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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Little Stories of the
 DayFror1 Washington
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

Washington, February 2-(Special) While the state department makes no announcement, it is generally reported today that information has come from Paris that American and English dele gates have about agreed with those of France and Japan that for the peace of the world, the Russian Reds" must be crushed.
 Many students of the situation incline to belief that war between the Reds and some of the great powers is un- avoidable. For that reason, Senator Sohnson of California declares it his in sention to continue to fight for the with drawal of American troops. He declares that there is danger of the United States becoming involved, and it is his point that settling the internal affairs of Rus sia lis none of our business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
SELL REPLICA OF
 CROIX DE GUERRE

Washington, February 2.-(Speclai.) Not every man who wears the croix de guerre is entitled to wear it. Repre- sentatives Edmonds and Darrow of Penn sylvania are authority for that state ment. They appeared on the floor today wearing the decoration which the French government bestows on those displaying great valor in battle.
 Representative Darrow explained: Re gently a ship docked at Philadelphia. Every man aboard, from cook up, wore the croix de guerre. It was related by members of the crew that French ped dlars were reaping a harvest of money by selling at four francs an exact replica of the decoration"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
INTERNAL REVENUE . COLLECTIONS SHOW
 DECIDED INCREASE

Internal revenue collections for the six months period ending December 31 show an increase of nearly $2,oo0.ooO over the same period of 1917. This increase is at- trltuted by John D. McNeel, internal rev. enue collector, to better business, as the rate of taxes was practically the same as lasl year.
 The total receipts for the period end ing December 31, 1917 were sS1S. .633. F. while for the same period in 1918 they were $2,745,5S1.73. For January, 191S the receipts were s15O,526. Il, and for January, l919 $2S7. .72058,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
American Henley to
 Be ROwed This Year
By Assocmred Prss

New York, February 2.-The Ameri- can Henley will be rowed this year over the Schuykill course. Philadelphia, on Saturday, May S1. This was decided tonight at a meeting of the stewards of the American rowing association held at the Columbia University club. at which Thomas Reath of Philadelphia presided.
 Officers of the association were elect cd as follows:
 Dr. Hugh Cabot. Boston. chairman; Julian Curtis, Yale, vice chairman; Rus sell Johnson, Union Barge club, Phila- delphia, treasurer: and John A. Brown, Pennsylvania, secretary.
 At the Henley regetta there will be three races, each of 5-16 for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen first eights, but not essentially confined to college crews as outside clubs will be invited. Entries from the Union Boating club of Philadelphia, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania and Annapolis have been assured and invitations have been ex- tended for Harvard, Yale and Cornell to take part
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
COUGHING SPELLS BREAK YOUR REST Put a stop to them with old reliable Dr.. Kings New
 Discovery

That raw. hoarse throat must be soothed. That phlegm loaded chest must be loosened. That cough must be check ed so you can sleep.
 Dr. Kings New Discovery has been relieving colds, and coughs for half century without the least disagreeable after effects.
 Your druggist has it because it is well-known and in big demand. COG and S1.20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
A Wonderful Book of Facts

This great modern Dictionary not only spells. defines and pronounces WORDS-.b but 1t sup plies vast fund of information practically rhinf that can be expressed in English. Do realize the immense cultural value and the ereat everyday practical usefulness of the reliable information given here on many thousands of in such subjects politics. business. music art. literature law medicine agriculture philosophy. hissory religion. science, etc1 Millions of dollars were spent to Garner this inorma
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

New York labor unions have formed what Is to be known as the American labor party of Greater New York. Among the blanks In their platform are demands for public ownership of all utilities, equal rights for men and wom- en and a declaration against universal military training.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Auction Sale Horses andMuleS

Big Sale of Surplus Govern ment Horses and Mules
 of All Kind There will be sold at Public Auction al Auxiliary Re- mount Depot No. 3O7, CAMP WADSWORTH, sc.
 February 2, 1919 The following animals:
 $50 Riding Horses
 100 Draft Horses
 500 Draft Mules
 60 Pack Mules Sale Starts 9 A. M., Rain or
 Shine
 All animals are soundsand in good condition.
 Terms: Cash or cashiers check. No personal checks accepted.
 If purchaser desires, stock will be loaded on cars by Re- mount Depot. Halter with each animal.
 Lunch on Grounds The government reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
 REMBRANDT PEALE, JR. Ed Lieut.. Q. M. Corps
 Quartermaster
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
HIGH PRAISE FOR RIFLE

Some months after the United States found itself in position to supply our army with all the rifles needed. Col. J. Webbley Hope of the British Royal artillery. who was sent to the United States by the British government to make investigation and inspection so that he might report to England upon the quality and character of the Amer ican rifles, including the standard army rifle manufactured at the Spring field armory was invited to be present at a test which was to take place upon the testing grounds near the Eddy stone plant. It was observed that Col onel Hope speedily became intensely interested in the test and was glad to receive permission closely to scrutl- nize the rifles Every possible test was made. When the test was ended. Colonel Hope. who had remained silent while the test was in progress. seem- inely absorbed in all that he saw, said "The United States is now making the best rifle in the world. There Is none that is superior to it nor is there any that I know of which is it's equal' He. was especially interested in the re- markab1e achievement of the Ameri- can experts which has resulted in the standardizing of the rifles in such manner that ammunition which Is suit able for any one. kind of American rifle is suitable for any other
 The mastery of standardizing is said by some of the government officers to explain the reason for the delay after our entrance into the war in the manufacture and delivery of rifles. and especially the machine gun. These officers say that the chief reason for the refusal of the government to ac- cept the Lewis machine gun when 1t was first offered was due to the fact that it was not standa rdized Now 1t Is in that condition. So officers also say that the Browning machine gun has been standardized and that 50,000 of them had been shipped to France up to the time shipment ceased in- mediately after the armistice was sirred.
 What is to become of the large num- her of rifles which the soldiers will bring back and which will be turned over to the desi@nated authorities as soon as the soldiers are honorably dischsreed Is a question yet to be answered. Presumably there will be several millions of these rifles on hand. This does not apDlv, however to the standard r'f'e which isomanufac- tnred at Sprinefield because the reg. ular army will continue to be equipped with this gun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
SYLACAUGA

Sylacausa. February 3-(Speciall-The report of County Agent A. II. Hackney shows ginning in Talladega county up to January IS, 1919. to be 13.S30 bales, as against s2es bales for the same period in 191S
 F. H. Solley. well known citizen of he Fayetteville community, died Mon lay of this week, death resulting from pneumonia developing from a case of in- fiueaza. A 12-year- old daughter died Tuesday of the same disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

A will of only 16 words. probated at Edwardsville, Mo, reads: "I hereby be- queath all my belongings both real and personal, to my wife, Lydia A. Feigen- baum" A will probated in the same county in 1910 had only IA words. in cluding the designation of both devsor and devisee: q; John T. Ryan, will leave to my wife Margaret, all my property"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

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 If you send $1.00 for four boxes of Black and White Ointment. a 25c cake of Black and White Soap included free. Agents make an easy living represent ing us. Address Plough Chemical Co.,. Memphis Tenn. Black and White Oint- ment sold everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

House. but even the closest friends of the Wilson and McAdoo families are in the dark in this particular"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Tn Cuxe Hahifua,

To Cure Habftua- Constipation. Take .LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN'' for two or three weeks. Liquid Tonic Laxative. Pleasant to Take. 6Oe It Regulates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
SECTION ONE

Washington. February 2-The follow ins casualties are reported by the com manding general of the American eXpe- ditionary forces:
 Died from accident and other causes. I Died of disease .................... 33 N Wornded severely .................2 224 Missing in action ..................... 13
 - Total 273
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Days Casualty List

by the commanding general of the Ameri- can expeditionary forces: Wounded. degree undetermined ....... 25l Wounded slightly ......................... As
 Total .......................... ss7 WOUNDED, DEGREE UNDETER-
 MINED
 Walton, Lieut. Clarence Leon. savan-
 nah, Ga.
 Lipford. sergt. Oliver Nj. Dyersburg.
 Tenn.
 CORPORALS. Hore ey, senter. Greenville, Tenn. Lyons, Ira, Model, Tenn. Stone. John H., Algood. Tenn Heflin. Private Ranald Earl, Baldwyn, Miss. .. WOUNDED SLIGHTLY LIEUTENANTS. Eberhardt, Jacob S.. Carlton. Ga. Janeson. Samuel Y, Atlanta Ga. CORPORALS Jennings. John E.. Memphis, Tenn. Rumley, Roy, Piney Flats, Tenn. Stewart. Edward Lyndon, Newman, Ga. kelso, Cook Carl. London, Tenn PRIVATES | February, Gurney, Elizabethton, Tenn. Hall. Charles &, Hartwell, Ga. l Hodge, Ebert, Elizabethton. Tenn. 1 Stewart, Edgar T., Folkston, Ga. Sutton, Ed, Copperhill, Tenn. Ginn. Allen E., Commerce, Ga. 1 Hancock, Joseph B., Knoxville. Ga. IIankins, Moss A.. Knoxville, Tenn. | Howard, William G., Porterdale, Ga. Hyde. Earl Azero, Minneapolis, Miss. Keck Esca A., Coin, Tenn.
 McFall, Terry H.. Sevierville. Tenn. | Stooksbury Polk, Clinton, Tenn. Henderson, Joh hnson, Atlanta, Ga. Kite, Robert K, Jefferson City, Tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
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 DIED OF DISEASE Hall, Sergeant Joseph C.. Rockledge, Ga.
 PRIVATES. Hutcheson, William L.. Meeks. Ga. Mckee, George H., Atoka, Tenn. Pearson, Richard ", Banner, Miss. Stack, Robert F., Thomasvlle, Tenn. DIED FROM ACCIDENT AND OTH- FER CAUSES Lawson, Private William Mex, Beech Grove, Tenn.
 WOUNDED SEVERELY
 CORPORALS. Folsom, William J., Coolidge, Ga. Girtman, Warren E., Hazelhurst, Ga.
 PRIVATES. Elrod, John L., Oxford, Miss Fleenor, George R., Louisville, Tenn. Kimery, William R., Shelbyville, Tenn. Rsiney, Charles H., Nashville, Tenn. St ockley, Charlie. Spencer. Tenn. Odom, Yaldon A., Warwick, Ga. Rotten, Charlie F., Kossuth, Miss. Selvy. John B, Knoxville, Tenn. Skillern, Jesse, Jackson, Tenn.
 MISSING IN ACTION Hollis, Private Willie E., Walnut, Miss. SECTION THREE The following casualties are reported
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
MAKING RIFLES
 FOR USE OF ARMY
By HOLLAND

New York, February 2.--(Special) Twenty million dollars was paid by England for privately owned rifle manufacturing plants in the United
 States a few months after the war in
 Europe began. So much as that sum
 suggests the desperate straits to
 which in the beginning of the wal
 Great Britain was put in order to sup
 ply the rapidly increasing number of
 troops with arms. This purchase of
 machinery and the use of American
 plants is spoken of as sufficient ans-
 wer to those who have claimed that
 England forced the war and that Ger
 many entered it solely for defensive
 purposes.
 The plants and machinery which
 passed into the control of Great Brit
 ain were the Eddystone which is near
 Philadelphia and has now been absorb
 ed by the Midvale company: the plants
 at Ilion, N. Y, and those at New Ha-
 ven. These were privately owned
 plants. They were pushed to their
 capacities after England secured them
 until at last she had established her
 own plants so fully that she was able
 not only to provide ample for her army
 and navy but also to lend or to sell some of these munitions of war to France and, after the United States
 became belllgerent, to our own gov
 ernment, so that the first American troops to arrive in France could be adequately supplied with munitions of this kind After the United States began to participate in the war it was found imperative that our army should be supplied with all the rifles shat were needed as speedily as was pos sible to manufacture them. Therefore, as Great Britain had no longer need for these American rifle plants, it Was possible to enter into negotiations with the British authorities to the end that the United States could secure the plants and machinery. England had installed some of the plants with her own machinery. Sir Samuel Harben Lever. a man of such popularity tha: before he received his title he was known as Sam Lever, representa- Great Britain in these negotiations and Frank Scott took part In them as the representative of the American government The bargain was made and the property passed into the pos session of the United States on the payment of somewhat less than $20.- 000,000. These privately owned plants have manufactured for the United States 3500000 rifles designated as , the United States rifle of the S0-cali- | bre, 1917. model. It was the modified Enfield rifle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
WHY CALLED MODIFIED

The term modified is used because the skill and the inventive capacity of experts made it possible so to im- prove or perfect the Enfield rifle that
 it became standardized, or in other words, that ammunition which would fit any other rifle could be used in the modified Enfield rifles or vice versa This action resulted in stand ardizing the parts of all the rifles in cluding the machine guns. so that it
 became immaterial whether one or another rifle or machine gun was used.
 This is spoken of as great triumph
 so far as the manufacture of rifles is concerned.
 What is now to become of the plants
 formerly privately owned, such, as
 the Winchester at New Haven, the
 Remington at Ilion or the Eddystone
 near Philadelphia. is question yet Go
 be determined. Certainly the govern
 ment will have no great use for them,
 since 1t will rely almost entirely upon
 the two oldest arsenals in the United
 States for munitions of this kind. These two are the armory at Spring field Mass, and the arsenal at Rock Island, III. The Springfield rifle, which Is manufactured at the Spring field, Mass, armory, iS the standard regular army rifle. It is known as the Springfield 19O3-6 model. And 1T is of such high quality that the regu- lar army will continue exclusively to use it. The life of rifle on the firing line has been estimated al about five weeks. But there Is no longer any fir ing line, at least of any consequence. so that the rifles which have been supplied to our soldiers will have a much longer life than this4 The reg
 ular army as 1t now is and as it here after is organized, will make constand demand upon the Springfield arsenal for the standard army rifle. There fore 1t is presumed that the armory at Springfield and the arsenal at Rock Island will be occupied to their ca- pacities in the manufasture of this rifle which is recognized as without superior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-15
Mission Society
Opens Meeting at.
Larimore Today

The thirty fifth. annual meeting Of
the Woman's< Missionary society OF
the Pembina Presbytery, opens at
Larimore this afternoon with an ex-
eouttve board meeting ats4.3O o'clock.
Mrs. e. F.. Chandler of Grand Forks,
president of the organization will pre-
SIDE at the sessions. Mrs. Don Nc
Donald. treasurer of the sbciety, and
Mrs. p. S. Kneeland and Mrs. Andrew
Veitch, delegates from the Missionary
society Of the local Presbyterian
church, will also be In attendance az
the meetings.
The meeting will open formally this
evening and this is the program which
will begin at 1880 O'clock.
Devotional <serNice-Rev. II. w.
Pugh. Larimore.
Greetings-Mrs. Flora B. Naylor.
Response-Mrs. j. N. Porter, Cal4
Address-Mrs. Ell Allyn, urumia.
Persia. -.
solo-Mrs. Minnie J.. Algoe.
-Address-Mrs. Guy s. Davis, rep.
resentative Of the Home Board.
solo-Mrs. James Larmour.
\ Appointment of committees Offer
ing. B%enediction.
The address Of Miss Eli Allyn
promises to be M Of considerable
interest,". MISS Allyn mas, been enEag-
ed In field work in Persia for, the last
four years and her NE and expert
ences Vouch that much Of interest
maybe expected, from her. s
Some twenty-five churches and So
cieties are represented in the Penn
blna Presbytery and a large number
of delegates r expected at'Larimore
for the meeting. Mrs. Guy s. Davies
Of West City, Mimi, a former field
secretary for the national home board
of missions for the Presbyterian
church, is to attend the meeting and
will be one of the sneakers.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-15
Woman's Club
Meet at Langdon
Closed Wednesday,

Delegates from Grand Forks to the
annual meeting Of the FIRST District
North Dakota Federation OF W6men's
clubs have returned ana are generous,
in The praise Of the hAnEdon Wom-
ans club and the Langdon citizens.
Tor the excellent entertainment given
tAem during the sessions.
Mrs. Th0s. f. Kane appeared on the
program, speaking on the advantaEesN
for young women that may be gained
by a university course. Miss Beatrice
Johnstone included insher talk on
education, q, brief summary Of the dis
cussion of plane for after-the-wAr
education which she heard at the Ma.
tional Educational association. Miss
tombstone gave: another talk on
school nurses.
For the benent Of the ~student's
Loan Fund, a clever little musical.
comedy was given Tuesday evening
under the direction Of Edward "A.
Foley. The comedy was original,
and was entitled 1.-THE Tale Of 'asf1at."
Mrs. Williams Of Grafton was in
charge of community singing. which
played an important part in the pros
Grams Of the meeting. Mrs. T. NJ.
Cunningham Of Larimore presided at
the se~ssions~and a portion Of the sue
cess which evidenced each meeting is
due her.
Grand Forks county delegates who
attended this meeting were Mrs..Kane.
Miss tombstone and Mrs, e. F. Chand-
Ter OF this city: Miss koto of North
wood, Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Thorn
as, Mrs. O. A. Hazen and Miss Pifer
of Isarimore. 80