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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1914
Page
1
President Wilson favors creating a cabinet level coordinated commission for rivers and harbors to replace the current piecemeal system. Senator Newlands urged a formal commission with an annual 60 million dollar budget for ten years to improve waterways from sources to outlets.
Senator Ransdell of Louisiana told delegates at the National Rivers and Harbors Congress that attacks on river and harbor bills are unfounded and lack merit. He praised current waterways legislation for improving commerce, easing freight, and lowering transportation costs in competition with railways, and dismissed claims of pork or graft.
Miss Marie Henkel 12, whose brother stopped her New York marriage voyage to Count Von Zagreb, heads east with her mother to pursue the plan she abandoned after her brother insisted. The Count, wounded in battle, had urged her to join him. A government wheat reserve note follows on bread made with rice flour.
Washington reports no plan for U S troop escalation at Naco Arizona after a White House briefing. Secretary Tumulty says strengthen forces due to cross border firing by factions led by Hill and Maytorena, but no aggression. border casualties reported and commanders ordered not to fire without Washington orders.
Nicholas Ahlers former German consul in Sunderland was convicted by the Durham assizes of high treason and sentenced to death in London on December 9.
Fair tonight and Thursday with colder conditions. Frost expected tonight with temperatures around 35 degrees. In Alabama similar forecast with frost and dry fair conditions. In Mississippi the outlook is generally fair to conclude, with cool nights ahead.
Telegrams from Berlin cited by Amsterdam officials report Emperor William has pneumonia combined with nervous low mood from overexertion. Doctors reportedly advise he should not return to the front. The report notes the situation reflects broader war activity and Polish and Serbian fronts.
Berlin reports the German center pushing eastward after Russians retire from Lodz. Heavy losses and strain suggest a lull may come as troops recuperate. Russians call the Lodz withdrawal strategic, with Warsaw twice fallen goalposts contested. the British press notes Lodz sits on the Kalisz Warsaw trunk line now controlled by the invaders.
In Montgomery Alabama on December 9, private banker J C Lynn of Glenwood disappeared after leaving suddenly. Police search notes indicate his wife found little aboard and a statement about sharing equally with others. The bank vault reportedly contained a sum of forty thousand dollars or more.
An advert or notice indicates Henderountd backing Johnston with a named president, signaling a political alignment or endorsement in the local scene.
Montgomery December report says governor-elect Henderson will back Edward D. Johnston for speaker and Oscar Lewis for president pro tem in the Alabama Senate. Johnston and Lewis helped Henderson win and are expected to receive administration support. Henderson has pledged to pursue a fixed legislative program and top allies in both chambers.
Moses Alexander will become governor of Idaho on January 1, the first Jew elected to govern a U S state. He previously moved to Boise City, worked in clothing, and twice won election to the city council, first in 1897 and again in 1901, later running for state office and defeating Republican rival John M Haines by a margin around 7 600 votes.
Leo M. Frank is sentenced in Fulton County Superior Court to be hanged January 22 for the April murder of Mary Phagan, a 14 year old girl. Judge Ben Hill notes mob violence and Frank accuses James W. Clarke of perjury as Frank protests innocence. This is the third death sentence in the case.
A reader letter from Mobile praises the newspaper's Satsuma Edition dated December 8 1914. The writer E J Schwarz signs as The Hub and commends the paper for its contribution to the city.
Rear Admiral Fletcher told the House naval committee the navy is unprepared for a major war and would need a larger fleet. He defended the battleship as the main naval factor while submarines and airship defenses evolve. He warned England could threaten U.S. harbors with submarines and urged eight to ten more submarines for coast defense.
In St Louis a 12 year old girl Nannie Sticklan was killed in her front yard by Robert Bailey a deacon who said he had been trying to reform her Bailey then shot himself and was hospitalized The mother Clara Stricklen said Bailey had long sought to adopt and marry the girl when she grew up.
A $10 million wheat purchase syndicate is formed to curb speculators by selling chiefly in small towns and villages. The arrangement is backed by the government.
Harvey F Oberkirch III is reported in improved condition at Providence Infirmary after an attack of appendicitis.
In a citywide vote yesterday Asbury Park chose to adopt the commission form of government replacing the old system. The historic change shifts municipal power to elected commissioners handling specific departments.
British colliers Kirnwood and This were ordered to leave Panama to avoid any jolt to U S neutrality. The vessels sailed at once as Colonel Goethals denied orders while Sir C Mallet raised questions about coal landing near Balboa Pacific entrance.
Thirteen miners died and one injured in a collapse at a Scranton coal shaft today after a dynamite blast triggered a catastrophe as men descended the shaft and a platform carriage fell into the mine bottom.
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