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Evening star., 1918-08-25
MADE BETTER CITY
/ BY BATHING BEACH
New Facilities Give Washing
j ton Folk Much Comfort
IA During Hot Weather.
AMONG BEST IN COUNTRY

with train schedules to seaside re-
sorts interrupted and rates high,
many ashingtonians have postponed
their vacations for this summer ana
are spending the warm months In the
city. To make up for the lack or
bathing facilities which in former
years has been one of the bad fea-
lures Of spending the summer here.
the city has been provided with
bathing beach equal to that of any
other inland city and superior to
many,
For three years Senator Norris OF
Nebraska attempted to get suitable
public bathing beach for Washington
and for years it was attached 70 tne
District appropriations bill sent TO
Congress and regularly stricken out.
Last year Senator Norris offered an
amendment to the sundry civl! piii
to. authorize the building OF PAIN
tenance of the beach. This was en-
acted into law.
Everything in Shipshape.
Now Washington is not behind hind
accommodations, and 1t is far aheao
we're late In opening this year. owing
to some difficulty in putting up the
lockers. but everything now Is SNIP
shape.
One of the features Of the beach is
the fact that ample room is permitted
for those who cannot swim and care
only to get wet and those who want
to swim far out and sometimes try
the high diving board. about 100 yards
from the beach. Mixed bathing is per-
mitted at all times
have been taken by the employment
of six life, guards. two of whom patrol
tho beach in rowboatS looking after
tho welfare of those bathers who step
outside the ropes. As long as the
person who cannot swim remains in
side the life ropes there is no danger.
but for the entire 400-yard length of
tho beach just outside the ropes,
which are fifty feet from shore and In
water waist daep, there Is a sudden
drop from five to nine feet in an or
dinary step of three feet.
Guards Must Be Watchfu1.
It is possible for person who can
not swim to step on this ledge into
deep water and disappear without an
indication that he has gone down,
despite the vigilance g the lifeguards.
There is no warning to indicate the
presence of deep water just outside
tne ropes otner tndu INC IopcS tneh-
selves.
Yesterday afternoon bathers had a
scare when one person remarked
that he had seen a diver go down
and had not seen him reappear above
the water. Lifeguards dove for
fifteen minutes. but were unable to
find a body at the spot where the
man was supposed to have gone
down. In the constant diving and
passing and repassing there must
necessarily be some on whom the
guards cannot keep their eyes, for
with 500 or 500 people bathing in the
limited space inside the ropes. if one
slips outside he is hardly noticed.
A concessionaire rents out bathing
suits and takes care of the lockers.
No charge is made for lockers, but a
charge of 25 cents is made for each
rented suit. Locker facilities are
ample. and there is provision for
checking valuables-
Provides for the Divers:
Evening star., 1918-08-25
Provides for the Divers:

Outside the life ropes there are
two RATS, the smaller one being 100
feet from the shore, with one spring
board. and the larger with three
sprInEboards and two diving sta
tions, twelve and twenty feet high.
respectively.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
President Wilson Calls
on Boys 16 and Over to
Join Working Reserve

Washington, March 14.-President Will
OF 16 years. and over, not permanently
employed, to enroll in the United States
boys working reserve. national en-
rollment week, beginning March IS, has
been set aside by the department OF la
Dor.
The Presidents open letter. made pub
lie today, follows:
The department Of labor has set aside
the week beginning March is as national
enrolment week for the United States
boys working reserve. The purpose OF
this national enrolment week is to call
the attention of the young men of the
nation to the importance of increasing
the food supply by working on the farms,
and to urge them to enroll in the re-
serve.
II sincerely hope that the young men
OF the country of 16 years of age and
over, not now permanently employed.
and especially the boys in our high
schools will enter heartily into this
work and join the boys working reserve
in order that they may have the priv
spending their time in productive en-
terprise which will certainly aid the ma
ton to win the war by increasing the
means of providing for the forces at the
front and for the maintenance of those
whose services are so much needed at
home. WOODROW WILSON"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
WITH RAIL CONTROL
MEASURE NOW LAW
M'ADOO BEGINS PLANS
Director General and President Hold
Conference on Future Organiza-
ton of Transportation

Washington, March 14-Plans for fu-
ture organization of the government
railroad administration under the rail-
road control bill finally passed by Con-
gress today, were discussed tonight at a
conference between President Wilson
and Director General McAdoo. One of
the first big tasks will be the making OF
contracts with each railroad company
for government compensation on the
basis provided in the bill. Under the
direction of John Barton Payne, chief
director and c. A, Prouty, chief of the
division of accounts, the negotiations of
these contracts will be undertaken i'm
mediately. 1t probably will take many
months to complete them.
With fund at his disposal with which
to administer the railroad affairs, Mr..
McAdoo noy will fix the salaries of his
assistants, most of whom have severed
connections with railroads. Heretofore
the expenses of the railroad admins
tration have been borne from an al.ot-
ment from the Presidents emergency
fund
Provision will be made for the $780,
100000 revolving fund established by the
Dill in determining the amount of the
third liberty loan The treasury has SUI
ficient funds to care for minor drafts.
particularly since a clearing house for
railway earnings and expenses is to be
established and payments to roads will
be on the basis of the difference Le-
tween actual earnings and the guaran-
teed rate
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of hardened steel discs which form
an impenetrable shield capable of de-
fleeing sharp objects. These discs over
lap but do not touch. Each disc is Sc
curely and separately anchored in the
rubber cushion of the tire. In this way
the greatest pliability is preserved and
all possibility of friction between tho
individual discs is removed.
The steel used in the production of
these discs is treated to a special, sci
entific hardening process and once the
shields are imbedded In a tire they Of
fer practically armor-plate resistance to
puncturing forces. Being small in size
the discs in no sense prove drag on
a car because they do not retard the
natural roll of the tire. And the shields,
being flexible, permit the resiliency nee
essary to easy riding.
The construction of the Lee puncture-
proof pneumatic tire affords not only
protection to the tube against pune
ture, but also guards the carcass against
stone-bruises, which III a majority of
instances are the forerunners of blow
outs.
The very best point about the Lee
puncture-proof tires I've saved to tell
you until the last namely, that on any
Lee puncture-proof tire purchased from
the Perry Supply company. which by
some nook or crook uOeST give SdtlS-
faction and a puncture does occur as
they will, even in the best of regulated
families you get refund" Now what
woman could resist that? Sounds sort
OF like a bargain-doesn't it?-and no
woman can resist a bargain
The modern woman doesn't have to
wait on the chivalrous southern gentle
man to mend her punctured tires any
more, thank you, nor does she have to
hear him swear and fuss and rant and
rave when he must fix his own, because
the tire question is solved for once and
all by the Lee puncture-proof tires and
not only are women delighted with it,
but professional men as well as bust
ness men.
For instance the doctor, a doctor Of all
people in the world, can i'll afford a
puncture; he gets hurry CALI the
distance is interminable 1t seems; tho
case in question is urgent; he jumps
into his car and before he gets three
blocks away from home, what happens?
He has a puncture and all the while his
patient lies tossing with fever, delirious
wretched. Could anybody be more APP
preciative of a "puncture-proof tire"
than the doctor? Hardly!
Many Lee puncture-p proof tire fans"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Miss Sadie May Rosenzweig of Column
bus, Miss, and Ernest S. Rosenheim of
CHATTANOOGA assistant to the president
quietly married at Temple Emanuel
yesterday morning at 1890 o'clock by
rabbi Morris Newfield, the wedding be-
ing the elimination vr a pretty ro-
nance begun last summer at Signal
Mountain.
The young people met last summer,
while both were spending sometime at
Signal Mountain and since that time have
correspondent, while the groom made sew
eral trips to Columbus to see Miss Ros-
enzweig, and they were to be married
in April.
Miss hosenzweig, accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Louis Rosenzweig, came to
Birmingham from Columbus Wednesday
TO shop, and Mr.. Rosenheim decided to
come to Birmingham and be married
at this time.
The bride wore an attractive coat suit
of navy blue cloth with hat, gloves and
shoes en- suite and carried shower bou-
quet of Killarney roses and valley lilies.
The ceremony was witnessed by the
brides mother Mrs. 0. l.. Bum and sew
eral other friends of the contracting
parties
The groom has many friends in this
city who will be surprised to learn of his
marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rosenheim left at noon
for Chicago St Louis rnd New York
and on their return will make their
home iIf Chattanooga.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
THENIOUSEMOLD
EDITEu Bv ANNE RITTENHoUsE
WHERE DO YOU DO YOUR BIT?


Where do you do your bit! That
the question of the moment. 1t ism
necessary to ask If you do 1t. or course,
you do Everybody does. The point IS
where do you do it?
Some women do Red Cross work IN
the lion house in the Bronx Zoo in new
York. There happens to be very
convenient space opposite the row OIL
lion cages with good light and there
sewing machines and work tables nave
been set up and there patriotic women
meet to do war work. A lion seems an
odd onlooker at this sort of work,
doesn't it?
one Red Cross chapter made It's
eadouarters in an old barn last sum
mer. OF course, cold weather put an
end to this arrangement. But While II
lasted, the barn made very picturesque
headquarters. 1t was cleaned thoronsh-
". and it was cool and roomy and pleas
ant
In many of the department stores odd
hooks and corners are given to Red
Cross and other war work. If you have
10 minutes wait for a friend, or half an
hour before train time, you just sit down
and make the kind of bandage you know
best how to make, or sew a little, ana
feel that your day of shopping, your att
ernoon at the matinee has after all given
a little of it's precious time to war work.
Then, of course. there are all sorts OF
church rooms devoted to war work. ana
schools, too. and clubs of every sort.
The CHEEKY big rooms of many a conn-
try club hum with the buzz OF sewing
machines or are strangely quiet while
Industrious workers rapidly wind ban-
dages.
1t would be interesting to know just
where all ones friends do their bit.
Probably you could collect a list of many
odd and out-of-the-wa places in this
way.
Then, OF course, there are the many
places in the world where we women
knt-in subway and bus, train and troll
lev car, elevated railway and automo-
bile, at the theatre between the acts and
even, once in while, as we walk along
the streets between shops.
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have driven their cars over 1900 miles
with never a scratch or a blur; from
Mrs Florence NJ. Pfieffer OF Florida,
one of Dixieland's most enthusiastic
drivers, comes this message:
IT have driven my car 1900 miles over
all kinds of roads and the front tires
have never beefe off the car. One night
picked up half a horse shoe. 1t was
driven clear through the casing and out
on the other side, so that we had to
use hammer to get it out, but the tire
did not puncture. l had the hole plugged
uo with tire dough and am still using this
tire and it is as good as new. 1 made
a trip Of $50 miles and only had fresh
air put in once Had absolutely no tire
trouble. ] would not use any other tires
for I feel safe when / start out that i
will not have the worry of tire trouble.
hope that all who use your tires are as
satisfied with them as I am. I also ap-
preciate the prompt service you render.'
Yes-more than ever, since studying
Theology" am 1 convinced that the
gender OF the automobile is "she," and
the gender of the Lee puncture-proof tire
corresponds with MY Lady's" beautiful
carl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
Americas First Fighting
Seaplane Tried Out and
Accepted by Department

Washington, March 13.--America's first
fighting seaplane, equipped with Libery
motors. has been tried out and accepted
it was learned tonight. and number of
the craft are now being delivered for
the use of the naval air service They
are the advance guard of big fleet
which will be added 10 the forces en-
gagged in submarine hunting in the war
zone.
second type Of fighting plane for the
American army. known as the Bristol
model also has reached the production
stage and considerable number will be-
come available during tnep resent month.
Still another type, a two-seated machine.
also is being manufactured
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Woman's Missionary society of
the Twenty first Avenue Methodist
church will give a pie social this
evening at Lovelace's store on North
Twenty-first avenue.
The Twentieth Century club viii
meet this afternoon at o'clock at the
home of Mrs. c. 2. Shoots 1881 North
Thirtieth street.
l. Etude a'Art viii meet with Mrs.
Walter McAdory this afternoon ut
2:SO o'clock.
The Edgewood club will meet this
morning at 10 o'clock al the Parish
House of the Church of the Advent TO
sew for Red Cross. The literary pro-
gramme will be given at $3.50 in the
afternoon.
The Highland Book club will meet
with Mrs. Frank H. Lathrop this
morning
The Outlook club will meet with Mrs.
w. B. Rowe this morning at 1880
o'clock on Graymont Heights.
The Sahala club will meet with Mrs.
w. l.. PEBBLES, 1916 Maplewood ave-
nue., this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.
The Clionian club will meet this aft
ernoon with Mrs. l.. j. Haley.
The Cadmean Circle will meet this
afternoon with Mrs Frank Nabers at
her home on Linden.
There will be an entertainment
given under the auspices of the
Junior Red Cross association of the
F'airview school this afternoon from
1880 to ESQ o'clock. Pupils from ali
grades will participate and small
admission will be charged
There will be a call meeting of the
Fortnightly Shakespeare club this
morning at 1890 o'clock at the home
OF Mrs. J. M. Minter, $50 South sew
enty-third street.
The Cresendo club will meet This
afternoon at the home of Mrs. George
Hayes. . :
The Out vive club will meet this
afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. r.
Mckinney, 1920 South Twelfth avenue
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
Three 94O0-Ton Ships
Launched in One Day
in Oakland HarbOr

Oakland, Cal, March lathe first
triple launching on the Pacific coast took
place today when three 9400-ton stsel
merchantmen slid into the waters Of
Oakland harbor. In less than an hour
there was thus added $500 tons to the
nations merchant marine. The vessels
were the steamships Shintaka. Aniva
and Oakland. each 425 feet long, So feet
beam, and 261s feet in depth of hold.
They are the product OF 1000 men work
ing day and night in eight-hour shifts.
The l>.cls of the Shintaka and the Aniwa
were laid November Is and that OF the
Oakland November u.
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RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. L. w. Johns is spending a few
Gays in the city as the guest of her niece
Mrs j. NJ. Norment, on South Tenth ave,
nue. Mrs. Johns is a former resident of
this city. and is cordially welcomed bv
her many friends.
Dr. and Mrs. Lawson Massey have
taken an apartment at Terrace Court
for the season.
Mrs Crawford Johnson is spending the
weekend with relatives In Cha ttanooga.
Mrs. Houston Davis will leave TO-DAY
for Boligee to spend the weekend with
relatives.
Mrs Paul Cook is the guest of her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs Parke at their
home in Selma.
Mr.. and Mrs Culpepper Exum and Mrs.
A. M. Throckmorton left last evening
for New York, where they will be the
guests of their parents Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Kinney.
Miss Olivia White and Miss Francis
white, OF Virginia, will arrive next week
10 De the guests of their aunt. Mrs. Eu-
gene l.. Brown and Mr.. Brown at their
home ON Highland avenue.
MISS Blanche Devine and Miss Julia
Murphy, who are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Campbell Maben, will leave TODAY
for their home in Atlanta During their
stay in the city they We're deIightfulIv
entertained.
Mrs Thomas Fairbairn of Detroit Is
the guest of her son, Mr.. T. c. Fair
BARN and Mrs. Fairbairn, at their home
at Thomas.
Mrs. r. w. Boyer OF Montreal, Mich.
will arrive tomorrow to be the guest os
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Ball. at their home
on South Nineteenth street.
Mrs. w. r. ]. Dunn and baby returned
from visit to relatives in Montgomery.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Cruikshanlx have ra-
turned from Tuscaloosa
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones Nelson and little
SON have returned from Lexington. KS
and occupy the Lane cottage on Adams
avenue. Mr.. Nelson is here to pprcha 50
a farm and become permanent resident
OF our county.-Huntsville Times.
Miss Helen osband of Detroit who is
thC 6NoSt VI 4iioo MARY Ban, VIII leave
tomorrow for her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Turpin and little
daughter Sarah, have returned from Sea-
breeze. Fla.
Mrs. B. S. Parker of Gainesville, Ga.
Is the guest of her son. Mr. B, s. Parker.
Jr,. and Mrs. M. V. Kelley, on South
Fifteenth street.
Mrs. ]. F. Hooper and Mrs. Julian
Parke Of Selma will arrive Sunday to
be present at the state meeting of the
national council of defense, which meets
on Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. L. G. woodson will leave early
next week for Bradford. Canada, where
she viii visit her daughter, Mrs. Harvey
A. Watt.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jemison, Jr,
will leave tomorrow for New York, where
they will spend Easter with their daugh-
ter. Miss Virginia Jemison. who is a
student at Dobbs Ferry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
WOMANLESS WEDDING
THIS EVENING

The "Womanless Wedding will be pre-
scented this evening at Trinity Methodist
church at $50 o'clock The wedding party
will include: Bride Mr.. w. T. Ratliff;
groom, I'M. Bascom Barrett; flower girls,
Messrs Volley Grey and Percy Owens;
maid of honor Mr.. Tom Taul; matron of
honor, Mr.. Herrin Colmerry; best man,
MIR. Anderson Jaffe; bridesmaids. MessIs.
Fletcher Weaver and Gus Boatrite; ring
bearer, Joseph Curtain; groomsmen,
Messrs. Floyd Plummer L. c. Owens,
w. H. Winter and Blake.
The music will be rendered by Mr.. Will
Glass and Mr. Harry Ste1nmehl violinst;
Mr.. Bartlett, baritone and Miss Rench-
er, accompanist
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
Secretary Balf0ur Has
Confidence in Japan's
Loyalty to Allied Cause

London, March 14-Speaking in the
House OF Commons today on thes itua-
IN In tne east, Foreign Secretary Ba'-
four EXPRESSED perfect confidence IN
pans absolute loyalty in carrying out
any dccision that might he reached, and
declared that in this question he had
drawn no Z stinction between Japan ami
Q Lea a'iss.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
Eagles" Not sSea Lizzies'
to Be Dignified Name of
FOrd's Submarine Chasers

Washington. March 14.-Henry Ford's
submarine chasers will be known in the
navy as Eagles, and will constitute
the Eagle Glass" of boats. The an
nouncement was made today by the navy
department
People from all over the country have
been writing to the department suggest
ing names for the craft, and all have
been given consideration. One proposal
favored for time was to name the
boats for naval heroes.
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MR.. STRICKLAND TO TALK

On Tuesday evening. April 2 at g
O'CLOCK clock at the tElyton Baptist
church, Frank Strickland, Alabama's
blind pianist will deliver his lecture,
What 1t Means to Be Blind" Mr..
Strickland will handle his discourse in
his Characteristic, cheerful, practical, OPP
timistic manner. In tne course OF the
entertainment he will render variety OF
piano selections.
The members of the Elyton church are
enthusiastic over the affair, and Mr..
Strickland will have large and APP
preciative audience
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15

81 WEDDING which will come as
LA\ surprise and of interest to many
friends in the city is that of Miss
Nell Freeman and Mr.. Isadore Shapiro
of New York. formerly of Birmingham
The wedding took place at a recent date
in Washington, where Miss Freeman was
doing journalistic work on the Wash
ington Herald.
After short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs.
Shapiro went to New York, where they
will make their home, he being con-
neoted with one of the best known lawyer
firms of that city.
The bride has spent most of her life in
Birmingham, and is considered one of the
city's brightest and most talented young
women.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
Frederick F. Aver Dies

Townsville. Ga, March 14.-Frederick
F. Aver. millionaire medicine manufac-
turer and financier of Boston. Mass.
died here late today at the age Of s.
years. Mr. Aver had been spending the
winter here.
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FOR MISS RAINER

Mrs NJ NJ. Baldwin entertained at
small informal tea party yesterday aft
ernoon at her home at Mountain Ter
race, honoring her guest, Miss Lell Rain
err of Union Springs, and Miss Alice
Hunter of North Dakota, the guest of
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News of Society and
Activities of Women
~ EMMA REID RYALL

Miss Margaret Moore. The tea ta-
Bile was adorned with spring blossoms,
and the Afternoon was spent in knitting.
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DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS
ANNE a,4ssvror.. FOR WOMEN

# Our Young Women Copy Those of
France They Will Look Like Dash
ing Algerian Soldiers, in Their
Trousered Skirts and Zouave
Jackets.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-24
FRENCH MOVE ON
 TWO-N|LE FRONT AGAINST HUNS
While This Is Designated as Local Action by Paris War Office, Yet Results Are Far Reaching
CBy Review Leased wlrs)

PARIS, July 23.-French, American and British troops made considerable advance during the day on the Aisne- Marne front, according to the war of flee announcement tonight In addi- tion to occupying several villages, they captured 1900 prisoners or more.
 The text reads.
 "On both sides of the Ourcq attacks by our troops during the day obtained satisfactory results notwithstanding tenacious resistance offered by the en- emy who brought up fresh reserves. North of the river we captured and went beyond Le Plessier-Huleu and reached the western outskirts of OUl- chy, La-Ville. We occupied the will age of Montgru.
 South of the Ourcq Franco-Ameri- can troops crossed the Chateau Thier- " road, carrying their line more than a kilOmeter to the east. The village of Rocourt is in our hands as well as the greater part of the Chatelet Wood.
 'On the right bank of the Marne we made new progress north of Mont-St. Pere and Charteves, which is in our hands. Likewise we enlarged our bridgehead at Jaulgonne.
 "0n the front between the Marne
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