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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
Boys Industrial School
 to Have Service Flag
 Containing 132 Stars
Major Gordon Johnston, Who Is Now in France, Is Donor of Beau
 tiful Flag

A service flag containing 1s2 stars will be presented to the Boys Industrial school at East Lake this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 The flag was presented to the school by Maj. Gordon Johnston, who is now in France. Major Johnston is son of Mrs. R. D. Johnston, who has been a moving spirit in the work of the school since 1t was founded. The public is cordially in vited to be present this afternoon.
 The presentation address today will be made by Forney Johnston. and 1t will be accepted by one of the boys on be- hal1 of the school. Short talks will also be made by W. D. Nesbitt and L- Sevier. Following the presentation there will be a dress parade of the boys of the insti- tuition. New stars will be constantly added to the schools service flag. and when the full list of men in service is con pleted it is expected to show between 200 and 300 names.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
THREE

him, and Cook later appeared at the door of his office According to the mayors statement. Mrs. Hirsch had re- moved her coat when she entered his office, saying she was hot and tired. After talking a few minutes she ex- claimed that she saw man at one of the windows and the mayor turned to inspect the window.- When he again turned his attention Id Mrs Hirsch she had taken off her hats and opened the door leading into the hallway There. he said. stood man he never had seen before and whom he afterwards learned was named Cook
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
REV. THURSTON PRICE
 OPENS REVIVAL AT
 NORTH HIGHLANDS
Evangelists of Southern Methodist Church Will Conduct Meeting
 for Three Weeks

Revival services will begin Sunday, March IT, at the North Highlands Methodist church and will continue through three Sundays. ending on East CT Sunday.
 Rev. Thurston B. Price of Sloan Springs, Ark, will do the preaching each morning at 10 o'clock and each evening at 7:30. pr. Price is one of the general evangelists of the southern Methodist church and is wonderfully gifted as religious worker and speaker.
 F. M. Rollins of Missouri will lead the singing and direct the personal workers. Rev. William IT. Mansfield, the pastor, feels he and his people are very fortunate in securing the services of these gifted men, and the church Is ex- pecting great revival.
 The general public is cordially in vited to attend all of these services. The North Highlands church is located at Seventeenth avenue and Jasper street. north, and is on the Highland car line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17

mail may be committed in two ways, either by direct accusation or by threat to accuse for the purpose of extorting money. He directed their at tention to the charge of conspiracy, which crime is an agreement to com init an unlawful offense. The question of morality was not to be considered. the court said. although an untrue charge of immortality was as bad as n!ackmail.
 RIGHT TO UNCOVER PLOT
 If man suspects that a crime is about to be committed against him." Judge Hill declared ehe has the right to uncover the plot of the conspira- tors. The express demand for money was not necessary. If their actions showed it was their purpose to ex- tort money then she is guilty. But is no conspiracy existed and Cook caught them or pretended tv catch them and Mrs. Hirsch submitted to the accusa- tion and joined h.m and thereafter acted with him, she would be equally as guilty as he
 Under the law of Georgia you may believe the defendants statement, or any part of it. as implicitly as you do the evidence"
 Mrs. Hirsch. under the courts sen tence, will be confined in the wom- ans department of the state peniten- tiary at Milledgeville. Judge Hill hold- ing she was united to labor on the public works of Fulton county.
 WILL ASK NEW TRIAL
 It was announced today that the hearing of the motion for new trial for J. w. Cook indicted Jointly with Mrs. Hirsch and convicted two weeks ago, was Continued until March 23. It originally had been set for hearing to- day but was postponed because of the Hirsch trial.
 Unlike the Cook trial. which was completed in one day. the Hirsch case occupied three days. The prosecution presented practically the same wit nesses in each case. the principal tes- timony being given by Mayor Candler and Forrest Adair, his friend who de- veloped the alleged conspiracy. The de- fense in each case relied largely on the statements of the principals, Cook and Mrs. Hirsch.
 HISTORY OF CASE
 Mrs. Hirsch and Cook were indicted February IA, last, for attempted black mail of the mayor, after the latter had gone before a special session of the grand jury and related the details of what was alleged to have transpired
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
LaFollette Inquiry Is
 Again Postponed by
 Committee of Senate

Washington. March 16.-Another postponement in the Investigation ot senatcr EaFollette's st., Paul speech to continue while his son n s4rlously III. aGS 51te( - Nb1n <odayz s5 \ o G61nIte
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
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 4e Address, WEBER SANITORIUM
 IT Garfield Place CINCINNATI o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
HISTORY OF CASE

Mrs. Hirsch and Cook were indicted February IA, last, for attempted black mail of the mayor, after the latter had gone before special session of the grand jury and related the details of what was alleged to have transpired at his private business office on Feb ruary 6, when Mrs Hirsch called on
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-22

ocean freight charges went up from
four-tenths OF cent TO thiee cents
a bag. The old sea-freight rate on
rubber was one and a quarter cents
pound from Java to New York; II
Ia now five cents a pound from Java
TO San Francisco alone.
Before 1914 we imported from Chile
about 1,0000,0OO tons OF nitrate OF
soda. This was used here by the farm
ers for fertilizer. Where in 1915 the
freight rate on nitrate was SIS a ton
II went to $50 ton last year. About
100000 tons OF nitrate OF soda, are
being used here yearly now for the
making Of explosives.
The ocean freight rate on silver,
lead, copper and other ores from
South America, has advanced from SIS
to $50 ton. Chard woods from Cen
trail America II has nearly doubled.
Pig tin exports have been practical
ly suspended. AL lof the tin used in
the making Of about $1O0,O0O,000
worth of tin plate annually manufac-
tured in the United States and other
parts Of Asia. Shipments of tin from
Asia have been suspended, and the
United States is now dependent upon
Bolivia which produces about 20 per
cent. Of the worlds tin ore supply.
AS for wool imports, the shortage of
ships has been so great that the U. S.
Government has found 1t necessary to
restrict wool imports solely to grades
for army use The lower grades of
wool such as are used for carpets and
other non-clothing purposes have
been shut out. This has caused a
higher price for carpets. The only
source of wool for carpets and other
such purposes now open to us is from
Americas own clip. The U. s. Gov
eminent has taken over the entire
wool supply and will control the price.
These are a few significant facts Of
what shortage of ships means to the
consumer. Higher prices for goods
sold over the counter are only one
phase. Another aspect is the danger
of being able to obtain only an made
quate supply of certain goods, or in
extreme cases, the unpleasant pros
pect of not being able to bet them at
all
The program aof the United States
chipping Board aims at not only
meeting every present contingency
but in providing for future needs as
well. This program calls for the
building of 1856 passenger, cargo, re-
frigerator and tanker ships. They
range from 5000 to 10000 tons each,
and will aggregate 100000 dead
weight tonnage. The United States
Shipping Board is also arranging for
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the construction OF $4,000 lightweight
tons OF stel, wood and concrete barges
and tugs.
In addition. the United States Ship
ping Board has 245 Communicated
vessels, Of total OF 1,715,0O0 dead
weight tonnage, the construction OF
which is being completed by the EN-
Urgency Fleet Corporation.
Not including tugs and barges this
makes total under the present pro-
gram Of 2,101 ships totalling 14,715,-
900 lightweight tonnage. To carry out
the U. s. Shipping Boards program
for 1918, 1919 and 1920, the sum of
$5,00O,000,0OO will be needed. But It
will give the United States the great
est merchant feet that any nation has
ever possessed. We shall then have,
1t Is expected, a vast merchant fleet
Of at least 25,OOO,OOO tons of shipping
lpying the seven seas to convey to our
country everything that we possibly
need and carrying from our land all
OF the things the rest Of the world
needs from us.
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What SHIPS MEAN
TO The CONSUMER
Lack Of Enough Ships to Carry Pro-
duets From Other Countries Causes
Higher Prices For Many
Household Necessities.
(By Gustavus Myers)

The raw sugar crop in Cuba and
other sugar cane countries is the lar
gest ever known. In Cuba alone it is
estimated at 3,250,000 tons. Porto
Ricos probable sugar crop ranges
from 100000 to 100000 tons, and Ha-
waits from 100000 to- 100000 tons,
In normal times such prospect
would insure a generous supply of SUI
gar at low prices to every consumer
in the United States. But so few are
the ships available to bring in the raw
sugar that the big crop will not af-
feet the price much. The fleet of SUI
gar-carrying ships was still further
reduced recently when 10000 or 3d.
900 tons of shipping formerly en-
gagged in the sugar trade were taken
over and used for Belgian relief.
These ships alone would have hauled
a half million or more tons of raw
sugar III season.
The sugar economy that we shall
all therefore have to practice, is not,
however, nearly as severe as that in
European countries. In Britain the
public has been held to a strict sugar
ration of rs pounds per person year,
and in France and Italy each to 13
pounds per person year. Compared
to that rigid rationing our sugar al
lowance has been exceedingly liberal.
Our CONSUMPTION of sugar in the Unit
ed States, for the year ending April
last, was 80 pounds per person.
Although we are not feeling the
pinch nearly as much as other peo-
pie. we shall have to be very careful
of how we use sugar. This is one Of
the inevitable results Of the great
world scarcity of ships. II is just
such a situation as this that brings
home TO the consumer, no matter how
far removed from the wster, the vital
importance Of ships to every house
: holder.
As with sugar 80 with many other
necessities. The Hun Submarine muir
der campaign has utterly failed OF its
chief purposes. II hasn't starved out
the British Isles and II certainly has
MT prevented our landing a large
force In France. But Il has destroyed
more 100000 tons OF world ship
ping. ThIcs loss has obviously left a
great world shortage Besides. great
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-22
Coming thursday That Emotional Actress, Pauline Frederick Resurrection

two years from one cent to Ave cents
pound,
The taploca We use In imported
largely from the Straits Settlements.
In 1915 ocean freight rates on tapIoca
were one cent pound; they are now
six cents n pound to San Francisco.
The ocean freight rate on Brazilian
coffee advanced from one cent a
pound to three cents pound. and
that on Central American coffee has
increased one-half cent a pound.
On cocoa the ocean freight rate has
gone up one and a half cents a pound.
Copra Is a product from which CO.
coanut oil Is extracted. II comes from
the Phillipens, Java and the South
Sea Islands. The advance In ocean
freight rates from three-fourths OF q
cent to four cents q pound for copra
has practically put the coacoanut oil
extract manufacturing industry out OF
business. Cocoanut oil is used as q
substitute for animal fats, butter and
other fats and products.
An advance In ocean freight rates OF
even fraction Of cent pound on
these necessities means a great total
drain on the consumers pocket. We
import for home use for instance
about 125,OOOOOO pounds of tea; and
more than billion pounds of coffee
a year. OF rice we yearly import al
most 270,0O0.000 pounds, and nearly
$40, 100000 pounds of cocoa.
The prices of many of the things we
wear or use depend upon ocean
freight rates which in turn are deter
mined by facility of shipping. Vast
quantities of the hides heretofore
used in our leather and shoe indus
tries have come from China. At one
time last year there were $4,000 tons
of hides stacked at Tsin-Tseen. Ocean
freight rates on hides had increased
500 per cent. Shippers were willing
to pay this, but there were few ships
and those that were available did moi
want to carry bulky goods.
Furthermore, our taking industry
depends mainly upon a tanning ex'
tract from Argentina called Que
bracho extract. In peace times wher
freight on this from Detro Ayres was
$12 a ton, this extract was sold here
at to g. cents a pound Recent!
a rate of $50 to $50 ton was charged
for ocean freight on this extract ship
ped from Buenos Ayres. This means
that the extract can't be sold here a
less than 8 cents a pound
Because of the same scarcity o
ships, ocean freight rates on heml
from the PHILIPPINES increased within
year from $3.50 to SIC a bale. Oh
Jute bags, which come from Calcutta
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numbers of other vessels have had to
be taken from commercial routes for
military and naval needs.

military and naval needs.
----
Instead of intimidating the people
of the United States, the Hun cam
paign has only the more aroused them
to giant exertions. The United States
Shipping Board, with Chairman Ed
ward N. Hurley at its head, has with
in less than year already created a
prodigious ship-building industry. Be-
fore the war we were rather insight
ficant as ship building nation. On
July |, 1917, we had less than $4,000
men working in American shipwards.
Today, we have force of 100000 men
in the shipyards and 100000 as busy
in allied trades.
In the last ten months the U. s.
Shipping Board has constructed about
100000 tons of new shipping built
in American shipyards. 1t has also
added to our American merchant fleet
about 100000 lightweight tons of
shipping comprising German and Aus
trian vessels seized and taken over,
Dutch ships requisitioned, and neu-
trail vessels chartered. Including
coastwise and Great Lakes vessels
there are today under the control of
the U. S. Shipping Board more than
1,4O0 ships of about 100000 dead
weight tons.
AS fast, however, as ships are turn
ed out at present they are needed for
urgent war purposes. Not only must
vast army be conveyed quickly to
Europe but 1t must be adequately sup
piled and fed. This alone calls for an
immense ship program. Populations
of our allies also be fed and supplied.
This, too, demands huge fleets of mer-
chant ships.
While this remains so and until our
ship program goes further, CONNER
cial routes are naturally suffering
from lack of enough ships. Recently
many people wondered why the price
of the ever-popular banana shot up. SO
high. In former years bananas sold
on fruit stands throughout the East
ern half of the United States at 20
cents dozen. A few weeks ago in
some eastern cities as much as so
cents dozen was asked The ship
famine was largely responsible. Half
Of the Kanana carrying feet had to be
diverted TO transatlantic service for
army transport, leaving the car-going
OF bananas to smaller and fewer craft.
tIt Is because OF the great existing
shortage in the worlds supply OF
ships that freight rates on sea have
been greatly increased. These In
creases became especially acute last
year. and have caused sharp rfse In
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-22
RAILROAD Time TABLES


Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves Maysvills S:a5 q. N.
daily except Sunday.
No. leaves Maysvills $40 p. m.
except Sunday.
NO. ios leaves Maysvills $40 D. N.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysvills s:lS ..
M daily except Sunday.
No. 2lo arrives in MaysviIls a:ss ..
M, Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives In Maysvills s:ls ..
m.' daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent
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c. P. Defech & Bro, Florists and Seedsnen MaysWI|e, KY
the prices of many necessities.

tHt prICtS OF many HeCtSSICItS.
Much of our rice comes from Chi
ma. Ocean freight rates on rice,
which in 1915 were only three-fourths
of a cent pound, rose to 3R cents
pound in 1917.
On tea from India and China the
ocean freight rate increased in those
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-06-22

Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.
sehsduis sublso, 10 eaanus ~Iihout oosIcs
Effective Sunday May 26th.
East Bound
No. will arrive s:4s q. m
No. will arrive 1880 D. m.
No. Is will arrive s:25 p. m. u
No. will arrive s:4s p. m.
No. 16 departs 200 D. m.
West Bound
No. 10 will depart 5:25 a. m.
No. s will depart 700 a. m.
No. II will arrive 1000 a. m.
No. 3 will depart $40 p. m.
No. will depart 1850 D. m.
Trains No. 10. II. Is and 10 are
Tally. except Sunday.
W. W wIKOFF, Agent
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SOMETHING new

SOMETHING new
We have the following syrups and
fruit flav0rs and can serve q drink at
for . king.
Come in and try one Of these new
havOrs,
CHERRY
CRUSHED NUTS
CHOP SUEY
ORANGE
PINEAPPLE
hector
MAPLE
LIME
LEMON
CREME DE MENTHE
CLARET
WILD CHERRY
BANANA
ALMOND
CARAMEL
coco DUTCH
coco ROOT BEER
RED RASPBERRY
BLACKBERRY
STRAWBERRY
TUTTI FRUTTI
MANILA
SARSAPARILLA
ROMAN PUNCH
PEACH
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7 West Second st. Phone 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-12
THE UNPARALLELED JUBILEE

FTNiE frank translation of long pent-up
- emotion into deeds of sheer joy is one
Of the rarest and most beautiful OF spec.
tacles. Such a scene raised to it's highest
power Philadelphia witnessed yesterday.
The magnitude of this spontaneous ex-
hibt of ecstasy has had no fellow here.
Cornwaliss surrender in 1881 thrilled a
patriotic town, but one which had actually
seen war and suffered from il. The re-
sources for being spectaCularly festal here
were not, at the close of the Revolution
impressvey rich. Gayety over Grants VIC
tory at AppomattoX was soon sickeningly
overshadowed by Lincoln's assassination.
The Spanish and Mexican wars, although
productive Of glory and valor, were rela-
lively small affairs,
But the peace sirens Of yesterday which
reused expectant Philadephians from
their couches at 3:4j a. m. were proclama-
tory of a season of happiness absolutely
without precedent. AS the war in some
way touched every one, 50 every one sig
nalizcd in the sncerest and most individual
fashion the dissipation OF the Hun night
mare.
Hence the prime feature OF the Jubilee
was its informality Impromptu bands
brigades of 'rattlers." groups OF fervent
dancers, fittingly suggestive OF rapturous
Paris, now so dear to US; songsters. pro-
fessional and lay; dispensers Of snowy
paper cyclones, shouters and flag wavers,
were blended in the incalculably exhilar.
ating medley OF unclouded joy. BY COM
parison with this irresistible holidays the
Fourth of July, with it's rigid concomi.
tants of explosives and fireworks, seemed
almost tinged with preconceived formal.
ism
The tributes paid TO the State House
and Liberty Bell were altogether too
touching to be sulled with analysis. No
other mundane shrine was ever more rev.
erently regarded
1t was noticeable that the multirudinous
bands WHICH suddenly popped up out of
nowhere after having INDUCED in up the
Street" "Semper Fidelis," THE Old Gray
Mare" and Where DO We Go From Here"
as far east as Seventh street, voiced only
the major national hymns of the Allies in
the hallowed region Of the next block
The "Marseillaise" the Marcia Reale,"
America" or God Save the King" ac-
cordng to the taste Of the listener almost
invariably led the way to the climactic
Star Spangled Banner"
No one after yesterday can fairly up.
braid US for neglect of our national an
them. 1t rang through the cleaning sun
light as a clarion of deliverance which it
is-which it was more than ever on the
supreme day of redemption.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-12
Sorry to Disappoint

japanese samurai make it p point of
honor to commit suicide when they feel
they have reached the pinnacle and sum.
nit of their existence. We knew yester.
day that we had reached the greatest day
of our life, and accordingly we proposed
TO our fellow editors that they accompany
us to a neighboring hostelry where excel.
lent hemlock is served. We even hinted
that such an act of self.devotion would
rebound magnificently TO the benefit of
the newspaper profession; but they were
adamant in the resolution TO continue
their petty lives, Therefore we also.
against our better instincts. determined
TO carry on for a bit. We did. however,
get so far as to write our will. which we
hope to print one of these days when
the downfall Of the Kaiser leaves us hard
up for topics.
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Member of the Associated Press
DRAFT ORDERS CANCELLED

VOST MARSHAL GENERAL
CROWDERS cancellation Of all out
standing draft calls releases for civilian
work hundreds Of thousands Of men who
were on the point of entering the canton
ments for training.
The men called were ready to go just as
those who are in camp or in France were
ready. The summons appealed to their
finest instincts. and they responded. The
nation is as grateful TO them as though
they had put on a uniform. 1t will SYM
pathize with their disappointment at being
salled too late to be needed
Their release is the first effect of the
srmistice upon industry in America. Every
smployer and every worker knows now
where he stands. Employment plans can
be made for the immediate future with the
certainty that they will not be upset.
We can be reasonably sure. too. that the
men now in the cantonments will be
returned to civil life as rapidly as possible.
lust how soon they will be discharged no
pne knows, because no one knows exactly
what new demands will be made upon our
irmies 1t is certain, however that we
have men enough in uniform here and on
The other side of the ocean for any task
which will be put upon us.
The effect Of the provost marshal gen.
erals order upon human relations is more
Interesting than its effect on industry. The
wives and mothers of the men subject to
call breathed a sigh of relief when they
read it. for 1t means that their loved ones
are not to be summoned to make the great
sacriflce. But their relief is as nothing
compared with that of the mothers and
wives OF, the men in France, now that
ashting has stopped.