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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
WITH JUST ANOTHER WORKING DAY AHEAD LOAN SUbSCR|PT NEARING MINIMUM Committees Have Big Task to Go Far Beyond Three
 Billion Mark
 TREMENDOUS EFFORT NECESSARY TO PULL CAMPAIGN TO SUCCESS Every Possible Dollar in Every Possible Place !.
 Must Be Secured in
 Closing Hours

Washington, May 3.--With only one day of the third Lib- ertv Loan campaign remain ing, the total of subscriptions tonight rose nearly to the $3,- 000,000,000 level, leaving q big task for loan workers tomor row to gather in enough elev- enth-hour pledges to insure the billion or two oversubscrlption sought by the treasury.
 official reports tonight showed s. 340,6fO. .400 m increase since last night of SIS9,2S3.I00, which is the biggest days business ever recorded since the third loan campaign opened four weeks axo. II was said additional subscrip- tions obtained after reports were filed might send the total above three bIl- lions.
 The campaign will close officially at midnight, Saturday, local time, and most of the country's 27,oo0 banks will remain open through the evening to accomodate procrastinating bond buyers. Without
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BRITISH SUMMARY
 , 0F WAR SITUATION | PT|M|ST|C IN TONE
Germans Are Using Up Re serves Faster Than AL lies and Make No
 Progress

London, May 3.-A representative of General Radcliffe. director of military operations at the war office, today summed up the military situation on the western front as follows:
 Tn the north, while the Germans failed in their main objective, they made their right flank secure by the capture of Kennel, but we must regard the opera ton from the viewpoint of economy of men and they used up five divisions from the general reserve. besides seven or eight divisions previously employed
 The results of the past week, on the whole, were satisfactory, because the en- emy used up larger number of fresh divisions than the allies without strategic result. In all. he used on the north front 30 fresh divisions, besides the nine divisions already there.
 The effect of the operations in the north will be to reduce materially the number of fresh divisions the Germans have available.
 As to the future. the Germans have large numbers of divisions recovering which can he used shortly. It is diffi- cult to make an exact comparison of the staying powers of the two armies, but the facts shown are in our favor. If the enemy continues his offensive in the north, he must impair his chances of success in the south
 The main aim is to separate the Angio-French armies in the south, and if the enemy continues the campaign in the north without important results he is using up his forces to no purpose. ;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Staff Changes in Pershing's
 Army Are Announced

With tfe American Army in France, May 3.-(BN the Associated Press l-MaJ. Gen. James McAndrew has been ap- pointed chief of staff of the American revolutionary forces, assuming his duties immediately. Brig. Gen. James G. Har- bord. who has been General Pershing' s chief of staff has been assigned to com nand in the field, which he will take over this week.
 These changes are explained as being in conformity with General Peshing' 8 nolicy of making shifts among the off cers of the general staff. In this process some are sent to the field and replaced with others who have been on the front, and by reason of recent personal exper- iences. are better able to grapple with field problems This policy also serves to give the general stan oHicers an op- portunity to serve with the troops. All of this is calculated to inject adoitionai energy into the activities of the -Amerl- can evolutionary forces. In further pursuit Of this policy there have been q number of other staff changes. One sec tion chief has been assigned as divi- sional chief of staff, and other onIcers of similar rank have been assigned to service with the troops. The new post Of deputy chief Of staff at headquarters has been created with a view to giving the chief of staff more freedom of action and enabling him to keep in closer touch with the combatant troops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
SENATE REACHES 5 AGREEMENT ID VOTE '0N SED|T|ON BILL
Criticism of Measure Con- tinues and Administration Officials Bitterly At
 tackled in Speeches

Washington, May S-.An agreement to vote at 4 o'clock tomorrow on the conference report on the sedition bill. penalizing disloyal acts and utterances, was reached late today by the Sem ate after another attack on featur es alleged to limit freedom of speech and extending the Postmaster Generals mail censorship powers.
 Criticism of the measure was con- tinued by several senator's led by Sem ator sherman of Illinois. republican, who again assailed administration of ficiaIs. including Attorney General Gregory and Secretary Baker. The IL linois senator charged the Attorney General with removing Tennessee district attorney who was proceeding under the allie nenemy law againSr Maj F. E. Stahlinan. publisher of tho Nashville Banner.
 Senator Norris of Nebraska also at tackled the censorship clause and am nounced that he would move for it's elimination. He said the power pro- posed for the Postmaster General-to withhold mail he believes would vio- late the espionage laws-is too great to give any man.
 The censorship provision was defena- ed by Senator King of Utah, one Of it's authors. and Senator McCumber Of North Dakota. republican,
 The latter declared that the les- islation will not harm loyal Americans but is needed to curb disioyalists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Exact Figures Showing
 Shipbuilding Progress :.
 First Time Published

Washington. May 3.--Exact figures on the merchant shipbuilding programme this year were disclosed today for the first time. They show that under direction of the shipping board there have been launched 2s6 steel and wooden vessels with an aggregate ton mage of 1.4O,627.
 There now are operating f5I shipyards with 735 ways in use. There are 39S steel ways 3S2 wooden ways, either completed or under constructions; four concrete ways and 19 ways devoted to naval work.
 The launchings of steel ships include IS vessels with a total tonnage of 1S6, 250, constructed or under government contract and 1S3 vessels with an aggre- gate tonnage Of 1,195,SS7 obtained by requisition. The grand total of contract and requistioned ships already launched is ,332. 127 tons.
 Already delivered are 13s steel vessels with total tonnage of 917,371.
 Wooden ships launched numper s. with an approximate tonnage of 10S,500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
5M|LL|ON MEN MUST
 BE SENT ID FRONT STATES M'CUMBER
North Dakota Senator Draws Gloomy Picture of What Has Been Accom-
 plished by America

Washing ton, May 2.-Five million men must be sent on the battle front by the United States within year, Senator McCumber of North Dakota declared today in an address to tho Senate, which reviewed Ameriea's work during it's first year in the war. The results of Americas efforts have been almost negligible up to the present. Six months, he said. have been wasted by the shipping board, and s64o,ooe,ooo for aircraft has been worse than squandered."
 eff we fail to put less than 5.Oo0,ooo men on the fighting front before the end of another year. he continued, we win again have grossly failed to measure up to our moral duty. We will have charged to our discredit another year of colossal blunders"
 Senator McCumber entrusted a statement of President Schwab of the emergency fleet corporation, that the United States would produce ship ton mage of only 100000 deadweight iii 1919 with the estimates of U-boat losses of 100000 gross tons in 1918, and said
 "A programme which contempiates but 10,000,000 tonnage il trifling with the most serious question that ever confronted the people of this country. It is worse than triflng, 1t is suicidal
 As a preface to his conclusions, Sen ator McCumber asserted that what we had lacked most was foresight and de- termination, get up and be doing.
 '"The failure of cur shipping board lis the most aggrNvating example of failure 10 grasp big sitliation,N hc said. sesf-.-s.s-5Ssessss asss
 Unparalleled extravagance along ev- cry line of national endeavor was an other reason for failnre. he North Da- kota senator contended.
 We have been literally burning up the money which the taxpayer have cheerfully paid to create and support a fighting army he charged. While we can't win this war without buying Liberty Ponds, neither oan we win II by making bonfires of the money re- ceived from Liberty Bonds
 The bluster pf the public press, he said, which has Grossly exaggerated everything in our favor, had been an other factor in the dsiay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
American Accomplishment
 Behind Line in France
 Said to Be StupendOus
By the Associated Press

An American Base in France. May 3. -"Some idea of the wonderful prog ress that is being made back Of the lines" said James Kerney, director or the Franco American committee on public information to the Associated Press today, may be gathered from the simple announcement that 3o0,- 900 tons of material were handled cy the transportation department in April as against less than half that amount in January.
 ''The storage facilities for three months complete supplies for an army of two million men are almost finished. We are operating five thousand miles of wire. Big docks and railroad yards rapidly are nearing completion. tp- ward of s100,000,000 was paid out Tn France alone last month by the quar- termaster general
 MT. Kearney was speaking of what he personally had seen in two weeks of what the American army had done and is doing in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
American Aviator and
 His Hun Adversary <
 Go Down in Flames
Ky the Associated Press

With the American Army m France. May S.--1n a desperate air fight over the American lines north west of Foul today Charles W. Chapman. Jr.. of Waterloo, Iowa, and German pilot with whom he was fighting, plunged to earth in- side the German lines, both theE machines wrapped in flames.
 Five American pilots, in fast pur~ suit machines, were patrolling over the American lines when they en- countered a German formation of an equal number of airplanes and promptly attacked
 Chapman singled out one of the enemy singles -seaters and they moved off battling desperately, Sud- denly both the machines were seen to burst into flames and almost at the same time plunged to the earth behind the German lines,
 The four remaining American pi- lots chasal the other enemy ma chimes busiS oser fhnfr teraitcrxs Asit all of them eseaped. The four American machines returned safely,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Several Ribs Broken When Motor Throws
 Officer Patterson

Motorcycle Scout Patterson was badly injured by a fall from his machine last night, in which he suffered several brok- on ribs and other cuts and bruises about the body. The accident occurred on Twelfth avenue. north. between Thirty third and Thirty-fourth streets, and, al though the exact cause of the throw has not been learned, it is believed to have been caused by suddenly striking a rut from which the wheels could not be turned to the level part of the road.
 Following the fall he was taken 'o McAdory's inirmary, where he received medical attention. From there he was removed to his home. The Injuries are said to be serious, but not necessarily fatal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Simultaneously With Provost Marsha Generals Announcement, Secretary Baker Asks Congress for $15,000,-
 100000 for Next Fiscal Year
WAR DEPARTMENT PLANNING
 FIGHTING ON BIG SCALa
Let Us Avoid Specific Figures; They In ply Limits; There Is No Limit, " Says Official in Discussing the Ire
 mendous Expansion of Forces

Washington, May 3.-Smultaneously with the announe today that 233000 from 45 states had ncaled join the coors in May Secretary Baker indicated the scope the plans for increasing it's fighting strength stating that Congress has been asked appropriate matey $150O0 000 the army the yea That amount exclusive of funds provided in the forcato b which not only coast defenses but rule pro vdes the bulk of heavy field ordnance.
 Last the estimates aggregated of whch has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
One Killed and Several
 Injured in G., M. X N. R. R. Wreck Near Louisville, Miss.

Alderman, Miss, May 3.--One person was killed, another badly scalded and a number slightly injured when uri- identified persons wrecked Gulf, Mo- bile and Northern railroad train, car rying 75 drafted negroes to Camp Pike, Ark, and passengers. near Louisville late today. The dead man is Mert Wat son. fireman.
 Bloodhounds will be placed on the trail of the wreckers. A railroad spike was used to derail the train. The loco motive and the tender turned com pietely over and the baggage car left the rails
 The negroes. who were in two coach- es at the rear of the train. were not injured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Roanoke, Alabama, Man
 Claims to Be Nephew
 of Generalissimo FOch

Montgomery. May s.-victor Faturos of Roanoke, applying here this afternoon for naturalization papers. set up the claim of being T nephew of General Foch. com mander n-hief of the allied armies or the west. Faturos, approximately 30 years of age. remarked that he had let ters from the general. who was his mothers brother. He is baker by trade and has lost one brother. in 1917. serving under the French flag.
 Faturos is Graeeo- French, a native of .he Isle of Patmos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Summary of the News
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS. 233,0O0 selectmen are
 called into service. Huns claim tO have captured :O,-
 OOO prisoners in Finland. FrancO-British win local battles. With just one more day to work.
 iiberty Loan subscriptions near
 ing minimum. brifish summary of war situation
 ik optimistic in tone. Senate reaches agreement to vote i, on sedittOn biII. | ArEumcnt In news piracy case Is
 completed. Characterization of Southern Meth
 edism to be discussed In confer
 encc. -sixth district will go beyond loan
 Huota.
 LOCAL NEWS ,s%Cnmpaign for bond and tax issues | 10 close tonight at West End ! meeting. 2 Liberty Loan drive to continue un- | til last hour. states chairman. Electrochemists delighted with trip
 to hig industries. Ia FEATURES comment. -scctety and Dolly Dalrymple. -0-Sports. -Iyarkets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04

vital section of the British line.
 Dispatches from the British headquar- ters tell of a tremendous cannonade in the Lys region. which may be taken to mean the part of the Flanders battle Germans made their greatest advance after the fall of Armentieres.
 Articles appearing in German newspa- pers would seem to indicate efforts to prepare the German people for an an- nouncement that there will be no inn mediate attempt to take Ypres. Experts, writing what may he considered inspired reviews of the situation, say that noth- ing would be gained by the capture of the ruined city. This may mean that the Germans will turn their attention to some other part of the front for new effort, and the bombardment of the lines near Merville and farther east may be the-s aHst step in, ansattempt either to bore straight through the allied armies, or cut through toward the south and force a British retirement from the Ar ras-Lens salient. So far as known there has been no infantry fighting in this sec tor in the last day or two
 While waiting for the Germans to make the next move, the allies have not been idle All along the line their patrols have been active and at Hangard and Villers- Bretonneux, before Amens, they have taken tactical positions from the Teu- tons. One of these positions was Hill S2, north of Castel height which afforded good observation of the allied communi- cation lines.
 The British admiralty has found that the channel at Zeebrugge, in which old British cruisers recently were sunk dur ing the naval raid on the German sub marine bases on the Belgian coast, is still blocked and will probably remain so for considerable time in spite of the efforts of the Teutons to dredge new channel around the obstacles formed by the wrecks of the warshps.
 German troops operating in Ukraine have advanced into the Donetz coal region in the eastern part of the govern ment of Kharkov. The presence of Ger mans as far east as this would seem to indicate that Teutonc domination of southern Russia and the Black sea is almost complete.
 The authority of General Foch. who was recently designated cowmander-in- chief of the allied armies in France has been extended to include the forces on the Italian front as result of the meeting of the interallied War council at Abbeyille
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
No Vote for Pru.sian Women

Amsterdam. May 3,--votes taken in the Prussian lower house today iii- yolved the rejection of Socialist Brauns proposal of the right to vote beginning with the twentieth birthday without distinction of sex and the acceptance of committee resolution providing for plural voting,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Three Rivers, Quebec,
 Suffers l5O,000 Fire

Three Rivers, Quebec, May S.-Fire which started in the film room of the Victoria theatre today destroyed the building and number of stores and residences with a loss estimated at s15e.o0O There was no loss of life Townspeopie succeeded in removing most of the furniture from the homes which were burned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Preliminary Hearing in
 Case of Caillaux Is Begun

Paris. May S.-A preliminary hearing in the case of Joseph Caillaux, former premier. who is charged with treason in connection with the operations of Bolo Pasha was held this morning. Captain Bouchardon of the military courts of Paris presided. The witnesses heard were Charles Roux. first secretary of the French embassy at Rome. and Gustave Herve editor of LaVictoire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
ITALIAN REPORT

Rome, May 3,-An official statement lued by the war office today report E military operations on the north
 Etern Italian front, says:
 Fltalian reconnoitering troops rout- hostile detachments in, the Scura llley and in the Alona district. There hs lively activity in the Tonale re- Ion, in the LaGarina and Brenta val Fs and on the lower Piave river. |Italian batteries dispersed work tContinued on Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Choctaw, Marengo, Sumter
 and Washington Counties Oyersubscribe Loan Quota

pemopolis, May s.-(Special.) )--Demop- oils. Marengo county and the four coun- ties of Choctaw, Marengo, Washington and Sumter. composing the DemopoIis Liberty Loan zone. have severally and collectively oversubscribed their quota by more than lo0 per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Huns Claim 10000 Finn Prisoners; Fra11co-British Win i11 Local Battles
FoLIowing Failure Of Army <
 To Break Through Gern1a $
 About to Start Peace 7Zs.E

ion of Lord Robert Cecil. minister of blockade, the failure of Germany s knockout offensive on the western front will result in big peace offensive, directed mainly against Great Britain. and possibly made in an attractive form. but which will not afford any terms the allies can look at.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04

In this opinion, made in ement to the Associated Press, Q S Robert exrressed the further belie q the new peace offensive would be a for Ger man consumption, because rulers of Germany know if they have to rely on their own resources they cannot hold much longer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Summary Of News From All War Fronts and Capitals
By Associated Press

metw the French
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
FRENCH DAY REPORT

Paris. May 3.-The French made an lack late yesterday on the front be- cen Hailles and Castel southeast of
 lniens, and captured Hill S2 and the
 bod on the Avre river nearby, the l.r office announces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04

The call for 250Oe0 during May goes
 all states except California, Oregon ar Nevada, whief with Che District Of C,r lumbia has already supplied so large
 part of their auota that it was decide
 not to include them this time The movt
 ment of most states will begin May Y and will De completed In five days.
 this order the war department abandons it's plan of assembling men in sven
 monthly increments of approximately 1oOo0o. Under the original programme 1t was intended to call out not to exceeG5 oOo men during 1918, The call for lG0,- 600 in April and 2ss,oOo this month will bring in two months half of the number ordinarily contemplated for the year. officials mads it clear that 1t is now the purpose to mobilize all the men for whom equipment and training facilities can ne provided
 TO BE NO LIMIT
 Let us avoid specific figures secre- tary Baker said again today. They in,- ply limits There is nQ limit. We will call out enough men to make victory certain. We will call them as rapidiv as  In preparation for this tremendous in- crease in the army the House military committee was told today that every ex- isting cantonment in the country will be enlarged and every national guard camp utilized 10 it's full capacity. It is re- | garded as probable that some new can | tonments must be built, but in the In terest of speed and economy of effort and material. pressure will be placed | upon expanding existing facilities. | Ground has already been obtained in the 1 vicinity of several cantonments for the expansion, and details of the new con ! struction are being worked out by the l general staff, which also Is studying the necessity of and proper location for ad- 1 ditional cantonments.
 | In connection with the exclusion of 1 three states and the District of Columbia 1 from the May call, officials explained that an effort is being made to balance accounts among the various states pre- paratory to the application of the new quota basis when Congress has approved that measure. The May draft alotments l were made on the population basis here 1 tofore used. but subsequent distribution of quotas will be much altered when the
 number of men furnished by any state
 is computed from the number of avail ables 1t has in Class l.
 MOBILIZATION POINTS l The men called out this month will be mobilized generally at the cantonments
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lever, There Has Been Renewal of Infantry Effort to Advance
I.LERS- -GRETONNEUX CTOR IS SCENE OF
 TNS BY THE ALLIES
Hindenburg Is Evi- |tly Finding Task in flanders Bigger Than
 Expected

lin, May 3-(Via London) Southwestern Finland we
 overwhelmingly defeated enemy during a fiye-day' lle near Lakhti and Tavas- capturing 20,000 prison
 says the German official Imunication issued this 
 From the other theatres, !
 communication adds, lere is nothing new to re- t."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04

DhI lDfl NlOH hEf UNI london, May 2.-ssIn local fighting st night south of viIIers-Breton- slx.- says Field Marshal Haig's com snication issued tonight, our troops soperated with the French and sc- { cd few prisoners.
 The enemy artillery showed conSid- falc activity this morning north of Jert i'm the Beaumont HameI sector. lartsfrom artillery activity on both les of the other parts of the front
 re is nothing to report,
 g1RMANS FAIL IN FLANDERS
 "a Ottawa)-A tremendous crescendo gunfire .aas broken out this morning, principal increase being especially in ; Lys region.
 The objective time tables of the Ger ms indicate that they are finding their K to advance in Flanders and on the Enme, where they are yet at a stand II, much heavier than they antici- led.
 last night there was much bombing ,ivity on both sides, the entente air. h inflicting heavy casualties.
 he Australians carried out successful hor operations at Villers- Bretonneux ling the night, while the Canadians
 pped up strong post, taking seven
 ioners and five mAci1ine guns.
 further north the British rushed a sehine gun emplacement, cleNriig il and bringing in three survivors of the rrison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-04
Missing in ActIol

Missing in action Lieut.; M- Ecsss' f.ahoo, Mo. Horseshoer Archie ,J. Comeau. Hayerhill Mass
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