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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
Summary of the News
GENERAL NEWs

 GENERAL NEWS 1-Germnns make air rnid on English coast. No deaths reported. RtKa. Russian naval base, seems doomed to capture. President Wilson writes stirring letter to laborinE men of coun- try.
 Plot to arrest provisional govern ment of Russia Is discovered. Mayor ThompsOn of Chicago al- lows peace advocates to meet. S-Government asks banks to watch accounts of aliens.
 LOCAL NEWS. S-Mrs. Mathis says America getting enough of spies. 5-1Tonster parade will be feature of Labor Day celebration. Weathcrly tells how he happened to write letters. Motherhood is subject of sermon by Dr. Stuart.
 FEATURES. 4Edftorial comment. @SportH. 6-OrRanised labor In war.
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Italian Musician Is Decorated For Giving
 Concert Under Fire
Austrian Trenches Are Stormed and Taken to Playing of Band of Signor Toscanini

Rcme. September 2.-signor Toscanini. the noted Italian conductor, for many years up to 1915 musical director of the Metropolitan Opera company, has been decorated by the Italian government for great bravery under fire. Signor Tos- canini, the accounts disclose. kept his military band playing during the battle of Monte Sano, the soldiers storming the position of the enemy to the strains of this martial music.
 Tn the midst of the fighting and at time when the Austrian harrage fire was at it's height Signor Toscanini led his band to one of the advanced positions where sheltered only by huge rock, he conducted concert which did not stop until the Italian soldiers had taken the trenches of the Austrians to the music 0e his band.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03

Montgomery September 2.--GspecialD Three companies of the Alabama NJ tional Guard, E. First infantry If Ma bile; l. Second infantry of Luverne, ami Troop c, First cavalry of Tuscaloosa to- night were ordered by Brig. Gen. Robert K. Steiner to leave Monday night for Camp Wheeler. Macon, Ga, to rreLars camp for the coming of the remanGsf Of the Alabama brigade Detachiuenti of the signal company ambulance conn pany and field hospital also were or dered to entrain.
 The Mobile company is commended Capt. Miles D. Savelle, the Luverne pany by Capt Tobe R. Farmer and Tuscaloosa troop by Capt. William Hays.
 SHERIDAN NEAR READINES
 Montgomery, September 2-tspecial) Camp Sheridan will pass completely into the hands of the Ohio division the lat ter part of the week. Although Ala bama officers decline to say when the brigade will move to Camp Wheeler at Macon, Brig. Gen Robert E. Steiner -e- turned from Macon Sunday and private information from Camp Wheeler wi that the brigade could move during u week The moving day will not be maj public, and no information will be givl out until the troops are quartered in U new camp. Several ohio regiments cou entrain for Camp Sheridan at any n ment, now, as the advance companies have put the camp in good condition. However, it Is improbable that the final order for entrainment will be given un- ti. supplies of tentage and other equip- nlent already ordered have been re- ceived
 SLEEPING IN OPEN
 Several companies have been sleeping in the open with nothing over them but mosquito nets because of the lack or tents. Heavy. rains fell Saturday night and they were forced to seek the dry ness of the mess halls which have not been put into use.
 Although all units were given leaves of absence from camp Saturday night, the guard of 70 established by Major Haslett, provost marshal made only about six arrests and they were for mi- nor infractions of the rules No work was done at Camp Sheridan Sunday, the men not even being required to answer revicle and recreat. and Sunday was spent by officers and enlisted men in making their first tramp over Montgom- cry and seeing interesting points where the Confederate states was born 50 years ago.
 Work of the Alabama brigade Is con- centrated on preparations for entrain- ment
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Hoover Wants Banks to
 Aid Farmers of Country By Lending Cheap Money

Washington. September 2.--Food Ad : ministrator Hoover has enlisted the aid of the federal reserve board in cam paign to increase the meat supply of the country. MT. Hoover has asked the board to help the farmers by sug gesting that banks lend them money at not more than ' per cent interest, as compared with the legal rate of s per cent or more, and the board has transmitted the request. through the federal reserve banks. to the bankers of the districts concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
Italians Aviators Fly Over Vienna and Drop
 Pamphlets of News

Turin, September 2-Five Italian ayia- tors have returned from a successful flight over Vienna. Leaving the Italian front the machines passed over the Aus trian lines unobserved and flew straight to the Austrian capital where the avia- tors dropped pamphlets informing the people of the city of the great Italian victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
Much Oratory Expected
 But Measures Will Go < Through Is Forecast
BOTH HOUSES WILL
 HONOR MEN IN DRAFT
Adjournment Will Be Taken Tuesday to Allow Members to March in Parade With President-No
 Holiday For Senate

Washington, September 2.-Congress
 works this week on three great war
 measures. $l1, ,5sS, s45. 460 war bond and cer- tihcate, the s3OoO O0oo.o0o revenue and the $11G,0o0, 900 soldiers and sailors, insurance bills The revenut bill may be sent to conference by the Senate before Satur- day night. by which time the other meas ures will have been passed by the House. Republicans of the House will oppose a few minor features of the bond bill and seek to amend it so as to provide for a war expenditures board and the op- tional insurance feature of the insurance measure will be subjected to attack, but both probably will pass about as they were drawn
 WAR PROFITS TO STAND The war profits provision of the revenue bill. levying total of sl. .286, 900 0Oo Is gen. erally expected to stand. although the | high tax senators will continue their fight for further increases. Much oratory will be produced by the trinity of bills. however They are of the assailed on all sides as radical and so- cialistic beyond measure. The two finan- cial bills are the largest of the kind ever introduced and the insurance bill contemplates revolutionizing the entre system of compensating nations armed defenders and their dependents for war services.
 NO HOLIDAY Disregarding the Labor Doy holiday the Senate will continue to work tomor- row on the war profits section of the revenue bill seeking to dispose of 1t not later than Wednesday, The House ad. journed yesterday to reconvene Tuesday for consideration of the bond bill. Il will be passed Wednesday and the insur ance measure will follow.
 Both houses will adjourn early Tuesda, ] to march with President Wilson in tn, parade of District of Columbia men draft l ed for the new army.
 CLIMAX APPROACHING The climax in the Senate fight over wa 'profts taxation approaches. with bot
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The session was held under protec- tion of police, acting on orders from Mayor William. H. Thompson, which were in defiance of Gov. Frank Q. Lowden. Four companies of national guardsmen rushed from the state cap ital on a special train to prevent the meeting, arrived after it had adjourned, it's purpose accom- plished.
 ORDERS FROM MAYOR The clash in authority between Mayor Thompson and Governor Low den came as the result of the police breaking up the meeting yesterday on orders from the governor. When the mayor, at his summer home at Lake Forest, heard of it he, declared that the governor had exceeded his au- thority and immediately instructed Chief of Police Schuettler to permit the meeting and to give the delegates every protection.
 When the pacifists heard of the mayors action this morning immediate preparations were made to hold the meeting which had been prevented in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wiscon- sin and had been forbidden as unpa- triotic and disloyal by the governor of Illinois.
 POLICE ON DUTY The delegates gathered shortly aft CT noon at the West Side auditorium in the heart of the cosmopolitan quar- ter A score of policemen were OH guard inside and outside the building, and 50 more were held nearby to sup press any disorder Nearby streets were utterly deserted as the delegates were called to order by Seymour Sted- man. former socialist candidate for governor of Illinois, as temporary chairman.
 In the meantime Governor Lowden had been notified and Immediately called Adjutant General Dickson of Illinois into conference. It was found that as most of the Illinois national guardsmen had been federalized the governor had no troops at his disposal in the Chicago district An effort was made to reach Major General Carter, commander of the department. to ob- tain permission to use federal troops, but he could not be found in time.
 TROOPS TOO LATE
 Four companies of the Ninth regi- ment of the Illinois National Guard who had not been federalized then were assembled at Springfield and started for Chicago on special train at 3:5S o'clock with orders to make the run in four hours. Adjutant Gen. eral Dickson who accompanied the troops. had orders to break up the meeting at once on his arrival in Chi cago. despite the action of the police and mayor.
 NAMES COMMITTEE
 The pacifists appointed national ex- ecutive committee as follows: Seymour Stedman of Chicago; J. ID. Works, former United States senator of Los Angeles; James H. Mauver of Reading. member os the Pennsylvania legislature; Prof Scott Nearing of Toledo, Jacob Pankau of New York. Morris EIillquit of New York Prof. H. w. L. Dana of Columbia university. M. A. Toohy of Toledo. Mrs w. l. Thomas of Chtcago, national sec. sretary of tho woman's peace party George RowerA of Boston. Frank steven, @of Arden, Del Leila Fuye Secor of New York. Rebecca ahelly Of New York
 tCeAt,.ned |. Paxs rwss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03

While our soldiers and sailors are doing their manful work to hold back reaction in it's most brutal and az gressive form" the President wrote, i've must oppose at home the organ ! ized and individual efforts of those dangerous clements who hide disloy- alty behind a screen of spacious and evasive phrases"
 TEXT OF LETTER
 The letter follows:
 My Dear MT. Gompers; I am sure that you understand that my inability to accept the invitation to address the Minneapolis conference of the Ameri- can Alliance for Labor and Democ- racy is due only to official necessity, and not in any degree to lack of ap- preciation of the importance of the oc- casion The cause you and your Tel : low patriots uphold Is one with the cause we are defending with arms. While our soldiers and sailors are do- ing their manful work to hold back re- action in it's most brutal and aggres :, sjye form, we must oppose at home the organized and individual efforts of those dangerous clements who hide dis loyalty behind screen of species and evasive phrases
 RECORDS OF SERVICE
 T have read with real pride the names of the men and women who are to take part in the Minneapolis con ference Not one but has record of devoted service to fundamental democ- racy; not one but has fought the long, hard fight for equal justice, braving every bitterness that the humblest life might know larger measure of hap piness.
 "With all my heart want them
 to feel that their devotion to coun-
 try h in no wise n betrayal of
 principle, and that in serving
 America today they are serving
 their cause no less faithfully than
 in the past. |. myself. have had
 sympathy with the fears of the
 workers of the United States, for
 the tendency of war in toward re-
 action, and too often military me-
 cessities have been made an ex-
 cuse for the destruction of labori-
 Ously erected industrial and so-
 cial standards. These fears. hap-
 pily, have proved to he baseless.
 ALL GAINS HELD
 with quickened sympathies and appreciation, with a new sense of the Invasive and insidious dangers of op :. pression. our people have not only held every inch of ground that has been won by years of struggle. but have added to the gains of the twen, tieths century along every line Of hu. man betterment.. Questions of wages and hours Of labor and industrial TO :. adjustment have found solution which gives to the toiler now dig nity and . new sense of social and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03

In the latter region the Germans. after a heavy bombardment, won the Uxkun bridgehead, famed as the scene of many sanguinary encounters, and crossed the Dvina river. The enemy shaped their course northward along the waterway toward Riga with the Russians counter attacking but were unable to hold them.
 NEW OFFENSIVE
 Some 20 miles southwest of Riga, along the railway line running from Mitau to the seaport. the Germans have begun a new offensive. Here a big battle is in progress. but in whose favor it is going has not yet been made evident by the Russian and Ger - man official communications Neither is anything contained in them con corning the operations near Lake Bab- it, where the Germans were last re- ported standing, about 12 miles west of Riga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
SEA ATTACK UNCERTAIN

Preparation evidently was made last week in raids by airplanes on war ships and military works in the Gulf of Riga and by the maneuvers of Ger man torpedo boat 'destroyers, sub- marines and mine sweeping trawlers in adjacent waters for the new of fensive against Riga. but whether the attack is being carried out synchron- ously by sea has not become appar ent
 PETROGRAD NOT IN DANGER
 While the capture of Riga would be of great strategic value to the Ger mans in controlling the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, at the head of which stands Petrograd, it would not neces- sarily place the capital in jeopardy, for it lies overland 300 miles as the crow flies from Riga and SeO miles by rail.
 In southern Moldavia the Russians
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Those Who Ignore America s Grieuance
 Strongly Denounced
President Wilson Writes Stirring Letter to Com pers as President of Alliance for Labor and Democracy Must Oppose Disloyal Ele-
 ment Who Are Hiding Behind Spe-
 cious and Evasive Phrases

Washington September 2Hearty approval of the confer of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy held Minneapolis Tuesday and the task will under take of suppressng doyaly has been given by President Wilson in letter to Samuel Gomper president of the Amer Federation of Labor and chairman of the Alliance. public nation citizens
  join in pressing O with
 
 and has conprehenble defending itself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
GERMANS MAKE ANOTHER AIR RAID ON ENGLISH COAST KALSER,S ARMIES ARE ADVANCING ON RUSS NAVAL BASE OF RIGA, AND ALL ATTEMPTS TO STOP THEM ARE FAILING
Summary Of Outstanding Developments h News
 From Various War Fronts

 apparently o Baltic the railway line
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FIGHTING IN FLANDERS

London. September 2.The follow ing statement on military operations along the Franco Belgian front was given out officially today:
 Yesterday evening the enemy made . heavy bombing attack against tho advanced posts southwest .of, Havrin- court. which he failed to reach the previous night. After sharp fight our troops at first were compelled to with draw but later they recaptured the posts with slight loss,
 The hostile artillery has been ac- tive during the night eest of Ypres."
 GERMAN EASTERN REPORT.
 Berlin. September 2,(via London.) German military activities arc increas- ing along the northern Russian front hand successful enterprises have been esrisd out by German forces in the re-
 tCertlaued e4 Pase Twe>
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! FRENCH REPORT

Paris. September 2.-Additional at' tenpts were made by the Germans last night to retake the positions cap tured by the French northwest Of Hurtebise. on the Aisne front French gun fire broke up the effort. the war office announced today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
Mayor Thompson of
 Chicago AHows Peace
 AdUOcafeS fO Meet
Big Bill' of German Persuasion, Defies Order of Governor, Who Rushes Troops to Prevent Assembly, But Too Late, as Peoples Com
 slsittee Completed Work and
 Adjourned

Chicago September perfected oaani at publ meetn Chicago today.
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economic security. beg you to fee that my support has not been lacking and that the government has no failed at any point in granting every just request advanced by you and youl associates in the name of the American worker.
 FAR-REACHING BATTLE LINE
 "No one who is not blind can fail to see that the battle line of de-
 mocracy for America stretches to- day from the fields of Flanders to every house and workshop where toiling, upward-striving men and women are counting the treasures of right and justice md liberty which are being threatened by our present enemies.
 ssIt has not been n matter of In certain groups have sought to ignore our grievances against the men who have equally misled the German people. Their insistence that nation whose rights have been grossly violated, whose citi- xens have been foully murdered under their own flag. whose neigh bors have been invited to join in making conquest of It's territory, whose patience in pressing the claims of Justice and humanity has been met with the most shameful policy of truculence nnd trenchery, their insistence that n nation so
  mind, that 1t has not cOmpresen- sible reason for defending itself. or for Joining with alI It's might in maintaining a free future for Itself and its ideals. is of a peace with their deafness to the oft repeated statement of our national purposes.
 DO NOT KNOW AMERICA Is it. perhaps. that these forces of an tagonism have not yet learned to know the voice of that America we love anc serve? It may well be that those among us who stand ready to forward the plans of aggression bred in secret do no, understand the language of democracy when it proclaims the purposes of wal in terms of peace for the peoples that shall be untroubled by those to whom men are but the pawns in their struggle for power and gain. But true Amer leans. those who toll here for home and the hope of better things, whose lifted eyes have caught the vision of a. liber- ated world, have said that of the policy of blood and iron there shall be an end and that equal justice which is the heart os democracy shall rule in It's stead. May not those who toll and those whe have made common cause of the larger hope for the masses of mankind take heart as they think Of these days when America has taken it's stand for the rights of humanity and the fel- lcwship of social and international jus- tice? Sincerely yours.
 WOODROW WILSON,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
NO DEATHS REPORTED

London, September 2-Press dispatches from the southeast coast report only one airplane engaged in the raid. No deaths are reported. The number of injured is said to be from two to five, none of them seriously Six bombs were dropped and the raid lasted only few minutes. \. The night was brilliantly clear with a Vyull moon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
Counter Attacks of Enemy at Various Points on the Line are Repulsed With Losses
FRENCH BREAK DOWN EFFORTS OF GERMANS IN THE AISNE SECTOR
British Freed to Retire at One Point in Flanders But Regain Ground In Later Fighting

London, September 2.-A German air raid on the coast of England tonight was an nounced by the official bureau. Bombs were dropped as the air planes crossed East Kent.
 The text of the statement reads:
 Hostile aiyplanes crossed the East Kent coast at 11:15 o'clock tonight. They flew seawards a few minutes later. A few bombs were dropped. The casualties are believed to be small
 Rome, September 2.-Italian troops yesterday extended the positions they occupied on Thursday and Friday last in the Brestovizza valley and on the Carso, the war office an nounced today. Additional prisoners and much war mate rial, including nine machine guns and five trench mortars, were captured. Austrian coun- ter attacks at various points were repulsed.
 In the Stelvio region attachments of Alpini reoccupied the advanced post that was abandoned on August 27 at an altitude of $500 metres, and cap tured the entire Austrian garrison there.
 Petrograd, September 2.-German troops have crossed the Dvina south east of Riga and are advancing in a northerly direction, successfully re- polling Russian counter attacks, the war office announced today. A Ger man offensive also has been opened in the northern sector of the Russian front in the region of Mitau, south west of Riga.
 The battle here is still in progress. On the Rumanian front several sharp attacks were made by the Austro-Ger- man forces, but all these were rendered fr,litless by the Russo Rumanian resist ance, One of these attacks was in the l..ioixits. If Rraila- an the DanIlfae
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THREE COMPAN|ESOF ALABAMA BRIGADE
 ORDERED ID MACON
These Will Entrain Monday Night With Detachlnents of Signal, Ambulance
 and Hospital Units

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PETRoGRAD NOT IN DANGER

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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-31
EXTRA DIVIDEND WAS
DECLARED YESTERDAY

NEW YORK, Jan. 31-An analysis
of the statement issued yesterday by
the United States Steel corporation
disclOses the fact that he corporation
doubtless must have done an annual
gross business in excess of one and
One-Quarter billion dollars.
All previous prosperity" rec
ords in the history of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation were
surpassed when the directors yes
terday declared an extra dividend
'Of one and three quarters per
cent. on common stock. together with
the regular quarterly disbursement Of
one and OneQuarter per cent. for the
fourth quarter of 1916, and issued a
statement showing earnings for 1916
of more than three hundred and thir-
ty-three million dollars.
Untitled orders at the end of 1916
are given as more than eleven million
tons. compared with more than seven
million tons at the end of 1915. No
statement was made of trade pro0-
poets but it is understood that suf-
ficient business in ON hand to run the
mills to full capacity into autumn.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-31
J VAS SENT over
TO BROKERS.

YORK. Jan. 31.-George A.
IS, Of E. F.. Hutton and COM
New York brokers, who is i'll
1rgia. was ordered summoned
= leak" investigation. Ellis sign
I telegram sent broadcast to Hut
Dqpondents and outlining Pres
lIeo1's peace note 10 hours be-
11cation of the note.
ttOn On which the telegram
Hen came from the brokerage
a. Connolly and company,
noton, Of which r. w. Boiling
lAerlin-law of President VIII
= member, according to Hut
elmony before the ''leak@ in
Dterday.
> today sent a message over
- wire to Ellis, asking him
to New York.
- expected Thursday night or
"A testifying today Hutton
the message as sent from
- his correspondents read:
eoa0dentially informed that
BEEN issued It developed
0eesage as originally receiv-
qefon read will be issued. !"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-31

The Russian offensive on the north
ern and Rumanian front has been re-
sumed. Petrograd reports new ground
gained along -&he KiMpolung=JadObe
railroad. with the Russians pushing
southwestward. Berlin comedies the
advance.
Saturday the Russians pierced the
Teuton front in this same section,
taking more than 1000 prisoners, ac-
cOrding to PetrOgrad.
Berlin says the Teutons captured
900 prisoners in storming the Rus
sian position along the River Aa,
southwest of Riga.
There has been sharp fighting on
the Lorraine frontier and the French
front. The French penetrated two
lines of German trenches routing the
garrison, according to Paris. Berlin
says the French were repulsed