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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
ANDREW BONAR LAW WILL NOT DISCUSS BLUE BOOK REPORT
No Quick Action Is to Be Taken Against Men Who Blundered in Mesopo-
 tamia Campaign

London, June 27-Andrew Bonar Law, member of the British war council, was oomoarded in the House of Commons today with questions regarding the ac- ton the government intended to take against those accused of culpability in the report on the Mesopotamia expedi- ton, made public last night in the blue book He replied that he would rather make no statement until the House had had time to consider the report, "but it was the obvious duty of the government tc take immediate action with regard to those who specially were accused of culpability."
 Asked by Joseph King, liberal, whether Baron Hardinge, formerly governor-gen- eral, and viceroy of India, was still in a position of great authority at the for eign office, MT. Bonar Law replied:
 These questions assume that Baron Hardinge has been guilty. I don't wish to make any such assumption at present."
 The dissatisfaction aroused by the re- port is even greater than that caused by the report of the Dardanelles commission Several high regulations have been blast ed by this report, but some of the news- papers dissatisfied with assurances that the old regime has disappeared demand whether disciplinary measures are to follow.
 The feature of the report Is de- scription of the sufferings of the wound ed after the battle of Ctesiphon Surgeon Major Carter, in charge at Basra when the barges of wounded arrived, described the wounded huddled together without protection from the rain some without blankets and some with broken limbs set with splints made from strips of whisky boxes The commissions evidence shows that Surgeon Major Carter's su- perior officers threatened to put him un- der arrest and referred to him as "a faddist."
 The report of General Sir John Nixon. then commander of the British forces in Mesopota mia, in response to questions from the India office which had heard rumors as to bad conditions, described the medical arrangements a 8 splendid
 In reply to a telegram from Adjutant General Cowper in January, 1916. saying the relief of Kut- -El-Amara would have to be abandoned unless he received ade quate shipping transport the Indian com mander In chief wired that he would remove Adjutant General Cowper from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
Producers in Midcontinent
 Oil Field Are Retrenching

Bartlesville. Okla. June 27.--Oil pro- ducers in the midcontinent field, fearing government action. and after hasty conferences, issued orders 10 stop drilling when the wells now un- der way are completed. it was an- nounced here today. It is estimated there are 800 strings of drilling tools operating in the Oklahoma and Kan sas fields, 500 of which will close down within 8 few weeks unless the orders are rescinded. Sixty per cent of the high grade oil produced in the United States comes from this terri tory.
 Producers also claim that the pres ent market price does not justify ex- tension of operations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
Sent
 To Jail Hold Song
 Seruice Behind Bars

cell block with individual berths, toilet facilities and towels. The berths are clean, the walls are white and in the cor ridor window overlooking a green court yard and the eastern branch of the Po- tomac, potted geraniums bloom.
 Considering that it is a jail, we are very comfortably fixed" said Miss Yer non to a newspaper man who was per mitted to call we had shoulder, kale, are just having little singing bee be- fore bedtime"
 The other young women smiled wanly and nodded approval of the statement
 Bessie Jones, & negro woman charged with larceny, interrupted at this point shouting through the bars:
 And don't you forget that we've been here long time and we're having a good time tonight for once"
 NO COMMENT
 The suffragists smilngly declined to discuss tneT Imprisonment. Nor was any comment forthcoming from head quarters of the national women's party which has directed the pIcketing demon tstratlons during the last eight months, and whsoe leaders agreed in police court that jail sentences should be accepted instead of fines.
 Tomorrow the women may even see callers through the bars. For break fast they will have rice, bread and cof- fee, and for supper, beef stew, bread and tea They will spend part of the time writing arHuments for woman suffrage, to be published later.
 ~narses o1 obstructing. the sidewalk are pending against other women pickets. but the date for their trial has not beer set. In the meantime the suffragsts are making no announcement as to further activities. in front of the White House,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
Summary Of Outstanding Developments In News
 Fror; Various War Fronts
By Associated Press

carried mainly artillery the bgerents The infantry activity patrol parties which only small bits of ter
 
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 considerable intensity continue prevail along There has renewal of big fire in the northwest of Verdun.
 Austaan the Austrian ar Italians reoccuped them fighting they 1900 prisoners withdrawal of the Italians that Italians c the artillery.
 fighting Russians and AustroGerans the TarnopoI railway along the Narayuvka
 operations and
  brewing There have however been attack by the preceded by violent positions It ePulsed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDS FOOD BILL
 AND MORE DRASTIC
 PROVISIONS ADDED
(continued from Page one)

the supply of liquor is exhausted it is pointed out that liquor having acquired its hold, will more easily recover from war legislation than the lighter and less injurious beer.
 There is no question but that the anti prohibitionists will make a strong fight in the Senate against the war prohibition features of the food control bill. The anti prohbitionists however, do not threaten unnecessarily to postpone food control legislation because of the features con- tained therein to which they object
 UP TO WILSON
 The situation is such, it is evident, that it can easily be transformed by a simple word from President Wilson or his spokesmen.
 If the administration believes prohibi- ton to be necessary for the more efficient prosecution of the war, prohibition will obtain If the administration believes that under the guse of war legislation prohibition is unwise or unnecessary or that it would be unwise to call upon business to contribute $500 0.000 per an- mum in addition to present contribution by taxation, prohibition will not obtain.
 If the administration continues to be silent, it Is indicated that in essential respects the House legislation will be per fected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
ALLEGED GERMAN SPIES ARE HELD IN NEW ORLEANS COURT

New Orleans. June 27.-Louis Her schkovitz, alias Hirsch, who with two other men, was arrested last Satur7 day as a result of investigations by federal agents here and in BirminG- ham. was held without bail by United States Commissioner Browne here to- day on charges of attempting to pro ; cure information relative to the coun- try's public defenses which might be useful to the enemy.
 The charges against Herschkovitz were filed under the new espionage act by F. c. Pendleton, special agent of the department of justice here, who specifically accused the defendant of endeavoring to procure prohibited in- formation on June IS last
 Herschkovitz and Hans DeLorme were arrested here and F. o. Rosen- baum was arrested in Birmingham In connection with the federal agents ln- yestigation of their suspected spying activities. The authorities stated they suspected the trio of attempting to gather information around the local naval station and wireless plants and about railroads, industrial plants and defenses here and in Birmingham. h. timations also were given of an al- leged plot to obtain information re- garding coast defenses in this sec- tion and relay 1t through suspected agents in Texas and Mexico to Ger man submarine in southern waters.
 The authorities stated they still were holding DeLorme here for fur ther investigation. Rosenbaum, 1t was stated, was being held in Birming- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
If You Are a Bantam
 and Want to Fight. the
 Government Is Willing

Washington. June 27.--In reply to Q nunber of requests from men of small statue who wish to form regiments like Britain's famous Yorkshire ban tams,' the war department announced that no man will be rejected for serv ice if, in the opinion of the recruit ing officer, his deficiencies in height and weight will not materially inn pair his usefulness as a soldier. The statement says the regulations re quiring men to be at least five feet four inches in height and 120 pounds in weight will be flexibly applied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
NO EXCITEMENT

The departure of this first battalion had not stirred the least ripple of eN- citement in the navy yard. Half an hour or so later another battalion marched briskly down the same brick street and formed in the parade grounds The blueiack ct nine was still at it's baseball practice. A third bat talion formed and stacked arms in front of the barracks.
 Presently, without so much as d hugle note for warning, the two bat -talions picked up their arms and filed out of sight back of screen of shade trees.
 A quarter of an hour later ru- mor came to the blueiacket baseball players that the marines were board ing ship. The jackie beside the home plate dropped his bat and ran down toward the street, his teammates close behind him. But they were too late to catch even a glimpse of the rear guard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28

command if he sent any more "querulous or petulant demands for shipping"
 The Evening Standard points out that J. Austen Chamberlain, secretary for In- dia, and Baron Hardinge, former viceroy of India, remain In high office and that none of the others named as responsi- ble has suffered except in reputation. It charges that there is something terribly wrong with a system which consistently failed to punish the grossest incompe- tence In high places, and attributes this to the social position, intermarriage ard freema sorry of officialdom."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
Representatives of Trade in All Sections of Country
 Pass Resolutions
THIS TO BE ACTED
 ON BY CONVENTION
Proposal Is That Government Rep resentatiyes Absolutely Control Figures Which Consumers
 Must Pay

Washington, June 27.-A proposal that coal prices dur ing the war be fixed by joint government commission con- posed of the Secretary of the Interior, the defense councils coal production committee and the federal trade commission was approved tonight by spe- cial committee of coal opera tors representing the trade in all sections of the country.
 Tomorrow a resolution embodying this plan will be submitted to the convention of 400 operators meeting here for discussion of the problem, and indications are that it will be ac- cepted. It then may be presented as a substitute for pending legislation proposing blanket authority for gov ernment price-fiXing on the con- modity and backed by the operators as a compromise adjustment satisfac- tory both to producers and consumers.
 The convention appointed the special committee after it had voted to recon slider a resolution adopted yesterday pledging the operators to insure proper prices through committees of their num- Der working in conference with the coal production committee of the defense council. The reconsideration was decided on after speakers pointed out that such a procedure might make the operators liable to prosecution under the sherman anti-monopoly law.
 COMMISSION FRIENDLY
 On the special committee was one op- orator from each coal state, Chairman Peabody of the production committee and Commissioner Fort of the federal trade commission. Tn support of the plan ap proved it was argued that the proposed joint commission would not leave the trade without representation in the price- fixing, since number of operators are uicIiuSlS Ol lilS prOuuCtiOH COIiiIllLScs
 The coal men, in appointing Commis- sioner Fort a member of the special committee, gave expression to an appar- ent feeling of reassurance as to the friendlness of the trade commission.
 In an address to the convention short time before the commissioner had de- clared he and his colleagues were loath to fix prices at all, and would not do so without giving the producers every opportunity to represent their side of the case. He was loudly cheered
 AS TO TRANSPORTATION
 Thirty per cent of the embarrassment in the coal trade the commissioner said, is due to lack of transportation facilities. The commission, he assured the opera tors, has no intention of figuring coal costs down to cent or cents It al ready is undertaking to determine coal production costs at the request of Sec r&tary Daniels.
 While the convention was in session the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
NEW BoNE-DRY PROVISION

Washington, June T.-Food control leg islation assumed new and more drastic form today when the Senate agriculture committee virtually redrafted many of the principal features of the House meas ure and reported it with material exten- sions of government power and a new
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
TIE WEks',sy,
Weather Cond'

Washington, June
 forecast for Alabama, Mississippi: Probably lC showers Thursday and l
 Tennessee: Probably | showers Thursday and F
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
Card nf Thanks

MT. T. H. Adams and family and and Mrs. J. L. Caraway wish to press their deep appreciation of many kindnesses shown them dur their recent bereavement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
Now, What Will the Senate Do?

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
BLANKET PROVISION

It declares it to be unlawful for "any person acting either as voluntary or paid agent or employe of the gov ernment in any capacity. including an advisory Capacity to any commission, board or council, to attempt to pro- cure or make any contract for the purchase of any supplies for the use of the government either from him. self, from any firm of which he is a member or corporation of which he is an officer or stockholder, or where in he has any financial interest" un- der penalties of a $10,000 fine and five years imprisonment.
 The proposed blanket power for gov ernment acquisition provides:
 The President is authorized to requisition food feeds, fuels and oth- CT supplies necessary to the support of the army or the maintenance of nected with the common defense" Un- give the government power to take at just price any supplies needed for military purposes, or, broadly. for the public defense needs.
 The provision for communicating of foodstuffs. packing houses, oil wells and other plants for military or pub lie defense purposes also would au- thorize their operation. The commit : tee added an amendment providing that in regulating wages of employees of plants communicated, in case of dispute the federal wage rates shall be settled by arbitration through the board of mediation and conciliation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
WOULD TAKE CHANGE

obviously. no such ruling can be ap- piled against our troops who will soon be fighting side by side with the allies in France and I am confident that when the situation is fully understood, ex- ception will be made in favor of those loyal American citizens who are sent to participate in the humanitarian work our Red Cross is undertaking.
 It may be that by some chance a disloval man or woman may enlist, but 1 had rather take that chance than to take the chance of having any of our people disspirited and disheartened when they are really trying to help"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
VOTE IN COMMITTEE

The prohibition section was written into the bill by vote of g to '. The commit tee rejected, to '. it's subcommittee's recommendation that the President be given authority to permit continuance of manufacture of malt and fermented bev- erages.
 House or Lever measure, Senate debate on the original Chamberlain draft was suspended.
 The possibility of flibuster because of the drastic prohibition proposal is being considered. Senate leaders agree that the prohibition fight probably will be long and one of the most strenuous in the Senate's history.
 In rewriting and extending the bill, the committee adopted a new amendment aimed to prevent government employees or officers from selling their own ma terials to the government
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28

paign hats from the windows as the train pulled out, but neither they nor their friends indulged in any cheer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
RED CROSS FUND
 WILL GO BEYOND
 S115,000,000 MARK
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(COntinued from Page One)
 manning these base hospital unts,' said MT. Davison, this ruling of the allied nations is peculiarly embarrassing to the work of our Red Cross. The Red Cross has, of course, never questioned the loy- alty of any American citizen, no matter what his place of birth, offering to make the sacrifices which any such volunteer service entails.
 Tt is not difficult to appreciate the attitude of the allied governments re- sponsive as they are to the sentiment of their peoples. Such ruling might per haps be applied in a country containing cnly a rela lively small number of citizens of alien birth. But to apply such an in- variable rule with reference to workers from such people as our own, must in- evitably result in unfair discrimination against some of our most patriotic and ih5 ai
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28

Senate interstate commerce committee continued it's hearing of operators and others on the bill giving blanket govern ment authority to fix the price of coal and railroad supplies. Most of the op- orators who appeared expressed will ingness to submit to reasonable govern ment regulation, but insisted that they were not responsible for high coal prices and should not be the objects of any punitive legislation.
 NEW YORK SITUATION
 William H. Mehlich of New York charged that in that city spectators con- trol the coal output It is impossible to get anthracite at all he said, and the prices of other grades are high.
 E. C. Turner, former attorney general of Ohio, representing southern coal op- orators, said the government should regulate the coal price to private con sumers and public utilities, but not to those industries that are making big profits on war contracts He said the southern Ohio operators feel that the present situation is intolerable. The com mittee hearings continue tomorrow.
 The meeting of operators voted today to establish in Washington perma- nent bureau for cooperation with the government. It will be a clearing house of the coal association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28

Washington. June 27.-Behind jail bars tonight, six women suffragsts, convicted in police court today of obstructing the sidewalk by displaying propaganda ban ners before the White House, held song service and suffrage meeting for the other women inmates of the prison.
 The suffragists were given. their choice of s25 fines or three days in jail, and decided to go to jail. They did not at tempt hunger strike, and will be re- leased Friday morning, part of today and a few hours of Friday being counted as full days.
 EXTRAORDINARY SCENE
 The district prison house womens sec tion presented an extraordinary scene to- night At a little organ in the carpeted corridor sat Miss Mable Vernon of Reno, Nev, playing God Be With You Till We Meet Again" and other hymns, while about her stood the little group of sing CTS, Miss Katherine Mercy of Boston, Miss Virginia Arnold of Asheville, N. C., Miss Lavinia Dock of Philadelphia, Miss Maud Jamison of Norfolk, Va, and Mrs Annie R Arneil of Wilmington, Del.
 I1uQuleQ OH d sld4iWdy Dc9 Ouu d DdII GU partition were 90 negro women and few white women who joined in the refrain. The jail matron gave the suffragists per- mission to address their fellow prisoners and the meeting which followed developed fervent pleas for the cause of votes for women"
 Each suffragist has been assigned to a separate cell on the lowest tier of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
OTHER AMENDMENTS

Other important amendments approved would authorize the government to take over and operate factories, packing houses, oil wells and mines, regulating wages of their employees and to comman- deer all supplies needed for the army and navy, ''or any other public use con- nected with the public defense.'
 Another would empower the govern ment to buy and sell, for general civilian purposes, food, feeds and fuel, with lmi- tation upon the general legislation mak- ing it apply to agencies and products only in interstate or foreign commerce.
 The amendments are declared by sena- tors who have been opposing as well as those supporting the legislation to re- move almost all opposition except upon prohibition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
What Will the Senate Do?

The House bill the for bl Will weaken strengthen prohibition The legislative committee will the Senate the prohibition the further prohibition The opposition in the will the
  uncon uional
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
The House Goes the Limit

On the eyWebb prohibit
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28

"bone-dry'' prohibition provision to stop manufacture of intoxicating beverages during the war. The President would be authorized to permit wine making and to commander existing distilled spirits
 The amended bill was presented to the Senate by Senator Chamberlain. He will move tomorrow to have it substituted for the draft the Senate has been debat- ing and proceed with all expedition to- ward final action.
 The new prohibition plan, all leaders admitted tonight, preclude enactment of the legislation by July l.
 In extending the scope of the legisla- ton and the Presidents powers, the com mittee adopted amendments which would provide for government control, in addi- tion to food, feeds and fuel, of iron, steel, copper, lead and their products, lumber and timber. petroleum and its products, farm implements and machin- cry fertilizers and binding twine ma tarialS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
Without Hurrah Men
 Slip Away to Fight
 in Far-Off France

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
What Do the People Want?

If want the from national the manufacture and the sale of all alcoholic beverages including them know that fact promptly and mphatcay The battle press for complete victory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-28
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