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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
CANCEL CONTRACTS FOR TWO MILLION
 TONS STEEL SHIPS
Shipping Board Preparing to Close Work in Many Yards Throughout
 the Country
sy Associated Pres

Washington, April 25.-Caneella-
 tion of contracts made during the
 war for construction of 2.0OO,OOO
 tons ofsteeI ships was announced
 today by the shipping board. which
 Is preparing to close government
 work in many yards throughout the
 country.
 This brings total cancellations since the signing of the armistice to 4,oo0,- 900.
 In the brief announcement issued from the office of Chairman Hurley no reference was made to the actual mum Der of contracts involved in the yards affected by the cancellation order, It was explained, however, that action at this time would not come as a surprise to buffers, as notice was served on them months ago of the boards new policy. the chief feature of which was the elim . ination of building plans for all ships under 12.O00 tons.
 At the end of March about 300 ships for the board had been launched, but not delivered These ships represented tonnage of about 1,s0O. 900. On the same date keels had been laid for some 300 ships aggregating 3,000.000 tons.
 YARDS WILL LOSE
 Shipping board officials said they were unable to give the actual number of contracts outstanding or later fig ures than of March 3l. It was indicated. however, that yards like Hog Island along with smaller plants on the At lantic. Pacific and gulf coats. would lose some government business.
 Three days after the armistice Chair man Hurley announced that the board had been making a complete resurvey of it's construction programme and con- tracts From that time on, he said. it was planned to build ships with refer ence to suitability for special service, and with particular reference to more economical cost of operation. During the war, while there was a pressing de- mand for tonnage contracts were placed without regard to cost. con- dition which the board agreed could not continue in peace time. In view Of the plans for a changed system on build ing, if was that builders. and especially the smaller yards. knew months ago whether they would be affected by gov cancellation. regarded then as certain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
Summary of the News

I-Fresch cabinet in meeting with
 peace delegates.
 Fighting Fourth wants ts parade
 in New York.
 St. Louis district leads natisa h
 loan subscriptions. 2-County huytnE Victory Bonds at
 rate of million . day. 3---Carncgic hero sSedais awarded. 4--Editoriai comment. @COunty plans to construct 3O miles
 of hiEh-c class roade. 6-7-SpOrts. @SOciai. t1-Markets. I:-Mrs. Blackb burn and detectives eo
 trlni Monday week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
Associated Press Summary
 or International Situation

seemingly irreconciIable spirit at first manifest has visibly dimin- ished.
 sMait and hope- was the watch- word nj the Italian Headquarters Friday.
 President Wilson outwardly has displayed no disposition to yield tO the Italians on the question of ItaIy's aspirations. and the opinion voiced in American circles is that only through a change in the attt- tude of the Italians can an agree ment be reached. The belief is gen. cral in Paris that the Italian inci- dent will delay somewhat the nnat signing of the peace treaty. From Italy comes the word that in Rome and other cities there have been demonstrations over the situation in which the manifestants have cheered the United States but ut tered expressions of animOsity to- ward President Wilson.
 An Amc-ican officer arriving in Paris from Plume brings a report that 14 Italian divisions have been mayed to this Adrixtic seaport by the Italians and that virtually all the inhabitants or the cfty Wlth the exception of Italians have de- parted.
 A plcnary session of the peace conference to consider the revised draft of the league of nations will be held Monday. The session will be open to the public.
 vA nf An man delegation reached Versailles Friday. The members of the dele Sntion were immediately conducted to hotels assigned to them.
 An official Rumanian statement announces that the Hungarian scviets continue to meet with de- feat at the hands of the Rums.- iana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
GERMANS ARRIVING
By Associated Press

BY Nss0oIatcd FTess
 Paris. April 25.-The first of the Ger mans who are to participate in the Ner- ssiiles congress arrived in Versailles to- day in two parties. The first group, consisting of three official couriers, ar rived early in the day. and the second, headed by Herr Lersner, came later. They were escorted to the Hotel des Reservoirs The Germans were met at tn station by Colonel Henry. of the min istry of war commissonary, and M. Oudaille, of the ministry of the interior,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
GERMANS INTERESTED

By Ess6cateu FftsS Berlin, Thursday, April 24.The Ger man newspapers are attentively follow ing the Italian crisis in Paris Of the situation the Vossiche Zeitung says: 'It is Great Britain's aim to Balkan ize Europe and split up it's forces The Tageblatt says:
 ',It is not Italian egoism alone that is to blame for the conflict, but the egotstic spirit which inspires all the peacemakers."
 Vorwaerts, the socialist organ sides with President Wilson in the contro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26

BITTER AGAINST AMERICANS
 By Associated Prcss
 Paris, April 2J.-An American officer who arrived here today from Rome says the feeling against Americans in Rome is very bitter. He asserts that because the proprietors said ItaI- ian officers declined to eat in the same places with Americans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
6s PER CENT RAISED

The southern portion of Indiana. whicb lis in the Sf. Lotus district, has subscribed 63 per cent of its quota and was reported leading the states in the district. Ten nessee was second with o2 per cent, Thirteen out of twenty counties heard from in Kentucky have obtained their urotas Six Missouri counties have achieved the hundred per cent mark.
 Sales among farmers ID the Cleveland district have been greatly retarded by cold weather which is threatening crops. Industrial sales in the district were re- ported encouraging
 southern Memorial day in the Atlanta district will be observed in three states tomorrow as victory day Joint memorial services will be held for heroes of the civil and European wars
 Twenty-five out of 2SS counties in the Minneapolis district reported that they had obtained their quotas and were con tinuing the campaign
 Eighty-two communities in the New England district have been awarded honor flags 50 of them being in Vermont
 VICTORY SHIPS APPEAL
 About I50 miles below the Mexican bor- der, some where along the coast of south err California. the navy's victory ship the |. $. s. Crane. was reported headed for Panama and the home port of New York From inc victory ship today came the following wireless appeal to the entire country.
 Tt is up to the nation to speed the victory ship forward. Every officer and man here is at his post of duty, ready 10 bring her into victory harbor' ahead of time if the nation will make the neces- sary subscriptions to the Victory Loan
 we await the orders of the country Our engines move in accordance with the efforts of the folks at home. We are
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
TROOPS ON LEVATHAN HAVE
 NARROW ESCAPE
 FROM STRAY MINE
Giant Troopship Misses Floating Internal Machine by Only Ten Yards off the Grand Banks of
 Newfoundland
sy Associated Press

By Associateu frcss
 New York, April 25.--The giant troop ship 'Leviathan, with 12,OO0 soldier passengers, the last of six transports to ar rive here today bringing 22,972 men, missed a mine by only 30 feet while off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland Tuesday morning, her officers reported when she docked.
 officers of the ship said the Leviathan had been warned to look out for a floating mine the day before by the transport Mount Yer non. which had preceded them. On receipt of the radio warning the course of the Leviathan was changed and she sailed nearly 100 miles to the southwnrd of the To- cation of the mine given by the other transport.
 The floating internal machine was sighted dead-ahead of the transport, the officers said, at 1Os3O a, m. by Lieut.. Commander Harold Cunningham, who was the bridge. Quick thinking and quick action was all that aycrted n coI- lision. A desperate whirl of the wheel sent the great steamship past the mine with a margin of safety of 10 yards.
 None of the soldiers aboard knew nnsiI they dOcked how close they had been to danger. for the of- fcers kept the incident to them selves, believing that if it became known it might cause needless alarm.
 ALL RAINBOW TROOPS
 Virtually all of the troops on the Leviathan were members of the Forty second (Rainbow) division. composed of national guardsmen from 2S states. It was Lieut. Col Ruby D. Garrett of Kansas City. Mo. division adjutant. to whom questioners were referred for information by the officers and men of the famous division. Summarizing from carefully prepared statement Of the achievements of the organization. Colonel Garrett pointed out that from November l, 1917. the date of it's ar rival at Nazaire from the United States, until December 15, 1918, when, as 2 part of the American army of occupa- ton it took a position in Ahrweiler, Germany, it had been identified at 4b stations throughout France and Bel gium up to the farthest point of the al- lied advance.
 The division was cited 10 times by the French and six times by tho Amefi- can commanders under whom it served. It participated in every major opera ton of the American army and re- ceived letters of commendation in each case.
 Members of the division have re- ceived two medals of honor, 25o dis tinguished service crosses. two dis tinguished service medals. 175 Croix De Guerre. I9 Legions of Honor five me- dailles militaires and 16 Belgian dec orations
 WENT THROUGH HUNS
 Tn killed, wounded and missing the division lost 439 officers and i3,485 men. its greatest casualty list follow ing the Aisne-Marne offensive July 24 to August 6, last year. which cost 1s4 officers and 5469 men. In this offsn- sive the Forty-second division relieved the Twenty-sixth American division.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
QUESTION SETTLED

Paris. April 25.-The question of Helgoiand was disposed of by the coun- ell pf three this afternoon, while the matter of the kiel canal and the dis position of the German cables was also discussed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
DISTRICT TOTALS

Additional reports from Detroit, which went over the top on the second day of the campaign, were 10 the effect that em- poyes of industries in. that city are sub scribing in larger numbers and in larger amounts than in the other Liberty Loans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
EXPERIENCE BALANCED

MT. Kreger did not believe that the fact that a large percentage of the ac- cused in the wartime cases were ds- fended by iicutenants indicated any se- rlous infringement of the rights of the defendants through the inexperience or military relationship of counsel The experience and ability of the defending counsel and the trial judge advocates. he thought. -abou. balanced, and lieu tenants were selected most often oe-
 cause they were acquainted more in- timately with the accused enlisted men
 General Kreeer told the commits ea the practice of sending court-martiai | fndtr gs and sentences back for re- vision in cases of acuuittaf or of sem tences which appeared inadequate tp the reviewing authority could we'll be abanooned except for clear cases of
 technical error.
 Two members of the clemency board
 of which Colonel AnseIl is president.
 Col. James S Easby-S Smith and Lieut.. Col. William Connor. aso testihed- Both
 emphaticaly supported the existing courts martial system as well calc1- lated to get at the facts and not lise- ly to bring about the punishment of innocent men.
 Colonel Connor said. his main objec- ton to the court martial system was that it did not provide for careful
 summing np of the evidence extracted
 from the showing of facts
 ATTITUDE ALL WRONG The only other witness was J. E. ". Gardiner. New York lawyer. whn
 formerly was an officer of the regu lar army. He was the only one of the
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
CONCLUDE HEARING
 ON COURT MARITAL
 PROCEDURE OEU. 5.
Bar Association Committee Adjourns Subject to Call of Chairman-Views of En-
 listed Men to Be Sought
sv A..sela,ss Prs,s

Washington. April 25.-HearinGs of the committee of the American Bar association on administration of military justice were concluded here today and the committee ad- turned subject to the call or the chairman, Judge $. $. Gregory of Chicago. The views of many of ficers and others remain to be Ob- tained by the committee and Chair man Gregory said he would in'- mediately communicate with those who might not he able to attend subsequent hearings should the public sessions he resumed later in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
TWO CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS

Two congressional medals Wers awarded to members of the regiment and from buck private. Thomas > Nejghbors of Idaho. who was in Com many M and won the medal Of honor, goes back to his state as adjutant gem eraI of the Idaho national guard
 The other winning the congress
 sionaI medal Is Corporal sydney S'
 Manning of FlOmatOn, Ala. Several
 decOra tiOns were awarded to Lieut..
 Robert Eppy of F company. HIS
 home is in AbbevilIc, Ain. He wns
 n private in the company when he went to France, and in a hnnd-to-
 hand tussle with four Germans
 hoyOnnetted all of them, and with
 the fourth encounter his buyonet
 broke In the bOche's body.
 Another notable member of the reg iment was Private Brooke Hill of Com pany F, whose rare craftsmanship with the rifle won for him the praise of his commander. He shot a boche airman from his machine. killing him and bringing the plane to the ground.
 One Brooklyn officer was with the l67 tn regiment. He is Lieut.. Edward F. Dunn, of ITS Herkimer street. He has fought with the regiment since they went overseas and was gassed at one engagement. The German moth
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26

Mir Gregory mas indicated that ae desI es if possible to get the viewpoint of number of enlisted men before closing the record and he expects 10 do this in Chicago.
 The acting judge advocate general, Brigadier General Kreger, was among the witnesses heard today. This officer, who succeeded Lieutenant Colonel An sell as acting judge advocate when General Crowder. the judge advocate general went to Cuba, gave only brief statement of views he has formu- lated as the committee was pressed for time. 4 t Z
 General Kreger took the positi-I that the ends of military discipline and of justice were the same and that in securing the one the other also was to be secured. For this reason, he thought, it would be well to take anJ steps which might be necessary to iin- prove the actual trials before courts martial. The question of how this should be done. whether by creating system of presiding judsesaor by ap- pointing law members through the courts. he said. was one of detail on which he made no recomme ndafiOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
ALL OF THE 167TH INFANTRY ARRIVES;
 FOUGHT IN EVERY
 OFFENSIVE BATTLE
Many Alabamians Among Hundreds Awarded Medals and CitatiOns-Talladega
 Lieutenant Cited Five
 Times for HerOism

New York, April 25.-(Spe- cial. -"The Fighting Ala bamians," the 167th infantry, formerly the Fourth national guard of Alabama, partners of the 165th infantry in all their fighting in the Rainbow divi- sion in France, want to parade with the old Sixty ninth in New York city on Monday.
 The entire regiment of the 16sth infantry, returned home yesterday
 docking In HobOken on the cruis-
 CTS North Carolina and Montana
 apd for more reasons thnn one does
 tbis famous regiment, one of the
 o,ae.t national guard regiments in
 no;ut of active service in the pres
 crt war. desires this parade with
 the old Sixty-ntnth. , e Capt E. P smith, the chaplain or the regiment, who came pach oii ''e North Carolina, stated that 1t was the earnest wish of the men in the resi ment that they be allowed to paraue with the old Sixty ninth. Chaplain smith is pastor of the Wildwood Sap, tist church in Montgomery Ala' ana speaking of the history of the lo''n regiment, which is the old Fourth ol the southern state, said:
 The two organizations have been fighting side by side since they "en' . Ir.pce They were trained together at rann Mills have been in the same division. brigade and fighting all the time, shoulder to shoulder.
 Five hundred men of the regiment have been killed in France, and 2'SV'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26

members of the conference deiega- ton present were Jules CambOn. Captain Tardieu, Finance Minister kIotz, Foreign Minister Pichon and Premier Clemenceau. President Poincare presided at the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
FRENCH CABINET
 M NEE TING WITH
 PEACE TIES
Clemenceau Receives Message From Premier Orlando, Dispatched While
 on His Way to Rome
By Associated Press

Aseas sd Press Paris April 25Premer Clemenceau this morning received from Premier Orlando which Italian dispatched while on his way to Rome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26

Marshal Foch gave the cabinet details of the military point of view concerning problems submitted to the conference.
 Besides Marshal Foch the other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
WENT THROUGH HUNS

Tn killed, wounded and missing the division lost 4s9 officers and i3.4s5 men, It's greatest casualty list follow ing the Aisne- -Marne offensive July 24 to August 6, last year, which cost 1s4 officers and 5469 men. In this offen- sive the Forty second division relieved the enty-sixth American division.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-26
,ONNINO LEAVES SATURDAY

Paris April 25.-Baron Sonnino, the Italian foreign will leave here for Rome Saturday.
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Arizona republican., 1919-03-03
STATE BASKETBALL
 CHAMPIONSHIP WON :
 BY LOCAL COYOTES

The Coyote basketball first team re- turned from Flagstaff last night with the scalp of the Northern Arizona Nor nal school suspended from their belt. The Phoenix high school team has proved itself to be the champion Of the state. This title was cinched when the x. A. x. team was defeated Sat urday night by the score of 37 to 34
 The first game played this season by r. II. :. was with the Northern Arizona Norman school. at whose hands the local team suffered a defeat Tempe Normal was also defeated by the \. A. \. team.
 Then, in the very heart of the x. A. N's territory with the confusing din of hostile yells and songs almost blot ting out the sound of the referees whistle, the Coyotes fought their way to victory.
 Captain Caughlin of the Coyotes was the star of the game. Most of the field goals by the Flagstaff team were made by Captain Isaacson from in back of the foul line The work of Captain Isaacson was one of the feature of the game
 The Flagstaff normal students were a bunch of good sports and took their loss philosophically. They entertained the visiting Coyotes with 1uncheons. dances sieighipg and snow battles. Every man on the trip returned with .a good impression of their northern rivals Following is the list of Coyotes who went on the trip:
Arizona republican., 1919-03-03
FUR CONTR9L
 IF G|LAFLOODS

Carrying to Senator Ashurst in Washington the Ohlmstead report on the Gila river, Judge Lewis will set in motion what is probably the biggest reclamation project ever conceived. a project that proposes to control the Hoods Of the Gila at their source, erect the necessary storage and diversion dams, and bring into producing literal " millions of acres Of what is now waste land. The report, made two years ago at the request of Secretary Lane. is now to be published, and the vast possibilities of the Gila valley thus brought to the attention of the people of this state and of the country at large.
 An annual addition to the crops of Arizona worth half a billion dollars will be the result of this reclamation project, according to Engineer Ohlm- stead, George H. Maxwell, and others who have investigated the matter
 It is proposed to control the floods of the Gila in .the beginning, by build ing a system of inexpensive check dams, which will remove the silt and cause a steady, year round flow, and prevent the sitting up of reservoirs. as well as the erosion and waste of thou sands of acres of land during the an nual floods. Then to put in the reser- voir and diversion dams, watering the lands adjacent to the river from the mountains to the sea.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-03
HUN ARMY USELESS US. EXPERT DECLARES

COBLENZ. March 2.- Associated Press)-In the opinion expressed by United States army officers who have specialized on the question of demobi liZation and readjustnent of the enemy forces, there no longer is any doubt about the complete uselessness of the remnants of the old German army now, inregimental and battalion departments throughout Germany.
 In the third army intelligence bureau, it is estimated in the summary of an expert, that here are approximately three hundred thousand men. mostly of the 1899 class who have declihed to volunteer for the new army.
 There is no fight in these men," said the American expert today. "The events of the past two weeks have demonstrated that they are as useless in the suppression of internal disorders as they are against bolshevism or the Poles. One has only to read the news papers of garrison towns and to note the extent of horse stealing by garri- sons and all kinds of miscellaneous happenings, which would be impossible with disciplined troops, to become con- vinced of the present uselessness of the remnant of the former army. "Only in the improbable event of some great and fervenr national inspi-
 ration. would these troops be of any use. Ii appears only a matter of days before Noske. the German secretary for military affairs. will wipe out the old | army completely from further exist .
 ence. The present volunteer army ap- pears 10 number between 125,0 and
 200, GOO men,
Arizona republican., 1919-03-03
EXPLAINS WILLING
 BOLSR| ATTITUDE

ARCHANGEL, Saturday, March 2.- Governor ZinOvieff of Petrograd in d recent speech to the Petrograd soviet council explaining why the bolsheviki were willing to obtain a conference ou Princes Islands. to consider a coInpro- mise with the allied governments, de- clared that any treaty the bolsheviki made with the allied powers would be considered a scrap of paper. As quoted in the Northern Commune. the official organ of the Petrograd soviet Zinc vieff said:
 We are undertaking this move to- wards peace with clear realizat ton that in the course of time this peace will be profitable to us and not 10 our enemies.
 The signing of such a peace with the allies would not mean that We would even for a second stop building our red army. IL would only mean thai We put no trust whatever in the bit of paper which We would have signed. We would continue 10 build our army. but at me same time would allow our Workmen and peasants to draw a few free breaths."
 Throughout his speech Zinovjeff em- phasized that the soviet leaders were not seeking peace with the allies. be- cause of the military situation. which m fact. he said, was good from the bolshevik point Of view, but only be- cause the food situation was bad.
 The governor declared the soviet Eoernment could afford to make an un- favorable peace on any terms insisted upon by the allies, because no matter what mistakes we make now, we shall conquer in the end. No matter how cieVerly the imperialistic bourgeoisie may push it's pawns. it will inevitabl perish within few years"