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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1918
Page
2
government officials released partial figures on American casualties from the landing in France. Official figures show 742 killed and 310 of over 4,000 wounded died. Missing and prisoners total 9,93 with 291 lost at sea from Tuscania and Antilles sinkings.
Shilo draft boards issue names of men to be sent to camps in June. City Board No 1 has no list yet. City Board No 2 lists ten white men for Camp Pike Arkansas with a tentative June 24 entrainment and notes selections will be made from the Class 1 on their books.
Beginning Monday June 17, restaurants and hotels in Mobile will serve Irish potatoes in home form free of charge and avoid bread charges. The plan, adopted by the hotel and restaurant men’s committee with County Food Administrator John Craft, aims to boost potato use and save wheat.
Middleton, former Mobile and Ohio railroad auditor, named comptroller by Federal Manager R V Taylor. He succeeds C B Bayes who resigned.
Two speeding defendants were fined ten dollars or ten days in jail in the recorder’s court this morning. The report notes a white man and Tim Fin dey, a negro, were the individuals cited. A friend from the North will enjoy a Semple copy of the Mobile Tribune.
Chief P J O Shaughnessy and Detective William Murphy arrested Aurie Harris a 24 year old negro from Fishers alley on a Government street car near the loop with two suit cases containing half pints of liquor and two quarts of whiskey. He was docketed on state and city charges and did not post bond.
William Schroeder aged 51 a grocer at Wilkerson and State streets was arrested by Detective William Murphy and Officer J H Bressingham for violation of the prohibition law. No evidence was seized at the time, the arrest being made on information.
Dr Alfred G Moses rabbi of Government Street Temple will leave for Anniston to join Camp McClellan under the Jewish Welfare Board. He will be joined by Dr Maurice Newfield of Birmingham to conduct services for Jewish soldiers and address soldiers of all denominations at the camp.
Seventeen women including seven white women and ten negras were sentenced to thirty days in jail in inferior court for involvement in the federal vice clean-up. They will be ordered to the jail hospital for treatment.
James Allen yesterday filed for bankruptcy in federal court listing liabilities of 103.15 with no assets. The filing marks a personal insolvency proceeding and sets the stage for court-based debt relief.
William T. Cowart and Lex Rigby of Prichard left Mobile by military transport Tuesday night to Birmingham for final examination after being accepted through the mobile recruiting station for service with the coast artillery corps.
Socrates R. Dufford of Mobile filed a declaration of intention to become a U.S. citizen on Tuesday. He foreswore allegiance to President Poincare of France as part of the naturalization process.
The exemption board for the southern district of Alabama convened today to handle routine matters.
Miss Josephine Osborn and Mrs. Warren McConibe unveil a summer wartime dress for Free Milk for France staff. The black organdie gown features a high white collar, a loose waist, black organdie buttons, and a black and white sailor hat, designed for comfort at headquarters or official events.
Two white and five black women were jailed for thirty days by the recorder this morning amid a government supervised drive for better health conditions in the city. The white women named Mollie Schader and Minne Abate. the women of color were Octave Ranasti Georgia Slater Robbie Evans Julia Mobley and Rebecca Owens.
M. Waring Harrison special agent announces War Trade Board instructions prohibiting vessels clearing from Mobile from taking cargoes of oil to prevent oil from falling into enemy hands if captured by U boats.
Default on mortgage payments by Josephine Savage allows Charles C. Schreiner to foreclose. Property in Mobile City, described as Cedar Street front and Eslava Street depth, will be sold at public outcry at Mobile County Courthouse at 12 noon on Friday July 5 1918. Attorneys Clarke Brown & Kohn.
Mrs Henrietta Allen Chantler a well known Mobile woman died Tuesday at 4 am at 106 South Franklin Street after a two day illness. She was 74, native of New Orleans, widow of John J Chandler, mother of Nettie Chandler Mary Chandler and William Chandler. Burial plans announced at Christ Episcopal Church.
The body of Col. Thomas Tate Tun sill who died in El Paso Texas Saturday will arrive here today. Dr. Brian Edmund Tunstall a grand nephew and other relatives will join the funeral party and accompany it to Magnolia Baldwin County Alabama for burial.
Mrs Minnie Isabel Richardson died Tuesday night at 9 10 at the family home 952 Palmetto street Mobile She was a daughter of the late Michael A Hines and Mrs Fannie E Hines Survived by husband four children Misses Annie Isabel Hazel Bell Richardson George Hines Norman L Richardson sister Mrs W S Allen brother Michael Hines Funeral arrangements not set body at McKay until Norman L Richardson arrival from Oklahoma City where he works as an electrician at Dixon and Richardson undertakers.
The funeral for Mrs Ethel A Jones wife of J M Jones was held at 4554 South Warren Street at 11 o'clock. Rev H W DuBose D D pastor of Government Street Presbyterian Church officiated. Many friends attended and interment followed at Magnolia Cemetery where numerous floral tributes rested on the tomb. Pallbearers were N L Jones Jr J P Jones G W Jones Henry Cavas Jr Alfred Cavas Vincent Cavas.
The Tribune discusses the length limits for the Quality First advertisement, outlining constraints and potential options for fitting the message within the standard space. The note stresses clarity and adherence to established size guidelines for advertising notices.
Raymond E. Howard, accused of killing Asa Knight, both named Black individuals, had the murder charge dismissed by Recorder Edington after the court found the shooting to be in self defense.
Louis Chatman was released by the recorder this morning after federal authorities reportedly had no case against him. He had been held for federal action prior to the dismissal.
The newly formed leaders' class of the Y M C A will meet at 6 15 o clock Tuesday afternoon. C A Wolfe boys' work secretary says the class will begin a short study course to train them as leaders in the boys' department classes.
The casualty list records Colonel Bertram Tracy Clayton of the AEF in France as killed by an enemy serial bomb. Born October 19, 1862 in Clayton Alabama, he was son of Major General Henry De Lamar Clayton and a West Point graduate 1886 in Pershing's class.
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