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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
Clerk to Exemption Board in Mississippi Dismissed
 on Disloyalty Charge

Jackson. Miss, January 25.-orders were issued from the adjutant gen. erals office today for the summary removal of R. B. Porter of Tupelc, chief clerk of the north Mississippi district exemption board. for disloy- atty and unjust and unfounded critl- cisms against the government. Com- plaints against Porter were filed with the provost marshal general by Con gressman F. S. Candler several days age based on letters received from Tupelo citizens and General Crowder in turn ordered the adjutant generals office to make an investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
Permits Newspaper Men to
 Read Letter, But Does Not Allow Publication
JASPER MAN ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY
Opinion Is It Is Million to 0nee Chance That There Will Be No Special Session of the
 Legislature
Nv FRED H. GoRMLEY

Montgomery, January 29.-(Special) Governor Henderson took under consid- eration Friday the oner of L. B. Mus grove of Jasper to guarantee the pay ment of all costs of an extra session of the legislature for the purpose of ratlfy- ing or rejecting the national prohibition amendment He admitted that he had read the letter, but late Friday afternoon would not say whether or not he had an swered 1t or whether or not he had made O deciSoO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
DAMAGE SUITS

The following damage suits were filed in the circuit court yesterday:
 $3000-John May vs. the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company, for alleged personal injuries received on April 27.
 ,O00--George A. Gomperts vs the Birmingham Railway. Light and Pow CT company, for alleged personal in- juries received on December 16
 $2000-Matilda Westfield vs. the Bir- mingham -Edgewood Railway company, for alleged assault and battery on No- vember 6.
 $25,0o0-Joe Baker vs. the Ingalls Iron Works company. for alleged per. sona1 injuries received on August 1S
 $1e00--H. Admas Rubin vs NJ. Jaffe, for alleged breach of contract on Jam uary IS.
 $20G0--Iollis Austin vs. the Bell Rodgers Produces company. for alleged personal injuries received on Janu- ary 14.
 s2000-Anne Jennings vs the Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad company for alleged personal Injuries received on January 21.
 $5000-Nettie Hightower and Arthur Hightower. as administrators of the estate of Luther Hightower, deceased vs the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company. for alleged per- sonal injuries to plaintiffs intestate, which resulted in death on May 2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
THE BIRMINGHAM AGEHERA1D SATURDAY. JANUARY 26 1918 "

8 way to put money into the treasury so as to bear the expense of the special session. The governor laughed. Well, some one must certify it into the treas ury," he replied. but I am sure some one could be found who would be will ing to certify it in. It might be certified through my office"
 The governor did not say whether or not he desires the extra session or whether or not one would be held, but betting man would stake a million that the present legislature will not have the opportunity of speaking for the voters on this issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
Serious I. w. w. Outbreak in
 Minnesota Lumber Camp Is Becoming Very Threatening

Virginia. Minn., January 25.-A squad of deputy sheriffs departed for the north woods tonight to cooperate with a detachment of the Fourth Minnesota regiment in preventing threatened outbreak among timber workers.
 There are rumblings of recent dis orders, and disturbances of I. w. w. in camps, according to the officials. The unrest Is most pronounced among the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26

greatly mutilate calibres of ordnance in use. Lloyd George. said Represen- tatiwe Mccormick, twas very insist ent. regarding General Leonard Wood
 Regarding opinion of officers of General Pershing's staff regarding General Sharpe, Representative Mc- Cormick said:
 Y would rather not mention any names, but the most Americans said:
 eff Sharpe and Crozier do not go we do not know what may happen. When General Riddle was recently appointed (assistant chief of staff) American officers were all broken up about it."
 Representative Mccormick asserted positively that France could supply the ordnance needed for the Ameri- can forces. The French chief of staff told him the German line could be broken with enough artillery. The Germans, he said. cannot break the allied line if the French morale holds
 SACRIFICE NECESSARY
 Quartermaster General sharpe's con fidential statement included approval of plans to call into service several hundred thousand more men than had been originally planned and also for hastening transportation of an Amer ican force abroad, although he knew and notified Secretary Baker that clothing shortage would result.
 q think it is to our advantage. General Sharpe said. "to put as many men in tie field as we can possibly get there. even if they have to suffer somewhat. The greater the number the greater the effect will be on tho enemy"
 When Senator Chamberlain said the unequipment resulting was costing lives. General Sharpe replied:
 No one regrets that moreN serious ly than I do. I think, however. that the effect upon the Germans will he worth it. even though a few lives are sacrificed in the cause"
 On April 16 last a memorandum from General Sharpe to Secretary Baker stated that because of a decision to call out an extra 500.00o men after July l. it will not be practicable to properly clothe and equip this or any other number of men more than was provided for in the original plan."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
GETS GOOD RESULTS QUICKLY

This letter deserves readtng by ev- cry man or woman who values good health. It was written by Jason E. Haynes. McAlester. Okla For en- largement of the liver and clogsed up bowels. with impaired appetite. I find no medicine which acts as mildly and quickly with good results as Fo- ley's Cathartic Tablets. They empty the stomach and bowela giving all of the digestive organs healthy ac- tion. {" A physic. Sold everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
ENLISTED MEN ARE
 NOT ALLOWED ID WEAR "TR|MM|NGS'
Order Cutting Out Sporty Clothing in Dixie Divi- sion Causes Much
 Confusion

Camp Wheeler, Macon. Ga.. January 25
 issued from division headquarters has
 caused as much confusion and such a
 loss to the enlisted man as the one for
 bidding the use of %trimmings in their
 style of dress. The order issued several days ago banished silk hat cords, leather puttees, Mackinaw coats, or coats with belts or plaits.
 Many of the enlisted men, in order to make themselves look real sporty, had bought all these and the order to banish
 them came as a great blow to their vanity. But the actual loss of them as wearing apparel was not half so bad as the instructions issued to the provost that they arrest all enlisted men wear ing even a silk hat cord in the city. The order was given the provost to arrest any violating the provision of the order and arrest they did, for the first night ! more than 50 were gathered in by the provost and each night follows with a large number. Some of the men have paid as much as sS0 or $40 for the leggins and that much for their tailor made coats. Now they will have to send them home until after the war. Today one cln buy leather puttees for a song from the sol diers. while some of them are sending them home, and after coming back from lover there" start a fad of wearing them. Among those making purchases from the enlisted men are the officers who are allowed to wear just about any, thing they care to.
 Those from Birmingham and places in the hilly sections of the state will prob- ably have solace in the fact that drain- age work is to begin at once in the swamps near Macon to rid the section Of malaria The work is to be done by the government and under the supervision of Dr. C. L. Williams, local government au- thority. Boggy Branch, Duck Roost and Beach Flats are the names Of the pig swamps and lie between the Ocmuigee river and Camp Wheeler
 The government requires that the "ork be completed by summer. It is expected that the drainage will greatly reduce the big influx of mosquitoes which so wor- ried the men on their arrival al camp Wheeler in the late fall.
 Albert Mitchell, the author of the song,
 Dixie Division" and a member of the
 18th field artillery band, who IS a pa
 tient at the base hospital and who TOT
 A few days was considered seriously iil'
 is better Both the solder-muslclan
 and his songs have made many friends
 at the camp and in Macon. He has been
 called upon to sing it before nearly every
 club and organization of any conse-
 ouence in the city. About 10000 copies
 of the song have been sold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26

5000 employees of a large concern pro- ducing timber for government use, re- ports received here said.
 Guards have been sent to Cusson and attachments of troops probably will be ordered to Hibbing. Bemidji and Eveleth, Minn.. because of the num- Der of lumber jacks drifting into those towns. Reports that February 1 had been fixed as the date for a general strike of the woodsmen lacked con- 1rrnatiou
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26

  
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
British and French Begin ming to Doubt Effective
 ness of American Aid
LLOYD GEORGE WANTS WOOD SENT TO EUROPE
These Are Statments Made by Medill Mccormick on His Return From
 the Front

Washington, January 25. Some interesting disclosures re- garding American affairs at home and abroad were made today through publication of confidential testimony given recently before the Senate mill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
Drs. Dozier & Dozler Oldest Established Firm of Medical Specialists in Alabama. Twenty : five Years in Birmingham.

We treat scientifically and with wonderful success. all man. ner of chronic diseases of the Eye. Ear. Nose and Throat. Lung, Heart. Liver. Stomach. Bowels Kidneys and all diseases of the Skin and of the Pelvic Organs of Men and Women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26

In the darkness of night. amid the qucksands and rocks that beset the coasts of the world. many ship would be lost but for the guiding flare of the lights that the ingenuity of man has placed everywhere for the service of sailors For the bewildered ctzen
 battling in the deep waters of politics in these dark days of worldwide storm and stress urged hther and thther by the thousand contrary currents of shifting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-26
itary committee in executive

itary committee in executive session.
 Statements of nearly all the wit nesses were heard behind closed doors, except that of Major General Crozier, chief of ordnance, which was given in the usual printed report ot committee proceedings.
 One that created something
 of a stir among members of
 Congress was that of Repre-
 sentative Mccormick of Illinois,
 who, back from a visit to the
 allied battle fronts, told the
 committee allied officials were
 apprehensive regarding co-ordi-
 nation of American war man
 agement, that Premier Lloyd
 George earnestly sugg e t e d
 Mai. Gen. Leonard Woods ap-
 pointment as the American mil
 itary representative abroad and
 that high officers in General
 Pershing's command urged that
 Major General Crozier, chief of
 ordnance, and Quartermaster
 General Sharpe be superseded.
 SHARPE DEFENDS PLAN
 IT. the confidential testimony of General Sharpe he defended the de- cision to send General Pershing's eX- pedition to France sooner than had been provided for. He said he knew Caoretary Baker that clothing shortages would result but that even with the sacrifice or some lives as many men as possibly could be summoned for the effect on the Germans.
 some of the statements in secret session of Major Generals Creole, O'Ryan and Wright after their return from the French front also were made public. General Greb1e said that in October the allied artillery was un- question: bly superior in effect to the Germans and that General Pershing S men were well clothed and equipped All of the testimony of General Cro- zier was ordered kept confidential
 M'CORMICk'S TESTIMONY
 Representative Mccormick is shown to have told the senators that allied opinion developed some apprehen- sion over American aid and that off, ficials of both the British and French governments in October cahled to Col onel House, urging him to come over for the purpose of securing better coordination.
 CHANGE IN SENTIMENT
 Between the time when I first went to England" Representative McCor- mick's confidential statement said "and when I returned from Italy, there was a perceptible change. When l landed they hurrahed for America, the wonder worker of the world, but when I got back there was some apprehen- sion. They would saw, We wonder if there is lack of coordination in Wash ington.' We wonder if you have all the big men you might bring together in your government They were very polite, but you sensed difference .n their attitude"
 tGENERAL WOOD WANTED
 Premier Lloyd George, Representa- tive Mccormick said, expresses great anxiety Hest America should too
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
LIBERTY

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cunningham OF
Washington were recent callers on
their cousin. Mrs. B. B. Wentworth.
Manley Turner has been a recent guest
OF his sister. Mrs. Marion Knowlton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sprague were 20.
cent visitors in. Belfast.
]. ]. Walker and family were reca,t
visitors in Rockland.
Mrs. Walter Young passed the Cav
Friday in Belfast.
The regular MEETING of Arbutus Chap
Ter, No. 10. c. E. S.. was held Monday
evening. Oct. Is. with work on three
candidates.
The schools opened Oct. q, after be :
ing closed for two weeks on account Ct
few cases Of influenza.
Mr.. and Mr5. John Fuller have mov.d
70 Montville into the Mayo Hartman
mouse. Mr. Fuller will work for a Iur,.
oering company for the winter.
Rev. H. w. Abbott was called n r..
iermo last week to of1ciate at two I'm.
erals.
Ralph I. Morse Of Belfast passed Sim
DAY with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs +
c. Morse. -
SCUTH-Mrs and Mrs. Leonard
ruler. who have been in Massachu-
se'ls ior several months. are visiting
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
u. S. STEEL REDUCES
EXTRA DIVIDEND ON
COMMON SHARES

New York, Oct. 29-Directors Of
the U. S. Steel corporation at their
quarterly meeting today reduced the
Extra" dividend on the common
shares from the dollar rate effect
i've since the first quarter of 1917,
to two dollars. The regular distri-
buttons of IA percent on the COM
mon stock and l ga percent on the
preferred were voted as usual.
The reduction in the Extra" div
idend was doubtless impelled by the
further enormous appropriation of
$101, 9S7,347 for account of federal
income and war excess profits taxes,
as disclosed by the quarterly re-
port. This exceeds the appropria-
ton of the previous quarter by
slightly more than $11,000OOO. In
the three quarters of the calendar
year the steel corporation has
charged off to this item the vast sum
of 1924, 2Ss,795.
Total earnings, exclusive of the in
| come and profits taxes amounted
to 14494s.936. which is less by
about 1926, 900 than the high record
attained in the June quarter.
Analysis of the statement issued
today shows a steady decline of
earnings by months. August falling
decidedly under July and September
| showing a further decrease. Net
income for the third quarter stands
at 32,399,4S3 in June. while the sur
plus for the quarter after payment
of dividends is reduced to $3,s40, SOL,
against s19,017,375 three months ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
WEBER POND

Miss Margaret Durham passed
last week with Mrs. Fannie Foster.
Mrs. Charles Black and son Arnold
returned to their home in Someryille.
Mass, Sunday.
Deaconness Inez Webster and
mother are recovering from an attack
Of the influenza.
A letter from Corp. Vinton A. Hus-
sey, received a week ago, states they
arrived safely overseas after a COM
Portable trip and find much work to
be done.
Mrs. E. T. Clark and son Edwin of
Waterville, are passing two weeks
with her mother at Twin Oaks farm.
Miss Emma Woodward Of Gardiner
passed last week with Miss Helen
Dorr.
Mrs. W. E. Cover of Brooklyn, N.
T., and Mrs. Carlton Ware Of Alma,
were Thursday guests Of Mrs. Albert
Humes.
BENJAMIN F. Barton Of Isle-Au-
Haul, a Junior Volunteer, who abs
been employed by I. ]. Robbins, the
past season, returned to his home
MONDAY.
Miss Theresa Jackson Of Waterville
returned to her home Friday, after a
visit with Alma Robbins.
Sumner Halves of Readfield passed
last week with his grandmother, Mrs.
Lydia Newell.
Miss Helen Dow entered the Au-
gusta General hospital Monday as
student nurse
Mrs. Josph True and little daugh-
ter of Windsor are at West Lake
Farm during the absence of Mrs.
True's mother, Mrs. Ballard, who was
called to Washburn by the serious
illness of her son. Claud, with pneu-
monia.
Miss Alberta Luce visited Mrs. Alb
bic Appleton at Winslow last week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
UNITY

Charles Bartlett, who is in the U.
S. service and stationed at Camp
Devens. was a week end guest of his
parents.
Mrs. Lizzie Young has stored her
the winter with her daughter in
Springfield. Mass.
DR.. c. M. Whitney was a profess
! sional visitor in Bangor Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. knight are
quite ill with the prevailing epidemic.
Mrs. F. H. Whitehouse and Ida
Whitehouse have gone to Boston
where they intend to pass the winter.
Mrs. c. E. Murch, who has been
very ill for the past few weeks, is
| improving.
Mrs. L. J. Sanderson Of Belfast was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. L. w.
knight Sunday.
Mrs. A. D. Edgerley, John Edgerley
| and Mrs. Clair Wellington were bust
ness visitors in Belfast Thursday.
Frank Tozier, who has been quite
ill for the past few days, is a little
better.
WEST-Linwood Thompson and
Mr.. Bramhall of Belfast were recent
callers at Walter Geralds.
A. E. Pike, who has been at D. s.
Jones' for several weeks, returned
Monday to his home in Bridgeport,
Conn.
]. M. Warning and family and L.
P. Foster and family visited Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Wiley Of
Clinton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Gerald were
recent visitors in Belfast.
Mrs. c. E. Murch is still critically
i'll.
George Gerald went Saturday to
Liberty, returning on Sunday.
Percy Elwell, who was recently
called into service, is now in Fort
Williams.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30

Mrs Melville Pattershall and son
Harland, who have been guests or
Mrs. Fannie Foster have returned
to their home in Belfast.
w. E. Strong, who came TO MS
home two weeks ago suffering from
influenza, has recovered sufhcientiy
to resume his business trips to Bos-
ton.
The friends Of Claude Ballard will
be pleased to know that he Is gaming
slowly.
Notices have been posted regarding
the saving peach and prune stones
also nut shells. A box for them has
been placed at the store Of H. r. Eos.
sett, Riverside or Mr.. Fossett Will
take contributions along his route.
There is also a box at Miss Elaine
Rowe's school at Vassalboro.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
FIRST u. S. AVIATOR TO
ESCAPE FROM GERMANY
ARRIVES AT TOURS

Tours. France, Oct. 27-(Sunday,
BY the Associated Press)-Lieuten-
ant George Puryear. the first AM
erican aviator to escape from Ger
many, arrived today at Tours. where
he was received at the aviation
headquarters. Lieut.. Puryear last
July brought down a German plane
and thinking he was over French
territory followed the victim to the
ground. He was surrounded and
ordered to surrender and then dis
covered he had landed inside the
German lines.
While in Germany the lieutenant
was an inmate of several prison
camps. After escaping he passed
through a thickly populated section
of the country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
WASHINGTON

EAST-Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer of
Maiden, Mass, are at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. w. M. Prescott for a few
days.
Eden Rhodes, who has been work.
ing in South China is now working
for Arthur Turner. helping him dig a
cellar and underpin his house.
c. E. Overlook was a busiess Wis
itor in Waterville last Saturday.
Mrs. Olive Light, who has been
visiting her son Ernest, has gone to
Camden to care for her daughter,
Mrs. Isle Leonard. who is i'll with
influenza.
Donald Rhodes, the little son of
Eden Rhodes, fell Sunday from a
wagon while playing and sustained a
compound fracture of the right arm,
which was set in place by DR.. c. B.
Holt Of Liberty.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. I. Morton of East
Union were week end visitors at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
L. Morton.
Schools in town will begin Oct. %
after an enforced vacation of three
weeks, caused by the influenza cpl
demic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30

initial gift committee Of the U. w. w.
campaign, with the following indus
trial chairmen: w. r. Elliott, Am
Somerset Shoe Co.; Moody Jewell,
Maine Spinning Co.; Charles Young.
Riverside Pulp Co.; E. L. Savage,
Savage Mfg. Co.; H. V. Mitchell.
Skowhegan Novelty Works. The rur-
al sections are to be covered by
George H. Plummer. chairman, c. NJ.
Holt, D. A. Porter, W. E. Porter, and
E. T. Goodrich.
c. B. White, one Of the big apple
growers Of Somerset County was in
the village from Hilton Hill Tuesday
and while he stated that his apple
| crop was not up to its usual yield he
had harvested considerable more
fruit this year than last The
total harvest amounted to 800 bar
rels. all but 100 barrels, which
were Wealthies. being Of the Ben
Davis variety. Mr.. White has sold
his entire crop to the apple canning
factory here and already has 400 bar
rels delivered.
Archie Roderick, formerly with the
Chaplin Agency here, was in town
Tuesday. He is to open a real es-
! tate office in his own name here
about the first Of November, and
while he will also have numerous
other offices in different sections,
! Skowhegan will be his headquarters.
Mrs. George Holbrook of Wilton
has been here owing to the death of
her sister, Mrs. Susan Fletcher.
Miss Jessie and Miss Marion Scott.
students at the School for the Deaf
in Portland, returned to that insti-
| tuition Tuesday after being at their
| home here for time.
| Asa Emery, who will be SO years
old in February and has long been a
resident Of Athens, left Skowhegan
on the 11.45 train Tuesday for Cleve-
land, Ohio, where he is to make his
home with his son, Eben H. Emery.
chief of the Weather Bureau in
Cleveland. He came here to accom-
pany his aged parent on his journey.
Mr.. Emery, Senior, is in very feeble
| health.
Miss Katherine Brophy Of Lewis
ton, who has been caring fer Mrs.
Henry Crowell and visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Mark Emery, returned to
Lewiston, Tuesday.
| Gustaf Linderoth left here Tues
day on the midday train for New
York, where he is to re- establish his
| home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
PALMYRA

Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Clifford OF WE
throp were business callers in to"h
Tuesday.
Our schools are expected TO O's'
again next Monday, Nov. 4, after ''-
weeks interim on account OF the w
vailing epidemic. q.
Mrs. Joseph Thibodeau and lam
have returned to their home in Ca'''
after several weeks visit with hef -
ter, Mrs. A. p. Howes.
Mrs. Annie Glotz of Watervile' W.
mer resident of this town, died on %.
urday from pneumonia and the ren''T
were brought here on Sunday for pu'
Miss Annie NJ. Fuller visited sew.
days last week with her cousin IN ''''
son, Mrs. Judson Salk.
Frank J. Goodrich and family ~.
moved to Hartland for the winter WIZ
he has employment in the shirt snor
The schools at the Gale and Ell |'',
took out a Liberty bond in the rev.
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign.