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New-York tribune., 1917-07-18

the property on which the great gov
ernment plants are to be built. Nor
have we had any estimate OF the cost
Of Communicating. go,
"We have every hope they will reach
us in the near future, as their failure
to reach us is seriously interfering
with the plan for rapid construction OF
ships"
"The meeting which will be called
will be a meeting OF the Shipping
Board, which owns all of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation stock. Inc
consultation will be with the general
manager of the corporation, and the
plans finally matured will then receive
the approval of the corporation S di-
rectors. As the law requires that a
majority of the directors OF the cor
poration be residents of Washington,
and as members Of the Shipping Board
are not, the directorate is made up
Of empIoyes of the board. This ques-
tion as to whether the Shipping Board
or the corporations directors sit Is
matter of indifference, so long as tne
deliberations are participated IN py
General Goethals.
1--WE are and have been very anxious
for a conference with General Zoe,
tbals az soon as the contracts and
estimates are in hand, so we can eX, ;,
anime them. This examination VIII
take only a few hours and VIII greatly
eYpedite the conference"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Argentina Surprised
At German Dispatch

Buenos Ayres, July 17.-Lively ex-
nectation continues here on the out
Come of the controversy which has
arisen between Argentina ana germany
rasnoc.inp the sinking of Argentine
steamers. An official German dispatch
received to-day, announcing that the
caused great amszement and was re-
ceived with skepticism, for the Argen.
tine government, being determined not
,n nodifv the terms OF its note, which
demands satisfaction. and the promise
of Germany not to sink Argentine ves-
sels i'm the future, feels that an ami
cable settlement would constitute VIC
tory of universal Importance; as Ger
MANY would thus recognize the rights
Of neutrals.
The newspapers express the opinion
that the rup pture of relations between
Arocntina and Germany would involve
those Of Spain and Germany.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Redfield Gusts
DR.. Pratt, in Charge
Of Exports Control
Department Of Commerce Off
cial Had Just Arranged
New Bureau

Washington. July 17.-Dr. Edward E.
Pratt, chief of the Commerce Depart
ment's Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, resigned tonight at the re-
quest of Secretary Redfeld.
No reason was announced, but it is
known wide differences have existed
between Mr.. kedfield and his assistant
over the administration of the export
control clause OF the espionage act.
As chief of the bureau, DR.. Pratt was
in active charge of operation of the
governments control of exports. which
went into effect Sunday morning. He
had just organized and started working
a division Of export licenses, with G. A.
Richards. New York exporter, at its
head.
DR.. Pratt's letter to the Secretary
of Commerce is as follows:
'ln accordance with your request. |
have transmitted to the Presiden. my
resignation as chief of the Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, to
take effect Immediately.
81 regret to leave the important
work which has recently been intrust-
ed to the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce, because | had looked
upon it as an opportunity to serve my
country.
IL want to take this occasion to eX-
press to you my sincere appreciation
of your many courtesies extended TO
me during the last THREE years
All that Secretary Redfield would :ay
was contained in this brief statement:
"While DR.. Pratt has many eycel-
lent qualities and much ability. it was
deemed wise, for administrative rea-
sons and for the good of the service.
that a change be made. There will be
no other readjustments in the service.
The matter had been for some time
under consideration
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Teutons Rob French Bank

Geneva, July IA French lawyer
who IL interned at Geneva received
news to-day through an indirect route
from a banker friend at st. Quentin to
the effect that the Germans recently
forced the safes Of all the banks in 81.
Quentin and stole the contents in
money. notes end scrip. and even the
nrivate account books. which were sent
10 Germany.
,oro ,be ewes Of the bank directors and
employee, who refused to open the
xafca.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Porto Rico Goes Dry
By Large Majority
Unionists Win Election; Dea-
villa To Be Resident Com
missioner in u. S.

San Juan, 7. r.. July l7.-Porto Rico
voted for prohibition by big majority
at yesterdays election. With four un-
important towns missing, the returns
at IL o'clock this morning showed 90
rs votes for prohibition and 6l,295
against.
Fifty-one municipalities voted for the
prohibition measure. as compared with
Il opposed to it. San Juan's vote for
prohibition was 5,ll7 for and 2,255
against All the other large cities
were strongly on the dry side.
Felix Cordoya Deayila. Unionist, was
chosen Resident Commissioner at
Washington. The Unionists carried
five out of seven Senatorial districts,
the other two going for the Republican
candidates.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
A small charge for alterations

Of it. At the present moment do not
know Of single strike in the country.
Never has Spain enjoyed such pros
perity. There is work for everybody.
and il is we'll paid"
Interviewed by a correspondent OF
the "Matin.' the Premier said the gov
ernment had taken precautions in view
of possible disorders on Thursday,
when members OF Parliament are eS-
pected to meet in Barcelona in def
ance of the wishes of the Cabinet. The
Premier assured the correspondent
that there would be no disturbances,
and affirmed his belief in the monarchy
as essential to Spanish unity.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
BY c. w. GILBERT

Washington. July Sentiment
among American naval officers in favor
of an Allied naval offensive has grown
rapidly. Where six weeks ago not
more than half Of the officers were in
favor of an aggressive policy, now fully
90 per cent favor such a policy, and
that 90 per cent includes, at least theo-
retically, the bureau chiefs of the Navy
Department, not excepting, it is said,
Secretary Daniels's closest adviser,
Admiral Benson.
The logic of the situation, that the
only way to fight the submarine is to
fight it, is being forced home.
SO far as clarifying the naval prob
lem goes, it is of real advantage to
know just how much, or rather how
little. shipping this country is going
TO be able to build, General Goethals's
statement, published recently, may
be accepted as final. Where a few
weeks ago We were being assured even
by members of the Cabinet that we
should build ships faster than Germany
could sink them, we know that if all
turns out as we'll as is expected we
shall build 100000 tons of shipping
in eighteen months.
Germany will probably sink 10000
900 or 100000 tons in eighteen
months. And that difference between
100000 and 10000, O,OOO-we may set
off the British and neutral building
against depreciation and losses by ship
wreck-that difference cannot be
spared. as we are already so short of
ships that the General Staff of the
army sees no way of getting more than
a few regiments of the National Guard
in France before the snow flies. The
rest of the Guard will go South.
Shipbuilding Not Solution
Thus the shipping situation is clear.
There is no room for false hopes. Build
ing ships to replace those lost is not
going to save US. At best it is but a
palliative. postponing the evil hour of
Germany's victory on the sea, if some
other way is not found of beating the
submarine. Getting this definite and
final answer that all we shall be able
TO do is make up third to half of.
the marine losses through the sub
marine enables us to dismiss one hope
from our minds and concentrate on
the real task of beating the submarine
itself. That process of elimination has
been going on since the day of our
entrance into the war, and its inevita-
BILE effect has been to make more and
more of our navy men see clearly the
need of a definite offensive policy to
win this war.
There is still palliative that is
being tried, but so greatly has the
temper of naval men changed that 1t
is frankly recognized as palliative,
and that is conveying food ships to the
Allies. 1t has been in use for several
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Agree at Conference to
Supply All Allotments
u. S. Asks
Output To Be Pooled
Prices Will Be Fixed After
Trade Commission In.
vestigation

Washington, July 17.-Coal operators
Of four Eastern states, at conference
here to-day. assured government Of
iicials they would meet all the govern
ment's coal needs, and that they would
furnish amounts allotted to them by
any agency the government might
name.
The question of prices was not con-
sidered. although Secretary Daniels, ~
a speech appealing to their patriotism,
declared the operators should come for
ward in the same spirit as shown by
the men who don uniforms and 60 to
France. The prices will be fixed after
the Federal Trade Commission has
completed its Investigations OF coal
production costs.
The governments coal requirement
for the next year were put at signify
more than five million tons. Much OF
il must be of the so-called smokeless
variety for use by warships and trans
ports. Most of the operators at the
conference came from the smokeless
coal fields of Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia.
The operators bound themselves also
to take care of each others commercla al
orders when they are taken over BY the
government. The plan adopted virtual
" amounts to a pool of coal sold to
the government. Committees named by
the operators will report to the coal
committee OF the Defence Council and
ask advice as 10 allotment. The al
lotment probably will be made by the
Defence Council or by the Federal
Trade Commission.
More than five hundred operators
were at the conference. The govern
ment was represented by Secretary
Daniels. W. b. Colver, of the Fedora
Trade Commission; Van II. Manning, OF
the Bureau of Mines: George Ats, OF
the Geological Survey, and by members
of the Defence Councils Coal Com
mittee,
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Spain's Strikes Ended,
Premier Dato Asserts
Optimistic About Difficulties,
and Says There Is No
Chance of Revolution

Paris, July II am mos OPP
timistic in regard TO the existing DIM
culties. which already are being set
tied said Premier Dato Of Spain. ac-
cordng to a special correspondent OF
the Paris journal" Asserting that
if the spondent had gone to Spain
to witness a revolution his mission
was vain, the Premier continued:
1--WE have had some strikes-two IN
particular, in the Asturias coal mines
and the Cartagena factories-but they
were ended to-day. We were threat
ened also with general railroad
strike, but there is no longer danger
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
u. S. Meat Inquiry Begins

Chicago, July 17.-Joseph f. Davies'
Of the Federal Trade Commlssior' and
a corps of thirty Investigators, clerks
and stenographers, arrived here this
sf,ernoon TO conduct the government
inquiry into the meat industry.
Francis ]. Heney will act as attorney
for the commission. Mr.. Davies's nrst
,yorL here was TO confer with Walter
L. Fisher, counsel for the iivestocH n
,nrests Cattlemen have long demand
ed an investigation OF marketing con-
ditions. The packers professed TIi,hs-
ness only if the csttlemen themselves
were investigated.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Berlin Hopes to Avert
Break with Argentina
Reply to Note Delayed Be.
cause of Change in Chan
cellorship

Berlin (via London, July 17.-Ger-
many hopes that the affair of the tor
pedoing of the Argentine steamer Toro
will be settled amicably, according to
semi-official note. This statement de-
MES that relations had been broken
of. the government saying that it had
not yet replied to the Argentine note.
DR.. Luis D. Molina, Argentine AM
bassador to Berlin, telegraphed his gov
eminent yesterday that Germany's an
swer to Argentina's demand would be
DELAYED several days owing to the
change in the Chancellorship.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
American Schooner Sunk

Washington, July r. News Of the
torpedoing of the American schooner
Childe Harold in Euroo an waters June
20 reached the State Department to-day
in message from Montevideo, an
nouncing the safe arrival there OF the
schooner's master and crew of eight.
The survivors were picked up soon
after their vessel went down by
steamer bound across the Atlantic for
the Uruguayan capital.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Shot When He Asked for Rent

Andrew Garale and his son Carmine,
of 1853 Sixty-eighth Street, Brooklyn,
went TO West Fourteenth Street and
Avenue yesterday to collect rent
from Jaro Alfano. a truck gardener.
Alfano declared the rent was not due
until August. Carmine Gariale was
shot through the abdomen in the course
of the dispute. and Alfano was locked
up. charged with homicide.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
British Vessel Sunk;
Only Two Are Saved
Rescue Made by Another Yes.
sci on Voyage from Here
to England

An Atlantic Port, July IA gunner
and a fireman, who said they were the
cnly survivors of the British steamship
Daleby, which they reported was sunk
Nav % by a U-Doat, were picked up
May 80 in lifeboat by British ship
arriving here to-day. The rescue was
made, the officers said, on the trip from
this port to England. The Daleby was
of 1928 tons gross.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Train Kills 81" Worker

A Culver line train bound for Coney
Island killed Fred Jansen, an iron
worker, yesterday afternoon at Graves
end Avenue and Avenue ?, where Jan.
sen was working On the new elevated
structure. His home was at Eighteenth
and Grsvesend avenues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
TRANSFER IS. READY FOR BUSINESS.
Newly Formed Company to Care for Traffic to
 Camp Mcclellan

You can always count on the Herren brothers to get in on the ground floor
 Going to Anniston and looking over the situation they immediately said among themselves, Sure as you are born. folks are going to pile in here from every part of the country, and as the street cars do not run out to Camp Mcclellan they are going to want a cheap, quick and pleasant way to get out there, and we are the fellows who can see to it that they don't have to sit around the hotels or stand on the street cars, waiting all day for conveyances, and so we are go- ing to organize a local company, com posed of the leading citizens, so that it will have the confidence of the public
 Then, We will get the right kind Of cars and attend to the details
 Now it was the soldier boys who brought us to Anniston, and we ought to get a trademark that will appeal to them, and when a charming Anniston woman suggested Uncle Sam, we knew that we had gotten hold of the finest kind of an idea"
 Now hero is asking all who see this to call on the Herrens and let them take you out to the camp or show you the city, the surrounding towns or the coun- ty. They are ready to meet folks day or night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
s. l.. CROOK & co.
 ARE MAKING GOOD
Sam Crook Is One of the Best Known
 Men of Anniston

I went in to see my old friend, Sam Crook, and what do you suppose he told me?
 He told me that his charming daughter had just married and 1t made me feel old to think that my old partner had a daughter old enough to get married
 I reckon every man, woman and child in Calhoun county knows Sam Crook He comes from an old and distinguished fam ily and Sam is a kind of institution in Anniston. I was told that he was made q deacon awhile back and his pastor says he is making good. I am not surprised, for if he falls down in religious work 1t will be the first time he ever failed I can hardly think of him In a business way I knew him as a lovable society man about town, but he has made good in insurance, real estate and loans
 Here is hoping that he Is going to make a killing while Anniston is on boom I do not believe anyone in the whole town would begrudge his getting on Easy street. F. w. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
SOME COOPERATION
 OF THE RIGHT SORT

It may be said, without fear of denial, that Calhoun county has been awakened during the past F months to the possi- bilities of its vast development as never before and the agency of this awakening has been the spirit of cooperation
 There is abundant evidence of system attic cooperation all along the line It is seen in the marked harmony that ex- ists between the merchants of Anniston, Oxford, Piedmont and Jacksonville with the farmers of the surrounding country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22

and in the steps that the farmern have taken to work together for their com mon interest.
 One of the important steps taken for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22

If the demand for 10 shillings advance in the wages of half a million semi skilled and unsSilled workers in the British engineering industry, which is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22

a closer working relation between town and county was the appointment of A committee of agriculture by the Annis- ton Chamber of Commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
STORYOF AN1VZSTON. RECORD OF DEEDS
 OF STAL WART MEN|

town needs some organization to help keep it's citizens from getting lazy and to keep the outside world from forgetting it.
 Now the Annistonians have been aroused from the outside and are be- ginning to get busy on the inside and have a live chamber with an active secretary, and imported an expert to give them advice and put them on the map. Anniston has the goods and it's high time for her to put on an ad- vertising campaignn.
 Recently the Chamber of Commerce has put out an attractive folder show ing some of the places of interest anG giving interesting data. If you want d copy write for one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22

now being considered by the commits of production, is conceded, the ernploye
 will have to pay an additional s13ooO.t sterling a year in wages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
RICH IN MINERALS
 EVEN IN THE CITY PROPER

From the days of the old Wood stock furnace Anniston and the sur rounding country has been noted for it's mineral deposits. Marble, limestone, glass sand, potter's clay, manganese, barytis and pyrites, iron. coal and lime rock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-22
lcontInued from rage rhreel

I said to a little pickaninny on the roadside: Boy, crank the car" Proud ly he stepped up and gave it one turn and the engine began to sing. but the face of the little nigger was radiant and turning to the negroes he proud ly said: "Aint you shamed of your selves to let me do what you couldn't do and what dem white gentlemen couldn't do' But this was few years back. Now there are miles of good roads running through as pretty country as there is in the land.
 ANNISTON IS WAKING
 UP TO PRESENT
 What would Birmingham be without the Chamber of Commerce and Blanks Everett; without the Birmingham Civic association and Charley Harold?
 They are always in behind something for Birmingham and eternally adver- Using it at home and abroad. Every
The Washington times., 1917-01-26

r. kavanaugh to be a fourth vice
president and DR.. Chauncey r. Burr.
Of Portland, Me-. to be assistant medi,
cal director.
The company. according to a report
read by Vice President Haley Fisks.
wrote a greater amount off business
last year than any other concern has
handled in a similar period. The
amount was 596,S56.52S. After pay
ing S10.424. 467 In dividends there re
NAMED a surplus to policy holders of
S2S,l6I ,511. The outstanding insur-
Gnce IL So, 49,, 43I 90.
The Washington times., 1917-01-26
NEW YORK "SUFFS"
PICKET WHITE HOUSE
Emblazon Excerpts From Pres
ident's Book on
Banner.
"a ENTHUSIASTIC WORKERS
Wilson GIimpses New Flags
and omits Customary
Smile.
"a ENTHUSIASTIC WORKERS

Carrying two banners containing
excerpts from President Wilson's
book, The New Freedom" twenty
four suffrage sentinels from New
York Joined the picket line at the
White House today.
Liberty is the fundamental demand
of the human spirit" said one OF
these quotations from the Presidents
writings emblazoned on a tri-oolored
banner.
Mr.. President, how long must wom-
en- wait for liberty7 was the COM
panion banner. the same one that has
waved from the picket line since the
siege of the White House began.
States. politically speaking. in moth
ond banner quoting from The New
Freedom
Same P1alntive Request.
How long must women wait for
Iiberty?" another banner repeated.
The New York sentinels were
headed by Miss Alice Carpenter,
chairman Of the New York city
branch of the Congressional Union.
There were twelve in tho first party,
and twelve more arrived at noon.
Friend Of Colonel House.
Prominent in the first squad of
New Workers was Ms. George Elmer
Adams, of New York, q friend of
Colonel House. Whether the SUI
fragists intend to obtain Colonel
Houses confederation of their picket
iKs behalf OF the Federal
suffrage amendment remains to be
seen. Mrs. Adams. smilingly refused
either to affirm or deny that theory
when questioned about It.
The delegation was led by Miss
chairman of the New York
city branch OF the Congressional
Union. Others who made the trip are
Mrs. John Winters Brannan, Miss
Anna Constable, Mrs. William l.. Colt,
Mrs. Philip Comstock, Mrs. L. L. Della
field, Mrs. Edmond Kelly, Mrs. Wal
ter B. Thompson, Mrs. John Rogers,
Mrs. Calvin Tomkins, Miss Marion
Miss Minnie Friedman, Miss
wenona Hsrlin, Mrs. J. Z. Lambie,
and Mrs. Charles ": Farnham.
BY calling the Presidents own
words to his attention, the pickets
hope to convince him that he should |
lend his aid to help get the amend
The Washington times., 1917-01-26
HERE IS ONE THING THAT
is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE

IL . disordered condition OF the blood.
How then. can satisfactory results be
expected from any treatment that does
not reach the blood. the seat OF the
trouble. and rid the system OF the
cause OF the disease? S. S. s. Is oEs
blood remedy that has for more than
nifty years been giving relief to even
the most aggravated and stubborn
cases of Rheumatism. It clednsss AMI
purifies the blood by routing out al:
traces of the disease. The experience
OF others who have taken S. :. s. will
convince you that 1t viii promptly
reach your case. You can obtain this
valuable remedy at any drug store.
A valuable book on Rheumatism AMI
its treatment, together with expe":
medical advice about Wour own indi-
vidual case. viii be sent absolutely
free Write today to Medical De-
partment. Swift Specific Co. S3 .SWifs
Laboratory. Atlanta. Gs--Advt.
The Washington times., 1917-01-26
Rheumatism Has Never Been
Cured by Linimsnts or Lo-
: tons and Never W. Be.

You never knew OF Rheumatism
that most painful source OF suffering
being cured by liniments, lotions or
other external applications. And you
will never see anything but temporary
relief afforded by such makeshifts.
But why be satisfied with tempo
rary relief from the pangs OF pain
which are sure to return with in
creased severity. when there is per-
manent relief within your reach?
Science has proven that Rneuma tism
The Washington times., 1917-01-26
INSURANCE RECORD MADE
Metropolitan Writes $5ss,s5e,52s
Worth Of Policies,

NEW YORK. Jan. Ca convention
OF nearly 700 managers of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company from
all parts OF the United States and
Canada opened q three-day business
session yesterday at the home office.
! Madison avenue. II was announced
that the directors had elected James
The Washington times., 1917-01-26
HOW TO SELECT NAMES.

How to Select Children's Names
will be the subject OF q lecture to-
night, in the Hotel Portland by
Miss Louise Cults Powell.
The Washington times., 1917-01-26
HEBREW HISTORICAL LECTURE

DR.. Benjamin L. Grossman will
speak on Men and Their Influence
on Jewish History" tonight In Adas
Israel Synagogue Sixth and streets
northwest.
The Washington times., 1917-01-26
ARE PEOPLE FROM YOUR HOME
STOPPING AT CAPITAL HOTELS?
List of Arrivals From the Various States and
Other Countries Recorded on Regis
tiers of Local Hostelries.

q a
of
who
nuicklv uriht heirf
The Washington times., 1917-01-26

President Wilson returned to the
White House after an early round
OF golf at Washington Country Club.
Whether he saw the new banners az
he, droye through the waiting line of
pickets Is not certain. but when the
President raised his hat he did not
accompany the action with the Smile
with which he has always greeted
the silent sentinels..