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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-24
Congress and Public Opinion
 Will Decide on Measure
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ITO" I'dGt oncJ allies will be augmented. rather than diminished
 After the cabinet meeting the Presi- dent saw Governor Mccall of Massa- chusetts for an hour. and was told of preliminary preparedness measures taken by New England states, and of fered complete co-operation Tho Massachusetts legislature has appro- priated $1,O00.000 which Governor Mo Call said will be spent largely to pre- pare the states National Guard for quick service. He will see Secretary Baker tomorrow.
 Conferences on the legislative pro- gramme will begin at the capitol early next week. Secretary McAdoo, Repre- sentative Kitchin and Representative Hull are expected to talk over the fiscal situation before Wednesday, the tentative date set for a meeting of the democratic members of the ways and means committee. the revenue raising body of the House. Various measures for providing additional rev enue are being considered. including the possibility of resort to additional taxes on whisky. tobacco and other articles. A mass of data relating to
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Washington. March 23.-The first de- tailed official account of the sinking reached the state department late to- day from American Consul Krogh at Rotterdam. It follows
 American tank steamer Healdton. Bayonne, N J.. owned by Standard Oil company, New York, en route Rotter- dam commanded by Captain Charles Christopher. American citizen, carry ing cargo 5000 tons petroleum. having Al officers and crew aboard includ- ing number of Americans: reported torpedoed and sunk without warning by German submarine at S;15 evening of 21st. 25 miles from Terschelling.
 Captain and l9 men brought safely Ijmuiden. One died of exposure in life
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GERMAN RETREAT FROM FRANCE IS
 HALTED FOR TIME
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tir. in Servia, and Russian advances in Persia, there have been no important operations on the other battle fronts. North of Monastir. after a violent fight Hill 124S remained in the hands of the French. Paris says the German and Bulgarian troops made repeated unsuc- cessful attacks to gain possession of the hill. Berlin reports a "harassing fire by the French near Monastir and says partial attack took place between Lakes Ochrida and Presba.
 Southwest of Kermanshah, Persia, the Russians have progressed to within 45 miles of the Mesopotamian border, ac- cording to Petrograd. This would bring the Russians to within 100 miles of the British force that has been advancing up the Diala river from Bagdad. In a 16-hour battle near Kerind, Petrograd also reports, the Turks were forced to retreat to Kerind. The Russians have attacked the Turks along the River Shirwan, tributary of the Diala
 It is reported unofficially that Ger many has notified Norway of the exten-
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In their application to the commission for 6 suspension of the rules, the east ern roads report that they are sustain ing and are threatened with enormous decreases in net operating income due to large increases in wages, in cost of fuel, other materials, supplies and equip ment and to increased cost of capital"
 Substantial increases in freight rates are imperativ demanded by their (the 'railroadsD financial condition, the ap- plication reads. The emergency requires that these increases should be made in the most expeditions manner and with the least possible delay.'
 The tentative plan of the railroads, so far as disclosed, is to request approval of flat increase in freight rates on all commodities except coal, coke and ore. Upon these three items proposed speci- fled increases of certain sums per ton would be named.
 Passenger fares would not be affected by the increase as at present considered.
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Application of Atkinson LaW WiU Be Threshed Out in April Public Is Being
 Asked 10 Pay

New York March 23-Ralroad managers and representa- tves of the four anmen broterhood have agreed upon tentative basis for the application of the Adamson law announced tonight by Elisha ee chairman of the national conference committee of railroad managers The agreement it sad the greater of the schedules in order that the increased wages accrng the employees Jan uary may be paid quickly possible.
 ''A number of minor points, said Mr. Lee still to be April If differences arise the application of the law they will be referred joint board of eight four be pointed by the national conference committee of the railroads and four by the brotherhoods
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sion of the blockaded zone to the Arctic ocean. This extends the zone in which neutral vessels go at their own risk to include the waters accessible to the ports of northern Russia.
 Seven Americans are believed to have been lost when the American steamer Healdton was torpedoed by submarine Wednesday night in the North sea off the coast of Holland. The Healdton is said to have been well inside the so- called safe channel of the waters when she was attacked.
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boat. Twenty reported drowned by capsizing One lifeboat with following officers and crew reported saved: Cap tain Christopher, Brooklyn; Chief En- gineer Caldwell. New York: Assistant Engineer Emery New Orleans; Boats man Rode. Rotterdam; Cook Snickers Rotterdam; Seaman Lorensen, Norway Oilers Guillane, Romero; Stokers Con- zales, Grande. Muino and Alonzo and Engineers Messman and Laurino, all of Philadelphia.
 "The survivors are en route to Rot terdam.
 A later dispatch said:
 Additional survivors steamer Heald- ton, Willerup, svensson, Parker. John son, sickstrom, Andersen. vonseca Gonzaley and Alaho.
 "Jassinto died of exposure"
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Bald Headed Benefactor of Brazil


 Willard Price, in World Outlook. Why, you ask, do em. hasize the fact that he is bald-headed? Because I believe his bald -headedness has good deal to do with his success.
 The meek have always shown an ap- titude for inheriting the earth, and bald ness is a great aid to meekness. But besides enjoying this precious advantage over his fellowmen, Dr. H. c. Tucker has the additional advantage of being small, a little round shouldered, quite homely and-a missionary.
 Consequently. he gets anything he asks for.
 People say: "Why. what plain, honest little man! Give him anything he wants
 The slums of Rio de Janeiro got on this missionary's conscience The pres ident of the board of health, at his sug- gestion, started an anti-tuberculosis as- sociation. Others helped him open dis- pensary and day school. When heN wanted a pavement for his school playground, one firm gave the asphalt, another the cork. another the sand, another the coal for fuel, and still ! another laid the pavement without charg- ing penny
 Later, through his efforts, the first public playground in Brazil was opened. He has established cooking school with gas stoves donated by the gas com pany!
 A sewing school with machines do- mated by the Singer Sewing Machine company!
 ] A typewriting school with typewriters donated by the Remington company He has organized an educational asso- cia ton, an anti-fly campaign, move ment to cut down the causes of infant mortality, and just before coming north he had begun. with the aid of corps of trained workers. an investigation of industries in Brazil-hours of work, | wages. child labor, woman labor. work l ing condition, homes, etc.
 Many man who never understood missions before has come to believe 1 thoroughly in all that Tucker represents 1 He has captured the devotion of the peo- i pie: they love him more than the most 1 beautifully carved saint in the cathedral; ! trey are ready to follow him in anything he may suggest, and the name mis- sionary' has tender and honored sig 1 nificance in the city of Rio de Janeiro
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The sinking of French battleship of the Danton class by a German submarine in the Mediterranean on March 19 was reported in statement issued by the German admiralty on March 20 and received here by wire less. The statement said the battle ship, which was protected by de-
 stroyers, listed heavily after being hut and capsized 45 minutes later. Lieu
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tenant Captain Moraht was named as the commander of the German sub marine.
 The battleship Danton displaced 1S,- OPS tons and her comple ement before the war was 6S1 officers and men. The Danton was built at Brest and was commissioned in 1909. She had a speed of 192 knots and was 4S1 feet long. She carried four 12-inch guns and IS guns of smaller calibre.
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Cuts Off Foot

Jean McCarty of Lewisburg. while splitting rails near his home at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, struck his left foot with an ax, severing x from his body. MT McCarty was car ried to St. Vincent's hospital in Lige Loy's ambulance. where he was re- ported resting we'll.
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ELABORATE CEMETERY
Washington Receiues First { Details of Loss of Hedldt0n

Amsterdam, March 23-(Va London )-The Handesblad
 declares torpedong of the American Headon between the United States and Germany The Neuw Van Dag says the topedong of the Headton leads to the responsibility falls upon Germany upon the United States.
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Approximately 20 per cent of each potato pared by ordinary household methods is lost in the process. The loss includes. much and sometimes all of the portion of the tuber containing important soluble seas. Potatoes that are boiled and baked in their skins lost practically none of their food value.
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AMERICAN RELIEF
 SENT N PATHWA Y
 GERMAN RETREAT

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  the children citemen the the Germans.
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One of the strangest strikes in history became effective in Philadelphia when several hundred errand boys, demanding cent more package. quit work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-24

Tt is butter," cried several snril nttle voices at once, as the recipients scam pered away to their houses to show their elders what they had received. Through the open doors could be heard, Praise God There is butter again in France"
 AMERICAN RELIEF ACTIVE
 The American relief commission has been able to distribute coffee, flour, su gar, lard, limited quantities of rice, some cereals, soup, salt and vinegar, but no butter.
 The Associated Press correspondent to- day had cup of American coffee with ~ French peasant family living next door to the charred ruins of German dug outs near the banks of the Somnne. There was loaf of brown bread on the table. l'That also Is from the Americans" said the peasant mother, who was holding child or two.
 WILL NEVER FORGET AMERICA
 We shall never forget the assistance given us by America. It saved us. We have had nothing else since soon after the beginning of the German occupation. When the Germans first began taking our goods, our horses, our cattle, our sheep and everything else we raised on the farm, they gave us bits of paper which they said were bonds. telling us we should present them to President Poin- care for payment
 EVERYTHING TAKEN
 But in the last year or so all we have been able to raise has been taken with out even these poor bonds. We have been encouraged to cultivate our farms, then everything was taken and we were compelled to live on American rations. It is terrible, sir, but you are American. Please have another cup of coffee. I am sorry we have no milk. We have had none for more than year, all the cows having been taken away by the Ger mans. We have had no fresh meat for nine months
 For & time, the peasants say, they were allowed to keep hens on the condi- tion that they produce five eggs for each hen weekly for the German authorities. If the hens did not lay five eggs the peasants had to borrow them from their neighbors and they were delighted when the hens at last were confscated.
 UNDENIABLE THRILL
 There is an undeniable thrill attached to motoring over the old front positions on these changeable spring days, when chilling snow squalls intermingle with flashes of warm, brilliant sunshine. With in less than a week roads have spanned almost countless trench positions and ex- tended themselves over what once was no mans land. Running along these roads in broad daylight, it is hard to realize that six days ago one dared not lift an eye above the parapet of the front fire trenches.
 ENDLESS BARRED WIRE
 In penetrating the former German po- sitions a lasting memory always Is one of endless chains of rusted barbed wire. This has been a most valuable means of defense for the Germans and from the amount which may be seen stretching away in every direction as far as the eye reaches, it would seem that all the
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German industrial plants had been turned to wire making It is not the ordinary arbed wire known in America, but the barbs long and stout are attached to the wires at intervals of half an inch.
 BARRED WIRE PROLONGS WAR
 If it had not been for the barbed wire this war would have been over long ago. ' a British officer declared
 In leaving the territory recently evac- uated the Germans have taken away, in addition to all strong men and boys above Is, all women and girls from 15 years upwards who are able to work. A French official communication recently mentioned the taking of 50 women and girls from Noyon. On February II last, the Ger mans removed 423 from Nesle. It is said that all women capable of working in German factories or on German farms, who have no children dependent on them, must go.
 LEAVE ONLY AGED
 In taking away the fit population the Germans are replacing these persons by sending back hundreds of aged or infirm men and women from St. Quenten and other places behind their new lines, say ing frankly that the burden of support ing the old and infrm is thus placed on the French people.
 The problem of feeding the liberated people, who have been suddenly cut off from the American relief administered from within the German lines Is 'being met promptly. The man in charge of the relief work in the Nesle district is ,,oic in, f1,f country, but having a Polish father and an American mother. He has two Amer ican brothers living in Chicago who also are interested in relief work.
 LEFT FIVE DAYS SUPPLY
 In most of the villages evacuated the Germans left behind enough American supplies, chiefly brown bread, to last the inhabitants for five days. This seems to indicate that they did not expect to be followed quickly, but as a matter of fact British and French patrols entered many villages on the heels of the Ger man rear guard.
 The more the evacuated territory was explored the greater became the amaze ment at the amount of labor the Germans put in destruction. Hundreds of giant trees lining the roads had been felled after what must have been prodigious effort. Bonfres had been made of all sorts of farm implements. Some heavy French farm carts had been deliberately sawed in two and all the spokes had been sawed out of heavy wheels.
 One rather shocking bit of vandalism was seen todaysat the Chateau Gorgen- court, just outside Nesle. In the private chapel an ancient coffin containing the skeleton and effects of the well known Deputy Fontaine had been opened and desecrated. Further outside this same .;Ix;v. tN V,11 oa land where everything was orderly and in marked contrast to the confusion and devastation elsewhere.
 ELABORATE CEMETERY
 It was most elaborate German ceme- tery. Some graves were marked with marble slabs and the entire plot was sur. rounded by granite posts. At one end of the cemetery was erected a great mar ble statue of an angel of peace with wings outspread and with a German in- scription beneath reading, Here Foes Become Friends" Bordering the grave yard was fruit orchard, where every tree had been cut down and the farm
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RAILROAD MANAGE AND BRO7HERHOODS AGREE;
 LINES FILE PETITION ASKING FOR INCREASE OF TE.
TIE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, March 2S.-Alabama and Mississippi Cloudy and somewhat colder Saturday; Sunday fair.
 Georgia: Partly cloudy Saturday some- what colder north and west portions; Sunday fair.
 Tennessee: Cloudy and somewhat colder Saturday; Sunday fair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-24

When tobacco was first introduced most of the countries of Europe enacted anti-tobacco lava
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286 MEN DROWN
 WHEN BATTLESHP
 SENT TO BOTTOM


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The grand banks of Newfoundland supply more fish than any other section
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UNDENIABLE THRILL
ENDLESS BARRED WIRE

In penetrating the former German po- sitions lasting memory always Is one of endless chains of rusted barbed wire. This has been most valuable means of defense for the Germans and from the amount which may be seen stretching away in every direction as far as the eye reaches, it would seem that all the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-24

German industrial plants had been turned to wire making It is not the ordinary barbed wire known in America, but the barbs long and stout are attached to the wires at intervals of half an inch.
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income tax has been prepared by ex- perts showing the effect of various possible extensions of the law.
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Tt is butter," cried several shrill little voices at once, as the recipients scam pered away to their houses to show their elders what they had received. Through the open doors could be heard, Praise God There is butter again in France.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-02

20 give stock exchange brokers tir1e
to produce records OF the dealings Of
their customers during the time the in
ternational peace situation was fac
tor In the stock market the rules COM
mittee of the house suspended its
leak" inquiry at New York and re-
turned TO Washington.
United States Senator Robert 1.
Owen of Oklahoma was run over and
injured by an automobile at Okla
homa City, Okla. The front wheels of
the machine passed over his right leg.
Three bandits, driving q high-pow-
cred automobile, held UP the real es-
tate Office Of /. G. Ettelson at Chicago
stole $1,400 and escaped.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-02

Two men were shot and wounded Mt
Danville, H., as a climax to the at
tempts Of residents of this city to OBJ
tain coal to keep their fires going.
The wounded men were shot down by
armed guards of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois railroad.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-02
News of the
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European War News
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In the River Aa sector of the Riga
region, along the northern end of the
usso-Galician front, East Prussian
troops captured additional Russian
positions on both sides of the stream
and withstood counter-attack on the
east bank, says an official statement
from Berlin. Russians 10 the number
of 500 were taken prisoner.
An official statement at London says !:
"An unidentified German vessel shelled
the Suffolk coast of England at night.
There were no casualties"
German troops in the Riga region
have succeeded by repeated attacks in
strong force in pressing back the Rus
sian lines about mile and half be-
tween the Tirul swamp and the River
Aa, and east of Kalnzem, the Petro-
grad war Office announced.
One British destroyer was sunk and
another was observed to be in sink
ing condition in the North sea naval
engagement, the admiralty announced
at Berlin. One German torpedo boat
put in at Yumiden in a damaged con-
dition. The others returned with
slight damage.
A Bulgarian detachment crossing a
branch of the Danube opposite Tult-
cha was surprised by Russian troops
and destroyed, the Petrograd war office
announced. Prisoners to the number
of 1877 and sour machine guns were
taken.
The sinking of the Norwegian steam
ship Rinunga by German submarine
is reported by Lloyd's at London. The
crew was landed. Other sinkings re-
ported are: Danish steamship Klam-
penborg, 1,7S5 tons gross; Swedish
steamship Kamma, 1916 tons gross.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-02

were In the majority
other of the houses of
there was a Democrat
TIE White House, 1t v
enough for thu I.emocr
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-02

Franklin ID. Roosevelt, assistant sec
rotary of the United States navy was
received at Port-au-Prince with the
honors of an admiral. He attended a
luncheon given by President D'Arti-
guenave and reviewed the troops.
The labor party, holding its annual
meeting ut Manchester England, re-
jected bgy vote of more than three to
one resolution favoring an immediate
offer of peace proposals.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Yukio OZaki, former minister of JUS
tice and leader of the constitutional
party in Japan, while he was address
ing mass meeting at Tokyo, called to
demand the resignation of the cabi-
net. Two men armed with short
swords were overpowered and ar
rested.
The most bitter of war dramas and
ever presented paled to the common
place before the Spartan story of
simple French country girl charged
In Gnevilliers court with infanticide.
Il killed my child because l would not
be the mother of baby whose father
was German" Josephine Barthelmy,
aged twenty, said. The jury acquitted
her.
The British government has refused
permission to the Hadfields, Ltd, TO
proceed with work on the contract for
shells for the American navy $50 long
as the exigencies of war continue"
A. Bonar Law, chancellor of the eX-
chequer and member of the British
war council, declared in speech at
Bristol, England, that President Will
sons peace aims were shared by the
entente allies, but that under the cir
cumstances other means must be taken
to obtain peace and that it was impos-
sible to consent to peace that leaves
Germany's military machine unbroken.