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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
1
Gutson Borglum denies charges of seeking personal gain from critiques of the government aircraft program. Washington presses for full inquiry amid Senate probes into the aircraft actuation and ordnance situations, with public airing of alleged connections to manufacturers.
May 11 report says no further deaths after yesterday’s Atlantic Coast Line troop train wreck near Camp Jackson. Eight soldiers were killed and 26 injured, largely from the Carolinas with several Tennesseans among the wounded and dead. Notable names include Jease Reho Soddy Tenn Andrew Segoggine Oligwah Tenn Chester Sircy Defeated Tenn Hugh Aldridge Baldwin Miss Willis South Ashland Tenn Thomas FitzGerald Trenton Tenn William Kendon Henderson Tenn.
Fuel Administrator John Patterson received a post card from County Pax Collector Charles Robinson. The back printed a statement about an Irishman dying when angels are cut short in heaven. Patterson hoped the angel supply would last for several years.
British aviators photographed Ostend confirming Friday morning's attack on the submarine base was successful and the fair way is now blocked. The cruiser Vindictive, sunk at the harbor entrance, carried 62 volunteers in its crew and was engaged by German shore batteries before being sunk.
Morgan County will furnish 145 men for the May draft, announced by the adjutant general. Of the 145, 115 are white and 30 are Negro. The white quota will exhaust Class One except farmers, with non agricultural members called next, then moving through Classes Two Three and Four unless draft laws are amended.
Washington May 11 war department casualty list reports capture by Germans of five U S officers. Names include Capt John F Hardesty Winfield Mo Lieuts William H Gordon New York Thomas Benjamin Kern Bethlehem Pa Frank K MillsMadeira Pa James E Quigley Adrian Pa Clarence Fry Columbia Tenn also 69 American soldiers listed with eight killed in action three other deaths and multiple wounds and other causes.
Washington May 11. With the country facing vast expenditures for its military and naval organizations the fundamental financial structure has been established upon a firm basis that improves with each month. A monthly bulletin of the federal reserve system shows that general business conditions are very active, that industry is expanding in every direction and that money rates are absolutely firm.
Dr. W H Day of Hartselle spoke to Decade Boosters praising the Tennessee Valley location within thirty miles of coal and iron ore in the heart of Alabama hardwood country. Hartselle Hustlers praised by President Morrill, who noted a 26 million dollar Steel Co. business versus 18 million six months ago and a 60 percent drop in labor troubles from unorganized labor advances. He urged cooperation and unselfishness as keys to usefulness and success in business and life.
A cablegram to Col. 8. T. Wert reports Capt. T. W. Wert has reached France safely. He commands 71 machine gun men from Fort Gordon, Atlanta.
Mobile May 11 Chief Quartermaster Richard C Vetalia a student aviator died in a crash on Santa Rosa Island Florida George S Henderson chief quartermaster and student aviator was badly burned The airships fate before impact is unknown Henderson unable to speak VetALIA was 27 son of the late Samuel L McCalla a civil engineer in China and nephew of Maj Won McCalla His remains will go to Knoxville for burial.
The Malone Coal Grain and Motor company sold four used cars to Tri-City residents after an advertisement in the Booster edition of the Daily. John L. Proctor of Morgan Furniture sold a furniture outfit to a Sheffield man who moved his family to reside here while he works at the nitrate plant. The buyer says others will relocate to Albany Decatur due to housing shortages in the Tri-Cities.
Arthur R. Wissinger, engineer on Train No. 1, was arrested in Birmingham for alleged disloyal utterances and released on his promise to be patriotic. Government official J. Reese Murray said Wissinger must correct impressions, especially in the Louisville & Nashville shops in Albany, and prove Americanism by building a patriotism reputation. if not effective, further action will follow. Wissinger is American born and his father also.
The J. R. Calvin company offered.free onion sets and more than 150 calls were received at the store. Every available bag was taken by customers including residents up to 15 miles away. Additional requests keep arriving but the sets are gone.
A Ukrainian report presented to the Reichstag committee via Herr Scheidmann warns that Ukraine faces near anarchic turmoil due to German interference in its internal affairs. The Vorwaerts account, translated by the State Department, outlines the crisis implications.
Senator Watson of Indiana gave notice in the senate that he will move to suspend the rules to allow an amendment to the revenue bill. The amendment would suspend the proposed increase in second class mail rates from July 1, 1918, to July 1, 1919.
Allied forces advance northeast of Locre with French storming Locre and capturing prisoners. American and French artillery shell Apremont forest on the Wavre plain as German resistance and air raids persist. Berlin and Paris report political tensions amid ongoing war mobilization and raids diminished by steady Allied action.
Paris reports Lieut Rene Fonck destroyed six German aeroplanes in one day, bringing his total air service victories to 39.
The young ladies who volunteered to aid in clerical work at the court house today rendered splendid service and J. L. Draper requests appreciation be published. Five or six volunteers for work on next Monday are necessary to do this patriotic task.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 30 PM from the residence for Raymond Taylor one year old son of Mr and Mrs Earl Taylor. He died this morning after an 11 weeks illness from meningitis. J Pettey Ezell will officiate and burial will follow at City Cemetery.
John I Foote of Morgan county announces he will seek another term as commissioner from the Fourth district. A native and business leader, Foote says his record shows competence and needs for continued county development including road projects and improved services.
Workers rejoiced at the board’s announcement urging all to attend and join in organizing efforts amid renewed union activity and labor support across the region.
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