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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
lin Parking.

Jim Perkins runs barber shop. as
you all know. in Bultfrogs Hop. which
all Of us we patrnulzc-at least. all of
we sporty guys. Yep. EullSrog's HoI
is quite a place, and sets a mighty
rapid pace. Us sports are pretty wise,
you bet, for jim he takes the Cops,
Gazette, and then we get baseball
rheet. which makes us mighty hard to
beat in arguments about the game No,
BulIfrOgss Flop it amt SO tame. An
when il comes to dopin' the future oat
we'll, Jim's there, old scout The De-
ALFRED good to him: he says they'd
certainly win out in 1917. ihout q
doubt, and make the other teams look
treak. only their outfeIds SO derned
weak!
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
ST.ANS5URY RESIGNS
AS Athletic Director Of the West
Virginia Wesleyan College
Teams.
Teams.

& BUCKHANNON, Dec. 15.-H. a.
.Stansbury for the last two years
athletics at the Institution, presented
Wesleyan College and for several
years previous general manager of
.othletfcs the institution, presented
his formal resignation 70 President
Thursday to take eject Jan
uary 4. Stansbury will go into the
service Of a prominent West Virginia
corporation and retires permanently
from athletics. Milo Will succeed
him Is not announced but it is known
that his successor has been practical
ly agreed upon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
Snrrnnnt nriecnlI-

Sergeant .Jem DriscoII. OF the Royal
WEIGH Horse-such. at last report
was the military status OF the most
popular little boxer england has had
in mnny years The Welchn1an has
many friends on this side or tho At
lantic. for no other British fighter who
has visited America in years has been
so well liked lem joined the Welsh
Horse regiment in December. 1914, and
has seen quite a bit of service. but he
has been permitted to return TO Eng
land occasionally to box at benefits
He was born in Cardiff, Wales. thirty
six years ago today. December 10. 1880
and has been fighting in the ring for
fifteen years. He made his first trip
across the pond i'll 1908. and fought
several battles in New York. Boston
md Philadelphia. His showing against
such good men ms Matty Baldwin,
Leach Cross md Abe Attell won the
admiration OF the fans. and his likable
personality added TO the good impress
sion. Driscoll is little chap for a
soldier. standing only about i've feet
four and one-halt inches.
If.
If baseball scribes should seek 10
emulate the official accounts OF battles,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
WESTON HGH
Quintet Meets ST. Mary's High
Five on st. Mary's Floor
This Evening.

The basketball fans or the city
have but one opportunity to witness
a basketball game this evening and
that Is the game to be played at the
st. Mary's high school gymnasium on
East Pike street when the fast Wes-
ton high school team will meet the
st. Mary's high i've.
Weston high looks to be the best
bet to win the game but the Saints
are playing fast snappy game at
present and Will make the Weston
boys go some to win by much OF a
score. The game promises to be a
fast clean one.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
ST. MARY'S QUINTET
TRIMMED 81 GRAF ON
Players from All Grafton Teams
but Representing ST.
Augustine School.

The st. Mary's high school basket
ball team met defeat at the hands of
the Grafton independents IN rough
and tumble game played on the st.
Augustine high school floor by a
score OF 81 to is.
The st. Mary's team played and
defeated the st. Augustine team in a
game on the local floor IA week age. by5i
a5score. OF ~ to Q. The game last5nightl
was to have been between the same
teams but when the ST. Mary's boys!
appeared on the floor for the game
four fellows who are not in school,
at all we're run in against them. Two
We're from the Grafton high school
team, one from the Grafton Young
Mems Christian Association team and
one man who worked in the railroad
machine shops. The ST Mary's team
was equal to the Grafton team with
all the new men substituted until the
work of Referee George Russian be-
gan TO show. If Russian knows any
basketball lie certainly did not show
it last night. He never called a sim.
gle personal foul in the entire game
and the game was one of the toughest
ever played on any floor.
II a capable referee had been in
charge ofthc game not single mem
her of either team would have been
i.ellgihle to play after ten minutes OF
the first hair. AT one time the Graf
/ ton team had six play ers on the floor
| and all#playing against the st. Mary's.
[ five. Ittooks spectators and the man
/ ager of the Grafton team55three min
lutes to get the referee to stop the
! game SO one OF the extra men could
!be taken off the floor
/ In the latter part or the game,
when one of the Grafton players was
forced to retire from the game, a
Imam working at one Of the glass
plants was sent In as a substitute.
The Grafton manager offered to
/ produce the schools register to show
/ that all the players were in school,
when one of the scholars at he school
STEPPED up and told the truth. He
told where every man on the team
Ist. Mary's Grafton
Forward.
Stanton Waters
4 Forward,
Martin Clark
Center.
Murray ..4. 1880. Barlow
/ Onestingle .s.5.... Cooke
Guard.
Substitutions: st. Mary's Murray
il for Martin: Farrell for Murray.
q Grafton: Pendergast for Cooke: My
ers for Waters. Field goals: st.
\ Niary's. Kicker 3, Stanton /. Martin i.
4 Murray 2. Grafton: Huston s.
Waters q, Clark g. Pendergast 1.
n Foul goals: ST. Mary's, Kicker a
.lsout OF 6 chances. Grafton: Huston
out OF 3. Waters 1 out Of Clark
i out OF 4, Cooke out OF A. Ref
cree G.. Huston. Timekeener:
il 7onkins. Time OF halves. 20 minute.
each.
II The worlds best cork comes from
Snanish and Portuguese trees that arr
allowed to become forty years old be
n fore the bark tfst cut. and then it 81
sIremoYed only every eight or ten years
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
RAISE COR Sailors
Is Recommended TO the House
Committee by Secretary
Joseph Daniels.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-An in
crease of SIS month in the pay Of
every enlisted man in the navy has
been recommended by Secretary Dam
.iels to the House naval committee.
1t would add 100000 a year to the
payroll. but the secretary declared pay
increases in the navy had not equalled
those outside and that the enlisted men
were being called upon constantly to
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
NEW COMPANY.

The Modern Sign Company is one
of Clarksburg's newest business ven
lures. The Office and workshop are
located In the Greaney building.
The company is equipped to do any
kind Of show card writing, lettering
or sign painting Merchants and
business Elen will find the two young
men composing this company very
sobligiag and courteous. and ready to
do anything in their line with neat
ness and dispatch.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
Secretary OF Labor Wilson began
his career as a coal digger.

- ------ -----
the Collegans.
Although Peck plays center on the
the Pitt football team lie is fast all
around athlete and is some basket
ball player.
The st. Mary's team will be COM
posed Of the best basketball players
available in this district and n hard
effort will be made to whip team.
into shape between now and HVednes-
day to be able to make a good show
ing against the fast Pittsburgers, II
not defeat them.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

All the baseball poets are hoping
that Mathewson will hold his job for
ever. because Matty and Cinclnnaty.
make such bully rhyme.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

Cincinnati and milwaukee, didn't do
very well in baseball this year. but
they are there With the bells on ii. the
Sknt League.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

Angie Rather, the fast young New
York niddIeweight, looks like one Of
the most promising fighters in the
class and is making rapid strides to-
ward the middIeweight champion
ship. He has met and defeated
Marty Cross. Silent Martin. Albert
Badoud, Pat Bradley, Tommy Rob
son, Tex Kelly and other tough boys
in the department Jimmy Johnston,
Ratner's manager. says that he has
Augie hot on the heels Of every 100
FOUNDER and will soon have them all
thrust aside.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
INGREAsE ANNOUNCED.

PORT ARTHUR, Tex, Dec. s..
The Gulf Refining Company has an
nounced an increase of wages, eff
.fective December 16, OF thirty cents
daily for white and twenty cents
daily for negro employees.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
GronchY Gms Snrs-

II you must waste your money in
rtotous giving at least get something
appropriate. For bnIl player or Hot
stove fan, some little article made or
bone.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

a trade journal says that straw hats
will be almost double in price next.
year. Used up most OF the straw in
the United States straw voting,
y'unlerstand.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

~ boxer has to carry. a big stock OF
assorted alLbis In stock, but bail
player needs only one--the ump.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
A FINE TREATMENT
FOR CATARRH

EASY TO MAIZE AND COSTS LITTLE
Catarrh is such al insidious disease
and has become so prevalent during
the past few years that Its treatment
should he understood by all.
Science has fully proved that Catarrh
is a constitutional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treat
nent Sprays, inhalers, snlves and
nose douches seldom IL ever. give last
Ing benefit and often drive the disease.
further down the air passages and into
the lungs.
II you have Catarrh or CatarrhaI
deafness or head noises. go to your
druggist and get one ounce OF Parnint
Double strength>. Take this home
and add TO It IA pint of hot water and
four ounces of graduated sugar; str
until dissolved. take one tablespoonful
4 times day
This will often bring quick relief
from the distressing head-noises, clog
/ ged nostrils should open, breathing
5eco 7e easy and mucus stop dropping
into the throat.
This trea tent has slight tonic
action which makes it especially effec-
tice IN cases where the blood has be-
come thin and weak. 1t Is easy to
make, tastes pleasant and costs little.
/ Every person who wishes to be free
from this destructive disease should
! give this treatment a trial.-AdYertise
mcnt.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

French chemists have DISCOVERIES
ers with aluminium paint win pre-.
vent the accumulation of deposits thai
often come from hard water.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

An umpire Is never really what You
might call popular until he is dead
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

See that a college astronomer has
discovered a new young star. Stealing
Connie Mack's stuff
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

do more and more efficient work.
Enlistments are on the increase, MT.
Daniels said. He disapproved OF a pro-
posal for a bonus to stimulate the en-
listment campaign.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15
The Champs solilonur.

] love my deal title, the pride OF my
days,
And Il l don't risk It I'll koop ii al
ways;
So shall not light DER tho long dfs-
tance route
When coins TO BIO had for a short, oasy
bout.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-15

The worlds best cork comes from
Snanish and Portuguese trees that are
allowed to become forty years old be
fore the bark is cut. and then It IS
removed only every eight or ten years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-11
ASKED ID EXPLAIN
 ATTACK ON TANKER Note Sent to Austria Re-
 garding Petrolite Case ACTIVE IN BALKANS
Around Dvinsk May Indicate Movements of Moment--Germans Continue to Hammer at the
 French Lines in West

Washington, February 1O-Secretary Lansing announced today that he had sent to the Austro- Hungarian government through Amba ssador Penfield dispatch asking for an investigation and an ex- planation of the attack by an Austrian supbmarine on the American tanker Pe- trolite.
 The Secretary said that published state ments that demands had been made upon the Vienna government were mot true,'' but it was within the possibilities that de- mands of some sort might be made in the future should the investigation and ex- planation asked warrant them.
 The Secretary's dispatch called atten- tion to affidavts from members of the crew of the Petrolite and to information from other sources to the effect that the ship was stopped in the Mediterranean near Alexandria by an Austrian subma- rine, which fired upon her and wounded one man in her engine room.
 The submarine commander asked for loou' WhicH CdpldiH IHoIlpsoH or the Petro'ite refused. He thereupon sent a boarding party on the American ship and removed one American member of her crew, who was held as hostage while the Austrans took the food they re- quired from the Petrolites stores
 Novel questions are involved War ships, under certain stress. may take food
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-11
NEEDS OF NATION
 TOLD BY WILSON
Speaks Before United States
 Chamber of Commerce
IS TIME TO GET BUSY
Merchant Marine and Tariff Board Among Things Mentioned-Holding Trouble at Arms Length-Greet-
 ed With Tumultuous Applause

Washington, February 1o.-President Wilson told the Chamber of Commerce of the United States tonight that Amer 1ca needed a real scientific tariff board and he thought it was going to get it: that it needed real merchant marine and that it was absolutely necessary some beginning should be made at once to get that, too; and that had it not been for the effectiveness of the federal re- serve law as business preparedness measure there was no telling what com- mercial disaster would have overwhelmed the United States with the present war. Of the prospect for keeping the country at peace, he said that while no imme- diate international crisis faced the na- ton we are merely holding trouble at arms length.'
 The Presidents reference to the tariff board and the merchant marine were greeted with tumultuous applause by members of the chamber and their friends at a dinner closing the organization western tour also evoked a demonstra- tion.
 NOT AFRAID OF HISTORY
 'I am not afraid" he said, ''of the slow verdict of history with regard to the neutrality of the United States. and T believe we are justified in exercising every degree of patience in making clear what our position is and how sincerely
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-11

in whispered conversation with Sem ator Bryan of Florida.
 When the two senators subsequently joined in more or less boisterous laugh ter. all others demanded the cause Sem ator Maritime pointed to the picture in question. It was that of an alluring type of woman, lying prone on a beach, cov- cred to her hips with soft sand. A dog ing to relieve the willing prisoner of her warm and tantalizing burden
 T was suggesting, said Senator Mar tine, that Alabama had stopped short of its duty. It should have insisted that other il1ustratio in life be smudged over.''
 MAY COME LATER
 Judge Weakley replied that, 'all evils could not be eradicated in one season, '' and those who heard gathered the inti- nation that very soon the prohibitionists culated in Alabama
 The senators were apparently more in terested in hearing the provisions of the Alabama statute than in the provisions of the bill to which their attention had been invited. When Judge Weakley told or the amount of liquor which an Ala bamian, under the cloak of the law, can secure by order, Senator Maritime declared that you are more liberal than I thought you were Senator Weeks desired to know of Senator Maritime the amount of liquor an adult could comfortably con- sume within the space of a month. Sen ator Maritime replied that he could an swer for the citizens of New Jersey, but that he was not familiar with the ca
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-11
Mirth Marks Hearing
 of PrOhi Commissioners
Appear Before Senate Committee Urge Denial Mails Alabama to Publications Carrying Liquor Advertisements Copy of Life Figures Largely in Hearing-More
 ested in Statute Than in Proposed Bill

Washington. February 10.-tSpecial. )--An able legal argument by S. D. Weakley of Birmingham, punctuated by various bits of laugh-producing pleasantly, featured the appearance this morning before the Senate committee of the prohibition com missioners of Alabama.
 In urging the passage of a bill denying mails to newspapers and magazines con- taining liquor advertisements, Judge Wealkley pleaded in effect for the removal by Congress of ingeniously devised temp tations calculated to seduce By innu- merable decisions of the supreme court he attempted to, and did, to the satis- faction of the other commissioners, sus- tain his point that it was not establishing a precedent to deny the mails to 'out- side criminals who would break down the law and disrupt the sentiment of the state"
 Of the 16 members of the committee the following heard in part the argument of Judge Weakley Banlkhead of Alabama, Swanson of Virginia, Bryan of Florida, Maritime of New Jersey, yardaman of Mississippi. Beckham of Kentucky, Weeks of Massachusetts and Smith of South Carolina
 DIDN'T GO FAR ENOUGH
 During the argument Judge weakley distributed copies of Life, containing smudged-over liquor advertisements to illustrate the treatment accorded by Ala bama to those incoming periodicals which did not eschew the liquor traffic.
 While the senators were deeply inter- ested in viewing the effect of the Ala bama statute, Senator Maritime pointed to the front of the magazine and engaged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-11
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD
Garrison resigns.
 MI .a ic T. txt ls,sa q

1-Secretary Garrison resigns.
 Majority leader shelved
 Mirth marks prohi hearing
 Virtual blockade of American ports
 in prospect.
 Asked to explain on tanker.
 Won Papen letter written by Roh.
 Subsidy clause question at issue. 2-Franchse taxes for entire year. 3-Holland letter 4-Editorial comment. 5-Clark points out problem involved. Campaign closed for Jewish relief.
 Commission views new school sites.
 Senator Burton to speak tonight. 6-Women's page. 7--Wilson- Garrison correspondence S--Sports. 9--Debate on wage increase is warm.  la-suffragists meet at Gadsden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-11
NOT ENTITLED TO
 ENTER PORTS BUT
 ONCE IN 6 MONTHS
If America Can Afford to Exclude Vessels, Allies Can Afford to Send in Only Enough to Move Their Products

Washington, February lO.-Germany and Austria have formally notified the United States that beginning March 1 commanders of their submarines will consider armed merchant ships of the entente allies to be warships and will treat them accordingly.
 Under such instructions ommanders would be at liberty to sink without warning any armed vessel, whether passenger or freight carrying.
 The notifications were presented orally to Secretary Lansing by Count Won Bernstorff and Baron Erish Zwiednek, charge of the Austro- Hungarian embassy here.
 Notes from their governments are to follow.
 The intention of the Teutonic allies is considered in official and diplomatic cir cles here to be development of the memorandum proposing the disarming of merchant ships, which Secretary Lansing recently sent to the entente powers.
 FUNDAMENTALS RECOGNIZED
 High officials of the state department seemed disposed to consider the develop that the fundamental questions involved in the conduct of submarine warfare have been settled in accordance with the contentious of the United States This is based on belief that with Germany and Austria giving notice that they will sink without warning all armed ships, the two governments cannot legally claim the right to sink unarmed vessels. That is the principle for which the United States has so vigorously contended since the beginning of the negotiations over the conduct of submarine warfare
 In view of this situation American citi- zens, it is stated by high authority, now may be warned that they will take pas sage aboard armed merchant ships at their own risk and be entitled to no more protection from the United States than if they had embarked upon a bel ligerent warship. Officials today seemed not to be able to conceive that any issue could arise in the future from a sub- marine warfare conducted under these rules.
 IHo CIeFIIldH dfnDdSSaQOf ana the Aus trian charge informed Secretary Lansing of the intention of their respective gov- ernments after they had received by wire less a dispatch of which the following is represented as being parapnrase: The German and Austrian govern ments will instruct the commanders of their war vessels that from the end of this month they are to regard armed merchant ships of the enemy as auxiliary cruisers Notice to this effect will be sent to all neutral governments Please so inform MT. Lansing Immediately
 CHANGE TO DISARM
 It was said in Teutonic diplomatic cir cles that the effective date of the in- structions was postponed in order to give enemy merchant ships an opportunity to dsarm and so that the entente allies
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-11
SUBSIDY CLAUSE
 IS POINT AT ISSUE
Hearings Begin on Govern
 ment Shipping Bill
TWO OPPOSITE VIEWS
Secretary Redfield Advocates Passage of Bill as Drawn, While w. H. Douglas Favors Subsidies Rather
 Than Government Operation

Washington February 10.-Whether the administration ship purchase bill shall stand as drawn, or have written into it a subsidy clause and time limit on government operation of merchantmen, is the big issue on the measure which was put up to the merchant marine commit tee of the House today at the opening hearing on the proposed legislation.
 Representing opposite views were Secre- tary Redfeld of the department of com merce, who indosed the measure as in- troduced, and w. H. Douglas, chairman of the merchant marine committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce, who insisted that the country wanted private lines subsidized rather than government operation of shipping.
 NEED NEVER GREATER
 MT. Redfield told the committee the need for an American merchant marine never had been so great as now, that foreign companies were discriminating against American merchants both by increasing rates and refusing to handle their goods He urged especially that the bill should be enacted into law speedily so that con
 
 proposed appropriation might be let as quickly as possible. At best, under the present conditions, he said, it was doubt full if any new vessels could be obtained before the end of 1917.
 Mir Douglas declared there was a deep- rooted feeling against the government en- tering the shipping business, but that subsidy and subvention plan would have the hearty cooperation of shippers and would result in an immediate restoration of the American flag to the seas. He sug- gested a time limit of five years on government operation of any ships to be bought.
 Sharp exchanges between Chairman Alexander and Representative Hardy and MT. Douglas followed an assertion by MT. Douglas that public sympathy was not with the bill. Chairman Alexander questioned the authenticity of referen- dunn reports of commercial organizations against the measure submitted by the witness. It was suggested that they did not represent a canvass of all the mem- bers of the organizations but were drawn in many cases by subcommittees opposed to the measure.
 MT. Douglas had said that reports from more than two-thirds of the Chamber of Commerce units in the United States showed a vote of 69O to S9 against gov ernment operation of ships. while pro- posal to subsidize private lines was fa- vored 713 to 52
 Secretary Redfield told the committee
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