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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1915
Page
2
A Kansas City man, 45, passed cashier’s checks to rent a Lowenstein apartment and buy goods across town, netting about 300 dollars. Police say he bought items from several stores, including a talking machine and jewelry, using returned checks before being arrested near the station.
Dispatch reports President weighs two War Department proposals on the Mexican border crisis. One halts cross border food shipments risking Hill’s forces, the other returns fire aiding Maytorena and Carranza factions. General Scott pursues a three mile neutrality zone along the frontier as talks stall.
Lucid analysis from Hilare Belloc on two war fronts in 1915. In the west Allied forces hold German troops while Russia pushes in Poland, threatening Saxon and East Prussian targets. Servia’s pressure diverts Austrian forces, delivering a decisive though costly victory for the Allies. The piece notes Russian delays in equipment and a shifting balance near the Vistula.
The McGill Institute night school will reopen January 4 at 7 30 p m after a Christmas break. Of 105 enrollees, many earned honor roll status for gentle manly conduct and study excellence in December with students including D Miller B McCarron M Blalack T Franelich and J Bailey among those named.
Three men entered Wein stock pawn shop in Centralia Illinois unmasked and beat the proprietor and clerk into submission. They escaped with cash and jewelry valued near 2000 dollars. One robber named J B hy was shot and possibly fatally wounded by Deputy Watts after a street chase. The others fled on a southbound freight train.
Fragmentary note cites sales at 1-2 percent and WS2k exchange with a $0 day. It lists bills totaling 4.61.60 for cables, indicating minor pricing adjustments and ledger entries.
The article argues two crucial Polish hubs determine the war: Warsaw and Cracow. Control of Cracow blocks Russia from Germany, while Warsaw seizes rail access and Vistula navigation, shaping movements in the south. Since late November, Von Hindenburg’s forces have pressed a major German effort along a fifty mile front near Warsaw with up to half a million troops engaged.
The article lauds General von Hindenburg for devising a strategic plan that brought German forces into Poland and sparked a second battle of Warsaw. It notes the use of railways to mass troops from the south to strike smaller Russian forces, following a failed November first attempt.
Four cases are scheduled for hearing when the Alabama state railroad commission meets next Monday. The Gadsden Chamber of Commerce seeks a coke rate cut from Yo lande to Gadsden against Louisville and Nashville. The Commercial Club of Wafala seeks lower coal rates with Central of Georgia as defendant. Southern Express petitions seek permission to close agencies at Sedden and Iron City.
Violent artillery battles rage along the entire front from the sea to the Vosges with heavy bombardments and scant infantry action. Muddy fields and trenches hinder advances as German and Allied forces exchange brutal fire in East Prussia Poland and the west with little mobility and dire conditions.
The report notes heavy eight day battles on the Bzura and Yser fronts with massive losses. German forces showed boldness but failed to achieve proportional gains, while Russian defense of Warsaw appeared successful and southern Russian troops moved toward Cracow. Austrian forces still held mountain passes as of the latest reports.
New Orleans dispatch reports on a British steamer that recently docked at Newport News after a fire at sea. Edlin and crew found combustibles in hay aboard, denying spies or horse mutilation. Seventy three horses suffocated and 125 died later. powder was found but not clearly linked to arson.
Harvard will retain Haughton as coach, backing his view that the 1915 Crimson will be the weakest eleven since 1909. He argues one big season is enough for such a team and favors avoiding a return game with Michigan to prevent steep losses at Ann Arbor and against Yale.
Montgomery Alabama January 2 Wm F Feagin state superintendent of education will on next Wednesday send out warrants for salaries of teachers of the state for December services but their payment may be delayed owing to the condition of the state treasury. The warrants have been placed in Feagins hands by the state auditor. The salaries were due today by law payable on the first Saturday each month or as soon thereafter as practicable but may be held up if treasury conditions do not permit payment.
In Biloxi Mississippi on January 2 fear grew for a party of Biloxi people and tourists who departed earlier this week for the lighthouse on Chan. provisions and details are scarce as authorities mount a Gulf search for the missing group.
Secretary John J. Russell of Mobile Typographical Union received a telegram from Mrs. S. W. Smith of Berkeley requesting the remains of H. F. Staring be prepared and sent by express to Sacramento for interment. Staring, a union printer, was killed on the Mobile and Ohio railroad last week and his body, with a Mobile Union card, was brought to the city for the local group's custody.
The Senate approved the immigration bill 60 to 7 with the literacy test kept in. Opponents Brandegee Mather Martine O Gorman Reed Ransdell Walsh voted against the measure over the test. Lodge amendment would exempt Belgian farmers seeking land and farming from the literacy test and alien contract labor law with strict admission criteria.
Mrs Harriet Hosea 66 native of Marengo county Alabama died Friday night at home in Prichard after months of illness. Remains sent to Thomasville for interment. Captain Pat Feore stevedore buried from family home and Catholic Church Pascagoula with large attendance. J H McDaniels, Theodore farmer, buried Magnolia Cemetery with widow two sons four daughters surviving.
The funeral for Little Jessielee Daves was held at 10:00 a.m. from Emile Daves’ residence on Fearn Way west of Catherine Street. Rev. W. McRae of Oakdale Baptist Church conducted services attended by many friends. Interment was at Pine Crest cemetery with floral tributes from loved ones. Pallbearers included Frank Rowell W. T. Anderson J. E. Anderson and B. Anderson.
Horace New a former Mobilian now in Memphis Tenn is in Mobile visiting his brother Ernest New a detail officer at the station. He is accompanied by Mrs New and their child.
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