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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
NEAL AND HUSTON D INQUIRE INTO NITRATE STATUS
lscle Shoals Association Send Birmingham and Chattanooga Men to
 Washington

sffieid, August 25.-tspecial. .)-Consld- |le interest is aroused in the Tri- as by the action of the Muscle Shoals citation of Nashville at a meeting in hville this week, when q committee
 named to go to Washington on Sep
 per and there investigate what had done in regard to the location of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26

the exact status of the situation when it visits Washington
 One of the largest land deals nego- tiated here in sometime vas consum- mated here this week by the filing of deed at the courthouse by the Aver & Lord Tie company of Chicago. executed to c. B. Massey of iuka, Miss, in which sl29 acres of Colbert county timber lands are conveyed. The consideration Is given at si7,2so
 James GaY.sy, president of the Snsf- heid Iron corporation. with a party of directors Of the company from New York. were here thls week, in conference with Warren T.. Kiuttz. local general ,nan- ager of the company. Prepnr tons are well under way for operarions os tne com pnny's furnaces here and extensive d.- velopnients of the company oes lands In Franklin county near here Will also be made. x
 l.. E. Bryan, wno has been plant su- peTlntendent oi the Scatflern Bell Tel sphons company Aers. mas been trans- rsffed to- Annlston, where he has been promoted to plant chiaS Mir Bryan was | to another plaes Is regretted by a large numoer ei 3riends. alttioagh they rejoice i in Els adyanceYnsn;s D. T. Hill of Flor enea has sucoesacl Mf Bryan in the ,real ofE'cs Of al;o tciepncne company.
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 James (. tiarr,s og iGlls city and Mem- ohis has iegead tao Sheffield Opera House 10 the Tennessee AHluSement company, and Alger Le.ncAs1er Of Jackson Tenn, VIII move hete and become local man- ager.
 Forma! opening of the opera house will take place Monday. September 3, featur- ing vaudeville attraction. tp- be followed by other attractions each week The Ten uessee Amusement company operates a circuit Of playi1ouses located at Joplin Mo, Jackson, Tenn, Coyington, Tenn, Newpors, tarS., and Chickasha, Okla, and nov Sheffield mas been added to the cir ccit.
 Deputy Sheriff P. K. Gibbs of Tuscum- oia has resigned as chler deputy to Sher- if Keeton. He has announced that he will volunteer his services to Uncle Sam, although he does not come within the draft ages.
 Dr. B. c. Evans of this city, who re- gently was notified of his appointment in the medical corps of the United States army, has left for Annlston, where he will be stat toned for the present. | pr. W. M Pierce of Tuscumbia has received orders to report for duty at Fort l Oglethorpe and will leave on the 27th instant. Dr. Pierce has disposed of his office equipment to Dr. Whitman of Mt Hope, who will practice in Tuscumbia and vicinity.
 1 The Sheffield public schools will for lnally open Tuesday, September 4. with Prof. l.. E. Creel, formerly of Huntsville schools, in charge. Professor Greet will have associated with him an able corps l of teachers this year. and with a large increase in attendance assured, highly successful school year is predicted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
Roy Scouts Social

Troop Six. Boy Scouts, East Birming- ham, will give an ice cream supper and social Thursday, August 30. at p. m., at Cunningham school. An interesting pro- gramme has been arranged and ice cream and cake will be served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
MESSAGE TO GOVERNORS
OBJECT OF CHANGE

The object of calling per cent is to place in the camp enough men to form skeleton organization oassst in receiv-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
the fact of marriage ought not to be
FEW INSTANCES

The attention of this office has been invited to the fact that, in a few in stances, local boards have certified to district boards al held for military ser- vice, men whose families are actually dependent upon them for support, on the theory that the wife is able to work and should be put to the necessity of going tosework to support herself and children. This situation is expressed in the following opinion of the district board of New York city, in which opin- ion is-office concurs, with the un- derstanding that the phrase support available from relative Is support par tial or total previously extended to the Lannlicant hinShlf
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
TO CUT EXEMPTIONS
Washington Government viii Ap-
peal Every Case.
Personal Claims Because Of Dependent
Wives or Employment Barred
by Draft Rules.

Washington, July lizard and fast
lines are being drawn by the army au-
thorities to cut down the number Of
exemptions under the draft and to per-
NIT no man to escape military service
until his right to exemption shall have
ebeen established by indisputabie proof.
The burden of proof will be upon
the man who pleads exemption. In
every case In which exemption Is
granted by local boards the govern
ment will take an appeal, and the man
who, because Of dependent wife or
mother or because he is needed in in
dustry, has been let off by the lower
board, will have to prove that he should
not be drafted anyway.
In these regulations, which have just
been decided upon by the officials In
charge of the draft, the government
will reserve the well-established rule
of law which holds man to be inno-
cent until his guilt is proved.
The personal equation will be ut
terly eliminated. None Of the men
whose cases are to hang in the bal
ance will be permitted to appear be-
fore these district boards. Only the
cold and colorless words upon paper
will be there to speak for the man
to send him home to his family whose
dependence and support he claims to
be, or to dispatch him to the training
camps and then on to the trenches.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
APPEALS FOR JUST PRICES
Liberty Rests In Balance, President
Says Profits and Patriotism Not
Mentioned In Same Sentence.

Washfn gton,-P President Wilson ap'
pealedto the countrys business inter,
ests To put aside every selfish consid'
eratioA ana 70 give their aid to the ma
ton ah freely as those who go out to
offer theg ees on the battlefelds. In
statenleR ddressed to the coal oper.
ators am manufacturers he gave as,
suranees that just prices would be
paid BIT 6e Government and the pub
lie duSin the war, but warned that
no attanpt to extort unusual profits
will be tolerated.
@YoHr patriotism the Presidents
appeal sad, is of the same self-deny'
ing staf as the patriotism of the men
dead all manned ON the fields Of
France or it is no patriotism at all
Ilet Is sever speak then. Of profits
,sir II the sSiae sentence
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
RAID TURKISH CAPITAL
British Airmen Bomb War Office
at ConstantinopIe.
Cruiser Sultan Seiim, Formerly the
German Warship Goeben, Hit
by Explosives.

London, July 12.-An air raid on the
enemy fleet off Constantinople was an
nounced in statement of the British
war office. Bombs were dropped on
the Turkish cruiser Ywuz Sultan Sc
lin, formerly the German cruiser Goe-
ben. The extent of the damage to the
vessel is not given.
The war office at Constantinople also
was attacked and direct hit was at
tanned by the British, who returned
without casualties. The announce
ment follows:
-ssA y report has been received from the
vice admiral in the eastern Mediter-
ranean that on the night Of Monday a
successful attack was carried out by
the royal naval air service against the
Turkish-German feet lying off Con-
stantinople in the Golden Horn.
"When the GOeben, surrounded by
warships, including submarines, had
been located, an attack was made from
a height of 800 feet. Direct hits were
obtained on the Goeben and on other
enemy ships near it. Big explosions
took place on board them and several
fires were observed.
'The war office also was attacked
and direct hit was obtained. The
enemy appeared to have been COM
pletely surprised, as until the bombs
had been dropped no antiaircraft bat
teries opened fire. Our force returned
safely without any casualties"
Paris, July 12.-Sergt Maj. Antoine
Paillard, one of the French aviators
who participated in the bombardment
last Friday Of the Krupp factory at
Essen, Germany, and who failed to re-
turn, has it is now learned, landed
safely in Holland.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
ICOpyTlght.1
RUSSIAN FORCES
PUSHING ONWARD
ARMY is CONTINUALLY AID.
VANCING ON GALIClAN
FRONT.
Two More Villages Are Seized BY the
Slavs-Thousands of Prisoners
Also Are Captured.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
misunderstanding onward west OF
Halicz, in their mighty offensive
against the Teutonic allies in Galicia,
the Russian troops are pursuing the
retreating foe. Two thousand prison
ers and 30 guns we're captured when
FTaiicz, the key to I.smberg, capital sssi
Galicia, was taken by General Tcher'
emisoff's troops. But the victorious
troops did not stop there. They press
ed forward, giving the retreating Teu
tons no rest. The valley of the River
Lomnica was reached. Advanced de-
tachments crossed the river. TIL vii
lagos of Bludniki and Babin were oc
cupied. The retiring Teutons are be
ing pursued on the Bogorodchan-So'
lotvina front. The Russians have
reached the z-Lesiuvka-K Kos
MACE line.
The advance on Bogorodchan-So
lotvina front represents drive into
the Carpathian foothills. Solotvina is
% miles southwest of Stanislau. 1t is
about 20 miles from the rest of the
Carpathians, along the Galician-Hun
garian border. In the three days bat
tie more than 100 officers and 10000
men, 80 guns, IL of them of heavy cal
iber, and large number of trench
mortars and machine guns, with guam
titles of military stores, were taken by
the troops of General Korniloff The
Russian War Office report on the con
tinued success of the Russian troops
threw Petrograd into wild state Of
rejoicing. Crowds paraded the streets
Everywhere praise is being sung fol
the new hero of Galicia, General Korn
iloff.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
AMERICAN LINER ATTACKED
Torpedo Passes a Short Distance
Ahead of the Ship, but U-Boat
Not Seen.

An American Port, July 12.-An
American liner arriving here with 257
passengers from an English port re-
ported that she was attacked by d
submarine at II 80 p. m. on June Is
while bound for England. A torpedo
coming from the starboard side passed
short distance ahead of her bow. Her
gunners fired three shots in the direc-
ton from which the torpedo came. No
further trace of the U-boat could be
found, and the liner continued on her
way unmolested.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
ADMITS KAISER LACKS MEN
Noted Military Writer Therefore Finds
offensive Inadvisable at the Pres
ent Time.

Copenhagen, July 12.-Major Mo
raht, military correspondent Of the
Deutsches Tageszeitung, asks in a
press article whether the moment has
arrived for an offensive by Germany
and concludes that for the present one
is inadvisable.
All Germany, he says, longs to hear
the charging yell of the German armies
in big drive, but 1t is doubtful wheth-
err the necessary numerical superiority
can be concentrated against any par
ticular front to push an offensive
through to real success.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
r. C. HARPER RULER OF ELKS
Atlantic City Chosen as Next Meeting
PIace-Delegates Serve as
"Strikebreakers."

Boston, July 12.-Fred G. Harper, a
lawyer Of Lynchburg, Va, was elected
grand exalted ruler Of the Benevolent
and Protective Order Of Elks, and At
lantic City was unanimously named as
the next convention city. Harper re-
ceived 1908 votes, against 305 for John
w. Stevenson of Fulton, N. Y.
Former Gov. David 1. Walsh, August
Hermann, chairman Of the national
baseball commission, and Elks from all
parts Of the country served as volun-
tary "strikebreakers" in leading hotels
of Boston, where dining-room service
had been virtually suspended by a
strike Of walters.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
Custer Suit Filed Against Mayor.

Memphis, Tenn.--Charges Of having
"willfully and knowingly" failed to en-
force the prohibition, gambling, lewd
ness and other laws; of having made
the police department inefficient be
cause of their interference; of having
loaded the public payroll in an effort
to build up political machine, and oil
having violated the city charter, are
among those in an custer bill filed
against Mayor Ashcraft and Police
Commissioner Douglass
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
ONE OUNCE A DAY LESS MEAT
That's What Food Administration
Asks Each United States citi-
zen to Eat.

Washington, July Ito conserve
the nations meat supply each person
in the United States is asked by the
food administration to cut down by
at least one ounce the amount Of meat
each day. Recent studies, it is stated,
show the average daily per capita con-
sumption is nearly one-thlrd Of a
pound of beef and one-fifth of pound
of pork.
Adoption of this suggestion would
relieve the demands of the armies, at
home and abroad, it is believed, and
also leave large supply for the ma
TONS allies.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
Permission TO Acquire stock.

Petrograd, Former Emperor Mich
olas has appealed to the Provisiona
Government to allow him and the
members Of his family to acquire stock
in the a3oau Of freedom The former
Emperor announces that the amount
81 their investment In the loans de
ponds upon whether the Russian state
intends to support his family. He adds
that of his own property he possesses
now only 100000 rubles, his wife
100000 rubles, his heir, Alexis, 1900,
600 rubles; his daughter Olga, 5000,
900 rubles, and his other daughters
between 100000 and 100000 rubles
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
Marchlna rroops Into PekIna.

Washington. = Republican troops
have entered Picking and momentarily
expect the abdication of the restored
Manchu Emperor, Hsuan Tung, accord
ing to cable to the Chinese Legation
here from the Chinese Foreign Office
President Feng Kwo Chang has or
dered the arrest of General Chang
Hsun, the military leader, who was re
sponsible for the coup. DR.. WI Ting
Fang, Minister of Foreign Affairs
again has resigned his office on the
ground of i'll health, and his resigna
ton has been accepted.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
LICENSES FOR ALL CARG0ES
New Shipping Regulations VIII Go In
I'd Effect on July 15-Favors
U. S. Ships.

washington, July 12.-All cargoes
leaving the United States on and after
July is, will have to be licensed. In
structions to that effect were issued
to the export council by Secretary of
Commerce Redfield. The licenses will
be granted in accordance with the pol
lev outlined by President Wilson. In
granting licenses American ships will
be favored first those Of the allies
second, while those Of neutral coun,
tries VIII come third. !
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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
WIDE SCOPE FOR WAR FARLEY
Allied Conference In Paris viii Con.
slider Everything Relating to
Great Conflict.

Paris, July 12.-The Forthcoming
conference of the allied governments,
to be held here, will consider not only
the question Of the Balkans, but every
thing regarding the conduct of the
war, according to Excelsior. The vari-
GUS governments have not yet desig-
mated representatives.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
RUSH WORK ON WAR VESSELS
U. S. viii Have 800 Submarine Chas-
ers Ready for Action by
January I.

Washington, July 12.-The United
States will have approximately 300
11O-foot submarine chasers In the wa
ter and ready for action by January 1,
1t was learned at the navy department.
The first delivery of these boats will
be made in August and will consist of
% craft Fifty will be delivered In
September, rs In October, 100 in No
vember, and the remainder in Deem
Der.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
KAISER MAKES HARDEN CLERK
Critical Editors Paper Suppressed to
End OF the War-Drafted Under
Civil Service Law

Copenhagen, July 12.-Die Zukunft,
Macmillan Harden's publication, has
now been suppressed for the remain
der Of the war according to the Berlin
Tageblatt. Herr Harden has been
modified under the auxiliary civil
service law, and will be employed as
a military clerk. The government some
time ago had planned to take this ac-
ton, but lacked the courage.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
WANTS CONGRESS
TO RUSH FOOD ACT
Hoover Warns Delay Causes
SIump-Farmer and Con-
sumner Caught.
Big PROFITS FOR SPECTATOR
Senate Agrees to Final Vote on Con-
troll Measure July 21--Minmum
Price of $3.50 for
Wheat.

Washington, July IA report on
the food situation prepared for Presi-
dent Wilson by Herbert Hoover, hold
ing that both the farmer and the con-
Stunning public are suffering while food
spectators make unearned profits
from the delay in enactment Of food
control legislation, was given out at
the White House.
Unless strong and efficient govern
ment action is Immediately taken, the
food administrator reported, the farm
ers will face a slump in wheat prices
and consumers will be caught in stu
alton even more serious than that
which already is resulting in actual
undernourishment" in the great con
Stunning centers. The Spectator, 1t is
declared, is taking large part of the
prices now paid by consumers.
U. s. Unable to Act Now.
eve are practically helpless 70 safe
guard either the farmer or the con-
sumer," concludes Mr.. Hoover, until
the pending legislation is passed"
The report, in the form of a letter
to the president, was issued through
the public information committee with
the statement that publicity was given
it 'in order that the country may
know how serious and far-reaching the
/. consequences may be both to the farm
ers of the country and to the con-
sumers Of the present delays In pass.
ing the pending food legislation"
No comment by the president accom-
panied the report, although he has
more than once demonstrated his i'm.
patience over the repeated delays in
congress which have kept the entire
food control program in state of I'M
certainty for weeks.
Senate Agrees to Vote July 81.
Unanimous consent to begin final
voting on the food control bill and all
amendments not later than 2:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon, July q,
was given in the senate and the cloture
motion was withdrawn.
The agreement was sought by Sena-
tor Chamberlain, in charge of the bill,
when 1t became apparent that the
storm of opposition to the prohibition
and other sections would make passage
Of the bill within the next few days
impossible.
After Thursday, July 10, speeches
will be limited to five and ten min
utes.
The agriculture committee tentative
ly approved several sections Of the
substitute, including the provision to
fix a guaranteed minimum price of
$1.50 for wheat producers.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
TAKES OVER ANOTHER SHIP
President Seizes German Cargo Steam
er Prince Eitel Friedrich for the
Shipping Board.

Washington, July by executive
order President Wilson seized the big
German cargo steamer Prince Eitel
Friedrich, which has been lying war
bound at Hoboken, N. j., almost three
years, and turned 1t over to the ship
ping board as Its property. The Ger
man raider of the same name, interned
at Philadelphia, was seized some time
ago.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
RAILROAD REVENUE is LARGE
Net Excess Over Expenditures During
May Was More Than
$1o4,ooo,o0o.

Washington, July IA net excess
of revenues over expenditures Of more
than $104,OO0,000 during May, 1917, on
17S out of the 1856 railroads of the
United States, was shown by report
Of the Interstate commerce commits
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
To Hold Industrial Workers Of World

Ellensburg, Wash.-Federal troops
stationed near here arrested between
so and 60 Industrial Workers of the
World, charged with interfering with
crop harvesting and logging, in viola
ton Of the Federal statutes. The men
will be brought to Ellensburg and
placed in a stockade.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
Discover submarIne Base.

Rio Janeiro, July 12.--According to
press reports In circulation here the
destroyer Matte Crosse has discovered
a German submarine base on the Bra
lillian coast near Santos. j
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
Porto Rico Gives to4.ss6.

San Juan, Porto Rico.-The total
registration in Porto Rico under the
selective draft law was 104,986, 1t was
announced. The registration is dt
vided as follows: White, 1926; me-
groes, 24,6O5; aliens, 2,076; enemy
aliens. 30.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
SWEDEN REsENTS DIVER RAID
Stockholm Government Protests Ger
man Submarines Attacks on Swe-
dish Fishing Boats.

! Stockholm, July 12.-The govern
ment has instructed the Swedish min
lister at Berlin to protest against the
torpedoing Of Swedish fishing boats by
German submarines.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
VILLAS MEN ARE REPULsED
Government Troops Rout the Bandit
Forces In an Attack on
Parral.

Mexico City, July 1.-THE war de-
partment announces that an attack by
General villa on Parral has been re-
pulsed.
notwithstanding at the local ma,
val station broke all records last week
with II men accepted.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-14
Relchstae Meeting Delayed.

zurich, July 12.-The full meeting
Of the reichstag scheduled Tor Wednes-
day has been postponed ION account
word received here from Berlin. I'M
perial Chancellor Won Bethmann-Holl
veg was reported comforting with
leaders Of all factions. One dispatch
carried the report that all the Prus-
sian state ministers had resigned their
POSTS
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-30
t.ard-Sl6.22 ii 1927.
RibS-S14.SI q 1850.
Haytian American Corp'n
Issues Preferred Stock

The increasing importance of the
West in international finance Is EVIL
denced by the bringing out OF $b,5oV,,
600 seven per cent preferred stock or
the Haytian American Corporation by
a syndicate headed by P. W. Chapman
G. company and Breed, Elliott & Har-
rison. Associated with them are large
and influential financial Institutions
the United States. This
is the result of an ex-
tended investigation instituted at the
time it became apparent that the
United States was 10 enter a protec-
torate over the Haytian Republic.
The directorate of the Haytian Amer
lean Corporation, which is unusually
representative, Includes:
f. 4. Dillingham;. president, Guanica
Central, secretary South porto Rlco
Sugar company. New York CITY; r. ~
Douglas. Williams. Diamond d COMPANY
treasurer American Hawaiian SteaI,l-
ship company, san Francisco; Philip W.
Henry. vice president, American Inter
national Corporation. New York CITY;
George r. Turnure Lawrence. Turnure
& Company. New York city: Stacey =.
Richmond. Winslow, Ianicr X Company.
New York City; W. W. Lanahan' W. W;
Lanahan & Company. Baltimore; EDWARD
II. York, Erwin & Company, Philadel-
phia; l.. Pavcnstedt, treasurer South
Porto Rico Sugar company, New York
city; II. c. Staude. G. keltel & Company,
Port au Prince. Hayti: II. r. Tippen-
hauer, HayiiGn American Corporation
New 'ork City: w. *. Eek. Brooklyn;
iiaydc q. Harris. New York City: Geo.
r. cal we'll. New York City: S. Mallet-
Prevts Of the law firm. Curtis. Mallet-
Prpvoj e. Colt. New York City: P. W.
Chapm n. p w. Chapman COMPANY,
Chicae and New York: G. Edgar Elliott
4 Harrison, Chicago. Indianapolis, Gin
cinnati