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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Keeping Up With Daughter

A mother writing in the Woman's Home Companion gives this amusing description of being daughtered:r-
 Let us then, oh, mothers with daughters just coming into their larger and broader and fuller life of woman :. hood with all it's attendant worries sufferings and heartburnings, have pa :, tience with their funny little ways ana fads and opinions. Let us listen to them and humor them when we can and so hold tight to their love and companionship. It's mighty hard. know. to play chaperon. to give up early bedtime, comfortable low wheeled slippers and kimono. to do away wltlr plain and quick hair-dressing, for two- inch heels and fluffy gowns and curl ing irons, but isn't it worth it. this being daughters best chum and closest confdant? Perhaps, when a few more years have gone their way and we are made into grandmothers by these dear ones, and our girls have new toy to fuss over. we may be allowed to sneak into the chimney corner and once more be fair. fat and forty in kimono ana slippers, but in the meantime it's great thing to be slaughtered, almost as good as being mothered and that Is the greatest thing in all the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Many States Represented

Anniston, June 29.-(Special )-The New England States are pretty well repre- sented among the men on the Blue and Gray cantonment, and with the bringing in of new organizations in the last few days practically every state in the union is represented.
 At the camp headquarters now are several former members of Blue and Gray units who have been left at the camp because they were confined to the base hospital. Among them is Private J. E. Hyland. desk orderly at camp head-s E, 116th infantry. Private Hyland was an inmate of the base hospital and is anxiously awaiting an order sending him to join his original organization. His home is in New Britain, Conn, but for several years he had been employed in the home office of the Travellers Insur- ance company at Hartford
 Mail Orderly Ralph R. Baker, Ports mouth, N H.. is another man left be- hind on account of illness. and, like the desk orderly, wants to get into tho game. He is a member of Company b, 115th infantry, and is anxious to receive an order sending him into action against the boche.
 Private William F. Anderson, Battery F, 112th heavy field artillery, is another man left behind on another account. His home is Burlington, la, but he has been on duty at Kelly field, San Antonio, Tex, for the past few months and when he arrived at the local cantonment to join his outfit he found his comrades gone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
CITY COMMISSION
 ASKED TO AID IN
 STEAM HEAT FIGHT
Public Service Commission Asked to Postpone Action Until Defense Is Prepared-Proposed Raise
 Will Be Resisted

A committee from the Civic associa- ton composed of T. H. Motion, chair man; Judge William E. Fort and John W. O'Netll appeared before the city commission yesterday morning and pe- titioned the city to join in the resist ance of the proposed increase in rates on steam heat by the Birmingham Railway, Light, and Power company.
 City Attorney Moore and W. H Salter were instructed to 20 to Mont gomery tomorrow and appear before the public service commission of Ala pama and ask to have this matter postponed until the matter can bs looked into and the defense prepared.
 It is probable that the city will join the Civic association in resisting the proposed increase in rates,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Montgomery and Selma
 Make Good Record i'll
 War Savings Stamp Drive

Montgomery, June 29.-Walter Jones, chairman of the Montgomery county War Savings Stamp campaign commit tees, announced late this evening that pledges tab bulated at 5 o'clock exceed ed s700.o00 for the next six months of the year. The quota assigned to the city ond county is s2,000,o0o.. and pledges to be tabulated will send the total beyond s1.ooo,ooo with the com mittee continuing their work to secure the full amount.
 Membership in the 5000 club in- creased to 1s1 today
 Reports received here from num- Der of counties indicate that all will pass their quotas. Only two counties have finished work of tabuhtion to- day.
 Selma, June 29.--A recapitulation of reports of committees engaged Friday in the nationwide War Savings Stamp drive. for this city. reveals the fact that the 5000 or limit club" personnel includes 176 business men and citizens. Thursday S6 joined the club. the re- mainder being secured during Fridays drive. The quota for city and county, $1,000,0 900, will be exceeded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
BIRMINGHAM BOYS
 IN ITALY WITH THE
 AMERICAN TROOPS

General March's announcement m washington yesterday that the first or American noncombatant troops had landed in Italy is of special interest Tn Birmingham because two of the best known boys in the city are believed to have been with the units which landed
 They are Robert F. Burnett, son of MT. and Mrs. R. D. Burnett and En- ory $. Avant, son of Mir and Mrs. C. A. Avant
 These two Birmingham men have been Tn training in Pennsylvania and 1t is known that they sailed some time ago. Personal cablegrams were being eagerly awaited last night an nouncing their safe arrival but in the absence of such cable the parents oe .ne young men assumed from General March's announcement that they were all right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
l.. & N. Prohibited From
 Removing Western Union
 Poles by Supreme Court

Montgomery, June 2e-tSpecial. )-The Louisville and Nashville railroad was prohibited from removing or destroying telegraph poles and wires of the Western Union Telegraph company between Mont gomery and Decatur, the Tennessee river and the Tennessee state line, and be- tween Mobile and Hurricane by the su- preme court Saturday when it reinstated an injunction granted by the Montgom- cry circuit court which was cancelled by the lower codrt.
 The supreme court ruled that the West ern Union Telegraph company had grounds for a suit now pending against the Louisville and Nashville and that the injunction should remain in force during the consideration of the case, as the telegraph property could be serious ly damage if the injunction were not in force The Western Union claims to have obtained d right-of-way near the railroads property and desires to con- tine the use of the railroad right-of- way only until it can move it's poles and wires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
"Garabed" Engine, Which Its LnUenfor Claims VIII Generate Free Energy, Ls Giuen Test
Board of Five Scientists Together With Representative of Interior Department, Witnessed Demonstration in
 Boston, Results of Which Were Not Given Out

Boston, June 2s.-"Garabed," the en- zine that it's inventor. Garabed Gira- gosstan, asserts is a free-energy gene rator, was tested at a private lab oratory in this city today by board of five scientists in the presence Of Judge E. c. Finney of the department of the interior. The result of the test was not announced but a report was sent by mail to Secretary Lane of the interior department
 Complete secrecy surrounded the en- tire proceedings, even the names of the scientists being withheld It was explained that any announcement would have to come from Washing ton. Mir. Giragossian, however, was said to be completely satisfied wish the demonstration of his machine. The test was completed in three hours.
 The invention is described by Mr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
WEEKLY LUNCHEON
 OF ADVERTISING GLIB

The weekly meeting of the Adver- using club of Birmingham will be held tomorrow at the Birmingham Civ ic association. Lunch will be served 10 the club membership between 1 and o'clock and reception will be given the new members added to the clubs roster In the last week, among whom are Arthur c. Crowder, E. I. Leighton M E. Hill J. D. Courtney, H. F. Kim cey and Ellis c. Hollums.
 The status of the War Savings stamn drive and what part the membershir or the Advertising club will take m the future is one of the subjects which will be discussed. A report embodvjnu considerable correspondence with the olticers Of the Associated Advertisins Clubs of the World on the work and influence Of the local organizat ton. will be made by Henry F. Beaumont secretary-treasurer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Steel Workers Loyal

Anniston, June 29.A(Special 1.-The employees of the Anniston Steel com pany both white and black, registered themselves as 100 per cent loyal to the government in the buying of more than $14,o00 in War Savings Stamps s5on0 being distributed among the men at that plant Saturday
 Every man in the plant took a vital and personal interest in the campaign and this accomplished wonderful task in rolling up subscriptions of lib- eral proportions from all the men in the office and in the mill
 The steel workers are proud of their accomplishment. and they are being congratulated in every part of the city by reason oftheir having gone lover the top' for Uncle Sam in the present emergency.
 That no slacKers are on the pay roll of the organization Is a source of grat- ification to everybody down that way. and the men who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows are now grooming themselves for participation in the next Liberty Loan drive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Richard H. Mabry of Selma, We'll Known Capitalist, Dead

Selma. June L)-Richard H. Mabry, president of the Mabry Se- curity company and vice president of the Selma National bank, died sudden ly tonight after a short illness his death being entirely unexpected The predisposing cause was a slight o2- eration on the throat. MT Mabry was Sl years of age and is survived by a brother. W. s. Mabry. of San Antonio Tex. and two sisters, Mrs. Catsby Jones and Miss Jennie Mabry of Selma He was Rotarian and one of the lead CTS of the civic life of the community Funeral plans have not yet been an- nounced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
PNEUMATIC MAIL TUBES KNOCKED OUT
 BY WILSON'S VETO
Postoffice Bill Held Up Until This Feature Was Eliminated-Burle-
 son Is Upheld

Washington, June 29.-Further govern ment use of pneumatic mail tube sys- tems in six large cities was blocked to- day by presidential veto of the post office appropriation bill, with pro- vision directing that the postoffice de- partment retain the tubes until next March, pending an investigation by the interstate commerce commission to de- terrnine the advisability of their purchase by the government
 When an attempt to pass the bill over the veto failed in the House, both the House and Senate repassed the measure with the provision objected to eliminated.
 In his veto, President Wilson support ed Postmaster General Burleson, who has made a fight for abandoning the tube system as obsolete and useless, because of the growth of the volume Of mail and the development of the automobile.
 Contracts for the operation of tubes Ill New York city, Brooklyn. Boston, Phlla- delphia, Chicago and St. Louis expire Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
CONVENTION OF THE
 KIWANIS CLUBS TO
 MEET IN BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham will get the 1919 annual international meeting of Kiwanis clubs according to message received by secretary v, W. Trammel of the club rom President J. Mercer Barnett, who IS attending the convention in Provi- dence k. I. MT. Barnett states thas ne succeeded in bringing the conven. ton to Birmingham over Nashville. Atlanta, Winnipeg and other cities aft. CT hard work, and these cities a,, promise to bring large delegations .o the 1919 convention.
 The Kiwanis club will not hold ,,; regular luncheon on Tuesday as tb.. Red Cross bull sale begins at 1 o'cIock and all members of the Indian aegra. gatlon are requested to be present a. this sale '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
RASH? LET P0SLAM
 GET AT THEM

You apply little Poslam on some affected part at night. In the morn ing, when you look, your own eyes give evidence of this healing remedys work If it was a slight trouble an adolascent Pimple or inflamed spot the chances are that it has disap- peared If virulent eruptional trouble, it-should be subdued. so much so that you will want Poslam to keep
 Sold everywhere For free sample write to Emergency Laboratories, PAS West filth St, New York City.
 Be careful of the soaps you use on your skin l'osiam Soap is safe, bene- ficfal. delightful. medicated with Pos lanl-AGy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
SIOUX CITY. IOWA, BUILDINGS COLLAPSE
 AND MANY KILLED
Six Bodies Are Recovered From Ruins and Rescuers
 Are Still at Work

Sioux City, IaS June 29.-Six persons are known to be dead and half score are missing and believed to be buried in the ruins of the Ruff building, an old three-story structure which coll lapsed at 1:3o p. m. today. bringing down with it two smaller, adjacent structures Officials tonight estimated the number of dead at between 10 and zO, With score or more injured, proL- ably a few fatally.
 Six bodies had been recovered at 10 o'clock tonight. All had been identi- fled but one.
 Rescuers tonight were penetrating the ruins. Fire, which followed the collapse greatly hampered the prog- ress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Wedding CerenonyIs Stopped When Groom To-Be Is Killed; Father Claims SeH-Defense
J. R. Graham of Meridian, Miss, Railroad Conductor Says Chicago Man, About to Marry Daughter in Mem phis, Admitted Being Already Married, and
 Then Attacked Him

attending college here as a music student. She was standing within d short distance of the men and one of her fingers was shattered by a stray bullet.
 According to a police statement, Graham declared after his arrest that Temple, just before the ceremony was to have taken place, admitted that he previously had been married, and that his wife still was living from whom he had not been divorced. After this ad- mission, Graham is said to have told the police, Temple leaped toward him and the shooting followed. Temple died within a few minutes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
One Member Board
 Equalization Cannot
 M a ke Assessment
Supreme Court Decides in Favor of Jefferson County in Suit of the
 Empire Mining Company

Montgomery, June 29.-(SpeciaL )-Jef ferson county won it's fight with the Elm pire Mining company over the contention tnat one member of the board of equali- zauon could not make an assessment when the supreme court today affirmed the case of the Empire Mining comnanv vs- F. B. Bowers tax collector. The company sought to force Bowers to set aside an assessment made by the board Of equalization on the ground that a previous assessment was valid. The board showed that one member valued the property and agreed to make a cer- taln assessment, but majority of the board declined to acquiesce in the as- sessment and made it higher. The su- preme court said the board could name one member of investigation and make a report but one member could not make an assessment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30

which it was proposed by Swift & Co to reappraise six tanning companies in which it owns 50 per cent.
 T approve if done quietly and prompt ly," was the memorandum Edward F. Swift placed upon the recommendation
 In the flour industry, the report says, the nillers for 1917 will show a profit of 52 cents a barrel, or nearly 5s per cent on their investment. One mill shows a profit of S2 a barrel. Despite the fact that the food administration succeeded in reducing profits they still were twice as high in 1917 as in previous years
 The report covers many principal basic industries and makes much the same charges as to each.
 The Senate directed the commission to make the investigation and report it so it could consider legisiation to reach the practices disclosed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30

Girag agossian as an engine that draws upon a universial source of energy, concentrates it and transforms it intp mechanical wosk. As the conversion of energy into motive force is direct, the cost of operation is said to be dependent only upon the depreciati on of the machinery. There is no fuel problem with it and the amount of horse power it can develop is merely a question of machine design, accord ing to the inventor.
 Washington, June 29-Results of the secret tests made at Boston today ot "GarabedT the mysterious engine claimed by it's inventor, T. K Giragos- sian, to derive it's energy from the air were not made public here.
 The resolution passed by Congress authorizing the tests provided that should the machine prove valuable it would be guaranteed governmental protection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30

Memphis. Tenn, June 29.-Robert l.. Temple, travelling salesman of Chi cago, was shot and killed here late today within an hour of the time set for his marriage to Miss Lena Gra- ham of Meridian, Miss, by J. R. Gra- ham, father of the young woman. Ora ham, a railroad conductor, surrendered after the shooting and. according to the police, claimed that he was forced to kill Temple, in self-defense.
 The shooting occurred at the home where the young woman boarded while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Corp. Huffman of Gadsden
 Is Reported Wounded

Gadsden, June Special )-Corp. Charles E. Huffman, Company 0, SIX teenth infantry. has been severely wounded in action. relatives were noti- fled today. He was wounded June IS while marching near the front line Huffman was one of the first Etowal men in France, arriving IS days after General Pershing. He conducted a dai- ry business here prior to his enlist ment and was popular in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Age-Herald A Tobacco
 Fund Reaches $1973.90

Contributions continue. to come into The Age-Herald tobacco fund for the boys lover there," and the fund is rap idly nearing the $2OoO mark. The total to date is $1s73.90
 Subscriptions recently are:
 Amount previously acknowl-
 edged .......................s1 s19s1.4o Mrs. Hattie Sue MeLendon, 1501
 Brown-Marx building . 800 The Ensley Steel Mill Electri-
 clans Monthly Contribution to
 the Soldiers Tobacco Fund:
 Charles Meeks . 50 Donald Walker .......... 50 A. L. Perry ................. 25 C. c. Graham ............ .25 c. R. Harbin .,........... 25 George w. Burks ........ .25 J. B. Martin ................... 20 H. M Trotman ....... 25 H. F.. Daniels .............. .2I T. L. Smith ................. .25 L. E. Diefenderfer ...... 25 E. F. Graham ............. 2d B. L. Carson .............. 2j E. A. McAllister ............. 25 Ed Coe ................... ..... .25 Dock Bradford .............. 25 C. E. Warren ................ .25 Q. V. Poindexter ............... 25 w. s. Fields ............. 25 P. L. Wilson .....r.......... 25 J. Bube ................ 20 c. w. Chapman ............ .25 J. H. Pike ................. ,25 A. w. Young .............. .25 L. H. Garner ............. .25 Horry Crane ................ .o5 E. P. Smith ................. .25 Fred Marsden ............... .25 Robert Dawson ........... 25 O. F. Baker .................. 25 J. w. Mitchell ................ 25 C. c. Ozley ................... .25 J. s. Hamilton ............... .25 G. w. Trawick ............. .25 W. s. Shehee ................. .25 c. Walker ................... .25
 Total to date ............. $197s. 90
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Gadsden People Entertain

Anniston, June 29.-(Speciall-A party of Gadsden artists entertained several hundred men at the Knights of Colum- bus building Friday evening. The con- cert was followed by the showing of a splendid picture, "Cupids Round Up"
 A big open-air boxing bout is being arr ranged for the evening of Jaly at this building, and a large number of mitt wielders are grooming themselves to enter the lists now open.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Orphan Runaways Caught

Anniston. June 29.--(SpeciaL)-- )---Six tired and footsore orphan boys were taken into custody on Noble street Saturday morning by Officer Smith, the officers inquiry having developed the fact that they were runaways from the state orphanage at Taliadega.
 They gave their names as Henry Vaughan, Yancey Haley, Nathaniel Kilgore Denson Satterfield, Alonzo vickers and Wright Mead, and their former homes as different parts of the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
Kerensky Arrives in Paris
 and Holds a Conference
 With Russian Ambassador

Paris June 29.-Alexander Kerensky, the former Russian provisional premier. arrived in Paris from London today. Shortly after his arrival he had a long conference with M. Maklakoff, the Rus sian ambassador in Paris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
An over-ripe Tomato

and other over-ripe vegetables or fruits often cause very serious Bowel Trouble tn hot weather. Check it as quickly as possible. Get a bottle of GROVES BABY BOWEL MEDICINE, a safe and sure remedy for Summer Diarrheeas It is just as effective for Adults as for Children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30
VAST PROFITEERING ON COMMODITIES
 OF LIFE CHARGED
 BY COMMISSION
(Continued from Page one)

it's of the meat packers and those al- lied with them. and by the flour millers stand foremost. despite the fixing of prices by the government Manipulations of the market by the five great meat packers Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson and Cudahy--the commission asserts "embrace every de- vice that is useful to them without re- gard to law"
 The report charges that the five con cerns have monopolistic control of the meat industry "and are reaching for like domination in other products"
 During 1915, 1916 and 1917 the report says these companies "pocketed"> s14o,- 900, ,000.
 STEEL, FLOUR AND COAL
 "The experience with steel, flour and coal" says the report. referring to price fixing, shows that a high stim- ulating fixed price, while stabilizing an ascending market, produces an eco- homie situation which is fraught with hardship to the consuming public and with ultimate peril to the high cost companies through increa sing power Of their low cost competitors"
 PADDED ACCOUNTS
 Where the government has fixed prices on the basis of fair return on net investment, the report hints at padded depreciations,s increased salaries or officials, new construction charged on as repairs, fictitious values on raw materials and manipulated inventories.
 Illustrating high recommendations charged oH to expense accounts, the re- port cities the following payments shown to officials of the American Metal company of New York, which deals chiefly in zinc:
 B. Hochschild chairman Of the board s179,6SS.
 C. M. Loeb, president, $3s4, ,32e.
 otto Sussman, vice president. so21 ,5se.
 J, Loeb, vice president, s14793o
 sol Ross, manager St. Louis. s14s, ,5So
 M. Schott, manager, Denver. S3s. .5s3.
 In the steel industry, the report says profits increased from 4.7 per cent in 1912 to more than A per cent in 1917 one Of the smaller mills showed a profit of more than 300 per cent
 In the meat industry, the report says. Morris 6s Co. realized more than 263 per esHl on $5,VoOU0 Of capital stock out standing and during 1916 Armour & Co. raised their capital stock from S20,O0o 900 to Sloo,cOo,00o without receiving a dol lar in cash''
 Independent bakers, meanwhile. in 1914, 1915 and 1916 earned a higher rate of profit than the large concerns.
 In the leather industry the profits of one concern jumped from $644, ,oo0 in 1914, to S3,5f6,OO0 in 1917. The shoe business meanwhile showed large profits and tn, report says it appears that the retailer has profited more in proportion than the wholesaler"
 To show the manner in which it is charged big concerns reappraised their assets when government price fixing ap- peared imminent the commission includ- ed in it's report a copy of a letter in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30

Mrs. Susie Beason--Aged SS, died here Wednesday and the remains were sent to Meridian Friday for inter- ment. She is survived by husband, w. c. Beason, and two daughters, Ella and Stella Beason
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30

Campbell Self--Aged Il, died yester- day at local infirmary. Remains will be shipped this morning by
 Johns to Carbon Hill for interment