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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-26

Harrison. The house was adorned witf yellow flowers, black-eded susans being used in profuson.
 Those receiving were Miss Chase. Mrs Abercrombie, Miss Neva Bell, Mrs Os- car Jones, Mrs. Frank Robinson and Miss Lucille Pledger.
 The dining room table was centered with huge yellow basket of yellow daisies and the ices carried out the same color scheme. Each guest wrote tele- gram to the bride elect, wishing her well, using the letters of the name liar rison to start the words.
 The gifts were presented to the lovely guests of honor in very beautiful yellow boxes adorned with yellow daisies, by Master Nelson Abercrombie, one of her Sunday school pupils.
 Miss Grace Blackburn entertained at a Lyric party Saturday afternoon, com plimenting Miss Pearl Blackburn, bride elect, The guests were Mrs, Walter Me- Coy, Miss Pearl Blackburn. Miss Erin Holcomb, Miss Annie Lee Horn and Mrs Joseph Cowart
 Miss Frances Martin entertained at a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-26

turn from their wedding trip, spent on the southern coast, July l, and will keep house for the summer at the home of Mrs. Hoods sister, Mrs. Give Richard son, at Mountain Terrace.
 Friends of Mir and Mrs O. B. New man of East Lake will regret to learn that their son, o. B., Jr., was hurt in an elevator accident yesterday.
 Miss Adeine and Miss Trenna Mae AL exander are the guests of friends and relatives in Faunsdale.
 Mrs. J. A. Bryan has taken a cottage at Asheville, N. C., where she will spend the summer with her son.
 
 Mrs. Joseph Hill and family have re- turned from visit to relatives in Tus- kegee.
 Friends of MT Robert Jemison regret to learn that he is i'll at his home at Glen Iris
 Mrs. Anna H. vanHoose will leave the last of the week for Sewanee, Tenn, to spend the summer
 Mrs. Charles Estes has returned from a visit to Washington New York, Phil
 
 
 Miss Annie Lane Sylvester has re- turned from visit to Anniston and In gram Wells.
 Miss Louise Nevins is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. L. V. Mcvoy, in Selma. Mrs Give Richardson and little daugh- ter, Edwina, will leave July 1 for De- troit and Michigan resorts, where they will spend the summer. The following boys left last evening for the Culver Military academy to spend the next few weeks: Robert Bromberg. Leo Steiner, Jr.. Allan Drennen. Reginald Lanier and John Beecher.
 Dr. Duke Bradford, who has spent the past few weeks in south Alabama, has re- turned home.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Tutwiler, Jr.. and children will leave today for Valley Head, where they will spend sometime at their summer home
 Mrs. MacLin Smith and son, MacI4in, Jr., left yesterday for Mentone, where they will spend the summer.
 Mrs. Jelks Cabaniss and daughter, Elizabeth, are spending a few days in the city as the guests of Mrs, Cabaniss' mother Mrs John M. Cartwright. They
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-26
Douglas Fairbanks Is One of the Best Things That Has Ever Happened to the Movies" and Nothing
 Can Check His Helter-Skelter SwoOp of the Screen
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

''M moon: ; ago .ss,. when ,,a s':s's:. :s3::
 body to put little pep in the screen play; how young Douglas Fairbanks,
 'the dude actor from Broadway" am , bled out west and said he'd undertake
 the job while the carping critics said he'd never be able to stand the ruff stuff like the hardened band.
 But that was the time young Doug"
 rut a crimp in all the old wags prophe-
 cies, and SO
 " Midst bustn' bronchos and woolly toughs
 1 And yellowed sheriffs chinks and roughs;
 Midst all the rabble of the west 1 Where bangin up a town seem'd best 1 Doug laughed and said: Directors! i shoot;
 l I'll bet this first big reels a beaut!'
 And it was-and all the rest that fol- | lowed, for young Douglas Fairbanks is ] the one person on the screen who from l the very beginning did a trick fall into 1 the right pool. He has proven to be one of the best things that has ever hap pened to the movies, and nothing can stop his helter-skelter swoop on the screen.
 Comedians in the films have been ex- plotted in dozens like penny punches of frecraclzers-onlys smaller, and if there is any place in the world where a comedian isn't funny. unless he is funny, it is on the screen.
 The average comedian of legitimate reputation fairly makes your soul groan. We look at'him on the screen and declare that we never thought he was funny, and now we know he is not; the noise and hustle of the stage did as much for him, we realize, as the grease-pot and makeup did for the professional beauty; but now he has thrown off all armor on the screen, and registered his un-funny, funnyisms, and we wonder how we ever managed to laugh at him. But about Douglas Fairbanks: it's diff ferent. He's rollicking exception. Oc- casionally some comedian gets there" W who belongs" and if there ever was one who belongs to the movies" it is Douglas Fairbanks. Every bone in his body belongs in the movies" every ab surd, arcrobatic bone in his body.
 Douglas Fairbanks is all expression; his face is fairly grotesque with it; it reeks and drips, and oozes, and streams dll ONST lnS SCleSi, lIOIll every IiulCulOuS angle, both of his face and body.
 Douglas Fairbanks is not a clown; he's a comedian and bully good one at that, and he is one of the movies very best assets; he holds himself in splendid cos trol and manages to remain a grand ras- cal in situations where another comedian would be a big lobster
 Have you seen his new play, Wild and Woolly, round at the Strand?
 Well, if you haven't, do so; it is well worth seeing.
 It's a perfect whale of Init" it's peacherine; a regular sumner
 The old expression, "timeworn and be- whiskered, It's the best thing he's ever done" might with impunlty be resurected and used with good effect on this play for Anita Loos, who writes scenarios for MT. Fairbanks, and who knows him like a book and always gives him opportuni- ties well suited to his talents, has done
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-26
RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. Walter Ryan of Tuscaloosa is spending few days in the city, and is the guest of Mrs Henry T. DeBardeleben at Glen Iris.
 Mrs. Kyle Elliott of Gadsden and Miss Avery B. Caldwell of Jacksonville are the guests of their sister. Mrs. Knox Flemming.
 Mrs. Abner Morris of Talladega, who has been the guest of Mrs. John Carns, has returned to her home.
 Mrs. John w. Patton and children will leave soon for Mentone, where they will spend the summer.
 Mrs. D. c. Nevitt and children left yes- terday for visit to relatives in Virginia and North Carolina.
 Mrs. c, A. Moffett, who recently under went an operation for appendicitis, is im- proving, and has been carried to her home on South Sixteenth avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. Harold Henderson and little daughter, Martha, will leave to- morrow for Tennessee, making the trip in their car.
 Mrs. s. w. Jones and children left a few days ago for Lincoln, where they will spend the summer.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Hood, who were married on Saturday evening, will re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-26

1 Fl Paso Tex, June 25.-(Special.)- )-You
 can See Fl Paso two ways. You can
 be a little hysterical. as I am, over the
 border town thnllingness of things. Or 1 you can close a cold, canny commercial
 eye and get chamber of commerce
 angle on it's go west young man, op- | portunities. I never saw a town where they say so little about dust storms and so much about industrial chances! l To work off my excitement I must write two stories of El Paso. I shall take you walk from my hotel down El
 Paso street straight into Cuidad Juarez to bull fight. And we can attend to the opportunities later.
 My ninth story window is in as hand
 some a hotel as ever reared it's elegant ia cade from the gilt and marble, Turkish
 rug and hat check belt of New York city. It has all the modern inconvenience
 with a few western developments like free newspapers at your door in the i morning. It is 1919 at the very least. Now look out southward, past rocky
 mountain almost at your elbow, into that longish, squat bpildinged street where the sun shines and the dust blows At it's end runs a ribbon of muddy water, too shallow to wet the ankles of Chi huahua pup. The Rio Grande!
 Beyond you see a blotch of brown
 cubes scattered on the slope of the grim and rugged mesa, with the shot-marred, whitewashed cathedral of Guadalupe ris- ing feebly in their midst. Mexico!
 The cubes of bode houses, where whole
 families, including the dog, the burro, the big and the flea, live in dirtish desuetude Ragged, sans furniture, build ing their mesquite wood fires on the
 mud floor! Mexcol You are looking from the twentieth century into the six teenth, with only a street and a bridge to join them!
 There are awnings before most of the shops, so you only glimpse the medley of people passing-easterner in neat straw hats and well shined shoes; six-foot
 westerners with careless boots and wide felt stetsons; cattemen in movie regalia clanking spurs; mining men looking l1Ke 30 cents, with $30O00 worth of claims in every pocket not occupied by artillery;
 women with the same half-portion skirts, white shoes and assisted complexions you see on Fifth avenue; soldiers whose faces match their purtees, and Mexicans, Mexcans and more Mexicans.
 FINDS ECHOES OF REVOLUTION
 Some, but not many, are millionaire refugees like Don Luiz Terrazas, richest man in Mexico at the time Madero started something against old man Diaz, and said to own half the state of Chi
 huahua. Terrazas is way up in the eighties, but is al his office every day accompanied always by a double body guard with bulging hip pockets.
 He is father-in-law of Enrique Creel, former ambassador from Mexico to the United States, and lives in a beautiful house purchased from Senator A. B. Fall. It is said that the Terrazas cattle have supported in turn the Madero, Villa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-26

June was the pretty party given yester- day by the teachers and officers of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, and Mrs. w. A. Abercrombie, at the home of Mrs. Ahercrombie at Norwood, com plimenting Miss Tyrchena Chase, who will be married tomorrow to MT Perry
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
BRITISH STILL
 PUSH FORWARD SEVERAL MORE TOWNS TAKEN East of Arras, Along Wide Front. the British Are Pushing Relentless Iy FOrwar1l-iermanS Making a Desperate Resistance.
SEVERAL MORE TOWNS TAKE

LONDON, April 13.-Pressing for ward along a wide front east of Arras the British forces have captured ad- ditional ground, including several for tified villages and German points of support and several strips of wood land occupied by the Germans. The Sart farm, Gauche, Gougeacourt woods and villages have been taken and the German lines have been pene, trated in the vicinity of Metz and Couterre. Heavy fighting is in pro- gress north of Hargicourt, and the Germans are making a desperate re- sistance along the nine-miie front be- tween Metz and Hargicourt, but neither the German artillery nor the unfavocable clements can stop the relentless drive of the British.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
JUNEAU MURDERER
 MAKES HIS ESCAPE
Was Sentenced to Be Hanged May 1T for Murder of Many People Fifteen Posses Are In Pursuit But No Trace Gan Be Found.

JUNEAU. April 13.-Edw. krause, sentenced to be hanged here on May l 1 for the murder of James Plunkett, escaped jail last night, and is now at liberty. Eleven launches and ff- teen posse are searching for the fu- gitive.
 Investigation reveals that krause had gained possession of some saws. presumably from friends on the out side and sawed his way from the main tank into small corridor adjoining. where he secreted himself While the jailers were locking up last night about 9 o'clock, he escaped into the jailer's office. opened the door lead ing to the outside. which had been accidentally left unlocked. and dlsap- peared into the darkness. An alarm was immediately given and the chase started. A number of launches were pressed into service to guard against his leaving 0y water. and number of men sworn in to search for the fugitive. but as yet no trace of the missing man has been found. No death watch had been appointed to guard Krause in the jail and he was al lowed the same freedom as the other prisoners.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
HAS.
 APPROVED BILL THE REPUBLICANS WILL AMEND Object of Provisions of Bill Giving Arbitrary Powers to the President and Secretary of the Treasury- Amendments May Re Adopted.
THE REPUBLICANS WILL AMEND

WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 13.-- The Senate finance committee has al ready approved the Revenue bill. and the measure is meeting but little op- position, principally from the Repub- licans, who are planning amendments mainly in opposition to the granting to the President and Secretary of the Treasury the arbitrary powers con- ferred in the original bill. It is be- lieved that some of these amendments may be adopted.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
MAY BLOCKADE
 ATLANTIC COAST
ASSEMBLE BIG FLEET CHAsERs
('OnfeTenCe of Foreign and American Naval Officers Gives lm,,ctuS to Cn- operative .ActiOn-Sub ChaSerS Be Mohilized Immediately.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 13.-- A decided impetus was given today to the cooperation of the British French and American fleets. through the conference between Secretary oI the Navy Daniels and the British and French admirals this morning. One of the subjects discussed by the con ferees was the possible blockade of the Atlantic coast ports by German submarines and the assembling of a big fleet of motor driven submarine chasers.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
MORE GUARDS ARE CALLED OUT

WASHINGTON. April 13.-Secretary of War Baker today ssd orders for the calling out of ten thousand ad dtiona men of the National Guard, principally from the Eastern States for guard duty at the various munitions plants, railroads and navy yards
 The destruction of the munitions plant of the Baldwin locomotive works and the burning of the grain elevators St. Paul. undoubtedly by German plotters sympa- thzes with Germany has demonstrated that the greatest caution must be observed to prevent repetition of this work The big manufacturing manes and mills hroll- >t the country have also retained large numbers of pri yate wachmen to protect their plants from destruction.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
BONDING BILL
 BEFORE HOUSE
BILL BEING WARMLY DEBATED
Most Gigantic Measure In the His tory of the Country-May Be Fore ed to Passage This AfternOOn- Equals Total Debt of Nation.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.- The bonding bill is up before the House and the debate is warm and unlimited as to time. It is believed the measure will be forced to passage this afternoon. This is the most gi- gantic financial legislation in the his- tory of the country. the bond issue proposed more than equalling the en- tire debt of the nation.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
FLEET MAY BE EMPLOYED SOON

WASHINGTON, April 13.-Whe all regard ing the plans is strictly censored and official news may be obtained regarding the movement of ships the tvity displayed throughout the country i'll recruiting men for the navy and the speed with which work of preparing the warships for duty at various yards progessg
 ads the inference that the United States navy will soon take prominent part in the It is believed that number of the vessels particularly of the destroyer class will be employed in conveying merchant ships through the zone and thus facilitate the shipment of food supplies and munitions to the Allies
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
AGRICULTURAL DEPT. IS BUSY

WASHINGTON, April 13.-No less active than the War and Navy Departments is the Departments of Agrl culture Plans for Increasing the crops of the country have been prepared and literature bearing the intensive cu tvan of the soil is being widely circulated throughout the country together with plea to the agrcutlrst t" adopt every possible to increase the production of the soil. Plans also being prepared for the mobza
 n of large bodies of farm labolers and their tnsport
 on from place to place they be needed both in planting and harvesting the crops.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
SENATE TO PASS REVENUE BILL

WASHINGTON April l3-The Senate adjourned last night until Monday morning. when it is the hope of the Senate leaders to rush through the bill providing the raising of billion dollars. The pro" vides for the levyng of sraXes large incomes and n heritances as well increasing the taxes smaller in cones It is also proposed to levy tax proprietary tcles, anlusements of all kinds automobiles etc.
 Some opposition has developed to the measure but it is confidently expected that the will be passed early in the week without any material amendment
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
DENIES OFFER SEPARATE PEACE

WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 13.-Sccrctary of State lallsilg this morning announced that whatever truth there may be in the report from Copenhagen that Germany had would submit proposals to the United States for separate peace, such proposal had been received by tine State Department.
 While the Secretary made statement as 0 the rv- ptlo such proposal would receive if submitted by Ger many the tenor of his remarks leads to the belief that tine Secretary would oppose the making of separate peace with Germany.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
APPROVES OF TEDDY:S PLANS

A WASHINGTON, April 13.-The plan of Col Roosc- Ht to raise army of at least 100000 for service in favor in several quarters of official Washington.
 President Wilson and Secretary of War Baker, how ever refuse to discuss the matter and it is known that President Wilson does not favor the project particularly the giving of the command to Roosevelt and many prom nen army officers express disbelief in the Colones ability <to handle large body of troops in actual warfare
 A number of the Republican members of the House and Senate approve the plan and is predicted that the project has excellent chance of case Democratic members of the House and Senate vote with the President.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
DRYS ARE PREPARING FOR
 NATIONWIDE PROHIBITION

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.-The Drys are be- onng exceedingly active and perfecting plans to bring about National Prohibition. The leaders of the are planning their final drive to bring about the enactment of legislation prohibiting the manufacture and sale of all intoxicating quors at least during the period of tine war; and using argument to show resl- lent Wilson that national prohibition will the co- u, sixty million bushels of wheat annually which into the manufacture of spirits.
 strong lobby being maintained for the purpose of
 influencing the members of congress to vote ill favor of
 on wide prohibition and the leaders of the measure are predicting that bill providing for national prohibition will be inNoduced and passed within short time.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
HEARING BE CLOSED ON
 CONSOLATION MEASURE

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.-Thc House Milf tar Committee this morning agreed to close the hearings the Army Bill tomorrow when the opponents of sclpton will be given three hours in which express their views. Chairman Dent of the Committee stated this
 ing that he would willingly sacrifice his personal views for the sake of unity It is confidently expected by the House leaders that the bill will without material opposition
 Representative Kahn, the ranking republican Der of the Military COmmttec out strongly in of colscipton stating that otherwise there will be many thousand slackers.
 It is expected vote will be taken the Sat ulaav afternoon Monday.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
RAISE ON GOVERNMENT ROAD

SEATTLE April 13-'Thc office of the Alaska Eng ncerng Commission ill this city has announced general increase of 10 per cent in wages affecting all ines c" labor the government railroad in Alaska. This increase was made the higher cost of living prevailing and will increase the monthly payroll of the Commission by about quarter of million dollars The Commission has also increased the price of board in the camps operated by t4sn along the railroad to $1 .25 per day
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
CABINET NOT TO BE BIPARTISAN

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1}.-Thc efforts of tn, Republican members of Congress to prevail upon res dent Wilson to appoint bipartisan cabinet is meeting with little support from the Democratic members. and is strongly opposed by President Wilson While the latter has made definite announcement the subject those close the chief executive have htStancv stating that there will be few if changes in the present cabinet and that such appointments may be made will consist solely of Democrats.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
GERMANS DISCOVERED
 PLOTTING IN SOUTH

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, April 13.-A wild and unconfirmed rumor has been started here that German agents are scattered thru the South melting the negroes to rebel against the whites.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
CONSCRIPTION SURE
ADMIRALS TO CONFER

tie British navy, Admiral Begasse of the French navy and Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Admiral Beson chief of naval operations in the United States navy conference today for the purpose of arranging plans for the cooperation of the French British and United States naves in the against Germany. The British and French admas arrived yesterday their respective flag ships
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
PROMISES TO GUARD OILFIELDs
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13-Plesdent Carran-
 f Mexico has given to the United States and her foreign ambassadors that the fuel supply for British ?nd French warshps from the Tampico oil fields will be maintained Carranze promises to maintain a strong guard about the oil fields to prevent them from being tam rf
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
WILL RECRUIT A HALF MILLION

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.-Secretary of War Baker preparing instructions to recruiting officers and urging the widest activity in gaining recruits The src- half million fill the gaps in the ranks of the National Guard During the past ten days four thousand recruits have been adopted for service.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13

c. c. Rudolph is painting the old Fairbanks building. now occupied by S. Blum & Co.'s grocery department. MT. Rudolph is the first hamburger of spring.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13
COSTA RIGA OPENS PORTS TOU.S.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The government has ad- vsed the State Department that in the event of hose between the United States and Germany the ports of that country will be open at all times to vessels of the United States navy.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-13

Band Meeting Tonight The Moose band will meet tonight in Moose hall. All members are ex- pected to be present.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-27
BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR
LITTLE GIRL.

In honor of his cousin, little Kath-
ertine Harrell, of Valdosta, Ca, Al
bert L. Reinschmidt, ,Jr., was young
host of yesterday afternoon, enter
tanning number of his boy and girl
friends at the home of his parents,
on East Jackson street.
A pink and white color motif. was
carried out in the decorations and re.
freshments, the birthday cake having
been iced in pink and burning six
pink candles.
Mrs. James F. Phillips entertained
the children with several charming
stories, and childish games made the
afternoon pass very happily.
Among those who enjoyed this
pretty birthday party were NARROW
White, Ed White, Katherine Levy,
Mildred Phillips, Beth Phillips, James
Phillips, Clarence Reinschmidt, Mary
Morgan Holsberry, Mary Rein
schmidt, Juliette Mayson, Olive L.
Mayson, Bessie Reinschmidt, Ber-
nard Levy, Vera Carroll, c. ]. Rein
schmidt, ]. P. Stokes, Jr., William
Van Brant, Jr., Aline Frost, Margaret
McHugh, Marco White, Sheila White,
and others.