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DEATHS

Mrs. A. P. Goode-Aged S2. died at the residence, 5343 Third avenue. south. yesterday morning. Funeral services from the residence this morning at 10 o'clock with inter- mcnt in East Lake cemetery. She is survived by one sister. Mrs. j.. Ford of Denver, Colo; two brothers. J. H. Weatherly of Birmingham and J. A. Weatherly of Oxford, and one grandda ushter. Miss Florence AG kins of Birmingham.
 Gilbert Tarstensen-Aged ST. died at the residence of his daughter. Mrs J. H. Tehan, 6215 Third avenue, north, yesterday morning. Funeral services from the residence this af, ernoon at o'clock, with interment in Oak Hill. He is survived by his daughter. Mrs. J. H Tehan. and one son, Fred Tarstensen. The pallbear- CTS will be Henry Schoffner. GeoTS Se Meyers, w. E. Shellmite, w. c. Lewis. F. l.. Whitehead and Nose R. Weston
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draw
 The members of the 4. w F. contend tkat the operators have no right to strike and that all grievances should be han dled through an arbitration board. The members of the C. T. U. A. hold an op- posite opinion and claim that they have an absolute right to strike as last re. sort to obtain their rights
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NOT TO TAKE PART
By Associated Pres.

Roanoke, Va. June 5.-Local e.n ployes of the Western Union Tele- graph company state that they are rot members of the Commercial Telegra- phers union and that they will take no part in the general strike
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-06
WILL IGNORE ORDER

By Associated Prsss Petersburg, Va. June 5.--Western Union Telegraph company employees here say they will pay no attention to the strike order issued by President Kon- enkamp. This decision is said to he unanimous.
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EIGHT WALK OUT

BY NssOoIated PFess
 Charlotte, N. C., June Slight out Of r of the night force of Morse operators fin the local office of the Western Union went on strike tonight according to the night traffic manager Union leaders declared that all operators in the loca office but three went out, and that the strikers number 24
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Burleson, following which Clarence H. Mackey its president, and other off cers were removed by his orders The cable systems were returned May 9
 Late increases made by the depart ment for the telegraph and telephone lines were challenged also by various state commissions and by court injunc- tions, but the right of the Postmaster General to continue them in effect was upheld in supreme court decision handed down this week.
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TO STAY ON JOB

Nashville, Tenn, June 5.-At the of
 fices> of the Western Union here t was Stated that no order regarding the strike had been received by trs employees. and that every man had said that he intended to remain at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-06
ONLY FIVE OBEY ORDERS

By Associated Press
 charleston. S. C., June 5.-The Vest ern Union claimed tonight that only live of it's operators had obeyed the strike order while John w. Ryan. pres ident of the local council, said every night man went out except two
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Mobile, June 5.-(Special.)-The United states engineering forces of this district are working on project that will deepen the pool of the Warrior, Black Warrior and Tombigbee river system and which. when completed, will give guaranteed SIX foot draught to vessels from the head or navigation near Cordova, Walk sr county, into Mobile. The work already done on the project has resulted in vastly increased coal tonnage on the river sys-
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NO ORDERS RECEIVED

work. regardless of any orders tha
 might be received
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boys union suits
F. ". Daugherty, Former Washington County,
 Ala, Merchant Tells of Ferrraline

One of the Best Known Men in the County Says, "Ft Cured His Son, Willie Frank Daugherty of Wh
 Swelling When All Else Had Failed
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13

were so weak from lack of food
they were barely able to walk.
They were then sent tc
camps at Giessen, Germany, and
then to Darmstadt and Tuchel,
West Prussia.
Being asked if he ever extect-
ed to see the Statute of Liberty
again after being taken prisoner
Private Lester replied, No,
not from the very first day we
We're captured. We heard or
ders given to give the Ameri-
can prisoners the same treat
ment the Russisns were receiving
and we had only heard the morn
ing before that they were dying
form starvation at the rate of
forty to fifty a day, and we felt
sure we were going the same
way. But we didn't care. We
knew the cause we were fighting
for rat least we thought we did,
but after we saw on the inside
and Earned what the Germans
really were, we knew what we
were fighting, and the American
soldier who knows of such CON
ditions was glad to die fighting
to suppress a race of the most
damnable brutes on the face Of
the earth. We wanted to make
it easier for the other fellows,
and we were trouble for the
guards from the hour we were
taken"
Prison conditions must have
been something fierce" remark
ed some one in the crowd that
had congregated around the
young warrior in the lobby of
the Hattiesburg hotel.
Yes, sir. they were" !" replied
the young hero, and if Hell is
worse than the conditions we
had to endure Pm going to
change my way of living. Hell
can't possibly be as bad. ! have
seen with my own eyes dead
prisoners carried out of the
camps at the rate of fifty or six
ty in a single day men who had
died of starvation. These were
principally Russians.
I'VE had nothing decent to
eat. Nine of US men had one
little loaf of black bread made
of mixture of sawdust and
something like barley, a day and
we either ate our share of that
at breakfast with a small cup of
coffee made of barley which was
all we had. or saved a few
crumbs to eat with the thin soup
which was all we had for dinner.
The soup had absolutely no nour-
ishment in if at all. Toad stools
and possibly some kind of leaves
from trees were sometimes cook
ed in it to give it the semblance
of soup. The Red Cross is all
that saved us. They got to US
with boxes of food on March /,
1918, and if they had not reach
ed US when they did none of US
would have been alive in a few
more weeks"
Private Lester said the Ger
mans could not understand the
the American courage. He had
heard German ofiicer5 say that
to capture oneI lone American
it woQld 'always cost them |
a number of their own men, for
he would not throw up his hands |
following, "Kamerad. kane
rad, = nor would he step fighting |
until he was completely over
powered or killed. Lester relat-
related an instance in the latter
days of the war Of German
officer asking him if he wasn't |
an American. Your right
I am, Twas the instant reply of |
the brave young Mississippian, |
well" F" the German remarked, !
you sure have some fighters
ovor thora hova hrar dNr1y,,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13
Huns Fear Americans

on into Russia.
Huns Fear Americans
Private Lester stated that at
the time of their capture the
Germans expressed regret that
America had come into the war:
that they were going to push
France and England off into the
ocean. and as America was so
far away they would only collect
a large war indemnity and then
an exorbitant amount each year.
But in the latter days of the war
their minds were changed con-
siderably, and after the fight at
Chateau Thierry the wiser ones
of them knew their fate was
doomed, and the German people
were gradually enlightened of
the impending fate of the armies
of the Fatherland.
After the armistice was sign
ed the prisoners Of war were in
even greater peril of their lives
than before. With revolution
brewing and threatening to
break out at any momsnt and
from all sides, there was moth
ing the prisoners could do but
accept their fate, let come what
may, but it was a certainty that
American prisoners would not
fight on the side of any faction
of the German revolutionists.
The detachment of prisoners
of which Private Lester was one,
were transported the latter part
of November to port On the
Baltic Sea, and were turned over
to az English ship which brought
thes q Scotland and to Eng
land where they remained only
a few weeks before being re-
turned home to be discharged
from Tho cnruicn
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13

tance into No Mans Land.
I'VE took our post at 9 o'clock
on the evening of November 2.
1917, and the wole front was
quiet until exactly 3 o'clock on
on the morning of the 3rd /
never will forget that date
when a heavy box barrage was
raised at a point Immediately to
our rear, which cut off all assist
ance from the communicating
trenches, and left us, fifteen
Americans, to take care of the
more than hundred onrushing
Germans who came pouring in
at both ends of the trenches in
squads of eight. +"
"Well, you did at least take
care of some of them Isuppose?"
interrupted the reporter.
You're 49, right we did, "
was the instant reply, land by
time they choked US down and
fell all over US in superior num-
bers finally overpowering us, and
then only four of our men had
been killed and the rest of us
wounded, we had thinned their
ranks to beat the band, and
Good Germans were piled
around on each other like a
bunch of dirty hogs taking a
nap"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13
First Yank Captured BY
Huns Was Mississippian
Private JOhe p Lester of Jackson Miss, Once Chick
asaw Boy, Gives Graphic Story of Experiences

To be taken prisoner by the
Germans the second day after
reaching the front line trenches
in November, 1917, held, togeth-
er with ten other Americans
taken in the same raid, for
thirteen months, the first two
months of which time being
much debated by the German
officials whether or not they
would execute him, his nervy
escape from intolerable condi-
tions in one camp only to be re-
captured and confined in one
even in worse condition, and
finally being released from pris-
on in an enemy country in the
throes of revolution as the result
of the signing of the armistice,
was the narrowing experience of
Private John P. Lester, of Jack
son, Miss. first American soldier
taken prisoner by the Germans.
Decorated with the gold star
on the right arm, given only to
those who were among the i'm
mortal first fifty thousand of
Pershing's Crusaders" to reach
France, as we'll as the wound
chevron also Of gold, Private
Lester modestly related some of
his experiences as a prisoner of
Germany, to an American re-
porter before leaving for his
home Saturday evening. after
{ having been honorably discharg-
ed from Che service at Camp
Shelby,
Joined Regular Army
A few week after congress de-
clared a state Of war to he exist
ing between the government of
Germany and the United States,
young Lester volunteered in the
regular army for immediate SER
vice overseas, and thus it was
that he was among the first
Americans reaching the front
line trenches, after having ar
rived in France the 26th of June.
His experiences in actual combat
were cut short by his early cap
ture by the enemy, but his
graphic description of prison life
in Germany are none the less in
teresting, though the treatment
received there was worse than
barbarism, and was almost be-
yond human imagination that
such atrocities could be perpe-
trated upon helpless prisoners of
war by a so-called civilized state.
Being requested by the report
er to give an account of his cap
ture and how it was accomplish
ed, Private Lester depicted the
narrowing experience about as
follows:
well, / would like to forget |
all ] have experienced in this
war, but know how it is with |
those that have only read about |
things over there, and for that
reason 1 am always glad to tell
them any thing | can.
Was in TOuI Sector
81 was a member of T Com /
pany Of the 10Th Infantry, and
our outfit was assigned to the
Toul sector. The first night in
the trenches every thing was
quiet and our men experienced
nothing out Of the ordinary.
The second night it fell my lot
to go on duty in the front line
trenches. and with fourteen
other Americans we held q line
Of trenches Of about seventy-ive
to a hundred yards. Of course,
there were other Allied soldiers
in the trenches Immediately to
our rear, but the fifteen Ameri-
cans were taking care of this
kind of horse shoe trench which
extended out considerable dis 1
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13
A Good Man

"A OOOu N1AH
And it was necessary to take
but one good look into the keen
brown eyes of this 172-pound six
footer to dispell any doubt OF
his colwage and physical ability
to have accomplished even more
than that which he had just re-
lated.
Had an American been taken
prisoner prior to this?' queried
his interviewer.
mo, we were the first taken,
and it seemed that they were
bent on taking US alive if posi-
BILE, thinking perhaps we would
be of some benefit for intelli-
gence purposes. They got abso-
lutely nothing out of us.
I'VE were marched to, their
trenches and then placed in
trucks and carried about three
kilometers back to some town
and were sent to St. Avoid, in
Lorraine, for medical treatment
in hospital for we were just
about all wounded. AT each
point where we were stopped
we were the objects of much
curiosity, and were subjected to
all kind of questioning. But
after they failed to get any valu-
able information out of us they
said we were either the smartest
bunch of fellows they had ever
seen or the damndest fool one.
1t would go hard with US if we
told a different story at another
place, and we had to tell the
same lie each time and some
times this would be three months
apart. OF course our lies varied
as we had not agreed on what
we were to tell 'em in case of
CAPTURE.
Twelve Days in Hospital
After twelve days in hospi-
tai / was we'll and ready to be
put to work. The wounds in
each Of my legs were clean ones
and soon healed, but | suffered
more from shrapnel wound on
the back"
When asked by a bystander
what kind Of work they put
them to doing. Lester replied
with a flash, 'Hitched-us up to
a wagon like jack ass"
After being taken to Metz the
we're relieved Of GER
tain articles of dress such as
leather shoes which were suppli-
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13
oKoLoNA MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10 1919

have been doing is running. By
the time | would get entrenched
anew and try to take q little
sleep, here my men would come
following, get up; here come
the Americans And if they
ever get this far up | am going
on into Russia"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13
Son of Late Minister

Private Lester is the son of
the late Rev. William G. Lester.
who was pastor of the Method
ist Church at Tutwilder, Miss,
at the time of his death last
spring. 1t is said that his health
begun to fail soon after receipt
Of information that his son had
been taken prisoner by the enc
my, and his death is generally
attributed to grief over the fate
of his young son.
Soon after the death Of her
husband, Mrs. Lester, mother of
Private Lester, removed to Jack
son, Miss, where her husband
had previously purchased a home
at 308 Adele avenue, and where
the blessings of a mothers love
and the welcome of a returning
hero were awaiting the arrival
of this noble young son late Sat
urdry evening. AHattiesburg A
merican.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13
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To be taken prisoner by the tance into No Mans Land
Germans the second day after I'VE took post ocIoc
reaching the front line rencheo the evening of November
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-02-13

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-09
Home Manicuring Lessons
BY
DR.. WIN. C. KORoNY
Lesson No. 3

Now that you have been successful in re-
moving overhanging cuticle. hangnails arG9
ragged skin from around the nails witho1k
harmful cutting or scraping by use of Sim
pick Cuticle Remover, and have given the
tips of the nails that pearly white outline
with Simplex Nail Whitener, the next step IS
polishing and tinting.
In order to obtain a quick, lasting water
proof polish of a delicate tint, use Simplex
Nail Paste (pink). or if you prefer not ia
tint the nails, use Simplex Nail Paste (un-
coloredl. Apply it with the tip Of finger
and polish the nails briskly with the palm
of hand. If you desire extremely high
polish use, Simplex Nail Enamel (cake forml
in connection with the Nail Paste This
is applied to the palm and each nail polished
briskly No buffer is required and the pol
ish is not only waterproof, but extremely
lasting. If you prefer nail enamel in
powder form 1 recommend Simplex Nail
Bright 1t is put up in a dainty little sitter
top. tube, and is easily carried in the purse
or handbag.
My next lesson will appear in an early
issue of this paper. If you are confronted
with any obstacle regarding your nails writs
me and I shall gladly advise you. Dr. VIM,
G. Korony, los West Main St., Louisville
Ky-Adv.
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OFFICIAL STATE
CONFER ENCE ID. A. r.

The twenty-firSt annual conference
of the Alabama Society, Daughters OF
the American Revolution, will convene
in Huntsville Wednesday, December o.
Opening exercises will be held Tues
day, December g Business sessions
will be held Wednesday and Thursday.
Friday, the 9Th, the citizens of Hunts
VILE. children of the public schools,
members of the Twickenham Town
chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, and other patriotic socle-
ties will celebrate the centennial Amin
versary of the admission of Alabama
into the union and an interesting pro-
eramme will be carried out. Officers,
delegates and members are expected
To remain after the adiournmnet of the
conference to participate in the exer-
cises of the historic occasion.
The conference must make certaIp
changes in the state bylaws In order
that thew shall conform to the national
law this being necessary because OF
the revision of the national constitution
and bylaws, which was adopted by
the continental congress April, 1919
hut representation in the coming con-
ference will be in accordance with ar
ticle ". section 1, of the present state
bylaws.
Delegates to the conference are ex-
pected to provide for their own enter
tainment.
The regent hopes for a full attend
ance of officers, regents, delegates,
chairmen of committees, alternates ana
members of the twenty first confer
ence
BY order of the state regent.
MRS. r. Fl. PEARSON.
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School
of Music

Prof. D'Argostino takes
pleasure in announcing
the opening of an
Expression Department
under the direction of
Miss Sadie Spielberger,
graduate of the School
Of Expression, pupil of
DR.. S. S. Curry, Boston.
Glasses for adults and
children, vocal interpre-
tation of literature, pub
lie speaking, defective
speech, dramatic art.
Stimulating ere a tive
thinking and natural
embodiment"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-09
THE YOUNG JUDADEAN
ANNIVERSARY

The young Judadean will celebrate
it's third anniversary this evening at
$3.50 o'clock at Knesseth Israel syna-
gogue The following programme will
be given:
Prayer, selected, Samuel Tennenbaum
Opening remarks by chairman, Max
Hurvich.
Piano selection, Miss Sadie Cohen.
What Is Young Judea," Nathan
Rotenstreich.
Music, Hebrew soni, Young Judadean
chorus.
Misses Rebecca Malkove, Flea
nor Westcott, Freda lien, Sylvia Luks
and Lottie Sederman.
History of Birmingham Young
Judadea, 1s1S-1919," Harry Hurvich.
Duet, Eph Tunklo and Jessie Berko-
witz.
Address Mr. Arthur Herman.
To-day" poem, Miss Lena Morse.
"Hatikwa," Young Judadean chorus.
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BIRTHDAY PARTY

Little Elizabeth Campbell celebrated
her sixth birthday at a party at tne
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
B. Campbell.
A gorgeous birthday cake adorned
the center of the table. The dining
room was decorated in chrysanthemums
and ferns Mrs. John Vance served
punch to 30 guests Games were en-
loved until the children marched IN
the dining room and were served with
ice cream, cake and fruits, Little MISS
Camnbeu received many beautiful
presents.
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STATE RED CROSS NEWS

The membership drive IS being put
over with marked success in north
Perry county with Marion as chapter
headquarters. The teams are working
with the same zeal and interest that
characterized their efforts during war
times. and are being encouraged by
ready responses to their appeals.
On Thursday, November 9Th, the local
chapter officials entertained the team
captains the roll call chairman, Mrs.
Willis, the division representative, and
Judge Brandon of Tuscaloosa, at de-
delightful turkey dinner at Drummers
hotel which was thoroughly enjoyed
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in their allotment claims, knowing that
in this office that such business Is
promptly and efficiently attended to.
Soldiers from nearby counties where
home service work is not SO well or
ganized, come to the Tuscaloosa office
for assistance. At any hour of the day,
the attractive headquarters of Red
Cross in the postoffice building are
visited by soldiers, sailors and civilians
seeking advice or assistance. Tusca-
loosa will see that this good work will
be assured of continued support.
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MR.. AND MRS. CRUNK
90 ENTERTAIN

Mr.. and Mrs w P Crunk will enter
tain on the evening of Monday, Novem-
Der "a, at their home in honor of the
Heath-Crunk wedding party.