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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
SIX KILLED AT NANCY

Paris, January S.-Six persons have been killed and 10 others wounded at Nancy during the past three days in the bombardment of the city by Ger man 15-inch guns, it appears from ad . vices received here
 It is announced that safe conducts have been issued to 30,000 persons to leave the city A special train with some of these residents on board ar rived in Paris yesterday. Others from Nancy have gone to Dijon and else- where.
 These statements regarding condi- tions in Nancy, as the result of the fact that the German shells had begun to hit in the town, were contained in proclamation issued by Prefect Mir man of the department of Meurthe ct Moselle, in which Nancy is situated, to discredt stories of destruction and panic in Nancy that have been cir culating in Paris and elsewhere. The proclamation, which was entitled Shame to Sewers of Panic," gives the casualties as stated and ads that no fires have been caused by the lombard ment. The prefect says he believes that the exaggerated rumors were started by persons living remote from Nancy because anyone near there would know they were untrue.
 President Poincare yesterday visited Nancy and inquired personally into the effects of the German bombardment. Shells recently have been reaching Nancy at intervals from German 15 inch guns, and in consequence the art works were transferred to Troyes.
 President Poincare remained in the city the entire day but it does not ap- pear from the reports received whether any shells fell on the town during his stay. tf .-A f.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
FOUR DELEGATIONS
 FROM ALABAMA WILL
 STORM WASHINGTON
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road rates, that city is discrimnated against in view of the fact that it is on a navigable river, will arrive. Congress- man Oliver said today that the formal brief containing the complaint in detail is expected Monday, and that it will go immediately on arrival to the inter- state commerce commission. The com mittee will closely follow the filing of the charges.
 And the prohibitionists, according to in formation given today by Judge $. D.. Weakley, hope to visit Washington this month. As is known they will urge the passage of the bill introduced last ses- sion by Representative Abercrombie and Senator Bankhead (by request), a bill which denies the mails to letters, postals, pamphlets and newspapers carrying into dry territory whisky advertisements
 Any person. under the bill, mailing such literature into prohibition territory will be subject to a fine of $l000 and one year Imprisonment both. and if guilty of a second charge to fine of s500O It is generally thought probable that Congress will await the coming of another than a presidential year before lining up against democracy and the press of the north and east.
 However, it begins to appear that this will be an Alabama month in Wash iE gton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
NEW HAVEN JURY IS STILL UNABLE TO
 REACH AGREEMENT
Weather at 3 p. m.
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This was the fundamental question which Judge Hunt told the jury in his charge must first be settled.
 In that event it was suggested that the jurors might be deliberating on the ques- tion as to whether the conspiracy was continuous to the date of the indictment and were taking up each phase of the case Tn tals connection, covering the entire 25 spiracy
 If anything was to be deduced from the nature of the exhibits called for dur ing the day, it appeared that the uues- ton of the New Havens competition with the Joy Steamship line and of the extent of William Roc1efeler's participation in 1t, was one issue of debace. In addition to correspondence of Rockefeller in the matter preventing the sale O. two steam beats to the Joy line, the jury spent two hours in open court listening to the reading of the testimony of Frank M. Dunbaugh, former president of the Joy line.
 The jury also asked for correspondence between officials of the -a:ne Steam ship company and the New Haven, in which appeared a letter written to a New Haven official about the Joy line the expression:
 ''We will take off their hides and lay them out to dry on the Long Island shore"
 Judge Hunts plan, in the event ver- diet was not reached ronight, was to send the jury to an up5own hotel and have them resume deliberations at 10 O clock tomorrow morning. It was said on good authority that the court, in the hope that verdict might pc eventually reached would keep them out number Of days if necessary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
LICENSE TAX WARM
 TOPIC IN HUNTSVILLE
Merchants Retain Attorney to Look Into Matter.
 Court Clerk Resigns

Huntsville January S.-(Specia1 ,-rba new license privilege tax schedule vbic,, was recently announced by the city com mission, IS still live topic among the business and professional men of Hints Vlile ana the chief opponents of the meas ure nave retained an attorney, who will look into the legal phases involved The schedule was revised upware For the pur- pose of providing enough funds to r,,n the city government. The propertu ta, IS already up to the legal limit ana the commissioners claim tnat there is no other way to avoid q. deficit since the city dlspensary was put out than by raising the privilege licenses Some are In favor of doing away with the commission and re-estab bllsnlng the old aldermanic system, if it can pe done.
 Celia Connolly a negro woman, has been arrested on charge of being con nected With several recent burglaries that have been committed here. Tn each case the police claim that the burglary was the work of a man and woman
 David D. Overton, clerk of the circuit court for Madison county, nas resigned the position and the remainder of the term will be filled out by Charles M Nails, Wio Has been appointed Dy JudBe Robert c. Brickell MT. Nails was formerly buyer for the city dispensary. MT. Overton ex- poets to be a candidate fog probate judge and expects to devote his entire time to the campaign from now until the cleo ton.
 7 Huntsville real estate dealers report that business is livelier now than in many years past. A great many inquiries for ia bn north and west and several farms have been sold to newcomers ouring the last few weeks.
 Ninety bales of cotton were brought to Huntsville yesterday afternoon in one lot by J. b. Nunn of the Big Cove. Harris, Courther & Co.'S agency bought the lot, paying about 12 cents.
 The Southern Bell telephone exchange here has added 197 stations during the year just closed. t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
SHELLS FROM BIG
 GERMAN GUNS ARE
 FALLING IN NANCY
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no fires have been started by the shells and that there was no panic.
 Tho Hartman Weilerkopf sector appears to be the only point on the western front where there has been infantry activity. The Gerxsans claim to have taken a portion of trench south of the summit.
 There is little military activity in the Balkans except in Monte negro, where the Austrians and Montenegrins are still clashing
 There are few political deve1- opments in connection with the Balkan situation, probably the most interesting one being the re- port of the arrival at Toulon, France, on warship. of the con- suls of Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria recently arrested at Saloniki. It has recently been re- ported that these consuls were to be released The Toulon advices state that they are held there to await disposition of the authori- ties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
RUSSIANS RENEW ATTACKS

Berlin, January S.-(By Wireless to Say ville )-The Russians have resumed their
 heavy attacks against the Austrian lines in Eastern Galicia and in Bukowina and ir some places succeeded in penetra ting Austrian positions, but are declared in the official statement by the Vienna war office, received here today, to have been
 ultimately rejected.
 The statement is as follows:
 'The battle in Eastern Galicia and on the Bukowina frontier has Ceen resumed. The Russians advanced under the pro- lection of fog until our batteries on the Stripa, and the Sixteenth and Twenty fourth Honved regiments and the Fifty seventh Galician regiment by counter attack, elected the enemy. Among 720 Russians taken prisoner were one colonel and 10 lesser officers.
 There has been bitter fighting near Toporutz and east of Karancza and on the Bessarabian frontier. The Russians entered parts of our trenches but were driven back by reserves in hand-to-hand fighting. One officer and 250 men were taken prisoners.
 'The Russians attempted to re-take the cemetery north of Czartorysk but failed. Italian artillery heavily sheled the bridgehead at Tolmino and our positions to the northward, especially the trench recently conquered. There nave been ar 1 tillery duels near Oslavia and on the Doberdo plateau"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
MAY ASK DEFINITE
 PLEDGE OF TEUTONS
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of Germany to pay indemnity for tn
 Lusitania victims and Ambassador Voz Bernstorff's assurances regarding the con duct of German submarines :n the Medi terranean has contributed greatly to the feeling that a satisfactory solution of the entire problem might be near at hand This hope is strengthened 'Dy Austria. deference in the second Ancona reply and the assurance of Baron ZwiedinelS
 the Austrian charge here, that if it de veloped that an Austrian submarine sank
 the liner Persia he had no doubt per-
 sonally that full satisfaction would be given.
 No further details regarding the Persia incident reached the state department to- day but there has been an apparent les sening of tension as the days nave gone by without any official confirmation that it was a torpedo and not mine that sank the ship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
GOV. w. D. JELKS STRONGLY
 URGES STATE BOND ISSUE

ernor Jelks to be spacious, as any banker knows. .f the interest rate is high, the bonds bring a premium, thus reducing the amount of the issue neces- sary to realize the specified sum of S1,500,000. He points out that of the present direct tax income of the state, 80 per cent goes for educational insti- tutions, old soldiers, the maintenance of the hospitals for the insane and blind and for interest on the public debt Inasmuch as it is absolutely nec- essary to take care of the interest on the public debt and maintain the hos pitals for the insane and blind, the burdens of failure to secure the money will, says Governor Jelks, fall largely upon the old soldiers, who now receive but a mere pittance, and in the continued holding back of the made uuate salaries paid the school teachers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09

In a statement given out last night by former Governor William D. Jelks in which he advocates the passage of the proposed state bond issue of s1, 500,- GOO, he points out that the state must pay it's debts at this time by bonds or it cannot pay at all. The state cannot borrow the money necessary to pay the indebtedness because of the doubt ex- isting as to the legal right of the gov ernor to make the loan and the ques- ton as to the power of the treasurer to pay warrants drawn for the inter- est on such debt.
 The charge that the interest rate of per cent specified for the proposed issue is too high is declared by Gov
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
ALABAMA CARED FOR

Washington, January S.-(Speclal.)-Ihe House committee on rivers and harbors this afternoon unanimously agreed to re- port a rivers and harbors bill limiting the appropriation to approximately $44 O00,000, with $4,000,o00 for maintenance purposes. While the bill has not been itemized it is certain that Alabama will be fairly well cared for.
 Senator Bankhead announced this after noon that on Monday the subcommittee of the commerce committee of the Sen ate would report favorably to the commit tee as a whole the general dam bill.
 Under the provisions of this bill, a cor poration may construct a dam for the purpose of developing water power in conjunction with or under the supervision of the government.
 This bill would cover projects contem- plated for the Coosa river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
Major Fontaine to Be HonOred

Maj. Lamar Montaine, famous scout of Stonewall Jackson, world traveller, ex- plorer, marksman, author and lecturer, will be the guest of honor at reception given Tuesday, January il, at 8 o'clock at the residence of pr. O. T. Dozier, 2106 Humboldt avenue. He will discourse in- formally upon his experiences and obser- Vations in tracing the footprints of man from the Garden of Eden at the north pole down through North, Central and South America. and on to the mouth of the Nile in Egypt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
RAWLs' NAME RECOMMENDED

Washington, January S.-(Special) ) Despite the fact that strong protests against the appointment of Robert M. Rawls of Athens to be postmaster at Athens have reached the postoffice de- partment, the recommendation of Con- gressman Almon was forwarded this afternoon to the President.
 It is understood that First Assistant Postmaster General Roper has in formed the protestants that they will have to appear before the postoffice committee of the Senate with further complaint The odds seem to favor the appointment and confirmation of MT. Rawls.
 He has excellent inducements from business men in Athens and the Ten nessee valley generally; has a good party record, and is veteran news paper man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
RATE PROTEST soUELCHED

Washington, January S.-(Special. )-Em- bryonic efforts of Alabama railroad "a ate reformers to induce Congress to investi- gate the recent action of the interstate commerce commission in permitting rail- roads with Birmingham and Atlanta terminals to increase freight rates, will score no. success in the opinion of mem bers from Alabama.
 J. T. Slater of the Birmingham Manu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, January S.-Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi; Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday, slowly ris- ing temperatures.
 Georgia: Generally fair Sunday and Monday.
 Tennessee: Fair and warmer Sunday, Monday cloudy, probably local rains; warmer east portion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
HEFLIN TO SPEAK

Washington, January S.-(Special) Representative Heflin accepted today the invitation of Secretary Wilson of the cabinet to deliver an address on former President Jackson in Williams port, Pa. Monday evening.
 He will deliver his phillipic against the New York exchange in the House Tuesday and he promises to submit proof that the spinners and specula- tors have entered into a conspiracy with the. exchanges in New York and New Orleans to keep depressed the price of cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
BEHIND THE SCENES

Miss Shelly's remarkably graphic let Ter, dated "Rolya, Five Kfiometers Be- hind the line of Battle, October IT, fol- lows
 Here I am at the front, where I've longed to be from the first We have dressed over 100 wounded since this morning. I've been the whole day with out food except for a cup of tea. I have worked in mud to my knees and blood to my elbows--and am not yet tired It is the irony of fate, though. that I should have spent such time in getting uniforms when the first day of my actual nursing has been passed in my riding boots and short skirt-in steady rain-with no time to get into a uniform.
 Our staff and equipment was of fered for ambulance work, was &C., cepted in the space of an hour; but , despite the fact that we were packed within a day and half, it required us two days to reach the front. This was
 due to the fact that there is only one railroad in Servia, and troops are con stantly being moved from one position to another. We are a part of General Livkonitah's division and are just five miles back of Belgrade. We have two cars, two automobiles. and young ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
ARRESTED CONsULs ARRIVE

Paris, January S.-The consuls of Ger many, Austria. Turkey and Bulgaria at Saloniki who recently were arrested there, arrived today at Toulon on board man of war, according to Havas dispatch from that seaport. They are held to await the disposition of the authorities, the dispatch adds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09

same time involves old principles of | contraction. The tube is built of the | best grade of Para rubber and is 24 ] per cent thicker than the ordinary 1 tube. It is first molded in tubular form and then turned inside out and re- nodded in exteriorly concave sections. ] The process of first making the rub i ber contract on the under side and aft erward molding it in the opposite way | so as to have a contraction of the rubber on the outer surface, makes the rubber fibre closer on the outer side. The fluted effect of the tube makes it expand from the inside out when it is inflated. The result is that the rub Der, when pierced by a nail, contracts tightly around the hole and keeps the air from escaping. If the nail is pulled csIt the fibre of the rubber immediate ly closes over the hole and retains
 the air, thus making the inner tube
 absolutely puncture proof. The bore of
 the inner tube is per cent greater than the bore of the casing and could
 only be made to fit by having the in
 ner tube made in fluted shape. On ac-
 count of the inner tubes thickness
 plus it's oversize the tube of rubber
 contracts tightly when the pressure
 of the air forces the inner tube against
 the inside walls ofathe casing.
 An order for 100000 of these tubes was announced in Decatur yesterday. They will be used by the allies. MT
 Boggs is in New York at the present time in conference with several finan- cers, who, it is thought, will back him in the building of large fac
 tory in the south. It is understood that the factory will be built in At lanta. although efforts are being made by the Chamber of Commerce to keep the factory in Birmingham. It is un- derstood that one of the largest rub
 Der concerns in the United States has offered MT Boggs a fabulous sum of money for his patent rights. He is said to have refused the offer and fn- tends to manufacture the tubes him. self, his idea being to locate in some southern city that will offer him en-
 couragement in his project which, in the opinion of many, will be one of the largest rubber plants in the course of time in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
MRS. BAGLEY SUCCEEDS GRANT

Washington, January S.-(Specialo Mrs. Grace l.. Bagley was appointed postmaster today to succeed G. d. Grant at Watson, Jefferson county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
WONDERFUL HEROISM
 SHOWN BY ALABAMA
 GIRL WITH SERVIANS
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Shelly, who in other days was presented by Hannis Taylor, American ambassador to Spain, to the courts of Europe, waded knee deep in mud in riding boots on her errands of mercy; passed days without a drop of water, and weeks without suf fcient nourishment; and repressed her tears and submerged the emotion of her heart when the noble wounded lay dying nobly.
 No letters, whether written by trained correspondents or professional rhetor-
 cians, surpass those of Miss Shelly in de- scrlption, or in the vivid painting of scenes to touch the heart or awaken the ina gina tion. There is no question but that in her desire to do something worth while in honor of her father-one of a race which sang songs riding itno battle and died with a cheer on the lips-she has undertaken with remarkable heroism the burden of self immolation and the role of tba ma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
GREEK NEUTRALITY
 LOOKING TOFUTURE
 SAYS CONSTANTINE
Wants His Army to Be Fresh When Other States Are Exhausted at End
 of the War

Athens, January 6.--(Via Paris, Jan uary 7)-"I hope you will make the people of the United States understand that I am no more pro- German than your President" said King Constan- tine to the Associated Press corre- spondent today q am pro- Greek, just as your President tries to be pro- American only.
 'It is one of the saddest evidences of the blind hatreds and prejudices evoked by this war that people who should and in their sober senses do know better insist upon imputing to others motives which they never could conceivably have entertained"
 The Kings statement was made in communicating to the correspondent an important declaration of his pol icy which he had given to a repre- sentative of the Lolxal AnZeiger of Ser lin. This declaration was made with view to clearing up any misunder- standing respecting his intentions which may exist in Germany.
 EXPLAINS NEUTRALITY
 In his statement to the correspond ent of the Lokal Anzeiger King Con stantine set forth more clearly than heretofore the purpose underlying his policy which, as he put it recently in a statement to the Associated Press, twas not to be cajoled or coerced out of neutrality"
 "Whether the Balkan question will be satisfactorily solved by this Euro pean war; I do not know" the state ment says. None dares predict that in this part of the world another bloody war will not break out before the solution of the most complicated questions of nationality can be reached.
 "No one hopes more than I that such a disaster will be avoided. But as l have so often said, our taking part in the present conflict is not Bal kan matter It would merely engulf us in the world struggle. l wish no war from which my country does not secure profit for peace While I remain at peace shall strengthen my army as much as pos sible I hope at the end of the war to have my army strong and abso- 1utely fresh.
 "That is of prime importance for my country, for when peace does come Greece VIII De a IdCtOF Ol GoAoluCleNpAS importance whereas were she to enter long drawn out European war, she would be eXhausted for the first victims of such a war naturally are the smaller states which have fewer resources within them selves.
 OUTSTANDING STRENGTH
 'Our neutrality, therefore, is not sign of weakness, but the proof of a deliberate intention to husband our strength for later difficult times
 That is why I cling to my policy of conserving the freedom and interests of my people without spiling their blood"
 Respecting his attitude toward Germany and his brother-in-law, Emperor William, King Constantine said:
 'I am absolutely free. I am bound by no personal interest. Accordingly, I can say with clear conscience that have only the interest of my people before my eyes. Sentiment plays very little part in politics. l do not let myself be influenced by any sympathies, antiquities of other feelings. I have only the duty of looking after interests of my people with all my ability"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at Uni ted States weather bureau stations dur ing the 24 hours ending 8 D. m., 75th me- ridian time January s. 1916:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09

lecturers association, in a letter to Con- gressman Huddleston, inquired today what could be done towards an investiga- tion or rectification of the action of the interstate commerce commission. Con- gressman Huddieston replied that he did not think Congress could interfere with the commission, the function of which is that of a court.
 It is regarded as probable that thus has ended the Alabama effort for an in vestigation by Congress-