Newbern Named Assistant Secretary of Mobile Chamber
G P Newbern, Tribune editor, elected last night by the Mobile Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors as assistant secretary. He resigns from The Tribune to assume duties as war work accelerates chamber activity. He will work under Secretary William Clemens, who stays on and divides time with the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Newbern, an experienced paper man, has prior work with Memphis News-Scimitar and Mobile papers.
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G. P. Newbert
Tribune
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
The
Chamber
Mobile
Mr. Newbern
William Clemens
Chamber of Commerce
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Bank of Mobile
Newberg
Memphis News-Scimitar
Register and Item
Red Crose Institute
Government Investigating Moline Strike
In Moline Newfoundland June 5 John Mc Manamy supervisor United States railroad administration arrived from Washington with J P Kane to arrange conferences today with 1800 Rock Island workers at Silvis shops who quit yesterday over wage awards. McManamy issued Director General McAdoo statements about the Alexandria strike.
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Moline
John McManamy
United States Railroad Administration
Washington
J. P. Kane
Rock Island Road
Silvis
McManamy
McAdoo
Alexandria
Wages Board Delays Rock Island Strike Decision
The railroad wages and working conditions board postponed action on the Rock Island shopmen strike at Silvis Illinois until Monday. Aide director Joseph A. Franklin of the railroad administrations division of labor traveled to Silvis to seek a settlement.
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Washington, D. C
Board of Railroad
Rock Island
Silvis
Joseph A. Franklin
Railroad Administration
Division of Labor
Negro Drowns Working on Pipe at Chickasaw
James Hubbard, a Black man, drowned at Chickasaw yesterday afternoon while working on a pipe set in the water. He disappeared beneath the surface and could not be revived despite efforts.
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James Hubbard
Chickasaw
Peeping Tom Put Under Bond After Arrest
Co. 8. Cook of 451 South Carolina avenues faces a $300 bond or six months good behavior or ten days in jail in recorder's court after being caught peering into Assistant Solicitor Jack Courtney’s window near Michigan and Virginia avenues. He claimed he was only peeking.
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Cook
South Carolina Avenues
Jack Courtney
Michigan
Virginia Avenues
Courtney
French Fighters Defy Destruction in Battle described by Berlin Press
Berlin reports praise French resistance as poilus fight to the last with grenades trench knives and bayonets. Officers refuse to surrender, dying with sword or weapon in hand amid strewn German dead and decimated lines.
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Berne
Paris
Berlin
Mitchell Is Chosen Head Local Y M C A
John E. Mitchell was elected president of the Local Y M C A for the term. Other officers named were Spencer Talmadge as vice president Co A L Johnstone as secretary and J O Acree as treasurer. The newly formed board includes Dr T H Frazer S P Gaillard J E Mitchell N Crane J O Acree L E Carroll and others. The group awarded thanks to Mrs Mims for a donated service flag and discussed campaigns for new and sustaining members aiming for 150 sustaining members.
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Spencer Talmadge
Co. A. L. Johnstone
J. O. Acree
the Association
T. H. Frazer
P. Gaillard
John E. Mitchell
N. Crane
L. E. Carroll
George E. Crawford
F. M. Backes
H. J. G Griffing
J. D. Andrews
C. A. L. Johnstone
Harris C. Vaughan
Julius T. Wright
Mims
Tribune first to report Mrs Hamilton safe after torpedoed steamer
The Tribune wired International News Service for updates on Mrs Hamilton and party aboard the torpedoed Carolina. By 4 pm the paper confirmed their safety and alerted relatives, issuing an extra to Mobile readers. Five thousand Tribune newsies sold papers yesterday.
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Tribune
Carolina
International News Service
The
Mobile
Hamton
Tribune Newsies
Crichton Man Arrested By Federal Agents
Cecil A Brannan a 31 year old machinist of Crichton was arrested by federal authorities today and charged with violation of the draft act as part of a federal action.
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Crichton
Cecil A. Brannan
Lynch grocer fined for prohibition violation in circuit appeal
Dennis S. Lynch a grocer of 1668 Elmira street was fined 100 dollars or 90 days hard labor and given six months additional hard labor by Recorder D. H. Eddington this morning for violation of the prohibition law. Lynch appealed and posted 300 dollars bond for circuit court while Walter Lee held for investigation.
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Dennis S. Lynch
Elmira Street
D. H. Edddingon
Lynch
Walter Lee
Lee
King George Meets American Insurance Booster at Guild Hall
Captain W. Mack of Cincinnati, an American in the U S insurance service, meets King George and Queen at Guild Hall. Mack secures signatures from the royal couple to boost war insurance, then parades the autographs to American troops. The queen signs on a sergeant’s back after a leaky pen moment.
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London
George
Ohio
W. Mack
Cincinnati
United States Insurance Board
Mack
Sir Henry Fowler
Guild Hall
England
Sir Henry
Mack Sells $1.5 Million War Bond to Government
The note reports that Mack sold a government war bond totaling $1,500,000. The transaction highlights the scale of wartime financing and the government's ongoing bond campaigns.
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Mack
Flag confiscation and injury after festival incident
A man in a laundry acted oddly with a German flag and was said to have confiscated it. On the way home he stopped at a sale, drank, and then exhibited a trophy. Richards, unable to explain the sequence, was removed to a hospital after the flag disappeared.
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Richards
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Wabash Ave
Chicago
Mobile County
Thos. T. Palmer
Alabama
Army & Navy
U. S. Army & Navy Tablet Co
West Broadway, N. Y
Young Men’'s
Chris
Tian
Thomas T. Palmer
Ala
First News
Hamilton
Lynch, Grocer
Hargrove
Cahaba
Carbon Hill
Walker County
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Zimmern
Yankee
Mobile, Ala
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