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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
NATION TO DECIDE DEGREE OF SUCCESS
 OF BIG LOAN TODAY
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ernment clerks helped Secretary Mc- Adoo welcome Douglas Fairbanks on his return from New York today In a mail airplane with $6,ooo,ooo sub { scriptions to the fourth Liberty Loan. Pushing through the crowd al tpe south steps of the treasury, Fairbanks, bearing cancelled air post stamp on his forehead, handed MT. McAdoo an envelope containing the subscriptions, shouting to the crowd:
 Hello. Washington. They're pikers up in New York. Got you six mil lions"
 While Fairbanks led in cheers for McAdoo the secretary responded as cheer leader for Fairbanks. soldiers an sailors gathered more subscriptions from the crowd to swell Washington's 5 total already overSubscribed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
Nevs of Bessen,er
MRS. H. L. BANS, Correspondent

mer as pastor Iof the First Methodist church, will be interested to learn that he has been transferred to the Tennes- see conference, and has been assigned to prominent church in Nashville.
 Bessemer Boy, Scouts, Troop 6, havs made a good record in the sale of bonds this week, having reported $6OI0 sold up to Friday afternoon. This is considered very good for the boys as they entered the field after all the territory had been thoroughly worked. Several of the boys have sold a sufficient number of bonds to be entitled to the merit badges given by the government
 At a special meeting of the city coun- cil Friday evening at o'clock very drastic measures were adopted to pre- vent the spread of Spanish influenza. Resolutions were passed extending the closing of the schools, churches and all places where people congregate. including pool rooms . for two weeks. As a fur ther precaution, all business houses were ordered closed at : o'clock except on Saturday night when o'clock will be inc closing hour Restaurants will close at 8 o'clock except on Saturday nights, when they will be allowed to remain open until 10 o'clock. resolution was passed ordering all soft drink stands to serve drinks in sanitary cups. The council further requested and urged all parents to keep their children off the streets and all places where they con gregate. The closing order went into effect at once and will remain in force until November 6,
 At a meeting of the library committee Friday it was decided to close the pub Tic library during the epidemic of the -iufluenza in Bessemer Beginning with Saturday the library will be closed until November S.
 Miss Edith Goode entertained num- Der of her friends at the home of her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
BESSESrER BUREAU PHONE BESSEMER 612-J

parents. MT. and Mrs. J. J. Goode. Woodland Heights. Lipscomb, on Tues day evening last. it being her 17th birth day Games were played. music fur uished, after which delicious refresh ments were served.
 The following were present: Messrs. Hugh Duggar, Clarence and Homer Hutcherson, Howard Williams, Steve Lipscomb, Sam Burrell, Herman Roy, James Lavender and Rupert Jones; Misses Byrnice and Alma Collins. Eunice Jones, Edglee Scott, Maude boveless, Mary Lipscomb, Mary Anton. Mir. and Mrs. George c. Brown and Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Fleming.
 R. T. Young. who was recently report ed in the casualty list as being seri- cusly wounded. is on his way home. the degree of his wounds as vet uu- known. The news is contained in let ter to his mother, Mrs. E. w. Young. who lives at vlnesvile, and was written from Ellis Island. Young is popular in Bessemer and before entering the army he was a clerk in the commissary of the T. C. l. company at Feeders. pr. Lloyd Noland, who, has been in Mobile at the bedside of Dr. T. l. Con we'll. has returned to Bessemer, Dr. Con- wells condition having improved SUI ficiently for him to leave.
 Corp. Benjamin B. Morton has returned to camp after a visit to his mother, Mrs S. F. Morton.
 Andrew C. Mitchell is confined to his home with an attack of influenza Mrs. Andrew c. Mitchell returned Fri. day from a visit to Mrs. B. s. Powell Of Lowndesboro.
 Private Joe McPherson. who is attend. l ing the Alabama Polytechnic institute al ! Auburn, is the guest of his parents, Mir | and Mrs ]. r. McPherson, lOsl FlItr avenue.
 l from an attack of influenza.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
SANITY OF CHAPIN
 TO BE INVESTIGATED

Washington. October 1s.-George w. Wickersham. former attorney general of the United States Lamar Hardy, former corporation counsel of New York. and Dr. Smith F. Jelliffee today were ap- pointed a commission to examine into the mental state of Charles E. Chapin. former city editor of the New York Eve ming World. who killed his wife in their apartments here last month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

Bessemer october S.-(Special. )-Besse- mer is within s150,OoO of having raised her quota of s2.0o0,OcO for the Fourth Liberty Loan Friday afternoon, and with all committees working, including the dip lomatic corps" and all reporting good results, it is thought that the amount Will be subscribed by Saturday night
 The committees are very enthusiastic over their cleanup campaign that is being put on at the close of the drive and a sweeping. canvass is being made Friday and Saturday. One feature of Fridays report was the apportionment of the T. C. l. companys subscription for the womans committee of S200.0Oo
 The managers of the drive are so con- fident of the ultimate success that a cablegram has been prepared and will be sent to Capt Lacey Edmundson of Company D, 167th infantry. as in pre- vious drives, and reads as follows; "Bes- semer's S2,000000 of Liberty Bonds sub scribed and still going strong. Get the Kaiser his six sons; bring them and Company D home, and we will have an all-day hanging and dinner on the ground.
 Vice President and General Manager R. F. Bohanan of the National Steel Products company is in Bessemer Fri day looking after the construction of the buildings of the new industry that are being pushed rapidly. The office building has been completed and fix lures are being placed so that by the first of next week the office will be ready for occupancy. The construction work is being pushed as rapidly as the scarcity Of labor and the transportation of heavy machinery will admit, and it is estimated by President w. J. Long that within a few months the company will be turning out large amount of finished products for ,the market.
 The many friends Of the Rev. George Stnues who snent four wears in Besse-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
Appointment Expected Soon

Montgomery october 1S.-(SpeciaiJ Appointment of a probate judge of Bull lock county to succeed Judge John T. Norman, deceased, is expected to be made Saturday by Governor Henderson. Judge Norman died the first of the week of Spanish influenza, following the death of several prominent citizens, among them being the nominee of the demo- cratic party for sheriff of the county No names have been mentioned in con- nection with the probate judseship.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
ST. LOUIS DISTRICT OVER

Washington, October 1S.-The St. Louis federal reserve district is the first district to oversubscribe it's quota for the fourth Liberty Loan.
 Tihe treasury late today officially recognized it's clai moi $sS1, 200 sub scripton2 more than it's allotment of s260. 100000.
 The St. Louis district also was the first to go over in the third loan,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
General Rives Wants
 All Supplies Turned
 In by $ P. M. Today

Gen. John R. T. Rives of the railroad division of the fourth Liberty Loan campaign requests every member of his division to turn in all receipts and supplies by 6 o'5clock tonight to head quarters.
 This is very important" states Gen. leral Rives and. hope every solicitor will comply with the request promptly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
!. SLOSS- SHEFFIELD EMPLOYEES

Employes of the Sioss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company have subscribed for s141 300 of bonds, of which sum s1l0.S00 were subscribed through the company In remitting the 10 per cent for these Treasurer Russell Hunt wrote the fol- lowin letter to\ Chairman Brown
 Birmingham, Ala. october IS. l9iS MT. Murray Brown, General Chair man. City.
 Dear Sir: Hereto attached please find our check for $11,osO, being 10 per cent of subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty Loan or s110,S00 taken by our employees as shown. All of these subscriptions should go to the credit of MT. Bonny- mans committee, with the exception of Sloss mines, which is in the Bessemer di, ision, and North Birmingham, which should go to the Belgian army. Please see that the committees are credited ac- cordingly
 "Counting the amounts turned over tp Mr Bissell the employees Of this com pany in Jefferson co oInts have taken SiA,S(4 of the bonds. Yours truly.
 "RCSsELL Fl NIT,
 Secretary anu Treasurer This is expected to be banner day in Birmingham and Jefferson county. Not withstanding the quota has been secured. Chairman Brown, Field Marshal Rush. ton. the generals. soldiers and commit tees who have worked so hard and faithfully to put the city and the county over will not quit until the last minute of the allotted time for taking subsC'' D. lions They want to make the Lrest possible showing for the city ana -the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
NEWS OF ENSLEY

Ensley is struggling to finish today her quota of s2,ooo.OO0 which is the all lotment of this district in the fourth Liberty Loan campaign Last night the indicator on the Bank of Ensley point ed to s1,755,100, leaving S244,900 to be raised today, Many have doubled their subscriptions. Men bought bonds from the value of $50 to s25,000. among them being c. R. Walker. A. G. Long, II. G. Sanders, Dupuy X Burke, R. F. Chad wick. Goldstein X Cohen, Hood & Me Emerson, G. B. Mccormack. and the va rious industrial plants. General Meade said that he wished the people to know that $50 bond doublpl is solicited as much as the larger bonds.
 The employees of the Semet -Solvav plant, through the employees committee of the industrial army yesterday sub scribed $39, ,l5O and the employees of the Steel City Chemical company $10,500. The employees of the Barrett Manufac- turing company subscribed through
 Mrs H. $. Mearns, chairman of the woman's committee of Fairfield. S14,- 800.
 The various committees are confident that Ensley will go lover the top" to- day as it has done in every war cam paign.
 
 The staff of doctors and nurses of the steel plant emergency hospital will move into their new building on Ave nue B and Nineteenth street today. This new hospital is much larger than the old one and is more pleasantly situ-
 ated, as it is further away from the noise on the numerous railroad tracks near which the old hospital is located. The new building is thoroughly |. t. ,Ia fixtures and all conveniences necessary for the best attention for patients, hav- ing emergency rooms for both white land colored patients as well as scien- tifcally constructed operating rooms. This. new hospital is one of many
 emergency stations at the various
 plants of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
 Railroad company which will furnish
 first aid to the sick and wounded men
 in the employ of this company. the
 patients later being carried to the base hospital, where they will be cared for
 until the handsome new hospital be- ing built on Flint Ridge, overlookin Fairfield, is completed The families oi the employees will also have access to the base hospital
 The remains of Ensign Donald D Ansley who died while attending an officers training camp in New York city
 Wednesday, are being, carried to Lake
 land, Fla, where interment will take place Sunday morning.
 The local undertaken yesterday re-
 ported only one victim of influenza
 from tn eEnsley district. This is the first time this week that the death re- port has been so small The victim was
 Mr. Hawkins, who lived at Avenue
 and Twenty first street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
NEW ORLEANS TO SUCCEED

New Orleans, October B.-Assurances
 that New Orleans would exceed it's quota of s2s 800, 900 was given by the war finance brigade here tonight, when it was an- nounced that Liberty Loan subscriptions today totaled s27.S52,550. New Orleans
 quota for the fourth loan was double that of the third.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
ATLANTA QUOTA REACHED

Atlanta, October 18.-Atlanta oversub- scribed it's Liberty Loan quota of $l4,- 204, ,15O at rally here tonight. The city was s3,0OO.O0o behind by the middle of the week and had raised all except s6o0,- coo before the meeting tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
PERSONAL

l.. E. Greenwald. photographer on the San Francisco Bulletin, passed throush Birmingham yesterday en route to
 Miami where he is to take up the Wo'h
 of marine aviation photography.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
INTERNED GERMANS BUY

Aver Mass, October 1S.-One hundred German sailors informed at Camp De- vens for the duration of the war sub scribed $500 to the fourth Liberty Loan today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
OF SZECHS DECLARED BY
 NATIONAL COUNCIL
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which they had pledged themselves to uphold, and we, therefore, refuse longer to remain a part of Austria Hungary in any form.
 We claim the right f~Bohemia to be reunited with her Slovak brethren of Slo- vakia, once part of our national state, fifty years ago incorporated in the Hun- garian state of the Magyars. who, by their unspeakable violence and ruthless oppression of their subject races, have lost all moral and human right to rule anybody but themselves.
 fThe world knows the history of our struggle against the Hapsburg oppres- sion, intensified and systematized by the Austro- Hungarian dualistic compromise of 1S67. The dualism is only shame less organization of brute force and eX- ploitation of the majority and the ml- nority; it is a political conspiracy or the Germans and Magyars against our own as well as the other Slav and the Latin nations of the monarchy. The world knows the justice of our claims, which the Hapsburgs themselves dared not deny Francis Joseph, in the most solemn manner, repeatedly recognized the sovereign rights of our nation. The Ger mans and Magyars opposed this recognl- ton, and Austria Hungary. lowing pe- fore the pan-Germans, became colony of~ Germany. and as her vanguard to the east, provoked the last Balkan conflict, as well as the present world war, which was begun by1the Hapsburgs alone with out the consent of the representatives of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
BIG SUIT FILED

racy mankind will be organized The forces of darkness have served the vic tory of light-the longed for age of hu- l manity is dawnng.
 .sNye believe Tn democracy-we believe in liberty--and liberty evermore. "Given in Paris, on the eighteenth of October, 1918.
 Prof Thomas G. MasaryK, prime min- ister and mliiister of finance. Gen. Ir. Milan R. Stefanik minis.
 ter ,f naticnal defense. .'Lr. Edward Benes, minister of for gn affairs and of interior"
 AUSTRIAN POLES TO JOIN
 The Poles of Austria are as determined to join their fellow countrymen in es tablishing an independent government o
 Poland as the Czecho-Slovaks are ot becoming entirely free. The Jugo-slav. do not want autonomy under Hapsburg ! and Rumania is crying out to the worlc for reunion not restoration" of Ru mania This would leave German-Aus 1 tria and Magyar-Hungary. with the lat. lter apparently in the saddle, to c0nsti tate the empire.
 The situation of Rumania with regard Ito Pennsylvania and Bukowina is ons that is attracting the attention of states men of the entente in consideration O the impending dissolution of the s~us trian empire.
 Ninety per cent or more of the people of Transylvania are Rumanian by de scent and sympathy. They were once [ part of Rumana and have been op pressed by the Hungarians for genera tions.
 They are not allowed representative vote on any question and the Rumaniar schools Tn the district have been abo ished by the Magyars in an effort t, crush any national feeling Capt Vasile Stoica, president of tn, Rumanian National Council of America said today one word of encouragement to the Rumanian people from the United states would align the nation in the wal again against the central powers. Th, country Is looking to America for tn, restoration of Pennsylvania to the moth CT country upon the principle enunciatet by President Wilson of the self-deter imitation of peoples
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
Birmingham Man Wounded

Ottawa. October 1S.-The Canadian cas- ualty list today contained the name of e. Hanbury, Birmingham, Ala, as wounded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

Chemical war service, gas defense di. vision, now stationed in chemical labor atory at Springfield, Mass. He reported to Bessemer last Tuesday to aid in the Liberty Loan campaign and when it had to be called off because of influenza epidemic he helped in the work in some of the rural districts. He is grad uate of the Bessemer High school and Howard college and spent one year as instructor in chemistry at Howard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
5000 NEW CASES OF INFLUENZA IN
 STATE REPORTED
Jefferson County Leads in New Cases, Reporting 99O, With Franklin Second,
 Reporting 800

Montgomery, October 1S.-(Special) More than 5000 new cases of Spanish influenza were reported to the state health department Friday up to 4 o'clock
 In the list of counties reporting, Jeff ferson led with 990 new cases Frank lin county, adjacent to the nitrate plant zone reported 254 new cases bringing the total to approximately 800. A call for assistance from this county is eX- pected in a short time.
 Deaths are occurring in Franklin county, several prominent persons hav- ing died the past few days. The cases there are believed to have come in from Sheffield and the nitrate plant zone. The counties reporting Friday and the number of cases follows
 Butler, 24 Calhoun, 10S; Chiffon, 59; Crenshaw, 16; Etowah. 19s, Franklin, 254; Jefferson, 990 Montgomery, 61; Pickens, 36; Randolph, II; St. Clair, for the past three days, 630; Sumter, for | three days, 300; Tuscaloosa, 63; Tal- 'ladega, 115.
 The list reported from Tuscaloosa county does not contain those that de- veloped Thursday afternoon at the pris- on turpentine camp of the Henderson Land and Lumber company. Forty of the 80 convicts at this place have the disease and efforts are being made to prevent it's spread
 1 Four of the 2 prison camps and the Ipenitentiary have reported Spanish in- fluenza cases At the penitentiary at ! Wetumpka the situation is under con- i trol and good reports come from the other places.
 | Doctors throughout the state are re- spending to the call of the state health department for 100 volunteers for serv- l ice at various towns and cities in the state. The call was made Thursday. Dr. w. R Weedan of EufauIa has been ordered to report immediately for emergency service at Nadawah Mon roe county. where call for help was lissued Friday morning. Two physicians from Birmingham have been sent to iGuntersville, where the malady has got beyond the local health authorities.
 |. Spanish influenza resulted in the calling off of the meeting of the execu- tive committee of the Alabama Educa : tional association. which was to have been held at Birmingham Friday The meeting was postponed indefinitely I Much important business was to come | up at the next meeting of the Alabama Educational association.
 BIG SUIT FILED 1 Suit for sl5,O0O against the Mont gomery Light and Traction company was entered in the Montgomery circuit court Frity by Dry J. C. Anderson Montgomery physician. Dr. Anderson claims a street car of the defendant company knocked him down and the
 result was he suffered a broken leg and other injuries. In the same court Will I liam l.. Norris sued the Louisville land Nashville railroad for $yl ,000 al- lleging personal injuries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19
DEFY AUSTRIAN RULE

l "We cannot and will not continue to ] live under the direct or indirect rule or ! the violators of Belgium. France and Serbia the would-be murderers of Rus sia and Rumania, the murderers Of tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers
 of our blood and the accomplice in mum berless unspeakable crimes committed ih this war against humanity by the two de- generate and irresponsible dynasties. we will not remain q part of state Whicn has no justification for existence, ana which, refusing to accept the fundamental principles of modern world organization, remains only an artificial and immoral political structure, hindering every move ment toward democratic and social prog ress The Hapsburg dynasty. weighed down by a huge inheritance Of error and crime, ,1i is perpetual menace to the peace of tie world, and we deem 1t our dnty to aid humanity and civilization to | aid in bringing about it's downfall ana destruction.
 We reject the sacriligious assertion 1 that the power of the Hapsburg and Ho- henzollern dN nasties is of divine origin; We refuse to recognize the divine rights of kings Our nation elected the Haps- | burgs to the throne of Bohemia of it's own free will and by the same right deposes them. We hereby declare the | .Iapsburg dynasty unworthy of leading l our nation and deny all of their claims | to rule in the Czecho-Slovak land which 1 we here and now declare shall hence-
 l forth be a free and independent people
 and nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

The local undertaken yesterday re- ported only one victim of influenza from tn eEnsley district. This is the first time this week that the death re- port has been so small, The victim was Mr. Hawkins who lived at Avenue c and Twenty first street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-19

The remains of Ensign Donald D. Ansley, who died while attending an officers training camp in New York city Wednesday. are being carried to Lake land, Fla, where interment will take place Sunday morning.