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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06
Party Lines Never in His
tory so Frankly and Brut-
ally Disregarded as in
This Good Year
EMPIRE STATE MAY
EASILY CAST VOTE
ON THE LOSING SIDE
Situation Makes 1t Possible
for Landslide to Develop
With the Smashing of All
Advance Forecasts

Washington, November 5.
Especial. )-There has never
been an election for the
presidency in this country
that presented to the fore
caster as many and distract
ing problems as the one to be
held Tuesday.
There have never before been IS
lnany normally republican strong
holds in danger of being overturned
by the democracy; there have never
been-with the democratic party
standing any show whatever of carry
ing the country--as many normally
democratic states in danger of going
to the republicans.
There have never been conditions that
would surely bring thousands of lifelong
there have never before been conditions
that insured thousands of democratic
voters for the republican nominee Such
is the situation politically on the very
eve of a hard fought national election.
To the democratic mind 1t is almost in
conceivable that Ohio Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and even Michigan are in
such lhsues of political chaos that even
the mo1L partisan republican will admit
r.... uoubt as to which way they
will go--and at the same time Indiana,
Missouri, Nebraska and other states
which have always been reasonable bat
Ting ground for the democracy, appear
to lean toward the republican candidate.
BRUTALLY DISREGARD LINES
Never before have party lines and party
utilization been SO brutally and frankly
disregarded; never before has the inde-
pendent voter played SO prominent a
part in the destiny of the country
Ordinarily all eyes would be turned
on the Empire State-with its As electoral
votes, New York in the past has been
the decisive factor--with the exception of
course of 1912, which should not count
But this is not true today. Wilson can
lose New York and win. Hughes can
lose New York and win In fact, while
the winner of the election may carry
New York, it should not BIS surprising
if the candidate who wins the As votes Of
New Work would lose the election.
NEW YORK is HAY
Not to be outdone by other states New
y ork itself presents for analysis one
OF the haziest problems in the lot After
one listens to the claims of the rival
managers and the partisan leaders OF
both sides, and has been told by each
and every one of them that New York
is sure to go for Hughes, or Wilson,
as the case may be. then after he has
scanned the straw vote tables of the
Herald and the American and endeav-
CONTINUED ON Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06
|CREW OF DEUTSCHLAND
FEAST AT BOTTOM OF SEA
WHILE SUBMARINERESTS
British Warship Tries to Lure Him Into Fight
Takes Dive to Escape and Submarine Stands On
Head With Screw Above Surface Making Fine
Target
Swiftly
BY CAPT. pArL KoENIG

fSeiow is tiie, second instaEmept Of
Capt. Paul Koenigs personal MARIA
tive of the voyage Of the submarine
liner Deutschland from Bremen to
Baltimore and back. The first INSTALL
ment, printed In The Age-Herald yes
terday, told how Captain Koenlg had
been called to take charge of the
craft the preliminary tests and the
beginning of the voyage. In the North
Sea a storm had been encountered,
and trap laid by supposedly neu-
trail ship had been defeated.
Early we learned the necessity of hav-
ing the great boat always firmly in
hand. 1 had decided, on a night, that
merged In the dusk we went under the
surface as the sea ran high, with prom
Use that within few hours the wind
would grow into a storm.
About o'clock gave orders to rise.
AS we came up, the boat plunged wildly,
so that knew the storm was there and
that we were coming to a still wilder
sea. We emptied our tanks and reached
the surface orderly enough. At peri
scope depth" l tried to look about me-
but every second or so the periscope
would bury it's nose beneath a billow that
in the dawn and through the glass
seemed bigger and more unreal than it
really was, perhaps.
Finally, at thes urface, l mounted the
coming tower to get a true view of
the wild, dancing seas. Fine weather.!
All around was cauldron of pillows,
playthings of the gale that blew their
crests into foam and sent them whip
ping through the air. The boat worked
hard; it was fight The deck was
awash, of course. Sea after sea beat and
broke against the tower, flying past
like rain / held desperately to the edge
of the tower.
DIVES IN A HURRY
Just as made ready to order the oil
engines. instead of the e. engines, put
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06
BATTLER
REPORTED TO HAVE
BEEN HIT BY MINE
Germany Reports One of the Largest
OF the Slav Dreadnaughts Have
Been Disabled in Sea of
Finland

Berlin. November 4.-(via Sayville.)
1t is reported unofficially that the
Russian battleship Sevastopol struck
a mine several days ago and was bad
ly damaged.
The report was received today by
the Overseas News agency from Stock
holm According to this information q
Swedish merchant, who has just re-
turned from trip through Russia and
Finland, says the Sevastopol struck a
mine eight days ago and was partly
destroyed.
The dreadnaught Sevastopol is one of
the most powerful vessels of the Rus
sian navy. She was laid down in 1911
and displaced $4,000 tons. Her main
armament consists of IL 12-inch guns.
She also has 16 4.7-inch calibre guns,
four three-pounders and four torpedo
tubes. She is $50 feet long
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06
Mahon Succeeds Maxwell

London. November Sit is officially
announced that Lient Gen. Bryan 4.
Mahon, commander of the British forces
on the western frontier il. Egypt. has
been appointed to succeed Maj. Gen. Sir
John Maxwell as commander of the
forces in Ireland. General Maxwell is
appointed commander in chief OF the
northern command in England 1t is
also announced officially that Gen. Sir
f. Reginald Wingate. sirdar of the
Egyptian army, has been appointed
high commander for Egypt, in success
sion to Lieut.. Col. Sir Arthur Henry
MacMahon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06
BY REUBEN A. LEWIS

Thirty persisted in the Bessie mine disaster.
Sixteen miners with life extinct have been removed from the
dank passages of the mne and rescuers though satisfied
that the deadly black damp has exacted its narrowing toll
og reach the other victims In the far remote passages
the aerdamp checking the advances Of the who seek
ing TO locate the entombed miners
The little mining settlement preparing to commit the bodies
the victims with last rites to the earth The 16 who have
been withdrawn from the chambers of death White
Martin Jones' Lonnie Gray Fred Sharpe Dave Bray and Ray
mond Ramey Coored-Dura Davis Leroy Pearson Will Dob
bins Dumas, Charles Brown George Washington Amos
Ca
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06
Sheriff's Posse Attempts to
Prevent Landing of Radi-
Gals and Thousands of
Shots Are Exchanged
TROUBLE EXPECTED
BY THE AUTHORITIES;
REBELS ARE JAILED
Two Boatl0ads Of Industrial
Workers, Angered at Be
ing Refused Admittance
to Town, Start Battle

Everett, Wash, November 5.
At least six men were killed
and 40 others were wounded
today in a fight at the Everett
city wharf between $50 mem
bers Of the Industrial Workers
Of the World, who came here
from Seattle on the Steamer
Verona, and a posse Of $50 citi-
zens headed by Sheriff Don
McRae. Sheriff McRae is
among the seriously wounded.
The casualties among the citizens
posse were: c. 0. Curtis, former Ma
tional Guard lieutenant, killed.
Deputy Sheriff Jeff Beard, James
Broadhurst and E. Beuhrer, high
school engineer, and Harry Blackburn,
dangerously wounded.
Joseph Irving, ST., wealthy lum-
herman; Sheriff Donald McRea, r. E..
Brown, Lewis Conner, Owen Clay,
Fred Barr, A. J. Etteborough, Athol
Gorrell, University of Washington
student; James Maher, Lee Maquist,
J.. c. Rymer, E. Stuchell, Jr., and
Charles Tooker received less serious
bullet wounds.
REACHED THE CITY
The Verona reached Everett short
ly before 2 o'clock The coming of
the party of invaders had been an
nounced in messages sent to Everett
from Seattle headquarters. A call to
Industrial Workers of the World mem
bers from all over the state had been
issued earlier in the week and the
citizens of Everett at a meeting held
Saturday night planned to meet the
invaders and deny them privilege Of
landing.
When the Verona reached the city
wharf Sheriff McRae, who was backed
by posse of deputy sheriffs and cit
liens, informed the men on the boat
that they would not be permitted to
land. One of the men, evidently spokes-
man for the party, began arguing with
the sheriff and then made speech
THE SHOOTING STARTS
Apparently as a signal, the man
dropped his hand and armed men on
the steamer opened fire on the posse.
The first man to fall was Sheriff Nc
Rae seriously injured. One man was
killed instantly and in a moment the
crowd on shore was panic-stricke en-
Deputy sheriffs on the wharf quick
~ rallied their forces, however, and
returned the fire of the. invaders on
the Verona.
Men on the wharf and on the boat
were seen to fall and the Verona i'm
mediately backed out of the dock and
started back toward Seattle.
The trouble between the Industrial
Workers of the World and the au-
thorities at Everett has been on for
several months and was the outgrowth
oil a strike of single weavers here.
After several minor outbreaks of vio-
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06

Entombed by the explosion and
claimed by afterdamp are: White,
Clint Hubbard, Otis Glover and Glenn
Woods; colored, Toilet Pearson, Dave
Wilburn, George Brown, Will Latimer,
John Giles, Sam Taylor, w. Stallings,
Jim Moore, Munroe Clark and Tom
Elias. These miners were killed while
engaged in underwriting coal in the
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth
entries.
At 1 o'clock Sunday morning the
body of Fred Sharpe was brought from
the slope, near the twelfth entry, to
be placed in the rude washhouse that
was converted into morgue for the
victims. The afterdamp that remained
in the farther remote passages crushed
all hopes that had been nurtured that
others might have shared the fate of
the eight men who survived the blast
and death dealing gases.
EXHAUSTED BY LABORS
Exhausted by their labors and vigil
that extended nearly 20 hours. the
crews Of first aid men decided to call
a halt in their search in the depths
and allowed sleep to lull them into
forgetfulness of the jumbled wreck
age, the gaping mouths of the mine
victims and the tear-stained faces of
the kin of the dead.
While these slept others worked in
an effort to extend the brattices with
fresh air that would drive from it's
hold the damp that had snuffed out
the lives of 20 men. With concrete and
sturdy materials these builders toiled
and at midnight had extended the air
containers to the fourteenth entry. 1t
was problematical as to when the shifts
of workers would flood the mine with
sufficient amount of air to allow the
aids to locate and bring to the sur
face the entombed men.
WENT DOWN MAIN SLOPE
At s o'clock last night rescuers.
provided with the generous tanks Of
oxygen that would permit them to
cope with the black damp, went down
the main slope and renewed their
task, At midnight the news was tele-
phoned from the mine that no bodies had
been located in the thirteenth and four
teenth entries, but that the victims were
in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth entries and the bottom of the pit.
Rescuers said that it would be after dawn
before they could withdraw them from
the passages in which death had lurlsed
on Saturday.
To view the Slope that gave into the
depths where disaster had held sway,
hundreds of people motored to Bes-
sic yesterday.
REMAINS AN ENIGMA
The day was without real develop
ment The cause of the disaster re-
mains an enigma. However, ii was es-
tablished that so men, instead of %,
persisted, for two more colored ma
chine runners-Dura Davis and Paul
Robinson--were added to the list of
victims. The former was identified as
one of the two bodies that were re-
moved from the mine Saturday morn
ing. The head or the unfortunate ne
gro was severed by the force of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06
SEE ELECTION RETURNS AT AGE-HERALD TOMORROW NIGHT
THIRTY WE'RE KILLED
IN THE BESSIE MINE
DISASTER SATURDAY

Sixteen Bodies Were Recovered Yesterday by the
Death Defying Courage of the Rescuers-No
Let Up in the Fight Against the Deadly After
damp to Recover Other Bodies Mining Set
Element Prepares For the GruesOme Task of
Burial-Are Grief-stricken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-06

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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-10
D. 7. FuHaWay Brings Little
Wasp He Believes Will De-
stroy the Melon Fly

Returning from q successful search
for parasites to extermirate the mel.
on-fly, D. T. Fullaway. field entomolo-
gfst for the board OF agriculture and
forestry. came back to Honolulu this
morning on the China Mail liner Chi
ma. He has been away since last July.
In appropriate containers Mr.. Full
laway brought to Honolulu 20 live
specimens OF species Of Opius, lit
tie wasp believed to be the ideal para
site TO kill off the melOn.fly. He also
brought good deal of material; wasps
in Immature stages. in addition 10
the mature Wasps. ,.:----. g:
In his search for melon-fl parasites,
Mr.. Fullaway visited the Philippines,
Singapore, Java and India. 1t was in
BahgaIore, in the state OF Mysore,
southern India; that he found the best
specimens OF the wasps he had been
looking over most OF the. Orient for.
II haven't named my new parasite
yet, he said this morning. II found
it, however, In India, Java, Singapore
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-10
NEWLY IMPORTED PARASITES
TO BENEFIT Melon CULTURE

and the other countries where
searched for other parasites which
might be used against the melon-fly. D,
While in Manila, where he spent
the last three months. Mr.. Fullaway
said he also discovered a parasite
whick may be OF great value in killing
off the leaf hopper now infesting the
territory. He has brought several
specimens Of the parasite here
Asked about war conditions and
the spirit OF unrest and rebellion
claimed to exist In India now Mr..
Fullaway said he had seen nothing
while he was there, for month and
a half. around last Christmas. TO in.
dictate that any revolution is immt
nent.
Everything seemed to be peaceful.
he said, "and I saw no signs of any
revolution or uprising He added
that il was necessary for him to show
his passport in the foreign countries
he visited Ny luggage was search
ed, and SOM times held at custom
houses. for while, hut was given
very fair treatment all around and
have nothing TO complain Of, he
said. .s t.s4..,. H.. r. 49,. =. =, -. -:
= AIr. Fullaway will at once start the
work of multiplying his parasites, and
liberating them around the islands
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-10
R. I. FRANCHISE BILL TO GOVERNOR;
Commission FINISHES IT'S DRAFT

! the draft as his company would not
stand fUr the limit" is wholly untrue.
IL might be Of interest 10 add that
! the Advertiser reporter (who draws a
salary as city and county treasurer)
| turned TO the writer and asked him
10 explain the difference between Gu
mulative dividends and compound in
terest' Later in the day he claimed
that a replacement fund which the
Public Utilities Commission proposed
to insert in the bill in order to keep
up for all time the service. was the
same thing as capital stock sinking
fund which had been eliminated,
While | am writing You. l take the
opportunity TO say that the trouble
with Mr.. Magoon's contention in Mon
days Star-Bullctin is that it lacks
facts to sustain II. The question he
proposes 10 submit TO the Supreme
Court is Cow before it, but without
facts to Sustain his contention, for
the simple reason that they do not ex-
list. For instance, Mr. Peck, at hear
ing before the Public Utilities Com
mission, three times forced Mr.. Ma
COON to admit: ~ that the franchise.
section II, authorizes the expenditure
OF income for extensions; ca that
every dollar of income which had been
spent for extensions had been divert
ed from dividends and from sinking
funds for stockholders. and that the
Territory never could, under. the
terms OF the franchise, participate In
one dollar Of it no more than in wages
to the inotormen: 80 that section 81
provides that stock can be issued for
the cost and Is per cent in excess
thereof of "all subsequent extensions"
i have always admired the extra
ordinary holiness of Mr.. Magoon II,
the face Of the most cogent facts. and
still am lost in admiration and Won
der. = -. IT
, It is a matter Of qualification to the
individual citizen to see a committee
of the Board of Supervisors, headed
by Judge Hatch, take up a large pro
position of this kind with intelligence
and care, know what they want, and
get everything they go after and
more than they expected, and per.
haps more than the Rapid Transit
stockholders would eventually con
cede.
DAVID L. WILMINGTON.
Honolulu, T. H., May 10, 1916. Il
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-10
Will BURN AUTO
TO SHOW PYRE'NE
EXTINGUISHERs

The Acetylene Light and Agency
Company, which is conducting the 10
cal fire prevention campaign, will set
fire to its Ford automobile in Palace
square tomorrow at 12:45 o'clock.
All business men, firemen, automc-
bile owners and others interested in
fire prevention will have an opportu.
nifty to see how an automobile burns
and also how gasoline fires can be
controlled by modern methods.
The fire prevention auto was seen
around the streets today, bearing a
notice to the effect that a dennonstra
ton will be given any time to anyone
who is Interested in the campaign
The public demonstration will afford
everyone an opportunity to see a
really serious fire and learn how to
control 1T. The private demOnstra-
tions will afford an opportunity for
individuals to learn in detail how best
to protect their property from fire.
Fifty-four cities in the United States
have equipped their fire departments
with Pyrene fire extinguishers, inehld-
ing New York, Boston, San francisco
and Los Angeles. The Harley David
son Motor Company OF Milwaukee
makes motorcycle for firemen which
is equipped to carry three Pyrenes,
and is now getting ready one that will
carry six. Geneva, Neb, has placed
these extinguishers in the home of
every fireman and publishes advertise
r1ients in the newspapers announcing
the fact and giving the address of
the firemen for the convenience of the
people living in the vicinity. .
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-10
ASHFORD 0BECIS
70 EASIEST Nay
NP0 O. c

Probe Of the police and police court
handling Of criminal cases may sc
forthcoming as soon as the territorial
grand jury is summoned into session.
II was reported from an anthorita-
tive source today that the grand jury
will be asked by the city attorneys
office to make an Investigation of the
cases OF soldiers who have been ar
rested by the police on criminal
charges and then turned over to the
military authorities for such action
as the latter may see fit.
Commenting on the situation today,
Judge Clarence w. Ashford of the
criminal division Of circuit court gave
the Star-Bulletin the following state.
ment:
t'Although the judges determined
quite recently to let matters lie for
the present, and attempt no jury work
yet with the multiplicity of serious
crimes in the community, the wisdom
of further following a .do-nothing'
course. especially in the criminal law
division, is becoming more and more
open to serious question.
'For months past serious felonies
have been disposed of in the district
court by reducing the charges involv-
ed to misdemeanor charges, accepting
pleas of guilty and imposing Jail SEN
fences.
1T must be manifest to any think.
ing person that the civil courts can
not be expected to abdicate their Grim.
hal jurisdiction over the soldiers in
our midst"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-10
AID CLUB TAKES
Up KAMEHAMEHA
DAY AND PLANS
Matter of Obtaining Best Re-
suits During Celebration is
Fully Discussed

Charley Chaplain receives the
largest salary Of any man in the Unit
ed. States. Sears, Roebuck have the
largest mail order business in Amer,
ica," said l.. Van Andersen, an ad
yertising expert in a talk today before
the members of the Ad Club at their
weekly luncheon at the Young hotel.
This Is an example OF amusement,
bargains and advertising. II Honolulu
merchants want large crowd here on
Kamehameha Day, they must let the
people know about IL. Advertise.
Whoop it up. Get the brass band
effects. That is what the circus uses
when they want to draw a crowd and
they get results. IT,. .. ..... ..~
Every merchant in Honolulu
should have a display advertisement
in the newspapers Sunday. and Mon
day. Let the people in the outlying
districts know that you have. some
thing they want Make this week a
week OF bargains and you will reap
the benefits With amusements and
bargains the people will come. The
next thing is TO advertise.
start the week with Dollar Day
in which the merchandise you carry
will be sold for that amount. Some
merchants may make il a Ten Dollar
Day. Follow along with a Hawaii
Day, featuring the things that are
made here in Hawaii. A Dress Up
Day Is another feature that will bring
results.
Everyone of these features will at
- cf
for the merchant.
with a week OF features properly
advertised, you should shout it to
the house tops, you will create new
business, help the trade that Is COM
ing with the arrival of the visitors,
and in addition, establish your name
with the people who have been salts
fed.
President Wallace r. harrington in
a few words, told the members of
plans that had been suggested for
Kamehameha Day, and urged all to
work together in making the day a
big success from every standpoint
He asked the members to support the
committee now arranging for a ball
on Maybe, which will be given to
raise funds for Kamehameha Day.
President Harrington also read a
letter from Senator Warren G. Hard
ing of Ohio, who is well known in
Honolulu.
Plans were discussed regarding the
convention OF Advertising clubs which
win be. held IN Philadelphia this year.
John Martin was appointed COM
mittee Of one to represent the Ad
Club at the Kakaako Mission on
Mothers Day. The AID Club also yot
ed to give its moral support TO the
exhibition of pictures to be given by
r. J. Baker at the Hawaiian Opera
House May II and 13. Special musi-
cal features were furnished by the
Hawaiian News Company.