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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1916
Page
8
Seven U.S. Army planes that left New York for Philadelphia for testing stabilizers landed at the navy yard. Ice and wind caused splintered equipment and one machine toppled on a pole, though no injuries were reported. The remaining seven aircraft did not report at mid afternoon.
New York reports an eight to twelve plane flight from League Island to the harbor area. Army officers and visitors planned a return flight with passengers aboard several planes.
Bride, 28, of Augusta Street, was fined 202 for assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons after his arraignment. His wife, with a bruised left eye, testified he beat her at their North Scott Street home about 6 PM. Police Officer Connick and a clerk report Bride has prior disorderly conduct records.
Customs officials report Newport News and Hampton Roads showing strong export growth. For 1915 and 1916 combined, Hampton Roads exports reached $169,988,404 with Newport News handling 1,254 foreign clearances in 1916. Yearly Newport News exports totaled $73,923,604 and Hampton Roads $122,? million, with coal grain and mules among principal exports and imports increasing.
State authorities and the Anti Saloon League react as lawmakers prepare to vote on enforcement measures. Proposals include regulating locker clubs and social clubs with liquor, targeting wholesale liquor houses, and tightening drug store liquor sales.
The steamships Hero Strand and the three masted Kormo, sailing under the Norwegian flag, were sunk in wartime action. Their crews survived and landed safely.
Sam Spicer Jr faces life imprisonment after the Alabama Supreme Court denied his rehearing in the murder of his wife. The court’s action ends his bid to overturn the conviction.
The county will pay Confederate pensions on a set schedule announced by Judge Price Williams of the court. The notice specifies payments will be issued according to the established timetable.
Montgomery reports the Alabama Supreme Court held that Jefferson criminal court will join the consolidated court system in January, rejecting 8. N. Gore’s bid to influence clerk of the criminal court. The ruling continues in favor of the consolidation plan as prior challenges fail.
Dr Paul Nathan secretary of the German Jewish Aid Society argues in Ber Tag that Wilson is not a British puppet and his policies align with American national interests. He notes Wilson and Bethmann Hollweg share aims, but Wilson Lloyd George speech differences mean German policy should resist unjust attacks while pursuing nearer cooperation.
A port conference in Mobile saw city commission members including J C Rich George Gordon Crawford and F G Blair hear plans to aid harbor improvements. The Buck proposition from Terminal Transfer and Storage Company was approved and referred to the special committee to draft a contract for board approval.
Mr OConnell offers a resolution urging unqualified endorsement of the Nesbitt plan and empowered communication with city government and railroad presidents for aid and cooperation. The measure passes. A second resolution seeks U S engineer support for harbor improvements. Meeting adjourned for a special committee meeting at noon.
Cattle thieves are active in western Mobile County. Reports to the sheriff indicate twenty cows were slaughtered, with authorities still uncertain of the culprits. Carcasses were found near Cot-? Louis Lloyd.
General Haig portrays the Somme as an entente triumph saved from collapse by bad weather. He cites July to November operations, notes German forces were weakened, and insists allied persistence will decide the war. He outlines the offensive decision and Allied confidence.
General Haig cites three aims of the July Somme offensive and reports Verdun relief, western front containment of German forces, and attrition of enemy strength as achieved despite autumn rains. He notes Verdun's fall would have damaged allied credibility, while its failure damaged German prestige. Information obtained during the campaign rounds out the assessment.
In Lexington on December 30 the heads of five anti liquor groups discussed uniting into a single national prohibition party. Leaders include W. G. Hinshaw of the Prohibition National Committee Miss Anna Gordon Dr. Charles T Scanlon E H Cherrington and D Leigh Colvin.
The article summarizes Haig's report on the Somme battle, noting the offensive tied German forces to the western front and relieved Verdun. It cites higher enemy losses, morale decline, and weatherhampered operations, with tanks aiding progress at Gueudecourt and a surrender following trench assaults.
At noon Sheriff A H Phillips remained with Henry Waller John Long and three accused of complicity in the Reeves family massacre nine miles northeast of Minden Louisiana on Christmas Eve. Prisoners not yet delivered and $4000 stolen from the Reeves home still unaccounted for. Weber parish grand jury to be convened next week to probe the tragedy.
General Haig salutes the army's efforts citing heavy enemy losses and our prisoner's count. He notes eight officers and 362 men captured, five total casualties, and commends air superiority and tunnel companies. He evaluates gas and liquid fire use during the engagement.
The passage commends enemy gas and liquid flare use, notes our discovery of protective measures and the invention of related tools, and credits chemists physiologists and physicists for enabling superior war fare. It highlights experiments trials preparations and training needed for deploying these arms.
Final State Department plan sends the cruiser Des Moines from Alexandria to Beirut to recover 200 Americans held in Syria and Palestine. Refugees will be ferried from Jaffa. Turkish authorities barred departure there. Beirut route adds cost and days. relief funds may cover deficits.
Mobile Dam No. 26 Independent Order of Beavers re elects officers at a recent meeting led by Past president Thomas P. Lynch. Officers named include president Dr Oliver H. Harris and secretary William Holt.
Alma and Irma Almond were detained at the police station Saturday on theft charges. They allegedly stole a parasol silk hose and household articles from Ed Merion. Officer Walter Burch made the arrests. A R Cooper reported his bicycle stolen Friday night from 105 South Warren street.
The passage argues German use of gas was premeditated not impulsive and cites prisoner testimony and captured documents. It claims Allied gas attacks caused heavy German casualties while Allied protective measures proved effective.
Associated Press report from Cleveland says Stone and W. G. Lee arrived amid rejection of a manager committee demand to apply the Act son law. They deny a general strike Monday and say no circular authorizing a strike has been issued or received. No immediate strike expected.
Senator Newlands of the Interstate Commerce Committee said the failure of railroad brotherhood officials and managers to disclose an agreement on an eight hour schedule would not stop plans for railroad legislation. He said the committee would proceed as usual with invited representatives from brotherhoods, companies, and others to appear Tuesday.
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