Roanoke Steamship Sinks After Gale Losses Crew
Forty-one crew members are missing after the steamship Roanoke sank 100 miles south of San Francisco when its cargo shifted during a gale. Captain Richard Dickinson and his wife are believed lost. five lifeboats carried survivors and bodies, one boat reaching Port San Luis with three survivors. The tanker Lansing searches the sea for the four missing lifeboats while the Roanoke’s voyage had started from San Francisco with explosives for South American ports.
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San Luis Obispo
Cal
Roanoke
California South Seas Navigation Company
San Francisco
Union Oil Company
Lansing
Port San Luis
Richard Dickinson
Choice of Mexican Money or Death Decree Issued at Mazatlan
Mazatlan district natives refusing Carranza paper money face the death penalty under a decree from the Mazatlan garrison commandant. The measure enforces acceptance of the de facto government’s legal tender amid the local reluctance to use the currency.
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Mazatlan
Mex
San Diego
Carranza
Parade of 3000 Babies Opens New York Baby Week
A parade of 3000 babies highlighted New York's Baby Week celebration. John Ryan won the gold cup on City Hall steps as 10 babies received gold medals and 100 earned silver medals.
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New York
John Ryan
City Hall
Captain Jack Mahon Placed on Retired List
Captain Jack Mahon former commander of Company M Mobile Battalion Alabama National Guard has been placed on the retired list with rank of captain by orders from Col G J Hubbard First Regiment Mahons application for an appointment in the United States Volunteer Army if raised was approved by Colonel Hubbard and Governor Henderson
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Jack Mahon
Mobile Battalion
Alabama National Gard
G. J. Hubbard
Mahon
United States Volunteer Army
Hubbard
Henderson
Netherlands Peace Move Urges New Neutral Conference
The Hague report says the Netherlands antiwar council backs Hamilton Holt and cites Germany’s submarine note as a reason to seek unity among neutral mediators. It urges cooperation of American peace societies to urge President Wilson to promote a neutral conference for mediation.
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The
Hague
London
Netherlands
Hamilton Holt
New York
Germany
United States
Wilson
Hickey Lyons Clothing Co Incorporates in Probate Court
Hickey Lyons Clothing Company filed incorporation papers in probate court on Thursday. The firm is capitalized at 12 500 and will operate in the clothing business. Officers and incorporators include Charles A Lyons as president Lawrence B Neuberger as vice president Samuel G Neuberger as secretary and treasurer.
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Hickey-Lyons
Hickey-Lyons Clothing Company
Chas. A. Lyons
Lawrence B. Neuberger
Samuel G.neuberger
No Baseball Extra Today
The item will not publish a baseball edition this afternoon due to the Mobile Club’s off day. The edition will appear as usual tomorrow afternoon.
Docks Report Open to Public Inspection in Mobile
City Commissioner Harry Pillans announced that an 83 page engineers report on harbor improvements for Mobile is now on public display in the mayor’s office at city hall. Citizens may view the document during the proper hours as the commission’s papers are public.
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Mobile
Harry Pillans
Commissioner Pillans
Pillans
Garrow Bend
Lyons
Friday Promises a Midsummer Day Ahead
A forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Friday with a maximum around ninety degrees. Gentle to moderate winds are expected as Gulf and South Atlantic states trend warm while Pacific coast stays cool and Rocky Mountain areas see freezing temperatures elsewhere.
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Gulf
South Atlantic States
Montgomery
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain
Layman Ruling Keeps Women from Delegates
Bishop Lawrence ruled that layman means a male lay member and not a lay woman when the question of women delegates arose at the Massachusetts diocese annual meeting. An amendment to allow women delegates was proposed and to be debated with final action planned for the 1917 convention.
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Boston
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Protestant Episcopal Church
Daylight Saving Plan Debated by Round Table Club
Round Table Club members debated adopting daylight saving in summer. The negative view won, with Gordon W. King presiding and Louis Donald presenting the issue. It notes France uses the scheme and explains clocks shift back one hour, moving start time from seven to six in the morning.
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Round Table Club
Gordon W. King
Louis Donald
France
Confusion Over Two J J Shugrues in Mobile
The Item reports two men named J J Shugrue in Mobile, brothers, one of whom was arrested for gaming while the other, a city employee, was mistakenly believed to be the gambler and lost his job after being sick at home.
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J. J. Shugrues
Mobile
Shugrue
Railroads May Cancel Special Rates Under Supreme Court Ruling
Montgomery May 11 Special The Supreme Court ruled railroads may cancel special or preferential rates to industries without public service commission approval but cannot raise them while keeping them below open rate levels without commission consent. The decision is seen as harming Birmingham district furnaces.
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Montgomery
Ala
Public Service Commission
Birmingham
German Repulse of Night Attack on French Lines Near Vaux Pond
Paris reports German assault on French positions near Vaux pond east of the Meuse repulsed. West of the Meuse heavy artillery in Avecourt wood. Berlin notes increased Italian and Galician front activity and eastern front fighting with a 500 yard gain and 309 prisoners.
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Paris
Vaux Pond
Verdun
Meuse
Avecourt Wood
Berlin
Sayville
Big flying boat wreck near Mount Vernon kills two
Washington May 11 two aviators believed drowned and two injured when a large flying boat broke a propeller and plunged 100 feet into the Potomac near Mount Vernon. Pilot J C McCauley and mechanic Philip Utter were bruised and hospitalized. two other occupants including a newspaper man were rescued. Two sailors missing as search continues.
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Washington
Potomac
Mount Vernon
Louis Krantz
Charles Good
Ohio
Newport News
J.C. McCaulay
Philip Utter
McCaulay
Utter
Alexandria Hospital
MerrittatS Named Delegates and Gubernatorial Nominations
Montgomery returns from the Alabama primary indicate Henry P. Merritt for president public service commission John H. Wallace Jr game and fish commissioner A H Carmichael N D Denson Frank S White and Ray Rushton as delegates at large John C Anderson justice John Pelham J S Brown and either C R Bricken or Thomas E Knight for the court of appeals William Bankhead as congressman in the tenth district
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Montgomery
Ala
Henry P. Merritt
Public Service Commission
John H. Wallace, Jr
Game and Fish
A. H. Carmichael
N. D. Denson
Frank
White
Ray Rushton
John C. Anderson
John Pelham
Brown
C. R. Bricken
Thomas E
French Submarine Sinks Enemy Transport in Adriatic
A French submarine sank an enemy transport loaded with war materiel in the lower Adriatic Sea Tuesday, according to a Havas dispatch from Rome.
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Paris
Adriatic Sea
Havas
Rome
Prince Albert of Serbia Stays at Corfu With Army Staff
At Corfu Prince Albert of Serbia remains with the reorganized army’s general staff. Serbia buys a second destroyer and a transport for its new fleet. Fighting flares north of Aviona signaling potential Austrian offensive against Italians and Serbians in Albania. Durazzo evacuees’ garrison moves to Aviona. Austrians reached Avilona March 19 with no further reports since.
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Athens
Paris
Prince Albert
Serbia
Corfu
Aviona
Albania
Durazzo
Avilona
Russians Press South From Mush Toward Diarbekr In Mesopotamia
Petrograd dispatch notes Russian central armies push toward Diarbekr driving Turkish forces from key mountain positions. After Townshend's capitulation, Russians fortify Serinal-Kerind and reinforce gains along Persian frontier to threaten Baghdad railway. German troops aiding Turkish defense. Turkish attacks before Erzinjan stall. bombs also dropped on Port Said by Turkish planes on April 25.
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Petrograd
London
Kut-el- Amara
Mesopotamia
Townshend
Serin al-Kerind
Mush
Diarbekr
Bagdad
Erzinjan
Port Said
Berlin
Sayville
Bombs Hit Port Said Wounding Civilians in May Attack
Cairo dispatch reports eight bombs dropped on Port Said in May causing no property damage but injuring three civilians.
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Cairo Dispatch
Port Said
Newport News to Baltimore Flight Sets Records
The machine completed a Newport News to Baltimore round trip with five men aboard, setting records. A planned return to Washington faced engine trouble near Mount Vernon, forcing a surface leg to finish. Repairs then started for a Newport News to Washington return with Pilot McCaulay, two mechanics, Mayo Dudley, a Washington newspaper man, and a student aviator.
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Newport News
Baltimore
Washington
Mount Vernon
McCaulay
Philip Utter
Louis Krantz
Mayo Dudley
Plane crash near Mount Vernon injures crew near Newport News
Pilot J C McCaulay and mechanician Philip Utter were badly shaken and bruised, taken to Alexandria hospital after a plane from the Washington navy yard plunged into the river near Mount Vernon when a propeller broke away. Dudley suffered minor injuries while two men remained missing. The Triton towed the wreck to Fort Washington as search efforts expanded with army and private tugs joining the hunt.
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Alexandria
J. C. McCaulay
Newport
Philip Utter
Cleveland
Ohio
Alexandria Hospital
Rhan
Dudley
Washington Navy Yard
Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station
Newport News
Mount Vernon
Bryan's Point
Triton
Fort Washington
Wetherill
Modern Blue Beard Victim Toll Reaches Nine Women
In Cinkota a modern blue beard killer left seven lead cases with the bodies of seven women found in a soldier's former home. The victims, likely servant girls lured from Vienna, remain unidentified. The previous occupant, who died in Serbia, warned the proprietor not to enter the building where irreplaceable machinery was kept.
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Budapest
Via
Vienna
Berlin
Cinkota
Serbia
Birmingham primary returns spark delegate and official race blows
Late returns from Alabama's Tuesday primary show BE. D. Smith likely elected committeeman and A. H. Carmichael E. B. White N. D. Denson Ray Rushton named delegates. Merritt defeats Kennedy for public service commission president. Wallace re elected game and fish commissioner. Felham near sure of appeals court win. Hobson Bankhead race tight in Tenth district. Bankhead leads unofficially by 29 votes.
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Birmingham
Ala
BE. D. Smith
A. H. Carmichael
John Felham
Court of Appeals
Brown
Whiteside
Knight
Burnett
Rainey
Hobson-Bankhead
Wilson to Seek Punishment for U-Boat Commander
Secretary Lansing stated the United States may inquire with Germany about the punishment imposed on the submarine commander responsible for sinking the Sussex. The remark came in Washington on May 11.
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Washington
Lansing
United States
Tick Quarantine Begins in Mobile County May 18
The Alabama live stock sanitary board imposes a cattle tick eradication quarantine on Mobile County effective May 18. All cattle entering or leaving the county must follow state rules and be dipped every two weeks until released or lifted. Quarantine ordered by Dr. C A Cary with enforcement under state and federal authority.
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Mobile
Alabama Livestock Sanitary Board
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Alabama
United States
C. A. Cary
Mo+bile
Verdun Fight Is Shifted By Crown Prince
London reports a further shift in Verdun combat as German forces attack near Vaux on the Meuse eastern bank while French offenses in Verdun settle amid heavy enfilading fire. Berlin cites French counterattacks and German fire stopping those efforts. Russian and Balkan movements add to a volatile front with Mesopotamian deployments cited from Petrograd.
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London
dAnother
Verdun
Meuse
Vaux
Paris
Berlin
Balkans
Athens
Aviona
Petrograd
Persia
Kasr- T-Shirin
Burdad
Judg eship race settled with N R Leigh winner
Mobile County Democratic executive committee canvassed Tuesday’s primary returns in the city courtroom. Norville R Leigh Jr appears to have won third place amid challenged votes filed from multiple wards and precincts under the new primary law awaiting grand jury ruling.
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Mobile County
Democratic Executive Committee
D. B. Cobb
Cobb
Jere Austin
D. P. Barrett
Joseph Williamson
T. B. Murray
T. H. Smith
Norville R. Leigh, Jr
Clark
Warda
Leigh Wins Close Judgeship Race in Local Election
Norville R. Leigh Jr defeated Thomas H. Smith by ninety one votes in the judgeship contest. The close outcome led to calls for opening election returns by D B Dobbs, executive committee chair, which he did under law. Final tallies show Semmes 66004024 and 2479 for Safford Berney, Leigh 2262, Smith 1029 for Browne.
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Norville R. Leigh
Thomas H. Smith
D. B. Dobbs
Dobbs
Oliver J. Semmes
Safford Berney
Norville R. Leigh, Jr
Snebee
Claude A. Grayson
Ovcleus Oda Ete
Samuel B. Browne
Pencil Day Raises Funds for Mobile Infirmary
Final figures were not available, but Mobile Infirmary Association officers said the Pencil Day event Wednesday was a success, bringing in several hundred dollars to aid charity patients. They thanked the public for cooperation.
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The
Infirmary Association
Villa Murdering Crew American Warning to Quit Mexico
Major Langhorne with two troops of the Eighth Cavalry crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico pursuing three bandits captured to guide the column. General Scott Funston and Obregon confer in hopes of a long sought agreement as American forces move inland toward the brigands. A reported kidnapping of an American named J een er is noted amid tense border action near Marathon Texas.
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Marathon
Tex
Langhorne
Rio Grande
Mexico
US and Mexican military talks resume in El Paso car
El Paso May 11 Nagotie tions toward a settlement of the American Mexican military questions resumed at 10 this morning. The conference was attended by Major Generals Scott and Funston representing the United States and Obregon minister of war and Juan N Jasdtee sub secretary of foreign affairs in Mexico. The conference was held in General Scott's private car.
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EL Paso
Tex
Nagotie
General Funston proposes 2000 infantry on Texas ponies
General Funston seeks to strengthen border patrol by mounting two thousand infantry on Texas ponies. He plans to urge Secretary Baker to act as cavalry forces are nearly exhausted. He cites Major Langhorne’s chance to overtake bandits near Glenn Springs and notes raiders loaded wagons with loot to hinder pursuit.
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Funston
Texas
Baker
Langhorne
Glenn Springs
National Guard Units Mustered For State Enlistment Terms
The War Department announced that Texas and New Mexico National Guards will be mustered into the Army for the length of their state enlistments with no fixed federal service period. Secretary Baker said mobilization officers asked if President Wilson set a definite term for enlistment. Guardsmen will be enrolled for the term of their state service or until released.
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War Department
National Guard of
Texas
New Mexico
Baker
Wilson
General Obregon to Meet in El Paso for Morning Conference
General Scott telegraphed the department that Obregon was set for 10 oclock this morning at El Paso. Secretary Baker said there is nothing to confirm border reports of an ultimatum. Obregon expected to submit counter proposals on a date for withdrawal of American forces. No reports of incursions near Blocker ranch or Big Bend. officials note no troops have crossed the border.
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General Scott
Obregon
el Pago
Baker
Scott
General Obregon
War Department
Blocker
Americans Urged to Leave Mexico by U S Consuls
American consuls in Mexico again warn U S citizens to depart amid ongoing difficulties. State Department instructions urge caution and emphasize that Americans remain outside safety guarantees. Authorities report many travelers planning departures from Mexican cities.
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Mexico
Auisiinese
St Department
Lansing
Cinaee
Co City
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