Battle for Mobile navy yard mobilization heats up
A Mobile Chamber of Commerce meeting appointed an executive committee of fifteen to push for a government shipyard and dry docks. A paid secretary, Lieut. Meredith, was proposed, with telegrams to Congressman Oliver and Birmingham officials to enlist support. Proponents cite Mobile’s water access and regional resources as strong incentives for the yard and related plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Mobile
A. J. Parsons
Lieut. Meredith
U.S. N
Oliver
Alabama
Committee On Naval Affairs
L. C. Irvine
Birmingham
Irvine
Mr. Parsons
S. A. LeBlanc
W. M. Clemens
Admiral Stanford
Parsons
D. J. Jackson
Lieut
Meredith
Mereoe
Pillans
U. S
F. A. Heuber
Chicago
W. L. Henderson
Southern and Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Navy Yard
Mobile Favored for Navy Yard by Oliver Push
Representative Oliver pushes Mobile Alabama as best southern site for a navy base and shipbuilding plant. Admiral Stanford notes Mobile warrants careful consideration but cannot provide detailed figures. Oliver to gather data from experts and push Mobile's case before Congress and the War and Navy Departments. Birmingham and Tuscaloosa stand to gain from Mobile's selection.
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Washington
Stanford
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Mobile Bay
Mobile
Cape Hatters
Navy Bureau of Docks and Yards
Pensacola
New Orleans
Oliver
Alabama
Congress
Wilson
Warrior
United States
Birmingham
Tuscaloosa
War and Navy Departments
British Colony at Bagdad Carried Off by Turks
London January 13 reports that the British colony at Bagdad, including two men nine women and several children, has been carried off by Turkish forces toward Mosul about 300 miles away.
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Bagdad
London
Baggad
Mosul
Russians Capture Ten More Americans Killed
Belligerent dispatches from Rome and London report renewed Teutonic drive in Bukowina and Saloniki. Russians push in Bukowina, occupy Sadagura as Corfu hosts French troops and ships of unknown nationality cruise nearby. Strategic notes flag Sadagura as more crucial than Czernowitz and describe aims in Russia’s Galicia offensive.
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London
Petrograd
The
Daily Mail
Bukowina
Sadagura
Corfu
Athens
Reuters Telegram Company
Czernowitz
Galicia
Bessabaria
Montenegrin City Evacuates Cettinje Amid Austrian Offensive
A Scutari dispatch via the Petit Journal’s Milan correspondent reports Montenegro plans to evacuate Cettinje immediately due to the Austrian attack on Mount Lovcen. The Montenegrin government says it will continue to resist the Austrians despite the move.
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Paris
Mount Lovcen
Cettinje
Petit Journal
Milan
War at a Glance Reports Montenegro Under Fire
Dispatches describe a tense western frontier as Montenegro prepares for possible evacuation of Cettinje. Austrian forces push near Antivari, with Montenegrins fighting bravely but outnumbered while Saloniki reports a Teutonic attack against Entente forces may have begun. French engineers blew up a key bridge over the Strumitza near Saloniki as a precaution.
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Rome
Paris
Saloniki
Athens
Giornale d'Italia
Doiran
London
Struma River
Demir-Hissar
Cettinje
Mount Lovycen
Cattaro
Antivari
Strumitza River
Greece
Strumitza
Bulgaria Po
Great Britain
Miners Federation
von Bethmann
Chinese Rebels Suffer in Battles Across Four Districts
London dispatch from Hong Kong reports heavy fighting January 6 to 8 in Tamsui Potong Yentzuwe and Poklo. Chinese revolutionaries, well supplied, fought until ammo ran out then were routed. leaders killed or captured. Government forces seized munitions and horses as garrisons chase escape routes.
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London
Tamsui
Potong
Yentzuwe
Poklo
Canton
Hong Kong
Reuters Hong Kongs
Queen Sophia summoned to Berlin for illness of brother
A Rome wireless dispatch says Queen Sophia of Greece is summoned to Berlin to be at the bedside of her brother, Emperor William, whose illness is described as serious. The queen will depart at once for the German capital.
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London
Rome
Sophia
Greece
William
Berlin
Cold Wave Predicted With Subfreezing Night in Deep South
A U S weather bulletin warns of a sharp cold wave dropping temperatures well below freezing by Thursday night, with a low around 23 degrees. Friday will be cold but fair. Fruit raisers and gardeners are advised to shield crops and plants. The Mobile office notes fair but colder tonight, then continued cold Friday with moderate north winds, while Washington adds Alabama and Mississippi forecasts of a cold spell with similar patterns and winds.
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United States Weather Bureau
Mobile
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Placefilm Interest in Mobile For Tempest and Sunshine
A Chicago film service asks the Mobile Chamber of Commerce about filming Tempest and Sunshine in Mobile seeking a Southern atmosphere. They request sunny weather extra actors and a seven passenger auto. The plan will be discussed by the new board at tonight’s meeting.
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Mobile
R. G. Cobb
The
Chamber of Commerce
Chicago Criterion Film Service
Mary J. Holmes
J. H. Harlow
Directory
New C of C Directors Hold Meeting Tonight
The Chamber of Commerce holds its first meeting of the newly elected board at 4 o'clock tonight in the Chamber building. Chairman K M Bailey will preside, and officers will be elected before the chamber outlines its top needs for the coming year. Nineteen new directors were notified by mail Wednesday of their election.
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Chamber of Commerce
K&. M. Bailey
Chamber
Congress at noon discusses Mexican crisis and peace efforts
The day in Congress opened at noon with Senator Stone presenting a secretary of commerce statement on munition issues. Postmaster General Burleson spoke on administration bills before the post office committee. Senator Lewis proposed authorizing use of army and navy to restore peace in Mexico, as in Haiti and Nicaragua. Representative Harrison rebuked critics of foreign policy and urged harmony. Representative Layden defended Carranza and called for Pan American Union action to restore peace in Mexico.
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Stone
Commerce
Burleson
Post Office Committee
Lewis
Mexico
Haiti
Nicaragua
House
Harrison
Mississippi
Llayden
Texas
Carranza
Pan-American Union
English Women Shot Down With Citizens of U S
Reports from Chihuahua claim ten American men and two English women were killed by Villa troops at Madera. Confirmation failed. Juarez officials could not verify and dispatched troops. Other rumors spoke of three Americans killed near Cananea and General Rodriguez's forces near Madera defeated by Americans. Eighteen American bodies arrived in El Paso from Santa Ysabel massacre. details about the brutal killings emerged from the recovered evidence. A separate note said American Smelting and Refining Company ordered all employees to leave Mexico via El Paso.
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Villa
Madera
Mexico
Santa Ysabel
el Paso
Texas
Chihuahua
Jack Leftbridge
Berry
Babricora Ranch
Hearst
Juarez
Cananea
Phelps-Dodge
Jose Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Maximano Marquez
Babricoa
Joseph Enders
Eec
N. Stephenson
Mining and Smelter Men's Neon of
Stephenson
Carranza
Chihuahua City
Benjamin Snell
Frank Woods
Mexi Kagle Pass
American Smelting and Refining Company
Piedras Negras
Torreon
Carranza decries massacre as action promised in Mexico
Washington dispatch reports Carranza’s ambassador to the United States assuring that Carranza will pursue justice for sixteen Americans killed near Chihuahua by Villa forces. He also vows steps to curb foreign persecutions in Durango and Sen. Lewis introduces a resolution to empower the president to deploy forces to restore order in Mexico.
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Washington
Carranza
Aan
Lansing
Chihuahua
Carransa
Durango
Lewis
Mexico
Hayti
Nicaragua
General Leonard Wood Elected President of Army and Navy Club
Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the Department of the East, was elected president of the Army and Navy Club at its annual meeting last night in New York. It marked the first time an active regular army officer has held such an office.
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New York
Leonard Wood
Department of the East
Army and Navy Club
Regular Army
Youngstown Strike Practically Ended At Tube Works
Youngtown Sheet and Tube Company workers vote to end their strike. Work resumes in nearly all plant departments as meetings with Republican Iron and Steel Company representatives were to reconvene that forenoon.
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Youngstown
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
Republican Iron & Steel Company
This Man Was Not a Pickpocket He Stole Steel Rails
Mose Plenty is charged with stealing 5000 pounds of steel rails from Louisville and Nashville yards at Choctaw Point near the river front. Deputies Bernstein and Soles arrested him, and officials say he also robbed Harrison Bros. tool room at Palmetto street, taking steel bars and a monkey wrench later found in a junk shop. Special Officer Bob Schreiner had tracked Plenty for three months amid prior rail equipment thefts aboard Mobile lines. Plenty described as a small man.
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Mose Plenty
Bernstein
Choctaw Point
Louisville and Nashville
Plenty
Harrison Bros
Palmetto Street
Bob Schreiner
Murder of Americ an in Mexican bandit attack reported
Washington dispatches recount the killing of Bart Kramer an American by Mexican bandits near Gulerra Chihuahua sixty miles west of Santa Ysabel The band led by former Villa colonels Lopez and Beltran and possibly General Reyna is linked to the attack 85 Americans were said to be killed and a 500 man force was seen nearby Pursuit trains were dispatched by Carranza authorities in response with Villa reportedly involved Continued on page 2
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Washington
Bart Kramer
State Department
Cobb
el Paso
Kramer
Gulerra
Santa Ysabel
Chihuahua
Villa
Lopez
Beltran
Reyna
Carreras
Cobo
Carranza
Juarez
Lost items and a stray cow notices
Lost small padlock and keys on a key ring with initials D. 8S. Return to Item Office. Lost at Strikers' ball a white silk scarf. return to 925 1-2 Gown Street. Lost brown hound dog. reward. return to 202 N. Scott St. Strayed one grade Jersey cow light yellow brindle with horns. notify J. A. Brunson Bell 3129-3. Lost on Conception near Eslava woolen belt to blue striped. kindly return to Miss Annie E dare C. J. Gayfer & Co.
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Hera
Gown Street
N. Scott St
J. A. Brunson
Bell
Annie E Dare
C. J. Gayfer& Co
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Ford
Savagura
Czar
Corfu Island
Montenegro
General Carranza
General Gonzales
Gonzales
Kaiser
NEW C. OF C
Senate
U.S
General Wood
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