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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
Many Souther, Enterprises
 Announced During Past Week

, porated with s15OOOo capital by Virginia investors.
 Additional mills and improvements costing sl5000O will be provided by the Archer Lumber company, Helena, Ark, which has government contracts.
 Cotton duck will be the product of the Beaver Duck Mills. Atlanta, Ga, lncor- porated with $100000 capital by Georgia
 Cotton cloth will be manufactured by the Beaver Cotton mills, Atlanta, Ga., in- corporated by Atlanta and Greenville (S. e. cotton mill owners.
 Hosiery will be manufactured by the Wilmington Hosiery company, High Point N C., chartered with $100,000 capi- tai.
 Peanuts will be milled by the Green wood Peanut company, Greenwood, Fla. incorporated with S50,000 capital by Green- wood manufacturers.
 Mining properties will be developed by the Big Jim Mining company, Holden vile, okla, incorporated with S50,000 cap- ital by Holdenville investors.
 Cardboard containers for powder will be manufactured at Bristol, Va, by the Reynolds Corporation of Louisville Ky, which has $1. 1.OO0,OO0 government contract. Besides the Bristol plant, the company will establish two other factories for powder container production.
 A 350XS0-foot steel and glass fireproot shop for government war contracts will be built by the Anderson Motor company, Rock Hill, S. C.. which will consider on October 1 an increase of capital to sl,125,- O0O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
Capital Drawn to the
 South s Manganese

State Geologist of Tennessee Wilbur A Nelson, in letter to the Manufac- turers Record, referring to D report on "The Manganese Deposits of East Tennessee" issued by the United States geological survey, in connection with the Tennessee survey writes:
 ''The work done on manganese in East Tennessee has shown that there are a great number of small deposits of high grade ore that can be profitably worked The finding of the locations of the areas in which manganese may be found, and the assistance in prospecting for areas which manganese may be found, and the assistance in prospecting for areas which has been rendered by the authors of this report and by members of the Tennessee Geological survey, has result ed in Tennessee becoming one of the leading manganese producing states"
 The United States Geological survey is sending out report on manganese in the Batesvile, Ark, region. in the course of which it is stated that the United States needs the equivalent of S00,OO0 tons of manganese ore containing 50 per cent of manganese for use dur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
One Of Many Evidences or (. 3 South's Prosperity Is Paint

Southern farmers will paint this fall as they have never painted in the past says the Industrial Index. They will have-are having-more money than ever before. It is the normal human instinct to give concrete. physical expression to ones prosperity
 If We have money. we want showing for 1t.
 handbook, with nice fat figures en- rolled therein, is fine enough, but we want tangible, physical property--as well as the possession of that which will buy rael property. When a farmer makes money if is just as natural for him to make i'm = provements on his place as it is for the sun to rise and set.
 When he sells his cotton, hogs, pea nuts and corn for fine, fancy figure. it is not enough to him to simply know that he has a fat balance in the bank and has also raised on his own farm enough to feed his folks.
 He wants his place-lIis home his outhouses, his fences-to reflect and ex- press his prosperity.
 There will be an immense amount of improvement on southern farms this fall.
 A favorite form of improvement will be to paint up.
 The farmer can get the paint. Ex- pert labor is not required to apply it.
 When his buildings have all been nicely painted-and thus all reinsured against the ravages of sun, wind and rain-his place at the end of the year bears attractive, concrete testimony of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
Savannah's Housing
 Problem Worked Out

A Savannah special to the Industrial Index says;
 The construction of 150 residences for employees has been begun at the plant of the Terry Shipbuilding Corporation, E. F. Terry. president. Fifty additional residences will be erected in the city.
 The erection of these residences fol- lows the alloting by the government of $750,000 to be used in providing homes for shipyard employees here. President Terry stated that the corporation has just received payment of the allotment and in a few days many foundations to the new buildings will be laid.
 At the plant, where 150 of the houses will be located, surveyors are now en- gagged in laying off streets and planting the proper sewerage. The building ma terials will be ordered through Meldrim Thompson of Savannah
 The fifty houses which will be located in Savannah will be scattered about over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

Baltimore, September 15.-(Special) The most important southern enterprises of the week as detailed by the Manufae> turers Record may be summarized briefly as follows:
 Revised plans and specifications for the Galveston naval air station provide for an expenditure of sS,oOO0O0 for building nine 105x1o4-foot hangars, each for four seaplanes with 127-foot wing spread; quarters for 1000 ground men and me- chanics 100 student aviators and 100 off, cers 49Oo-foot bulkhead construction on water front, etc. Navy department will soon award contracts.
 A gaspipe line estimated to cost 5000, 000 will be constructed by the Gulf States Gas corporation, New Orleans, organized with S5,GG0,000 capital. It will extend from the Terrebonne gas fields to New Or leans, . distance of 50 miles, to furnish gas for fuel i'll industrial plants.
 White summer uniforms and regulation underwear for the entire navy will be manufactured at Charleston, $. C., by the navy department An $S25,000 building will be erected to be equipped with the necessary machinery, and this factory will replace the present naval clothing plant at Charleston. There will be 2400 operatives employed
 Extensive coal developments are indf- eated by announcement that the Texas and Pacific Coal company, Thurber, Tex, has increased capital from S3000,0G 10 $4,000,0O0
 From S700,030 to $750000 will be invested by the Charleston Consolidated Railway and Lighting company, Charleston, S C., for doubling capacity of it's $500,000 elec- tric generating station and for additional transmission system with other improve ments. to provide ample power and light ing for government plants and private plants manufacturing war products.
 Lumber will be manufactured by the Mona Fletcher Lumber company, Fletch- CT, Tex, incorporated with $400,000 capt- tai by Fletcher investors.
 An expenditure of $400,0O0 will be under taken by the Tidewater Power company, Wilmington, N. C., for improving it's transportation and electric power gener- ating facilities
 Improvements costing s3O0000 will be provided by the north Alabama Rolling company, Sheffield, to it's plant for man. ufacturing steel from waste and scrap metal.
 Coal land will be developed by the Ken lucky Cardinal Coal corporation, Roanoke. Va, chartered with S250,0O0 capital by Virginia investors.
 Plans for cotton manufacturing at Wilkesboro, N. C.. are under considera- tion by R. D. Grer of Kannapalos, N. C., who proposes building a $225,O0o mill,
 Coal will be mined by the Sutherland Coal company, Splash Dam, Va, incor-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

, the fact that it has been a prosperous year on that farm.
 Painting is one of the most inexpen- sive of all forms of improvements, and gives a greater showing for the money than any other expenditure.
 The very contagiousness of painting eVldences the righteousness of its cause.
 Palnt one building-and you do~not reel right unless you paint it's neiShbor.
 painted building looks so nice, so neat, so attractive, so cheerful, is such an outstanding advertisement of pror- ress and prosperity that our hearts warm up to it.
 The country section where paint is very much in evidence is always a prosperous section.
 Where you find nicely painted homes. barns and outhouses, there you find prosperity.
 AndI conversely. where you find pros perity you find paint.
 The southern farmer is in not only cheerful, but jubilant mood this fall. Things are coming his way-are coming fast He has worked hard this year and has used his best brain powers, too. He is now cashing in on this physi- cal and mental expenditure In his heart is the glow that comes from the performance of duty well done
 The southern farmer believes in i'm : provement when he is in posiso to do it, He has pride of home, pride of farm. He is not wildly eXtrava gant with his money, neither does he hoard his dol lars. Improvement of the right kind he welcomes, believes in and promotes And painting. which in the last analysis is purely business proposition, stands very high in his favor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
Kentucky's Largest
 Tree Yields $11, ,000

Whitesburg, Ky, September 15.-(spe- cial.)--A yellow poplar tree of giant size, which for years had stood in the bills of the Cum berland mountains. where it was an object of unusual interest, has re- gently brought approximately s11 GOO as a manufactured product The tree was cut down by local lumber concern and consigned to a firm in Cincinnati. When sawn the product totaled nearly 1000 feet of first-class lumber, with sev- eral hundred feet second class lumber thrown in.
 It is declared that this was the largest tree marketed from the eastern Ken lucky fields within a half century. It was so large that for a number of years the task of marketing it was a serious obstacle, there being few lumbermen who cared to try to cut it down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

of. $16, ,000,000 has been awarded to the Terry Shpbuilding Corporation of Sa- vannah, says the Industrial Index. Con- struction will be begun in about thirty days.
 When the Terry Shipbulding Corpora tion's present contract with the Emerg- ency Fleet Corporation to build ten steel composite merchantmen has been completed, three of which have been launched, no other work of this kind will be done by the organization. All work will be concentrated upon building ten oil tankers
 This is the second largest shipbuilding contract which has yet come to Sayan- nah. The first contract, and largest, is also held by the Terry Shipbuilding Corporation. The amount of this con- tract is $23,0O0,O0O
 With this new contract added to Sa- vannah's shipbuilding industry, a total of over S55, GOO in ships has become part of Savannah's war industry activity in shipbuiIding.
 The Terry Corporation has contract also for the construction of two floating dry docks, each with capacity of 10,- GOO tons. The estimated cost of each dry dock will be slightly in excess of s1 1,00O,OO0.
 One of these floating dry docks will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

only way by which any substantial progress can be made in the near fu- ture. It is the hope of citizens eager for upbuildng that the government will take over the Bankhead highway and such other trunk highways as might be utilized for improving the traffic situation and make them military roads. A few million dollars expended on road construction in Alabama this winter would mean a great forward movement.
 Agriculturaly, Alabama is wonderful ly prosperous this year. In spite of a decreased corn crop the state will be able to feed itself and have large surplus of food for outside markets. With the exception of corn Alabama's 8 food crops are exceptionally large. Many farmers will be handicapped in harvesting their bountiful yields by labor shortage but with the help of boys and women the crops will be gath cred. Certain it is that the money value of the farm products of Alabama will be greater this year by several hundred million dollars than in any previous year
 remain i'll Savannah, while the other will be lowed to some point not designated by the government in it's contract with the Terry people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

l the city. Most of the city houses will
 be two-story buildings. Generally, the houses will have ten rooms. The building of 200 houses by the ship building concern solves to some extent the housing of the increased population At least 4,000 employees will be sheltered by the new project. It is desired by the shipbuilding off cials and employees to live near the plant This makes it possible for them to be- gin work earlier and enables the plant
 to operate two daylight shifts. which is
 impossible with the men living away from the plant.
 The new housing plan is not money
 making project.
 For some months the engineers of
 the Emergency Fleet Corporation have been studying the housing problem
 among the shipyards. Congress on it's findings, appropriated S750,0O0 to the Ter
 ry Shipbulding Corporation, in addition
 to large amounts to other Atlantic coast
 plants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

ing 19lS Much of the high grade ore is imported from Brazil, but of neces- sity considerable amount must come from our own deposits.
 In 1917 the United States mined of ore containing 40 per cent or more of man. ganese 114,2l6 tons, of which the Bates vile region produced S7S4 tons.
 In order to stimulate production, the domestic deposits are being examined by geologists of the United States geologi- cal survey, who obtain all available in- formation as to the character, size and occurrence of the deposits, and prepare for publication brief reports giving the results of their studies.
 In a letter to the Manufacturers Record Mr. Ben c. Eastin, secretary Commer- cial club, Mena, Ark, writes that the manganese ores of that section are be- ginning to attract much attention, and that mining operators from Joplin and other mineral districts have organized four companies for mining manganese near Mena, and he states that each will erect a mill in connection herewith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
Speeding Up Of Operations Now
 the Rule in fhe Industrial South
Greater Demanded and Urged Put In Six Days Wee-NIotor Highways
 ment Aid -Alabama's Agricultural Prosperity

Industrial activity in the south, as in all manufacturing sections of the coun- try, is now more than ever concentrated on war essentials. In the Birmingham district every industry is being pushed and full capacity production is de- manded.
 The fuel administration is calling for greater coal output The speeding up during the summer months brought en- couraging results, but the weekly pro- duction must increase at faster rate from now on to meet requirements. In 1917 weeks output in Alabama of 375,- 00) tons was considered a fine record; but mining development is sufficient to yield 50G,000 tons a week and the government will be satisfied with nothing less than a weekly average of 450000 from now until the end of the year
 The mine workers of Alabama should strive for a 500000-ton record. At the present high wages the men, by work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

l ing six full days week, will be able to accumulate large bank accounts and better still, will be helping to win the war. As P. B. Moves, United States director of conservation explained in recent address, General Pershng's orr ders for munitions cannot be filled in full this winter, because the United States cannot supply the steel, and thls shortage in steel is due almost entirely to lack of coal.
 Patriotic talk is all well and good so far as it goes, but the truest expression of patriotism in the industrial world is found in a maximum of effort. Produc- ton of essentials and more production should be sthe slogan until the war is ended.
 Next to the urgency for coal and steel production is the demand for bet ter roads--highways that will accom- modate motor trucks and thereby af- ford relief to railway congestion. Such relief is badly needed for the winning of the war and in the circumstances 1t behooves the government to take large part in financing a system of paved roads in the south This is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16

Every 100 per cent American trying do his bit win ming the Not has the honor of fighting at the front for Liberty but should be considered privilege essentials and wherever possible in order hasten victory by supplying fully the snews of those who are fighting for One thing nearly every and in America does three times day is Hardly any of like to skp in this respect either People of Birnn ham not doing either if is careful of what and where they eat much economy may be practced without
 ce of quality quantity To get down cases this tended suggest that if you hungry and you gorandze visit the Greenwood cafes 317 N 20h street and 407 N 2Oh They the the market affords at all times yet got the habit adding extra penny and laying the Try this for yourself and be convinced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
Ten Oil Tankers to
 Cost $16,0O0, ,0OO

A contract for the construction for the government of ten oil tankers at a cost
Arizona republican., 1918-08-28
MEN
 OUT SEARCHING
 FUR MURDERER

It was reported late last night that Vincente Gonzales was in Tempe. Gonzales is wanted for the murder of small boy on the desert near Guadaloupe. Night JaiIer Charles Mussrove and a posse of deputy sheriffs left immediately in an attempt to capture Gonzales.
 Gonzales, or someone else who closely resembles Gonzales, has been seen several times but has al- ways managed to elude pursuit. Last Sunday posse of the police reserves were out looking for the man, but could find no trace of him. However, if the advices received last night at the sheriff's office are at all to be credited, it is very likely that Gonzales will be captured be- fore morning.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-28
(By the Associated Press1

A1OGALES, Ariz, Aug. 27.-Two Americans were IN killed, 29 wounded and more than 300 American
 troops were engaged for and one-haf hours on the border here late today during skirmish between American troops and Mexicans.
 Captain J. D. Hungerford killed in action
 Corporal Barney Lotz, was also killed
 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick J Herman was wounded in the right leg.
 Lieutenant Luke Loftus seriously wounded in the body.
 Captain H. c. Caron was wounded in the aran
 Lieutenant s. Lockwood was also wounded
 Gaston Reddock reported killed tonight seriously II not fatally wounded. He customs guard
 Another civilian named Cooley was reported to have been wounded
 Charles Levin and E. Marcor, employees of the South ern Pacific of Mexco at Nogales Sonora also are listed among the Americans wounded
 These facts officially announced here late onigh after survey of the town and camp had been made
Arizona republican., 1918-08-28
RYAN |S APPOINTED SECOND ASSISTANT
 SECRETARY OF WAR
rRepubllcan A. P. Leased wire]

Republican A. P. Leased WireJ WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Virtual establishment of ministries of muni- tions and aviation, and the appoint ment of Benedict c. Crowell. first as sistant secretary of war, and John D.. Ryan. chief of the bureau of military aeronautics, as the respective heads was announced today by Secretary Baker.
 While the official statement refers to the appointees as director of muni- tions" and director of air service, the changes evidently are intended to make reparate organizations, oech un- der control of one man.
 MT. Ryan assumes the position of second assistant secretary of war, vice Edward R. Stettinius, who is abroad and is to remain in France in- definitely as a representative of the war department.
 Ryan Given Full Control
 MT. Crowell has had charge of in dustrial matters His designation as director of munitions will mean but slight change from his present work. Additional authority has been dele gated him by the latest move.
 Full control of the bureau of military aeronautics and of the bureau of air. craft production has been given to Mr. Ryan who is authorized to name new head for the latter organization. He will thus have charge of the produc- tion of airplanes and of the training of personnel to man them, bringing the entire air program under single au- thority.
 MT. Ryan is expected to put into ef- feet immediately changes in organiza- tion which will result in co-ordina- tion of the two bureaus which he will control,
Arizona republican., 1918-08-28
FORD |S RUNNING
 IN THIRD PLACE

DETROIT. Aug. 2S.-Commander Truman H. Newberry of the Third United States naval district, formerly secretary or the navy. on the face of returns from approximately one-fourtb Of the precincts. appears to have been nominated as republican candidate for United States senator in yesterdays primaries.
 Henry Ford is running third with less than half as many votes. Former Governor Chase S. Osborn is slightly ahead of Ford. William G. Simpson Of Detroit, boiled only light vote.
 In the democratic contest Ford. who was candidate on both tickets. had boiled double the number of votes cast TOT ms only opponent, James W. Helme. according to the incomplete returns.
 Returns showed Edward Frensdorf and John W. Bailey in close race for the democratic gubernatorial nonina- ton. Albert E. Sleeper, republican had no opposition for renomination.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-28
PROMPT PASSAGE IF
 PROHIBITION BILL
 FREELY PREDICTED
[Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.-Witl a general, informal understanding to provide for nation wide bone dry prohibition beginning July 1, 1919, and continuing during the war, the Senate tomorrow will resume consideration of the prohibition measure which has been pending for many months.
 Leaders of both wet" and dry" fac tions late today announced that senti- ment was general in support of the compromise negotiated to postpone the effective date of absolute prohibition from January l, 1919. as proposed in the pending bill, until July 1 next. Prompt passage of the measure with the compromise included was predicted. Some believed it might be passed to- morrow.
 Reach Final Vote Thursday
 Senator Sheppard, of Texas, man. ager of the dry" forces, said the final vete probably would not be reached before Thursday.
 Under the compromise arranged by leaders of the two Senate factions, to be formally presented as an amend ment by Senator Sheppard, manufae- ture of beer and wines would stop May l, 1919, instead of November 1, 1918, as provided in the present bill. Produc- tion of distilled beverages already has ceased under the food control law.
 Wine interests are expected to make a final fight to postpone operation of the measure. At a hearing today be- fore the Senate Agriculture Committee re epresentatives of California grape growers asked for postponement of the prohibition effective date until July l, 1920.