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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-18
To Launch Three Hnsts

There will be three launchings at the
Harlan Yards Of the Bethlehem Ship
building Corporation in January. An oil
tanker Of $500 tons and two cargo car
rie,s OF 500 tons csch will he put over
board
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-18
Gard Of Thanks.

We wish to thank relatives md friends
for their sympathy and floral offerings
NJ the death Of our sister and aunt, Miss
Rose l.. Riley The Family ADV
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-18
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~ The shore 81 the Atlantic Ocean, but
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-18

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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
UNDERWOOD TO AWAIT
 FULLER INFORMATION

Washington, January 4--(Special.) Senator Underwood will not address the Senate on the proposed league of na- tions. He declared this afternoon that it was we'll enough for men who desire controversy and publicity to discuss in academic fashion a subject which is not a subject
 ''It will be time enough to back or oppose the President" said the senator this afternoon, when the delegates have in concrete manner drawn up the tenta- tive programme of the proposed league, then and not before then can one know whether he favors the scheme or op- poses it
 Then and only then can he be cer- tain of what he is talking about" It is known that friends of the senator in Alabama and Washington have urged him to take part in the Lodge-Knox- Lewis Thomas controversy relative to the league of nations because of theii desire that he put himself and keep him self more conspicuously before the pub lie To all of them the senator has re- piled that he cannot express himself un- til in actual language the President and representatives of other nations let it be known just what they propose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
COL. I. O. SMITH
 WILL ADDRESS
 K|WAN|S CLUB
Business Outlook for 1919" Bankers Topic-Full At tendance Is Urged by
 President Barnett

Col T. O. Smith, vice president of the Birmingham Trust and Savings hank. will be the principal speaker at She Kiwanis club luncheon on Tuesday at 1 o'clock at the Tutwiler hotel ball. room.
 Colonel Smiths subject will be The Business Outlook for 1919," and his talk is anticipated with a great deal of pleasure by the membership. for aside from being in position to give the members of the club some pointers on local conditions. Colonel Smith is a splendid talker and a very interest ing story teller. should he happen to run in d few of his best.
 Pres. J. Mercer Barnett is urging ev- cry member of the club to attend this meeting. as 1t is very important that the attendance be kept at high mark. and the start must be made early in the year to get the attendance desired at each meeting.
 'T want every member to be present at o'clock sharp" said the big chief. 'and I can see no reason why every member cannot attend the meeting Tuesday. We are going to make a big drive on attendance this year, and every member will have to do his part in this line for us to make the aver age that we aspire to-"
 Another feature of the meeting next Tuesday will be the roll call. Secre- tary Jeff Bailey has arranged a roster. and each man must answer his name or business. which ever is called first. The secretary will call the roll and there is going to be some pep put into this part of the programme. which it is hoped will be feature of the club lunch heonS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
Frank Han1n1ond Opens
 Majestic on Monday, l3
Theatre Is to Be Renamed By Patrons-Maddock-Fark Rogers to Present Stock Drama of High Class
 Theatre Renovated and Ran1odeled

company is composed of capable per formers.and such plays as Help want ed" '7The Net, Going straight, ''Somewhere in France" and others will be given here.
 Frank Hammond, manager said Tn speaking of the reopening of the pret- ty little playhouse:
 q am confident that the people or Birmingham will appreciate our efforts to give them clean and enJoyabl le amusement The plays that will be produced will be worth while and the company presenting them equal to the call. The plans are to give matinee and night performance daily. The thea tre will be conducted along high lines, the place to bN family theatre In the fullest sense of the word. The company is to be headed by Frank Maddocks and Miss Mae Parks, and each member has been selected to fill the characters in the plays that are in the repertoire. I am sure that the pub lie will assist in the remaining of the theatre so that the cozy place, soon to become one of the most popular theatres in the south, will carry with it every atmosphere and reflection or a temple of amusement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
J. HAM LEWIS
 AS WILSON SPOK ESMAN

Washington. January 4.-(Special)
 J. Ham Lewis. Illinois senator, is pub
 fishing in the Washington Post
 series of syndicated articles. His sto-
 ries appear imm ediately after stories
 by Roosevelt and Taft appear. He at
 tempts to answer the arguments and
 refute the contentious of the former
 Presidents. Some declare that he suc-
 ceeds. Others smile.
 There is a serious and humorous side
 to the situation. It is whispered that
 the President became impressed, inn mediately after the recent disastrous congressional elections, that Roose- welt and Taft, through their edito- rial contributions in oppositionN of his policies had proved themselves effec- tive-and therefore should-be regular ly and systematically answered. He cast about him for the proper individ- ual to make reply. and settled on Sen ator Lewis. The other contention IS
 that Lewis. himself, reached the con- clusion that he should reply to the former Presidents and thereby pre- serve the glory of the present execu- tive.
 Inasmuch as MT. Wilson will never voluntarily make a statement eluct- dating the problem. it will probably never ba solved. At any rate, Mir Lewis is regarded as the spokesman or the DUH III the press and in the Senate He answ CTS with his quill, Roosevelt and Taft, and with his voice. Knox, Lodge and Cham berlain and others who would pluck the President of his laurels.
 , Some days ago Senator Lodge deliv- cred a speech opposing the formation of a league of nations. MT. Taft, ar ardent advocate of the league of nd- | tions" idea, explained editorially thai Tn6pa iS not OnnCSaN 10 A lea of nations, but is opposed to the for | nation of such a league at the present time. This caused prominent" dem ocrau to write the following to the Washington Times:
 Taft has explained what Lodge meant. J. Ham Lewis will undertake | to explain what they both meant l The letter was published anony- I mously and the Times asked it's read 1 CTS to guess what prominent man au. 1 thorized the publication. This prompt l ed several cynical gentlemen to chide l Senator Lewis with the suggestion ! that it was he who had printed ths | challenge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
Local Data
HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville January 4 - Especially The temperature dropped down to eight degrees above zero this morning, the coldest weather that has been ex- perienced here this winter. The cold wave caught many people unprepared but there is not as much suffering this time as there was last year, because there is plenty of coal in the hands of the dealers. Business. however. has been more or less demoralized be- cause of the heavy snow, which re- mains on the ground and which in the city streets has turned to sheets of ice and made ordinary traffic almost impossible.
 Fourteen cars of a westbound freight train on the Southern railway Jumped the track this side of Limrock, Jack son county. Friday and delayed traffic several hours on the line between here and Chattanooga. The smash-up made it necessary for passenger trains 10 transfer their passengers across the wreck area in spite of the unusually cold weather.
 William L. Russell, for several years deputy circuit court clerk, has accept ed the position of office deputy under Sheriff John c. Lowe, succeeding D. N. Spotswoo who resigned
 Chief of Police Haughton has begun operations against alleged whisky sell ing in Huntsville. He and his men made a raid' yesterday at a store on Church street simultaneously with a raid at the home of the owner of the store. where it is claimed four quarts of liquor were found. Two negroes were arrested at the store
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
LOOKS LIKE DELAY IN
 RAILROAD SETTLEMENT

Washington, January 4-(Special. )-The committee on interstate commerce con- ducing inquiry for the Senate into the bill of Director General McAdoo pro- viding for governmental control of the railroads for five additional years, indi- cated today that its sessions would be extended throughout a month with the certainty that no legislation would be effected before March 1.
 This means that republicans will han dle this monentous problem just as they will handle the problem of the permanent military establishment
 MT. McAdoo is known to be of the opinion that if democrats do not act. re- publicans in the face of presidential campaign, will not If there be no ex- tra session this legislation will not be ready for Senate consideration before next December and the 21 months follow ing declaration of peace, to which time under existing law the government may hold common carriers, will probably have expired before the problem is finally and permanently solved
 Monday members of the interstate com merce commission will have the begin ming of their inning before the commit tee.
 Then will follow the representatives of railroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
MEDICAL SUPPLIES
 RUN INTO MILLIONS
No Stint or Scarcity of Supplies Was Permitted to Arise in This Branch
By Assoejated Press

General Headquarters. American FIX neditionarv Forces, November 2T.-A vast expansion of the medical serNice of the American army in France was proiected before the armistice was signed. but the plan was suspended when hostilities were stopped. In ad- dition to- the 3,248 beds then ready for use in camps and hospitals 42o,fZz normal beds and 541.239 expansion beds were in process of construction or pro curement in preparation for expected campaigns.
 Twenty-one American hospital trains and 20 borrowed French hospital trains were in operation, while 2S more hos pital trains and 20 so-called sitting trains' were under construction.
 The consumption of medical supplies runs into big figures, for there has been on stint nor scarity or such material Bandages have been issued to d total of 2A624 900 besides 10,sSs,- 200 yards of yard wide gauge. In ad7 dition have been issued l,0oo,0o0 ounces of absorbent cotton, 100000 first aid packets in addition to the original is- sue to each man and of foot powder, the soldiers best friend on the march or in the wet ,54S, 900 pounds.
 These are only some of the medical supplies. Pins and safety pins, sutures and iodine Swabs run into the millions, soap. ether carbolic acid and iodine art totaled in hundreds of thousands of pounds.
 The medical department has paid probably more than it's proportion in casualties The roll of killed and wounded in doctors and nurses and oth- CT branches of the corps is long>one, testifyng to the devotion and bravery of these noncombatants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
KISSED THE BLARNEY
 STONE, BUT CAME NEAR STAYING IN IRELAND
Peter Mcclure Lost His Balance and Fell no Feet, But Tree Saved
 His Life
By Associated Press

London, December 5.--Peter Mcclure, sometime of San Francisco. now of the
 United States navy, imperilled his neck for the right to tell his admiring friends at home: i've kissed the Blarney Stone" Mcclure was mem- Der of a party of American sailors
 conducted by the Young Mems Chris
 tian association to Blarney castle. Its bit of a drop" said Pete after he had climbed to the top of the castle wall and looked down sheer no feet. '1t's by way of adding little sport to the game.
 Pete watched other Yankee blue Jackets kiss the Blarney Stone. The ap- proved method is for a strong man to grasp the candidates left leg and arm, while another grasps his right leg and arp, then they swing him out over the Abyss as far as they can reach and let the intrepid one bounce his nose against the scarcely attain able rock. call it kiss and let it go at that.
 Not so Mcclure. He knew he could reach out over the ledge and kiss the Barney stone across the way with out assistance. As he had almost att taned h goa he lost his ha ance and started down the 110 feet straight through the air. The keeper descended by a safer
 route, intending td pick up the dead American sailor, What he saw was Mcclure rubbing himself and pointing h heavenward wit ha sort of sheepish grin.
 The keeper saw where McGuire, after falling SO feet, hit well out on tree limb and broke it off. Below that was another bough to which he had caromed and below still another, also breaking the fall that the last drop of f5 feet was very minor.
 The custodian became very angry. "Whoat do you mean?" said he, break ing off the limbs of the trees. Don't you see that sign? Do not injure ,thl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
BANKHEAD OPPOSES
 LANES FARM PLAN

Washington, January 4-(SpeciaL) That Secretary Lanes plan to buy cer- tain acreage and give it as homesteads to returning soldiers is not even good nonsense" is the view of Senator Bank head.
 He thinks it would mean the expendi- ture of millions upon millions of dollars without return. In the second place, he thinks that the soldiers. or about 40 per cent of those who went abroad. will refuse to settle down to a quiet rural life-and hard labor-after the unprece- dented excitement through which they will have gone.
 If acreage is given every man." said the Senator, 'the government will have to make sohat acreage fit for cultiva- ton, for the soldier will have no means of doing so. The government will then have to fence in the farm, equip it with animals and agricultural implements and seed. Then the government will hay to build a house for each man, and fur nish the house.
 q think the idea preposterous. It is dream stuff It is not even good non- sense"
 The senator risks his reputation for judging human nature on the prediction that at least 40 per cent of the soldiers who have served in France will have ito be shown" that the government will not care for them before they become con- vinced and returned to work. He excludes those with money and those for whom good jobs have been held. AS far as for mer farm boys returning to the quiet and peace of the country and there en- gazing in hard labor, he holds that they will be so swayed by memories of the glorious days of real excitement that they will be unable to resume former duties.
 ''As matter of fact" continued the senator, "a government for which men risks their lives does owe such men living, but it doesn't give it to them' and to do so would probably be imprac- ticable.
 But I cannot see any wisdom in the plan of the Secretary of the Interior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05

The Majestic theatre, on Third ave- nue, between Eighteenth and Nine teenth streets has been leased a thor ough renovation given and returnish- ings installed, prior to reopening with the Maddocks-P Park Players, said to be one of the best stock companies in the south today, in repertoire of recent eastern succ4 4sses, '
 The theatre will bd under the per sonal management of Frank Ham, mond. who for sometime has been in newspaper and theatrical work in Blr- mingham. and whose reputation Tor house management is enviable. The intentions are to rename the theatre the public to be given the right to sug- gest the new name.
 The reopening of the theatre IS set for Monday week, January 13. and the play selected for the first week will be "Tess of the Storm Country play that has been enjoyed by thou sands of people. The theatre is'to be conducted as a family playhouse. mati- nees to be given daily and night per formanues' starting at S:3O o'clock. me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
WILSON'S FRIENDS TRY TO
 SILENCE CRITICISM

Washington, January 4-(Special.) ) Friends of the administration are endeav- bring to dissuade the Senate from it's present attitude of consistently criticiz- ing the President For daily it becomes evident that differences existing among the allied statesmen will be most diff cult of adjustment. And the President is the only representative of a great power who has not received the indorse- ment of his people or the lawmaking body of his people. While the recent vic tory of the republicans may be forgotten before the beginning of the peace con- ferences, continued assaults by Senators Lodge and Knox cannot have other than the effect of weakening the Presidents s hand.
 Lloyd George, by overwhelming ma pority won the elections in England. Gle menceau received the overwhelming in- dorsement of the French Senate The Italian commissioners are so strongly supported in their positions that when Signor Bisolati voiced utilitarian views similar to those of MT. Wilson, he was forced to retire from the service of the government. The President lost the elec- tions in the United States after having formally appealed for support In addi- tion, the republicans through their "big- gest guns attempt to make his work more difficult of successful fact, more hazardous.
 There is evidence in Washing ton other than press reports that sharp differences have developed among the associated powers. France wants certain mineral fields formerly possessed by Germany, and is insistent that German soldiers be hereafter ex- cluded from the eastern banks of the Rhine. Furthermore, Clemenceau de- clares for balance of power rather than league of nations" Italy is de- manding territory necessary to the inde- pendence and autonomy of Jugosavia- which territory was promised in the pact of London. This problem is most seri- ous, and may be adjusted only by an enormous interallied loan of money on which Germany will be required to pay the interests.
 The Manchester Guardian, with the edi- tor of which the President conferred while in England, declares that France and Italy must accept the programme oi the United States and England or make their own conditions of peace without the assistance of England and the United
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
PEOPLE DEEPEST WAR

'It is inconceivable that the peoples of the world willed such a war. It is equally inconceivable that the peoples of the world would be willing now to face the possibility of another such trial with out perfecting in advance modes of con- certed action which will restrain the madness of the moment and be assured of just consideration, dspelling forever the illusion that either national great ness or national safety essentially de- pends upon ability of people to de- stroy life, wealth and property without ties of accommodation and concord.
 We have had centuries of leagues among nations for the purpose of making war, offensive and defensive. Is it too much to believe that in this enlightened age a league to prevent war has become fmpossible?'
 The war has given America a new vis- ion of her own strength and power, MT. Baker declared
 It was the spirit of freedom and right that animated the American army in France, the war secretary declared "Hindenburg lines crumbled like houses of cards in the face of that spirit" and he said. after the taking of St. Mihiel salient in September, "an American gen. eral with two million American soldiers at his back. drove through the Argonne forest, took Sedan. and so shattered the whole German system of military opera tions that surrender more complete than unconditional was accepted by Germany at the point of the sword when the armi- stice of November II was signed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05
REFERS TO CRITICISM

Mx Baker made only one reference touching subjects of criticisms of the war department recently voiced in the Senate
 Although there is much talk of the United States having to rely upon Great Britain and France to supply it's armies with heavy artillery he said, never theless American industry did. in fact, supply to Great Britain and France prac- ticaily an equivalent to that made avail able to us from them. American indus try was able to meet the demands made upon it, and on the day the armistice was signed our army abroad was thor oughly equipped with American made rifles and machine guns. some heavy ar ,tillery had been shipped and the stream of supply of all types of artillery, ann munition and equipment was beginning at such rate as would have supplied our own vast forces entirely from our own sources within q very few months. v