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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Million and a Half
 Unskilled Men Needed

Montgomery, September 4-tSpeclal9 The United States must be comoed Tor approximately 100000 unskilled la borers.
 This information Is contained in a letter received by the state council of defense from N. A. Smyth. assistant director of the United States employ ment service at Washington. The service now is seeking to draw these laborers from nonessential industries, and strenuous methods must come soon if employers do not agree to release the men.
 War industries must have the men they need at any cost, even though nonessential industries have to close says the letter. Lives of soldiers in France are being placed in danger ey- cry day because of the serious short age of 1aborers for war emergency in dustrials, and, as the letter points out, if public opinion does not require non- essential industries to release the men the government will be faced with the duty of closing the nonessentials. The state council of defense and the employment service have asked banks to grant no loans to individuals or corporations who desire to construct nonessential industries. thus taking away 1aborers who are needed in es- sential plants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

T begged them to let me stay, but they said 1t wasn't possible, and they said if I'd come back. and stay at the hospital awhile. and maybe have an operation, I'd be able to come back soon, and get into the fight. I'm going to have the operation, all right, 1 guess. and maybe I'll be able to go back and kill few Bochcs before the things over.''
 Bennie says he's coming over to Sir mingham soon-just as soon as he can get a furiough. In the meantime he says just tell those Birmingham people that lie heard great tales of the dolngs of the Alabama troops while ne was
 in the hospital inaFrance;
 They were telling funny thing over there in one of the hospitals about some of the Alabama boys" lie said They'd been waiting and waiting for orders to go over the top, and no or ders came The old Alabama spirit rig up, and they began to get rest less. Then ono night they slipped over -crders or no orders-and came back with bunch of Eoches. Maybe II wasn't the right thing to do. but. any way, those French people thought il was n mighty strange way to do and you couldn't help but notice it-they couldn't understand the bravery that prompted such action, nor the daring Bennie was with the 122d infantry in Macon, but was attached to the 1Gztt wi hen he arrived iE France His peopla live in Kellytown. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
ALL RECRUITING
 DEPOTS ID CLOSE

Washington. September 4,--Volun- teer enlistments for the army except as authorized by acts of Congress in certain cases have been ordered dis- continued by General Mrach, chief 2f staff and all recruiting stations Will be closed as speedily as practicabte
 The enlisted men serving at such sta
 lions will be sent to the nearest re- cruit depot to be physically examined
 and their records made out With
 view to their assignment to "appro-
 priate duty"
 General March's order announced to-
 day Supplements that issued sometime
 ago prohibiting the voluntary enlist
 ment of men between the new draft ages of IS and 45 years until after the man power act passed by Con- gress. The order is taken to mean that all men hereafter accepted for active military service will be drawn through the draft machinery.
 The only original voluntary enlist ments hereafter authorized, the war department announced today. will be oi men over 46 years of age and under 5s years. and their enlistment is au- thorzed only for staff corps and de partments.
 The six recruit depots now in opera. tion at Fort Sloeum, N. Y.; Columbus Barracks, Ohio; Fort Thomas, Ky Jefferson Barracks, Mo-; Fort Logan 1 Col. and Fort Mcdowell. Cal. are te | be utilized during the continuance oi l the war as mobilization places for selected service men, whence these men will be distributed to organiza- tions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Introduction Amendments
 to the Agricultural Bill N Causes More Delay
HOUSE WILL ACCEPT bENATE PLAN, BELIEF
fubstantial Majority in House Is
 Claimed by Prohibitionists, Who Also Say President Wilson Will Not Object to Legislation

Washington, September f
 Final action on the bill proyid-
 ng for national prohibition
 after July 1 next and continu-
 ing until the Rehabilitation of American troops has been com
 pleted after the war, failed hgain today in the Senate. ow- ing to the introduction of amendments to the $12.000,G 0,G0C emergency agricultural aprro- |priation bill, to which the pro- |hibition amendment IS at |tached.
 l Senator Jones of Washington, a prohi- |bition leader, predicted curing debate |that the House would accept the Senate prohibition plan, thus precluding the pos |sibiity of changes being made in con Terence substantial majority in the |House is claimed by prohibition leaders |who also say President Wilson will not |object to the legislation. An amendment providing for the purchase by the gov |ernment of all distilled spirits held in bond on July 1 at a price 10 be fixed |by committee appointed by the Presi- dent was introduced today by Senator Bankhead of Alabama. Under it's pro- visions the committee would fix the value of such spirits and report to Congress the Secretary of the Treasury lf Congress held the valuation to be fair the government would pay the own CTS for such liquors in cash or govern ment bonds. The amendment was not taken up.
 An amendment by Senator Walsh oi Montana appropriating $20,000,000 to bs loaned to farmers in drouth-stricken dis tricts for the price of seed was re jected, but another by Senator Jones oi New Mexico, authofizing the war finance corporation to make loans to banks in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
TROY


 Troy, September 4.-( -(speciall-A full scholarship to the Stonewan Jackson col
 lege at Abingdon, Va, has been award
 ed Miss Elleta Hydrick of Troy. The scholarship, which is valued at several
 hundred dollars, was given by the Ma
 tional limited Daughters of the Con-
 federaey, and the announcement has
 just been made through Mrs. L. NJ
 Bashinsky, who is chairman of the edu-
 cationai committee. Miss Hydrick grad uated at the Troy High school in May,
 and in the spring was the winner of the
 Lizzie Crenshaw memorial prize for d
 historical essay, the prize being a hand some gold wrist watch. This scholar ship is contested for by all the states in
 the National United Daughters of the
 Confederacy, and Miss HydriclSs winning it over so many is d distinct compliment to her and to the Troy High school Dr. Wilson. a government veterinarian, who has been stationed at Montgomery, will come to Troy with his family to re- side. They will occupy the residence of | Mrs. J. B. Wilson on Montgomery street, as MT. and Mrs. Wilson are moving to their farm few miles from town. pr. Wilson worSs i'll conjunction with the demonstration agents and answers gov- ernment calls in different parts of the state.
 The boys working reserve movement was organized Monday night at the courthouse at a meeting of the Pike council of defense. The officers are: Director, Mrs. J. M. Sanders, county su- perintendent of education; assistants. County Demonstration Agent J. L. Flaw ley. Superintendent of City Schools J. R.
 Mcclure. MT, N. r. Greenhill chairman, Judge J. G. Key: members, w. c. Chan cey, w. c. Gilmore, J. T. Brantley, Vie tor Ballard, J. E. Rose, w. F. Huey, D. A. Cowaft. T. l.. Murphree
 The boys will be asked to enroll the first week of school in Troy and Brun- didge. but as the other county schools do not open until October the boys of those schools will be asked to enroll | on September IA. The plan for. Pike 1 county is to assign the boys to work on l the farms only, as the farmers need inn I mediate help in picking cotton, gath 1 ering peanuts, etc. The boys will be ap- l healed to on the basis of patriotism, but i fair wage will be paid for their la I Dor.
 l Several negroes who failed to respond I to the call to be sent to Camp Funston, according to orders of the local board.
 have now been classed as deserters and will be apprehended as speedily as pos 1 sible The negroes are: Morgan smart, l John P Stringer Woodlow Lawson, liar vel Powell sam Alloway, Manuel l Rrowder, David Craze, Gilbert Biackma'i,
 ]. H. Wilson, General Johnson, Willie 1 Brown James Brooks. Thomas Parker and Michael Smith.
 1 The council of defense in it's regular 1 weekly session Monday night unanimous l ly adopted resolutions thanking Pike } county automobile owners in abstaining ! from using their cars on Sunday, Tn ac- cordance with the request of the national
 fuel administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
WORLD RECORD IS
 SMASHED BY SHIPS
 BUILT IN AUGUST
66 Vessels, Aggregating 34O,145 Deadweight Tons, Delivered by US. Yards
 During Last Month

Washington. September 4.-Delivery cf merchant slAps by American shipyards in August exceeded all previous records for this country. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board was advised today by Charles N. schwab, director general of the emergency fleet corporation. Sixty six ships, sggregating slo145 deadweight tons, were turned out.
 Forty four of the ships of an aggregate deadweisht tonnage of 26e.s45, were steel and the remaining 2 were wood or com posite.
 August production of American yards was q world record. shipping board off cia1s said, the previous monthly record of 295, deadweight tons having been made .y British yards last June
 Compieton of the 66 ships, it was said, will permit the return to the coastwise and So1sh American trades of some fast vessels that recently were transferred to transatlantic service to meet war con ditions.
 August deliveries put the total tonna ge built for ihe shipping board beyond the 2.ooo 600 mark. The first million tons was delivered n May, and the total production to September 1 was 2.0l9, 4s9 deadweisht tons.
 Increased deliveries by American yards added to these of the allied countries places Ilev construction we'll ahead Ci destruction by submarines. For the frs, six months of this year the sinklngs allied an'l neutral, totaled 2,0S9, ,393 gross tons, while production was 2,1iS,u gross tons.
 Because oI it's effect on the genera shipping situation the British drive is Flanders ,a being followed with particular interest by shipping board officials. Val uable French coal fields are being wrest ed from the Germans, and it was said today that if these can be worked muoil of the toraage now engaged in carrying coal from Wales to France can be di rected to ether purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Cotton Condition Lowest
 in Past Twenty Years

Auburn, September 4-(Special )-The condition of cotton reported by the bu- reau for the United States is the lowest in the past 20 years.MIt forecasts a crop Of Il 037, coo bales, which would be the smalles. crop since 1909. when the acre age was more than 6,90o,000 less than that planted this year. The prospect of pro duction has been lowered by more than 2,500.00o bales during the month of Au- gust, as represented by a falling off in condition of about IS points in that time. s The condition of the Alabama crop on August p was found to be 66, compared with 7S on July 25. 1918, 65 on Septem- Der l. 1917, and a l0-year average of 70. The present condition forecasts an acre yield of about 150 pounds of lint This yield on the acreage of 2,622.o00 estimated as planted this season would produce a crop of about S22,000 bales. The future of the present season and crop remains 10 be seen.
 The loss of 12 points in condition frof,, one month ago in this state has been distributed over the entire state though the north third of the state has suffered more marked deterioration than other sections.
 Complaints of hot and dry weather. rust, boil weevil, and red spider have been received at, this office, and the in fluences named appear to be responsible 'e for the deterioration Tn about the order mentioned. Unfavorable weather pre-. vailed universally, rust was reported from practically every section boil weevil damage was mentioned from well dis tributed sections south of the 1915 weev'l line, though only few instances of se- we're damage were mentioned; red spider was reported from the entire north half of the state, though most generally in the northeastern counties. The generally unfavorable conditions have caused very rapid opening and at the same time com plete cessation of fruiting. It is thought that the average size of bolls will be quite small with consequent require ment of more bolls to the pound of cot ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Birmingham Man Is Mad
 Because He Can't Fight
By WINNIE FIREMAN

Fort McPherson, Ga, September 4.
 Special )-Bennie M. 1orton-the same
 Bennie who used to sell sugar and cof-
 fee and calico and kerosene to tho
 employees of the Sloss- Sheffield com
 pany at the commissary in Birmingham I-is back from France and the trenches
 enjoying rest beneath the green trees
 at Fort McPhcrson, and trying to get
 in shape to return to the field of ac- tion at an early date
 I found Bennis loiling on the grass
 before one of the convalescent wards
 at the, base hospital here, when l went out to have little chat with some of the 5 American heroes who have just returned wounded from the trenches. Bennie had a sad tale to tell me sadder than any of the others. perhaps. T didn't want to come back like this" he said "rd rather have come back without an arm or a leg-shell shoeked-anything to show that I'd
 been where the fighting was thickest,
 and where Americans boys proyed the stuff they're made of You see it's like this;
 Bennie never saw the fighting at all. He didn't even see the flare of battle nor the front line trenches nor-'not even m air raiu, ne uoIeIHiiy dHuCus "And I didn't get to shoot single Boche."
 Friends Of Bennie Horton back in Birmingham probably can't imagine him coping over anything. But that's what he did He shed real tears, wet tears salt tears, when they told him he'd have to come back home without getting his share of tho fighting. Don't guess you'd believe it to look at me- he said, and certainly he doesn't t lo1n like the blubbering kind, but I cried when they told me I had to come back T just couldn't help it I'd heen ip training down at Macon for.a year; I'd been to the border andAthcn l thought my chance had come to do some mething-somethins worth while, We left Macon in June, crossed without any trouble of any kind, spent three nights in England, and then were l sent to France. We didn't tArry long --not very-and the first thing we knew we'd been loaded into box cars not the kind of box cars we have. much | snaller-aGd were headed for the i trenches We were in there SC thick We couldn't sit down, much less lie down, and we stayed two days and l two nights Gee, but it was lots of l fun,'
 I And that's where the sad part of Bennie's stcry began. They hadn been very long out--were in q village not l far from Paris--vhen his hip went bad on li,n and-hack to the hospital for hin
 T just can't tell you how l felt when l they said l had to go back, he said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
I7-Cent Car Fare Stopped by
 Public Service Commission

Montgomery, September 4-Hoiding
 that it had Jurisdiction over regulat-
 ing street car fares in all municipalities of Alabama, the state pubic serVlce Icommission, in session today, set asiae the 7-cent car fares granted the Mont ,, qomery Traction company yesterday by hhe city commission. The tracton com pany. already engaged in collecting the increased fares, when notified that each constituted an illegal act. speedily dts continued the practice, The company had appealed to the commission for a 10 cent fare on it's lines extending pe- yond the corporate limits, which will De considered with the local fares Thurs day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
APARTMENT HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE

Several persons had a marrow escap pc from death by suefocation in fire that occurred about midnight last night at the Fair,nont apartment building, on the corner of Highland avenue and Twenty first street
 The fire was discover cd on the thrd floor of the building. in the apartment occuried by ]. H Fettle, and was of 9 smoldering variety filling the building, with dense smoke. The fire depart ments at Five Points, end close in sta ticns responded to tEe alarm and sue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

Washington, September 4. (Spccial.(-The veEom-tongued Senator sherman of Illinois and the embiftered Representative Ro- denberg of the same state, who have enveighed. for political req sons, against the administrator of President Wilson, will he answered by an Aiabamian.
 Representative Hef1in has tnken the job unto himself.
 ssThe speeches of these men," said Mr. Hefiin today. '.surpass in point of audacity anything else in the history of the government Here nre two men who, in hope of uphoiding democratic majority, would assaiI the commander m chief of theS American army anu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Seven Persons Dead
 From Boiler Explosion

Memphis. September 4.-Seven persons are dead and one is in critical condi- tion tonight as the result of the boiler explosion Tuesday night aboard derrick boat No of the Patton-Tully Transpor- tation company at Fox Island, 45 miles down the Mississippi river. Joseph Har- Ian, eng'neer of Memphis. and two ne- gro members of the crew died in hospitals here today. Mrs. Harlan, who served as cook aboard the boat, though frightfully scalded in the explosion, walked and crawled seven miles to the nearest log ging camp for aid. Physicians say her recovery is doubtful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
2800 Draft Evaders Are
 Inducted Into Army

New York, September 4,-Approximately 2Soo draft evaders have been inducted into the army or held for punishment by the courts as the result of the arrest of more than 5oooo young men in the first two days of the governments stacker hunt in New York and nearby cities. ac
 cordng to an estimate tonight by Charles r. Dewoody, chief local bureau of in vestigation of the department of justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
15O,OOO BARRELS
 GASOLINE SAVED
Suspension of Pleasure Rid ing on Sunday Results in
 Conserving Much Gas

pleasure riding in gasoline driven ve- hicles last Sunday in response to the re- quest of the fuel administration resulted in the saving of between 100000 and 15o,- 900 barrels of gasoline, according to fig- ures made public here tonight by X. c. Bedford, chairman of the national petrol- cum war service commission. A census of traffic showed the following percent age of reduction xn southern states:
 Kentucky, 90; West Virginia, Louisiana and Tennessee. S7; Florida, s4, Alabama, s1 Georgia so, Mississippi, IT. North Caro- lima, 6s; South Carolina, 66, and Vir- ginia 6S,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Wilcox Has a Small
 Lead in Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wis September 4.--With the vote of five counties in yesterdays E state primaries still missing late to- night, Roy H. Wilcox was leading Gov. E. l. Phillipp for the republican nomi- nation for governor by. 500 votes. Man agers of both claimed victory on the final county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Hefzin to Reply to Attack
 Of Sherman and Rodenberg
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

'
 navy, and thereby cause rejoie- ing in Berlin. They hail from the state of Lincoln. They should be scourged by an indignant peo- pie"
 Mir. Rodenberg attacked the President for participating in the campaigns of Representative Hud- dleston, Senator Nardsman and Senator Hardwick. He was very personal and very bitter. Senator sherman charged that President Wilson was President only when Samuel Gompers. w. G. McAdoo, Colonel House or Postmaster Gen. craI BurIeson modestfy put nside the crown.
 "They are pie hungrNS said MT. HefliD, s'and to gratify their appc- tites would stop mt nothing"
 The reply of Mir. HefiiB will probably be delivered Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

An amendment by Senator Gore os
 Oklahoma, chairman of the Senate agri- culture committee, presented at the re- quest of the Secretary of Agriculture and permitting that department to use for
 other purposes parts of appropriations not needed for the immediate purposes for which they were designed was de- feated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
CANADA OBSERVES REQUEST

Toronto, September 4.-Gasoline filling stations throughout Canada, owned by the Imperial Oil company Qimited), the largest oil company in the dominion will be closed hereafter on Sunday.
 companv officials said that inasmuch as they purchased gasoline in the onis- ed States, they felt they should give the fuel administration every assistance in it's efforts to save gasoline for war pur- noses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

LoST-Pearl necklace Wednesday night on gosh street. Finder return to A. Delpcg. care American Trust and Savings Bank, and get reward. W WANTED--A furnished room in the neienboraocd of the Kennedy School. Principal Kennedy School, BON 22, Moodlawn station.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
FOOD PRICE RISES
 3PER CENT IN JULY

Washington, September 4,-Retail prices of food in July showed an av- craze increase of per cent over prices in June, the department of labor an nounced today in making pubic re- suits of an investigation by it's bureau of statistics. Retail prices in July averaged Is per cent higher than in July last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

ceeded in confining the fire to tho third floor. Several persons occupying the lower floors were awakened by the water coming through the ceiling, and in more than one instance were in dan ger of suffocation from the snicke but all made good their escape
 The damages could not be estimated last night, but it is understood will be considerable from smoke and water. The building is of the fifenroof variety and is owred by Mrs. R. F. Anderson,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
CORE AMENDMENT FAILS

such districts so financial assistance can
 be given farmers, was accepted
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09

NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-Putting
his wife In prison for six or eight
weeks, until her baby birds are de.
velopod. ls the habit OF the African
hornblll. 80 called because of it's
large. horny bill.
The American Museum OF Natural
History has put on exhibition
group Of these creatures, to Illus
tratc this remarkable nesting habit.
When the female hornbill is ready
to lay her eggs. she and her mate
select cavity in the trunk or large
limb Of "A tree. 60 to 100 feet above
ground. the nest being either IN tho
main stem or on the lower side of
branch away from neighboring
boughE or vines. which makes II diff
flcult Of access 10 enemies. Into this
retreat the female enters.
The male then proceeds to wall up
the entrance with mud, assisted by
the female from the inside, They
leave only n narrow slit. thru which
tho tip Of the females bill may be
thrust to receive the food passed in
by the male.
In feeding his family. the male
hornbill clings TO the tree much ms