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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
BIRMINGHAM DOCTORS
 HONORED AT MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MEETING
Dr. Scale Harris Elected Secretary and Dr. Loranz Named Business
 Manager

pr. Scale Harris of Birmingham was elected secretary treasurer of the South ern Medical society yesterday morn ing at the annual conference being held in Memphis. pr. Harris has already en- tered upon his new duties and the term of office lasts one year However. owing to his enlistment in the medical corps or the army pr. J. R. Garber has been announced acting secretary-treasurer in his absence
 Two other Birmingham physicians also received honors at the conference. Dr. M G. Dabney was chosen as editor Of the Southern Medical Journal. the position formerly held by pr. Scale Harris, and Dr. c. P. Loranz was named business manager of the association.
 pr. Lewellyn F. Barker, professor of clinical medicine at Johns Hopkins uni. versity at Baltimore, was elected to the presidency of the organization Next year the convention will be held in Ashevil1e, N. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
 TWO WHITE MEN ARE KILLED BY TRAIN

Two white men, John D. C. Scott, age 42, and Willard Littlejohn, age 30, were run down by fast train on a trestle near Palos yesterday morning at about 9:3O o'clock and instantly killed
 The bodies of the dead men were brought to Birmingham by the train that struck them and turned over to Shaw Undertaking company
 It is said that the two men were on a hand car and started across the tres- tie when the oncoming train rounded a curve and the engineer did not see them until it was too late to stop his train.
 Assistant Coroner J. R. T. Rives is in- vestigating the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
FILM
 SPECTACLE NEXT
 WEEK AT ALCAZAR
"A Daughter of the Gods" Perfection of Photo Art and HistrOnic
 Ability

l The great and growing gallery of ] American screen classics has been en- riched by a production which ranks with the very best. Enthusiastic as this may sound it is still far from anything like
 full appreciation of the wonderful film spectacle, "A Daughter of the Gods"
 The play with this singularly happy
 and strikingly appropriate title, will be
 presented at the Alcazar for an entire
 week. beginning Sunday.
 w. Stephen Bush, of the Moving Pic
 ture World, says: T would as soon
 think of testing Grimms fairy tales for
 syllogisms or dramatic sequence as ap-
 plying ordinary standards to this clever
 and most delightful flattery of the hu-
 man eye. No need for the title builder
 to urge a return to the days of child
 hood. The spirit of this happlest time
 in our lives grips us before the film Is
 fairly under way We are beguiled, we are bewitched, we lose the perception of time and we get back to the naked realities of life like one who is waking from lovely dream"
 'DS6uty 10 lAS FNCJ llotS OL lIG lllIII- Beauty and symmetry of the female form, grace, suppleness, strength, glow ing health, modesty are but single items in this catalogu of human beauty. Added to this are natural beauties which overpower the most blase of critics and knock the best epithets and adjectives into smitherens Even the colorful word painting of such a master as Lafcadio Hearn could not translate into language the ineffable majesty of the sea and must fail to portray it's moods which are in turn, calm and alluring, tempestous and terrifying, now wooing with gentle waves the favor of the sweet and elus- we mermaids, now tossing it's angriest pillows against The Daughter of the Gods" And the glowing beauties of the shore There is one scene where Miss kellerman in obedience to the good lairys command begins to arm her troops Of gnomes and elves, it is a scene of ravishing beauty Not that this scene is in any way more glorious than any other; there are no blanks any, where in this production as far as art and beauty go. The dive from the high to Wer, the race with the expert swim mers, the battle with the treacherous surf and jagged roegs, the dance of the mermalds on the shore, the play of the nermaids their sweet sleep in the water, the marvellous performance of Miss kellerman in the rapids and in the -alls are of unexpected beauty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
Additional Militant Prisoners Will Go On
 Hunger Strike in Jail

Washington, November 15-The wom- ans party headquarters announced to- night that the 30 women sent to the dis trict workhouse yesterday for displaying banners before the White House had joined Miss Alice Paul in her hunger strike for treatment of the militants as political prisoners. Twenty-eight of the prisoners will be brought out of the work house tomorrow to be tried for their dern- onstration Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16

ink five of us can live comfortably on and we really are waking up. We are The distributors would far rather have ed to give better and cheaper service, ash and appreciate the value of seeing often wonder how many women really rocer or her milk service. These scores yers.
 Tuesday
 BREAKFAST Baked bananas, scrambled eggs, bacon hot biscuit. coffee.
 LUNCHEON Baked apples butter sauce, potato salad. crackers. tea. DINNER Cold roast pork, plum jelly, Irish pota- to croquettes, macaroni, shaw, coffee, cheese.
 Wednesday
 BREAKFAST Soft eggs. toast, flannel cakes, syrup.
 LUNCHEON Pork hash (from leftover roast), hot corn mullins, baked apples, tea.
 DINNER Fried steak with onions, boiled Irish potatoes, drawn butter, rice. lettuce and French dressing, peaches with cream. coffee.
 Thursday
 BREAKFAST 1iot biscuits. grits fish roe, coffee.
 LUNCHEON Hominy croquettes, poached eggs, toast. tea.
 DINNER Cornfield peas, bacon fat. sweet pota- toes baked in Jackets, rice, corn bread, fruit puffs, coffee.
 RECIPES
 BAKED GRITS To two cups of cold (cooke6 grits add l cup of corn meal. table spoon of fat, pour oyer this enough scalding water to make soft batter. stir we'll, peat In one egg, add salt and one tea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16

1 flage game as 1t is being played lover l there"
 AFTERMATH DISCUSSIONS The morning following these episodes l in the intensive training programme. lit tie groups of men gather in the tent streets and discuss the seriousness of 1t all. It was so damned dark I didn't know who was digging next to me-" re- marked one strapping youth T can get along without talking, but I have to sac rifice my cigarette for the Germans'' said another soldier who at the time was puffing the inevitable smoke"
 Now and again a stirring of shrubbery and stones signals the mlsstep of some unfortunate who recovers his equilibri- um only to find the scowling countenance of his superior officer glaring down upon him. It's a case of watch your step and never mind the man in front of your at all times. Engineer guides, who have made daylight study of the trench sys- tenn, lead the regiments or companies of men over the ground, but they have no time to be bothered with individuals
 MEN IN TRENCHES
 This week has found the 18th and 114th regiments of the Fifty-seventh brigade and the 115th regiment of the Fifty-eighth brigade in the trenches Cold. cloudy nights have been the rule, but instruc.ing officers hail just such weather with sat isfaction for their camouflage work. It puts every man on the alert; he is thrown into an atmosphere bearing the nearest possible resemblance to real warfa re; and if he makes "break' of even minor nature, he knows that it will not only attract the German scouts. but it will also gain him a 'bawling out from his superior upon his return to camp.
 This is only a meager outline of the first dose of night work to which the Blue and Gray soldiers have been subjected. The experience has proved a wonderful appetizer for what is to follow: the men like the mysterious ness of it all and look forward to the night when their battalion will go lover the top' for a weeks stay.
 DAY WORK GOES ON
 But the inauguration of a night pro- gramme has in no way detracted from the attention being paid other war fare work in the daytime. Tn one cor ner of the big reservation machine guns are constantly begging away at mountainside targets Swollen faces and sore shoulders were prevalent among the machine gun students at the outset, but the ex-national guards men have become calloused to the bang, bang, bang of the rapid firing machines kick against their bodies Here and there a group of keen eyed privates are ripping away with one of the small Lewis type of machine guns and few feet away another detach- ment of soldiers are manipulating the more complicated Maxim gun.
 Athletes are showing their prowess 1 in broad Jumping in the work de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
Revolt in Ecuador

Santiago, Chile, November 15.-Ad- vices from Lima, Peru, today announce the breaking out of a revolution in Ecuador. Several localities are report ed in the hands of the revolutionists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16

tdultS and the three November and Iiroi iutles a1esr before us too Ieftovers. If you t nor lighting the butcher or the market thinking buyer-,they would be enaf ano Tn turn We will learn to buy for what you buy; especially your eatabies. do know the score of her butcber bar ale arranged for the guidance of the b.
 Friday
 BREAKFAST nafGfon' Tried apples, beaten biscuit
 LUNCHEON CPeam ca ea tomato soup, crackers. hot tea cakes and preserves tea. Pork stew, flour dumn1inps candiad vans, vans rice. light bread, sponge cake and
 Saturday
 BREAKFAST Corn flakes. cream, flannel cakas syrup, coffee. t4ot oouu LUNCHEON hot corn muffinS baked beans ctauod peaches. cold sliced cake. tea.
 DINNER Broiled steak sweet potatoes friad flce nee baked with. egg, slaw corn muf- ms. cheese. coffee.
 Sunday
 BREAKFAST coffee '' Sit.S'
 DINNER anniaa 1ass p6nn, 6n,, candled vans rice. stewed tard pickle, mince pie. coffee.
 Monday
 BREAKFAST roasted rolls, rice bread. bacon. coffee
 LUNCHEON butq b''tt sllced pork' apple sauce. bread and butter sandwiches. tea.
 DINNER liam hook and cabbage creamed Irish potatoes, egg plant (baked1 corn bread eplain), rice pudding, coffee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16

spoon of baking powder. Bake in hot oven and serve while fresh from oven. This dish is good for luncheon or breakfast.
 BAKED HASH
 Run through meat chopper leftover cold roast or stewed beef, also grind one onion and red pepper with meat. add equal parts of cold creamed Irish potatoes. mix in one egg, one table spoon of butter and small amount of salt and black pepper. Flour well and mold in a pan, bake in moderate oven and serve with a brown gravy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
Seryian to Conference

Paris November 15.-Nikola P. Pa chitch, the Servian premier, according to a Havas dispatch from Corfu, left. there yesterday for Paris to take part In the allied conference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16

l Camp Mcclellan Anniston, Novem- Der 15-(Special.) )-Thousands of 1 bloodthirsty Germans are supposed to | be located in the hills surrounding Camp Mcclellan awaiting the oppor-
 tunity to spring down upon and lit ] erally devour the S0,000 student sol diers Of Uncle Sam. The Americans are being taught to camouflage their movements day and night, bringing into play many of the same tactics being employed by the French forces on the European fighting front Cut that out or you'll have this whole di- vision blown to smithereens," yells an English sergeant-major at an erring 'rook," who has stubbed his toe and given vent to his feelings with re- echoing howl.
 WORK SEEMS REAL
 Sixteen Britishers and five French men, veterans of the real fray lover there, are concentrating their efforts on making the student soldiers be- lieve there is an army of Teutons on all four sides of the cantonment. Even members of the commissioned person nel admit at times that they are half inclined to believe that the Germans are really lurking in the Blue Ridge hills. Newspaper correspondents are supposed to know that the barren country adjoining the camp Is made up entirely of a population of moon~ sinners and wild animals one know ing as much as the other about the world war
 Regiments of men are ordered from their quarters at dusk and marched mile or so into the hills. There they are met by engineer guides, who have directed the work of laying out the system of communicating trenches Companies are guided to different sec tors and each man Is furnished with set of trench digging tools bv the engineers and put to work burrowing into the earth along the lines planned by the engineers.
 SILENCE MAINTAINED
 Enlisted men and officers are eau toned to maintain absolute silence: no smoking is allowed; the workers keep close to the ground, and no com mands are heard. The trench diggers plod away like beavers and before the regiment is taken away long lines of dirt hills outline the newly made trenches
 Where acres of woodland and shrub bery formerly abounded have sprung up an elaborate and intricate system of trenches and dugouts of varying widths and depths The plain has been trans formed into duplicate of Europe's bat tlefields. In a week or 10 days battaions of soldiers win be ordered into the trenches for days, and maybe weeks a a time. They will make the dugouts their temporary homes, and they will go , lover the top in the dead of night and they will be taught to play the camou-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16

To Cure Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE 'ablets. Druggists refund money if rails to cure. E. w GROVES sigma ure is on each box. BOG.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
REV. J. I. TERRY
 ID PLEAD INSANITY
 IN MURDER TRIAL
Well Known Methodist Min ister Accused of Killing Russellyille Physician
 Makes no Statement

Russellville, November 15.-(Spe- ter upon the Franklin county court house Thursday.
 On Friday morning Rev. J. IT. Ter ry. former pastor of the RussellviIIe Methodist church, and a figure in the councils of Alabama MethOdism for several years, will begin a fight to prove thnt no criminal responsibility should he placed upon him for the death of Dr. T. M. Hughes, examining physician of the Franklin county ex- cmption board, whose Iife1ess body was found lying beside the state highway between RusseIlvilIe and ROckwOod late the afternoon of October 3.
 MAKES NO STATEMENT
 MT. Terry was a prisoner in the Franklin county jail Thursday night, and while his attorneys, A. H. Car michael of Tuscumbia, speaker of the state house of representatives, George Ross of Bessemer and W. L. Chenault of Russellville. wove together the fabric which will be referred to the Jury as Terrys defense during the next two or three days. Terry has re- fused to make statement to the public and to his conference His attorneys requested him not to talk and he has kept the faith with them. Russellville knows nothing about the motive, if there was a motive. Its only informa- tion has come from the placing to- gether of stories about Terry's ac- tions prior to the killing. Terry has l practically recovered from two bullet 1 wounds received at the time Dr. l Hughes went to his death. Whether | these wounds were inflicted by pr. | Hughes before he received his death | wound or fhether Terry fired the bull lets into his own body cannot be known | unless Terry gives the story on the witness stand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
PLEA OF INSANITY

Terry's defense will be based on the plea of insanity. His attorneys by this plea have indicated that they will con- tend that Terry, if guilty at all, suf- Tered from momentary insanity brought on by the mental worry over stories of gossipers, He has maintained that the public will be considerably enlight- ened by the evidence, but he refused to take any one into his confidence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
STATES THEORY

The state will attempt to combat the defense by contending that Terry, on the afternoon under discussion con yerted himself into a human arsenal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-16
Modern War Training Al Camp Mcclellan Is
 Like "ReaL Thing
Men Are Being Taught Trench Work at Night By Men Who Know of Actual Fighting By Long Experience Soldiers Maintain Attitude
 of "Front Line" Troops
AFTERMATH DISCUSSIONS

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26
NEW HAMPSHIRE
is THREATENED BY
SERIOUS FLOODS

Manchester n. H., March 25-New
Hampshire, especially that portion
drained by the Merrimack river which
has it's source in the White mountains,
is confronted by serious flood posi- :
biities, in the event of sudden and
continued warm weather following the
most rigorous winter the state has
experienced in many years. The water
shed of the Merrimack is the greatest
in the state, due to the geographical
fsituation of the streams whose course
almost literally splits the lower por-
ton of New Hampshire in twain.
The winter just closed has been the
most severe in recent years. 1t has
been freezing cold, unusually pro-
longed and marked by a series of Sc
we're billiards. The result is a record
accumulation of ice and snow.
Mild spring weather, continued for
any length of time, will result in a
great volume of water flowing into
streams draining the mountainous re-
gions to the north. These will tax the
Merrimack river to the limit. Serious
freshet conditions, of which it has been
free for 20 years, are considered like
ly.
The last serious freshet in the Mer-
rimack river was in 1896, when rec
ord of 10 2-10 feet above the dam at
Amoskeag Falls in this city was at
tanned on April Is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26
Maine Floods,
Are Likely with
Warm Weather
RIVERMEN SHOW
THEIR ANXIETY
Disastrous Freshets Would Fol-
low Long Rain or Melting
Conditions

Portland. Me. March 25.-Flood
prospects in Maine are the most scr-
Gus in many years, according to adj
vices from! various river points reach
ing heregaoday. The heavy snowfall
this winter has been without precc-
dent for several seasons.
Long heavy rains would have the
effect of an immediate rise of water
in the rivers, because all lakes are still
frozen and not in condition to retain
great surplus of water
livermen of experience feel that on
ly continued good weather will avert
disastrous freshet conditions all over
Maine
While the improvements made along
all the great rivers of the State in re-
cent years would be of great help in
handling flood situation it is not felt
they are sufficient to cope with it en-
tirely.
The effect of the, new Ripogenus
dam, the third largest water storage
basin in the United States, in control
ling the floods along the Penobscot
river. where important lumber inter
ests are centered, will be watched with
widespread interest. The filling of this
great basin will begin within the next
fortnight. 1t covers an area of A.
square miles in the great north woods
and is designed to regulate the flow
through the great Penobscot valley for
the benefit of log driving and manu-
featuring concerns
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26
The Commanders
Old South,

Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood is trans
ferred from command of the Depart
ment of the East to the new South
eastern department. Maj. Gen. J.
Franklin Bell from the Western de-
partment to the Eastern department,
Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett from the
Philippines to the Western department
and Maj. Gen. Clarence Edwards from
department. Maj. Gen. Barry of the
Central Department and Maj. Gen.
Pershing of the Southern Department
remain in their commands.
The changes were outlined by the
department in the following state
ment:
ITO facilitate decentralization of COM
mand the United States is divided into
six military departments in place of the
four now existing. The new organiza-
tions become effective May /, 1917 and
comprise the following:
"A-Northeastern department. to en-
brace the states of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts. Rhode
Island and Connecticut. Headquarters at
Boston.
"B-Eastern department, to embrace
the states Of New York. New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia, West Virginia, District OF Co
lumbia. the Canal Zone and the island
of Porto Rico, with the islands and keys
adjacent thereto. Headquarters at Gov
ernors Island.
CONTINUED on Page 5, Column y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26
The French Advance

According to the French war Office
the French troops have pushed forward
over front of about two and a-half
miles south and southwest Of st. Quen-
tin. the new positions taken in the
town OF Castres. three miles southwest,
and Essigny lie Grand. four miles south
of st. Quentin. Gains also were made
south of the Disc and north of scissors
Berlin admits the retirement OF the
Germans according to orders" before
the British between Beaumetz and
Roisel. northeast of Peronne. but saws
the Germans repulsed French attacks
northeast Of Scissors For the most
part the fighting on the British end of
the line has consisted of reciprocal
raiding and bombing attacks
There has been considerable fighting
in the air. The Berlin war Office records
the loss of 175 airplanes by the French
and British, while London reports eight
German machines were driven down
out of control, but admits that four
British machires failed to return to
their base. Bombs have been dropped
from German aircraft on Calais and
Dunkirk.
While only small raidng operations
and artillery ouels have been reported
from the Russian front a dispatch from
Petrograd says there Is indisputable
evidence that the Germans are bring
ing up large numbers of troops on the
northern part OF the line for an effort
to break through toward Petrograd.
The spring thaws are holding the Rus
So Rumanians and Teutonic allied
troops in check in Rumania. In Mace
donia. near Mona stir much artillery ac-
tivity prevails. The usual artillery
duels ard small infantry actions con-
tinue in the Austro- Italian theatre.
Berlin reports that the raider Moewe.
which has returned to home port.
after operations in the Atlantic. has on
board 500 prisoners taken from YES
sells destroyed by the Moewe. Whether
any Of these men are Americans has
not been stated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26
Department Statement

The war department issued the fei-
lowing statement;
MANY states have deemed 1t ad-
visable to call out the national guard
for police purposes of protection. AS
the necessity for such steps arises
from issues which are more national
than local, it has been deemed advls-
able by the President to call into the
federal service for the above mention
cd nurpose the following organizations
of the national guard:
Massachusetts,, Second and Ninth
Regiments.
PENNSYLVANIA, First and Third Reg
iments.
MARYLAND, Fourth Regiment.
District of Columbia, First Separ-
ate Battalion.
virainia, Second Regiment.
Vermont, Company B, First Reei-
ment.
Connecticut, First Regiment.
New York, Second and Seventy
First Regiments.
New Jersey, First and Fifth Res'-
ments.
Delaware, First Battalion, First
Regiment
1.-THE following organizations which
are now in the federal service will not
be mustered out:
Thirteenth Pennsylvania.
A and 3 Companies Of the First
Georgia"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26
Protection for
Industries

Washington, March 25-
President Wilson took steps to-
day to place the nation on a war
footing.
BY Executive order he direct
ed that the navy be recruited
without delay to full authorized
war strength of $1,000 enlisted
men. Taken in connection with
emergency naval construction
already ordered, this means that
the President has exercised the
full limit of his legal powers as
commander-in-chief to prepare
the navy for war.