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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
 WOUNDED, DEGREE UNDETER'
 MINED Arnold, Oscar, private, Malvern, Ala.
Weekly Cotton Review
By Associated Press

New York. March S.-The passage of an amendment to the cotton futures act as a
 rider to the wheat appropriation bill
 creating a new contract and automatic
 ally confining business in the old con tracts to liquidation, completely over- shadoWed all other developments in the cotton market during the past week. Lo- cal traders were aware that a cotton
 rider had been attached to the wheat bill Monday, but were not fully in-
 formed as to it's character and the bill
 was signed Tuesday while the exchanges
 were closed.
 Owing to the drastic nature of changes immediately effective, the board of man. agers postponed the opening of the ex- change until Thursday when the market was reopened for liquidation of old ac- counts and trading in the new style contracts.
 On the first day of business under the new conditions it was supposed trading in liquidation of old style commitments would be permitted until the maturity of all the months involved, but before the opening Friday another ruling was issued by the bureau of markets to the effect that on and after May 1 the only trad
 ing permitted on the exchanges would
 be in the new style contract. This set
 definite period for liquidation of out standing old style accounts ana Dusl-
 ness was more active today with both old longs and shorts showing disposi-
 tion to liquidate or transfer from old to
 new style months as rapidly as possible.
 The new style contracts on which seven
 of the lowest grades of cotton are not
 tenderable, started at premium of about S5 to 135 points above the old contracts,
 but the differences narrowed later with
 the new style positions showing premiums
 of only to 72 points over the old at the close tonight.
 While fluctuations have been nervous and irregular, the market has shown rather a steady undertone on reports of
 smaller southern spot offerings and the
 reiterated reports of prospects for re-
 duction in acreage. Old style May con-
 tracts closed last night at 216Sc com
 pared with 21.19c at the close a week ago.
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By Associated Press

Washington, March 9.--Great swarms of the 17-year locust will infest ths United States in late May and early June this year, which is expected by scientists to be one of the worst locust years' on record. Experts of the de- partment of agriculture, however see nothing alarming in the prospect.
 Once regarded supersstiously as a hamburger of disaster, the periodical cicada, popularly known as the 17-year locust because it comes at long inter vals, is seen now to be no more than an ordinary nonpoisonous insect pest, which can do little damage if proper precautions are taken. The chief in jury inflicted by the insect consists almost wholly in chiseling grooves in the branches of trees for depositing eggs Young fruit trees sometimes are killed. but the damage generally seems greater than it actually is, according to the entomologists, and popular alarm is out of proportion to the real dan- ger.
 Suggested precautionary meas
 ures are:
 Defer putting out young fruit
 trees until next year; postpone
 budding operations; do no pruning this spring.
 r When the insects begin coming
 out, hand-pick them from young
 trees or spray them with pyre-
 .thrum powder, kerosene emulsfOns
 or a solution of carboIic acid or acetfc acid.
 Later, when the insects are ready to begin laying, spray young fruit trees with whitewash. The department of agriculture has kept close check for many years of all the broods of 1ocusts and can forecast accurately when and where the pests will appear. Large regions will be af- fected this year where one brood ap- peared 17 years ago, and in other re- gions which suffered 13 years ago, the states including Alabama, District o1 Columbia, Delaware, Georgia. Illinois Indiafa, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
ITALY'S VERSION
 OF DISPUTE GIVEN Trouble Arose When Ser bians Trampled Italian
 Flag in Dust
By Assoeiated Press

New York. March S.--The Italian bu- reau of information issued a statement here last night giving ltaly's version of Labaich incidents which resulted in the charge that Italy was hampering the work of distributing food supplies to the Czecho-Slovaks and which were or dered investigated by an interallied military commission of the peace con- ference today.
 According to the statement, the first trouble arose about the middle of Feb- ruary when civilians and soldiers of the Serbian army stopped a trainload of Italian refugees. en route to Italy, and tore Italian flags from the tra in, desecrating them and insulting the passengers. The officer in charge. it was asserted, made a formal protest to the Serbian officer in charge, but no action was taken to punish the of- lenders.
 Shortly thereafter, the statement con tinued, Italian officers attached to the interallied commission in charge of the
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distribution at Laibach of food sup pies contributed by the United States for the relief of war sufferers were requested to leave" by the local Slovene government. This, it was de- clared. it "but another way of say ing that they were expelled"
 Thereupon, the statement said, Italy closed her frontier as, by the action of the local Slovene government, she was unable to act with the other members of the allied commission in adminis- trating her part of the common trust of food relief and could not assume re- sponsibility for supervising the food sent from Italy,"
 Italy, it was declared. had continued to send food to the Czecho- -Slovaks, although action by the Serbian mili- tary commander at Laibach compels Italy to send this food by another and longer indirect route"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
Alabama Among States
 to HaueL Locust This Year
May and June Will Witness One of Worst 17Year and 13 Year Locust Periods in History of Country-How
 to Fight Them in Time

Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey. New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Penn sylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee.
 Vermont. Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
 Belief that the 1919 brood will be ex- ceptionally large is based on the fact that the 17-year brood coming out this year is brood 10, perhaps the largest
 of the 17-year brood and that brood IS of the 13-year family comes out at the same time. The year 1868 was the greatest locust year in history, when brood 19. the largest of the 13-year family, appeared in conjunction with brood 10 of the 17-year family
 There will be three regions of great Lest occurrence of brood 10, one cover ing New Jersey, Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania; another covering all or Indiana, the greater part of Ohio ana southern Michigan, and third covering western North Carolina, eastern Ten nessee and northern Georgia. While brood 10 will affect 20 states, brood 1 IS will appear in only five states l Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and only limited acreas in those states.
 c. L. Marlatt. chairman of the federal horticultural board, who has perfected 1 the information on the cicada, calls the | insect the most interesting in the world. because or the Spectdculdr s"diihs III | which it appears, it's queer recurrence | al long intervals and the portentous significance frequently attached to it. l Every locust year has been year or | fear and dread. even in civilized times. | Some people have fancied that they l could detect in the cry of the insect a l resemblance to the name of the Egyp- 1 tian monarch, Pharaoh, who persecuted | the Israelites Superstition attached | also to the shape of the filmy bars on ] the cicada's wings, which seemed to form the letter "W," interpreted as a | forecast of war
 | Since this outbreak will come Just 1 at the conclusion of the greatest war, 1 MT. Marlett said, and when even the ! ina gnation of the rural prophet could | hardly conjure up the likelihood o1 | another one, some new explanation will , apparently have to be found'
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Poverty and Success

From the Thrift Magazine.
 Somewhere in the obituary of all most every successful American you will find this sentence: He began life a. poor boy"
 Our great men seem to have had positive genius for picking out poor parents. Although poverty at birth is looked upon as an asset rather than liability, most successful Americans, notwithstanding the tremendous ad- vantage poverty gave them, began to hustle for riches before their milk teeth had fallen out.
 Being born poor may be an asset, but it becomes a liability if you stay that way. When you are a pink stub-nose baby being carried around on a pillow and exhibited to the neighbors, you are fortunate if poor but great deal more unfortunate if you remain so.
 Most of the men who have succeeded in getting their names in the United States histories, in public libraries and on cigar labels, selected parents who were constantly pumping into people on the street to whom they owed money, the greatness of these men was dis played in the neatness- and dispatch with which they succeeded in leaving some thing more substantial for their own children than pink complexions and waiting lists of creditors.
 
 The Canadian government has prom ised the Miners Federation that a bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
OFFICIAL REPORT OF ALABAMA MEN
 IN CASUALTY LIST
SECTION ONE

Washington, March s.-The followinS casualties are reported by the command ing general of the American expedi- tionaty forces:
 Died in areoplane accident ............ 1 Died of accident and ether causes.... lo
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z Since August, 1915, the number of women trade unionists in Great Britain has more than doubled, and at the present time there are nearly too,Oof
 of them organized. t
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have been resumed with the Washing ton government for the sale of mercan . tile tonnage halted by the attitude of the British authorities.
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TROY

Troy March S.-(SpeciaL)-Robert Whid- by, the Troy boy who has recently been given the war cross of honor. by the French government for aiding in detect ing four dangerous German spies in France, has many friends in Troy who rejoice at his newly won laureIs.
 Whidby is a. son of the late Ben Whid- by. and when at home resides with his mother at the intersection of Brundidge and West Madison streets, Troy.
 He has a brother. Nelo Whidby, who has served sometime in France with the army.
 Robert Whidby has had many years in Uncle Sans army service, and sometime in the French army also.
 He served for some years in the Philip pines, when just boy. He then came with the family to, Troy, and was for sometime a student in the schools here, particularly the Troy normal.
 At the outbreak of the war with Germany in 1914, he became much interested, and shortly afterwards sailed on catt'e ship from southern port for France. where he joined the Foreign Legion in the French army He was in the trenches for months before the United States ever contemplated getting into the war. He had some narrow escapes, and was she'll shocked by a huge shell bursting near him. He was in a hospital for some- time and later was sent to southern France to recuperate.
 After the United States entered the war he secured his discharge from the French army, to join Uncle Sam's forces. He returned to the United States and was at home for a few weeks before leaV- ing to enter his new service with unc'e Sams forces.
 -rrL... bed,, nf Isaac Conrsnn negro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09

The body of Isaac Courson, negro ia armer-preacher, whose mysterious dis appearance occurred near the Lawson bridge on the Bear river at the Pike and Barbour county lines some weeks ago, was discovered late Wednesday after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
 WOUNDED, DEGREE UNDETER-
 MINED
SECTION FOITR

SECTION FOUR The following casualties are reported by the commanding general of the Amer ican expeditionary forces: Wounded degree undetermined Al Wounded slightly ....................... o4
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Total
DIED OF DISEASE
Sherman, Charlie
 Alabama.
SECTION TWO

The following cabled corrections are issued as an appendix to the regular casualty lists at the request of the sev- oral press associations: WOUNDED, DEGREE UNDETER-
 MINED, PREVIOUSLY REPORT
 ED MISSING IN ACTION Daughdrll, Edgar F., private, Mobile, Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09

Uncle Sam is the largest renter or space in New York city. NO one nei knows definitely how much he has, epu1 guesses made have placer the amount at 100000 square feet, irrespective or the large amount in the hands Of arm supply contractors. As
 Swedish is the commercial laHguage 3 of Sweden, but English, German ana French are understood in all business houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09

The Canadian government has prom ised the Miners Federation that bill will be passed in Parliament giving the surface men an 8 F hour day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
SECTION THREE

The following casualties are reported by the commanding general of the Amer. ican evolutionary forces:
 Wounded (degree undetermined I Wounded slightly ..........,........... l6
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Death to Moths

No moth. no matter how heartily, can live in, one. of these chests 24 Hours. and. fur thermore, when you take out your clothes at the end of the season, they'll have a fresh. clean smell. instead of a cam phor odor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09

noon. about 200 yards from where the negro is said to have driven his mulo into the swollen waters of the river Et- forts were made immediately to com municate with the Barbour county sher- if to hold an inquest as the body was found on the Barbour county side or the river. Sheriff Reeves had no Jurlsoletlon in the case and as wires are doWh the Barbour sheriff has not yet reachea here.
 If ia generally supposed that the ne gro. unfamiliar with the crossing, sdrovs his mule into the swollen waters anout nightfalI and was drowned. Ihe iacl that he had several hundred dollars upon his person led to the suspicion that he had been robbed and murdered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
Own Your Storage Chest

With a fragrant red cedar chest so low in pricc as this. and with terms as low as those we have set upon it, it is need less to pay each year for &he storage of winter wearabIes. Pay once-and own your stor- age chest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09
to Your Bedroom

The designer of this chest has conceived a beautiful artistic piece of furniture--a chest to be desired for it's artistic ef- feet as we'll as for it's utility. This is the Old English Chip pendale design-faithfully re- produced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-09

They can be used as window seats in bay windows. or dressing boxes at the foot of bed. The top is made to ex- clude all dust and the chest is large enough to hold more than you'd imagine. See them in our, windows.
The Washington times., 1919-11-01
HINES APPOINTS
DISTRIBUTORS
Committees Will Act in Eight
Regional Districts-Per-
sonnel Not Announced.

I Committees to take charge of coal
distribution in the eight regional rail
road districts have been appointed by
Director General of Railroads Hines,
it was announced at the Railroad Ad-
ministration today. .
The committees will have. headquar-
tiers at Boston, New York, ,Philadel-
,phia,, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
Chicago and St. Louis. Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield will have a repre-
sentative on each committee.
Personnel of the COMMITTEES was not
announced, but it was said they would
be made up of operating officials and
DR.. Garfleld's representatives.
Appointment of the COMMITTEES fol
lowed orders turning over to Hines
the function of the old Fuel Admins
tration in distributing coal during the
strike.
The COMMITTEES will make distribu-
tion under a priority list issued by
Hines several days ago. Transporta-
tion, industries and domestic con-
sumers are at the top of this list
The Washington times., 1919-11-01
3OPER CENT FUNDS
OF MINERS IN BONDS
Unions Invested Heavily In
Liberty and Victory Loans,
Say Leaders.

More than 80 per cent Of ths rurA.
of the United Mine Workers are ~
vested in building and loan assoc,s.
tions. Liberty and Victory bond.- .c-
cording to representatives of the ~.
ganization in Washington. 80
The funds are. to a large extsc,
tied mp in a way which Will reou,r,
extensive LIQUIDATION TO bring about
their disbursement. and leaders saw
that IL the injunction handed down by
Judge Anderson actually prevents the
use of the money for strike dement's
there viii be no effort to defy the
law.t
No censorship of kilograms and let
ters between the representatives of
the miners in Washington and their
central headquarters in INDIANAPOLIS
mas been established so far sas Is
known here, No messages from In
dianapolis arrived at the miners Of
noes In. the A. F. of L. building this
morning. however -
The United Mine Workers have no
intention of appealing either to the
american Federation OF Labor or the
railroad brotherhoods for aid in their
iesai night at the present time. II IL
probable. however. that John L. Lewis
and other leaders of the miners will
come to Washington early next week
TO confer with Mr.. Gompers.
The Washington times., 1919-11-01
PA. UNIONS DEBATE
ON GENERAL STRIKE

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1.-Issuance of
an ultimstum to the State authorities,
in connection with the steel strike, is
one OF the avowed purposes of spe-
cial convention of the Pennsylvania
Federation of Labor, which will be in
session here today and tomorrow.
The ultimatum is expected to be in
the nature of a general strike threat.
Included among the 500 delegates
expected the about 200 miners repre-
senting the five districts of the United
Mine Workers within the State.
James X. Maurer, president Of the
organization, gave out a statement in
which he said:
zone Of the proposed courses of ac-
tion favored by some delegates who
are already in Pittsburgh is the issu-
ance OF an ultimatum to Governor
Sproul and to State and local authori-
ties that further appeals to govern
mental and judicial authorities for re-
lief will be considered useless unless
prompt and decisive action restoring
constitutional rights and civil liber-
ties is forthwith taken. Proposals;
arc being framed for methods of as
serting the rights Of labor L. such an
Gltimatum is not promptly effective"
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. Gov.
William c. Sproul. in a public state
ment, gives formal notice that "the
full power Of the Commonwealth of
Penrsylvania, through all of its agen-
cies. will be used to protect those who
cesire to continue to work" during
the mine workers strike. Miners
marches and ANY other demonstra-
tions which might lead to disorders"
Will not be allowed. the statement
said
The Washington times., 1919-11-01
INJUNCTION FUTILE,
SENATORS BELIEVE

Appointment OF a small board to
settle the coal strike was strongly
urged yesterday by Senator Kenyon
of Iowa, chairman of the Senate La
Dor Committee.
Kenyon is working on a resolution
to create such board, and plans to
Introduce 1t unless the White House
makes such q move within a few
days.
He urged that the board be limited
to three men, one representing labor,
one representing capital mot antago-
nistic to labor, and q third represent
Ing the public.
"A board like that could wind up
the strike in five days" Kenyon said.
..-'Investigations are fines and they. do
a great amount of good by turning
publicity on such Industrial disturb
ances, -huS Whit we want is some-
bang that vi II settle this strike which
aieSfss the f~ssfzrS t the entire eouf-
Several names have been suggested
by Kenyon.
The move OF the administration In
obtaining an Injunction against strike
leaders was approved generally at the
Capitol. although it was said that this
action will only preserve the status
quo, and will not of itself bring a set
tlement as might be effected by such
a body as Kenyon suggested. A con-
ciliation board Is the necessary sup
plement to the Injunction step, it was
held.
The Washington times., 1919-11-01
25-CENT SUGAR
.:.. ...... SOON PREDICTED

Unless the Government takes steps
TO control the sugar industry of the
Country, a price of 25 cents a pound
will be reached, ii was predicted to-
day by witnesses testifying before the
Senate Agricultural Committee. Ra
tioning and licensing were suggested
as the only means by which the Gov
ernment could control the situation.
Senator Gronna, chairman of the
committee. declared there was no
shortage of sugar. but that it was be-
ing harded, and that when it became
evident that the Government would
not offer relief the sugar would be
withdrawn in small quantities and
placed on the market at excessive
prices.
Under the present regulations all
supervision of sugar distribution and
sales will be discontinued after the
declaration of peace and the United
States Sugar Equalization Board has
already notified Senator MeNary,
chairman of the subcommittee. that
1t was winding up it's affairs in prep
aration of disseminating business.
Gronna, following the testimony of
George A. Zabriskie, president of the
sugar board, declared Its affairs
were mismanaged." and laid the pres
ent sugar shortage on the board and
because of the Presidents failure 10
act promptly in connection with the
Cuban CROP
McNary read into the record a
statement from Herbert Hoover, rec
ommending that the Government act
in the present emergency rationing
and licensing the industry.
The Washington times., 1919-11-01
EXPRESS SYMPATHY
FOR CLARK FAMILY

Majority Leader Monseu A, q hr,.,
speech on the floor this af,ernoon .,i
pressed the sympathy of the member.
Oh the House for former Spe.ker
Champ- Clark and his family. who are
srieved today because of the desth
lasp night in New Orleans of Mr.
LARK young grandson, Champ Clark
- I Ihomson. The boy WAS two and one
naif years old, and was the soh of Mr.
aho mrs. James Thomson, the latter
formerly Mrs. Genevieve Clark.
In behalf of Mr.. Clark. who was
nI Representative DuPre, of New
aeans, ~ expressed appreciation, for
by Speaker MondeII.
Champ Clark Thomson is the oldex,
son or Mr.. and Mrs. Thomson. and was
the nrst grandson of the then Speaker
Clark.
The Washington times., 1919-11-01
TROOPS READY FOR
STRIKE ZONE DUTY
State Guardsmen In Illinois,
Indiana, and Colorado
Mobilized.

CHICAGO, Nov. Army officials
of the central department today said
troops were in readiness for quick de-
parture to any trouble zone. Aside
from the dispatch of provisionaj
battalion TO Huntington. w. va; yes
terday, no movements were reported.
Unofficial reports here were that
guardsmen in several States were
newly armed and provisioned and
ready for. strike assignment. lndi-
ana militia. on duty in the Calumet
steel strike district here for the past
month, were to depart today. IL WAS
said unofficially the companies viii be
held in readiness for coal strike de-
velopments.
Colorado trops were reported mobil-
izing. Illinois guardsmen can be as
sembled within six hours. Adjutants
of other States reported their men
ready for. quick action. -----. :