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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
3
Militants from the Women's Freedom League staged a protest outside St James Palace during Balkan allies and Turkey peace talks. Police warned it illegal. a crowd pulled down the speakers from their wagon and three organizers were arrested.
Alexander Scott, editor of a paper backing silk mill strikers, was sentenced in Paterson New Jersey to not less than one nor more than fifteen years in prison and fined 250 dollars for inciting hostility against the government He said he would appeal.
Mrs J Penny owner of the Cozy Corner restaurant at Conti and St Emanuel streets was fined five dollars or ten days in the recorder s court on a city health violation charge.
Tokyo protests the California alien land ownership law as violating the 1911 Japanese American treaty and the Fourteenth Amendment. Tokyo warns the issue affects international relations and equal protection, with mass protests planned and Japan delaying a reply to arbitration plans.
Washington officials review Japan's latest note as published in Tokio despatches. The cabinet hears that Tokyo cites the fourteenth amendment to argue anti alien land laws deprive due process and equal protection. A new claim about separability of houses from real estate draws less attention.
George W. Jones was found guilty of participating in the hold up and killing of Paymaster W. B. Turner and sentenced to forty years. Co-defendants Davis Riley Jones confessed. Dr. W H Gurganus, named as planner, fled and remained at large in the mountains. Jury members aided Jones’s family with clothing and provisions after the verdict.
In Birmingham Alabama on June 6 Judge Ferguson in the city court extended a coat removal privilege to jurors due to oppressive heat. Every member of the jury except one accepted the measure during a trial to remove their coats in the courtroom.
At the White House President Wilson is still considering Attorney General McReynolds plan to tax tobacco manufacturers on a sliding scale. No decision has been made. The aim is to raise the tax as production exceeds a set level to curb monopolies.
Paris June 6 The entire country watches the divorce suit filed by the Duchess of Orleans against her husband the pretender to the French throne She plans to summon many household servants to back her claims of inhuman treatment Formerly Duchess Olga of Austria before her marriage
Andrew Carnegie starts for Berlin tonight with Robert S. Brookings and Jacob G. Schmidt. Emperor William sets June 16 for a formal audience to receive the party and a congratulatory address signed by notable Americans. The visit marks the emperor’s twenty fifth anniversary as ruler.
Kansas City June 6 Professor George H. Dean of Kansas State Agricultural College spoke on heat as a method to control mill insects at the Operative Millers Association convention. He also discussed how wheat grows crop improvement and related topics for the flour milling industry as the session closed for adjournment tonight.
Representative Gallagher announced steps to probe the baseball trust with a House Rules Committee hearing within a week. He said about six witnesses would support charges of monopoly and prepared a list including Horace Fogel, former president of the Philadelphia Nationals.
An outgoing Western Railway of Alabama passenger train collided with a yard engine near the Montgomery depot, demolishing both locomotives and injuring twenty people. Engineer J. A. Redding suffered serious cuts, fireman Jules Williams was fatally scalded, while other passengers escaped serious harm. No blame assignation yet by railroad officials.
William F. McCombs chairman of the Democratic national committee may still be named ambassador to France. He has declined twice but the president hopes he will accept and keeps the post open. President Wilson discussed New York diplomatic appointments with Senator OGorman.
The Southern Commercial Secretaries' Association opens in Charleston with talks on agricultural and industrial development, civic and public affairs, and drainage. Commissioner E. J. Watson discusses drainage, and speakers include John H. Barrett, S. F. Wilson, and R. G. Rhett. A chamber of commerce smoker honors the secretaries. The convention ends tomorrow afternoon.
Vice President and Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall visit Nashville for Founders Day events with the YMCA. They attend a public reception, tour Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, and dine at a $1 luncheon banquet with lawmakers present. The trip includes an Indianapolis stop for unveiling of a Confederate veterans’ bust.
At Alabama Presbyterian College in Anniston on Tuesday the board of trustees voted to liquidate the school’s $30,000 floating debt and oppose college fraternities. President McDougall reported a record year, and a committee will plan debt elimination at a Birmingham meeting. The trustees banned Greek letter societies, citing snobbishness and a lack of democratic ideals, requiring students to vow non affiliation with fraternities.
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