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some more than a shock and that he l could hardly interpret it as friendly. In
 the course of a long letter he declared
 that the aero department is full of prof lteerine, and that hundreds of millions : nave gone, and that when he commenced l his investigation from an office in the i war department building assigned to him.
 his work was systematically blocked, to ] the extent even of threatening wit
 nesses He named in this connection stanley King, assigned as an aide to his work, and asserted that Major General 1 Squeir, chief of the signal corps, "acted 1 in like manner"
 I .Every official that l approached and
 from whom I had the right to receive aid and courtesy entered into general 1 conspiracy to deceive, to mislead and to I prevent learning the truth about the | aeronautic situation" the letter contin- yued. Il do not presume to give the req son for this" + | Eemarking that Col E. A. Deeds, an army member of the aircraft board, has said semi publicly that 1900 American planes were flying in France, the sculptor asserts that in fact there are less than 20 planes.
 II have said that the aero department is full of profteering, the letter said, that hundreds of millions have gone, NHtNS le1StoiiSS IdNe DeeIl created where there were no factories necessary. and contracts to the extent of s50,OoO GOO given to men who had neither rhyme nor req son for the remotest connection with the emergency of airplane production. but who had the pull of Deeds, and who are still floundering in their ignorance and ineompetency, unable and iucapabe of fulhiling their contracts, still drawing under the cost plus system on the treas ury of the nation
 't have said that aeronautic men have been snubbed and ignored, and that fac tories that knew the art of airplane build ing are even at this writing without the slightest considera tion by the group who deal with the colossal funds for their own purposes.
 Liberty motors were developed for the purpose of monopolizing the engine mak- ing business in the country, Borglun1 as- serted and he concluded:
 Charges more grievous could not nave been made against a department or group of men. Seven or eight in vestigations have been made besides my own, and there is no single denial of any thing I charge. The camouflage de-
 iberately planned by group of men en- trusted with great arm of our military machine has come to an end at least hcpe it has come to an end, but the chart of reconstruction which I saw the day before yesterday fills me with def
 mite alarm"
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CRITICAL U s. SENATORS AND THEIR AR7ZSTLNFORNlER
 MUST EITHER PUT UP OR SHUT UP ON SERIOUS CHARGES
that corruption in the expenditure of funds and pro-German intrigue have hindered airplane production.

that corruption in the expenditure of funds and pro-German intrigue have hindered airplane production.
 There also was letter written by the President today to Senator Thomas of Colorado. member of the Sem ate military committee, assuring him that every instrumentality of the de- partment of justice will be used to pursue charges of dishonesty or mall versation of any kind if MT. Bor- glum's allegations are found worthy of serious consideration. Senator Thomas laid before the President last week assertions made to members of the committee by the sculptor.
 STATUS OF BORGLUM
 The exact status of MT. Borglum as an investigator. which until now nas been more or less of a mystery to the public, is cleared up by the correspond ence It develops that after the sculp- tor had written to Secretary Tumulty last November in regard to alleged de- fects in the aviation organization, and the desirability of having certain ex- perts called in, the President asked him to present his ideas. Later, on January 2. the President wrote a let ter to Mir. Borglum. asking him to come to Washington and lay the mat ter before the secretary of war, and with the aid of member of the sec retary's personal staff, discovered the facts by personal investigation. Bor glum did this, and on February l. the President sent a preliminary report from him to Secretary Baker with this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington. May 6.-Forecast for Ala bama and Mississippi: Local showers Tuesday or Tuesday night Wednesday probably fair.
 Georgia: Partly cloudy Tuesday and probably showers in the afternoon or night; Wednesday partly cloudy.
 Tennessee: Local showers Tuesday 1; Wednesday probably fair and slightly cooler.
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PRESIDENTS NOTATION

Here is MT. Borglum's preliminary report. Is there not some one en- tirely disconnected from aeronautics and from those who are prominent in carrying out the airplane programme whom you can ask to go over this thing with an unbiased mind and give us his naive impressions of it? There may be something worthy of our con- sideration and suggestions worthy te be adopted.
 On March g, after an exchange of tele- grams with Borglum, the President wrote that he had placed the material the let ter had furnished at the disposal of men to whom he had committed the task of making a systematic inquiry into the whole aviation situation. These were the special committee headed by H. Snowden Marshall, of New York, whose prelirni- nary report preceded the recent re- organization of the army aviation ser vice and the appointment of John b. Ryan S director general
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BURGLUM REsENTFUL

Apparently the sculptor resented not being allowed to carry out the inquiry himself. In response to complaint that he had not been supplied with suitable expert assistants, the President, on April b. informed him that he feared he had been under a serious misapprehension as to his status. T never at any time constituted you an official investigator wrote the President. T merely gave you the right to look into the matter on your
 own motion, and l am sure the letter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07

pany the crowd to the park. The hour for assembling is fixed at f:3O D. m.,
 Free tickets to the members of the Civic association will be mailed by the office, eatitling the holders to admission to all the amusements.
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God says-not what some of the preachers in Birmingham said. We are grateful to the good laymen who stood true to their mothers. their pas tors and. God. Many men, not church members. stood squarely with us, too. Birmin gham is greater now than ever.
 Sincerely,
 L. F. WRITTEN. Birmingham. May S, 1918.
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CONFERENCE WITH SENATOR

Mr. Borglum had conference today With members of the Senate military committee, and gave them list of wit nesses he desires summoned if the com mittee reopens it's investigation as re- suit of his disclosures. He reiterated. his assertions that criminal liability could be established
 Exactly what the Borglum charges are never has been revealed publicly. though they have been broadly hintei at Ill Senate debate and freely discussed Tn the cloak rooms. Whether the Senate committee will consider them has not been determined, but a majority opposes action and Acting Chairman Hitchcock has stated that an inquiry involving pos sible criminal proceedings should be con- ducted by the department of justice A meeting will be held in a few days to settle ihas uIlestioo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07
NOTICE

NOTICE
 To our friends and patrons: Pnntnzc Cnfe will Ic closed four days, bcain- ming Tuesday, for alterations. We ex- pect to have the table space to accom- mOdate all our patrons.
 C. ID. PANTAZE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07
Germans Trying 10 SosU
 Fares Of Teutonic Peace
 Zn the Fields of the Allies
We Can't Win in Battle, Therefore Let Us Match Wits In Diplomacy" Now Seems to Be the Slogan of the
 Kaiser Hindepburg and Company

London May 6Germanys been Dusy working he but has made
 mere reason to believe that the ported Dutch nancer nothi N~' ASAS D
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Senator Bankhead Fails to Answer the Call of the President and Assume Responsi-
 bility for the Declaration of War

When Germany was sinking passenger ships without warning, murdering our citizens, firing to embroil us in war, the President called an extra ordinary session of Congress to meet the 2d day of April, 1917, to settle the momentous ques- tion. Every Senator expected to be at his post; the fate of our nation hung in the balance; the fate of 100000 Alabaminns was in the scales; but when the time arrived to vote on this stupend- ous question, Senator Bankhead was absent. He remained away from the Senate from the 2d to the 25th of April. Through his absence the voices of his constituents in Alabama slenced throughout this intense period of war preparation Why he did not lead his people and share with them the responsibility in this imminent crisis is for him to answer. Congressional Record, 65th Congress, Vol. 55, pages 101-261.)
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MARSHALL COMMITTEE REPORT

The only element of the situation not as yet in MT. Bakers hands, so far as known, is the final report Of the Marshall committee, which will he submitted to the President when coni- pleted.
 If military court is convened. it Will have authority to subpoena wit nesses and also to require the pro- auction Of books or other papers,
 Army officers prefer to have such a court instead of a congressional com mittee conduct the inquiry. Those in- yo1ved, it is said, propose to be ably represented by counsel and to seek not only to disclose the facts in connection with aircraft production, but to look into the motives of those behind the critical agitation against their work.
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Senator Frank 5. White Announces As q Candidate for the United States Senate Before the Democratic Primary in August

 1T h hnef dhme fon beaHyb
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Senator Bankhead's Want of Support of the President

Senator Bankhead, with the Republicans in the Senate, torpedoed the Ship Purchase Bill. He de- lied the President; the action of the Senate Dem- ocratic caucus; defeated the will of the House of Representatives; ignored instructions of his state legislature but voted with the Shipping Trust that had raised the rate cotton from $l.50 to S30OO bale, while cotton selling at six cents pound. He himself was responsible for the de- feat of the bill. The vote stood A to 42; had he voted with the Democrats and not with the Repub- licans the vote would have been tie, and the Vice President would have voted for the bill, insurng its passage. And now would have ships to carry soldiers, munitions and food to France and ren- der effective aid to our struggling staggering al- lies. (See Congressional Record, Vol. 52, 63rd Congress, 3rd session, pages 2786-37 and 2944) Senator Bankhead Again Fails to Support
 the President and Votes With the
 Republicans
 He voted against the confirmation of MT. Rublee, the nominee of President Wilson, as member of the Federal Trades commission, again defying the President to please the Republican leader of the Senate, Senator Gallinger. The vote in the Senate again tie. His vote would have saved the day to the President and the Democrats tCongression al Record, 64th Congress, 1st session. Vol. 53, page 8510)
 Senator Bankhead Fails to Answer the Call of the President and Assume Responsi-
 bility for the Declaration of War
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INQUIRIES REQUESTED

General Sauires' request for a military inquiry to clear up the matter so far as ne and lis subordinates are concerne s1s before Secretary Baker, and there has been no intimations of what action the secretary will take
 Mir Baker is making a personal study of the situation. Besides such statements as MT. Borglum has made, he has betore hln voiuminous cable correspondence with European officials as well as American officers on the other side, dealing with aircraft types and changes, the proceed lngs or the aircraft board as shown by It's records and all other data throwing light on any phase of the matter. He said today that he had not concluded his study or arrived at any determina- ton as to whether there was groanu shown ror prosecution of any official
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07
Senator Bankhead Again Absent

When war in. Europe was declared in 1914, cot ton had fallen from 13 to cents pound; the farmers of Alabama were the verge of bank ruptcy. With other Southern Senators sought to have passed measure authorizing the United States government to purchase 5,0ooooo bales of cotton at 10 cents pound. This would have taken the distressed cotton from the market and the price would have returned to 13 cents. When vote on the question in the Senate was taken Senator Bank head was absent. Congressional Record 63rd Congress, 2d session, Vol 5l, page 16,7S5 ct seqo Senator Frank s. Whites Service to the
 Rural Districts and Mail Carriers
 helped to defeat an amendment to the Post office Bill offered by Senator Bankhead's com- mttee, reducing the pay of rural mail carriers. which would have impaired the service to their patrohs. Congressional Record, 63rd Congress, Sd session, Vol. 52, page 45S.)
 Southern War Claims Bill
 I aided in passing bill appropriatng several millions of dollars to pay southern people for prop erty taken or destroyed during the Alabam- ians got more than $1O0.O0000 of this. endeav- ored to pass a bill appropriating 65,000,O00 to pay southern people for cotton tax unlawfully i'm. posed on them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07
WASHINGTON WATCHFIJL

Washington, May 6.-Officials and diplomats hear, on reading Germany 3 purported peace terms as outlined to. day in dispatches from London, recalled that British officials recently predicted a peace offensive" and said further more that they expected that terms to be offered in behalf of Germany would be framed so as to appear most at- tractive to Great Britain
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which the secretary of war provided you With, he gave you with the same pur- pose and idea"
 The President closed by expressing the hope that MT. Borglum would feel it his duty to turn over to official investigation, any evidence in his possession. It has been reported since that the sculptor re- fused to deal with the Marshall com mittee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07

Foreign Secretary Balfour told the House of Commone today that no peace offers had been made recently by the en- emy. He said:
 There is no representative of neu- tral nation in this country who has made tentative or informal suggestions of peace negotiations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07
TERMS OF PEACE

The proposals made by Jonhkcr Colvn, the dispatch from The Hague reports are said there to have been as follows: Germany to renounce all claims in the west.
 Restoration of Belgium.
 Aisace-Lorraine to be autonomous within the German federation.
 The status in the east to remain as at present
 Austria to make certain concessions to Italy in the Trentino.
 Balkan questions to be solved by an international conference
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07
Appropriations bv National Government
 for Public Highways

l favor appropriations by the national govern ment for public highways as is now conducted under the Shackeford bill claimed to be the Bank head bill It was introduced in Congress by Rep resentatiye Shackeford of Missouri. s4 Congresson- al Record 64th Congress, 1st session. Vol 53, page
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07

l stand for prohibition where I have always stood. Senator Bankhead has always opposed it. question to an ndiscrrinate vote in the District of Columbia, and when that was defeated he voted against prohibition in the District of Columbia. fCongressional Record, 64th Congress 2d session Vol. 54, pages 1172-1173)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07

All colonial questions affecting Africa and Asia Minor to be settled by con- ference of all the belligerents.
 Germany to abandon all claims to her former Chinese protectorate of Kiao Chau, but in exchange to receive certain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-07

A Central News dispatch from The Hague says the Dutch Intermediary is re- ported to be Jonhker Colyn, former min- ister of war.
 'onhKer Colyn went to England last week at the head of a mission whose purpose was said to be to explain to the British government the difficulties caused by Germany's demand on Hol- land concerning the transfer of German materials across Dutch territory to Bel gium
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-19
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-19

Scotland and Lieutenant Noru. ali or
whom are stationed At Fort Sill were
the guests Of Mayor and Mrs over
holser over Sunday
-
Miss Fannie Fightma,tsr OF NS
West Fourth street and Mrs Hugh
Stonum. 2l8 West Sixth street e
turned Saturday from Dallas where
they visited at the home of Mrs. ". ]
Brady for ten day
Miss Pauline Nodgr, and mother Of
1912 North Phillip avenue LETT Wed.
nc'day ior a fees months visit ru West
Virginia with friend. ard relative.
Y
The Washington School Patrons club
will meet at the school building fr.
day afternoon a, 3 O'Clock \ good at
tendance !, desired a> thi. 3, the frt
meeting that ,h, club ha, held ,h. fall
The officer, elected at the close oi m,
spring term viii b., present These in
clude Mr, T. II Hamill, president
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-19
Pershing Proves
Berlin Sham in
Loss of Salient

WASHINGTON Sept l9.-Capturcd
German orders couclusiycly show that
the German official boast that Amer
lean troops took the ST. Mihlcl sallent
because the German army had lecn
considering the evacuation for ."years
is a typical deception
The official orders OF the tenth Ger
man division dated September 4, lar
from giving order, ior a retreat which
had been planned "ior years give,
thc most detailed instructions for de-
tense Of the salient General Pcr,hirg
Transmitted a copy Of the order by
Dabl, today to the war department
The German COmmandcr tAuRh'
they had provided = for every con.
tlngcnry
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-19

stantly are on the alert and are afraid
the Americans are going to attack
They are said to have assembled an
enormous number of tank and troops
In that case we are lost, ior every
thing in our front line is mixed up
! am firmly convinced that / could not
be worse off over there"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-19
G. A. R. WILL ATTEND
STATE FAIR MONDAY

Monday will be q. a R. day q, the
Fair and All old soldiers. members oi
the Womcns Relief Corps. Ladies oi
g A K and Confederate veterans will
be admitted free. They will meet al,
the main entrance at go o'clock Mon
day womug and march into the FAR
Ground. m a body Capt = D Ken.
Won will act a. chlcl maf,hal
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-19
Nv VI
INCREASE APPROVED
IN EXPRESS RATES

NEW YORK, Sept l9-The appl
cation hy the American Railway llN.
pre-, company for another 10 percent
increase in rates. ha, been approved
and an order directing these increase,
O., abou, ro hr issued. according 90 the
understanding Of Travis II Whimcs
Nrw York public service cDmmls,ronr
who returned here 'uda, from q meet
my ~ Washington OF the special war
committee oi state ullt'c. comm,
ropcr, which met there 'o protest
aRA-nN lhr nrnpn.cd ln-rrA.t-
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-19
Has the Habit.

The Germans now complain that
General Foch not only took over the
French and British armies, but In his
absent-mlndcd way has recently started
taking over a good part Of the German
army Punch.