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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
5
The Tribune contest enters its final two weeks with 50 000 regular votes per $25 renewals and a third period starting soon. About fifteen handsome prizes will be awarded after two weeks of intense effort. Contestants are urged to work daily to secure a lead and avoid regret when prizes are awarded.
Washington June 7. One reason for the visit of German submarines to the American coast may have been mine laying. Investigators found submarines carry automatic mine holders with two mines each. A new mine is inserted as one is laid. The mine rises from the anchor on a cable, held at a fixed depth by a water pressure mechanism, making it invisible to ships of ordinary draft.
American soldiers marching toward the Marne battlefield are greeted with tears and cheers from Parisians. Within hours of reaching the line, the first American wounded are evacuated as others help French and British casualties and assist refugees. American guns transport wounded to hospitals set up in churches.
Pleas Williams a 21 year old Black man was jailed by federal authorities today after an arrest in Leakesville Mississippi.
Friends of Corporal Mortimer L. Lenihan of the Sixth Ambulance Corps report he earned the Croix de Guerre for bravery under fire. He and six comrades volunteered for a No Man's Land rescue, enduring seventy two hours in shelling to recover wounded soldiers without a single casualty.
A U-151 crew member claimed German submarines will stay in American waters through August. Prisoner Roker, eight days aboard a submarine, said the fleet left Kiel two months ago to a six month cruise and will patrol the western Atlantic coast at least until August.
On a sunny Lorraine afternoon General discovers a trench mortar battery firing at wagons on a road near a pond. An aide reports two hours of shelling and misidentification as long range guns. The shells originate from a trench mortar unit practicing beyond a wood shack.
Tribune newsies praised a Strand visit as the circulation manager and manager McKenzie hosted them. The piece highlights earnings from selling The Tribune and urges fellow newsies to join for easy money and a good time.
June 7. An allied air raid on Cologne killed 146 people and injured about 160, sending the city into the most absolute panic, per a State Department briefing. The mortar company is not on record and has not practised in the field near lately.
The first batch of wounded American soldiers amalgamated with French troops arrived at Nice and were sent to the American hospital. The exact band of fighting origin is unclear, but the main American force with the French has operated near Cantigny southeast of Amiens since the March offensive.
A European inventor suggests mounting cabins on passenger vessels like elevators with electric motors that automatically adjust cabin movement to counteract the ship’s rolling. The system aims to reduce seasickness by stabilizing the ride for passengers.
In a bold engineering move for an English park conversion to an airfield, workers concealed hundreds of feet of river beneath ground and routed the stream through an inverted concrete double siphon, redefining the landscape and water flow.
Washington June 1 General Henry G Sharpe, ousted as head of the army quartermaster corps after senate investigation into inefficiency, was moved today to command the southeastern area with headquarters at Charleston South Carolina. He gave up winter quartermaster duties when Goethals took over, but keeps the title of quartermaster until a final decision on succession is announced.
A new tax idea aimed at newspapers and periodicals based on subscription and circulation was introduced today in Washington by ves Johnson of the capital. The proposal, presented to the institute for the postal rate system, seeks to modify how rates are assessed on printed media.
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