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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
MRS. KENT ENTERTAINS
 ASTER CHAPTER

The members of Aster chapter No. 175, Order of Eastern Star, were delightfully."- entertained yesterday afternoon by Mrs. John T. Kent, worthy matron of the chapter. The entertainment was in hon or of Mrs. l. Coplon, who will leave this city and make her future home in Chi cago. As token of esteem, respect, and the interest she has taken 1in the chapter. the members presented her with q very beautiful Eastern Star pin Punch was served to the guests, the howl being presided over by Mrs. O. L. Bentley. A salad course was also served, Mrs. Kent being assisted by Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Baxley. The guests of the afternoon were the members of the Aster chapter and Mrs. Lawrence Pennington and Mrs. J. J. Fuller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
RAILROAD LEGISLATION

Washington, March 25.-(Special.) )-Be fore Congress at the present time are two bills vitally effective to the rail- roads.
 The first is an administration measure providing that railroads shall be paid by space" and not by weight for. carry ing the mail
 The second was introduced by Repre- sentative Blackmon of Alabama, and pro- vides that railroads shall. accept and de- liver at express rates packages of weight less than 50 pounds. The latter was in- troduced for the benefit of the villages which are lacking in express facilities.
 The former, unlike the latter. Is not in it's incipent stage. As matter of fact, it has passed the House supported by the administration and strenuously op- posed by all the railroads of the coun- try It is now before the Senate com mittee on postoffices and post roads. In all probability it will be referred to the interstate commerce commission for treat ment If that commission should decide the bill fair to the railroads, as well as to the government, the Senate commit tee will report it, and it will be adopted.
 F. B. DeBerard, director of research of the Merchants association of New York, pi esented yesterday to the committee tie protests of 55 chambers of commerce of 22 states of the Union against the space plan. MT. DeBerard stated that mer- chants all over the country are suffer ing at present as result of the rail- roads inability to move their traffic. and that the admnistra tion space" bill would 50 deeply cut into the revenues of the railroads that they could not provide new equipment to relieve the present congestion.
 The space" plan is attached as an administration rider to the postoffice appropriation measure. It is proving to be cause celebre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
VILLA IS TRYING TO . PIERCE THE RING
 SURROUNDING HIM
 SOUTH OF MADEIRA
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Americans is expected by persons here familiar with the border to be the su- preme test as to whether friction with tEe Mexican people is to be averted aud real co-creration between the Carranza syrnpathizcrs and the United States ex- petition ests blshed.
 The a'arnrists on the border were upus- ually quiet today. Threats made by tEit local authorities that persons caught spreading false and alarming, reports would be dealt with appeared to have had it's effect and there were less wild stories than usual being circulated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
REPORTS NOT CREDITED

San Antonio, March 25.-Unofficial reports. that Gen. AIvaro Obregon, secretary of war for the de facto Mex ican government. had said that permis- sion would not be granted for tLe use of. the Northwestern railway of Mex ico for the transportation of supplies to the American expeditionary force was not credited by officers at Fort Sam Houston tonight.
 k On the assumption that the request of the United States would be. grant, ed. however, a quantity of stores has already been sent to Fl Paso for ship ment over the road and General Car ranza's delay in authorizing their transportation was subject of comS ment at army headQuarters.
 Failure to send supplies through Juarez over the railroad into the country where the troops now are oper- ating will not stop the campaign, but it was admitted it would materially retard General Pershing's activities. Already there have been so many changes in the positions of the mobile forces dispatched from Casas Grandes that the logical railroad to use for getting supplies to part of them would be the National which goes straight from Juarez to Chihuahua, in stead of making the wide swing to the west that the Northwestern does. The Northwestern is the logical line for supplying troops near Casas Grandes but since many of them now are more than 100 miles further south, General Funston believes that time could be saved by routing the stores over the National, especially since many repairs would have to be made on the Northwestern south of Casas Grandes,
 Whether General Funston will re- quest the government to get permis- sion to use the National. however, will depend upon the answer to the re- quest already made, he said. He ad- mitted the desirability of using the di- rect route. but recognized also the inadvisability of compromising his re- quest
 The utilization of the flying corps for transmission of reports from the field was regarded at headquarters with keen satisfaction The wireless has not been success and in the ab- sence of telegraph wires General Per shing has been unable to render de- tailed reports and for days at a time no report of any character
 Uneasiness occasioned by the lack of news from cavalry columns was evi- dent today at General Funston's head quarters, although he displayed an op- ttmistic confidence in General Per shing's campaign methods. General
 Pershing on Monday reported the dis ratch of three cavalry columns south ward toward Casas Grandes Friday he reported that two of them were in the vicinity of Namiquipa. That. is the net amount of official information that has reached headquarters.
 l The greater part of the Fifth cav airy should have reached Columbus by
 Monday and soon afterward the Twen. ty-fourth infantry is expected. These two bodies, with the exception of one l battalion. will be sent forward imme l diately and will be used by General
 Pershing in strengthening his lines oi communication.
 1 General Pershing. in a message brought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
THAT PRESIDENT HAS
 CONCLUDED TO CALL
 FOR VOLUNTEERS IS THE GENERAL BELIEF
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probable that the chief executive is in of the senator. for, as stated, it is tf ought generally that the administra- ton is prepared. at the proper moment. to call the guard into service. That such course of action has not here ttfore been taken is attrib butable to fear, according to prevailing impression, that the average Mexican would have doubt ed the sincerity of the American prom ise to limit it's aggression to punitive il vasion.
 The troops of the National Guard, when called, will be dispatched to the border and will not be sent save in
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by aeroplane to Columbus, N. M., and telegraphed from that city to Fort Sam Houston here tonight, recounted diff faculties he is experiencing in getting supplies but, it was stated, gave no in formation of the operations against Villa or his whereabouts.
 Owing to heavy roads along the line of communication, General Pershing re- ported, trucks carrying the supplies can not be loaded to their capacity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
JAMES SANATORIUM

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
GERMAN RAIDER IS SUNK ATTEMPTING
 TO EVADE BLOCKADE
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T. E. Wardle. It resulted in the loss of both vessels, the German raider being sunk by gunfire and the Alcantara ap- parently by a torpedo.
 Five German officers and 115 men were picked up and taken prisoners out of the total complement believed to have been over 3O0 The British losses amounted to five officers and 69 men,
 'It should be noted thlr during the whole engagement the enemy fired over the Norwegian colors painted on the side of the ship.
 This news is now published as it is made clear by the receipt of German wireless message that the enemy has learned that the Greif, sister ship to the Moewe, had been destroyed before she succeeded in passing our line of pa- trols."
 The Greif attempted to run the British blockade the day the German cruiser Moewe returned.
 SAILED BY SLOWLY
 Seeing herself ina tight hole. the Greif turned eastward proceeding in a leisure ly manner, so as not to attract too much attention when she sailed by the Alcan tara.
 The two ships lay almost side by side while the captain of the British steamer inquired by megaphone for particulars of the strange vessel which, according to the official report, had the Norwegian. col ors painted on her sides but which flew
 no flag The Inquiries from the .Alcantara were answered in perfect Norwegian bus the actions of the raider aroused the
 suspicious of the British auxiliary She was lowering boat to send searching party aboard when the Germans opened fire.
 The action is described as one of the hottest of the war recalling duels be- tween evenly matched frigates in the days before the time of ironclads. Accord ing to the British account the German raider was put out of action by a fev broadsides. and sank after 12 minutes. She was followed to the bottom few 1 minutes later by her victorious adversary, which evidently fell victim of torpedo
 launched from the Greif's tube mo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26

ment before the raider disappeared.
 Other warships soon appeared on the. scene and rescued many members of the crews of the two fighters
 The naval authorities state that tho Greif was well equipped for raiding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
CORRESPONDENTS BEHIND

Field Headquarters, United States Army. In Mexico, March 25-(By aero plane to Columbus, N. M)-Owing to limited wire and wireless facilities, the total number of words which may be sent from here by correspondents is 25O or 300 daily. This number of words has been divided equally among the correspondents in the field so that with the present wire limitations the number of words which any newspa- per may receive by wire during a day is about 25.
 The censors said military necessj- ties preclude any larger use for the present of army wires, which are the only means of communication from the field headquarters or the front. The correspondents with the army are bound by the same regulations as the soldiers None of them may visit Mexican towns outside the lines, and as the army is occupying mo such towns all of them are outside the lines. Furthermore, the censorship regula- tions do not permit of correspondents filing over any wires or by any other couriers than those designated by the censor.
 NONE AT FRONT
 Up to the present no correspondents have been permitted beyond the field heaQquartcrS. The front where the search for Villa is under way is more than 100 miles south.
 Except the brief daily dispatches by wireless all news passing the censor is carried back by army mails.
 Brigadier General Pershing asked news paper men not to use the name of off, cers nor of military units. He explained in a general way the movements now being made against Villa, but cautioned the correspondents specifically against using any of this information. The news paper men have shared the hardshps of the soldiers on the marches As the main object was speed all superfluous baggage had to be left behind, and as q result most of the writing has been done by daylight on account of lack of lights AEROPLANE MAIL SERVICE
 Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 25.-(By radio to Columbus, M) An aeroplane mail and dispatch service was established today between the bor- der and the advanced base of the Ameri- can expeditionary force here
 Gneral Pershing started today to make a two-day inspection trip of all the troops in the field. There have been no clashes involving American troops since the start of the expedition and quiet prevails throughout the district occupied, accord ing to reports to military headquarters here today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
NO ANSWER HEARD

There was no answer other than a
 dersve toot from a klaxon on a pass ing automobile. Disregarding the 'toot," MT. Barbar again asked the question and then proceeded to an- swer it.
 Franklin Potts Glass" said the so- cialist commissioner of public safety, lis the man who violated the spirit, if not the letter. of tht constitution
 when he went to the United States Senate and asked to be seated there. He was kicked out of the back door of the Senate and then he accepted over $500 for public services that he l never rendered.
 During my race for commissioner I wanted to debate with Frank Glass, but he sent back word that he would
 play his game and that l should play mine."
 Commissioner Barber then diverged for few minutes to pay his respects to the Standard oil company, the Bir-
 mingham waterworks and the South-
 ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
 company. After working himself into
 sufficient hysteria he again returned
 to his pet attack of the newspapers,
 This time he jumped on the editor of
 an afternoon paper.
 q want to know if Franklin Potts
 Glass will deny. that ms representa-
 tive in Montgomery, during the ses
 sion of the legislature, Walter Harper,
 sent an item from Isadore Shapiro to the news department and that this
 was sent to the advertising depart
 ment and that the publisher of Mr. Glass paper telegraphed back that he
 would print the item if it was paid for. And it wasn't paid, and it wasn't
 printed This shows that instead of a press of information we have a press of transformation.
 "Oh, I know that the newspapers are all against me because I did not advertise during my campaign for city commis ssioner."
 1 In Ensley, while it poured down rain, Commissioner Barber, disdaining an umbrella as the raindrops proved a cooling solace to his fevered brow, repeated. his fervid attacks on Mir. | Glass. Finally the rain fell in such | a heavy downpour that he quit and went home On the telephone he later | informed an Age-Herald reporter that 1 it was entirely too wet and he would not speak at Pizitz's corner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26

Of the fact that the Mexican situa- ton is extremely serious. Washington was impressed Wednesday when the troopers at Fort Myer, just across the Potomac, were ordered somewhere on the front.
 Although the plans were not made known officially, when the early morn ing hour of departure arrived perhaps a thousand people were present to witness the proceedings. And there in all it's significance was presented the picture of American boys rushing, perhaps with out thought of concurrent danger, into the mouth of the cannon.
 And there were woman's tears, too, and baby's tears. For many of the troopers, just before mounting, swept their wives and infants into their arms and held them close as if impressed, for the first tinie-and then only in a fitting manner with the possibility of a parching death on the cactus desert of the far south.
 But old glory was unfurled, the band played Dixie" and the spectators sent up a proud huzzah. And, despite the tears, it was a brave spectacle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
NOT so MIGHTY NOW

Washington, March 25.-(Special) There are indications pointing to the fact that the manufacturers of armor plate who threatened to increase the price of their product if Congress enact ed the Tillman bill, providing for the
 construction of a government armor plate plant, are coming down from off their high horses"
 1 The Tillman bill by solid democratic vote, increased by the votes of nine republicans, passed the Senate and is now pending before the House-and pend- ing under the most favorable auspices. To the House committee on naval af- fairs, Eugene c. Grace. president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, has ad- dressed communication. He declares that not only will his corporation re- fran from increasing the price of it's product in the event of the passage of the Tillman bill, but that it will prom ise to reduce it's price to the govern
 ment if the Tillman bill is defeated. The significant paragraph of his address follows:
 ''The Bethlehem Steel company, alto
 gether aside from it's financial interests
 but recognizing it's obligation as citi- ! gen. in order that it's position may clear ly be understood, now formally submits the following proposition to the federal government:
 We will manufacture one-third, or such additional quantity as may be awarded to us of the armor plate required for the
 contemplated five-year naval programme
 (estlmated approximately at l20,OC0 tons)
 at price of s395 for side armor, as com pared with the price of $425 now obtain ing. The proposed price is lower than has been paid by the government for
 more than ten years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
Two Classes

From Judge.
 To the pedestrian, humanity seems to be divided into twh classes: The car lees and the careless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
There Used to Be a General Grim in the Army

and maybe he is there yet but no General Grim shall make his headquar- ters here.
 In many places in Ala bama, probably around this city, in the days of the Civil War, there was a considerable lot of pow der stored, and soldiers camped around it, on guard; but there are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
TROOPS ARE DEE

the moment of gravest emergency, into the Mexican interior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-26
BARBER HIMSELF
 ILLUSTRATES WHAT BARbER|SM MEANS Two Street Corner Talks Made Yesterday in Abuse
 of Things in General 
CORPORATIONS ARE
 HIS CHOICE MORSEL
Pays His Respects to Frank P. Glass. Rain Prevented the Speech Scheduled for Last
 Night
By RICHARD F. LUSSIER

l Commissioner Arlie Barber explained Barberism to mixed crowd in front
 of the Ledger building at noon yester- ] day, and later in the afternoon repeated | the performance in Ensley, although it poured down rain and he was drenched } to the skin His evening "tlirn' sched- uled for Pizitzs corner at o'clock last night was cancelled by his manager ow- | ing to the incemency of the weather. 1 Tine socialist member of the city com mission was in rare form yesterday at | noon and the fact that his automobile | from which he spoke was almost en- | tirely surrounded by an audience of gap | ing negroes he flung verbal defiance to
 the world and proclaimed himself the new Messiah-the leader of the masses. 1 It was a rare spectacle.
 | Although socialist and a member of
 the local organization of that party, Commissioner Barber avoided discussion l of the socaiistc doctrine. He foresaw that the slim portion of the toiling pro- i letariat he was addressing would hardly comprehend the subtleties of the Marxian | theory and he therefore restrained him. I self to the logical deduction that the 1 American press was subsidized through 1 the fact that it accepted paid advertis- ing. Incidentally his socalistic intuition informed him that the shiftless and the shirker have little love for the industries, so by facile twist of the tongue he
 attacked the corporations so courageous ly and with such logic that sey erai street gamins were impressed to the extent that they clapped their hands. How ever. these outbursts of applause encour- aged MT. Barber to such an extent that he finally advised the dear people not to read the newspapers as he would bring them the news.
 DID NOT EXPLAIN
 Just what was the occasion that called for his appearance at street to harangue a mixed crowd Commissioner Barber never did explain and the gathering mainly interested in the speaking because of the persistent rumor that delega- tion of citizens would present a gray squirrel to the commissioner of public safety after he terminated his address, forgot to ask until it was all over and the automobile that carried the new de- fender of the public veal had rolled off.
 Some who heard the entire speech of Commissioner Barber, argued that it was an attack on "Frankln Potts Glass;" as
 he called MT. Glass several hard names Others construed Mr Barbers remarks
 to mean that he, was opposed to the Sor rthern Bell Telephone, company. This inference was gathered through the per. sistence of MT. Barber in attacking the veracity of Col. w. T. Gentry of the telephone company, and Evelyn Harris, whom he called 'the man with wom- ans name. This particular witticism especially struck the fancy of the crowd and two negroes embarrassed MT. Bar Der with their guffaws for moment of two.
 ''Who is Franklin Potts Glass?" yelled Commissioner Barber.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-07

OF material If a matter OF prefer
ence. The circular bag without
seams il obviously the easiest 10
keep clean.
Stralning frames 10 hold the bags
are not expensive. and they save
nervous housekeeper many a fret.
fUl minute on a hot and hurried
day These frames can be attached
10 table OF a chair back, and the
fruit suspended to drip over night.
Mixed JelIles
Combinations OF fruits arc made
for the purpose OF mixing pectin and
fruit acids In Jelly making proper
tons Among those which have b.eZ
tested and proved are equal paris
OF raspberries and currants. plums
and crab.apples, raspberry Juice
and apple juice. apple and cranberry
Juice, and pineapple and grape jgice
The Detroit times., 1916-08-07
These Furs Are Now
Ready for Exhibition

And we invite our fair clientele to come
and see them and make advance selections
leges noted above).
1t is with an idea of genuine service to our
customers that this August Fur Event is
presented. The reasons back of it are solid
and substantial.
Owning this large and finely selected stock
of furs at costs based on last winters quo
tations. we can offer them at prices that can
not again be duplicated.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-07

was not hard for me to step back
into my old Paula Newton charac-
ter, In fact, was finding It very
hard 10 step out OF it.
Il wish | could tell you how | en-
joyed that luncheon. II shows what
youth means. When | look back on
1t, think how irresponsible WAS.
And, Margie. | think more than any
other act did that meal with Horace
Chambers make me charitable.
Whenever see some rather
shabbily dressed girl dining at a
smart restaurant with a young man,
| remember an hour In the ronn
tea room when | forgot for snort
while that awful combination OF coal
gas. old plumbing and bad cooking
that had assailed my nostrils every
time had entered my boarding
house cannot blame any girl for
snatching a little pleasure OF that
kind.
ITO tell the truth. Margie, was
not thinking so much OF Horace
Chambers. as the excellence Of the
sweet bread salad and tiny rolls
Like the little animal was--every-
one Is under the crust of culture
was happy and would have been
almost as happy had been alone.
AT last | could fnd no excuse
for staying longer, so with a heavy
heart arose.
Now. I'll take you homo. said
Horace.
No. must answer another ad,'
said tremrlorsly.
"'Oh. say he exclaimed, ~ can't
be as bad as that
Ives, IL q. and worse I asserted.
Cant I help
You have. more than you know
Then come and lunch here with
me tomorrow
That would hurt. for already
have seen some OF the girls you
have bowed TO asking each other
who I am. When they find out I'm
a poor working girl there will be
gossip. II not scandal.
"Piffe'
My dear Mr. Chambers. 1t Is the
things we call pifne that make most
trouble in life. Thank you for a
lovely time. and goodbye