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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-23
Three Miles of Comfortable
Dugouts Lost to the Ger
mans by Artillery Fire ;.
BOYS IN TRENCHES
WEARING OVERCOATS
Curtain = e Starts Suddenly and
With : ~ Minutes the Ger
@$ Have Been Routed.
- ighting Weather
FREDERICK PALMER

o q Front in France, october 81.
z q ,ndon. october 22)-with the
s of fighting weather the Brit
ism sumed the offensive on larger
scale this afternoon and turned on big
gun fire and sent in enough troops to
make progress. There was the most
important attacks for three weeks.
All this month Regina trench has
been developing a sinister reputation.
1t joins onto the old first line forth
fications in the neighborhood of Thiep-
val and anything in that region will
become comfortable dugouts. A British
soldier said:
with winter coming on we feel the
need of those deep, snug dugouts the
Germans spent so much time in build
ing"
Parties of the British got possess
sion of portions of the Regina trench
on several occasions, but the Germans
swarmed in front of their bureaus and
repulsed the invaders. Evidently Re-
gina trench was not to be taken by
IN such case there was nothing to
do but wait till clear weather when
the gunners can see what they are
doing and turn on number of artil-
lery curtain fire.
Today a set gunners smile was on
the face of the whole army. Instead
of rain and mist making a gunner
bane of low visibility, an almost win
try sun was shining in crystal clear
air-literally an artillery mans heav-
en-. All the gun tribe necessary for the
job were UP and in position already
waiting for such a day as this, when
the eyes that see for them from the
observation posts can tell whether the
practice shells they leisurely fire are
on the target which they are to paste
as fast as they can on the signal be-
ing given for the concert to begin.
When tl,e- ssssne a,;nd Of weather con-
tinued today staff officers who arrange
these affairs said: This is moving
day for the Germans in Regina
trench
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-23
SOME G. O. P. FIGURES

To counteract the foregoing, there
reaches Washington correspondents to-
day a tabulation prepared by ex-Sena-
tor Thomas Bourne, who formerly rep
resented the staAe of oregon. but who
now is a ltesident of and property own
er in Baldwin county, Alabama.
Senator Bourne declares that he has
completed canvass of 1900 news
paper editors publishing newspapers in
the so-called doubtful states of the
union-that is, all states save those in
cluded in the solid south" As a re-
suit of the expressed opinions of the
1900 observers of conditions and cur
rent events. Senator Bourne declares
that he is justified in predicting tie
election of Mr.. Hughes in Landslide"
William r. Wilcox, chairman of the
republican national committee, may
not believe that Landslide in the in
terest of Mr.. Hughes is under way.
But he is confident. And he believes
that results in Maine and New Jersey
and chaotic situation in Massachus-
q tG urn CT ff3rn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-23
ONE CORRESPONDENT
PREDICTS OHIO WILL
BE SWEPT TO WILSON
Democrats Are Persuaded
That There Will Be a
Landslide" to Wilson
on Election Day
by HUGH w. ROBERTS

Washington. October 22.-(special)
What is the political situation?
Democrats are prepared to state with
reason that Mr. Wilson will be re-
elected in a landslide" Republicans
bolster up their claim of victory with
apparently tenable theories.
Today, for instance, the staff COR
respondent of the Washingt ton Post
republican,, concludes his special dis
patch from Columbus. o.: Were the
election tomorrow. this writer would
unqualifedly predict that Wilson would
carry this state by large margin
And just previously he had remarked
that the Mark Hanna" taetics--that is
money persuasion" would be adopted
in Ohio From that dispatch one judges
that the democrats have an excellent
chance to carry the Buckeye Sate--and
iii the Buckeye state, why not all nor
mally republican states?
The sun., 1916-01-23

Argentina. Brazil and Chile-the famous A. B.
c. Powers-total $4,000 men and include ak
combined regular armies Of these republics con-
tain rs. 900 men. only 10000 short OF our own
Tho lines upon which the Pan-American
alliance might enlist all these troops I'm the same
cause were laid down by President Wilson In
his address to the conference on January Q.
somewhat az follows:
A guarantee Of political independence and
territorial Integrity for every nation Of North
and South America.
Settlement OF all boundary disputes by arbi-
tration.
Recourse to careful investigation and arhitra-
tiOn to settle all disputes. Of whatever nature.
Prevention by each state of the fitting out
within Its borders ~ n revolutionary expedition
against another state. or the illegal shipment Of
munitions to another State.
Secretary Lansing also sounded South and
Central American opinion on the inclusion Of a
clause to combine IN maintaining a republican
form of government In all independent Ameri-
can States.
The feeling among the delegates that the
warning European nations might later cast
greedy eyes In the direction Of the New World
was well expressed In the address of John Rar.
rett. as directOr-general Of the Pan-American
Union.
"No matter how just and fair the nations Of
America may have been in their efforts to pre-
serve their neutrality" he said. 1.-THE war pas-
sions ana the war power Of the peoples and the
Governments Of the victorious group Of nations
may force a policy toward Pan-Americanism,
toward the Monroe Doctrine and toward their
relationship with individual countries Of the
Western Hemisphere which Yill demand absO-
lutte solidarity Of action on the part Of the
American republics to preserve their very in
tegrity."
On January 8, Just two days after President
Wilson's speech. Ambassador Sunrpz Of chile
spoke for a union Of all the American States
to protect themselves against danger. and ex-
Judge George Gray Of Delaware chairman Of
the United States delegation at the conference.
Said:
I'VE must strengthen our power to north
and to south, TO guar,i against Invasion"
The sun., 1916-01-23

Soon after the conference began DR. Alfredo
Otero ~ Colombia said that an unavoidable
necessity was "the solemn proclamation that
America will not suffer colonization either on
her continent or ON her islands" Dr. Manuel
Castro Ramirex Of Salvador spoke for "clear
definition Of doctrine binding together Ameri-
cans Of AnglO-SaxOn and Spanish origin"
Although the conference being a purely de-
Lucrative body. could not ratify such a defen-
sive alliance a. many Of It's members very
plainly favored. It did pass thirty-siX resolu-
tions recommending various measures to pro-
mote closer Pan-Amcrican relations. The i'm
preston was general. however. that the words
spoken had not fallen upon barren ground. and
that from the conference would presently arise
u new Pan-American doctrine and a Pan.Ameri-
can alliance of all the American States having
ms its motto, Zone for all and all for one" and
AZ its aim the preservation ~ the peace and
integrity of the American continent.
The sun., 1916-01-23
Types of the Soldiery of South America That
Would Aid the United States in Event
of nAmercan Alliance
DEFENSIVE alliance between the
United States and the republics Of Gen.
tral and South America, an alliance Of

4 DEFENSIVE alliance between the
~ United States and the republics Of Gen.
tral and South America, an alliance Of
all the Americans to maintain u Pun.Ameri.
can doctrine that shall be the child Of the
Monroe Doctrine. seemed to he the thought up
psrmost In the minds Of the thousand delegates
from all over the Western Hemisphere who re-
Gently completed their deliberations in WASH
inrton as the Pan-American Scientific Congress
One purpose Of such an alliance was indicated
by the resolutions introduced in Congress on
January IL a. q result Of the crisis brought
about by the murder Of eighteen Americans In
Mexico. These resolutions called for interven-
ton in Mexico by the United States and the
Latin American republics II Carranza failed to
furnish adequate protection
From American. Brazilian. Chilean and Co
lombIan delegates cnmp expression Of the same
thought that Secretary Of State Lansing voiced
In his address to the congress: Zone for all
and all for one" The new Pan-Amercan
alliance that was In contemplation was to bind
all the republics to Join in defending any one
Of them whose territory or rights might he
Invaded ny a foe from across the water. "a
well as in arbitrating their own disputes and
50 conducting their affairs that such disputes
should hp few.
THE SI'N publishes to-day photographs show.
Ing some Of the troops that might hRht aide by
side with troopa Of the United States. supp"s-
Ing that a European or an Asiatic invader
should vet foot on North American. Central
American or South American soil. From Ecua-
dor. soldierlv looking Rroup Of whose oficers
Ia shown would come . regular army Of 1910.
while the Roliviana could send down frnm their
mountains 1000 regulars and $4,000 reserves.
An army Of 5000 regulars and $4,000 reserves
would march under the red and white flag Of
Peru offrered by many Of the cadets shown in
the photograph.
All told. 4 defensive alliance with all the
So,lth and Central American repnhlicH would
bring IN the aid of the United States upward of
100000 REGULAR troops and reserves of nearly
ten times that strength. The naval forces Of
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18

The job in keeping good-tempered
consists in adjusting oneself to bad
temper.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
25 DEAD, SO ARE HURT
IN A TROLLEY SMASH
Many in Agony Two Hours Waiting
for Medical Aid-Cause of the
Wreck Unknown.

Johnstown, Pa.-Twenty-five per-
sons were killed and 63 injured in
a head-on collision between two troll
ley cars on the line of the Southern
Cambria Traction company between
Echo and Brookvale, seven miles
from here August 12. Fourteen per-
sons were instantly killed, while the
others died after being removed from
the wreckage. Several more are in
a critical condition and will prob
ably die.
The cause of the accident has not
been determined.
According to persons in the vicin-
ity at the time of the wreck one car
was standing still near the car barn
at Echo when the other car, in charge
of Angus Warner, motorman, crashed
down a steep grade and into it. Both
cars were demolished. Shortly before
the accident Varner's car was seen
to rush past the station at Brookvale
with Warner frantically waving his
arms. Believing the car, which, ac-
cording to employees of the company,
was going 80 miles an hour, was not
under control, the current was shut
off at the power plant but this action
was taken too late to avoid the crash.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
ORDERS OF STATES OF KEN
TUckY, OHIO AND VERMONT
MOVE OVER 10000.
TO HAVE l75,0O0 MEN ON LINE
Secretary Baker Says the Movement
Has Nothing Whatever to Do
With Mexican Situation-Done
Solely to Relieve Troops.

Washington.-All the national guard
units included in President Wilson'S
call of June 18, not yet on the Mexi-
can border, we're ordered there Mon
day by the war department.
Between 10000 and $4,000 addition
al troops will thus be added to the
border forces. National guard forces
there will number approximately 1885,
900 and the total of all troops on the
border or in Mexico will be 175,000
Secretary Baker made formal an
nouncement that the troop move
ment had nothing whatever to do
with the Mexican situation as such,
and was solely to relieve thousands
of troops now held in mobilization
camps only because they lack a few
recruits to bring units up to fixed
minimum strength.
The New Contingent.
The order sends the troops from
Kentucky, Ohio and Vermont to the
border as soon as transportation can
U0 dIIduS0u lOI Iucu dllu Will LuOV6
all the others as soon as they are
properly equipped. The war depart
ment officials decided on their action
because the troops are restive in
camp and there seemed to be no
stimulus to recruiting while there
was no prospect of movement to the
border They now expect most of
the regiments will be filled before
the troops leave.
The Kentucky, Ohio and Vermont
troops, which will move practically at
once, will add the following units to
the long border line:
Kentucky-One brigade of three
regiments of infantry; one company
signal corps; one field hospital and
one ambulance company, mobilized at
Fort Thomas.
Ohio-Two brigades of three regi-
ments each of infantry; one squad
ron cavalry; one battalion field ar
tillery; one battalion engineers, one
battalion signal corps; three field
hospitals; two ambulance companies,
all mobilized at Columbus.
Vermont-One regiment infantry
and one squadron cavalry at Col
chester.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
No Watermelon for Army Boys.

Ell Paso, Texas-Gloom spread
over the army camps here Monday
with the news that watermelons have
been banned by the authorities.
The army fly expert is behind the
order, which is applied to all camps
along the border. He has discov-
cred that the watermelon rind is the
only kind of garbage that can not be
properly disposed of. 1t can not be
burned or effectively buried. The
result is that watermelon peel is the
cause of the present fly pest and
flies, says the expert, breed disease.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
American Aviator in Allies Army

Paris.-G. Fufbery of New Haven,
Conn.,, is the American aviator who
was mentioned in the official French
announcement recently for having
brought down German aeroplane in
side the French lines south of Dou-
aumont. He was flying at a height
of 10000 feet toward the German
lines when he perceived 5000 feet be-
low him a German aeroplane moving
toward the French. He planed swift
ly down, working his machine gun at
the same time, as he was alone in
the aeroplane. The German machine
was hit repeatedly and fell in flames.
Lufbery landed safely. 1t was his
second exploit Of the kind within a
week.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
FIRE DISCOVERED IN KITCHEN
AND SPREAD RAPIDLY,
CAUSING EXPLOSION.
OVER 400 LIVES WERE LOST
The Vessel Turned Over on Its Side
and Men Thrown Into the Sea-
1t Is Believed That the Ship
Can Be RefIoated.

Paris, Aug. 16.-The Italian dread
naught Leonardo da Vinci caught fire
and blew up in the harbor of Taran-
to, Italy, and 400 of her crew were
drowned, says Turin dispatch to
the Petit Journal
Crew Thrown Into Sea.
The fire, says the dispatch, was
discovered in the dreadnaught's kitch-
en- and spread rapidly. The captain
Immediately ordered the magazines
flooded and tried to beach the battle
ship, but one magazine exploded be-
fore this could be DONE The vessel
was turned over on her side and a
large number of the crew thrown in
to the sea.
1t is believed that the battleship
can be righted and refloated.
Carried 957 Men.
The Leonardo da Vinci was a sister
ship of the Conte di Cavour and of
the Giulio Cesare and was launched
in October, 1911. Her displacement
was $4,000 tons and she was 555k
feet long, 94A feet beam and carried
a total of 957 men. Her main bat
terry consisted of 13 12-inch guns and
her secondary battery to stand off
torpedo attack was composed of 18
4.7-inch guns. Her engines were of
$4,000 horsepower, designed to de-
velop speed of 22.5 knots.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
Washington State Bar Meet.

North Yakima, Wash, Aug. IA
Amendments to the state probate
code formulated by the state bar as
sociation committee will be placed in
the hands Of larger committee of
nine members which will revise and
present it at the next session of the
legislature without recommendation
This decision was reached at Satur-
days session. The low president,
Wilmon Tucker of Seattle, will ap-
point six members Of the committee
and the three members of the present
committee will be retained.
Officers elected follow: President,
Wilmon Tucker; secretary, G. Will
Shaffer, Olympia, reelected; treas
urer, A. A. Kirby, Spokane.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
SPORTING ITEMS

Entry blanks for the auto race
meet which will be staged at the Spo-
kane Interstate fair September 4 and
5 are off the press and can be Sc
cured from Manager w. G.. Hannah.
In training for the far western
swimming competition at San Diego,
August 10, Miss Frances Cowells of
San Francisco swan 220 yards free
style, making nine turns, in min
utes 3-5 seconds.
Dog fanciers of the northwest, who
have been consistent winners in vari-
Gus exhibitions ARE planning to in
wade the Spokane Kennel Club show,
September to Z, in connection with
the Spokane interstate fair.
Colorado Springs, Colo.-Ralph Null
ford added another victory to his
string of automobile racing successes
Friday when he won the feature of
the Pixies Peak hill-climbing con-
test. His time over the 121% mile
course was 1S minutes 48.7 seconds,
notwithstanding that he lost 1 min
ute and 20 seconds in adjusting his
carburetor
Rea Lentz of Seattle, driving the
same car in which he was seen in the
Spokane races July 4, won the free
for-all automobile race to the sum-
NIT of Pixies Peak Saturday in 20:55.
Ralph Mulford was second in 21:405
and Fred Junk third in 22:46.7. The
course is 1214 miles with an ascent
of approximately 5000 feet Lentz's
victory gives him a cash prize of
$4,000 and the first leg on the Pen
rose trophy, which must be won three
times before ownership is estab-
lished.
Lake Forest, Ill-Walter T. Hayes
and Ralph Burdick of Chicago sue
cessfully defended their title of west
ern lawn tennis doubles champions.
Kenneth Hawkes. of Los Angeles won
the mems singles consolation final,
and Miss Marguerite Davis of st.
Paul won the woman's singles title
of the west in the windup of all but
mems singles in the 29th annual tour
nament of the Western Tennis asso-
citation here.
Seattle.-Except in the mems dou-
bles, which were won by William
Marcus and John Strachan of San
Francisco, Seattle players made a
clean sweep of the Washington state
tennis championship finals Saturday.
Sam Russell of Seattle won the mems
singles by defeating Hugh Kelleher,
also of Seattle, Ga, 2-6, 3-6, 6-3,
6-4, and Miss Sara Livingstone Of
Seattle took the womens title. Miss
Livingstone defeated Mrs. Gushing of
California. Miss Livingstone and H.
Kelleher won the mixed doubles and
Miss Livingstone and Mrs. Bragdon
won the ladies' doubles.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
COLLECT $512,72s,2ss REVENUE.
Fiscal Years Record Beats Preceding
Year 97,042,264.

Washington.-Co Collections by the in
ternal revenue bureau for the fiscal
year ending June 80 reached total
of $512,723,288, an increase Of $97,-
042,284 over those for the fiscal year
1915. A preliminary report made
public by Commissioner Osborn shows
that of the total $3S7,788,035 came
from ordinary collections and 1924,
937,253 from the income tax. OF the
ordinary revenue $84,278,302 was COL
lected under the emergency tax law
and the rest came from the taxes on
spirits, tobacco, etc. About $3S,O00,-
900 accrued from the sales of docu-
mentary stamps, about $2,9OO,OOO
from additional tax of so cents per
barrel on fermented liquors, and al
most $7,00O,OOO from special taxes on
bankers, brokers', theaters, etc.
The normal tax on incomes-those
over $4,000 and less than $20,000-pro-
duced $23,995,777.
Incomes from $4,000 to $4,000 pro-
duced $6,$91,775.
Those from $4,000 to $4,000 pro-
duced $4,O71, 1862.
Those from $4,000 to 100000 pro-
duced s3,623,473.
Those from 100000 to $25O,OO0 pro-
duced $1O,936,326.
Those from $25O,OOO to s5OO,OOO pro-
duced $6,393,859.
Those over $5OO,OOO produced $12,-
647,863.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

The southern California naval mill
tiamen spent Saturday in Seattle on
the ship Oregon, anchored in the
harbor, received visitors during three
hours. The Oregon departed for Los
Angeles Sunday.
AS a result of the investigation in
to the salmon fishermen's war on the
Rogue river by Governor James Wi
thycombe and the fish and game COM
mission, it was announced that the
mouth of the stream will be closed to
fishing.
Shirley B. Everett, who told ac-
quaintances that his home was in
Waltham, Mass, where his family is
prominent, died in Portland Satur-
day from injuries sustained when he
cut his wrists badly with razor
and leaped from the fifty-story win
dow of hotel, alighting on sky
light.
At San Bernardino, Cal hun
dred and fifty linemen of the Sierras
officials said, because their demands
for increased wages and shorter
hours were refused. Men were re-
ported to have left stations extend
ing from the Mexican boundary to
the Nevada state line.
Mrs. Bloom Parr was killed, her
daughter Esta was probably fatally
injured, and her husband, Bloom
Parr, wealthy Visalia rancher, was
slightly hurt, when the automobile in
which Parr was driving his family
to their ranch was struck by an elec-
trio car near Visalia, Cal.
Prince Phya Prabha Paravongse,
envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary from Siam to the U.
S., is at San Francisco from Wash
ington, D. c., to meet Prince Son
gila, brother of the king Of Siam,
who comes from the orient to go to
college. The Siamese minister will
escort Prince Songila across the con-
tinent.
That portion of the Columbia rixc-
highway which lies in Multnomah
county, Oregon, was declared COM
plete Saturday down to it's last de-
tail Although the highway has been
open to traffic from end to end since
early summer, the county has been
working on paving it since then. Only
2673 miles of the thoroughfare prop
er lie in this county. This stretch
was built at cost of $1,300,000, or
more than $4S,OOO per mile, making
it one of the most expensive pieces
of roadwork in the world. For it's
entire distance there is no rail or
road crossing of any kind.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
Russians Forge Ahead.

Petrograd.-After being compelled
to halt their advance for several
weeks before combined Austrian and
German resistance on the northern
wing of General Brussiloff's front, the
Russians have again scored an i'm
portant success, and are pressing the
Teutons back along the entire front
from the Kovel-Lutsk railway as far
south as Brody.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
Fixed the Mexican Bandits.

Tucson, Ariz.-After his horse had
been shot from under him by two
Mexicans suspected of having perpe-
trated burglary and he himself had
been shot through the hip, Constable
John Bright of Courtland, drawing
his gun as he lay prone on the ground
beside the body of his horse, killed
the two Mexicans Monday near Court
land Bright will recover.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18
Shot Sweetheart; Is cauqht.

Morris, Ill.-Guy O'Brien, wealthy
young farmer who shot and perhaps
fatally wounded his sweetheart, Miss
Ida Torkelson, while she was riding
with her mother here Aug. 8, was
captured near Lee, ILL.,, Aug. Is.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-18

New York is the largest candy
consuming center in the world.