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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1915
Page
1
O Neal charged by authorities to testify as W U employees recount actions at the telegraph company court session. Manager and bookkeeper take the stand providing details on the incident and related communications.
In Montgomery on March 11 the probe into the agriculture department heard Miss Julia Kling testify that an $86 expense account sworn by Captain John Cheney was altered to read John C. Chasseboro. Cheney said the expense was incurred by the negro and he paid with a personal check. He was asked to present the check. C A Fonville of Western Union and Alice Graham testified about telegrams to cotton brokers in New York charged to the state and one New York message urging higher margins.
News from Mexico City and Washington reports Carranza troops have evacuated the capital and foreign protection assurances lessen tension. The food crisis remains severe with calls for an international committee to raise funds to feed the hungry.
The judge sustained the state in blocking a defense move to question witnesses about Harry Thaw's sanity at his Matteawan escape. The trial on conspiracy charge continues as the state completes its case at 12 20 today.
Well known news dealer Cr. E Hatchett died after being shot by Justice of the Peace T J Newsome on Church Street near his home. Newsome surrendered to Sheriff Foreman and claimed self defense after saying Hatchett threatened him and tried to rob. The body to be taken to Athens for interment.
Paul Crawford, a local dealer, received three carloads of Buick autos. One load went to Decatur for distribution, one to Athens, and one to Huntsville. Crawford called the shipment a fine lot of cars arriving today and noted the rapid auto industry expansion in the region.
Twenty four hours after the death of her husband former Brooklyn mayor Louise Schieren died at her New York home. She contracted pneumonia while nursing him and they were both 73 years old.
James K. Hughes, longtime Maxwell House Nashville manager and renowned Southern hotel man, is in Decatur visiting his brother H. P. Hughes, manager of Hotel Lyons. He expresses strong impressions of the Decatur area.
The Lewis Stock Company will open Monday at the Masonic Theatre for a week's engagement. The company is praised by public and press as one of the best stock units, with high class vaudeville between acts and a daily chaplain. An American Girl in four acts tops the bill with melodrama and interspersed vaudeville. Ladies admitted free Monday night with a 30 cent ticket, seat sale opens Saturday at 10 o'clock. Billy Holtman, advance agent, arrived to arrange the production.
A Copenhagen dispatch claims German naval circles report 11 submarines lost since February 18. Four losses are officially admitted while seven remain missing for nearly three weeks.
London at 3:30 p.m. March 11 reports King George signed a decree authorizing the army and navy to strike reprisals against Germany. Details have not yet been announced.
The Woodmen of the World selected Dothan as the meeting venue for the next year during a gathering in Selma on March 11. The decision sets plans for a regional assembly in the southern city.
International News Service reports deputies believed ambushed by Indians near Bluff Utah with no word from them. U S Marshal Nebeker has dispatched posses and plans an advance against the Indians on Saturday as peace efforts fail.
In Selma on March 11 Dr. D L Horn of Union Springs was chosen head consul of the Grand Camp Alabama Woodmen of the World. Miss Myrtle Love of Huntsville was elected grand guardian of the ladies camp.
Washington reports destroyers McDougal and Drayton have been ordered from Cuba to New York to assist the naval yacht Dolphin in preserving strict neutrality of shipping.
Reports from St John s dated March 11 say the ice pack trapping six sealing steamers is changing direction. The vessels are expected to escape the pack as it moves.
Nashville March 11 Gov Rye announced Hallum W Goodloe of Bells Tenn will be his permanent private secretary succeeding John Denton of Franklin who has served temporarily He is a veteran in political public life having long been in Captain John W Morton secretary of state’s office and later succeeded the latter He also held four years in the office before R R Sneed’s tenure
Washington reports President Wilson designates Fletcher Howard and Cowles as admirals and chiefs of the Atlantic Pacific and Asiatic fleets. Fletcher to hoist today, Howard tomorrow, Cowles Friday. four star blue flags. Sailors retain ranks while in command.
Dispatches from Athens say Anglo French warships silenced hidden batteries between Kepher and Chanak on the Asiatic side of the Narrows. Reconnaissance over the waterway saw a large transport fleet in Marmora and indicated Turkish reinforcements. Turks reportedly prepare to defend the Gallipoli Strait to the last.
The Twickenham Hotel, a modern 90 room property in Huntsville, opens after a costly build. Formal events included a banquet, a reception, and a ball, with out of town visitors in attendance for the opening celebrations.
Newport News March 11 The Prinz Esthel Friedrich faces expulsion from port by 1 p.m. unless repairs justify remaining. Commander Thierichens withholds original Frye papers demanding prize court action, offering copies to Collector Hamilton instead.
Newport News dispatches report a formal U S inquiry into the William P Frye wreck with Collector Hamilton boarding the German vessel to hear Captain Thierichens account. Germany warns its envoy Boy Ed arrives as precaution, while six British and French cruisers approach to intercept the Friedrich.
The German cruiser Prinz Esthel Friedrich arrived at Newport News announcing it sank an American vessel during six months of commerce raiding. Officials withheld full details of the William P. Frye sinking off South America but condemned the act as unfriendly and likely to affect diplomatic ties with Germany. cargo contraband was noted in reports from Newport.
Petrograd reports a pivot in the eastern theater as 1,250,000 Austro German and Russian troops clash across three major fronts. The battle zones span Northern Poland from the Mlava to Narew and Bobr rivers, western Poland between the Rawka and Pilica, and Western Galicia along the Niga and Dunajec rivers. Carpathian blizzards halt operations.
Berlin March 11 an official report denies the Paris announcement that British troops captured Neuve Chapelle in La Bassé region. Russian claims of a breakthrough by Czarist forces at Augustowo Poland are also contradicted in the same report.
Paris report states Allied troops captured a mile and a half of trenches before Neuve Chapelle took the town and pushed a further mile and a half beyond it.
Oldacre convicted of murdering Lewis Brown a young white man faces a possible stay as a new trial motion delays the death sentence. No gallows preparations are underway while the state supreme court reviews the case.
The body of Marguerite Owens a 17 year old Atlanta girl was shipped home after she and Norman Lee a 17 year old negro were found shot to death in her room in Montgomery authorities are stumped on the exact cause of death Lee was shot twice in the abdomen and Miss Owens in the head both by the same shotgun scene remains under investigation with theories circulating about how the two met their deaths.
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