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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-02
Publishers Have Protested.

Magazine publishers have protested
vigorously against the rate increase,
which would affect only publications
carried more than.300 miles. and Post
master General Burleson proposed to
Chairman Moon of the House post Of
flee committee a substitute provision
to postpone the effectiveness OF the IN
crease for a year after the measure be-
comes a law. The bill as reported
would make the rates apply after June
80 however, and Mr.. Moon has not IN
dicated what action will be recon-
mended on Mr.. Burleson's suggestion.
The bill probably will be debated in
the House within a few days.
The bill directs that hereafter cata-
logues and similar publications be
classified as third-class mail matter
ton provides that after July next rural
carriers pay shall be based on length
of routes. time required to serve them
and quantity of mail transported.
Pay of Rural Carriers.
The maximum pay would be $4,000.
with a minimum of $3.50 a year. No
rural route which would require an au-
tomobile is to be established unless the
car can be used with reasonable reg
ularity throughout the year.
The Postmaster General is authorized
to create a guaranty fund, from as
sessments to be levied on post Office
employees accountable for postal funds
or property. to indemnify the govern
ment. Another new provision would
strengthen the anti-gambling laws, d.
rected against lotteries. gift enterprises
or schemes Offering prizes dependent
upon chance.
One thousand dollars fine, two years
imprisonment. or both. are provided as
penalties for mailing liquors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-02
POST OFFICE BILL
IS BEFORE HOUSE
Carries Increased Rates on
Publications, Under the
Zone System.
PENNY POSTAGE IN CITIES

The annual post Office appropriation
bill reported to the House today car
ries provisions to increase rates on
newspapers. magazines and other sec
ond-class matter by a zone system, es-
tablishes penny postage on local let
tiers. and imposes heavier penalties for
sending liquor through the mails.
The bill would appropriate s32s,5SS.-
120. 100000 more than the current
post office act, readjust rural carriers
salaries and increase the pay of num-
her of employees
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
PRESIDENT WHITE.
 THINKS MINERS WILL. RETURN ID WORK
Head of Union Says Radical Element Is Causing All Trouble in the Gen.
 tral Districts

Indianapolis, October 19.-Upon his re- turn from Washington John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said today that his organization will do everything possible to settle the present labor trouble in the coal min ing district of Indiana, Illinois and paits of Ohio and that he believed the diff faculties will be settled without further delay.
 This. .odganization does not counte- nance the action taken by some of the
 radical elements and we will resort to any means to settle the difficulty MT.
 White declared
 "The trouble Is confined to small ter ritories. but, of course, is a. serious matter to the communities. The mine workers union has just completed an agreement calling for increases in wages for the miners in the central competitive field. subject to the approval of the gov ernment. and the action taken by some of the members places the union in the light of trying to force the government to act'' he said.
 This evening MT White said he had re- ceived reports that miners in Michigan who had been idle had returned to work after receiving a message from him te do SD and reports to him from the oth- q, districts affected indicate the men
 would obey the instructions of the union officiais
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20

Iieve this is insufficient for them to properly maintain their families, con sidering the high cost of everything we use, and therefore recommend that their salaries be increased to not mors than $60 per month.
 We are informed that the court dep- uties appointed by the judges have their salaries fixed by the legislature at s100 per month for F months and that they work only about eight months a year, We feel that steps should be taken looking to their beinS paid only for the time they work
 The grand jury wishes to extend their thanks and to express their hisp appreciation of the valuable aid aid services rendered this body by our esteemed solicitor, MT. Joseph k. Tate. and the official stenographer. Mir. Wi liam M. Lindsay They have been diii- gent and have left nothing undone to tighten our burdens. and dispatch bus mess coming before us Respectfully submitted. CBEM C. BURKE,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
NOTED LOUISIANA
 CRIMINAL HANGED
 IN NEW ORLEANS

Baton Rouge. La., october 19.--Helaire
 Carriere was hanged in the state peni- .tentiary here at 12:1o p. m. today for
 the murder in July, 1916, of Marion l..
 Swords, sheriff of St. Landry parish.
 Carriere protested his innocence of the
 murder to the last. claiming the shot
 which killed Sheriff Swords was fired
 by one of the deputies in the sheriffs
 posse, which attempted to capture Car
 riere in the Mallet woods section near
 Opelousas, La.
 The execution of Carriere, who 1mme-
 diately following the killing was the ob-
 ject of sensational manhunts, through
 the swamps and woods of the Mallet
 wood section, ended the career of one
 of the most desperate characters with which the state has dealt, according to
 state authorities.
 He successfully eluded several hun dred armed searchers for a month and was captured only after being seriously wounded. He frequently boasted he never would die on the gallows. Last Wednesday night in an attempt to es- cape from the New Orleans parish prison, he wrenched a piece of pipe from the plumbing in his cell, and fought more than an hour with the warden and five deputies before being subdued and last night in the death cell at the peni- tentiary he slashed his throat from ear to ear with safety razor blade which he had secreted in his scapular in an effort to cheat the gallows.
 | One of Carriere's last requests of his attorney, was that his gold watch and I two gold rings be sent to Miss Daisy Burgess of Coffeeville, Miss, who. ac- cording to Carriere's attorney, and let l ters from Miss Burgess to a New Or l leans newspaper, furnished large DOT 1 tion of the money with which he made i his fight in the courts of Louisiana in l his efforts to escape the death penalty {! The young woman wrote that she had not known Carriere until after he had 1 been tried and convicted of murder and | that she sought to assist him out of sym pathy, and her belief in his claim thai 1 he had not fired the shot that killed l Sheriff Swords.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
CAMP PIKE IS HE
 SCENE OF KILLING
Negro Laborer, Discharged. Attacks Construction Fore
 man and Is Shot Down

Little Rock, October 19.-(Special) The first fight of fatal termination to occur at Camp Pike, notwithstanding that during the summer 10000 work men, white and negroes. were em- ployed in construction work, took place today when Bud Bradley, discharged negro lahorer, was shot and killed in pistol duel on South avenue, near the receiving depot by D. C. Kelly, a construction foreman. Bradley, in furiated over his discharge, is said to have attacked Kelly with revolver
 Bradley fired at the white man sew era1 times, none of the shots taking effect, when Kelly drew his revolver and shot the negro twice in the left breast and once in the abdomen. BraT- ley dropped dead just as he had fired the last shot in his gun. Kelly was taken in charge by civil authorities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
Furniture Dealers

The newly elected city commissioners were the guests of the Furniture Dealers association at luncheon in the private dining room of the Civic association cafe yesterday at 12:So
 R. L. Sparkman, president or the ' UT niture Dealers association, presided over the meeting and delivered an exceedingly warn, welcome to the guests. Among the sneakers were Dr. N. A. Barrett John Taylor, John R. Hornady, Lotus Pizitz and James Hood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
GRAND JURY MAKES
 REPORT AND SCORES
 ROAD CONDITIONS
from Page Five,

terialIy decrease the expense they now are costing the county.
 This body does not wish to be un- duly critical but these are times when economy of the most rigid character should be practiced. We find, and 50 report, that in our opinion one physi- elan can do the work where two are now employed. The daily attendance on the inmates of the jail is no longer necessary. and there is certainly not enough to require the constant at- tendance of a. physician at the aims house.
 We understand the men who run the elevators in the courthouse are re- ceiving only $40 per month. We be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
BULGAR|ANS ARE
 QUIETLY SEEKING
 BASIS OF PEACE
While King Declares Loyal ty to Germany Agents Are Making Overtures
 to the Allies

Copenhagen, October 19. While Emperor William and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria have been exchanging assur- ances at Sofia of the un- shakable loyalty of Bulgaria and Germany to each other and of the permanent nature of the alliance of the two countries, Bulgarian agents abroad have been endeavor- ing to get into touch with the entente powers on the subject of peace and subse- quent relations.
 Their efforts are declared to be in- spired by apprehension that Germany and Austria-Hungary, particularly the latter, may not be overzealous in defending Bulgaria's interest at the peace conference, as we'll as by de- sire on Bulgaria's part to escape from revolving in an exclusively German orbit after the war.
 The Associated Press correspondent is able to report that a Bulgarian repre- sentative recently sought and obtained an opportunity in a neutral European capital to lay before the entente gov ernments the special desires of his coun- try with regard to peace settlement. and in a one-sided conversation ex- plained Bulgarian aspirations to regain an independent political status as soon as the war was concluded and resume cordial relations with the entente pow CTS. As the case was presented in short, the central Europe idea of economic parative winor role does not appeal to paraaive minor roes does not appeal to the Bulgarian mind.
 Attempts are also being made to get before the public in America and in the entente countries a defense of Bull garian pretensions to Macedonia and the Dobrudja, the suggestion even being openly made from the Bulgarian side that Servia should be compensated with Austrian territory from Bosnia and Herzegovina. suggestion which Is pointed to as illustrative of the attitude of many Bulgarians toward their owr allies.
 The correspondent of late heard ot considerable i'll feeling between the Bull garians and their allies. Complaints arc s made that Bulgarian divisions were con- pelled to march long distances on foot while German troops rolled past then in trains. ( The German attempt to maintain con trol of Bu1garia's single coal field has excited much unfriendly comment also in Bulgaria, and Field Marshal Vor Mackensen is charged with favoring tho Hungarians at Bulgarian expense. Fur thermore, the controversy in certain Ger man and Austrian newspapers in which the servian claims to parts of Mace donia were defended apparently has left an indelible impression of dstrust CT Bulgarian public opinion, an impression which the public declarations of the Ger man minister and the interchanges Oi cordial telegrams between German ant Bulgarian statesmen seem to have beer unable to- effact. It remains to be seer whether Emperor William trip, declared to have been undertaken with this pur pose in view, will prove any more sue. cesSful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
Incorporation

Papers of incorporation were filed yes terdav in the probate clerks office by the Flat Creek Mining company. The incorporators of the new company are: I. N. Sxelton, president and treasurer l.. E. Skelton, secretary, and B. c. SkAl- ton. vice president The company Will start business with $2ooo capital stock, all of which is paid in The incorpofa tors are all natives of Quinton, all though the principal office of the com many will be at Flat Top,- in Jefferson county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
Food Conservation

The food conservation campaign inalg- urated by Herbert c. Hoover and in dorsed by President Wilson, will begin with a boom on October 2S, when ;ill pastors of the Birmingham churches will be asked to make talks to their respective congregations in regard to the matter of food conservation.
 Postmaster R. E. Smyer, Mir. Hoover 5 Jefferson county representative, Is en- thhsiastic in the work of getting the people to economize and conserve the food products of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
Young Cattle "Thick as Hops

Tuscaloosa, October l9.-lSpeciaI.J-W. E. Bonham, secretary of the county board of revenue, has just returned from a weeks visit to Montgomery and other south Alabama points, where he visited his boyhood home and many old-tlme friends The things which most inn pressed MT. Bonham during his travels were the large number of young cat tle which, according to his story, rare as thick as hops all through that part of the state.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
TO TEACH GAS FIGHTING

Officials at headquarters are now looking for a location for the build ing in which gas fighting will be taught. Because of the deadly proper. ties of the gas, the building will have to be located at some distance from other habitations. Students and in structors will wear masks and guards will patrol the vicinity when lessons are in progress.
 The James Stewart company, now finishing up the cantonment work here, has received a contract for the erection of steel storage tanks in France and Superintendent Pratt, who is building the training battalion bar I,aclS will ha, nlaa af. 1..1a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20

New Orleans, October 19-Recent is- sues of~the local city directory do not contain the name of c. l.. Ausburn, listed in Secretary Daniels announcement as lost when the transport Antilles was torpedoed on October 17. Members of family at 2S00 Louisiana avenue said they had lived at that address for sev- eral years and had never heard of either c. l.. Ailshburn or R. Ausburn, given in the statement as the missing radio electricians next of kim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
MORE MEN DISCHARGED

No Alabama men were registered at the receiving depot today, but the fol- lowing were discharged on account of physical disabilities: Elpha Sottile and c. F. Tedder of Birmingham, Roscoe Weems of Jasper. H. w. Jordon 3f Montgomery. K. J. Hollingshead of Jasper, Clay Mullens and Luci Nara more of Jasper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
Ship's Cargo on Fire

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, October 19.-The 37O0-ton Danish steamship Virginia, from a port of the United States for Montevideo. put in here to- day with her cargo afire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
Suit Filed

Suit was filed in circuit court yester- day by Will Pickens against Thomas Worthington for 5000 damages for al- legged personal injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
Marriage Licenses

Fred Morris of Birmingham to Miss Irene Hill.
 sJ. E. Reynolds of Birmingham to Miss Ruth Acker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
EMMET l.. KINSEY

Water Valley, Miss, October l9.-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. kimsey tonight stated their son. Emmet L., who was reported in Secretary Daniels announce ment under the name of F. l.. ISinzcy, as one of the sailors lost when the traus- port Antilles was torpedoed, joined the navy March 15 last, and about two months ago was transferred from a bat. tleship to duty on the Antilles.
 lie was 19 years of age and high school student when he enlisted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
70 LIVES LOST WHEN
 WHEN TRANSPORT
 IS SUNK BY U-BOAT
c. L. AUSRuRN
(Continued from Page One)

long with a beam of 5s feet and a depth of 37 feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
R. w. HINT

Mountain Grove. Mo, October 19.R. w. Hunt, one of the sailors listed as lost on the transport Antilles, was 21 years old. Just a week ago his father, Isaac Hunt, farmer living near here, received letter from him describing trips to and from Eu- rope aboard transport Hunt enlisted at Indianapolis last October and re- ceived his training at the Great Lakes naval station
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-20
HERBERT w. WATSON

Rutland, Mass, October f9.-Herbert F. Watson, who was lost on the transport Antilles, was the first Rutland boy to enlist after war was declared on Ger- many, having joined the navy April s. His mother, Mrs. Wallace L. Segar, we prostrated by the news brought to her tonight
 Young Watson was 23 years old. He war born in Norwich, Conn.,, and edu- cated in the public schools of Worcester. He had been employed in the office of a large Worcester concern and learned radio operating during his spare time.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-13
STOCKS OPEN HEAVY,
GOING TO LOW PRICES
Some Net Gains for Day
Are Shown.
NO lB1G BEAR INTERESTS
Greatest Strength Seen in United
States Steel and Crucible-Be-
cause OF Rise in Wheat, Board OF
Trade May BE Closed.
BY nKOADAN WALL,

NEW YORK. May 12.--In tho actual st1te-
incnt to-day banks reported an increase in
rcscryes Of s567lo.9ao an Increase IN loans
deposits OF sss:toco The syeraEe o' asats
mont showed an increase In reserves OF 81. :
3Si.eSo. decrease In loans Of si3.Sl5. 90 and
I'm demand deposits of si..s2a.o0o.
advanced In short covering. no that some
lot gains were shown for tho day. There
~ no short interest OF Importance In the
big investment stocks among which to-day
1897 Cruciblc and United States Steel dis
played the greatest strength. Announce
mont that no further trading would be per
United In May wheat. and that all con-
the closing price of Friday sent apeculatorn
II made new high records every fcw minutes
during the session Whcn July sold mt
would have to be stopped. and move was
started looking to the closing OF tho Board
of Trade. II Is possible that official action
may be taken before the opening on Mon
day. Coppcrs are being liquidatcd on every
strong spot because the cos; Of production
is advancing rapidly.
Selling to-day mado itself felt most scri-
ously In the railroad. This Was due partly
70 tho known bad earnings. particularly In
ST. Paul. In which stock there liz important
liquidation. Further discussion WAS heard
Of the tax plans OF the government. Wall
street is violently opposed to an increase
Of tho excess profit tax. and to retro
active increase OF tho income tax OF 1915.
NEW YORK. May I2-Mercantiie papcr.
t'.d5. Sterling, siXty-day bills. f4.7o: com
'incruial sisty-day bills on banks. ftIIH:
:.:mmereisi, six,,y:day bills, s,5iH demand.
lean dollars. IS. Government bonds, stcsdy.
Raiircad bonds. heavy.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-13

Keys group will be developed by the
Florida Keys Corporation, Miami. Fla.
Incorporated with s1.oo0.ooo capital to
build docks, plant 5000 acres in lines,
construct hotels, etc.
West Virginia coal land will be de-
veloned by the Western Pocahontas
Coal Company, Huntington. w. Va, in
corporated with s1.000.oOO capital.
Lumber will be the product of the
Long Pine Lumber Company, Alex
andria, La, chartered with 100000
capital.
New York capitalists Incorporated
the Eastern Utilities Coal Company.
Wheeling, w. Va. with 100000 capital
for developing West Virginia coal
property.
virginia coal properties will be mined
by the Sabine Galleries Company. Rich
mond, chartered with 100000 capital.
A 100000 plant. with daily capacity
10000 magnesite and chrome bricks
has been contracted for at Baltimore
by the American Refractories Company,
OF Joliet, Ill.
Tennessee marble will be auarricd
by the Gray-Kno1 Marble Company.
Knoxville. Tenn. incorporated with
100000 capital.
West Virginia coal properties will be
developed by the Acme Pocahontas Coal
Company. WEIGH. w. Va, chartered
with s25o.000 capital.
West Virginia coal will be mined by
the Huntington Coal Sales Company,
Huntington w. Va, chartered with
100000 capital.
Building and machinery contracts
were awarded by the Triton tGa.) Pack
ing Company for $4,000 meat-killing
and packing plant, with daily capacity
500 hogs and fifty cattle.
kaolin deposits Will be mined by the
McNamee Kaolin Company. Bath. S. c.,
incorporated with $4,000 capital
West Virginia coal properties will be
developed by the Cook & Carter Co,
Terry. w. Va. incorporated with $780,
600 capital.
Fertilizer will be manufactured by
the Robertson Fertilizer Company.
Money Point, Va, incorporated with
100000 capital.
Chicago capitalists will develop Vir-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-13

ginia coal property. having incorpo-
rated the Virginia Coal and Fuel Com
pany. with 100000 capital.
Cottonseed oil will be manufactured
by the Central Oil Mills. Jackson. Tenn.
Incorporated with 100000 capital.
Shalc brick and hollow tile will be
manufactured by the HUNTINGTON CIV.
Nao Clay Products Company. incor-
porated with 100000 capital.
Coal properties in West Virginia will
be developed by the Bcckley Vein Coal
Company Berkeley. w. Va, incor-
porated with $4,000 capital.
a $4,000 factory addition viii be
built by the II. j. Reynolds Tobacco
Company at Lexington KY
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-13

4, hoistery shop. ninety-two feet long. and
thirty-two feet wide. These buildings
are OF frame construction. with Hy-rib
siding. tar and gravel roofs and con-
crete floors throughout. and they are
situated on the site of the coach shop,
which was recently burned. The new
plant will be- equipped with cranes for
handling trucks. besides having every
modern facility for conducting coach
repairs. a complete sprinkler system
will be installed. This will he con-
nectcd with II 50.000-Sallon steel tank
that Is already in position. which al
together will constitute up-to-date pro-
lection against fire.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-13
SAVING STRAWBERRIES

NORFOLK. VA, May 12.-Truckcrs
direct benefit from the establishment
of branch plant OF the Grecian
Products Company. Of New York. in
Norfolk. A deal was closed this week
that will give the New York concern
site in Princess Anne Avenue, where
about GOO women are to he employed.
Gaping Strawberries and putting them
away in sugar to be stored until they
are made into preserves or juices for
soda fountains.
Berries will be purchased through
out this section, and the company will
probably make most OF its purchases
near the end of the season, when a
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-13
COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, May 12-Thcrc was further
sharp advance In tho cotton market this
morning. with October contracts selling up
TO l9..lc or Il points above last nights
close and more than 81 per bale above the
lew level Of last Wednesday, That delivery
closed at 1900. with the general list closing
steady at n net advance OF ia IL poingl
The market had n comparatively aul.
, opening. with first prices points lower to
point higher. Almost at once. however.
trading became more active. md prices
advanced on renewal Of WALL Street. ana
local covering. Offerings were comps ra-
tvcly light until July at 1880 and De-
ccmbcr at ls2sc. with the Gensrni list
some - to p points net higher. Then more
cotton was encountered. and there
actions OF several points from the best. with
the volume of business tapcring OF toward
the close. Factors discussed on the advance
were reiterated reports OF large government
orders In the goods market. further crop
complaints. based on recent low tempera-
lures reports of improved export de-
mand. and rumors OF improved methods Of
combating submarines; Peace talt may
, also have had some influence on tho adj
vance. but there was quite general dis
position among local traders TO attribute
the demand 10 transfer OF Interest from
grain TO cotton owing TO tho situation in