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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
7
The notice urges readers to work through the second voting period with emphasis on out of town contestants and deadlines. It highlights grand prizes totaling $3,500 including a Mitchell automobile and a 1918 Overland Thrift Car, plus district prizes, urging increased subscriptions before the final Saturday deadline.
The article urges contestants to begin Monday, work twelve straight days, and avoid lapses. It warns against overconfidence as six rivals are in a close race while votes can swing and prizes await the hard workers in this paper’s contest.
Miss Elizabeth Lansdale DuVal of Baltimore Maryland becomes the only woman radio operator in public service in America. She completed wireless telegraphy training with top grades and earned a first grade license before serving on the Howard of the Merchants and Miners Line. She hopes Navy ships will open to women operators and aims to be ready for Government service.
A court records Dolly King as fined and jailed for disorderly conduct and drunkenness after an incident involving Officer Toxey Clarke. The docket notes include a ten dollar fine and an additional twenty four hour jail term. King vows retaliation toward Officer Clarke.
Nine graduates from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and two from the School of Pharmacy received diplomas at the Battle House auditorium amid a scene of 135 service stars on a commemorative service flag. Six more students earned Bachelor of Science degrees as Judge William H. Sanford delivered the commencement address.
Two representatives of the State Council of Defense address Mobile retailers tonight at 8 in the Cawthon hotel assembly room. They will discuss a drive for one daily delivery to cut costs and conserve materials, with arrival reported to Joseph C. Rich, Mobile county National Defense chairman.
Misses Fannie and Nina Gluckstein have returned to their Mobile home after serving as teachers at the principal school in Huntsville. They were prominent in the four minute cee in the article.
Two African American ring leaders at the Pinto Island plant of Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding were sentenced in the recorder’s court. Jerry Sims and Tom Reese received $150 or fifty days hard labor on the county charge and $50 or fifty days hard labor on the city charge. Several others, including Harry Creshon, Will Johnson, Bob Little, and more, were fined or given thirty to fifty days hard labor on both state and city charges. L
Will Foster, a Black man, was convicted last night of stealing and selling a dairy cow valued at $100 from Mrs. E. Watkins. He received a three year sentence in the penitentiary. He killed the cow and had sold half the meat when arrested. the hide and head were used as evidence. He offered no defense.
At the City Federation of Women's Clubs meeting in the Cawthon Hotel Miss Mary Frances and Miss Janice L O Connell reported Electra Semmes Colston Literary Club of the Girls High School gave $50 to the Red Cross fund from a prior month’s entertainment in Harte Auditorium. It was the federation’s largest single donation. An appeal and bond were set at $250 statewide and $150 locally.
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