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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12

Ohio, fuel administrations officials were
 told today by a delegation of con <
 sumers headed by Attorney General
 Joseph McGhee, who came to Wash
 ington to protest against lifting the
 embargo on, coal shipments to Canada
 Of 200 towns in the state reporting
 more than 100, the delegation de-
 ciared, are entirely without coal and
 are unable to obtain supplies because
 virtually all coal mined in the state is
 going through lake ports to the north-
 west and to Canada. Mayors of some
 towns have seized carloads of coal en
 route to the lakes and have appor- toned it among the inhabitants. The fuel administration's first move toward general apportionment of coal was made today in an order di- recting that mines along the Pennsyl- vania railroad system supply under ! 1 pro rata plan all the coal the road needs. Later other roads will be sup piled In the same fashion and the final | intention Is to distribute coal among domestic users and industries where it ! Is most essential.
 l Coal prices in some districts in Ten nessee, Kentucky and Virginia were raised today by the fuel admintstra- l! tion after it was shown operators could not mine coal at profit at tho
 prices fixed recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
LESS THAN SEVEN
 PER CENT 0F LOAN
 |S NOW SUBSCRIBED

Washington, October II.
 Less than ' per cent of the
 $5, ,OOO, ,0OO,O ,O0O which the gov
 ernment hopes to obtain in subscriptions to the second liberty loan had been sub scribed at the close of busi- mess last night.
 Treasury officials made public the actual subscription figures tonight.
 The total is $325, ,465, ,OO0. This figure includes every dollar reported to the reserve banks from every section of 1 the United States. In one reserve dis Itrict, however Minneapolis-no fig lures were reported.
 .The subscriptions indicate the ne- cessity for the hardest kind of work 1 on the whole country for the balance of the campaign" reads the treasury l ldepartments announcement. The cam l paign is more than one-third gone. IaFourteen working days remain.
 I Subscriptions by federal reserve dis l tricts were as follows: Atlanta, s1, l 7O3,O00: Richmond, 312.229 900: New I York, $22s.52 900; St Louis, $1,729,O00; l Dallas. $1,5ss.O00; Chicago. $4.s16,000;
 Boston. s41, ,s00000: Philadelphia. $1s,- 5S3,000 Cleveland. $1.s95,000; Minneap- alis, no report; Kansas City, $1.23 GOO San Francisco, &16,047.00O.
 4 These figures represent the total q { subscriptions actually flied with the I several federal reserve banks and the treasury department"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12

The baking was left out of the general food control to be put into effect Novein-
 Der l. Before taking any steps to deal
 with the industry the food administra- ton wishes, first, to standardize bakiag flour; second, to standardize bread In gredients, and third. to standardlze either the size of the loaf or the price The bread contents will be established on the basis of facts disclosed in the experiments under way It IS hoped to establish d standard bread. containing the same amount always of lard, milk iand other ingredients. Flour will be standardized through cooperation of the millers.
 The food administration still Is in doubt as to whether it will be best to estab- ysh | definite sized loaf or to estab- ll.aa d dennlte price with the size as variant if the size of the loaf Is standardized Mr Hoover believes prices can be kept down through competition and if the nrice is established he believes competi- 1 tion will to some extent keep the size of the loaf from being reduced.
 If licensing system is put into effect l if cannot be made to apply under the ! food control act to retaiiers and the price will be for bread at the bakery door The plan for bread depots will be put Into effect, however, if retailers refuse to co-operate in holding prices down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
STANDARD MOTOR TRUCK IS ANOTHER MARVEL OF WAR Sixty Factories Will Turn Out Parts The Govern
 ment's First Order
 Is for 10000

Washington, October II. Details of the development of the governments new war motor truck, announced tonight by the council of na- tional defense, reveal an ac- complishment that officials declare is second only to the production of the Liberty" aviation motor.
 Two of the trucks have just been completed, one at Lima, O., and the other at Rochester, N. Y., and now are on their way to Washington for inspection at the war department. They are of three tons capacity, all though engineers who helped in their development say they can carry five tons if necessary.
 The truck is of standardized construc-
 tion and it's parts will be made in prob ably 60 factories throughout the country. The nations best automobile engineers
 worked together on it's design, and as it stands the truck is declared to be the best ever produced in any country. Later the government plans to produce also standardized trucks of one and half tons and three-quarter tons capacity. The governments first order calls for 10000 of the new trucks. Within a few
 months. if they are needed, the country can turn out, 1t was said today, 5000 T
 month. After January the truck will be | the only one of three tons capacity used by the army, although smaller ones will
 be used until they, too are standardized 1 Brig. Gem Chauncey B. Baker of the 1 army Quartermaster's department. ir charge of motor transportation, pointed out today that Standardization of motor ], transport in France will save the Amer i ican army the necessity of maintaining
 immense supply stations which the Brit.
 ish and French are forced to keep up
 The new truck has less than 75O0 parts 1 while the allied forces keep in stock al all times more than 100000 parts foi 1 their various kinds of motor vehicles The work of developing the truck was 1 done largely by members of the Automo- l tive products section of the defense coun- \ oil. woroking under the direction of tho quartermasters department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12

All other claimants for this great government industry are, therefore, eliminated and past the stage of con- sideration at the hands of the govern- ment officials. Col. J. ". Joyes, Cap- tain Hemphill and Lieutenant Burns, representatives of the war department; E. c. Williams. vice president; s. R.. Jones and John c. Munson, engineers of the J. c. White company of New York city, today completed the inves- tigation of the local site and are still here completing details and winding up their work which will inaugurate the building of the plants. Other gov ernment officials and engineering ex- perts will shortly arrive here to par ticipate in the work. The announce ment that the Muscle Shoals location has been decided upon 4r govern
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
 A|RP[.ANE PATENT POOL IS HELD ID BE WITHIN LAW Effect of Opinion From Alt torney General Ratifies Work of Aircraft Pro-
 duction Board

Washington, October II. Legal approval has been given the agreement be- tween the aircraft produc- tion board and the Airplane Manufacturers association, clearing away a possible se- rious obstacle to the govern |ment's S640,O00,OOO aircraft programme.
 Attorney General Gregory has held, lit was learned today, that the patent pooling plan to prevent patent litiga- jt:on does not violate the Sherman an | thrust law.
 !! The effect of the opinion is to ratify all the work done by the aircraft pro- I duction hoard and the advisory com mittee for aeronautics and insure the
 employment Of the entire airplans pro-
 ducing capacity of the country on the lbig job.
 DETAILS NOT PUBLISHED Details of the pooling agreement 1 have not been made public by the gov ernment. although much has been
 printed about it. Tn general terms 1t provides for the pooling in tho Air plane Manufacturers association of the basic airplane patents known as
 the Wright and Curtiss patents and also of all other airplane patents now sheld or hereafter developed by mem
 tcoatiaued sn Pass TWO,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
Holland Cables Stopped

Amsterdam. october iL-Great Britain has stopped all commercial cable com munication with Holland until such time as The Netherlands government places an absolute restriction on the transit of sand, gravel and scrap metals through Holland from Germany to Belgium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12

Sheffield October -(Special )A doubt relative to the location of experimental nitrate plant and powder mills dspeed late this evening when the Shef field correspondent of The Herald learned through high
 reliable that the Muscle Shoals location had been del ntey settled upon It stated authoritavey that the gov erent industry comprising nitrate and ammonia acid plants powder mills will be built here the site located III Sheffield and west city of Tuscumba the investigation of which IS thoroughly completed
 the settled that machinery and various other @ immediately that conru tion plants to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
IMMEDIATE RESULTS

The immediate results of the disclos- ures of Chancellor Michaelis and Vice Admiral Won Capele have been that the
 into complete opposition and into align ment with the radical socialists. that the followers of Philipp Scheidemann have delivered formal declaration Of war against the government until Chancellor Michaelis has been removed from office, and that the radicals, the members or the centre and esen the national iber- als have criticized and condemned the sdiohaelig-C Capelie Moye ss one Mhich ought not to have been made unless the government had full adequate proof of the complicity of the three radical so- cia.ists in an actual conspiracy to mu- tiny-proof which they evidently believe the government will be unable to pro- Gucc.
 stripped of it's embellishments, the 1 government statement reduced itself to { the charge that agitation to enroll mem ] bers for the radical socialist party had 1 been carried on In the navy. that leaf I lets had been distributed and that two 1 of the executed sailors had visited Depu-
 ties Haase, vogtherr and Dittmann.
 MADE GREAT PLAY
 The three socialists made 8 great play | Of the .aet that the government had
 made no attempt to bring them to trial before or after the court-martial at Will helmshaven on August 50, and they ar 1 gued that the crown prosecutor would not have inissed such an opportunity II 1 he had any evidence upon which to con I vict them. This argument evidently ap peals to all cut the conservatives and Il has dictated the attitude of a large share of the press which, despite dislike foi l the radical socialists, takes the stand l point that Chancellor Michaelis misuseo the affair for political capital
 1 The newspapers intimate that toware the close Of the Reichstag session. Dep uty Haase and his radical socialist col leagues appeared rather in the role oi accusers than of the accused, and they tprint in large type Deputy Ledebour'
 rnnical interjection as Chancellor Mi si chaelis rose to reply. The prisoner vii
 now take the stand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12

mental development means much to the city and section. For the past few weeks great tension has exist ed on the part of the people of this section, but now a great relaxatioR will be experienced. It is indeed great day, red letter day for the Tri-Citie5, the great, Tennessee valley and the south.
 Though 8 prolonged fight has been
 made. hard fought all the way, to win recognition for the Muscle Shoals sec ton, there are those who have been {! closely allied with the work who have l led the fight and who never faltered until victory was assured and today 1 they are calm, apparently undisturbed, 1 but they must now bow to the praise 1 and congratulations that will be
 heaped upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
Chambers Not Arrested

Florala. October H. Especial .)--Wallace c. Chambers, we'll known representative of Garlock Packing company of Bir- mingham, was not arrested Saturday, or any other time, as reported. but was in Montgomery attending to his regular work and was regtstered at the Gay- Teakue hotel. not havinx t>s~ Ia Atlanta in several months
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
German Reichstag Would
 Rebuild Merchant Fleet

An,eterdam, october 11.--The Ger man Reichstag has adopted a bill pro- viding for the rebuilding of the Ger man merchant fleet, according to dis patch received here from Berlin. Both the socialist parties voted against the 4i & fszf ss,iE sf+s4itt Ns1 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
PERSHING SENDS MESSAGE
HAIG'S REPLY
GERMANS ARE HAMMERING
 AWAY ON VERDUN FRONT

Paris, october l1.-The French last night defeated German attempt to re- capture ground taken in the French offensive in Belgium this week. the war office announces. On the Verdun front the Germans broke into advanced French positions. but were repulsed after a
 tcontinued on Page Ten,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
Bread Depots May
 Be Established By
 Food Administration
This Will Be Done if Retail Price Cannot Be Con trolIed Voluntarily Under Plan of Standard zing Industry at Bakery Content, Size
 or Price to Be Fixed

regulation baking industry tonight by Administrator Hoover
  conducted cities retailers u~L.ao arIA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
Steel Manufacturers and War Industries
 Board Fix Prices
Final Step is Taken to Make Federal Control of Trade Complete When Figures of Semi Finished Products Are Cut About One
 Third of Present Open Market Scale

Washington industries board
  President Wilson,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
General Shortage
 Coal Throughout
 Country Admitted

washneton shortage ad attributes the situation not to the unprecedented demand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12

cent Of production at not 10 eAceed Inc prices heretofore announced.
 Means will be taken by the war indus tries board for placing orders and super vising the output of the steel mills in such manner as to facilitate and ex- pedite the requirements Tor war purposes of the government and those nations as- sociated with us and to supply the needs of the public according to their public importance and in the best interest of all, as far as practicable
 "A spirit of cooperation was mani Tested by the steel men and no doubt Is entertained that every effort will be made to bring the production as nearly as pos sible up to the extraordinary demands resulting from the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
ADMINISTRATION OF M|CHAEL|S DOOMED ID FAILURE NOW DisIoyalty Charges Against Socialists Without Proof
 Causing Reaction FORCES REICHSTAG TO ] OPPOSE CHANCELLOR More Conservative Group l Feels Fatal Mistake Has 1 Been Made By the
 Government
Fly Associated Press

Copenhagen, october 11.-Germany's paper crisis over the Pan-German propaganda, which Ioomed so big in anticipation but was so small in re- suits, has passed. In it's place has risen n new and, this time, really serious crisis, caused by the attempt of Chan ceIlor Michaelis, Vice Chancellor Hell ferrich mud Minister of the Navy Von Capelle to use the plot in the German navy n political weapon against the party of the extreme left in the Reich- stag.
 It is not improbable German political observers point out, that Chancellor Mi- chaelis i'll an hour of apparent success sowed the seeds of his downfall. Re suits are not to be expected immediately, as the Reichstag adiourns this week, but the new constitution of German political life, it is contended, will undoubtedly from now on work against Non Beth mann-Hoilweg' s successor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
Today and Tomorrow Biggest Days of All Fair
MUSCLE SHOALS NOW WDEFINITELY YAND
 EMAIL Y NAMED AS SITE FOR NITRATE
 PLANT TOB BE BUILT BY GOVERNMENT

Age-Herald Correspondent at Sheffield Has ln- formation From Highest Authoritative Sources That Decision Has Been Made, and Shipment of Materials Will Begin at Once and Great Indus try Rushed to Completion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
TO PRIVATE CONTRACTS

The prices will apply to private as well as to government contracts. The price of billets, fixed at $47.50, repre- sents a reduction from the current market price of about $22.50 tom billets at $51, reduction of STA; sheet bars at $51, reduction of from $2s to $44 ton. and wire rods, fixed at $oT a reduction of $33 a ton
 1 Prices later will be fixed on most
 of the other iron and steel products, including finished wire, nails, tin plate
 and sheet iron.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12
Striking Answer Given to the Weak Kneed Peace Propaganda" Says Amer ican Commander
RAIN AND COLD STOPS
 ALL INFANTRY ACTION ION FLANDERS FRONT
German Continue Pressure On Verdun Line-Allies Attack North of SaIonilSi. Battles Tn Russia
By Associated Press

British Headquarters in France and Belgium, Octo- Der 1.-The situation along the new battle front under went no change during the Light. There was a heavy artillery fire at various points but no infantry ac- Ition of importance is re- ported.
 It rained hard for time again last night. At the time this dispatch was filed the sky' was clear but the air was cold, adding to the discomfort of the men lying out in the mud and water along the line.
 1 The recent operations in Flanders have brought many congratulatory messages 1 to the British troops. Field Marshal Haig has issped an order of the day con-
 taining a number of dispatches received on October and the replies sent to them- Gen. J. J. Pershing, commander of ths X Aineeican expetlit.onary force in France, I .etsgran nj I'd -s7s--~ 1 PERSHING SENDS MESSAGE
 Permit me to extend sincere congrat- ] ulatfons to you and s'our magnificent army upon the recent important gafls 1 in front of Ypres. They give striking answer to the weak -kneed peace propa- I ganda.'
 l HAIG'S REPLY
 Field Marshal Haig sent this answer:
 T wish to thak you very heartily
 in behalf of the British army under my
 command for your most kind telegram We look forward to the day when the
 American armies join us on the western front and we are quite confident that the allies. so reinforced, will fight the
 war to an early and decisive issue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-10
ERASMUS HALL
WINS SWIMMING
MEET BY POINT

One point gave Erasmus Hall High
School a victory over the High School
of Commerce in dual swim at the
Fourth Avenue Baths, Brooklyn, yes
terday. The score was 1914 points to
S2ik. Each school captured three first
places.
The meet hinged on the result Of the
22O-yard swim, the final event, Wolf
and Hunter, Of Erasmus Hall, capturing
first and third places, respectively
This gave their team 7 points, while
Commerce had 10 be content with 4.
Wolf was forced TO swim his might.
lest to win. AS Browne. Of Commerce,
three feet behind. Callahan, of Com
merce. won the l00-yard race in the
fast time Of :06, while Wickfors. a
schoolmate, met with a surprise when
he was led home by Morrison. Of the
Buff and Blue, in the 40-ysrd swim.
The summary follows:
1sO-yard relay rsoe-won hy Commsrcs viu
WicNfors Vail Browne and callahan. Erasmus
Hall With levis. Ross Morrison and Won. 'ec
aocs-d srim-won By Morrison. Erssmus Han
Nirfos. Commerce second Lewis Erasmus Hall
'hfri Tine, 20 3 s.
Dive for forul--Won b. Gilien. Commerce. with
- 10 points lewis. Erasmus hal. with p ~
POINTS second Ballot Erasmus Hal With a 2-l0
i00.yard sTim-won by Callahan. Commerce
Vail Commerce second Ross. Erasmus n all. third
Time I 06
Plunge Tor distAnar-Won By HUI. Erasmus Han
with 50 feet Simmons. Erasmus Hall VIII! - ieei
sfc9nd Beers Commerce. with 4b feet. third.
2g0.yari svtm-Non by Nol1 Erasmus Ia
Browne. Commerce. seoond. Hunter Erasmus hAll
Third Time no. $50.
FINAL score-Frssmus Hall High school. 35i5
points. High school ~ Commerce. 32il points.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-10
COLUMBIA NINE
HAS Is GAMES ON
ITS SCHEDULE

Twenty-Five games will be plSy'' "
the Columbia baseball team this ssS''-
Leland Stanford, Yale, Cornell f'''
sylvania, Harvard and Dartmouth !"
the leading teams on the 'chsou's
home and home agreement was rs
with Union, Penn and Cornell. re-
sylvanis, as usual, will play a. - -.
Field on Commencement Day c',s
Stanford will be the attraction OF 80 80,
Day. which will be celebrated OF -
4. All but five games will be PI''"
on South Field. ~,
A meeting Of the candidates mas "a,
called for tomorrow evening ~,
Coakley, head coach; body ..,,s,,
captain; George Smith. forme,r, ~, ~,
and now with the Giants, ana ~.
Joy. the manager, will make 'pee''''
The schedule follows: ..r
WAdne.day. March %. T.. C. y a. .
March 3l Manhattan coi-ss Ns so
81 johns Wsdnestiy. Apr ~, isr. 4
DAY. April z. g.. e. y. ,s Swsli,trs 2
hoy cos wednssdiy. AgrI y. al 3. ~
vari. Wednesday April o. 'relns, - sr,s.a
dav. April o. yale. WEDNESDAY WAY . "a
SATURDAY. May :. Nes.e} an. tff cy~s
New York University Friday W. VA 2
TUESDAY Ma u.s. Dartmouth. satlriN ,r.s.s,.r
Fs-dham. SATURDAY Nav %. sieFeis 80, ia
May so. Lafayette sAturday. Ilns = ~ W-i,s
state. Monday. June le.Mi -, 'Jsla
dsy. lime s Penn. SATURDAY. lunt ~, .
M0nda,. June N. cornell an1 ilT''
Union.
.fr4i.sf,s Al. % tam sarss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-10
Knocks Ont
First Round
Fred Fulton k
COuLer in I
Fight Log
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Manhattan a. C.-Jack Britton
and Albert BadoUd.
FRIDAY
Harlem S. Chilly Miske and
Charley Weinert.
Village 5. Chatting Leyinsky
and Jim Smith.
SATURDAY
Fairmont 4. C.-Carey Phelan and
Irish Patsy Cline.
Clermont :. C.-Harry Pierce and
frankie Callahan.
Broadway 5. C.-Phil Bloom and
Joe yelling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-10
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