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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-02
ALABAMA SENATORS PART COMPANY ON
 SUBMISSION VOTE
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TConIlnued Ir0m Fage 0le1
 St. Louis convention last year such $ stanch prohibitionist as Judge N. p. Denson declared against the pending attempt to vitiate state rights in be- half of prohibition and Capt. Frank S. White. in a public statement to the same effect. added that he had fought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-02
To Investigate Police

Albany, N. Y, August 1-Governor Whitman today ordered an extraordi- nary term of the supreme court to be convened in New York on August 27 to try any indictments that may be found as a result of investigation into alleged police laxness resulting from the murder Of Ruth Cruger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-02
LOW ROUND TRIP RATES

to New York and Boston, going one route, returning another. Through sleep CTS to New York daily, leaving Bir- mingham 7:30 a. m., via Seaboard. Phone Main 23S2 for information.
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Association
 Hereby announces to the public that this Association proposes to maintain the "open shop" at all hazards and to defend it's en- plyes and property against interference or encroachment by those who would seek to disrupt, wreck and destroy the coal industry in this district, and for these reasons:
 First: Arbitrary authority of the Miners Union enasculates the manhood and para lyzes the independence of the individual. Second: Thousands of faithful miners in this district are non-members of the union, and do not desire to pay tribute to union leaders in the form of dues and member ship cards; and these men would be denied the right to work in mines unionized
 Third: The path of history of union n- terference with miners in this district is strewn with disorder bloodshed and prop erty loss. We refer to the years 1904 and 1908.
 It has been charged that the Alabama coal operators deny the right of miners to organize and hinder them in such move nents by discharging from employment all men who affiliate with the union In view of the fact that union leaders claim that twenty y-two thousand miners in this district have joined the union and are still at work would seem to give denial to this charge
 One of the speakers at the meeting of number of miners on Tuesday last is re- ported to have stated that through the union, the president of the organization with one stroke, can command twenty-five thousand men, This smacks of autocracy and slavery and the very suggestion is repugnant to the minds of free men.
 The Alabama Coal Operators Associa- tion denies the allegation that the Associa- tion constitutes trust by holding agree nents amog it's it's members as to prices of the product of the mines they operate No such agreements have ever been consider ed: no scale of prices presented and no in formation interchanged between the mem- bers of this Association as to prices of coal asked or received Such agreements being contrary JO the pldllS dHu purposes or UnlS Association and to the constitution and by laws thereof.
 The only suggestion of fixed prices for coal mined in this district was made by Secretary Lane and Governor Ford to the Federal Trade Commission and Coal Pro- ducers and the members of the Alabama Coal Operators Association have made no prices for coal beyond the maximum price thus suggested.
 he Alabama Coal ODer:
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TO PEND SIX YEARS

four years for the preservation ( of states.
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Local Data

For the 24 hours ending at p. m.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
SECOND ARMY QUOTA ARGENTINA MAY HAND'
BEGINS CAMP GORDON LOWEII HIS PASSPORTS.
INVASION ON SEPT. 19AS IT DID LUXBURG.
Same Course With Regard to
Swedish Minister as in Case
of German Considered at
BuenoS Aires

BUBNOS AIRES, Sept 1s.-The riot
ing which began here late yesterday in
an anti-German demonstration oontin-
man business house and restaurant in
the downtown district was wrecked.
The German club and several other
buildings were damaged seriously by
fire. The police wounded seven rioters
seriously when they fired into the
crowd. Three of the injured are ex-
pected TO die.
At first the crowds were so unman-
ageable that the police closed all the
streets leading to the German legation
and consulate. The archives in these
buildings were taken to the storage
vaults for safe-keeping. Firemen. arm
ed with rifles, prevented the mob from
destroying the offices Of the German
Transatlantic company, which sup
plies the city's light. Heavy forces of
provincial troops are guarding the rail-
way over which German Minister Lux
burg will arrive today.
The cabinet late last night approved
the action Of President Irigoyen in pre-
senting passports to Count Luxburg. 1t
IS SAID TO have considered similar ac-
ton in the case of Baron Lowen, the
Swedish minister, but no action VIII be
taken pending the receipt of further de-
tails from Washington and Stockholm.
The Argentine foreign minister al
midnight made public the following
announcement:
The government has proved the
texts Of Luxberg kilograms and in con-
sequence has sent the following to Ber-
lin:
" Argentine minister please deliver
to the German government the follow
ing: The Argentine government has
recognized and value highly the exalted
manner in which the government of
Germany has solved in ample terms all
the Argentine claims, but must inform
the German government that because Of
the texts of Minister Luxburg's tele-
grams which have been published he
has ceased to be persona grata and in
consequence this government has deltv-
cred to him his passports
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14

that occurred then that the govern
ment learned that the feet of flies
carry disease But do you see any
flies around here now? No, sir! 1
don's know what they use. but be-
sides taking care to police the en-
tire camp infinitely, cleaning away
all trash and scraps Of food, they
use some sort of strong disinfec-
tant that kills them"
In 1898, said Mr.. Grace, all the
men were under canvas and slept on
the har ground, with two blankets
and a poncho. Today practically all
the men except a few are in bar
racks, and even the tents of these
few are dry and well drained; while
no man in the camp lacks cot and
plenty of cover.
In 1898 food was dished out to the
men from the company kitchens and
they ate 1t sitting down wherever
they pleased, throwing the scraps
left and right.
Sunday night I ate supper with
Battery of the training camp in a
mess hall spotlessly clean.
We had liver hash, spuds. butter
beans. bread, jelly, stewed fruit and
ice cream and cake, all dumped into
a deep porcelain plate. 1 don't
know what became Of the scraps;
there were darn few lsft
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14

and others in the base hospital at
Fort Oglehtorpe. -...-..
There are now approximately
5000 regulars on the reservation,
700 officers Of regulars, $500 stu
dent officers, 1000 student medical
officers, 1000 ambulance company
recruits, and 4e7 Germans.
The fields and woods where these
troops are training for service
overseas have been the bivouao Of
fighting men for centuries. The
very spot where candidates for
commissions are learning to throw
grenades once caught the teeth of
the tomahawk; they are building
trenches across the breastworks
and the rife pits their grandfathers
dug In the Civil war; some of
those encamped here today can re-
call when $4,000 men marched in
review before President Mckinley
up this same rolling hillside In
1898.
Chickamauga park. they say,
was an old Indian battle ground
long before the white man set foot
on the North American continent.
and the muddy little stream called
Chickamauga creek was christened
by the Indians River Of Blood"
BATTLE OF CHrCKAMAUGA
WAS FOUGHT HERE.
Tt was along this little stream
that the fate of the Union was de-
'cided over fifty years ago; 1t was
through the forest where the SOL
diers Of united nation are today
that the Confederates rolled back
the armies of General Rosecrans,
only to have their victory stopped
by the last stand of the federals on
Snodgrass hill.
The Battle of Chickamauga began
on the morning Of September Is.
1863. The Confederates advanced
across Clltckamauga creek-now
the eastern border of the park
and drove the Union troops toward
the west. For four days a bitter
struggle ragged all across that land,
with the northern invaders falling
back steadily before the gray line.
On the evening of the fourth
day. General Thomas, q federal
leader. in defiance Of all orders,
halted his men on Snodgrass hill
and held this cantage point in the
face of a desperate fire until rein
forcements arrived, when he was
enabled to retire in good order to
the city of Chattanooga.
1t was General Thomas's stand
that broke the backbone of the Con-
federate drive. Historians agree
that if the southerners had rolled
up the union line beyond this point,
Chattanooga would have bee ncap-
tured and the invaders pressed back
far into Tennessee and perhaps
across the Kentucky border, with the
ultimate outcome of the war in
doubt.
AS it was the siege of Chattanooga
was q failure; the Confederates
were routed from their position on
Lookout mountain in The Bottle
Above the Clouds" they suffered
an even bloodier reverse at Mis-
sionary ridge; and fell back along
the tracks Of the Western and At
lantic railroad. with Sherman PRESS
ing at the heels to open the fam
GUS Atlanta campaign and the
march to the sea-
The spot where Thomas turned
the tide is marked today by a
steel observation tower; At Is foot
the original Snodgrass house, stu
standing, in front OF u q monument
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
MUST RAISE S100,000,000
OR LOSE THEIR HOMES
British Holders of Southern
Securities to Demand Pay
ment When Due
BY RALPH SMITH.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-Following
a preliminary conference at the capitol
today. a delegation Of southern sem
ators and representatives will appear
tomorrow morning before Secretary Nc
Adoo with respect to the maturing loans
on southern farm lands that are held
by British financial interests. The mat
ter is of the utmost importanc OF the
south, since it involves over 800, 900, 900
which is secured for the most part by
mortgages on southern farm lands.
The loans were negotiated several
years ago by the British financial inter
ests and they are willing that all Of
them shall be extended as they mature.
But the British government last jan
uary adopted an order in council that
the loans be called upon maturity, and
they money returned to the realm for
war purposes
This order is now in effect, and agents
of the loan companies are now in this
country to make the collections or fore
close upon the landed security.
The seriousness of the situation is
obvious Owners Of the southern farm
hands must lose them by foreclosure I'M
less there IS an extension Of time, since
there is no chance that they can raise
over 500, 900, 900 to satisfy the claims.
Secretary McAdoo is anxious to lend
assistance in the emergency. 1t is I'M
derstood that he desires to transfer
the loans to the federal land banks. The
difficulty IN this is that the legal limit
of federal land banks loans is $4,000
and about so per cent Of the British
loans exceed this amount.
Secretary McAdoo has called con-
ference tomorrow morning in the hope
of working out some plan whereby the
situation NAV be relieved. IT is possible
that congress may be called upon to
raise the federal land bank loan limita
ton, or that the British government
will be urged to rescind its order IN
council so that extensions may be
granted
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
Fort 0gIethorpe, With Its
Student Officers, but Part of
a Series of Many Camps,
Spreading Over 5000 Acres
By WARD GREENE.


FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga, Sept.
12.-On one of the oldest and blood
lest backgrounds in the United
States, just across the border line
from the state Of Tennessee and
within jitney journey of the city of
Chattanooga, is the most representa-
tive army camp in the country.
They call it Fort Oglethorpe, but
that is a misnomer, for Fort Ogle-
thorpe proper is in reality but part
of a series Of separate camps spread
for miles east and west over 5000
acres of land lying in the shadow of
Lookout mountain.
Clustered in an area embracing
fifteen square miles are soldiers of
every branch of the army-regulars
of infantry, student officers, medical
officers, ambulance companies. cav
airy, field artillery, signal corps,
national guardsmen-everything but
aviators.
And just for good measure Uncle
Sam has thrown in 500 German sail
ors to heighten the military at
mosphere. Thirty spies are included
in the lot. several of them wealthy
Germans from New York and Chi
cago.
The correct name for this vast
encampment Is the Chickamauga
National park, every inch of which
is historic ground, every inch Of
which is seeing new history made
by the minute.
Chickamauga lies in the northwest
corner of Georgia, easily accessible
by rail, foot or motor. Student off,
GERS from Atlanta have made the
$50 miles in seven hours, leaving
the Georgian Terrace at 7 o'clock in
the morning, stopping two hours at
Rome, and reaching the reservation
by 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The
roads are splendid all the way.
The most direct route from At
lanta is by the Western and Allan
tic railroad. The Dixie Flyer makes
the run in four hours to Chattanoo-
ga, where you can catch a jitney to
the camp that will put you there in
thirty minutes, no speed limit con-
sidered
5000 REGULARS AND
5000 STUDENT OFFICERS.
The units included in this sweep
of territory are as follows:
Seventeenth United States infan-
banded from it, the Fifty-ffth and
the Fifty-sixth, all of them recruit
ed to war strength.
Eleventh United States infantry,
and the two regiments expanded
from it, the Forty-first and the
Forty-second.
Sixth United States infantry, and
its two expansions, the F'ifty-third
and the F'ifty-fourth.
Signal corps.
Eleventh cavalry and its two ex-
pansions, the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third cavalry-field artil-
lery.
The Virginia field artillery.
The second officers training
camp.
The medical officers training
camp.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
Americans Also PraCtiCing
Range Finding in AeropIaneS

HEADQUARTERS OF THE AMERI-
CAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. ia
American artillery was on the Job to-
day. blasting away at distant treetops,
and soaring erstwhile grazing fields with
practice volleys.
CThis is the first word that has been
received indicating that American artil-
lery has arrived IN France and Is train
ing for the battle line.)
From the American gun practice posi-
tions-they are usually bordering on \
woods-held wires run TO elevated pa
vilions, crowded with youthful battery
commanders. armed with binoculars
They observed distant smoke puffs when
the shells struck and telephoned back
over the field wires directions in the
range until the puffs struck the targets.
Above, sailing on silver wings in a
Reckless sky. airplane observers with
the American forces practiced wireless
ing corrections for range.
Other Americans took turns hanging
in a wicker basket suspended from a
sausage balloon" making similar artil-
lery observations.
The enthusiasm among the younger
American officers in the artillery prac-
tice was manifested today in a furors
Of wagers laid on the craftsmanship of
every gun.
Back in the wooded space where the
American guns are located, the artillery
man does not see his target. He is too
busy setting fuses, loading his gun and
jerking the little wooden knob that
sends the she'll screaming an aerial trail
overhead.
The American artilleryman is a husky
specimen. Striplings cannot man guns.
That is why American artillery regi-
ments are compelled to weed out young
and ambitious underweights before sail
ing. A gunner needs leather lungs to
withstand fumes from the breach. iron
muscles and broad back.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
BIC FORCE OF AMERICAN
ARTILLERY IN FRANCE
u, S, ArtiIIerymen Are Being
Instructed by French
GunnerS

AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FRANCE. Sept. 13.-(By the Associated
Press.)-A large contingent of Amer
lean artillery has Joined the expedi-
tionary army and is well along with
it's intensive training under French su-
pervisionary instruction. Hitherto the
arrival of the artillery contingent has
been carefully guarded. and permission
TO mention the fact has just been given.
The American artillerymen are using the
latest models of the famous French
ISIS and also six-inch howitzers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
Socialist Conference
At Stockholm Abandoned

LONDON, Sept. 13-Germany has
decided to call off the much-urged Ger
man-devised Stockholm peace confer
ence" of Socialists, in view of Americas
disclosures in the Luxburg affair. ac-
cordIng TO word received here today.
Swiss dispatches reported German
agents there were now agitating for a
meeting OF the conference in Switzer-
land. admitting that since publicity had
been given Sweden's part in the Ger
man information service, there was no
chance Of attracting allied delegates to
Stockholm.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14

engraved with a full account of the
battle around the knoll, a battle in
which there fell a federal officer,
Lyle, author of the famous poem,
II am dying. Egypt. dying"
And at the foot of Snodgrass hill
are the tents Of the artillery Sec
ton Of the officers training camp.
candidate can look out of his
front door and see the monument
half way up the hill; he can pitch
a rock and hit the Snodgrass house
that is, he could If 1t wasn't for
the military police, who would prob
ably arrest him.
1t was at Chickamauga park In
1898 that $4,000 soldiers-the mon
Of the volunteer army-assembled
from all parts of the country to
fight for Cuba libre." Few of those
men ever saw the shores of Cuba.
Many of them were still in camp
when peace was declared. many
more sleep now beneath the gentle
slopes of the Chattanooga national
cemetery They were the real vic
tins Of the Spanish-American war,
the men who died a sacrifice to ig-
norance and inefficiency.
There is but one reason for re-
calling the horrors of the Chicka-
manga encampment Of 1898 and that
is to draw the parallel with the
Chickamauga encampment of 1917.
DISEASE PUT TO RoUT
2Y MODERN METHODS.
It was from the encampment OF
1898 that the stencil Of the notori-
GUS "embalmed beef scandal rose
to sicken the nostrils of the nation.
It was from this encampment that
men were carted away by the doz-
en-. taken Ill one night, dying the
next It was here, in four short
months from May to August, that
the casualty lists grew as they
never grew at San Juan Hill.
Turn now to the statement Of
Camp Surgeon Fitzpatrick, of the
1917 Chickamauga: sickness in the
camp has averaged less than TWEEN
ty-fve men to the thousand; deaths
show an even smaller, percentage;
there has been not a single case of
typhoid since May 10"
The reason? 1t is simply hygiene
and sanitation, strides in science
that are making this war claim few
er deaths by disease than any war
in history.
The difference could not be better
shown than by r. z. Grace. of At
lanta, a student officer. Mr.. Grace
was at Chickamauga in 1898 and
has a picture of himself taken then
with a Springfield rifle.
Cant tell which is me and which
is the rifle. can you?" remarked Mr..
Grace, who is not at all thin and
haggard.
at have never" he continued, seen
a more remarkable thing than the
contrast this camp presents to that
of 1898. can remember then when
men died like flies. They would fall
i'll in the morning. The doctor would
take their temperature twenty-four
hours later and their fever would
have riven to 10. In another twen-
ty-four hours the doctor would call
at the hospital tent and the nurse
would shake his head and say, 'Sor-
ry, doctor, I've lost four!'
''But look at II now! There's
been one man sick in our battery in
the two weeks we've been here, and
he had the hives.
"You can't imagine conditions
here in 'sS.
1T was from the fholesals deaths
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
S, Artillery Has Been
In France for Some Time

WASHINGTON, Sept 13.-American
artillery has been in France for some
weeks. but the war department recent
ly adopted the policy of Withholding an
noUncement Of arrivals abroad at least
temporarily. and 1t has always ruled no
mention should be made of the strength
Of the units
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
Russians Whip Germans
Despite Their Revolution

PETROGRAD, sept. lS.-Russlan
troops are fighting desperately and sue
cessfully against the Germans on the
north front, despite the near civil war
between Korniloff and Kerensky.
Today's official report declared:
ION the north front, our advanced
parties. in desperate fighting, occupied
Masoif south of Lake Plaonda, and are
certifying on the Schkeroten-SilamuJa
line"
The statement says no reports had
been received from the Rumanian and
southwestern fronts.
A London cable received later in the
day indicated that the statement above
was the official report for Wednesday,
not Thursday. OF Thursday the Brit
.sh admiralty wireless reported that no
ccmmunique had been issued from head
quarters.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
Only Savage Troops Remain
LOYAL to General Korniloff

LONDON, Sept. 1S.-According to
official statements, the so-called say
age" division composed Of Geor-
CLANS and Caucasians, is the only
niloff, says a dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph. That body is now at Tsars-
koe-Selo Up to yesterday afternoon 1t
was feared force would have to be ap-
oiled to it, but it now seems the situa-
ton has cleared.
1t appears to be undoubted that the
savage" division, though devoted to
General Korniloff, had no idea Of their
destination or his aim. The division
consists of eight regiments of fierce
Caucasus cavalry recruited almost ex-
clusively from the tribes Ingushes,
Kabardintsi and Ossetinians and con-
tains a few Tartars.
Almost all are Mohammedans and
among them are many princes. Some
are wholly uneducated. Their command
er is General Bagratcon. The submis-
sion of the savage division was
brought about through the devotion Of
a group of their co-religionists to the
government
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
ITALIANS FIGHT FOR
MONT SAN GABRIELLE;
SHELTERED BY CREST
Safe From Fire They Con-
tinue Attacks on Austrian
Lines-RussianS Are Sue
ceSsfuI on Northern Front

UDINE, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. IA
delayed Italians and Austro-Hun-
garians are engaged in bitter fighting
for possession of Monte San Gabrielle,
on the Isonzo front. a bulletin issued
today by General Cadorna. mentioning
Monte San Gabrielle for the first time,
reveals intense fighting for possession
Of that point has been going on since
the taking of Monte Santo by the 1tal-
ians.
has not yet been captured. the Italians
now are firmly established just under
the crest and out of range OF the Aus
TRAN artillery fire. The Austrians' re-
sistance has been of a most desperate
character and there have been heavy
losses on both sides.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
British Take Prisoners
General Haig Reports

LONDON, Sept. 13.-Patrol encounters
and hostile artillery fire was all Field
Marshal Haig reported from the British
front today.
"In the Lens sector" he said. our
patrols took q few prisoners at night
At Bullecourt, southeast OF Messines
and north of Langemarck, there was
hostile artillery activity"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
Reported to
Be Leading an Army

STOCKHOLM. Sept. 1S.-The svenska
Dagbladet Announces 1t has received q
dispatch from Petrograd stating thSx
Premier Kerensky has left the Russian
capital at the head of an army in or
der to meet the troops Of General Korn-
iloff before they reach the capital. There
was every expectation, the message said,
that a battle would be fought on
Wednesday.