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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1918
Page
6
Reports from Norfolk claim an American ship near the Virginia capes chased a submarine with a rival steamer in pursuit. Navy officials warn there is no official confirmation of any submarine location or sinking.
Gottloib Brunner of the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co was brought before United States Commissioner J Irwin Burgett for a preliminary hearing on espionage charges. He testified he owns Liberty Bonds has a son in the army and is loyal American born despite German parentage. Police ordered his release Tuesday morning after two fellow workers testified against him.
Manager PD D Stggins announces the Choctaw Inn near Jackson station Clarke County is open for transient weekend and permanent guests. Owner Tom Pace develops White Sulphur Spring famed for curative value with prompt water shipments on orders to the Inn. If you have a house to rent out a Want in The Tribune.
Mr and Mrs William K Vanderbilt Sr offer their Idle Hour mansion and Great River estate at Oakdale Long Island as a Red Cross convalescent hospital. Ensign Vincent Astor and Clarence H Mackay join the gesture with three premier estates donated for wartime recovery use. Idle Hour sits on a bluff overlooking Great River. The main two story building and a three story wing form the estate layout.
Charles K. Berge a Mobile government officer faced trial in Bay Minette Alabama before Judge D C Byrnes accused of the death of Jesse Wilson during an attempted escape after Berge arrested him at Spanish Fort on a federal warrant following Wilsons draft noncompliance Frank B Stone Baldwin Countys leading attorney defends Berge at the Department of Justice request as assistant to U S District Attorney A D Pitts for the case.
Tisdale J Touart of Mobile announces his brother Anthony J Touart has been appointed first lieutenant in the 56th Infantry, United States Army. Anthony previously served with Mobile National Guard on the Mexican border and requested transfer to the regular army.
Assistant City Attorney James E. Duggan urged city commissioners not to pay $402 to the Dan 8. Sehon Detective Agency of New Orleans. He said the work was not performed in a workmanlike manner and reports show a lack of diligence, with incidents of beer purchases and soft drink orders cited. The issue was referred to City Attorney Robert H. Smith for opinion.
The probate court docket shows deeds recorded for eighty four sales by the Alabama Highlands Development Company developing land between Mobile and Wilmington. Land is sold for farm and residence sites, with many more deeds filed on a busy day for the court.
William Jennings Bryan head of the National Dry Federation urged Cod F Administration Hoover to back a wartime prohibition that would ban both the sale and manufacture of all intoxicants. He argued Hoover's concern that stopping beer production may raise whiskey use can be addressed by a bill banning all intoxicants during the war.
Boston June 11 Philip H Grossner a private at Fort Banks was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment at Fort Jay. He was found guilty by court martial of making disloyal remarks and encouraging dis loyalty among soldiers. Army officials said he claimed to be a conscientious objector.
A house-to-house drive to sell war savings and thrift stamps begins Thursday morning. Mrs. James O. Smith leads downtown booth operations with a list of chairwomen including Mrs. E A Boyer and Miss O Del champs. Mrs. John B. Harvey heads the overall drive with Mrs. C B Shuford as assistant. Team workers and districts have been assigned.
The statement by W M Clemens general secretary of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce that Mobile would gain a concrete ship plant of eight units to employ 1800 or 2000 workers is confirmed by a Washington announcement. It awards contracts for forty concrete ships to be built at five plants. The Tribune carried Clemens’s remark in full last week.
City commissioners approved two fire safety laws prompting raids on combustive materials in business districts and subjecting all premises to fire department inspections. Amendments restricted home inspections to daylight hours between 9 am and 3 pm under supervision, with support from Mayor Lyons and Commissioner Pillans.
A municipal amendment prohibits selling or delivering meats or fish on Sundays. The change ends the common practice of ordering Saturday for Sunday morning delivery, aligning with the new ordinance.
Beginning Monday June 17 and continuing June 26 all German females over 16 years will be registered nationwide. Postmasters receive registration blanks and act as registrants in the Mobile district. The Mobile police department will handle registration of female aliens. Full instructions are in the registrants' hands.
Instructions and blanks can be secured from the places of registration. The note emphasizes securing forms and approvals at local offices to ensure proper entry handling.
The steamship Belvernon plying into Mobile from Central American ports has been libelled by two crew members claiming $64.45 each in unpaid wages. The vessel was seized by Deputy U. S. Marshal E. S. Tunstell Jr. pending the case decision.
R. W. Stokes acting secretary of the war camp community service departs at noon for Montgomery to attend a gathering of war camp community secretaries.
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