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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
English C0nspiraGors
 Sentenced to Prison

.MlTHILE overshadowed by more
 w important events, the plot of few women to poison David Lloyd George, England's premier, is one of the most extraordinary of the minor occurrences that have developed dur ing the war.
 Mrs. Alice Wheeldon, her daughter, Mrs. Winifred Mason, and the daugh- ter's husband, Alfred George Mason, were found guilty in a London court of conspiring to assassinate the pre- mier, as well as Arthur Henderson, member of the war council, by wound ing them with poisoned arrows shot from an airgun. The poison they planned to use is said to be so deadly that, injected in a mere scratch, it will prove fatal in few minutes.
 The plot seems to have been strictly family affair" although there were doubtless other persons implicated who escaped detection and conse- quent punishment. Another daughter of Mrs. Wheeldon who had been ar rested in connection with the case was acquitted for lack of evidence.
 The jury returned it's verdict after deliberating but 20 minutes. There was apparently no doubt of the ac- cused persons guilt. Mrs. Wheeldon was sentenced to ten years penal ser- vitude. Her son-in-law and daughter were given respectively seven and five-year sentences.
 Incidentally, Mrs. Emmaline Plank. hurst, the suffragist leader, denied in the witness box a statement alleged to have been made by Mrs. Wheeldon that suffragettes had spent s30O in trying to poison the premier by driv- ing poisoned nail into his shoe. The suffragists indignantly repudia- ted the charge that they are not giv- ing their loyal aid to England in the present crisis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
MLA6AME'S WARTIME TROUBLES

Every week when she went to draw her dole she suffered anew. Tt is like walk ing naked through the streets" she said When I sought to console her by the suggestion that all were feeling the same pinch, she returned that it was not tho case. Those who sell food and drink do well; toys are still bought (which I would have thought was the first economy, and the upholsterers she sternly included among the prosperous. Her own trade was entirely gone, for the army supplied the families of those at war with the commodities she sold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
CHILD SMOKERS IN CHINA

From the Continent
 Not only women and girls, but babies in arms are becoming addicted to the cigar cite habit in China. The vice is becoming so prevalent that a Woman's Christian ganized in Chefoo to fight it. Candy ped- dlers wait outside kindergartens. with pretty little boxes of cigarettes to sell to the small boys and girls for a penny and the Woman's Christian Temperance union president told recently of receiving visits from high-class ladies whose babies in the nurses arms cried and fretted until they were given cigarette to quiet them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
MOVIE FANS DAILY IN U. $.

From the Woman's Home Companion.
 It is estimated that where two years ago 10,0O0,000 persons viewed the films each day now there are 100000. of whom one-ffth are children under 16. This makes an annual gross receipt by the ex- hibitors throughout the United States of about $5S4, 100000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14

BEGINNING THE DAY - God grant me to enter somehow into the love which my mother gave me. Quicken my soul to know its depth and its purity. May its warmth and truth save me from any cOldness or insincerity which may Oppress me in this life. May 1t bind me to the everlasting and ever loving God. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
OLD SAW VERIFIED.

OLD SAW VERIFIED. "A short cut often proves the longest way around" said the bromide philoso- pher. "I agree with you" answered MT. Dub- waite. q took a short cut to town this morning and fell in with pacif1st who detained me in an argument that lasted an hour"
 TIME FOR IT.
 Genial sun and
 Skies of blue,
 Signs that spring will
 Soon be due
 Tell me. if you
 Had a wish,
 Would it be to
 Go and fish?
 ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT. T understand you have moved again?" "Yes"
 "But you were in modern apartment house, were you not?' "No. There was nothing up-to-date about my apartment but the lease"
 HIGH ART. "This barefoot dancer is said to have the most expressive feet in the world Stuff and nonsense, The first thing you know that press agent of hers will be claiming that she interprets a classic poem every time she wiggles her toes," PROVIDING FOR THE NEXT MEAL. Poor manl Is there anything else can do for your" asked the sympathetic housewife, after the insinuating tramp had consumed enough breakfast for two farm hands.
 'Yes, mum. You could write me note of introduction to de lady next door"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14

a national grand opera or a national symphony, but all Americans inter- ested in tonal art may we'll feel proud of it's splendid collection of music and literature on music. lUlGinmaGe Goal of
 The Aged Clown NNTHY do so many clowns spend WV their declining years in the poorhouse? The man who makes peo- pie laugh is soon forgotten. The other day Tony Denier, who was famous for forty years as the original "Humpty Dumpty' clown, died from fall on an icy sidewalk in Kingston, N. Y. He was 75 years old and was an inmate of the almshouse.
 A good clown deserves pension. He brings happiness to a sordid, work-a-day world, but he may consid- CT himself lucky if he escapes want in his old age. Maybe the clowns are partly to blame As rule they are not the sort of folk who lay by for rainy day. They create so much sun- shine for others they think all days will be sunny for themselves.
 Whatever the reason, in such pub lications as the Billboard one often reads in few lines the tragic story of an old clown, who appeals to circus people for aid, or else his death is re- ported in an almshouse.
 At any rate, MT. Bryans trousers are carefully pressed in the portrait of him recently hung in the diplomatic room of the state department.
 There are number of youthful crown princes scattered about Europe who may not have any jobs to fill when they grow up.
 Union labor will stand by the govern ment if there Is a war, but how about strike?
 If the sheep raising industry is revived in this part of the country when Mary has a little lamb it won't cost so alarmed much.
 contemporary laments the passing of Mr. Babe" Adams to minor league Better a minor league than the stage. No matter what happens to the ancient city of Bagdad. Haroun- al Raschid will continue to sleep the sleep of the just
 < <
 Chinese children are said to be acquir- ing the cigarette habit in large numbers. Here's a new field for reformers.
 * M
 The world must be getting better. Eva Tanguay occasionally finds it hard to warm up vaudeville audience. * * The Turks have not had anything in particular to crow about since General Townshend surrendered "Kut.''
  I Count Zeppelin is gone, but Westminster Abbey remains and the baffled ''zepps' must find new work to do. Some of those German soldiers in Eng fish prison camps are developing into first class football players x Civilian sailors are prepared to do their bit for Uncle Sam. no matter how sea- sick they get
 l The brevity of costumes in certain girl shows" is not due primarily to the high bers of Congress blabbing important mili- tary secrets.
 The longer a prize fighters reach, the more money he seems able to pull down. l Tn the meantime, all the world wonders at the backbone China has developed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
Ranks Third Among
 The Music Libraries

A 0US AV4AsHS S%1G Gl0A SSo ASS
 II T may not be known generally, 0 even among musicians, that the National Library of Music at Wash ington-the music division of the li- brary of Congress-rankS third in ln- portance in the world. When the magnificent library building was com- pleted and opened to the public nearly thirty years ago the music section was of little interest to persons mu- sically educated. It is recalled as containing a collection of mediocre stuff light songs, marches and waltzes.
 The chief of the music department was worthy gentleman whose only claim to distinction in the world of music was that he had been leader of an amateur brass band in small Virginia city. He was wholly lack ing in musicianship and was, there fore. not the man for the place. But in perfecting the library organization few years later the government eliminated all crudities. A musician of recognized ability was soon placed l in charge with a number of well equipped assistants. Very little trivial music is cataloged, but on the other hand, all the operas and oratorios of high merit and all the great orchestral, piano and violin works are found there.
 The Berlin library of music has the richest collection. Next in inn portance is the library in the Grand opera house at Paris, and then comes the library at Washington. The music l section of the British museum ranks 1
 fourth, and the library of the Society of Music Friends in Vienna is fifth
 Alfred F. Marks in survey of the Washington library for the Musical Courier says that its strides have been astonishing during the past twenty years. 1t has the benefit o1 the copyright law, which requires that all American copyrighted materia shall be deposited there, and in this way much of value is acquired. Lib eral congressional support has sup piled the balance.
 The library now contains abour 750,000 volumes, scores, pamphlet! and pieces. During the past twelve years not less than 76,O0O items hay, been added by purchase. The yoca scores of operas exceed 1000. Tn, collection of orchestral scores O. operas numbers about 5000; this, it i said, being the most important col lection in existence.
 Il Among the most treasured exhibit in the library are manuscript pagel | by great masters Mozart, Bee thoven, Rossini, Wagner, Chopin Brahms, Liszt and others. The onl,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14

piano piece which Paganini wrote for the piano is in the library at Wash ington. It is described as tiny autograph page dated 1884, of a chromatic scale harmonized for the piano.
 The music division of the library is constantly visited and made prac- tical use of by students and con- noisseurs. The United States gov ernment has not reached the point of maintaining a national conservatory, a national grand opera or a national symphony, but all Americans inter- ested in tonal art may we'll feel proud of it's splendid collection of music and literature on music.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
MARINES ARE
ON GUARD in
STRIKE ZONE
{ Many Big Plants are Affect
ed by Walkout Of 25,-
600 Mechanics.
MANY SHOPS ARE
LOsED UP TODAY
Is Regarded as Most Serious
Labor Disturbance in His
tory Of Pacific Coast.

4 y y > = / t. 4
San Francisco. Cal, Sept. 1s.Two
companies of United States marines
were on guard here today at the plant
of the Union Iron Works, one of the
largest concerns involved in the strike
Of approximately $4,000 iron workers
called yesterday after representatives
of the employers and employees failed
to reach an amicable settlement of.
the demands of the latter for a fifty
per cent increase in wages.
Has Tied-Up.
The strike, which threatened to tie
up Indefinitely government ship build
ing contracts, amounting to $150,00O,-
900, also has affected can manufac-
turers, whose output is regarded as
vital to the food conservation pro-
gram. More than one hundred auto
mobile repair shops, pumps and gaso-
line manufactures. boiler shops and
pipe works also are affected by the
strike order, as well as shipyards,
foundries and machine shops in San
francisco, Oakland and Alameda.
Most Serious Pacific Strike.
The strike was declared to be the
most serious labor difficulty in the
history of the Pacific coast in the
number of industries affected and
number Of men made idle.
4 The workmen who went on strike
yesterday do not forfeit their claim to
exemption from draft as a result OF
their action. according to Warren j.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
REPORT THAT REPLY
HAS BEEN MADE TO
POPE ALSO DENIED
No Attempts Have Been
Made to Sound Sentiment
in United States.
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ERZBERGER STILL
TALKING TERMS
Declares that Foundation of
Peace Must be 1'No Con-
quest of Any Kind. Z

Berlin. Sept. II, Via London, Sept.
1S.-The German foreign office in
statement given to the Associated
Press today denied stories appearing
in the Danish and other foreign news
papers to the effect that the German
government has been indirectly COM
municating its peace terms to Wash
iington or that Wilhelmstrasse even
had sent out a trial balloon for the
purpose Of sounding sentiment in the
United States.
| The German foreign office further
informs the Associated Press that the
rumors were promptly discredited on
the strength of the peace terms
ascribed to Germany and further by
the fact that there was no occasion.
for Germany to address the Washing
ton government in this respect.
The assertion by Matthias Erzberger,
the clerical leader in the Reichstag,
that Germany's note in reply to Pope
Benedict's peace proposals Is ready.
and on its way to Rome, also was de-.
MED in official quarters. The center
leader informed his electors to this
effect in the course Of two meetings
which he addressed in Wurttemberg
on Sunday.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
COSTA RIGA
HAS BROKEN
WITH GERMANY
Germans Said to Have Been
Fostering Revolt Against
Government.

San Jose, Costa Rica, Sept. Ia
Diplomatic relations between Costa
Rica and Germany # are cpnsid red.
severed as the result Of steps taken by
the gcvernnTent yesterd day. General
Ei.sona5 the y 5neeside dent, discovered that
German residents here had Joined
with some Of the followers of former
President Gonzales in consptring
against the government
Three Of the most prominent Ger
mans here. Kumpel, Altschul and Orr
Itch. have been arrested. All Germans
residing in Costa Rica ports have
been ordered interned. President
Mnoco has called congress in special
session and will lay the matter be-
fore it, {E
General Tinoco, preside of Costa
Rica assumed that office In January,
1917. when the Gonzales government
was overthrown. ,ay. sy4
Gonzales appealed to the United
States to intervene, hut the American
government, took no action. In an
election held in April. General Tinoco
was chosen president. The American
government however. has refused to
recognize the Tinoco government.
There have been reports several
times since last April that Germans
In Costa Rica and former President
Gonzales were implicated in q plot to
dispose of Tinoco. Late in April 1t
was reported that Costa Rica would
declare war on Germany, provided
the United States recognized the
Tinoco Poyernme ent. - s1. y
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18

Paris, Sept. 1S.. Americans at the
Artillery School. who have just been
graduated, are fully ON q level with
the French students, and have gained
especially good marks in regulating
gun fire. The f1rst part Of the course
was devoted to the lbs, later to the
225 short Schneiders, the 220s and
other calibers. Henderson,, Torrey and
jackson, who were graduated with the
highest marks, have made applica-
ton to join the American army De-
bouchet is likely to go to Russia, as
he speaks French and Russian flu-
entity. ri
OF the others, nine will be instrucs
tors under & Thomas III
the american Artillery School where
young American officers not res
'cruitss but West Pointers ana others
who have had preliminary training
are expected to begin work In q short
time, or these instructors, Alden
Brooks, Crocker, Ely, Foreman. Hall,
HarnmersIey Lockwood, Howard and
Munroe, already have been installed
where some thirty French OFFICERS also
are preparing to receive the Arneri-
cans. One French instructor named
CorIe is only 9 He volunteered for
active service a year before his class
was called, and was decorated tor
bravery In the Champ agne trenches.
Seriously wounded, he was picked up
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
$500 MINIMUM
FOR WHEAT IS
OBJECTED TO
Master Bakers President
Says it Tends Toward
s5 High Cost of Bread.

Chicago, Sept Chicago. S. F.
Mcdonald of Memphis, Tenn. presi-
dent of he,lNational Association Of
Master Bakers in addressing the
convention Of the organization here
today. did not view with unalloyed
optimism the governments minimum
OF $500 for the 1918 s. wheat crop.
On this point he said:
s.As an artificial stimnlant to wheat
product ctton, congress q pfoposess to
guarantee d itnafti price of $2l for
the i, 918 wheat crop; at Il the same
stins congress delegates to- the farm
er. the right to hoard farm prod ducts.
These are conditions attending to
build up excessive bread costs. The
farmer guaranteed a So minimum
may quickly realize that a small crop
is easier to handle than a large one.
A high minimum without maxim um
price tends to defeat the thing
which the majority OF the people are
anxious to see, namely, q reduction in
the high price Of wheat With rea-
,sonable.. maximum price. the farmer
would know that he could not raise a
short crop, and hold for an abnormal
price. but would know that If he
wanted a lot of money he would have
to raise a. lot of wheat to get it."
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
TRY TO FIX n.
SUGAR PRICES
Refners and Broekrs Dis
cuss Plans to Cooperate
With Hoover.

washington, Sept. 1s.-Beet sugar
reflnerss and brokers opened confer
ences here yesterday to work out de-
tails Of plan for a central distrbutS
ing agency planned, to cooperate with
the food administration, and to agree
on standard prices.
About 10 per cent Of the refineries
protested against prices proposed,
saying they had made contracts with
beet growers at unusually high rates.
The food administration announced.
however, that many of the growers af-
fected by those contracts had agreed
to accept a lower price as q patriotic
duty A solution will be sought at
other conferences tomorrow.
Food Administrator Hoover in an
address to the sugar men. emphasized
that voluntary service Of all indus
tries is the only democratic means of
meeting the war emergency In a
contest between methods of autocracy
and democracy he, said, economic
problems In the democracy should be
regulated from below by business men
In CO. cooperation with the government,
rather than by arbitrary acts OF the
E$ ,gds aSS 55- y.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
DELAY VOTE ON
DEFICIENCY BILL
Amendments Increase For
rner Appropriation Of
Seven Billion. Al

Washington. Sept. 1s.The houss
today failed to reach a final vote on
the seven billion dollar urgent de-
finiency bill. consideration OF sections
providing additional funds for the
war department consuming practical
~ the entire day Many amendments,
original bill We're approved.
The secretary OF war was author
lied to incur obligations aggregating
$1,000 100000 for ordnance and ord
nance supplies in ddition to appro-s
priations made or pending, but the
proposed $3,000,000 for an ordinances
proving ground at Kent Island
Chesapeake Bay, was eliminated from
the bill. II
Increases In the measure agreed to-
included ordnance stores and supplies
from $40, 900, 900 to $73.52o. .0oU; small;
arms target practice from 70, 900, ,06e
to S13 ,0o0, 90 and automatic nia-
chine rifles from $i2D.277 ,00 o - to
s220, ,277, 900. with an increase In an
dditionaf authorization for such
rifles from s5o. 40 Z. 900 70 s11S,020.-
| 900. 'i:s57S
AN appropriation OF ss76, aIs,o 200
for mountain. field and siege cannon
was increased 10 S695, 10 0, 900 and
that for ammunition for such cannon
was raised from 81 90. Q 90 10 % 10
$777. .1S 2,,T 81.
Appropriations of Sa6.75o,ooo Tor
armcred motor cars with authorfty to
contact for I. .0oQs 200 more. and
I $780, 900 for submarine mines also
were approved.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
American Hospital Men Cool in
Hail Of Bombs; Doctors, Nurses
Y And Orderies ShoDed Rare Pluck
When Germans Attacked Them

nothing had happened. these same
surgeons were called upon to receive
and care for 200 wounded sentjin from
the trenches of the British expedition
ary force. .g
THE hospital, which is on the
French coast. has 1900 beds, and Is
under canvas in quadrangle 800 feet
square. It is in a district in which
there are many similar institutions.
and is unmistaiable as a, hospitais AT At
the time the German aviator flew over
1t most of the surgical staff was en-
gagged In making rounds of the wards.
Lieutenant Fitzsimons. however was
standing at the door of his tent. There
had been brief warning Of the pres
ence of bombing aeroplane in the
neighborhood, because quarter Of a
minute before the sound OF expIod-
Ing bombs was heard from point
perhaps 200 yards from the hospital.
This warning sufficed to cause all
lights in the tents to be extinguished
Immediately, and those who had been
under fire before threw themselves
face down upon the ground.
Then came five explosions in rapid
succession in the hospital itself. The
first two were directly in front 81
Lieutenant Fitzsimons's tent. He
probably never knew what happened
to him, as his body was torn to shreds.
The next two fell a hundred feet be-
many patients, ana the last struck
the reception tent. Overhead there
was no sound. The German ayiator
flew too high to be heard, but he left
his Identity behind him, not onlv
In the bombs he dropped but In the
deriEiye handful OF spfennings he scat
tered upon the hospital as he whirled
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
HOODOO SPAN OF BIG
QUEBEC BRID GE AGAIN.
BEIN G PUT in PLACE

Quebec, Sept with one hun
dred and twenty-two. feet yet to be
negotiated before II Is bolted into
place above the St. Lawrence river,
the hinge central span Of the Quebec
Cantilever bridge last night was sus-
pended ikea great pendulum % feet
above where II was started upward
today. An official statement said that
\ SO far the tremendous engineering
feat had gone on without a hitch.
The span is being elevated two feet
at a time, Iii contrast to the three foot
Il lifts which marked the first attempt
to raise Al span Into place In 10 1 s..
when "A ,1iyes were lost ais II broke
from its noorings; ts
As evidence of the care with which
calculations have been made It was
stated that the 5. 900 ton mass of met
al varied only five ghths of an inch
from the computations as to how far
II would bring down the cantileVers
after the scows had f1oated from be-
meath 1t. Ss. ,.s sssl 4
The engineers estimate that the
75-fcot mark will be reached toinor-
row II the same ideal weather condi-
4 lions prevail. s5ss,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-18
Find Americans Apt at French .
Gunnery; First Graduates at Big
Artillery School HaDe Fine Marks

for dead, but recovered enough to
undertake less arduous work in the
artillery service. Almost a child in
appearance, this frail youngster can
tell our boys astounding stories Of the
war IL they can break down his ma
tural Ynodesty sufficiently. n I.
Two Americans, Stephens and Can
son, preferred to take q finishing
course in B. french school, where even
colonies with twenty years service
are learning the latest artillery meth
DDS. 1t is likely that the Americans
will be- sent there when the first
course is finishe j. The Sezanne course
includes topography, baIlistic tele-
phony, getting guns into position
and practicing FIRE under real war
conditions For instruction purposes a
miniature battlefl leld with forts,
trenches and mitraill letise posts have
been laid out ON q scale Of one to one
hundred -on the same principle as
the trench lines are laid out for
practice behind the front before at
tacks. All calculations must be made
as accurately as In actual htinE. II H
x, All the French are awaiting the
Americans eagerly, and II is no esc-
|aggeration to say that they are ex-
pecting wonders from them. The ar
tillery course lis exceedingly hard and
conipiicated, and the French them
selves spare no efforts iIi,s mastering
IL. w ss3 81.