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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
15
A wartime appeal describes purchasing savings certificates with $834 now to receive $1,000 in 1923. It promises 4 percent compound interest until maturity, allows cashing on notice, and asks recipients to sign and mail back pledge cards with a self addressed envelope. The note signs P B Dorson and the committee, urging a generous response for victory.
A condensed list shows Southbound and Northbound timings for the Louisville and Nashville system with connections to New Orleans, Pensacola, Mobile, and Chicago routes. Local and express trains run daily or on Sundays with noted departures from major hubs and transfers to other carriers.
On a war zone liner, American passengers increasingly dance as a soldiers’ quartet plays in the dining room. Official dances occur nightly with whistles and a band, while a gramophone and records fuel later sessions. Nurses are barred from dancing under new orders as censorship tightens.
Treasury expenditures for the next fiscal year will total 24 billion dollars. Secretary McAdoo informed Ways and Means Chairman Kitchin that about one third should come from taxes. He urged high war profits taxes and steeper taxes on unearned incomes.
London June 8 reports machine guns fired at fleeing women nurses near Red Cross hospitals. A wounded WAAC member described injuries from a German Gotha bombing of a rest camp behind British lines to the Evening News.
Martin Holbrook, long time agent for the Southern Express Company at Mobile, is named agent for the United States Express Company. The consolidation of American Southern Weiss Fargo and Adams Express will take over the express business nationwide in Mobile on July 1.
Amsterdam June 10 A military correspondent for the Berlin Vossische Zeitung reports that the offensive on the Western front shows promised outcomes cannot be achieved quickly. He notes hopes were exaggerated and stresses the decision will come only gradually as the army reorganizes.
The notice explains War Savings Stamps pricing for June to August 1918, with values up to 1000 stamps, and states the law limits holdings to 1000 maturity value per person. It notes stamps may be bought for others, are a government loan with 4 percent compound interest, and can be redeemed with ten days notice if needed before January 1, 1923. It highlights tax exemptions, insurance against loss, and district quotas announced June 28 under Crawford Johnson, Alabama War Savings Director.
The passage notes resistance tied to a well constructed railway system with junctions at Compiegne and Villers Coilerets. It argues the German supreme command cannot press a major offensive against the now fortified French front, and that large French reserves reduce the success of surprise moves. The article forecasts a slow battle pace and patience ahead.
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