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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1918
Page
15
June 3 reports morning commentators stressing a very serious West Front situation yet no despondency. French press notes reserves arriving with cautious hope. German advantage estimated four to five to one. Confidence placed in Gen. Foch to maneuver. reserves likely held to counter multiple possible German strikes and to concede limited territory if needed.
A meeting of the Catholic Laymen's Retreat Society is set for Thursday night June 16 at 8 p.m. in the Knights of Columbus hall.
Local notice invites Mobile youths to visit The Tribune Office to learn how to earn money through circulation work. The circulation manager offers guidance and accompanies the boys to shows, ensuring they are kept away from bad company when away from home.
Secretary Baker announced the creation of a new gas defense division led by Maj Gen William L Sibert. The move signals expanded American gas warfare with plants built to produce chemical ingredients and fill bombs, aiming for full Western front deployment.
General health conditions in home camps remain very good according to the army surgeon general. Pneumonia is widespread at Camp Travis Texas Dodge Iowa and Gorgon Georgia with measles common in all cantonments. Deaths fall from 178 to 161 this week.
An Atlantic port reports fresh rumors of German submarines off the American coast after a Brazilian steamship arrived with passengers claiming a wireless warning was issued while in the Gulf Stream off the Florida coast. The captain reportedly altered course to avoid danger before continuing to the port.
In France a battered village street and four figures tell a mother’s loss as Germans rend a home. Mme Pellier and her children endure starvation and illness until Red Cross aid restores health, shelter, seeds, and schooling, restoring a family torn by war. The Red Cross embodies American pity and sacrifice.
An Italian officer, a Red Cross volunteer in Bologna, recounts how he gave his shirt to clothe a newborn on a crowded exhausted train after fleeing Italian forces. The mother and infant were later cared for by the Red Cross, among many such acts during wartime refugee flows.
A wartime feature praises Red Cross women serving man-sized ham sandwiches and hot coffee to exhausted soldiers at field canteens. The piece notes the morale boost from ten minute refreshments near the front and cites a December 30 message from a Commanding General about the Red Cross work being limited only by members and funds.
Police seek return of a suitcase abandoned by an 80-year-old woman at a drug store or soda fountain last Wednesday. The bag contains clothing and should be turned over to the Police who will forward it to her home in Chunchula.
Sergt. Larry Halphen of Austin, survivor of a trench mortar disaster in Fort Worth, touts two new ears he received today and says he prefers them to the ones he lost. The Tribune notes a classifieds Want ad option for job seekers.
A New York State Woman Suffrage Party report describes war work after winning woman suffrage in 1917. It highlights the first US hospital unit abroad named War Baby, a Madison Square Garden rally, food conservation, War Savings Stamps, citizenship schools, and the Intelligent Committee tracking political candidates. It calls rural programs key, urges contact at 505 Fifth Avenue, and notes a remark about Uncle Joe sculpture.
Veggo Anderson a Danish sea captain and master of the schooner Adske Smith was arrested Saturday night by police for the federal government. He, 28, will be held for federal investigation and under $500 bond with two approved sureties.
Marshall Madison of 110 Madison Street drowned Saturday afternoon while attempting to swim off Pinto Island. Bystanders or rescuers failed to reach him in time and the coroner returned a verdict of death by drowning.
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