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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16

Anniston, August 15.-(special) Second Lieut.. oscar F. Houston, Twen- .ty-fifth battalion, r. A. R., having re- ported at Camp Mcclellan pursuant to telegraphic instructions, coming from Camp Jackson has been ordered to re- port for assignment to duty to the commanding officer of the Twelfth field artillery brigade and ammunl- tion train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
MASS CELEBRATED
HATCHER ASSIGNED

Anniston, August 5,-(SpeciaL )-Second Lieut.. Robert P. Hatcher, quartermaster corps, national army, having reported at Camp Mcclellan, pursuant to telegraphic instructions, has been ordered to report to the camp quartermaster for assign ment for duty as assistant officer i'll charge of utilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16

since the official data was sent from the front, give the number of prisoners in the allies hands since August as 34,- 900 and say also that 670 captured guns thus far have been counted.
 The situation in Russia again is loom ing large. Soviet leaders have fled from Moscow, the bolshevilS capital, to Cron- stadt, and the soviet troops now are de- clared to have begun the evacuation of Moscow. American troops have begun to dsembark at Vladivostok to aid the Czecho- Slovak army in it's campaign in Siberia, an allied force is chasing the enemy more than 100 miles south of Arch angel on the railroad; further allied troops have made a landing southwest of Archangel and are endeavoring to cut off the retreat of the soviets, while Brit ish troops have arrived at BalIu in the Caucasus, on the Caspian sea, to as sist the Armenians in defending this im- portant seaport against the Turks, to whom 1t was given by the Brest-Litovsb treaty in the attempt made by the Teu- tonic allies to dismember Russia Thus it will be seen allied forces now are op- erating jointly on three important sec tions of Russian territory-on the north with base in the White sea, on the east with base in Japan, and on the south in Transcaucasia.
 RULERS CONFER
 Probably realizing the seriousness of the situation as 1t now affects the cen- tral powers, with defeats on the western front and their military power none too secure-the feeling in Russia daily grows more intense against the bolshevik and Germanic rule, and with the spectre ot the more than 100000 Americans already in France and more millions of them soon to be in readiness for overseas duty, important conferences are in prog ress at German headquarters. The Ger man and Austrian Emperors and their suites and Field Marshal Won linden burg and General Ludendorff are the main conferees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
STATOM BOUND OVER

Anniston, August 15.-(Speciai.) c III. Statom, a young white man, was tried in the police court Thursday un- der forgery charge, and bound over to await the grand. jury's action under bond of $500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
WALKER

Jasper, August 5-(Special) )-Of- ficial count gives Brandon 921 first choice and 95 second choice: Kilby, 932 first choice and 50 second choice in Walker county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
LARD SUBSTITUTE
 MAKERS CONFER


 Washington. August 15.-Manufacturers of lard substitutes closed two-day con- ference at the food administration today without making recommendations of prices on cotton seed oil. They claimed no ac- ton wa taken on prices because the sixc of this years crop could not be pre- dicted with accuracy.
 Farmers, who cultivate vegetable oil products, have been requested by the war service committee and the oil millers' committee of the manufacturers to meet in Washington August 26 for a general discussion.
 Rules and regulations recently promul- gamated by the food administration were indorsed by the manufacturers. Horton 1S2, Miner 201. Oswalt 102, Pope l55, Pratt 161.
 State senator. Carmichael 404, Millez I23S.
 Representative, Partridge (democrat) ,5S1, Underwood Republican, 500.
 Sheriff, Duncan 39. Grissom 121, Todd 459, Winchester 57.
 A. H. Carmichael has defeated Miller by majority of I'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
OXFORD CAPTIVE WRITES

Anniston August 15.-(Special) Robert P. Jones of Oxford is in re- ceipt of his first direct communication from his son. John w. Jones, captured by the Germans on May 12 The card
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, August 15.-Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi: Fair Friday and Saturday.
 Tennessee: Generally fair Friday and Saturday
 Georgia: Fair Friday and Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
Only Minor Operations On Son1ne-Oise Front; Allied Gains Are Slight
German Retreat Continues North of the Somme Between Albert and Arras Where the British Are Keeping
 in Close Touch With Them
By Associated Press

The fighting the Somme Disc battle front still continues character compared with that of the early part of week. the Germans reinforced their line and stopped the eastward sweep of the allied forces
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16

Gr0ve's Tasteless Chfll Tonic destroys the malarial germs which are to the blood by the Ma laria Mosquito. Price e0cs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16

Nevertheless, the British and French again have been able to gain ground on two important sectors-the British a short distance northwest of Rove, where they took the villages of Damery and Parvil- lers, and the French on the southern wing of the battle front, where they have captured two farms in the process of clearing the hilly and wooded district around Lassigny of the enemy.
 STILL FALLING BACK
 North of the Somme, between Albert and Arras, the Germans are continuing to fall back and the British are keeping in close contact with them. Thus far the Germans have definitely given up the towns of Beaumont Hamel, Serre, Buc- uouy and Puisieux- -Au-Mont and at sew eral points have crossed the Ancre river, with the British following closely on their trail No official explanation has yet been advanced of the retrograde move ment of the Germans over this front, but it is not at all unlikely that the operations on the Somme front and the harassing tactics the British recently have employed made the enemy desirous of establishing himself on new ground eastward with the Ancre river barrier between him and his foes. At any rate, the Hebuterne salient has virtually been obliterated by the retirement of the Ger mans and seemingly they now will be compelled to make a readjustment of their lines between the Somme and Ar raS.
 MANY PRISONERS TAKEN
 In the week of fighting on the Picardy front 30,24 prisoners have fallen into the hands of the British and French armies, according to an official announcement. Of this number the British captured 21,- S44. Unofficial reports, probably compiled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
LIEUT.. HOUSTON REPORTS

vation and reclamation officer, as to it's fitness for human consumption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16
RULERS CONFER
CALHOUN

mill school tax will carry the county two to one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-16

West, 401 first; 43 second. Fonville, 116 first: 22 second.
 Attorney general: Smith, 1877; Tate, TAI.
 Treasurer: Bradley, 1886; Ellis, 54s.
 Commissioner of agriculture: All good, 1892 first; 80 second. Jones. sos first; 2s second. Wilkinson, 403 first; 3S second
 Public service commission: Cooper, 1929; Gaillard, 614; Gamble. TAG; Smith, 639.
 Justice of the supreme court: Me- Clellan, 154s; Pruitt, S05; Sayre, S6O.
 Court of appeals: Evans. 626; Sam ford, 14O6.
 For Congress; W. W. Callahan, 1896. E. B. Almon, 9SS.
 Solicitor Eighth circuit: =. R. Sam pie, 1491; D. c. Almon, 1885. Almon for solicitor won over Sample by 5s votes.
 PIKE
 Troy, August 15.-(Special)-Pik coun- tvs official count is as follows:
 Governor: Brandon, 2SS first, 23S sec- ond; Kilby, 756 first, 42 second; Purifoy, 12 first, 12 second; Teasley 944 first, 19S second; Wallace, 223 first, 2t1 second.
 Lieutenant governor: Bulger, Ill first, IA second: Miller, 6S0 first, 21 second {: Nesmith, 1850 first, F second; Parrish, lbf first. 2l second
 For Senate: Bankhead, 1224: White, S3l
 For secretary of state: Cobb, S23 first 12 second; Fonville, POI first, 16 second :; Moffat, 494 first, 26 second; West, 11S first, 2 second |,
 For attorney general: Smith, S43; Tate 97o
 For auditor: Lee, 1864.
 For treasurer: Bradley, SSS Ellis, 963.
 For superintendent: Dowell 1900.
 Commissioner of agriculture: Allgood 909 first, II second; Jones, 430 first 30 second; Wilkinson, 5S4 first, 30 second.
 Public service commission: Cooper, 76; Gaillard, 643; Gamble, 1126: Smith, S30.
 Associate justice: Mcclellan, 119S; Pru- itt, 554; Sayre 1114
 Appellate court; Evans, 5o4; Sanford, 1176.
 Democratic executive committee: Ad- ams, 765; Arlington, TAO; Bowers, 970; Brown, 1051: Burson, $40; Coker, 976: Dem ing 193; Henderson, 1883; Kendrick, 734 Sellers, 11s9; Smith, 1o43
 Two anti-amendment legislators were named from Pike, and Baker, anti-amend- ment senator, was named from Pike, Coffee and Crenshaw.
 The three-mill school tax carried by a good majority. Troy gave a splendid majority to the tax and most of the county boxes indicate a fine ma jority. The tax is to be levied for 10 years
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11
HEAVY TAX ON FOODS
PROPOSED FOR WAR
Congress Committee Hears
Harvard Mans Plan to
Raise More Revenue
Washington, June II,

Washington. June II.
During the hearings before the
House Ways and Means Committee
on War Revenue Legislation Professor
o. NJ. w. Sprague. OF Harvard. submit
ted a comprehensive taxation plan, pro-
posing consumption taxes and heavy
levies on war profits, incomes and
Injuries.
Some of Professor ~Sprague's recon-
~mendations were:
Wal profits, so per cent. based on the
English system tea. one to two cents
a pound coffee. ten cents a pound to-
bacco, fifty cents a pound beer. sub
stantially increased rate: whole wheat
-four. 81 or SO a barrel; hotel bills,
20 per cent on all above $3.50 a night,
and on all meals above 81 automobiles,
heavy rate on sales gasoline, used for
passenger cars. twenty to twenty-five
cents a gallon; employers of chauf-
feurs. $40 to $50 a month; luxury taxes
on jewelry, talking machines. dress
goods above a certain price. sporting ane
athletic goods. neglige shirts costing
more than 50 shoes. costing more thar
So or IS, and a graduated tax on bank
checks.
In addition. Professor Sprague sug-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11
CAUGHT IN THE CURRENT
AND MADE SHIPSHAPE

, bill calculated to discourage rent
profteering. II has already been de-
scribed in detail In the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER.
The landlord sighed for days of old
The days described as salad .
And out Hog Island way, I'm told
He sings this ancient ballad: ..
'Oh. dig my grave. oh mother dear!
Make II long and narrow, narrow.
The law has shed a profteer.
I'm killed by George p. barrow,
I'm kilt by George P. barrow"
We hate to speak unexpectedly of
%femininity, but the Mother-ship of the
U-boat is no lady.
Our new merchant marine will eventu-
ally win the freedom of the seas.
The super-Clyde is what Professor
Meigs calls the Delaware. We accept
the compliment with some reservations.
Charles NJ. Schwab is at once generous
in his gifts and his demands. Mr.. Piez
gets a horse, The Emergency Fleet
gets a turbine plant. The two incidents,
entirely distinctive, are illustrative.
Every deed Of American valor 'over
there" Is a testimonial to our seamen
and our shipbuilders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11

gested a super tax OF 10 per cent on
incomes. 10 apply unless the person re.
ceIving the income invests a certain pro-
portion in economy bonds" a proposed
new form of Government wartime Sc
curity.
Benjamin c. Marsh. representing the
farmers national committee on war
finance, was the first witness. HI was
questioned by Representative Moore,
of Pennsylvania, regarding an article
he wrote saying he had been informed
by a member of Congress that the reason
excess profits had not been taxed was
because bankers control the newspapers
and that the newspapers intimidate
Congress. He declined to Civ the name
of the member
do you think that statement Is true %
asked Representative Moore.
Il am afraid that in some cases II
is" he replied.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11
NAVY PLANT TO MAKE
TRADE SHIP TURBINES
Daniels Agrees to Let Buffalo
Factory Work for Emer.
gency Fleet

Turbines manufactured at the Buffalo
plant Of the Navy Department, which
Is operated by the Bethlehem Ship6uild-
ing Corporation. will be diverted to the
use of the Emergency Fleet Corporation
as soon as possible without interfering
with the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES program.
1t Is believed that the destroyer pro-
gram will be in such shape by October I
that the Buffalo plant can build turbines
Tor merchant ships entirely. II this Is
done the turbines needed at Hog Island
Tor installation in the seventy s0oo-ton
combination transports and cargo car
riers VIII be produced In time-by the
first of mex year.
Director General Schwab is assured
by this decision of Secretary Of the Navv
Daniels that the merchant shin program,
VIII go along swimmingly next year.
In addition to being diverted to Hog
Island. these turbines will also be sent
to other ~shipyards along the Delaware
River.
Secretary Daniels's decision to turn
over the facilities OF the Buffalo plant
to the Emergency Fleet Corporation is
contained in the following letter:
Il hereby confirm the agreement en-
tered into this morning at a conference
between the Chiefs Of the Bureau of
Construction and Repair and of Steam
Engineering, representing the Navy De-
partment. and Naval Constructor Acker-
man n Messrs. Cox and Brill. repre-
senting the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton, and j. W. Powell. that. as facilities
become available at the Buffalo shop
owned by the Navy Department and
operated by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corporation, those facilities shall be
placed at the disposition of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation as far as this
can be done without interfering with
the destroyer program; and that ulti-
mately the shop will be turned over to
the Emergency Fleet Corporation at such
rental as may hereafter be agreed upon."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11
Business Questions Answered

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is the man to whom opportunity natu-
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11
NO PLAY AT SHIPYARD
FOR COLLEGE GROUP
Preparations to House Woos.
ter Men Show They Will
Have No Pink Tea

College graduates who are soinr :,
"ork on the shipways at the pennsyl-
'ania and New Jersey yards, at Glouces.
Ter to do their bit have already mad,
a nit with the rank and file of Uncle
sans shipbuilders by the sacrifice NJ
nome comforts they are voluntarily max.
ing.
Inc average toiler In these yards will
nave a great deal on the boys from the
college at Wooster, o., when /. co,,as
10 nome comforts. As the college re-
cruits are preparing their home them
seI,es. they know just what is to he
,mers' An advance guard. composed of
mn,sm baird. Robert Dickson and
Richmond Douglass, are getting ,ha
oid frame house at 800 South Fifth
street, Gloucester, ready for the gang"
uue 10 arrive here next Monday. L. C..
boWles, for years athletic director nj
wooster College, will arrive day after
tomorrow with six more Of this years
graduates to complete the job in time.
mere VIII be no tiled bath for the
college chaps. Their tub will be an
Ordinary tin basin with a handmade
wooden bench. There will be only about
a dozen such benches and basins for
S'NthNN btAS.
For a mess table they will have a Main
board, There will be no white covering
ana perhaps non at all. Most of the
wooster boys favor eschewing all finer
ana as they are to furnish the house
themselves the majority will have their
way. Nor will there be any white nap
kins, but the paper kind may be called
upon to serve.
For their weary bones at night these
young shipbuilders will have cots of the
plain iron variety, and 1t is predicted
that many Of these will have to do duty
in the dining room, kitchen and even in
the cellar. The house is three stories,
but not overlarge for seventy cots.
Reception of the bunch next Nom
day will be quite an event. ]. II. Millar,
head of the service department OF the
Pussy & Jones Club. Is a Wooster alum
nus, and with the advance guard already
here Ne is planning to give the boys a
rousing welcome at the clubhouse. Mrs.
Bowles, wife of the athletic director. is
coming with them to keep house, and
their old college chef. Mrs. Mogn, is
coming along. too, to prepare their eats.
No college crowd ever tackled a much
harder job for their very first than these
boys from Wooster are facing, but they
are of the right stuff and very en-
thusiastic, it is said. They are to be
distributed through the three yards
where most needed. and will take their
chances of promotion along with the
hard-isted toilers of the rank and file.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11
SHIP CARPENTER BROWNS
Man Falls Overheard at Atlantic Re,
fninf COMPANY Plant

When Il. L.. Often. twenty-nine years
old, attempted to climb aboar the
steamship Texas just of the Continental
wharf at the Atlantic Refining Com
pany's plant, Magazine Ian and River
road. early today. he fell overheard and
was drowned. The body was recovered
and taken to the Methodist Hospital and
later to the morgue.
Often was a native of Sweden. He
was employed as a ship carpenter on the
Texas. When he fell into the water he
disappeared so suddenly assistance
could not reach him In time
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11

I've seen lots Of shipping places,
Travelling far and wide
I've wandered by the Mersey docks
And on the banks of Clyde.
Countless thousand shipyard workers my
opinions share,
That none can touch for size and worth
the sprightly Delaware.
Roaming in the cleaning
BY the plants beyond compare;
Roaming the cleaning
on the busy Delaware.
When Hog Island works with zeet
And the Sun has done its best,
Oh, it's lovely roaming in the cleaning I!
Louder! Louder!
Oh, we do not have TO worry,
For our cup of joy just drips:
We are building in a hurry
Such a splendid lot Of ships.
And the way we keep on hustling
Fills the Germans with alright;
And at the weeks end we may all
Look forward with delight
To beautiful Sunday!
The wonderful captured and won day!
When we see completed ships the ways
adjoining.
oh. it's very nice.
And to life II gives a spice,
To launch a ship in Camden Sunday
morning.
Louder! That Is to say-Lauder!
Il love a tanker.
A frigate or a banker,
A schooner or a b~arkentine or ship;
A steel ship or a wooden,
So long as It's a good 'un
A concrete vessel that can make a
trip.
Right speedily we've built EN-,
Though the Hun has often kilt 'em-
And some day we will settle with the
Hun.
We will build a U-boat chaser,
That will prove for him a facer,
And then he'll find his business is
done.
I love a shipyard, a bonnie, bonnie ship
yard
The busy place where victory Is won.
The home Of friends OF freedom
You can find them when you need 'em
The place where we lick the Hun.
And II the verses don't read smoothly.
sing 'em. That's what Harry does.
-
an ever keel. She a Just laid her
twenty-hfth.
No disrespect Is meant, Of course, but
We sometimes speak Of Hog Island as
though she were . hen.
eoaesesensg 1asg1tzDa la1Rs-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11
BARCES ON CHESTER LINE
Company's Steamboats, All Comman.
deered BY Government

Chester, Pa, June 11.-Virtually put
out of business for a few days. when
the Emergency Fleet Corporation
Communicated all the steamboats, Of the
Chester Shipping Company, a barge line
between this city and Philadelphia has
been established by the company. The
company is owned by Senator William
Sproul and for several months the
Government has been Selling ore boat
after another until last week the entire
fleet had been taken. .
For the first time in the history Of
the company barges were purchased to
continue the business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-11

TODAY's BUSINESS EPIGRAM
Optimist-A man tcho tohen hand
ed a lemon snakes lemonade out Of II.
fE. J.. B., BuDdlo.
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