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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
AMENDMENT REVISED

The appropriations committee today re- vised the Senate shipping amendments to the urgent deficiency bill and struck out an amendment authorizing the President to direct the general manager Of the shipping boards S emergency fleet corpora ton to exercise powers the bill vests in the executive General Goethals is the corporations general manager The com mittee left the powers directly in the hands of the President to use as he sees fit
 A Senate amendment, under which the President, in lieu of requisitioning ves- sels in American yards, might spend funds for expediting their construction, was eliminated. The committee agreed to the amendments to appropriate $40O.- 00O,0 GOO for an emergency shipping fund, and authorize the President to spend $35O,- O00, 600 for building contracts and $5,000O0o fn,. onarn tior of the shinS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
VERDICT AGAINST SHERIFF

Hoyle Billngsley, arrested at Floydada, Tex, in 1915 on a charge of being c. H. Billingsley, who is accused of empezzling about $10000, while food and drug clerk of the state department of agriculture, has obtained d judgment for $12o0 from A. c. Coins, former sheriff of Floyd county. Texas, according to information received here Saturday.
 Billingsley was released shortly after he was arrested and entered suit against Coins, contending that he was falsely accused of the crime. Sheriff Coins has appealed to the TeXas supreme court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
ATTORNEY GENERAL APPEALED

Judge Charles B. Teasley, probate judge of Montgomery county, ruled with the railroad and agreed to accept an assess ment of $13,0O0,000, but the attorney gen. eral appealed to the circuit court If the state wins It's receipts rom the com pany for franchise taxes will be more than quadrupled, the franchise assess ment being placed at $56,0o0 900.
 Arguments will be made in the supreme court Tuesday, June 5, in the case of the state against the Atlantic Coast Line railroad in which the state is contend ing that the railroad is a domestic cor poration and is required to pay fran chise tax on all money mentioned in the capital stock instead of only on the amount used in this state. The state lost in the Montgomery circuit court which held that the company was incorporated in another state.
 The states contention is based on the fact that the railroad was formed through the consolidation of certain domestic and foreign corporations and on the law which says the merging of domestic and foreign corporations will make a domes- tic corporation. If the Atlantic Coast Line loses it's assessments will be in creased from $3,o0o.0O0 to $6S0Oo,OOo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
ATTORNEY GENERAL STARTS FIGHT ID
 MAKE CAPITAL DRY Court Asked to EnjOin Ex- press Go. From Delivering
 Liquor IndiscriminateIy 'IDENTIFIERS" SAID TO REAP RICH HARVEST It Is Charged Carrier Has Knowledge That These Persons Collect Ten
 Gents for Services-Hugo Black Is Aiding
uy FRED r. GoRMLEY

Montgomery, May 26.-(Special.) )-Attor- ney General Martins fight on vioators Of the prohibition laws in Montgomery has begun. Following the filing of peti- ton for permanent injunction against the Southern Express company prevent Ing it from delivering liquor shipments .o any persons except consignees or those designated by the censignees in affdavits which must be received by the company announcement was made Saturday that the company would be temporarily re- strained and that hearing on the peti- ton for a permanent order would be held when the express company had answered.
 For several days Hugo L. Black, solici- tor of Jefferson county, mas been in Mont gomery. The attorney general denied that his presence had any connection with his office. MT. Black maintained that he was working on a brief in the supreme court The real reason did not become known until the petition was filed showing that Solicitor Black had joined with the attorney general in bring ing the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
GLOVER REAPPOINTED

Cato D. Glover of Gadsden. register of the federal land office at Montgomery since early in President Wilson's first term, was reappointed for second term by the president Saturday MT. Glover succeeded Nathan Alexander, negro, who obtained the appointment from President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-27
NUMEROUS CHARGES MADE


 ing the case,
 NUMEROUS CHARGES MADE
 Numerous charges are made against the express company It is accused of delivering liquor to fictitious persons of permitting paid 'identifiers" to be the means of delivering liquors and of permit ting persons to carry away liquors with out furnishing proof that they were the persons to whom the liquors were sent. lt is charged that the company knows the system which is being used in ob taining liquors and has countenanced identifiers who collect 10 cents for each Identification, receiving the money be- fore identifying the petitioner
 It is also contended that numerous packages have come to the express com pany in fictitious names and have been delivered to persons whose names are foreign to the ones on the shipments. Specific instances are cited where ship ments have been delivered to persons other than consignees and an affidavit of the policeman stationed at the press office which is brought into the petition maintains that the express com pany's excuse for delivering shipments without proper Identification is that it will be too much trouble to identify all consignees.
 Attorney General Martin set up that an injunction is the only remedial meas ure as 1t will be impossible for the city of Montgomery or state to employ suf- ficient persons to trace every liquor shipment and determine whether or not it has gone into the hands of a person who will use it in violating the prohibit ton laws.
 l.. & N. TO FIGHT
 Attorneys for the Louisville and Nash vile railroad will make a supreme ef- fort in the supreme court Tuesday to prevent the state from increasing the railroads franchise tax assessment from $16,000,0o0 year to $56,000000. If they sue ceed they must reverse the decision of Judge Gaston Gunter of the Montgomery circuit court, who held that the law levy ing franchise tax on rorergn corpora tions requires them to pay on all money used in operations and invested in this state.
 The railroad contends that the law in tended that franchise taxes should be collected on only that portion of it's capi- tai stock which was in use in Alabama but the state through William K Mar tin, attorney general, maintains that the law intended that a franchise tax must be paid on every penny invested and used in operating in this state whether it be from the capital stock or from another fund.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
City to Share Cost Of New
Water Main to RivervieW

The city council and Metropolitan
Water board settled the Riverview
swimming pool situation by agreeing
that the city shall pay $1,000 of an ex-
pense of $4,000 for installation of a
ten-inch water main to furnish ade-
quate service to the southeastern part
of the city.
Citizens protested that when the
pool was being flooded the six-inch
service main was relieved to such an
extent that the domestic supply was
seriously reduced. y.
when they want to swim we can't
drink" was the brief way R. F. Viii
liams described the situation.
R. B. Howell, manager of the water
plant, suggested the use Of chlorine
gas cleansing process at the SWIM
ming pool.
The new main will be installed dur
ing the next few months.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
WOMEN TAKE PLACES
OF RAILROAD MEN
Large Numbers Are to Be Seen
in the Local Headquar-
ters Doing Clerical
Work.

Women are beginning to appear
in large numbers in the clerical posi-
tions in the headquarters Of all OF the
Omaha roads. They are taking the
places Of the men who have enlisted
and gone to the front to do duty
either in the training schools, OF
guarding property in cities and in
the country.
Wherever men have been replaced
by women in railroad work, it is said
that as rule they are rapidly acquir.
ing the necessary knowledge and are
giving satisfactory service.
So far none of the women who have
taken the places formerly held by
the men are required to perform
manual labor. The positions they are
filling are clerical and mostly in &C.
counting departments. They under
stand that their employment is only
temporary and that when the boys re.
turn from the war, they are to be dis
placed by the old employees.
On account of employing about
1000 persons in its headquarters and
Offices, naturally the Union Pacific is
giving employment to more women
than any of the other lines. However,
the proportion is no greater, for each
railroad is said to have furnished
more than its quota of men, according
to the rules that will apply in sedec-
tive conscription, which in understood
to be about one out of every ten.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
Wife Bested III Fight, So
Hubby Takes Up Battle

When James Parks, 1924 Missouri
avenue, came home from work
Wednesday night and heard that his
wife had been bested in a fight with
H. S. Waller a neighbor, 1902 Mis-
souri, avenue, he Immediately went to
the South Side police station, where
Waller had been incarcerated and
punched Waller in the nose. He also
was arrested.
Waller and Mrs. Parks got into an
argument, it is said, over something
one of Mrs. Parks children had done.
Mrs. Parks resented the charge,
neighbors said, and attempted to hit
Waller with stick. In trying to get
possession of the, stick, neighbors
said, Waller caught Mrs. Parks by the
throat. Neighbors summoned police,
who arrested Waller and charged him
with assault and battery.
Police Judge Fitzgerald postponed
the hearing until Thursday.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
School Girls Return.

First OF the Dana Hall girls to re.
turn will be Miss Ruth Hamilton,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Ham
ilton, and Miss Mary Clifford, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Gif-
ford. The graduating exercises of
the school take place June IS. Both
Of these girls are juniors. Misses
Margaret and Mary Wattles, who are
at Tenacre, are expected in Omaha
Tuesday. Miss Corinne Elliott grad
uatks from Dana Hall this year. Her
mother, Mrs. L. E. Elliott, and her
brother, Mr.. Loring Elliott, who is
home from the University of Ne
braska, leave Friday night to attend
the commencement exercises. They
will then spend week in Boston with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Chapman,
former Omaha people. Before COM
ing home they will visit in Passaic,
N j., and New York and Atlantic
cities. Miss Caroline Holmquist, who
has been taking postgraduate work at
Pine Manor. will visit in Suf-
field, Mass, and Ann Arbor, Mich,
before her return to Omaha about
June 19.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
Notes at Random.

Among the Omaha boys who joined
the navy is Mr.. Frank Koerner, for.
merly OF Ellis, Kan. He left Satur.
day for Bellingham, Wash, where he
goes into training.
Miss Sybil Nelson returned Tues
day from Chicago, where she spent
the winter at the Three Arts club.
She left yesterday for Lincoln to
attend the wedding of Miss Mary
Stuart and Mr.. Jean Kinder. While
there she is the guest OF Miss Dor
othy Raymond.
Mrs. G. R. Dillon and son, To-
ward. Of Lamont, Ia, arrived Mon
day to visit at the home Of her sis
ter, Mrs. ]. NJ. Kelly, jr.
Mrs. A. F. Kountze, who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Kountze,
left for New York Monday night.
Mrs. Ben S. Baker and her sister,
Miss E. M. Reynolds, leave Friday
morning for stay of ten days or two
weeks at the Elms, Excelsior Springs.
Mrs. R. j. Forhan and her two
daughters. Misses Stella and Marie
Forhan, of New York have taken a
cottage at Clear Lake, Ia, for the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
Morrill.Saunders Wedding.

Miss korinne |. Saunders, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Saunders,
and Mr.. John w. Morrill,, formerly
OF St Paul, were united in marriage
Wednesday morning at 7;30 at the
Church of the Good Shepherd. Rev.
Father Collar performed the cere-
mony. The Lohengrin wedding
march was played sby Mrs. Lester
Rigby.
The bride wore gown of white
khaki kool and carried white roses.
Her bridesmaid, Miss Ruth Halver-
stein of Norfolk, wore frock OF
pink and carried pink roses. Miss
Alice Smith was ring bearer. Mr.. H,
F. Ruffner was best man. Decora-
tions were in palms and pink and
white roses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morrill, left for Port
land, Ore. They will go from there
to Seattle, where they will take pas
sage for an ocean voyage, which will
include stops at all important points
along the coast from Skagway, Alas
ka, to San Diego. They will be at
home in Omaha after July /.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
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prove tnat tneie Is no L;nL iltei TAM. lam.
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tnat no pstunati'y a,.y m.iitn yoa !, i.tSs ths
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course OF your NE VIII ~, pc hanasa On Gn
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WIN you, anu your en,iulen iili win IN.
merit ohiy those quanIies posssssIL.
oy, you AT !lie tiiiie Vi your own pil.A
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lions among tne warning hatlons "h
NOT oe weakened Dy tne mneritance IS
ol physical aisaolllileS incurred 1y
i!, lne,i .atners I: 'hrousa .ne mounus ns ;
tnutilaliohs anu suHern'ss iinposeo
oy war. , -,
me question: mas aireauy oeei
openly aiscussed III france ~, Eu,
gene hpert' III Le Moiiue MeaiIal,
puts IL IN the very plsctieai loIih' eai
men eIaVeiy iIJuleu ~ oat'ie any
campaign suoseqIehtiy pio9uee
healthy onsRfihss lle answers re-
tney cam the answer II, pehls oaseo
upoi, tne uoc,line ol Ws;ssihaii @ Una
Whatever quaiities an lnuiviaudi ma.
possess must nave ceeii inherent ~
the germ ceils OF lts parents, inc
germ celis Deing iinpehetfaole TO any
quality acquired by that parent our
ing ms iiie. 49,
hccordihs 70 this tneory any cnar'
acters that the onsprmg possesses
whlcn vary from tnose remarked IN
one OF the parents must nave resided
N tne germ celis OF tne other parent
some OF the characters may nave
oeen latent IN aparent cell, only COM
ing 10 the 'front.' IN the ofspring.
Dr. Apert IS specihc IN ms state
ment concerning the kind OF WOUNDS
ana disapilities wnieh may De re-
garaed as innocuous ior a tuture gen
efation ana those which, on the con-
trary, shouid De looked upon with
Suspicion, aithougn IN the END IT may
De proved that even they are withou,
deleterious innuence, PROVIDED that
the general health and stamina oi
the parent are not seriously and per-
manentiy reduced.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08

Miss Hazel Oberfelder Of Sidney
Neb., we'll known in Omaha, and Mr.:
Raymond Frank OF Denver surprised
their friends by their marriage in
Denver Monday at the home of Rabbi
William S. Friedman. The wedding
date had been set for July 10.
Only members of the immediate
families witnessed the ceremony,
which was followed by smartly
appointed breakfast at the Brown
Palace hotel.
Following breakfast Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank left at once for an extended
tour OF the Pacific coast, after which
they will return to Denver for few
days stay enroute east for the sum-
mer
The bride is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Oberfelder Of Sid
ncy, Neb., a sister Of Mrs. B. Nav
renee and a niece Of Colonel Robert
S. Oberfelder.
Mr.. Frank is the son Of Mrs. ST.
mon Frank.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
To Attend commencements.

Mrs. Walter d. Williams has gone
to attend the graduating exercises
at Wheaton college. Norton, Mass.
where her daughter, Margaret, is a
student. Miss Margaret has the
honor OF being chosen one OF the two
singers at the baccalaureate exer-
cises, The other singer will be a
woman from Boston. Mrs. Williams
and her daughter will not return to
Omaha until July.
Mrs. A. Weiss leaves June s for
Chicago to attend the graduating ex-
ercises at the University of Chicago.
Her daughter, Miss Lillian Weiss, is
a member OF the graduating class, and
will return to Omaha with her after
a weeks visit in Streeter and Balm
bridge, Ill. -.....
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08

Fiddle on Platform-That II Is an
| i'll wind which blows nobody good, Is
| the way Omaha Red Cross officials
felt Thursday morning when presented
with $12 by the Misses Madge. Vivian,
Eloise and Belle West, Omaha sisters,
who compose a string quartet. The
talented young women started to Peru
to play at the seventh annual spring
festival. but were caught in the wash
out Tuesday night half way between
Peru and Nebraska City. A special
train took them back to Tecumseh,
where they again were delayed. De-
termined to make the best of the sit
uation, they got out their fiddles, sat
on suit cases on the platform of the
train and gave a concert,
Rollin Pease, concert singer of Chi
cago, led several hundred people on
board the train in the singing, ac-
companied by the string quartet. Max
Meyer of Lincoln, instructor in music
at Peru. assisted.
Miss Winnie Travis, also of Omaha,
gave several recitations and passed the
cup, receiving $12 from the apprecia-
tive citizens. AS there is no Red Cross
chapter in Tecumseh the money was
given to the Omaha Red Cross society.
New First-Aid Class-Mrs. F. J.,
Wearne at the Blackstone has orga-
nized a new first-aid class which will
meet Wednesdays and Saturdays at
10 o'clock at the Nurses Central club.
DR.. John Hyde will be the instructor
OF the class which Is composed Of the
following women: Mesdames Will
Coad, Samuel Caldwell, Warren
Switzler. e. A. Higgins, +. J. Harity,
+. ]. Wearne, Teresa Williamson and
the Misses Clare Helen woodard,
Edna Riley Hazel True and Menge-
doht
Wives of the letter carriers will meet
Saturday for the first time to make hos
pital supplies at the Baird building Mrs.
Thomas A. Golden 10 chairman Of the group
OF twenty women.
Women working In the Red Cross hospital
supply department at the Baird building are
now requested to wear white waists and
aprons, that the work may be kept perfectly
sanitary.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
VIII War Alter Theory of Evolution?

discussed. Darwin's original idea was
that the variations which have pro-
duced the gradual advance in the Or
ganisms of plant and animal life were
the result of natural selection, the
individuals of any species which hap
pened to be best adjusted to the cir
cumstances in which they were placed
being, naturally, those which con-
tinued to propagate their kind, while
the others perished and ultimately dis
appeared.
Later, in seeking for the underlying
cause of the variations and transfor-
nations, he proposed the theory of
pangenesis, according to which when
an individual during its life, and in
consequence of the influence of. its
environment, had developed a new
character this could be transmitted to
its offspring. If this pangenesis theory
were correct it would, in principle at
least, be, opposed to the teaching on
which DR.. Apert bases his more COM
forting conclusions concerning the
ultimate influence Of war upon the
succeeding generations.
Against this later theory of Darwin
arose the Neo-Darwinians, like Weiss
man, who go back, virtually, to Dar-
wins original ground and hold that
natural selection is, after all, the true
cause of evolutionary variations and
transformations, Darwin himself not
having hit upon the basal explanation,
which is to be found in the germ cells.
The nucleus of every living cell con-
tains minute particles, which Weiss
man calls determinants. When cell
divides and thus produces a new cell
it hands over one-half of each of its
detriments, so that the new cell in
herits exactly the characters of the
old.
But when two cells, one from each
parent, unite, each Of them gives to
the combination one-half the number
of its determinants, the remaining
half being lost. Thus some, but not
all, of the characters of each parent
reappear in the offspring, and at every
subsequent birth of new offspring,
through the pairing Of cells, each of
which contributes only half of its
determinants, fresh combinations are
made, and this process accounts at
the same time for the resemblance of
offspring to parents and for their
variations.
The opponents of Neo-Darwinism,
without accepting the pangenesis idea,
still maintain that, in some yet undis-
covered way, the environment does
manage to affect the germ cells, and
thus produce variation in the direction
of acquired characters, but at present
the other school seems to have the
upper hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08

laid for seven guests. The afternoon
was spent at bridge. Today Mrs
M. Shirley entertained eight guests
at bridge luncheon at Happy Hollow
in her honor. Friday Mrs. Kranz will
entertain group of young people
Miss Hart's old friends, at kensing'
ton at her home. Saturday she leaves
for a visit with her mother in Sioux
City, where she will remain until the
end OF the month. Upon her re.
turn to Omaha for few days mum
Der OF parties have been planned fol
her.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
Junior Play at Brownell.

The junior play i'll honor OF the
graduating class of Brownell Hall will
be given Saturday evening by the
class of 1918, assisted by several other
Brownell Hall girls. A silver offer
ing will be taken during the play for
the benefit Of the Red Cross. The title
OF the play will not be announced un-
til the night il is given. The cast in.
cludes the following: Misses Esther
Battreall, Clare Cooper and Sarah
Molony OF st. Joseph, Mo-; Helen
Burritt Of Fort Morgan, Colo; Kath-
crime Denny, Dorothy Judson, Mary
Morsman, Virginia Pixley, Elizabeth
Ringwalt, Esther Mary Smith and
Kathryn Squier OF Omaha; Leta Hun
ter Of Council Bluffs, Helen Stowitts
of Fayetteville, Ark, and Elizabeth
Williams Of Douglas, Wyo.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-08
Bragg. Higgins Wedding

The North Side Chritian church
was the scene OF one OF the prettiest
June weddings Wednesday evening,
when Miss Flodelle Calhoun Higgins,
daughter OF R. F. Higgins, became the
bride of Mr.. Earl Floyd Bragg. The
marriage lines were read by Rev. II.
J. Kirchstein OF Lincoln, Neb.. as
sisted by Rev. George L. Peters.
The bridal party entered to the
strains OF the Lohengfin wedding
march played by Mrs. H. J. Kirch-
stein.
Mr.. Bragg was attended by Mr.. f,
R. freeman, and John d. Higgins,
Aiva Cramer, Leroy Cromwell, Charl-
es Cook and DR.. Roy A. Dodge as
ushcrs.
Miss Pearl Higgins, the brides sis
ter was maid OF honor. Miss Thelma
Carlyslc entered FIRST gowned in pink,
Miss Maude Pierce in blue, Misses
Minnie and Emma Bragg, sisters Of
the groom, wore lavender and yellow
and Miss Mary E. Chase wore Nile
I green.
The brides gifts to her bridesmaids
were dainty bags to match their gown
and the groom gave his attendants
scarf pins.
Following the wedding reception
was held at the brides home for the
wedding party and intimate friends.
The out-of-town guests were; Mr.. and
Mrs. H. ] Kirchstein and daughter
Ruth of Lincoln, Neb,; Miss Alma
Jones of Springfield, Mo-; Mrs, Har-
low Frederick Of Joliet, ILL.,, Mr.. and
Mrs. 7. N. Bragg of Scranton, Ia,
Miss Emma Bragg OF Scranton, Ia,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bragg and fam
lily OF Carroll, L., Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.
Cromwell of Ames, Ia, Leroy Crom-
well Of Ames, Ia, Miss Minnie Bragg
OF Des Moines, Ia, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Gathers Of Denver, Colo, Miss Thel-
ma Carlysle of Crawford, Neb., Mr.,
]. D. Higgins OF Miami, Fla, and
Mrs. Hulmes Of Manhattan, Kan.