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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1918
Page
8
Official statement explains casualty totals from France landings as of prompt release. Total killed 742 and wounded 4 046 with 310 deaths. missing and prisoners 291 listed. Disease toll cited. Tuscania and Antilles sinks noted among sea losses with 3 000 troops aboard Tuscania.
City Board No 1 lists men sent to training camps in June with many Alabama names and addresses. City Board No 2 follows with a roster of ten white men in Class 1 and notes entrainment around June 24 at Camp Pike Arkansas.
Beginning Monday, June 17, Mobile restaurants and hotels will serve Irish potatoes free to patrons while charging for all bread. The plan, modeled after a New Orleans policy, aims to conserve wheat. The hotel and restaurant men’s committee, meeting with County Food Administrator John Craft, decided to enforce the rule.
Middleton, formerly auditor of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, is named comptroller for the Federal Manager R. V. Tay. He succeeds C. B. in the post.
Graf, a white man, Tim Fin ey, and a Black man were fined ten dollars or ten days in jail after pleading guilty to speeding in the recorder's court this morning. The report notes the incident as a local crime record.
Chief P J OShaughnessy and Detective Murphy arrested Aurie Harris 24 of Fishers alley on a Government Street car near the loop with two suitcases full of half pint bottles and two quarts of whiskey. He faces state and city charges and did not post bond.
William Schroeder a 51 year old 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 based on information.
Dr Alfred G Moses and Dr Maurice Newfield depart for Camp McClellan to perform Jewish welfare duties under the Jewish Welfare Board. They will conduct services for Jewish soldiers Friday and Saturday and Moses will speak to soldiers of all denominations at a camp auditorium.
Seventeen women, seven white and ten Negro, were sentenced to thirty days in jail in the inferior court after arrest in the federal vice clean-up. They will be sent to the jail hospital for treatment.
James Allen filed a petition in bankruptcy in federal court listing liabilities of 103.15 with no assets. The filing indicates he is insolvent and seeks relief under bankruptcy law.
William T. Cowart and Lex Rigby of Prichard left Mobile for Birmingham on Tuesday 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 afternoon. He foreswore allegiance to President Poincare of France.
A session of the exemption board for the southern district of Alabama was held today. The meeting transacted routine business and no major actions were reported.
Miss Josephine Osborn and Mrs. Warren McConibe unveil a summer wartime dress for Free Milk for France Committee on duty at New York headquarters. The black organdie gown with white trim features a high rolled collar, back buttons, and a black and white sailor hat, cooling and striking beside other military outfits.
Two white and five negro women were sent to the county jail for terms of thirty days by the recorder this morning in connection with the drive under government supervision for better health conditions in the city. The white women sentenced were Mollie Schader and Minne Abate, while the negresses are Octave Randall, Georgia Slater, Robbie Evans, Julia Mobley and Rebecca Owens.
M Waring Harrison, special agent, says the War Trade Board instructs bidders clearing from Mobile to refrain from taking oil cargoes to prevent loss to the enemy if captured by U boats.
Notice of foreclosure by Charles C Schreiner against Josephine Savage widow. Under mortgage dated May 20 1912 and recorded in Book 70 N G pages 419 420, the property fronts Cedar Street 45 feet and runs 119 feet 9 inches deep. Sale to be held at Mobile County Courthouse at 12 noon on Friday July 5 1918. Clarke Brown Kohn attorneys. June 12 19 26.
Mrs Henrietta Allen Chandler a longtime Mobile resident aged 74 died at 4 AM Tuesday at 106 South Franklin after a two day illness. She was the widow of John J Chandler native of New Orleans daughter of the late Hamilton and Mrs Ellen Allen and member of Christchurch Episcopal Church. Survived by daughters Nettie and Mary Chandler son William Chandler and brother Vance Allen of Selma. Funeral at Christ Episcopal Church with Rev Louis Tucker.
The body of Col. Thomas Tate Tunstill who died in El Paso Texas last Saturday will arrive here today. Dr. Brian Edmund Tunstall a grand nephew and other relatives 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 in Mobile She was the daughter of the late Michael A Hines and Mrs Fannie E Hines She is survived by her husband four children two daughters Annie Isabel Hazel Bell Richardson and George Hines Norman L Richardson a sister Mrs W S Allen and a brother Michael Hines Funeral plans not yet set with the body at McKay until Norman arrives from Oklahoma City where he works in electrical trades
The funeral for Mrs Ethe A Jones widow of J M Jones was held from 4554 South Warren Street at 11 oclock The Rev H W DuBose pastor of Government Street Presbyterian Church conducted services and a large gathering attended Interment was in Magnolia Cemetery with many floral tributes Pallbearers were N L Jones Jr J P Jones G W Jones Henry Cavas Jr Alfred Cavas Vincent Cavas.
An advertising note in the Tribune signals a focus on a "Quality First" campaign. The brief mentions a Dyllt linked promotion and outlines a generic call to trust in premium products and services.
Raymond E. Howard was charged with murder in the shooting of Asa Knight but was acquitted of the charge after Recorder Edington ruled the defendant acted in self defense. The hearing concluded this morning with the dismissal of the murder case.
Louis Chatman was released by the recorder this morning after federal authorities reportedly had no case against him. The action ends the federal scrutiny of Chatman in this matter.
The newly formed leaders' class of the Y M C A will hold a regular meeting at 6 15 Tuesday afternoon. C A Wolfe boys' work secretary says the class will begin a short course to train them as leaders in the boys' department classes.
The casualty list reports Colonel Bertram Tracy Clayton of the American Expeditionary Forces killed in France. Born in Clayton Alabama October 19 1862 he was son of Major General Henry D Clayton and West Point graduate class of 1886 alongside General John J Pershing.
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