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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-23
LABOR CONGRESS
REFLECTS JONES
Continued from Page one)

ened railroad strike and his foreign
policy.
Other resolutions adopted declared in
favor of the eight-hour law and con-
.demned business organizations which OPP
posed it; denounced prison labor and the
convict leasing system; opposed piece
work in factories; proposed that news
iboys be made amenable to child labor
Jaws, and urged the enactment by the
states of laws to compel corporations to
pay their employees at least semi monthly
and to prohibit the Importation of men to
act as armed guards during strikes.
The congress also went on record as
favoring employers liability laws; the
absentee voters bill and full crew. laws
TO govern the operation of both passenger
and freight trains.
President Jones and Secretary Pickett
were given a vote of confidence at the
morning session by the adoption of
report of special committee which COM
mended their administration, and declared
that "any insinuations aginst their Off
cial integrity were without foundation.
The committee was appointed yesterday
to investigate the affairs of the two Of
ficers at their request after a statement
made by George Kennedy, a Memphis
delegate, was interpreted by them as
questioning their integrity.
Kennedy today disavowed any such in
tentions and the incident was closed with
mutual expressions of good will.
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FRENCH SUBMARINE
SUNK BY AIRCRAFT
Berlin Claims That Entire
Crew Was Rescued and
Made Prisoner

Berlin, September 22.-CBy sayville.)
The French submarine Foucaus has been
sunk in the southern Adriatic by bombs
dropped from Hungarian naval
aeroplanes, the Austrian admiralty an
nounced today. The entire crew OF %
men was rescued and made prisoner.
The admiralty statement reads
AN Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane
ir the southern Adriatic sank by means
of bombs the French submarine Foucaus.
The aeroplane's pilot was Lieutenant Cell
ezeny and the observer was Lieutenant
Won Klimburg.
THE entire crew of the submarine,
comprising two officers and 27 men, many
of whom We're in a drowning condition,
were rescued and made prisoner by the
naval aeroplane mentioned and by an
other piloted by Lieutenant Komjevre,
with Cadet Severea as observer.
Half an hour later the imprisoned crew
was taken over by a torpedo boat, while
the two officers were transported to land
on the naval aeroplanes.'
No French submarine Foucaus is listed
in the available naval records. The craft
sunk probably was the submarine Fou-
cault, built in 1912 at Cherbourg. She
was 167 feet long, 1873 foot beam, with
a speed of 1875 knots above water and
of eight knots submerged. She was
equipped with six torpedo tubes. Her
complement is given comprising "a
men.
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Members of Authors
League Do Not Want
to Join Labor Body

New York. September 22.-Ninety
members of the Authors League of
America have signed and issued pro-
test against the proposal to affiliate
with the American Federation of La
Dor. Included in that number are many
we'll known writer's, such as Jack Lon
don, George AIDE, Cyrus Townsend
Brady, John Burroughs, Winston
Churchill Hamlin Garland, Emerson
Hough, Joseph c. Lincoln, Brander
Matthews, Ray Stannard Baker. Sam
uel G. Blythe Irwin S. Cobb, James M.
Flagg, Will Payne. Ida M. Tarbell,
Kate Douglass Wiggin. Owen Wister
and Edward Mott SWoolley,
They denounce the proposed affiliation
as "inappropriate; disadvantageous and
dangerous" and assert that those ia
voring it dwell on the advantages Of
standardized contracts in the publish
ing. magazine and theatrical business,
but fail to show that it would attain,
any of these advantages.
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MANDAMUS HEARING
SSETFOR OCTOBER2
Proceedings Against Gov
ernOr POstponed-Law-
yers in Case Absent

Montgomery, September 22.-(Spe-
clal.)-The mandamus proceedings
entered against Governor Henderson
by j. r. DAILY, through the attorney
general, were called for hearing by
Judge Leon McCord this morning but
were passed over until the week of
october for the convenience of several
of the lawyers in the case. Attorney
General w. l.. Martin and Ray Rush
ton, attorneys in the proceedings, were
out of the city and out of Difference
to them the case was continued by the
court.
An effort is being made by Daily to
force the governor 10 approve an ac-
count for expenses incurred in making
an investigation in Russell county. The
entry of this case accompanied the
controversy between the attorney gen
eral and the governor as to the for
mer's authority to incur expenses in
making Investigations without first OBJ
tanning the consent of the chief exec
utiVe.
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Eel Paso, Tex. September 22.-"I am
confident that my information regarding
Villas attack on Chihuahua City is ac-
curate, therefore l do not see that any
further investigation is necessary on my
part" was General Bells comment to-
night on being informed that he had been
invited by General Trevino to send
special agent to Chihuahua to ascertain
the facts.
1.-The truth isl General Bell continued,
General Trevino is up against fact
that cannot be explained away He was
caught mapping by Villa. soldier has
an excuse for getting whipped, but, he
has no excuse for being caught off his
guard The result is he finds he must
make extreme claims to clear his repu-
tation as a soldier
LAS the result of further investigation
my account of the Chihuahua City battle,
as communicated to my superiors, has
been, in my belief, absolutely confirmed
l stand by it and have no desire to carry
the matter further"
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CAR SHORTAGE is
GENERAL is OPINION
OF AGENT DOUGHTY
Interstate Commerce Commission
Could Not Afford Relief by Inquiry
or Its Findings

An investigation by the interstate COM
merce commission would afford no relief
from the existing shortage of freight
cars in the Birmingham distrist is the
opinion of j. Fl. Doughty. general agent
of the Frisco railroad. The shortage is
attributed to abnormal business condi-
tons, especially in the export trade
If the interstate commerce commission
were to institute an inquiry as to the
causes of the present car shortage. / do
not think that any relief would be af
forded by it's findings. The causes of the
inability of the railroads to supply an
adequate number of freight cars are man
ifest. The movement of various kinds
of freight are unprecedented in their
volume, and the export trade for iron
and steel is exceedingly heavy.
The demands of the export trade are
such that Birmingham has shipped iron
to virtually every port. Some shipments1
have been made to Galveston, Tex. Others
have been billed to New York, Mobile
New Orleans and other ports. But in
general the movement of shipments has
been to the north, and the northern and
eastern roads have held the freight cars
investigation would show that south
ern roads have held cars that have car
ried tonnage from the north. Inasmueh
as more freight has been shipped to .he
east and north than has been received
in the south, the southern roads have
not profited from the situation.
THE railroads have purchased equip
ment, but on account of the fact that steel
companies are working to capacity or
ders must wait. The lighter cars have
suffered appreciably from their associa-
ton with the heavier steel freight con-
veyances and the number 70 bad cars
is high.
The car shortage is national in its
scope. The south is not being discrimi-
mated against and therefore, the inter
state commerce commission could not
remedy conditions"
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Paris September 22.-North of the
Somme. in the outskirts of Combles, the
French forces today captured strongly
defended house from the Germans and
took 100 men prisoners, three of them
being officers, according to the official
communication issued tonight. Elsewhere
on the front there were only minor en-
gagements.
The Germans taken prisoner on the
from July l to September IS number 55,-
$780, of which $4,000 were taken by the
French.
The communication says
North of the Somme today we eff
fected two local operations on the out
skirts of Combles. One of our companies,
by brilliant coup, captured an isolated
house, we'll organized and defended by
the enemy, taking there 100 prisoners, in
Guiding three officers. Further east we
captured several trench elements and 40
prisoners. 1888
South of Rancourt an enemy attempt
to leave his trenches was stopped by our
curtain of fire.
According to the latest details, the
number of prisoners captured by the
Franco-British forces on the Somme
from July l to September IS, number
more than $500, of whom 34,050 were
taken by the French troops.
There was the customary cannonade
on the remainder of the front today.
Aviation: During Thursday one of our
aeroplanes dropped on the aviation sheds
at Habshein upper Alsace) eight bombs
of 40 calibre, which hit their mark. An
enemy aeroplane was felled by one of our
pilots in an air fight between Combles
and MOryal
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TROOP L ENTRAINS
FOR MONTGOMERY

Troop l., the Second cavalry unit organ
lied in Birmingham, is modified at the
state encampment at MontgoH cry today.
Commanded by Capt. Matt M rphy the
troop, comprized of So men az officers,
entrained yesterday mornings for Mont
gomery on a special train operated by the
Louisville and Nashville railroad.
At the mobilization camp, the troop
was given equipment and became a per-
manent addition to the regiment. Lieu
tenant Gresham and five men proceeded
the troop to Montgomery, to arrange Tor
their arrival.
On the same train, the Albertville troop
of cavalry, composed of 50 men unoer
Captain Coleman, continued toward the
mobilization center.
Troop IL is captained by Matt H.
Murphy, with Q. G. Gresham and Robert
Thach, Jr., as lieutenants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-23

BASIS OF CALL
The call is based upon the proposition
that union men cannot maintain their
self-respect' if they ride upon cars OPP
Grated by strike-breakers according to
a statement issued tonight by Ernest
Bohm, secretary of the Central Federated
union. In cases where contracts exist,
Bohm said, the employers will be not-
ned that the workers have no means of
transportation, and if the employers can
not provide transportation the workers
must remain at their homes.
Union employees will not risk their
lives by riding on cars operated by green
motormen and protected by policemen, =
Mr.. Bohm said. Neither can they ride
on such cars and retain their self-respect
as union men.
THE general tie-up will come because
employers of union labor will not pro-
vide their employees with means of trans
portation to and from work to enable
them to stay off the dangerous strike
breaking cars of the several traction
lines"
Theodore P. Shonts, president of the
Interborough Rapid Transit company and
the New York Railways company, reIt-
Grated his determination not to meet rep
resentatives of the striking carmen.
If l did So the loyal men in the In
terborough brotherhood would have good
cause to strike" he said. Besides, there
is no reason for negotiations. There is
no strike. We are carrying more people
in the subway, on the elevated and in the
Stenway tubes than ever before. Yester-
day we carried 2,2OS257 passengers or
SS7, 1863 more than on the same day last
year. The service on surface car lines
is 10.5 per cent normal
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DESPERATE FIGHTING

Berlin, September 22.-(Via London)
Desperate fighting between the Aus
tro-Germans and Russians in the Car
pathian mountains continues. The sum-
nit Of Smotrec, which has changed
hands several times, has again been
captured from the Germans by the
Russians. says today's German official
statement. Further Russian attacks
on Babaludowa were repulsed.
The German statement says:
"Carpathians: The Smotrec summit
again has been lost. Continued efforts
uIssB gMopnIsqBa no sue!ssnH sql 10
have been without success, owing to
the tenacity of our brave chaussers.
Enemy attacks in the Tataraca sec
tor and north of Dorna Artra have been
beaten off.
"Siebenburgen (Transylvania) the
atre: There is nothing to report.
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ITALIAN REPORT

Rome, September eva London,l
italian troops have made further prog
ress on the Trentino front, the war Of
flee announced today.
persistent bad weather again inter-
fered with the activity of the troops
Yesterday throughout the whole
theatre of operations" the statement
says: Nevertheless some further prog
ress is reported in connection with our
persistent advance at the head of
Vanci Cismon valley and toward the
summit of Montesief in the Upper Cor
devolo. On the Julian front there were
limited artillery actions.
Hostile batteries shelled Gorlzla
without doing any HARM
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Startling Price for
Crude Oil Predicted

Chicago, September pa price for
crude oil that will startle consumers was
predicted by G. D. Chamberlain of Cleve-
land, one of the $50 delegates to the an
nual meeting of the National Petroleum
association, which closed it's meetings
here with banquet tonight.
I'VE can offer no encouragement to
users of gasoline" Mr.. Chamberlain said,
'.for the price of crude oil is increasing
steadily and with the close of the war
there will be an unprecedented demand
for oil throughout Europe.
w. T. Jones of Kansas City expressed
the same opinion and declared the out
put now exceeds $500 900, 900 in value and
that the output for 1915 was SOS, 100000.
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FOR HAY FEVER, ASTHMA AND
BRONCHITIS

Every sufferer should know that
Foleys Honey and Tar is a reliable
remedy for coughs. colds. bronchitis,
hay fever and asthma. 1t stops deep
seated racking coughs; banishes tick
ling in throat. heals raw, inflamed
membranes; loosens the phlegm and
clears passages; eases wheezy. diff
cult breathing, and permits refreshing
sleep. 1t is slightly laxative and cor
tains no opiates. For years Foley
has been the only medicine in thousands
where.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-23
Special Bargains
by Merchants in
TOday's Age-Herald

saks offer today mems $3.50 to $50 suits
for SIS.
Porters new arrivals in Manhattan
shirts, s1.75, S225 and SO.
The Cooperative Union restaurant
opens today at S21 North Twentieth
street.
Louis Pizitz advertises the famous
Frankel System suits for SIS.
Partisan advertises $3.50 house dresses
for CSC
Loveman, Joseph & Loeb announce the
arrival of more new hats for men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-23
Alabama Negroes Sentence
COMMITTED by President

Washington, September 22,-President
Wilson today committed from four to two
years the sentence of Alfred Davis, IL
17-year-old negro boy, who attempted to
rob the postoffice at Danville, Ala, in
1914, became stuck in the chimney and
had to be rescued by the postmaster and
others Davis is now in the federal pen
itentiary at Atlanta.
In the appeal for Communication 1t was
shown that Davis was the sole support
of his mother; that he was unsuccessful
in his attempt to rob the postoffice, and
that he had been lowered into the chin
ney by another negro.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-23
Merchants Leave for Home

Montgomery. September 2.-The visit
ing merchants and delegates to the fourth
annual conclave. of the Tri-State Mer-
chants association, left for their homes
today, after spending the morning visit
ing industrial plants and business estab-
Iishments. The final session of the con-
clave. was held Friday night, when Of
ficers were elected. This city will be the
meeting place each year.
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Florida Publishers to Meet

Jacksonville, Fla. September IA
special meeting of the Florida Press
association was called today for Oc-
tober 6 for the purpose of discussing
the print paper situation. One subject
included in the call of President Oscar
T. Conhn of Miami is the feasibility
of Florida editors establishing a paper
mill of their own.
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Mrs. Samantha E. Rushton

The remains of Mrs. Samantha E.
Rushton, aged 81 years, who died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. b.
Hill, SGT Earl avenue, Thursday night,
will be sent to Tuscaloosa at 1920
o'clock this morning by the Johns
Undertaking company, where funeral
services will be held tomorrow. She
is survived by several relatives in Tus-
caloosa and Birmingham.
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Mrs. Celie Whitlock

Funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Cecile Whitlock, aged los
years, who died at her late residence
in Mill Village Thursday morning, were
conducted from the residence at 10
o'clock yesterday morning, and inter-
ment was made in Forest Hill ceme-
terry. Mrs. Whitlock is survived by sew
eral relatives in Avondale.
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Infant Thurlow

Funeral services over the remains
of the infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar G. Thurlow, who died at
local infirmary Thursday morning,
were held from the private chapel of
the Shaw Undertaking company yes
terday afternoon and interment fol-
lowed in Elmwood cemetery.
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VOTE IN NEW YORK
PRIMARIES COMFORT
BOTH OLD PARTIES
CONTINUED from rage one,

believe the independent element of the
progressives' fallen phalanx will support
the President, that Roosevelt's voice is
dead, and that republican disaffection as
a result of the Calder-Bacon controversy
will emphatically rebound to the advan-
tage of democracy.
In truth, it is the hope of leaders that
the above situation will counterfeit the
indifference of Tammany, and the pat.
emily disastrous effect of the surrender"
of Congress to the demands of organized
labor
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Germans and Dutch Agree

Berlin, September 22.-(By Sayville.)
The German and Dutch governments
have come to an agreement to submit
to an international committee of in
vestigation after the war the question
involved in the sinking of the Dutch
steamship Tubantia. This decision, +"
says the Overseas News agency an
nouncement, was taken in the interest
of friendly. neighborly relations"
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AUTRO-HUNGARIAN REPORT

Berlin. September, 22.-(Via SayvilleD
The official communication issued at
Arstro- Hungarian headquarters today
reads as follows:
"Rumanian front: The situation is I'M
changed.
Front of Archduke Charles: In the
Carpathians the Russian attacking activ-
ity has fallen off somewhat. Russian at
tacks north of Dorna Watra, southwest
of Lucacin and in the district of Ludova
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Mrs. l. M. Rubel

Mrs. T. M. Rubel, aged SO. died last
night at a local infirmary She is sur
vived by her husband, three daughters,
Mrs. Fl. Loeb of Montgomery. Miss Fan
ME Rubel and Miss Helen Rubel, and
several sisters residing in New York, and
one brother in Texas.
Funeral arrangements will be announced
later.
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Child's Death Causes Panic

Richmond, Va, September 22.-There
was a terrified panic in the suburb of
Barton Heights today when a 6-year
old child, Wilmah Boyd. who had been
going to the public school several days,
died of clear case of unsupported in
fantile paralysis. The news spread rap
idly and mothers rushed to the school
to remove their children. The school
was closed and pupils of the child y
grade We're placed in quarantine; also
the whole block in which the child
lived No one can account for how the
|cri'd contracted the disease.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-23
Infantile Paralysis
Epidemic Is at End
Say Health Officials

New York, September 22.-The cpl
demic of infantile paralysis in this
city was declared tonight by health
department officials to be at an end.
Instructions were given today to the
497 nurses, one of whom will be pres
ent in each school on opening day, to
refuse admittance to any child who
may have lived in an infected house.
This rule also will be applied to the
teachers.
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/. The summit of smotrec


was lost again.
Front of Prince Leopold of Bavaria
On the front of General Boehm- Ermolli
the artillery combats increased. East
of Sviniuchy the enemy opposes fresh
columns to our attacks. Everywhere the
enemy was repulsed.
italian and southwestern theatres:
There were no 1ncfdents of Importance.
The text says.
Eastern theatre: Army group of
Prince Leopold; West of Lutsk weak
Russian attacks failed. Near Korytniza
the enemy still is occupying small por-
lions of our position. AS the result of
the lighting Wednesday $50 prisoners
and several machine guns fell into our
hands. Vigorous artillery fighting ispro-
ceeding on one portion of this front
between the Sereth and the Stripa
north of Zboroff. Enemy attacks were
frustrated by our fire.
Army group of Archduke Charles;
On the Narayuvka river there was
lively fire. and in some places infantry
activity"
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ALUAlBLE COAL. MIME

Will sell, accepting bond issue or city
property as part payment. 40o-acre
tract containing four seams coal.
Southern railway and Warrior river
Twenty-Five houses, store,
stable. mules. double track siding, mine
cars, etc, included.
WARALA COAL co.
r. l. Box so (Drifton). Parrish. Ala.
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Mrs. Luara T. Phillips

Funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Lara It. Phillips, aged 55 years,
who died at local infirmary Thurs
day night. were held from st. Pauls
Methodist church, Graymont, at $3.50
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The Rev.
Mr.. Alverson officiated Mrs. Phillips
is survived by two sons, Carl Phillips
and Mason Phillips, and one daughter.
The Johns Undertaking company had
charge Of arrangements.
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Deaths and Funerals
]. p. Canp

The remains of J. P. Camp, aged AZ
years, of Atlanta, who died at local
infirmary Thursday afternoon, were
sent to Atlanta at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon by the Shaw Undertaking
company.
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r. E. L. McAlexander

The remains of r. E. Lee McAlex-
ander, who died at local infirmary
Thursday night, after an illness of
two years. will be sent to Yolande
att o'clock this morning by the Johns
Undertaking company.
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WHETHER VILLA is
ONCE MORE FACTOR
is MUCH IN DOUBT
CONTINUED from page One,

conferences are being held, will close soon
for the season. A decision will be an
nourced next week.
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FURTHER PROGRESS
OF ANGLO FRENCH
FORCES ON SOMME
FRONT REPORTED
FRENCH CAPTURE POSITION
CONTINUED From Page one>

three bombs on Dover, England. No dam
age was done.