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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15
STUDEBAKERL
 CAR EVOLUTION
Now One of the Greatest Producers of High Grade
 Motor Cars

The Studebaker corporation has, in the past 67 years, grown from small cross roads blacksmith shop to one of the greatest industrial institutions in the world. Today the studebaker factories at Detroit, South Bend and Walkersville cover 16s acres and contain 4,7oo,00o square feet of floor space Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars have been in- vested in plants and equipment, and s20, O0OOOO in raw material and working capi tai.
 Stakeholder has what are probably the most complete research and experimental laboratories in the industry, requiring the services of 100 skilled men, working under the supervision of 15 specialized technical experts.
 Many of the heat treating operations that are now standard in the automobile world were originated by Studebaker.
 The laboratory investment alone amounts to nearly $100,0 900.
 Over S00,000 Studebaker cars, with net sales value in excess of $500, 900, have been produced and sold up to date. Of this number over 210,0O0 have been four-cylinder cars and 5000 six-cylinder cars.
 Stndebaker employees at the present time 10000 workmen. This army of work CTS will be increased to over 20,000 in 1920, when the new automobile plants at South Bend and completed.
 Fifty-ffve hundred machines are used in the 200 different manufacturing depart ments of the Studebaker factories; 620 mechanical operations on the new Stude- baker cars require accuracy to the one- thousandth part of an inch; 160 opera lions to the one-half thousandth part of an inch, and nearly 600 inspectors are employed to see that every operation is up to the Studebaker standard of quality and accuracy. Nearly 1000 inspections
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15

in the Poconos). which is over 2O00 feet above sea level. The entire distance of S1 miles through the forest was made on high gear. This I consider a very remarkable feat. as the day was hot and muggy. under which conditions the average car does not pull so well.
 Next, I want to tell you about the unusually low gasoline consumption. have driven the car well over 5000 miles, over all kinds of roads. and have always averaged from % to 25 miles per gallon. On macadam roads it is not at all unusual to get an average of 50 miles to a gallon on a days journey
 The car is very easy on tires, and altogether I wish to state that in my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15
ORDERS
 FIFTY JORDANS
New Models Have Created Demand
 Everywhere

Signs of unusual activity among automobile dealers in the farming dis tricts of the middle west are follow ing the recent announcement of the Jordan Motor Car company's new models. the Playboy and Silhouette. A dealer from Lincoln Neb., who hur- ried to the Jordan factory in Cleve- land, has just contracted for 50 cars. Among many other dealers who came to the factory from that section of the country were five from Oklahoma A flood of telegrams ts coming in from other dealers in the middle west.
 These dealers all testify to the wave of agricultural prosperity which is evidenced in the farmers demands on automobile dealers. Farmers are buS- ing more cars and higher priced cars than ever before. They had a good season last year and early crop. re- ports indicate another big year ahead.
 In commenting on this interest in cars of refinement throughout the great middle western farming dis tricts. Edward s, Jordan. president of the Jordan Motor Car company. points out how the farmers demands have changed in the last year or two
 The farmer is not looking merely for 8 cheap form of transportation in these days'' says Jordan "He has more money than he has had for sev- eral years and he Is buying his car on the basis of appearance, style and comfort He wants 10 buy what the city man has.
 In the old days when a farmer found he needed something to take him to town more quickly than his horses he loked around for a low priced car He probably got one in the $500 class. Then when he got fur ther ahead and his wife wanted sonoe thing little better to ride around in Sunday afternoons he went a step higher. Perhaps he got a thousand- dollar car
 Now he is in a position to get more nearly what he really wants. He buys the car that his wife admires for its style and comfort and that he knows Is made of standard mechanical units of established reputat tion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15

the John N. Willys profit sharing plan, to all employees from the date of their employment payable on condition of six months continuous service
 F. Wage increase during the year prior to May 1, g per cent; wage increase on May approximately 10 per cent, amount ing approximately to s1.5o0, 0o0
 13. Profit distribution on April 1, nearly half a million dollars additional, amount ing from to Ii per cent of the wages for the period covered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15
Maxwell Owner Gets
 Tire and Gas Economy

MT. R. H. Cameron of New Milford, Pa, has the following to say about his Maxwell:
 "It is with great pleasure I relate the experiences I have had and tell the work my car has done and is now do- ing. First, as to high gear performance On August l. 1918, I started with one passenger from Greentown to Scranton Pa, via Goudsboro (the highest point
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15

St. James palace in London was for
 merly the royal residence It was erect ed by Henry VIII and dedicated to St. James After the destruction of White hall by fire in 1897. it became the chief residence of the reigning sovereisns of England. and for that reason the English court was referred to as the court of St. James. After her accession in 1887. Queen Victoria moved the royal household to Buckingham palace but until the death of the prince consort in 1861 she held her levees and drawing rooms at St James.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15

judgment it is the most economical as well as most comfortable car on the market today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15

It is estimated that the numerous automobile plants in the United States will turn out 2,139,500 cars during the present year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-15

A joker" is word or clause of in- nocent appearance, inserted in a bill before the Congress in such a way as to make the bill mean something which some who voted for 1t did not think it meant. Thus members are sometimes entraped into voting for a bill which they would have opposed had they understood its real purport.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
KING AND WING (
 EXPERIENCE SHOWS
 NEED FCR STATION
When Vessel Goes 10 Puget Sound With Smallpox Patients People Want Quarantiue Station
 Here.

The fact that the King and Wlnsa recently was compeuad 10 go from Juneau to Diamond Point, near Port Townsend on Puget Sound. and enter quarantine with smallpox patients ol beard, is being used l. an argumopt for the establishment Of ql3ran tine station against Infectious dis eases in Alaska Tho King an Winge was compelled 10 make thi long and expensive trip risht in inc beginning Of a Spring when the fish ing season is fast approaching it's best period of the year
 F. J. White, Director Of Publicity in Alaska, recently wrote an article for The Empire, strongly urging the establishment of such a station in Alaska, probably in the vicinity of Ketchil.an, and it attracted consider able attention
 The suggestion has been made that 2 memorial 10 Congress, askinS for the establishment of such a qulran- tine station, should he adopted by the Legislature
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
DOUGLAS CANNERYMEN ARE MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR
 THIS COMING YEARS WORK

DOUGLAS, March 24-Work start ed in earnest this morning at the cannery sites of the three Douglas canneries.
 A number of men employed by Su. perintendent Fay Byers, began work on tearing up the floors of the ware houses on the old Ferry Dock in order to prepare for the driving of new piling and the work of strength enfng the dock at all points will be the first improvements made.
 Superintendents Keegan and Long gre also busy in preparing for their seasons run, although they will have but little construction work and re pairs. Mir Keegan will be located at the James sawmill site again this year, while MT. Long will make additional Improvements on the City Dock A large boiler and machinery is already being installed by MT Long
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
REPORT BITTER WEATHER

DOUGLAS, March 24 = A letter from Captain Durgan of the gas boat Thalfa. arrived on the Channel yea tsrday. having been mailed at Fun. ter Bay last week The Thalia left for Port Walter with Mr and Mrs
 Beach about ten days ago. just in time to catch the second bad blow of the Taku winds. The captain re- ports having experienced a terrific "Norther" after rounding Point Re treat, and was forced to lay at Ad- ams Anchorage for several days
 The Tillicum, Nautilis and several other well known boats of the Chan. nel fleet were also forced to anchor there until the storm subsided The Thalfa had a small gas boat in tow and the captain reports the weather so cold that the distilate froze in
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
CASH COLE: WILL TAKE AGENCY FOR
 EXPRESS %
Agency of WeIIs-Farqo Co. Has Been Given Up by the Pacific Coast
 Company.

The agency for the Fargo Express Company has been given up by the Pacific Steamship Company and will he taken over by Cash Cole, according 10 an announcement made today
 The office for the express com pany will be established in the IIei lenthal Building on Front Street by Mr Cole
 Tn turning over the Wells Fargo Company agency, we expect to give Juneau better service in the steam ship business and in the express business. Each has outgrown the service we have heen able to give while handling the two agencies, 9 said J. H. Kline, Pacific Steamship agent in Juneau today We are ooKi.4s .,1rs,.r I'd to a big tourist trade t1lA Sa4aG-er and our company wish es us to devote our time to the steamship business The Juneau business of the Wells-Fargo Company has grown to such an extent that il needs the sole attention of someone end MT Cole will be able to give it more attention than we. The new offices in the Hellenthal Building wl he devoted to the Wells-Fargo Company and the arrangement which has been made by c. S Crider of he Wells Fargo Company in town will prove more satisfactory to al of Us. am sure'
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24

acquaintances in Alaska for the last week, was in the same unit that Sergeant Kennedy served in. Ken nedy Was Mess Sergeant, and Joe Meherin says he was some little proyidor.'
 The unit in which Joe Mehcrin served was ready to depart for France when the armistice was signed. He says there was not man in it but was anxious to get at least one crack at the enemy before the end came
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
PASSENGERS LEAVING FOR THE SOUTH
 ON THE JEFFERSON

Among the passengers who lefI Southbound on tie Jafforsan yoaer day morning are John sandbe 3 Frank Koski, and John Colich for Ketchikan, K NJ R. Pierce for Wrangell and loha Votney, Wen Welteson, Gunder MolsTe, A, T. Boone, Tom Running, Carl Wold Alfred Poulson George Smith. Cliff ford Arnes, M. c Klabo, C. Chris jensen, Martin Todal and Conrad Zines for Petersburg.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
AT THE LIBERTY

DOUGLAS, March 24 - Tonight will be the last time to see Mary Pickford in "Amarily of Clothesline Alley There is also Keystone comedy featuring Mack Swain in Thirst" and a Weekly News 0f the World. An entire change of pro gram for tomorrow night.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
AT THE LYRIC

DOUGLAS, March 24-The strong patriotic play, For France" will be shown again tonight at the Lyric, together with a Lonesome Luke com edy and a late Pathe News. There will be a change of program for to- morrow night.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
FERRY ON NEW SCHEDULE

DOUGLAS. March 24-The ferry is now running fifteen minutes ear lierf on the second morning trip. Those who have been used to waiting for the 1925 trip to Juneau will re- member that the boat now leaves at 10:10.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE BACK IN SEATTLE FROM
 SERVICE IN TANK CORPS

Former Representative Charles Kennedy, member of the First Alas ka Legislature, who was in the tank corps of the United States army at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, has returned to Seattle.
 Joe Meherin, who was in the tank
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
COUNCIL MEETS

DOUGLAS, March 24-The City Council met this afternoon at 1;30 at which time all current bills against the city were considered old Council attended to-
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24

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the feed pipes of the unused launch
 All the boats were a solid sheet of ice, the weather having been very
 rough before they were able to make anchorage. The Tillicum made two
 attempts to round Point Retreat bat
 had to put back to Anchorage
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24
WOMAN's CLUB TO MEET

DOUGLAS, March 24 The Douglas Island Woman's Club will meet again this week at the home of Mrs. Bowen, Douglas, at 2:30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24

A romantic story of love, war and patriotism that you will regret to miss.
 A Imaginable comedy and a Patae News With this proeram.
 Watch for the change Of pro gram tomorrow night.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-24

The one that pleases ali and is Amerfca's famous actress, and is bound to please you.
 Also Keystone Comedy, and Weekly News of the World.
The sun., 1919-06-11
WINS $4,000 MORE
FOR STOLEN LOVE
Mrs. Dougherty's Action
Against Former Phone Girl
Settled Out Of Court.

Mrs. Frances B. Dougherty. former
wife of Theodore Dougherty. a member
OF the ship brokerage firm of J. F. Whit
ney q Co. of 10 Bridge street, banked
$4,000 more yesterday as result Of
her suit against Mrs. Ruby Buchanan
Dougherty. a former telephone operator
at the waldorf-Astoria, whom she sued
for the alienation of her husbands af-
fections.
When the action for 100000 was
called for trial yesterday in the Supreme
Court before Justice Hotchkiss the clerk
announced that It had been settled out
of court. 1t developed then that the
action had been dropped by the payment
to the plaintiff u quarter OF the sum
she demanded. She had already won a
lump sum settlement of $4,000 and $50
a week alimony for life from her hus-
band through her divorce action.
Commenting to a friend on the success
or her court actions. Mrs Dougherty IL
said to have remarked. with reference
to the present Mrs Dougherty: "She
has turned out to be a very expensive
Ruby"
Mrs Frances B. Dougherty. who is
living with her father. y. Ives Bennett,
retired jeweller of Bethel, Conn, was
pupil In the Sunday school of Calvary
Methodist Episcopal Church, 129th
street and Seventh avenue. which
Dougherty also attended. They startled
their friends and the congregation by
clipping on June 1, 1904. She was 10
years old and he was 81, having Just
come into possession OF the fortune left
by his father, Theodore Dougherty, also
ship broker.
The couple parted in 1917. and a
short time later Dougherty instituted
an action for divorce, naming Frederick
G. Slgnor. an automobile dealer of
Bridgeport, Conn, as correspondent.
The sun., 1919-06-11
POLES HEAR JEWS
ARE FAVORED HERE
Propaganda in Europe Aims to
Stir Resentment Against
United States.

WASHINGTON, June 10.-Propaganda
disseminated in Poland and elsewhere In
eastern Europe designed to show that
the United States stood as the advocate
OF the Jew as against the Pole has been
the cause OF much resentment and dis
trust in that region, American Minister
Gibson at Warsaw reported to the
House Foreign Affairs Committee to-day
through n message to the State Depart
ment.
The American Minister'S report, laid
before the committee by Assistant Sec
rotary of State Phillips, declared that
stories of Jewish massacres had been
greatly exaggerated. Pending moro de-
tailed information from American repre-
sentatives In Poland the committee.
which is considering a joint resolution
regarding alleged pogroms, decided not
to hear Jewish and Polish delegations.
1T Is felt that there In a good deal
OF MISREPRESENTATION" Minister Gibson's
report stated, ''as to the attitude OF the
United States on the question both
among Poles and Jews to the effect that
the United States is an advocate OF the
Jews as against the Poles. This 10 used
as lever by the Jews and 10 q cause
OF resentment and distrust among tho
some representative Poles could visit
England and the United States to study
the Jewish question along constructive
lines"
Chairman Porter, in a statement to a
large assemblage OF Jews and Poles at
the meeting. said:
This committee is unanimous In hop
ing that you will impress upon your peo-
pie at home that this agitation should
cease.
'Our military authorities tell US there
Is a German owned Newspaper at Copen-
hagen that Is sending out many OF the
reports appearing in this country for
the purpose OF impressing the world
with the idea that Poland is not capable
of self-government. We thought best.
therefore. In the interest of Justice to
await a first hand report from our rep
resentatives there.
"The fact is that II II were not for the
hope that some action by this committee
might stop the III feeling in this country
between the Jews and the Poles would
be ready to lay this whole matter on the
table. am weary. too, OF all these ma
tionality organizations in America
think We had enough experience in the
last war to do away with the hypher
| forever"
After the committee adjourned tn,
delegation OF Poles here for the hearing
announced that q public meeting SEIZED
| uled for Baltimore had been called Off.
News Of the cancellation OF the meet
ing was regarded by members Of IN,
| committee as evidence that both Pole
and Jews are inclined to await a fur
Their report from American representa-
tives before discussing published report
! OF alleged massacres In Poland.
The sun., 1919-06-11

elected by the classified employees below
the grade of appointed officials. one
third by the appointed officers and en-
pioyees, the fnal third being appointed
by the President OF the United States
This board OF directors should have
power TO appoint all officers from presi-
dent down to the point where employ
ment begins by classification and to pre-
scribe the conditions of employment and
classification of all other employees.
The so-called Plumb plan already has
been presented to the executive council
Of the federation. The council, In It's
report now before the conference, recon-
mends that the convention indorse Gov
eminent ownership Of the railroads.
Daylight Saving Wins.
BY q vote OF $50 to 1874 a resolution
protestin against the repeal by Con-
gress of the daylight saving law was
defeated by the convention, after
spirited tight had been launched against
1t by delegates who declared that 1t
worked a hardship upon labor and inter-
fered with work upon the farms.
Advocates of the daylight saving law,
among them Secretary Frank Morrison
of the Federation, declared that 1t had
operated to the benefit of workmen gen
orally, while its opponents retallated
With the statement that It had been
used by many employers to cut down
expenses and as a means OF recurring
their men TO work overtime. I. W.
Mccullough, a representative or the Iy-
biographical Union, said the law worked
especial hardships on agriculturists. He
made II clear, however. that ne helo no
brief for the farmers, saying:
God knows the farmer needs no help.
He Is the man at this time who has the
world by the tail and is pulling down
hill"
John Lewis, a delegate Of the miners
union, said the miners regarded the law
as freak legislation" and that they
wanted II repealed. as 1t was against
their wishes and well being.
Among the other resolutions presented
to the convention was one signed by the
score or more Of negro delegates. In II
they urged that a square deal be given
negro skilled and unskilled laborers, and
urged the Federation to favoraoly con-
slider an application for an international
charter for negro labor.
During the afternoon session John
Golden OF the United Textile Workers
presented a lengthy report OF the ac-
tivities OF the mission sent to Italy
by the American Federation OF Labor.
He discussed italian labor and political
and Industrial conditions, and the work
OF the mission in combating the efforts
of Italian pacifists and defeatists. The
report showed that italian labor leaders
are anxious to cooperate with organized
labor in the United States
Letters written to Samuel Gompers by
labor leaders in Chile and Peru were
read to the convention. They suggested
closer relations between workingmen In
North and South America.
As an indication Of the strong feelings
Of the convention toward extremists and
advocates of violence virtually all of
the delegates are wearing red, white and
blue buttons, with the motto: American
citizen; loyal to constitutional govern
ment"
The sun., 1919-06-11
Soldier. VIII Filed.

A soldiers will. made before his ret,.
ment the 3o7th Infantry. sailed for
France, was filed in The Bronx yester.
day. 1t was that Of Corporal Harry
PARSER. killed In action in the Arsonn.
Forest october IL. Before enlistment
he was superintendent of a dairy com.
pany. and made his home in Gal East
10th street. The will provides for thu
payment OF his $4,000 war insurance
to the executors, his three brothers, and
that SIS a month be paid to his father
The estate. exclusive of the insurance,
was $4,000
The sun., 1919-06-11
WOMAN ENDS LIFE WITH GAS.
Son of Mrs. Minnie Messenger
Finds Her Dead.

Mrs. Minnie Messenger. a. OF Is Glen
ada place. Brooklyn, committed suicide
yesterday in her apartment by inhaling
gas. Her ffteen-year-old son Bernard
discovered her in the kitchen upon his
return from Boys High School. The
door leading TO the kitchen had been
locked and gas was flowing from a range
and the ceiling Jets. He called a physi-
clan after shutting of the gas and open
ing the windows, hut the doctor said the
woman had been dead several hours.
Mrs. Messenger had recently returned
from Greene county. where she had gone
to reSuperate from an attack of infiuenza
Her husband. Henry Messenger, who Is
the proprietor OF a chain OF five and ten
cent stores In Manhattan, The Bronx
and Brooklyn. said his wife had been in
poor health.
The sun., 1919-06-11

hope Of being able TO open again upon
the proclamation OF peace and demobili-
sation, or as the result OF Congressional
action, the latter a confessediy faint
hope, the liquor dealers point to tbs
fact that the injunction permitting the
manufacture Of az per cent. beer pend
Ing final court determination Of It's In
toxicating character, would undoubtedly
enable the retailers to keep their places
going In the interim.
The sun., 1919-06-11

While the trial was pending an auto-
mobile accident at Spring Lake, n. 7
brought to light the fact that Dough-
erty was living there with woman who
posed as his wife. Mrs. Dougherty, in
turn, instituted divorce proceedings
naming the telephone operator as co.
respondent. and a jury awarded her the
decree with alimony.
The filing Of the suit against RUBY
Buchanan. who later became the wife
OF Dousherty, followed the divorce ac.
ton. and this was the case which yas-
terday was marked of the court csien.
dar as Settled"
The sun., 1919-06-11
Synagogue Gets $4,000 in Day.

Contributions to the 100000 building
fund Of the Institutional Synagogue
reached s47.6oo yesterday. More than
s17,6oo was raised on Monday. Among
the contributors were Friedman & krie-
ger, Abraham Cohen. II. Katz & Com.
pany, Joseph 8. Marcus and family and
the estate Of Henry steinberg. who gave
$4,000 each. Work on the new building
which Is to combine the work of the Y.
NJ. II. A. and synagogue, and the Talmud
Torah will be started soon.
The sun., 1919-06-11
Heart Disease Killed Becker.

PHILADELPHIA. June 1o.--Heart dis
ease caused the death here last Sunday
of DR.. r. Henry Becker OF Blueheid,
w. Va, according to the autopsy per-
formed under the direction OF the Coro-
ner the result OF which was announced
to-day A preparation used as a head
ache cure was contributing cause. the
autopsy showed.