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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
Royal Arcanum Name Officers

Chicago, May Y.-The supreme coun- cil of the Royal Arcanum today elected officers headed by C. Arch Williams of Chicago, who was reelected supreme regent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
MORE THAN FOURTH
 OF RED CROSS FUND
 ALREADY PLEDGED
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from the southwestern division. The northwestern division reported that all cities would today exceed their quo- tas and that favorable reports came from country districts
 LARGE SUBSCRIPTIONS
 Several large subscriptions were re ported to headquarters from New York Cleveland H. Dodge contributed $51O,- 900, Payne Whitney $250,000 and the National City bank $250000. The bank contribution was the first since the enactment by Congress yesterday of q law authorizing national banks to con tribute to the Red Cross out of any funds set aside for dividends to stock holders Many other banks were ex- pected to make contributions under the new law
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
M'ADOO's ANNOUNCEMENT

The director generals announcement of the new policy, dictated from his sick room at home, was as follows:
 "In view of the direct responsibility for the operation of the railroads of the country placed upon Director Gen eraI McAdoo by the act of Congress and by the proclamations of the Pres fdent, he has been unable to escape the conclusion that it will be advis- able to place in direct charge of each property for operating purposes, ep- resentative to be known IS the federal manager. who will report to the re- gional director. As far as practicable. this federal manager will be chosen from the operating officers of the par ticular property. who are therefore en- tirely familiar with it's employees and with it's conditions.
 Except so far as may be necessary to meet the emergency conditions which compel the government to take control of the railroads, the federal manager of each railroad will endeav- or to equip himself to fullest extent Of the advantages incident of the opera tion of the particular railroad as a unit and the preservation of it's iden- tity This is believed to be of essen tiaI importance, not only to secure the best results during the period of gov ernment control, but also to give the greatest degree of reinsurance to the officers and employees that the rail- road careers upon which they have en- tered will not be narrowed, but if any thing. will be broadened, and to give the greatest possible reinsurance to the stockholders that their just in terests in the properties will be re- spected, and that nothing will he needlessly done to have the appear ance of impairing their just rights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, May 24.-Forecast fer Alabama, GeorgIa and Mississippi: Far Wednesday and Thursday.
 Tennessee: Probably fair Wednesday and Thursday; little change in tenn perature.
 For the A hours ending at p. m, May 21, 1918:
 Local Data Highest temprature ............ 9J Lowest temperature ............. 6o Mean temperature . IS Normal temperature ............. I9 Deficiency in temperature since January l ,a ilalnIalI .... .... o,sN Total rainfall since January lag. S4 Excess m rainfall since Jam uary l ................ i. a5 Relative humidity, 8 a. m. IJ
 m. 9j
 D. m- 0S | --~--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
POCAHONTAS REGION

'The Pocahontas region will consist of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway east of Columbus, Cincinnati and Louisville, the Norfolk and Western railway, and the Virginian railway, including the terminals of all lines at Hampton Roads. With the exception of the Allegheny and Pocahontas regions, the eastern re- zion will remain as originally defined, with MT A. H. Smith as regional director anl district directors under Regional Di- rector Smith will be appointed for New England and for that portion of the east ern region west of Pittsburg and Ohio river and south of the Erie main line. The selection of the regional directors for the Pocahontas region. and for the southern region. succeeding Mr. Mark ham, as well as of the two new district directors under Regional Director Smith, will be announced later
 The same policy will be applied from time to time as rapidly as may be com pleted in other parts of the country, always with the greatest possible regard for all the interests affected and with view to preserving intact, as far as reasonably practicable, the operating or gani7ation of the companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22

the properties and to maintain with the director general and the regional directors the fullest interchange os views as to what is in the best in terest of the government and of the stockholders.
 Tn the development of this policy the regional directors and also the federal managers will be required to sever their official relations with the particular com panies and to become exclusive repre- sentatives of the United States railroad administration.
 The first moves in the inauguration of this policy will be through the crea- tion of two new regions, to be known as the .Allegheney region and the 'Poca- hcntas region
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
ALLEGHENY REGION

The Allegheny region will consist, broadly, of the Pennsylvania lines east of and including Pittsburg and Erie; Baltimore and Ohio, east of Pittsburg and Ohio rivers, including Pittsbury terminals; Bessemer and Lake Erie rail- road, Cumberland Valley railroad, Cen tral Railway of New Jersey. Coal and Coke railroad, Philadelphia and Reading railway, Western Maryland railroad, Cumberland and Pennsylvania. and Pitts burg and Lake Erie This region will be placed in charge of MT. c. H. Mark ham as regional director (who has re- signed his connections with the Illinois Central and other companes). He will have offices in Philadelphia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22
WILL NAME RAILRoADERs

It was explained tonight that a large proportion of present railway presidents will be named to manage their own prop critics, particularly whenever the presi- dent actually is the most active operating officer, but in all these cases the pres idents will be required to resign their position with the companies, and to become exclusive representatives of the United States railroad administration.
 Consequently their salaries will be paid by the government and they can receive no pay from the railway cor poration. As an indication of what salaries they may expect, it became known tonight that most of MT. Me- Adoo's principal assistants of the rail- road administration will receive more than s15,600 year. For most of them, this is much less than they received as officers or executives of railroads under private management. In this connection. it was noted that MT. Me Adoo, as Secretary of the Treasury, re- ceives the usual cabinet members sal ary of $12.000 year. and is paid noth- ing as director general of railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-22

in executing this new policy was the removal of c. w. Huntington, president of the virginlan railroad, as chief op- erating officer, on the charge that he failed to carry out promptly the railroad administration instructions regarding the remain and maintenance of his line. This was thought to be the forerunner of similar deposition of a number of oth- CT railroad presidents, but announce ment of the plan for wholesale replacs- ment of railway presidents by federal directors came as general surprise at this time
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

whose duties, however, are confined to
Office or other light detail.
SI.OOO.OO Weekly Pay Roll.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

Wholesale. and unfounded prosecu-
tions" under the espionage act and
rails at all other attempts to bring
disloyal propagandists to the end .of
their mischievous ways.
Recently, according to representa-
tives of the American Alliance for
Labor and Democracy, labor officials
in Detroit stated that man claiming
to represent this alleged league ap-
peared in Detroit asking Detroit labor
to. endorse the alleged league and to
contribute money to it, stating that
the New York Central Federated
Union had voted its endorsement of
the organization. According to the
alliance, Secretary Bohm of the New
York Central Federated Union denies
that any such endorsement was ever
voted, or is likely to be.
AS far as can be learned, the
"Workers Liberty Defense League"
which is attempting to carry on a
propaganda of criticism of the United
States government, is merely another
name for the collection of pacifists
and irreconcilables who composed the
notorious and now defunct Peoples
Council. All that is necessary to say
is that if the working people under
stand what this new organization is
they will attend to the route it shall
travel. No organization that does not
help America win the war can claim
to be defending liberty and get away
with it.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
MELINDA SCOTT IN
FEDERAL SERVICE
WAS MEMBER FOREIGN
LABOR MISSION.
Is Now Special Representative of the
Employment Service Attached to
Women's Division at Headquar-
ters in Washington.
Especial Correspondence

WASHINGTON, Aug, 26. = The
United states employment service an
nounces the appointment of Miss Me-
linda Scott Of New York, vice-presi-
dent of the National Women's Trade
Union League, as special representa-
tive of the employment service, at
tached to the women's division in the
administrative offices at Washington.
Miss Scott is an officer in the United
Hat Trimmers Union, and was a men,
ber of the American labor mission re-
Gently returned from England and
France.
1t will be the duty of Miss Scott to
see that no local distractions inter-
fere with the placing of women work
ers under the policies of the United
States employment service and the
women-in-industry division of the de-
partment of labor. When, for instance,
there is delay in filling rush call for
women workers from some industrial
plant, Miss Scott will be assigned to
discover whether the fault rests with
the employment service or may be
found in working conditions at the
plant itself.
Miss Scott's experience gives her
unusual qualifications for the work for
which she has been chosen. Her
knowledge of the problems of women
in industry is based on practical ex-
perience, for she began work as hat
trimmer at the age of 49,. She has
worked in many factories, and of late
has held many important positions, as
an officer in the National Women's
Trade Union League, a member of the
women-in-industry committee of the
council of national defense, and by
appointment of Governor Whitman a
member of the industrial council of the
state of New York.
In addition, her experiences abroad
with the American labor mission en-
able Miss Scott to bring to the en-
ployment service a valuable fund of
information on the way problems
which now face this country are be-
ing handled abroad. Her intimate
knowledge of industrial conditions and
plants and her wide acquaintance with
employment managers and employees
will make her also valuable adviser
at the central office.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
$4,000 WORKERS
AT HOG ISLAND
SHORT TUITION MAKES
EN- SKILLED ARTISANS.
Largest Shipbuilding Plant in the
World, With Weekly Pay Roll Esti-
mated in Excess of 100000;
Men Earn High as SIS Week.

The axiom, "Must makes MASTER"
is getting practical demonstration
every day at the Hog Island ship
building plant, near Philadelphia,
where a school Of instruction has
been established and erstwhile clerks,
BARRIERS, car conductors and motormen,
policemen, firemen, shoemakers, butch
ers, bakers, and indeed representa-
tives of every known enterprise and
endeavor are converted into shipbuild-
ers after brief tuition.
Most of these students, taught by
the hundreds in one branch or an
other, are taken out of the instruc-
tion class after a week and placed
with journeymen crews. While they
are being instructed they receive
eleven hours pay for ten hours work
at the rate of 35 cents an hour. When
thew have qualified their wages i'm
mediately advance, so that men who
before were earning $18 to $50 a
week in their own occupations are now
making $40, $50 and $50.
Some Earn SIS Weekly.
Their earning capacity depends
upon their ability and the amount Of
time they put in. Many, in order to
swell their pay envelopes, toll longer
than the required ten hours, and thus
frequently receive as high as $75 a
week
The men find the employment con-
genial and fascinating, whether they
are joiners, carpenters, riveters, seam
ers or otherwise engaged in helping
to turn out ships for the government.
Approximately $4,000 employees are
on the pay roll at Hog Island. They
are not all men and boys. There is a
representative number Of women,
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

the greatest of our idealists- Giuseppe
Mazzini.
"All the glorious shades of our great
ones will be today outstretched in our
heaven toward the Star Spangled Ban
ner, which comes to unite itself with
our tri-color.
"This is historic day.
1--WE consider useless any words of
incitement.
Genoa will also today be great and
will know how to show, in represen-
tation of the whole nation, how great
ly the Italians appreciate the military,
economic and moral aid offered to US
by the great North American repub-
lie.
"As soon as the transport had
thrown her anchor in our port, the
captaincy notified the civil and mill
tary authorities of the city, and soon
the prefect, the mayor, and the COM
manders of the army corps and the
division went on board to visit the
commander of the contingent of Amer
lean troops.
Mayors Manifesto.
Scarcely had the news of the ar
rival of the American contingent
spread thru the city when the fol-
iOWlhe nidiilSoloCo WCiC
Fellow Citizens:
"'The intrepid American soldiers
land at this port to unite themselves
to our victorious army on the fields
where already our brothers of France
and England attest the solidarity of
the allies in the common fight for lib
erty and for justice.
"'Upon the soil of Italy, together
with ours, the banner of the great re-
public will wave proudly and the love
of the two peoples, already bound to-
gether by one and the same ideal,
united in one and the same sacrifice,
shall have, in glory, its solemn con-
secration.
"'To the sons of the generous land,
bound to Genoa by the genius of Co
lumbus, let US testify with emotion
our feeling. Let US so do that they
may carry with them the remembrance
of it as a viaticum of faith and aus
pice, and may they be able to say
that they have felt in the first salute
of Italy the throb of a people firm
in its proposals, worthy of the new
destinies which the valor of arms pre-
pares for humanity.
"'From the Municipal Palace, June
27, 1918.
"'The Mayor: E. MASSONE.'
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
GENOA, HOME OF COLUMBUS GREETS
FIRST AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN ITALY
Newspaper Story Stirring Welcome the Popuace Cry
Long American Long Live Wilson, Brave
Young of the Glorious Republic Side by Side
Sons of Garibadiw

The American consul general at
Genoa has informed the department OF
state that II Corriere Mercantile, pub
lished at Genoa on June 27, 1918, con-
tanned the following in regard to the
landing at Genoa of the first contin-
gent of American troops:
1.-THE country of Columbus salutes
today worthily the soldiers of free
America.
"To the sons of the powerful and
glorious republic of the United States
who come to shed their blood for the
holy cause of Italy and of civilization
goes forth our enthusiastic salute.
"They bring us their arms and their
young hearts; they bring US the ar
IDENTIFY desired and efficacious aid OF
their land, from which irradiates upon
the world such a resplendent light OF
civilization.
Rich in Significance.
Therefore their aid is so much
the more precious; therefore it is so
much the more rich in significance.
"a cause which by force of its
ideals has succeeded in drawing to
itself the aid of so great a people
cannot fail to triumph.
"And we shall triumph! And we
shall conquer! The gloom shall be dis
persed by light.
Long live America! Long live
Wilson! Long live the soldiers who
disembark today upon the land of Co
lumbus, of Mazzini, and of Garibaldi.
Civilization opposes its formidable
mass against barbarity.
"We shall triumph! We shall con-
querl"
Arrival of the Troops.
"This morning a transport arrived
in our port having on board fine
and strong contingent of American
troops.
eve salute with enthusiasm and
with admiration the soldiers of the
glorious North American republic.
"Their presence on our front will
let the barbarous enemy know that
and with our most holy cause.
"The solidarity of the United States
with the entente brings to US not only
an enormous economic and military
aid, but moral appreciation of which
we are proud.
1--WE invite the citizens to give a
great and worthy reception to the
troops over whose heads waves the
Star-Spangled banner.
"They are the sons of Washington
who come to fight beside the sons of
Garibaldi.
st is free people who comes to
fight beside free people.
"It is a people of men eminently
practical and modern, who know how
to rise to the loftiest and purest
heights of idealism, who lands today
upon the sacred soil of Italy, and who
will traverse the streets which saw
pass the exalted and radiant figure of
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
COMFORT FOR MOTHERS

One word in the kaiser's letter to
Frau Meter after she had lost nine
sons in the war strikes the majority
of non-Germans with amazement. 1t
has been often asserted by our enc
mics that the world outside their bor-
ders does not think as do the Ger
mans, and the rebuke is accepted as
praise, but when the kaiser writes the
bereaved mother that he is "gratiied"
by the extent of her sacrifice there is
seen to be depth yet unplumbed in
the emperor's psychology. Americans
instinctively place alongside this
strange message of sympathy the let
ter that Lincoln wrote to Mrs. Bixby,
and the two men seem to stand out in
a clearer light:
The Kaiser's Letter.
His majesty the kaiser hears that
you have sacrificed nine sons in de-
fense of the fatherland in the present
war. His majesty is immensely graf
flied at the fact, and in recognition is
pleased to send you his photograph,
with frame and autograph signature"
Lincoln's Letter.
Dear Madam have been shown
in the files of the war department a
statement of the adjutant general of
Massachusetts that you are the moth
er of five sons who have died glor-
iously on the field of battle. l feel
how weak and fruitless must be any
words of mine which should attempt
to beguile you from the grief of a
loss so overwhelming. But cannot
refrain from rendering to you the con-
ISOLATION that may be found in the
thanks of the republic they died to
save. pray that our Heavenly
Father may assuage the anguish of
your bereavement and leave you only
the cherished memory of the loved
and lost, and the solemn pride that
must be yours to have laid so costly a
sacrifice upon the altar of freedom u
Beats them all. La Belle SC cigar;
union made in Denver.
IF if,c in Tho R,111ofip its fruo
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
FAKE LEAGUE DOES
NOT REPRESENT LABOR

The workers Liberty Defense
League" which does not represent
the workers, is not fighting for liberty
and is not league, has held con-
ference in which orators of various
types spent much time in bewailing
ers rights at home.
This precious league is angry at
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
SPOTTED.

The identity of the man whose cat
got her head fast in the cream pitcher
is believed to have been established by
recent European events. You remem-
ber he cut the cats head off to save
the pitcher, and then broke the pitcher
to get the head out. Indications are
that he was German superman of
the Junker type.-New York World.
Drop in at the Bulletin office and
talk job printing wit. us.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

If it's in The Bulletin, its true.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

Beats them all. La Belle Sc cigar;
union made in Denver.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

Just how large the total of the
weekly payments to the workers is
has not been officially disclosed, but
it is estimated to aggregate more
than $1,000,000.
The plant is the largest of its kind
in the world, and the first ship of a
virtually unending string of vessels
will slip down the ways early in Sep
tember.
Shipping officials here are hoping
that President Wilson will find the
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

O'Keefe, the popular jeweler at s27
Fifteenth street, has those beautiful
bride rings. Don't be afraid, boys.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

The Bulletin wants 70 do your jol
printing. Prices right, work excellent
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
The Denver Gas e Electric
Light Company

time to attend the launching, for
which elaborate ceremonies are being
arranged.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31

Try n Principe de Lees cigar for ar
after-dinner smoke. Union made.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
Young Aviator Will BE Buried at Lake
Crystal Tomorrow.

Lieutenant Granville Guttersen for
mer Mechanic Arts athlete, who died
Wednesday at Ellington field, Houston
Texas, from pneumonia. will be buried
Saturday with military honors at Lake
Crystal, Mimi, the former home of the
family, says The st. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The body is being brought from
Texas by consort of fellow avia.
ton officers. Mrs. Gilbert Gutterscn
mother of Lieutenant Guttersen. who
reached his bedside shortly before his
death, is one of the party, and she
will be met en- route by her husband,
who left st. Paul Wednesday.
The entire 1918 Mechanic Arts foot
ball team, Coach Jack Norton, mem
bers of the Mechanic Arts faculty and
student body and teammates of
Lieutenant Guttersen will meet the
body when it arrives at 1880 a. M,
Saturday. The funeral party will
leave at $3.50 a. m, for Lake Crystal.
Former Mechanic Arts students
who were teammates of Lieutenant
Guttersen will act as pallbearers. They
are Oscar Swanson. Vance McAninch,
Isador Ress, Ebert Fisher. John Groch
and Meyer PAPER.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-13
YEARS OF life STOLEN BEFORE FEDERAL COURT PUT HIS TRUST IN God RET
Several Defendants Given An
Opportunity to Receive Their
Sentences

Will Kribel and John Wilhelm of
South Dakota and Andrew CARRIER and
Frank Biliski, of Sioux City all of
whom pleaded guilty TO having at
tempted to take booze into dry terri
tory before Federal Commissioner John
Temple yesterday, were taken from
the county jail to the train in the GUS
tody of Sheriff Osten this afternoon
and were turned over to United
States marshal to be taken to st. Paul
where they will be arraigned before
Judge Booth and sentenced at once
The men were taken before the court
at this time at their own request in
stead of waiting until the April term
in Mankato.
Charles Lille, who pleaded guilty to
the charge of having taken money
from the United States mails, was
given his freedom yesterday under
bonds of $4,000 which were furnished
by his father, R. D. Lille of New Ulm
It is understood that Lille also will
be taken before the federal court in
st. Paul at once to receive his sen
tence.
Andrew Dirkes, a young man who
has been held at the county Jail fol-
several months for failing to register
was also among those taken to st
Paul this afternoon to appear in the
court there.