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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
2
The First National Bank of Mobile sends a strong appeal urging residents to buy War Savings Stamps to fund the war effort. The letter cites government targets, stresses national duty, and calls for personal sacrifice to ensure victory, with a warning of two social classes after the war. It also notes a magnifying glass invention for examining small objects.
Lieutenant Edward Rickenbacker of Columbus Ohio and Lieutenants Allan S Winslow James A Meissner and Douglas Campbell plus Sergeant David E Putnam are celebrated for courageous air combat over German lines. Rickenbacker increases ace count with Memorial Day duel and rescue. Winslow and Campbell receive American War Cross and Croix de Guerre for the April 14 victory. Campbell credited with six kills through May 31.
The people of Mobile learn that the honorary LL S degree has been conferred on Rev. W. A. Kerrigan, rector of McGill's Institute. He has served at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and worked beyond Mobile, with St. Mary's College bestowing the degree and locals calling it well deserved.
Claude S. Allen brother of Charles H. Allen publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser, visited Mobile and Western Alabama before leaving for the army next week. He toured Hattiesburg on a return circuit to Montgomery, carrying good wishes for his speedy promotion into the engineering branch. A spring tailors use steel rollers to share the load of heavy flatirons. Russian Caucasus railroads received locomotives burning refinery waste.
Lieut William S Tucker a Mobile native arrives in Mobile after nine months in the trenches. He bears the French War Cross and American Military Medal and will depart soon for Camp Wheeler as a Stokes trench mortar instructor. Also noted are Britain’s pygmy elephant discovery and a Vermont inventor’s electrically operated stencil cutter.
June 20 Field report from France describes the death of Mother Galmiche, a French civilian known for mending American doughboys socks since they arrived north of Toul. While knitting outside her cottage during a German raid, a bomb fragment pierced her heart. Three of her grandchildren played nearby. they were unharmed.
A thousand flower-decked American cannons sped through Paris on Saturday afternoon toward the front. Cheering crowds lined the boulevards as helmeted soldiers passed in an orderly two hour procession, bayonets strapped to the sides of the cars, eliciting the greatest enthusiasm since Pershing's vanguard arrived.
Germany’s visible pork supply dropped from 13,000,000 to 5,000,000 head in the past year. Average cattle weight fell from 426 pounds to 299, signaling a severe food shortage. The report notes rising rat consumption as demand grows and cattle numbers decline in weight.
The document lists June 1 stamp pricing for War Savings Stamps showing 20 stamps for 83.40 dollars, 50 stamps for 208.50, 100 stamps for 417.00, and 200 stamps for 834.00. It notes the Alabama War Savings Director appointed and acting under the authority of the U S Treasury Secretary.
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