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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
CANADIANS SMASH
THE GERMAN LINES

Canadian Headquarters in France.
August 10.-Raiding parties under
protection of a heavy barrage fire,
e0rly Thursday, on a front of more
than two thousand yards. penetrated
enemy positions in the Cite du Mou
lin and st. Laurent sectors, returning
with prisoners. On a large part of
the front the raiders passed over the
enemy's first line and support
trenches, which were found to be
lightly held and in bad condition.
At some points the trenches were
found to have been pounded out of
all resemblance to defensive posi-
lions,
Our exploiting party had land
mines exploded in front of them near
a crater. Undeterred they pushed on
and encountered an enemy ratrol of
thirteen men, who took shelter in a
dugout. Only two answered the call
to surrender and the others we're
killed in the destruction of the dug
out.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
THORNTON ORDERED
TO WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington Bureau,
The Pensacola Journal

Washington, Aug. 1O,-L. Earle
Thornton, formerly city engineer of
Pensacola, who was some time ago
commissioned a captain in the officers
reserve corps, has been detached from
the training camp at American Uni
versity Park, near this city, and or
dered to the chief of engineers office
war department, for special duty,
This is the second time Thornton
has been given this special detail, be
ing ordered there for two weeks wo=k
in July in connection with his qualifi-
cations and experience particularly
fitted him.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
Five Inspectors on Job to
See That Sanitary Laws
Are Enforced.
ACRES OF WEEDS
HAVE BEEN CUT
One Arrest for Failure to
Conaply-Notices Are
Being Sent Out.

Several hundre& notices for owuerS
or occupants of property IN all parts
Of the city. ordering them to remove
weeds from their premises. have been
distributed within the past few days,
and last night returns were made by
inspectors from all parts of the city.
Lots have been cleared. and the city
was besieged with requests during
yesterday afternoon to haul said
weeds away, tentative promise hav-
ing been held out that should props
erty owners or occupants notify tn
street department one or mora
wagons would take the piles of weeds
away provided they we're placed
where city employees could convent
emily reach the piles
One arrest was made yesterday, a
young man named ToRIart being
charged with failure to observe in
structions from the sanitary officers
to convert his premises into a more
sanitary condition. This case will be
disposed of today.
Blank forms which the inspectors
will use in their rounds beginning
this morning were yesterday deliv-
cred by the printer to the city hall
Z
speCtor's dealing with any case.
Headed the Health Department, City
of Pensacola" the blank bears the
names of F. D. Sanders, commission
er, and w d. Mobiles, heath officer.
The rest Of the order is as follows:
premises ........ street occu-
pied or owned by ............. hav-
ing been inspected by the undersigned
inspector and found in sanitary Cor
unsanitary) condition.
The occupant, or owner, has been
notified thereof, and required to put
said premises in sanitary condition by
cutting weeds. lining, removing
trash, removing stagnant water, re-
moving tin cans, removing loose
paper, cleaning water closet, remov~
ing any other unsanitary condition,
within twenty-four ga hours, from
| this date. subject to penalties by the
! ordinances Of the City of Pensacola"
! Blank spaces for the name Of inspec.
| tor, date and for signature of party
! served. are included, and whatever
specific work is desired by the in
| spector it is indicated by being check
ed off by the Inspector.
There are five inspectors who will
make use of these blanks. returning
the carbon copy to the office of the
health officer. at ; o'clock in the af-
| ternoon. Twenty-four hours after
service of notice. a return visit IS
made, to ascertain whether or not the
! instructions have been complied with.
| Every inspector will be required to
make report Of his days work, and it
/ is the purpose Of the health officer 70
| change inspectors from one district
to another, to guarantee good work
on the part of each of his men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
Split Log Drag Demonstration
Wins Over Co. Commissioners

A successful demonstration of the
use of the split log drag and the good
results obtained on the county road
between the Little and Big bayous,
was held yesterday afternoon in the
presence of County Commissioners j.
George White, H. E. Candy, and L.
w. Hardy, the demonstration being
arranged by those interested in hav-
ing the drags used regularly on the
road.
For the purpose of holding the
demonstration, Captain J. L. Jayne
permitted the use of the heavy road
drag which has been used with much
success on the road between the navy
yard and Big Bayou. The drag was
operated over that section of the road
between the Half way House and the
Big Bayou bridge, and was followed
by a split log leveller.
The drag was a little heavy for a
sand clay road, being adapted to use
on the gravelled highway on the res
ervation. During the demonstration,
rain fell, and the results showed a
marked improvement.
County Commissioner Candy, under
whose district supervision the bay
shore road is placed, gave assurance
of his cooperation and stated that
work would be started at once, and
the road will be kept in the best
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11

possible condition.
Commissioner Hardy is enthusiastic
over the results accomplished at the
demonstration, and is planning to con-
tract for the roads in his district.
To carry out his plans. it will be
necessary to use number of light
split log drags to be operated by the
farmers in his district. A section of
road will be assigned to each farmer,
and it will be his duty to drag that
part after each rain, the county pay
ing for the work. No one man will
have any extensive mileage, and the
system is expected to insure excellent
roads in the district at little expense.
Should this plan prove impractical
the purchase Of several light motor
trucks is planned, to be operated with
the regular road forces except i'm
mediately after rains, when they will
be assigned to dragging the roads in
the various districts. The county is
advertising the sale of the three large
trucks, and it is planned to purchase
lighter ones, when the heavy vehicles
are disposed of.
Commissioner J. George White, at
tended the demonstration, and while
he is from the city, and has no di-
rect supervision over the roads of
the county, he displayed keen inter
est in the plans for Improvement.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
Bonbardment at Flanders
Equals Fury to That of
First Great Battle.
INFANTRY TAKES
HAND IN FIGHTING
Extensive Raids by British
in Arras Region-Cana-
dams Working Notably.
ASSOCIATED PRESS sUMMAF

ASSOCIATED PRESS SUMMARY.
While the entente guns still are
hammering the German lines in
Flanders with fury apparently equal
to that of the original bombardment,
the infantry has not been entirely in
active. Today important gains by
both the British and the French on
a seven-mile front, taking in West
hook and BiXschoote, are reported.
British troops last night finished
the task of driving the Germans from
the town of Westhoek and likewise
cleared them from the lines they
were still clinging to on. the ridge
near the town. This forward move
ment gives Field Marshal Haig a far
better grip on the section of the line
Immediately east of Ypres.
The French on their front near
Bixschoote advanced east and north
of that place, adding to the gains
they had recently effected in this
sector.
Not only in Belgium, but along
stretches of the Arras battle front
there are evidences of pronounced
activity by the entente forces, Lon
don today reports extensive raids by
the British east of Monchy, in the
Arras area, and day by day reports
come in of the notable work by the
Canadians before the city Of Lens.
1t has seemed several times that
the fall of Lens was imminent, but
evidently the hour has not been con-
sidered ripe to deliver the final
stroke.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
OFFICERS Of.
FLA. GUARD To.
Be EXAMINED
General Wood Orders Board
to Proceed to This State
For That Purpose.
INEFFICIENT ONES
WILL BE REMOVED
Action Grows Out of Com
plants Filed With War
Department.
Washington Bureau,
The Pensacola Journal

Washington, D. c., Aug. 1O.-Ma-
jor General Wood, commanding the
army of the southeast, has ordered
an examining board to proceed to
Florida and examine the officers of
the First Florida National Guard reg
iment, it was learned here today
This action grows out of complaints
that a number of the officers, among
them Captain Cats, son of Governor
Cats, are inefficient. If the board
finds them inefficient, they will be
preemptorily removed.
The appointment of Young Cats to
the captai>--:Y brought on near mu-
tiny, and the resentment over the
appointment on the part of the mer
has not yet died out There are un-
derstood to be several other officers
sadly lacking in qualifications for the
office they hold.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
UNCLE SAM TOO SMART
FOR DRAFT DODGERS

About twenty warrants were issued
by the district attorney yesterday
charging residents of a neighboring
county with wilfully failing to reg
lister for the selective draft on June
3. 1t is expected that the men will
be arrested soon, and brought for
trial, as the federal authorities for
the district are determined in their
effort to round up all slackers.
Since the registration of the men,
the federal authorities for this dis
trict have been watching for evasions
of the law, but since the actual draft
was made in July, the effort has been
doubled, and the men made to reg
lister.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
ROOSEVELT LOCATES NEW
MEMBER ANANIAS CLUB

New York, Aug 10.-Theodore
Roosevelt declared in a statement he
had been misquoted by Doctor Kuno
Meyer, a Berlin professor, in dis
patches from Amsterdam. He said
Meyer is guilty of "gross impropri-
ety. in quoting him concerning COM
pensation and indemnities Germany
might collect. He said What he told
Meyer was that if Germany is vic
torious she undoubtedly could exact
the utmost limits of compensation
from her adversaries and she had,
taken them from the United States
whether she went to war or not, he
said.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
UNDER ACE CASES
SET FOR TUESDAY

Writs of habeas corpus directing
Captain James F. Phillips to appear
before the federal court next Tues
day at eleven o'clock to show cause
why James F. and Willard Hurd
should not be discharged from Com
pany /. were issued by Judge William
B. Sheppard yesterday.
The proceedings were filed the day
before by attorneys for the fathers
of the young men, and claimed that
they had been enlisted for service
without the consent of their parents,
and therefore should not be held
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
LOCAL MEN SEEK
BIG SHIP CONTRACTS
Washington Bureau,
The Pensacola Journal

Washington, D. c., Aug. 10.-Frank
Welles, Ewing Reese, Thomas A.
Johnson and VIM. A. Ray of the Bruce
Ship Building Company, of Pensacola,
are in Washington making an effort
to obtain contracts to build wooden
merchant ships for the shipping
board.
While General Goethals was at the
head of the shipping board, the Bruce
Ship Building Company had almost
completed arrangements to do con-
siderable building for the board, but
when General Goethals resigned the
plans were dropped and negotiations
must be reopened.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
ALLIED WARSHIPS ARE
SMASHING TURKISH FORTS

London, August 1O.-Entente allied
warships since yesterday have been
bombarding the Turkish batteries
along the coasts of Asia Minor. &C
cording to a dispatch from Athens
to the Exchange Telegraph Company,
British monitors have successfully
reduced to silence one of the Turk
ish batteries and have destroyed an
airdome installed near another.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
DOLLAR CORN, ASKED
BY CHICAGO BOARD

Chicago, August 1O-Resolutions
asking the government to fix the
minimum price at rs cents and the
maximum price at a dollar a bushel
for corn for the purpose of insuring
sufficient acreage, was adopted by the
Chicago Livestock Exchange. 1t also
asked for exemption of stock feeders.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
FRENCH FORCES MAKE
FURTHER ADVANCES

Paris, August 10.-The French
forces last night made further pro-
gress against the German positions
on the Belgian front. The Frenchmen
broke into the German lines, occu-
pied several farms to the east of
Bixschoote and west of Langwarck.
and captured a number of machine
guns, according to the official state
ment given out today by the French
war department.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
SAY COAL DEALERS GET
EXTORTIONATE PROFITS

Washington, Aug. 10.-Charges
that bituminous coal dealers are ex-
acting extortionate profits from con-
sumers under the so-caIled Peabody
agreement, made before the federal
trade commission by Clifford Thone.
are appearing in behalf of various
public utilities. The agreement is IN.
fair to consumer, it is said. The
hearing is conducted in connection
with the investigation of coal pricas.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11

Washington, Adjust 1O--Central
control of the worlds tonnage with
a sharp reduction of ocean freight
rates, was discussed at a conference
of the shipping board and Thomas
Royden of the British mission. The
British propose the United States en-
ter into an allied chartering confer
ence, all neutral tonnage to be forced
Ia by the allied sdeling arrangement.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
HERE'S BIGGEST CHECK
THAT WAS EVER DRAWN

New York, Aug. 1O.-A check for
S96,111,11111 was paid by the Liberty
National Bank It was drawn by J.
P. Morgan Company to the credit Of
the Canada minister OF finance in set
tlement for a loan Of hundred million.
1t is the largest check ever recorded
in the New York clearing house.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
PERU ON BRINK OF
WAR WITH GERMANY

Washington, Aug. 1O.-The Peruv-
ian charge d'affaires. was notified by
his government that Peru will not
accept a new German proposal to
submit the case of the bark Lorton to
a prize court. A break in relations
is expected to follow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
LAWYERS QUIT FLEET
CORPORATION IN BODY

Washington, Aug. 10.-The entire
legal staff of the emergency feet cor
poration has quit in body. The ac-
ton is said to be because of sympathy
with General Goethals, whose resig-
nation as general manager was &C
cepted recently by the president. On
the staff were some of the Country's
best known lawyers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
WATSON LOSES FIRST
ROUND OF DRAFT FIGHT
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mount Airy. Ga, August 10.-Peti-
tons for habeas corpus writs pre-
sented by Thomas E Watson in be-
half of the prisoners confined in the
Richmond county Jail, charged with
failing to reg~ser for draft, were
denied by Judge Speer of the United
States court.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11

The presidents ship building pro-
gram is expected to proceed with the
appointment of Rear Admiral Caps
as general manager of the emergency
feet corporation, to replace General
Goethals, and E. n. Hurley, as chair
man of the shipping board, to replace
Denman. Admiral Caps is chief
naval constructor and shipbuilding ex-
pert, and Hurley was vice-chairman
of the federal trade commission.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
PURELY ACCIDENTAL" WAS
STUDENT ARTILLERY TRAGEDY

Atlanta, Aug. 10.-Report of the
military board appointed to investi-
gate the accident at Kennesaw noun
tain when four civilians were killed
by an explosion of a shell fired by
student officers OF the field artillery,
is virtually complete. 1t is under
stood the board finds the tragedy
purely accidental"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
UTMOST ECONOMY is
ORDERED IN GERMANY

London, Aug. IO.-Reuter's cor
respondent at British headquarters
reports an orher Issued to the group
of armies of Prince Rupprecht has
been found. 1t directs the officers to
explain to the men that the economic
situation in Germany is serious. 1t
instructs that strict economy be prac-
ticed. Nothing must be wasted
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
CLIP. CASTRO HUNTS
PEACE IN MEXICO
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Vera Cruz, Mexico, August 10
General Cipriano Castro, ex-president
of Venezuela. arrived from Havana.
He said he thought he could "enjoy
life free from the surveillance of the
American secret service men. The
United States, after the war. will
have many accounts to settle with
smaller nations" he said
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
149 MEN HAVE
PASSED TEST.
SIXTY-SIX QUALIFIED YEsTER.
DAY FOR DRAFT ARMY-TwO
THIRDS APPLY FOR EXEMP.
TION-MUST EXAMINE 1000.

Of the one hundred and eleven men
examined yesterday for the draft,
sixty-six passed the physical examin-
atoms making the highest percentage
of acceptances of the three days
work. Of the sixty-six about. two
third applied for exemption papers.
To make up Escambia county's quo
ia, it is probable that full thousand
viii be exa.1 led Ore hundred and
forty-nine mon have SD far passed the
physical tests Escambia's quota is
274.
Following arr those VINO passed
yesterday:
Davis Moss,
Edward Watson,
Oscar Hawthorne
Wesley Taylor,
A1sian Thomas.
Charles Howard.
Will Grady.
Alex Bradley.
Dave Eley.
Emmett E. Carr
Willie f, Bell.
Robert Paterson.
Robert Robinson
Fauria L. Touart.
Mathew Sellers.
F.. o. Bearley.
NJ, F. Kelley.
Albert Johnson.
John Lyman.
Joseph H. Davis.
Hosea Mcdaniel.
J. H, Williams.
Lucius Harris.
Edward Young
Charles R. Andrews.
John Tringas.
Riley Regain.
w. J. Max.
J. w. Bray
Aaron Watts.
Cecil G. Graham.
Ralph Bombay.
Needham Harris.
s. A. Radcliffe.
Roberts Phillips.
julius f. Daniels.
Leslie V. Kirksey.
Gardner Turner.
Karl c. Olsen.
Gardner Turner.
Daniel S. Sheehan.
Frank Caro-.
Henry w. Jackson.
Clarence D. Scruggs.
Len Davis.
Quintin Borras.
Scott A. Halter.
B. E Glover
Herbert Forbes.
E. H. Austin.
H. NJ. Yonkers.
J. V. Gander,
J. w. Jockey.
Thomas Lovedale.
Alonzo Grimer.
J. S. Fillingim.
J. NJ. Richards.
Willie Webster.
Edward Clopton.
Roscoe SeweI.
E. B. Creighton.
George Odom.
Levy Smiley.
Andrew Crawford.
Walter L O'Bannon.
Roger r. Collins.
J. C. McNair.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
BANKS CAPITAL RAISE
HAS CONTROLLERS APPROVAL
Washington Bureau,
The Pensacola Journal

Washington, Aug. 10,-The appli-
cation of the American National Bank
of Pensacola to increase it's capital
from 100000 to 100000 was today
approved by the comptroller of the
curre>Gy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
CORPS L. s. ARMY
GET BIG MILITARY HOSPITAL

Paris. August 1O.-Medical forces
of the United States army, it is an
nounced by the French authorities,
have had turned over to it a large
military hospital and medical depot.
CENTRAL CONTROL OF
THE WORLDS SHIPPING
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-11
T H E w E A HE R

Fair Saturday. Scattered Showers Sun
day, light variable winds.
Yesterdays temperature: Highest. 80
degrees; lowest, 70 degrees.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21
LOCAL ITEMS.

A. D. Poteet and Ed Pfaffie where appointed territorial road commis- sioners by Governor Strong on Saturday last, to act in conjunction with John A. Wilson as a Divisional Road Commission, the appointed men being without salary although allowed living and travelling ex- penses when on journeys connected with the work of the commission. John A. Wilson is the only salaried man in connection with the Com mission, and he is also ex officic Chairman and Secretary of the Board. Joe Sheldon has been ap- pointed disbursing officer of the commission in Nome. Apparently political action was not considered in making the appointments in any
 way.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21
TEDDY SAYS HE ISA
 MUCH DISAPPOINTED MAN

Roosevelt's allegation about aid- ing the administration, in view of the delay to the legislation so de- manded by Wilson of Congress. may possibly be subjected to double meaning.
 It is explained in New York pa pers that Rosevelt's division would not have cost the government cent as weal thy New Workers had volun-
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21
AT DREAM TONIGHT.

"The Virginian" (repeated) with Dustin Farnum, American recog- nized romantic actor in the title greatest of all Western photoplays The play is fiction monument to the west, and may justly be called a Mammoth scenic nd spectacular Cowboy Classic. The picture is mounted in five reels with over two hundred scenes. Many of them thrilling with Western Chivalry. To morrow night Francis X. Bushman and Marguerite Snow in "The Silent Voice.. reels.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21
ARMY DEFICIT BILL
 IS SIGNED BY WILSON

to be taken into consideration and to successfully carry out the law, great tact, judgment and fore thought must be exercised.
 This is freely conceded. With so many different forces to contend with the Department will not move until everything is ready to be prac- tically automatic and self enforcing.
 It is intended to have the draft of the first selection completed al- most before the second week in September.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21

OYSTER BAY, May 20.-Colonel Roosevelt when he was informed that the President had denied him permission to recruit a division for service in France said that he was greatly disappointed. "I am much disappointed indeed", was what Roosevelt told reporters, although he looked cheerful enough. He con- tinued that he would persist in his efforts to aid the administration in every way.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21

next big war item to come before Congress will be the food regulation bill now in progress of formation.
 The President will ask Congress personally to give this act careful and early attention according to or- ficial statement made today.
 There is considerable difference of opinion as to how the control of the food supply will be brought about and there is naturally con siderable anxiety among growers of foodstuffs as to how far the gov ernment will take charge of the situation.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21
SHIPPING MAN WILL
 SPEND MILLION DOLLARS

SEATTLE, May 20.-Frank Water house one of the largest shipping men in this port, and agent and charterer of sundry companies and ships, makes the announcement that he will spend over a million in making additional shipping term inals on the tide flats.
 Having charge of gigantic ship ments of all kinds to Russia, most of which passed to Siberia from this port, Warehouse and Co. have
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-21

front is being undertaken so quick ly at the request of the Allied Commissioners, who urged that it would be we'll for such an eXperi- enced body to be able to meet and cooperate with the main divisions when the United States sent them over to France
 While there is ammunition enough and also guns enough to equip at least one million men, the clothing, etc, will delay the operation of or- ganizing the drafted forces in ihe United States for almost year at the least.