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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-08
AMERICAN MILITARY
AUTHORITIES RUSH
AID FROM LONDON

London, February News OF the
sinking Of the Tuscania reaching the
American military authorities here
Wednesday morning. additional ma
chinery for relief work Immediately was
put into action and several score Of
officials OF the American army and navy
left here during the day for Ireland.
Vice Admiral william $, Sims, COM
mander of the American destroyer squad
ron in European waters, who Is In Rome
for a few days, was notified by tele-
gram Of the disaster
The night boat train, which goes di-
rect to the port where the majority Of
the survivors was landed. was crowded
to Overlooking. The passengers included
many American Red Cross workers, rep
resentatives of the X M. @. A. and a
large number of military and naval men
A correspondent OF the Associated Press,
travelling on this train, found every seat
taken a half hour before leaving time
and a number of passengers standing
in the aisles for the all-night trip.
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hostile aircraft Wednesday morning
renewed their bombnrdments OF ItaI-
ian towns. The number OF enemy ma
chimes brought down by the entente
airmen ON the Italian front from jan
uary 70 to February was SO.
As Indicating the chaotic situation
In Russia under the bolshevik rule, "A
Petrograd advice reaching London
says that looting occurred Tuesday
and Wednesday in the Russian capital
when wine cellars were sacked by
mobs. The authorities used armed cars
to oppose the pillagers, many OF whom
were killed or wounded.
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Summary Of the News


GENERAL NEWS
1-some Of bodtes es Tusennia vice
Tins being wAshed ON irish coast.
Unofficial report places total life
loss mt 1O1.
Hea Tess Mondays e be abandoned
In the south.
Thnwfng weather brings relief to
eastern railroads..
Bitter fight II deveIOplng over
giving President more power.
War fronts IRE active.
situation In Russia continues cha
otto.
3-Government must pay railroads
near billion ~ average earnings
for 1917.
'z-COuntry patrols are establlshed
around Gasp Mcclellan.
LOCAL. NEWS
B-County hetfIth offieey issues dras-
4 tie order On snsal1ppx stt0at1en.
State-wlde conference ~ htehway
advOcates called TO meet.
steps taken tor Reinstatement Of
DR.. HI. n. EdnnOnds.
southern railway officials here to
Inspect property.
FEATUKES
4-Edft0rial cOmment.
esoeiety - Dolly Dalrynpie.
oAlnrkets.
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|GARF IELD MAKES
/ ANNOUNCEMENT TO.
|. FLORIDA ASSISTANT
Names Eight States in
Which It Is No Longer
Necessary to En-
force Rule

Jacksonville, Fla. February IA.
II. Williams, state fuel administrators.
received telegram from DIR. H. a.
Garfield, federal fuel administrator,
tonight in which he stated that the
Sucllexs Monday order issued january
II, 1913. I'm 80 far AS 1t relates to
Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North
and South Carolina, Alabama, Louis
lana and Tennessee. Inns been suspedn-
ed. Sections and 10 of the order, the
former reiattn& to whom shall be
given preference i'm the matter Of coal.
and the latter providing the penalty
Tor noncompliance with the order still
remain I'm force, the telegram said.
Improved weather and transporta-
tion conditions were given as the cause
OF the suspension Of the order.
According to Mr.. Williams, DIR. GAR
ncid's telegram reads
elm view Of Improved weather and
transporfatiON conditions, all pr0yi-
sions Of regulations Of January II, 1918,
excepting sectiOns nnd 10. are here-
~ suspended In 80 far ms they re-
late to the following states,
"North Carolina, Tcnncssee, south
CaroIina. Georgia. Florida, Mississippt,
Alabama, Louisiana. sections and 10
81 fhc regulation still remain in
force.n
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Heatless Monday In The South Is Abandoned
Summary of News From All
War Fronts and Capitals

Operations ON the western front
continue to be marked by heavy are
tiIIery exchanges in coniunction with
raiding attacks ON the opposing
trenches. Paris reports active cnnnon-
AIDES ON the Aisnc and Verdun fronts
and In Alsace, and half dozen forays
OF the Germans were repulsed in which
the enemy lost men and material. Ac-
cordinE to berlin. the Germans cap
t"red prisoners In raid In Flanders
and I'm forefield enEal ements In Ar
tots. and French attack In the Cham-
pagne broke down.
Rome reports slight artillery activ-
fty ON all the italian front, but that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-08
LATEST WASHINGTON ADVICES

Washington February official advces to the war
tonight accounted for all 13 of the 2156
American soldiers board the British liner Tuscana
when submarine sent her down Tuesday night off the Irish
coast.
This figure final and high hopes that the loss of
life would prove much smaller built upon cabed
DISPATCHES saving just men, most of them members of the
were missing among the entire force of soldiers sailors
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Cullman Votes School T.x

Montgomery. February 7.-(Special.)
Cullman has entered the list of local
school tax counties and in an election
Wednesday voted tax OF mills 70.
public school purposes, according to re-
turns received BY the state educational
department. Cullman is the thirty fourth
county to vote the tax. Spright Dowell
the state SUPERINTENDENT OF education
believes 40 counties will have voted the
tax at the end Of another so-day period
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Maryland Lower House
Votes Dry Amendment

annapolis, February "a resolution
indorsing the proposed national prohibit
ton amendment. which already has been
adopted in the MARYLAND senate wa.
passed to the third reading in the lower
mouse tonight IS to AZ An amendment
providing for referendum was defeated
N both houses. and supporters of the
resolution regard its passage as virtually
assured. e7- \
Packers Of state bone-dry law are
said 10 pc preparing to introduce it i'm
mediateIy should the national amend
ment resolution be finally adopted IN the
house.
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voying destroyer had pursued and de-
stroyed the submarine that made the
attack. The destroyer probably was
British. and British admiralty reports
on the incident will be awaited with
the keenest interest
On board the liner were engineers,
military police and replacement detach-
ments composed Of former Michigan and
Wisconsin national guardsmen and
three aero squadrons, one of which was
recruited almost entirely in and around
New York city. Members of the otaer
two squadrons came from nearly every
section OF the country
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An Irish Port February IA of swirlng wreckage
the Of the along the Irish coast marks the
of the Tuscana the first American troop transport sunk by
submarine few bodies of the 100 who persisted
washed ashore and of the injured
pitfalls expected succumb The survivors, numbering
in hotels homes and hospitals along the
north Irish coast.
left today clad mist clothing for Belfast by rail
of foam as toward the sss
a
vital blow amdsps boiler
and
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No attempt was made tonight to
prepare list Of the lost or missing.
Only a few names of survivors has
been received and the indications
were that it would be impossible to
announce them all before tomorrow
at the earliest. The rescued were
landed at widely separated Irish and
Scotch ports and while all reports
tell Of elaborate arrangements for
their care and comfort, urgent IN
structions to representatives OF the
war. state and navy departments that
full details Of the disaster and COM
plete record of the saved be sent az
the earliest possible moment tonight
had brought only meager responses.
According to the war DEPART
ment,x official report tonight, the
tetal missing from the 2SO7 per-
sons aboard the liner - 30. The
lntest dispatch gave this recaptt-
ulatIont
survivors. United states troops,
2O43, crew and passengers, l41, to-
tai, PISA.
On board, United states troops,
1856, crew ind passengers. 2415 to-
tal. 1907.
Missing, United States troops,
113; crew and passengers, 07g to-
tai. 30.
ERROR is ASSUMED
OFFICIALS assumed that an error
In transmission accounted for the
discrepancy In this dispatch's as-
ures ON crew md passengers. The
total number Of missing among all
persons on board. 30. accords with
I statement Of the British admir-
atty issued early In the day, 80
the number of passengers and
crew survivors probably should
have been 144 Instead Of III.
Virtually no story of the sinking Of
the Tuscania has reached the govern
ment through official channels. DIS
patches from the embassy at London
and other sources SO far have been con-
fined to terse statements and announce
msnts Of the number saved.
PROUD OF SOLDIERS
Press accounts consequently have been
read with more than ordinary interest
by everyone. Army officers are proud
OF the way the troops behaved. and
point to the story OF how the partially
trained boys lined up ON deck singing
national airs to await their turns in the
boats as evidence Of what may be ex-
pected Of American soldiers.
To this absence Of confusion and the
fact that the vessel remained afloat ros
about two hours in a calm sea Is At.
tributed the small loss Of life. The rus-
cania was part OF q large convoy ana
Immediate relief was Il hand
There has been no mention IN ofRicial
nessages tonight of report that con
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-08
OUTSTANDING FEATURES

Washington. February IA move
toward concentrated republican oppo-
sitjon OF the new administration bill
proposing to give President Wilson
blanket authority to organize and CO.
ordinate government agencies. 4
speech In the House by Representative
Glass of Virginia denouncingic critics OF
the government and temporary sus-
pension Of Senate debate were today's
developments in the controversy over
war machinery REORGANIZATION.
conference Saturday morning Of
republican senators-drst to be held
since the United States entered the
war--was called late today by Repub-
lican Leader Gallinger to consider the
new bill President Wilson sent to the
Senate yesterday. Bitter opposition ~
the measure Is expressed openly ~
republicans ana privately by several
democratic leaders. There were Is sig
natures on the call for the. republic
can conference.
CONSIDER FINANCE PLAN
The republicans Also expect to scon-
slider joint legislation on the admin
istration measure to create war
(ContlnueA ~ Ea9s Vuol
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The possibility of being tOrpe-
doed was discussed almost daily
since the vessel left the AmcrI-
cnn shores. Several hundred young
lumberjacks from the southwest
and Pacific coast states were eat
ing their evening meal mt the time
the disaster occurred. Hundreds OF
other American troops were watt
alarm sounded.
False alarms had been sounded
for boat drill every day of the
trip, but ALI knew that this one
mas ncrsxnr, fficers showed In
struetionn u the men. Many Of
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Casualty List Reported
by General Pershing

Washington, February Z. General
IPershing today reported tat Private ia
cob Cirio. infantry. was slightly wound
ed in action on February 4 No de-
tails were given. Hisf brother lives at
Iron River. Mich.
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them were husky youths and, de-
spite their brief military training.
they displayed wonderful GOODNESS
MS they marched to their boat sta
lions. There was NO running about,
nothing resembling a panic. In =
few isolated eases there wero
signs of nervousness ON the part
Of some of the youngsters as the
ship took a heavy tilt to starboard
and they slid to the railing, to
which they chung for dear life. But
that vvas all. Veteran British Of
fieers i'm the crew, who had been
sssrpedoes several tstsse.. naryFaed
sN their Gss8lness.
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KnoxyiIIe Wholesaler Dies

Knoxville Tenn. February 7.-Daniei
Briscoe, for many years one of the
foremost wholesale merchants of this
city died this morning after lingering
Illness.
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Sims in Rome

Rome. February 7.--vice Admiral sims
has arrived in Rome. A dinner in his
hqnor will be given tonight He will
repain here only a. few days.
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113 AmericansNot
Accounted For In
Nel0s to Capital
Reports Received in Washington Place Total
Number of Missing, Including Soldiers, Grew
and Passengers at 30, While News From
Irish Port Says Figure Should Be 101
TOTAL LOSS 1o1

February THE Tuscana carried total of
he 2296, follows:
21O6; 100.
officers There
lean troops in hospital.
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Washineton. February Every. Ameri-
can soldier lost on the Tuscania having
dependents was protected by government
insurauce. Many had applied Tor vol
untary Insurance.. which IL Issued in
amounts up to 10000 and IN are covered
~ government Compensation. payable to
a widow, child or widowed mother. This
automatic insurance Aggregates about
@lou0, and - paid It the rate Of about
~ = month for = years
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RED CROSS SEND AID

London, February This American
Red Cross headquarters here dispatched
Capt. Edgar H. Wells and Captain Smith
to Belfast Immediately after news Of the
torredoing of the Tuscania was received
They we're instructed to spend all
money needed for supplies for the sur
vivors. A telegram also was sent to
the American consulate at Belfast ask
ms that money and supplies for immedi-
ate needs be provided. The Britieh R6d
'ross. which has depots In ireland, I'M
medsately placed all its resources at the
isposal Of the Americans. and Instruct
Its representatives to do anything
possible to help. Ambassador Page re-
ceived from the lord mayor of Belfast
a telegram expressing hiss condolences
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-08
LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS

Albany. N. r., February 1.-The lesis-
lature today adjourned out Of respect to
the memory Of those who were lost on
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12

The Copper Camp is authorized to
garding the subscription by the Ray
Consolidated Copper company to ST.
600 900 worth of bonds of the Fourth
Liberty loan.
Mr. w. S. Boyd, assistant to the
general manager, stated that of this
amount $250,00O would be allotted to
Ray, similar amount to Hayden, and
the balance would be credited to New
York.
This news may come as a great sur
prise to any Rayites who are not very
well acquainted with this companys
stand regarding the war, but those
who were here at the time of the last
Liberty Loan flotation remember that
a similar subscription was made then
Although exact figures are not avail
able at the time of going to press, a
conservative estimate would place
Rays subscriptions to the Fourth Lib
erty Loan at $250,000. With the Ray
Consolidated Copper company's sub
scription added, Ray will have earned
four stars on her Honor Flag, and not
much more will be required to make
it five.
That Ray is responding to the coun-
try's call is evident when one real
ICES that last years quota of $17,579
was raised almost seven times this
year, and yet, without considering the
company's purchase, it was oversub-
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12
HERE'S CHANCE FOR
MECHANICS TO CO

Motor mechanics, you are the men.
Every one who has worked on a
truck, automobile or motorcycle your
opportunity for the army is here.
General Pershing has called for 49,
Coo motor mechanics to be organized
i:to units and sent to France by Oc-
tcher 31st. To accomplish this tho
aIiutant general of the army ha.;
issued authority for immediate volun-
teer induction into the army of 10000
mechanics, many of whom may be
deferred class men who arr needed to
man the shops and permanent organi-
cations in the United States so as to
release every able-bodied man for
work in France.
Recruiting headquarters have been
established at the Chamber of Com
merce at Phoenix for this immediate
territory R. A. Kirk has been named
the Arizona representative and with
the assistance of w. c. Conger, first
lieutenant Motor Transport Corps, is
starting the campaign and affording
Phoenix and Arizona the opportunity
to do their part in answering the call
Of General Pershing. These men are
acting as the fore-runners to notify
the mechanics of Arizona of this
chance to Immediately be ION their
way to France"
Commencing Monday morning, re-
cruiting headquarters at the Chamber
of Commerce will be open until p.
M daily. H. N. Edwards, special rep
Iresentative from Washington, and
| W. G. Roe Of Ell Paso, southwestern
representative, will be at the head
quarters for two days in order to
guarantee direct and immediate at
tention to applicants.
Out of town men who are eligible
to join the Motor Transport Corps are
requested to apply at recruiting head
quarters, Chamber of Commerce, Phoe-
nix. They will be sent application
blanks which they may fill out and
return. and then await orders from
their local board. Transportation will
be furnished all men to their desti-
nation.
Mechanics qualified in the following
trades are very urgently needed: Au-
tomobile, truck, and motorcycle me-
chanics and drivers; machinists,
blacksmiths, magnetic and carburetor
men. sheet metal workers, wheel
wrights. body workers and trouble
shooters.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12

Marvin E. Smith Of Co. I, 353rd In
fantry, 89th division, has just returned
to his home in Phoenix following a
thrilling and disastrous experience at
sea. Young Smith was on his way to
overseas service when the U-boat
alarm was sounded on the transport.
OF course, all of the men dashed on
desk, and Smith and others grouped
themselves on a hatchway over hold
of the ship to see what was going on.
The hatchway gave way, and Smith
and the others fell thirty feet, the
Phoenix man being so badly injured
he had to be sent back to America
After two months in the hospital he
was honorably discharged from the
service as permanently physically un-
fit for active service
Smith says that no one will ever
know how much the work done by the
Knights of Columbus, Y, M. C. A. and
Camp Community Service meant to
him, while he was in the hospital
They got. up entertainments for the
sick and on his way home he was time
and again ministered to by one of
those war relief agencies.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12

Judge Baughn and County Attorney
H. G. Richardson in conjunction with
Sheriff Henry D. Hall, have been es-
pecially busy county officials in the
past two weeks and in consequence
they have not had much time to be
abroad over the county shaking hands
with their numerous friends and ac.
|quaintances.
Luiz Garcia, the murderer, after
making a written confession to Coun.
ty Attorney Richardson, entered a
plea of guilty and after the taking Of
Testimony in behalf of the State to
establish the degree Of murder. Judge
Baugbn found that first degree murder
has been committed, and sentenced
the defendant to life Imprisonment.
Garcia is young Mexican about nine.
teen years of age and says he came
to this county from Mexico about a
year ago. On the night of September
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12
HAYDEN APPLIES COAT OF TAR
AND FEATHERS TO PRO-GERMAN
Story of Strange Experience Related by Martin Nelson
Socialist Admits UNFOLDING Germans in Argument

Monday night, Martin Nelson, who
claims to be cook by trade, was
taken by Hayden mob from the
Hayden Jail and on the Hayden. Kelvin
road he was tarred and feathered, and
when near the power plant at Kelvin,
he was hoisted ways up pole and
securely tied. where he remained until
morning arrived and he was cut down
by Deputy Sheriff Hank Barton.
Tuesday afternoon Nelson made his
way to Florence and to Sheriff Hall
and County Attorney Richardson in
the latter's office, he told his story Of
horrible night. Nelson said that on
Monday evening he was sitting in the
pool room at Hayden when the war
question began to be discussed. One
fellow spoke up and said that all the
Germans ought to be killed, and then
Nelson interposed and said mo, that
there were some good Germans" Mel
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12
ANOTHER SUIT IN
RAY-kElv|A MATTER

Suit has been filed in the superior
court of Maricopa county at Phoenix
by H. e. Easterday, secretary and
treasurer of the Ray-Kelvin Mining
company against William E. Cogsdell,
president Of that concern for an exact
accounting of the company's affairs.
1t will be remembered that Cogsdell
was arrested in California last Au-
gust and brought to Phoenix to face
a charge relating to his handling of
the company's affairs. He was acQuit-
ted and the case dismissed after a
hearing before the court. Now Cogs-
dell is bringing suit against Easter
day, the Arizona Gazette, ct al for
damages in the amount of $4,000. The
paper is named as a defendant in a
charge of libel.
Easterday's suit, filed this week is
the latest development in somewhat
tangled situation. which bids fair to
result in an airing in court of the af-
fairs of the company named.
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12
BY Edwin Gordon Lawrence

Just about year ago there was a
group of aviators gathered on field
of France discussing the war Sud.
denly one spoke up, saying: Whats
this war for. anywayg? Does any one
know Then turning quickly to a
young French soldier. he said: do you
know what you are.$dghting for?"
ss"Yes!" came the answer like the
snap OF a pistol. Then STOPPING quick
ly he tore a portion of sod from the
earth and passionately kissed it; cry
ing, %For France! For, France!"
The young French officer knew full
well for what he fought because he
had seen his beloved country drenched
with blood, her cathedrals demolished,
her people starved, her land devas.
tated He knew. for the reason that
he had been taught, by sad and bitter
experience.
Americans, even today, do not fully
realize what they are f,ghting for.
True. hostile shots have been fired
upon our soil. but they fen upon the
almost unpeopled shore of desolate
portion Of New England; vessels have
been sunk close to our home waters.
but they were unarmed fishing boats
and little damage was done except
the destruction of these small ships
and the death of few of the sturdy
sailors.
For all this. we are as truly fighting
for the sacred soil of America, as is
the Frenchman for the beloved soil OF
France, the only difference being that
our battlelines are thrown further
out and the enemy is being held at a
distance.
Were it not for the fact that Eng
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-10-12
BUSY DAYS N COURT KEEP
CANDIDATES FROM CAMPAIGN

22nd, at the Clemens ranch near Flor
ence, he went out into the field where
Lafayette Alfred, an American, was
doing the night irrigating, and struck
him over the head several times with
an irrigating shovel, crushing in the
base of the skull and side of face.
After robbing the body, he dug shall.
low grave beside the irrigating ditch
and covered up the body and then
turned the water over the grave to
wipe out all signs Returning to the
ranch Monday morning he reported to
the foreman that Alfred had told him
that he was going to Mesa. Garcia
worked at the ranch until Wednesday
when he hit the trail for Mammoth
where he was apprehended by Sheriff
Hail. In the meantime a search was
made for the remains of Alfred and
on Saturday morning the searching
party was rewarded by the grewsome
find r.