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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1916
Page
3
News from Norfolk and Baltimore report German submarines Deutschland and Bremen heading toward U S ports. Deutschland may unload rubber nickel and ballast scrap iron before returning with nickel and essential goods. Bremen expected to carry drugs. Ships may anchor near Norfolk awaiting a favorable time to depart under international law.
London reports the British government plans a serious view of the German submarine Deutschland. Officials say a submarine cannot be classified as a merchant vessel under current circumstances. The American government faces a delicate postwar decision on whether armed subs could be deemed benign.
Washington July 12 politics and the arrival of the German submarine Deutschland occupied most of the cabinet at today's brief session Acting Secretary Folk had no final report to make on the status of the underwater merchantman In the face of new information there was a dea discussion of Mexican problems.
One defendant paid a $50 fine for violating prohibition law at arraignment before the recorder. Five other cases were continued including Vincent Camaleri, James Smith, George W. Pearson, Charles Fritz, and Francis Zieman with new dates of July 19, July 14, and August 1.
Mr. ry W. Osborne, a former Mobile resident now in New Orleans, arrived Tuesday to repair hurricane damaged property in Mobile. Mr. Joseph Muscat returned Tuesday after three months away, having supervised his father’s Malta estate and reporting a pleasant ocean crossing. Mr. F. O. Immler, assistant secretary of the local Y M C A, is spending vacation at Crichton.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad wireless division runs trains from Mobile toward the Alabama River area. The line extends southward to Bay Minette, twenty four miles from Mobile, continuing its service expansion.
High waters flooded entryways at Palos coal mines of Republic Iron and Steel near Birmingham. A cave-in filled all mine entries with water requiring weeks to pump out. Edgewater mines of Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad also damaged, and Red Mountain ore mines caved in due to persistent rains.
Selma reports the Alabama river climbing six inches in twenty hours as relief workers race to save marooned residents. Portland, Alabama, holds about 300 people stranded on hills with boats sent from the government tug Alabama. The flood endangers many in a 50 mile stretch south of Selma. In Biloxi Mississippi three ships are now accounted for after last week’s tropical hurricane, with crews rescued from St Bartholemew and Doxie Emily.
Pennsylvania Railroad detectives investigated a likely deliberate attack near Bellwood Pennsylvania seven miles east of Altoona. A midnight explosion damaged a water station and eight to ten stick bundles were found on four tracks with fuses. A second blast occurred before 3 a.m. followed by an explosion of dynamite in two passenger coaches stored on the Bellwood division. One coach was ruined.
General Wood reports eastern department guardsmen at the Mexican border with Pennsylvania leading at 12,779 men and 662 officers. New York follows with 12,405. Massachusetts 7,501. Connecticut 2,193. New Jersey 4,251. Two thousand recruits were sent yesterday and today to join Massachusetts, as movements from New Jersey continue.
Crews of six vessels are unaccounted for and a sailor carried out to sea from the Cambe ya remains missing after its wreckage was located Monday off Long Beach.
Two Pennsylvania infantry battalions, the Second and Tenth, broke camp at El Paso and prepared to entrain for Marathon Texas. Reports said Mexican bandits raided American property about 100 miles south of the border and residents near Boquillas feared the outlaws moving north. Military circles linked the move to Villa bandits reported moving north from Jiminez.
The Federal Reserve Board interpreted the Kern Interlocking directorate amendment to deem banks in substantial competition with other banks under normal conditions when their business conflicts or would injure customers if competition ceases. The board will review cases individually, with the amendment taking effect October 15 and today’s announcement allowing bank officers to explain beforehand.
Juarez authorities say they have no information on the raiding party but suspect if the mine attack is true it may have been carried out by one of the Villa detachments that dispersed after the assault on Jiminez.
The Manila sector of customs holds a hearing at 9 o'clock in a case involving the steamer and a Chinese vessel. A fine of one million pesos is imposed and packages bound for the Far East are confiscated. British authorities at Penang seized the goods as the vessels prepared to depart.
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