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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
9
A Tal colored man Storrs, age around 60, pledges $5 monthly and effort toward war work. State Chairman Ros J. Crittenden notes the pledge card seeks $8 per quarter for the war duration, praising Storrs for patriotism and asserting his record stands against any citizen in Alabama.
June 6 Washington report profiles Charles L. Swem 25, confidential stenographer to President Wilson since 1912. Swem, engaged with the president's words and files, longs to become a fighting aviator in France after a spring airplane trip and daring flights.
Fifteen applicants qualified for general service with aptitude in mechanical work are to be sent to county and city draft boards for special training to prepare for army mechanical duties. The county board will dispatch five men to Baton Rouge and City Board No. 1 will send one man to the same school. Five county board men will go to Auburn, while three from the first and one from City Board will go to an unspecified training site, subject to government approval. Applications for assignment may be filed up to the deadline, and if quotas are not filled, draft boards will call men in their regular order and induct them into service.
In a reported incident, Jessie Williams, described with ethnic slur, defied police by blocking a car and declaring she would stand as long as she wished. Officers arrested her as the recorder refused to tolerate the act, with Williams jailed on the scene.
Washington June 6 Breaking the bread line an impossible task on a United States transport 180 varieties of food supply 210000 meals served in seven seconds a man can be served in less than eighty minutes four kitchens and 138 mess force feed thousands of men with meals organized on board ships jam gravy beef potatoes and other items stored below the water line including 2900 loaves baked daily and 60000 pounds of beef among other supplies on shipboard
Paris residents woke to nightlong artillery sounds in the Marne region as a fierce duel raged between forces. Reports say voices of seventy fives and heavier guns may have been heard, suggesting rapid French troop and field gun deployment alongside allied forces.
More than 3,250,000 American women have registered with the Woman's committee of the Council of National Defense for service matched to their specialized talents to aid in winning the war.
Scores of former athletic stars enlist with the YMCA to instruct and help American soldiers abroad stay physically fit for combat.
Camp Sevier issues order naming the 81st Division the Stonewall Division in honor of General Stonewall Jackson. Motto listed as obedience courage loyalty. Unofficial insignia described as a wildcat.
A ship crew member deposited nearly one million dollars last year in the branch bank operated within the Brooklyn Navy Y M C A building.
London reports that births fall and deaths due to sickness hit central powers harder than the Entente. Germany, Austria, and Hungary lose millions. Britain’s population stays near prewar levels and may exceed 1914 figures by 1919.
Mayor Pat J. Lyons received a telegram from the Committee on Public Information urging him to organize and oversee Fourth of July loyalty celebrations by foreign born residents. He will appoint a local committee with one member from each major foreign group and coordinate with state and national councils.
M. A. war work secretaries are teaching the English language to thousands of enlisted men. These men in many cases cannot even un.
Mrs. Beatrice Guthrie of England is among a few women sent to the United States on important war missions. In Washington she will join Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Wiseman, a liaison officer with Lord Reading, wife of Captain James Guthrie of the Fifteenth Hussars now serving in India.
The preliminary hearing for J W Preston charged with attempting to cripple a war essential industry and interfering with government shipbuilding work will be held at 3 o clock before U S Commissioner Jere Austill. He was arrested after remarks aimed at keeping workers from joining ship construction at Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Co.
Dr. George Lang secretary and Bernard Lobman assistant secretary of the Alabama State Council of Defense arrived in the city today and will meet merchants tonight at the Cawthon Hotel assembly room to propose a system of one delivery each day. The council seeks to establish this policy statewide, especially in larger cities.
Captain Kermit Roosevelt, son of the former president, wins the British military cross for gallantry in two engagements in Mesopotamia. He left to join General Pershing in France after serving with the British forces and has now transferred to the American army.
Jack Grubbs was held as a suspicious person on W. C. White's complaint and discharged by the recorder. The arrest was the result of a misunderstanding, officials stated.
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