies.
Several Roumanian leaders are now
on the Russian front, Watching the
developments Of the campaign.
The Germans claim to have in
flictel heavy losses on the advanc 'ng
Russians on the northern wing about
Dvinsk.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-22
LEAVES FOR BORDER DUTY.

Little Rock, March 21.-Capt. H. J.
Lawrence, u S. A., who has just COM
pleted the inspection of the Arkan-
sas national guard, lett today to re-
join his command, in the Ninth in
fantry, on border patrol duty at La
redo, Texas. Captain Lawrence has
been most favorably impressed with
the citizen soldiery of the state. and
says that should there be call for
more troops for service in Mexico
nothing would please him better than
to be attached to the Arkansas nation
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