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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
TalLadega Springs Citizens and Y. C. 4
 Traffic Men Aid Soldiers Smoke Fund

thanks in this way and let you know his appreciation.
 The Age Herald is co operating with the government and the French gov ernment and the Red Cross to enaoie you to give soldier the right kind of good, American smokes that he's all ways running short of in the trenches.
 You'li enjoy receiving one or those "smokegrams" straight from the front Send your quarter today.
 Here is the fund to date:
 Previously acknowledged .. Sso4. .oO From traffic department Ten
 nessee Coal. Iron & R. R. Co.,. i.O0 Adele M Kirk Montevallo. Ala 50 Vi nirminahsm hi dirshseT .'. Route S' BOX o'' 25 John Roberson. IT. Ia d e
 Springs Ala ....-....:...... z9 E. l.. Mckee, lTaladega Springs
 Ala. .:S, .....s. .s....t.... 70 J. A. Kytle Talladega Springs .
 Ala. ..ss.. ..s...... .....-.s.... @o J. Jackson, Talladega Springs
 Ala ..,..........,. 70 R. P. Looney, Tailadega Springs < -s Ala. .s.@ss.s- .,. ........... 70 ". H. Harden, Talladega Springs, .. B. w McKinnon, Talladega L. McKinnon, Talladega Springs,
 Ala -................ 70 c. E. Guile d g e, Talladega
 Springs, Ala. .s................ 9o R. L. Webster, Jr.. Talladega
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
MORE AUTOMOBILES
 STOLEN YESTERDAY
Auto Stealing Menace Con- tinues and Thieves Ply
 Trade Night and Day

The automobile stealing menace con tinued yesterday with the report of three cars stolen to the police depart ment The work of the thieves for Friday set a high water mark for a single week in the history of the city, when seven cars were stolen. Four of this number were recovered.
 Chevrolet touring car. a Ford touring car and Ford truck were the cars stolen yesterday. The Chevrolet touring car. the property of w. l.. Smith, 2219 Second avenue. north, was stolen on Second avenue between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, last night and had not been recovered at an early hour this morning.
 The Ford truck of the Worcester Ginger Ale company was stolen from the company's plant at 2500 Avenue G, south. It had not been recovered at an early hour this morning.
 A Ford touring car, the property of W. W. Clancy, SIS Chamber of Com medce building. was stolen but recov- cred by police last night. The car was stolen from the Chamber of Com merce building during the morning.
 The majority of the cars recovered are stripped of all of their tires and other demountable fixtures. Police au- thorities are of the opinion that the work is that of an organized band The detective and police departments are working on the case and a halt to the thieves reign is expected with fin a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
Thirty-F0ur States Represented

Marion, October 20.--(Special)--St ta- tistics completed this week show that there are 34 state and one foreign country represented at Marion insti- tute this year. The number of students from each is as follows: Alabama. 113 Arizona, one: Arkansas, six; Florida, six; Georgia, 10; Illinois. 10: Indiana, five; Iowa, seven; Kansas, two; Ken lucky, nine; Louisiana, eight; Maine. two Massachusetts. two: Minnesota, two; Mississippi, 30; Missouri, four; Nebraska, one; New Mexiso, two; New York, five; North Carolina, six; North Dakota, one; Ohio, three; Oklahoma, six; Oregon, one; Pennsylvania. two; South Carolina, two: South Dakota, one; Tennessee, IA; Texas, r.; Utah, one; Virginia, two; Washington, three; West Virginia, one; Wisconsin, two; Cuba, one. Total 292.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21

Talladega Springs citizens and the employees of the traffic department Of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company rallied in the cause of smokes for soldiers yesterday and collected 5S quarters for The Age Herald tobacco fund
 The Tennessee company traffic men sent in s7 and the Talladega Springs contributors $7.50.
 You can get personal message di- rect from the war zone, addressed to you at your home and written by some soldier at the front-possibly right from front line trench.
 It will be world war souvenir that you'n want to keep in your family for years to come.
 How to do it? Just send 25 cents to The Age Herald. Address it to our Tobacco Kit Fund. It will be enough to buy almost twice it's value in smok- ing tobacco for some soldier at the front and will go forward at once in neat little kit as your bit in making one of the boys more con- tented in the hard grind of the war.
 In each kit is packed post card, addressed to you and stamped for re- turn The soldier will send you his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
Fuel Administrators Are
 Named for EtOwah County

Gadsden, October o.--(Speciai) i)--A. A. Towers and Carl Lay of Gadsden and C. M Frost of Attalla have been named Etowah county fuel administra- tors by State Fuel Administrator sam Kennedy. All three men are in close touch with the coal situation. and MT. Frost, in addition, is versed in trans portation charges and facilities.
 The liberty loan drive will be con- ducted in Etowah county Wednesday. Judge J. L. Herring, county chairman, has named committees which will cover every beat in the county. The Rotary club will have seven teams to cover the city of Gadsden. For services in the first campaign, former Scoutmaster Fleetwood Williams and Scouts Roy Williams and Cooper Wordsworth were presented Boy Scout medals last night by Congressman Burnett. Other ad : dresses were made.
 Etowah's quota of the first draft is filled Unofficial figures show 375 men qualified for service, while 364 were necessary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
DELINQUENT FEES
 ADDED TO LICENSES
Many Business Firms Have Failed to Take Out Their New
 Licenses

Only 10 days more are available for the payment of business licenses without in- curing the delightful penalties fixed by law. According to the statement of Woolsey Morrow, clerk of the probate court, quite number of business men have failed to take out their licenses so far. but he suggests that this is more a matter of neglect rather than desire to avoid payment on the part of the business men In speaking of the taxes which are now due Clerk Morrow said: : "It is of mutual interest to our office force and the business men that these license taxes be paid before the last of this month. At that time our force Is de- creased and we will necessarily be over run with the usual amount of business thrust upon us, while beginning the first day of November a Is per cent fee is placed on the amount of the license is- sued and we are not allowed to issue a single license unless this fee Is paid at the same time. This matter Is one that Is not ignored but forgotten by the av-
 craze man and more particularly as heretofore they have had until the first of the year to make settlement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
SWEEPING CHANGE
 MADE IN SELECTIVE
 DRAFT MACHINERY
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erly before the boards for consideration far less arduous.
 The new plan, General Growder points out settles the vexing question of con tinuing the physical examination. of reg istrants until all have been classified in this way. Presumably 1t will be neces- sary to examine men under the new plan only as called up, if greater speed can be secured in that way, to ex- anime and classify physically all mem- bers of the class that is under call.
 A point not made clear in General Crowder's sta tement is how the rotation numbers of the drawing to fix the order of military liability are to be applied. Since no abandonment of that means of fixing the place of each individual in any class is announced, it seems cer- tain that the rotation numbers of the men in any class will govern the order in which they come up. In that case each class group would have it's own or der of liability list, based on the mas ter list. The effect would be to elim- inate classes of men who have been certain to have been exempted. at least temporarily, had they been called up and examined individually.
 MEN OF FIRST CLASS
 The result of the new plan undoubt ted ly will be to place in the first class men who are without dependents, whose civil occupation Is not yitally important to the nations wark at home and who are physically best able to endure the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21

Your organization, whether it is your lodge, union, or church, may share in the more than S5000 in cash and awards that are to be given away absolutely free by the Home Protective Selling Campaign company at 2123 Second ave nue. You may enter this selling cam. paign without one penny cost, simply by mailing the nomination blank in the full page advertisement in today's Age Herald This nomination blank gives you enough votes to start and through the cooperation of the members of your or ganization you may win part of the awards to be given.
 The first award s1700 in cash, the sec ond award S1215 Studebaker automobile De Luxe, third award $750 Chickering Grand piano and many other valuable awards aggregating total of more than $500.
 to give share of the profits of the com modities advertised In this campaign The merchants are cooperating in this big home protective movement, urging everyone to purchase such articles used in the home every day and by saving the salesslips, coupons, cartons and otn- CT valuable voting material to secure votes which may win a share of the awards to be given away.
 If your organization is in need Of funds, get your members together have our campaign manager to call on you and learn how easy it is to win one of the valuable awards The first award would help your organization nicely and probably offset all indebtedness should there be any. You can start now and se- euro enough votes to come out at the top at the closing time of this selling campaign. Don't wait but do it now.
 Exchange Department
 ha tip hat each member of all organizations should by all means get familiar with and see or call our campaign manager. This will only exist temporarily.
 New Institutions Entered
 Many new institutions entered the past week and are making wonderful prog ress in piling up votes These organi- nations and our contest managers have worked out plans by which votes can be secured easily.
 Institution Days
 We have set aside the following days Tor institutions for registration. All in- terested in any of the following should register on the stated days for their favorte organization:
 Tuesday. October 2S, G. I. A. to the F. of L. F.
 Wednesday, October "A. Great connei Pocahontas. Thursday, October 25, 0. R. c. No. iS6
 Saturday October 27. Red Cross Day Any other organization wishing da, < next week not mentioned above or an, day the following week can arrang' same by seeing the campaign manage at headquarters at 2123 Second avenue or phone Main 74f4.
 5000 Extra Votes
 You can secure avv0 extra votes betweeI now and the first of November at nooi on the following
 Norton drug books covers strand Colonial or Odeon Two book covers subscription to Birmingham Magazine one year
 25,NOO Extra Votes
 Any organization that induces any mer chant to handle any article or commodit. not already handled by him and goo fnr votes in this selling campaign vii be rixen 2500e extra votes. This Is & splen1id chance for new organiza tioh e8 ancure additional votes Call at head
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
MEN WHO TRIED ID FOMENT REVOLT IN
 INDIA CONVICTED

Chicago, October 20.-Gustav III. Jacob sen and three codefendants were found guilty tonight of conspiring to foment a revolution in India.
 The defendants were also found guli'y of violating the neutrality of the United States. Besides Jacobsen, the men found guilty are Albert Wehde. George Paul Boehm and Heramba Lal Gupta, Hindu.
 t'eueral Judge K. M. Landls, peiore whom the case has been tried, gave f1nal instructions to the jury this afternoon at 4:26 o'clock and was in the court room at s:25 o'clock tonight to receive the verdict.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
STATIONERY WEEK
 WILL BE OBSERVED
Roberts & Son Making Preparations for Keeping
 Open House All Week

The fall engraving and stationefy style
 week is taking form all over the United
 States, and Birmingham is preparing to
 do her part and make the local celebra-
 ton of engraving style week worth while
 in Birmingham
 The war conditions have caused many changes in methods of doing business and
 caused variety of, changes in
 styles and requirements and have
 aroused to the fulelst extent the
 creative genius of our American people,
 causing many new styles in correspond
 ence stationery, including engraved
 Christmas greeting cards, office system,
 and time saving devices. It is one of the
 purposes of this week. beginning in Bir-
 mingham Tuesday, October P, and con
 tinuing through to Saturday. to make demonstration of all of these new things and all of the stationery establishments, principal jewellers and engravers of the city are taking part.
 Roberts & Son have already completed
 plans and. made extensive preparations
 for the celebration of engraving style week, and are celebrating in addition to that event, the opening up of their new stationery store addition which has caused 50 per cent enlargement of their capacity in the stationery store and en- gravng departments.
 Roberts & Son will keep open house all week, and being on dress parade during the week, but two special days have been
 arranged, during which refreshments will be served and souvenirs given. The first is ladies' day. which will occur Tuesday from to o'clock in the afternoon. Re- treatments and souvenirs will be given. On Thursday, the 18th, a special invita- ton has been extended to all the men for sightseeing tour and specific invi- tations are extended to members of the Rotary club, Kiwanis club, the Civic as sociation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade, Business Mems league, Merchants association, and others The establishment of Roberts & Son is almost synonimous with that of the city 1 of Birmingham, because this business was established in the year Birmingham it. ] self was incorporated, 1872, and has grown with the city and with the state and with the south, and now their business ], covers five floors, their trade territorg 1 five southern states and their establish
 ment is not only the largest in the state, i but one of the most modern and complete l of it's kind in the entire south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
BASIS OF CLASSIFICATION

These classes will be based upon every conceivable condition, from the family or occupational standpoint. that should properly be advanced by Americans de- siring to be excused from military duty. Class will be the first called for phy- sical examination and sercice. and when 1t is exhausted, if the nations needs are such as to make 1t necessary, class ? will follow and thus each man regis tered will ultimately take his place II needed.
 'EYery opportunity for appeal from such classification by the local board has been retained and perfected, but pro- ceedings have been greatly simplified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
AIRCRAFT RETURNING FROM
 ATTACK ON LONDON
 FAIL TO ESCAPE
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fContinued from Page One) At 1f:30 o'clock. one Zeppelin passed out on the homeward journey. This airship dropped six bombs at Il o'clock and three at 11:15. The noise of it's engines was heard for 20 minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21

Springs. Ala. ............ 25 f. Q. Johnson, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. .......,......... 25 H. P Elastic, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. ~............... ........ 70 J. H. Hastie, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. ................, 25 c. W. c. Moore. Talladega
 Springs, Ala. s.............. 25 Attic Wood, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. ............-.. 70 M. B. Jennings Talladega
 Springs, Ala. ............... 25 Geo. Hosey, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. 20 John Hosey, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. ................... 25 c. M. Day, Talladega Springs,
 Springs, Ala. ............... 25 Wiley Vardaman, Talladega
 Springs, Ala. ............... 25 Tom Davis, Talladega Springs,
 Ala ......-..........., zo W. A. Beard, Talladega Springs.
 Ala. 2o John Kytle, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. ........ 70 John Darden, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. .............. ........s. 70 H. D. Glaze, Talladega Springs,
 Ala. ............. 70 Mark Miller. Talladega Springs,
 Ala. ................ 70 Margaret Morrinson, Talladega
 Springs, Ala ...............- 25 Total to date .......... .s969. 50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
DEATHS

Fieselman, George-Aged 33, died at the residence, 1863 Philadelphia avenue, East Thomas. Thursday af- ternoon. Funeral services will be held from residence this morning at 10:So o'clock with interment at Elm wood cemetery, with Lige Loy in charge. Dr. Holcomb will ofhciate. He Is survived by his wife, three children one sister, one brother and his father and mother. The follow ing are requested to act as pallbear CTS: Hugh Afford, Hugh Gormley, J. N Belap, Tony Patt, Edwin Mollison and Ernest Bennett
 Barnett, Henry Alexander-Aged 60 died yesterday at the residence, sos North Twenty third street. Remains were shipped to Opelika last night by Johns Undertaking company. Marlow, Opal-Aged 6, died at local infirmary yesterday morning. Re mains were shipped to Haleyville Saturday afternoon by Johns Under taking company.
 Finch. Mrs.. Lucille Harpcr-Aged 19 years, of East Lake; died at local infirmary yesterday morning. Flu. neral services will be held at the East Lake Baptist church this after noon at 3 o'clock. Interment will follow in Elmwood cemetery. Mrs. Finch Is survived by one brother of Birmingham and one sister of New Orleans Woodin in charge.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
MAIN PROBLEM SOLVED

been keeping together the great organ1- z,tion of the local and district boards, which from a numerical viewpoint, is of the strength of an army dlvlsion, many of these officials have been clam bring for relief on account of the drain on their time. and the new system Will make 1t easily possible for them to con tinue their duties for which they have Iroyen themselves eminently fitted.
 Another problem solved was the ques- tior of expediency of continuing the examination of the entire registry. thus fixing each mans status. This would have involved medical examination of each man, whose physical condition might change from day to day, thus making this great undertaking value less.
 Again under the old system of ex- emption and discharge 1t would have been necessary if the national need re- quired it to send for the exempted man to return for physical re-examlnation' while in the meantime his industrial or family stauts might have changed, thus involving endless appeals and confu- sion.
 The new system fixes mans class and calls him in his proper turn when he is needed. He will be examined phy- sically cnly when needed. Thus the ia bors of the medical offers will be called for cnly when required. If the nation needs 50o,oo0 men they will respond each in his turn fixed by this class
 "The man who can least be spared either as the head of family or the head of . business necessary to defense of the nation will be the last to go.
 "The new plan is being made ready for the printer and will be submitted to the local and district boards in ample time to enable them to familarize them selves with 1t, and thus approach their next draft with a thorough Knowledge of Its requirements"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
METHOD OF PROCEDURE

'The method of obtaining this infor- nation is through a 'questionnaire,' se- ries of questions calculated to produce the information required. This docu- ment will be mailed to every registrant not yet in service on a day to be fixed. seven days being given to each regis trant to complete and return the same. Every opportunity will be offered to each man to complete his questionnaire fully and without error.
 '%rhc local boards will then examine each questicnnaire and assign each reg istrant to one of five claSSesI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21

The ancient Indians of Peru are now regarded as the worlds grea test weavers This noteworthy revelation in the history of textile art is the result of the critical examination of many rich and beautiful tapestries and other fabrics executed by the gifted ancient Indian population Of Peru. Though buried three centuries or more in the sandy desert after being made with primitive handlooms and other weaving implements, these won derful fabrics are now found to be su- perior to those turned out by the auto matic looms of the great mills of today The primitive Peruvian handlooms' con- sisted of two sticks, one. at the top and one at the bottom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
TEDIOUS WORK ELIMINATED

s'The tedious work of the local boards has been practically eliminated by the production of a form to be known as No 1OO0.' which will be the foundation stone of the new system. Through its use all the laborious work of making and posting lists has been eliminated. All of the old docket sheets and records will be made unnecessary and by the ar engagements of it's columns the work or the local board will be reduced to a minimum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21

Capt Thomas Drake, in his two-masted schooner Sir Francis, recently arrived at Baltimore. Md, from Seattle, Wash. on a voyage he is making around the cons tinent in his schooner without the aid of any crew
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
HISTORY OF EACH MAN

"Cn this new form the complete his- tory of each mans case will appear at a glance, beginning with his order num- Der and ending with his induction into a camp, while at the close of each days work the local board is enabled to complete in few minutes with 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21
PEOPLE WE'RE WARNED

London, October 2o.-After an interval of 12 months London last night exper- fenced another Zeppelin raid. Nobody saw the raiders, which flew at a great height and dropped only one bomb on London, and few missiles in the outly- ing districts.
 The people who had been given an early warning of the approaching aircraft had left their shelters and were going home when bomb fell from an unseen and un- heard airship, breaking many plate glass windows. The sound of the bomb was unlike that of any in a previous raid. It was less shrill and heavier.
 PRESS COMMENT
 The Evening News. commenting on the raid says;
 Last night another of our fond delu- sions-due, we suppose, to the phlegmatic perversity of our national character-was shattered. Statements from authoritative
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-21

quarters made at various times, had led us to believe the airship menace had been mastered.
 Tt may be pointed out that the moon, a feeble one, set at eight minutes past seven. It seems, therefore, that the moon is not Q factor in German air calcula- tions, which most people suppose"
 SILENT RAID"
 '"rhe silent raid.' is the name given to the Zeppelins' visit to London last night. Many Londoners awakeden this morning with the feeling that there was good deal to say for the official view against warning of night air raids Although warning was given early in the evening, the people after waiting hours for the sound of gun firing, went to bed believing the raiders had been intercepted off the coast. Then suddenly two loud reports startled light sIeepers, but as nothing followed majority thought it merely was the firing of anti-aircraft guns in distant districts.