Army reorganization pact sets regulars at 206000 peacetime, 254000 war
National Guard joins American Reserve Army plan with a 206000 peace strength and expansion to 254000 in war. Senate and house conferees approved a bill preserving the Senate system of organization while removing the volunteer reserve army. The guard must swear allegiance to the United States and states, with a maximum guard size around 425000, forming a total defense force near 679000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Philippine Scouts
Quartermaster’s Corps
Medical Department
Signal Corps
Guard
United States
National Guard
Newsom Freed In Murder Case
David Newsom was acquitted of murder in inferior criminal court after shooting a thief in the Satsuma orchard of J. W. McAlpine at Cot Hill Wednesday night. Attorney Bart B. Chamberlain defended Newsom as the testimony was brief. The thief was identified as Andrew Thrash of 265 North Franklin Street. Identification occurred through a pocketbook and other items recovered by Coroner G. A. Thomas.
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David Newsom
Inferior Criminal Court
Newsom
Satsuma
J. W. McAlpine
Cot Hill
Bart B. Chamberlain
Andrew Thrash
North Franklin Street
G. A. Thomas
Veterans' special to pass Mobile trains Sunday night
A Confederate veterans affair will tour Mobile on the Louisville & Nashville line Sunday evening at 6 30 stopping until 11 30. Delegations from Louisiana and Texas are to join, with Mobile's group of about thirty planning departure for Birmingham Monday.
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Sons of Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy
Mobile
Louisville & Nashville Road
Birmingham
Louisiana
Texas
Confea
Sons of Veterans
Shen
Louisville& Nashville
Weather Forecast For Alabama And Mississippi
Forecaster reports fair weather across Alabama and Mississippi on Friday night and Saturday with Sunday likely to stay fair. Moderate south winds are expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Mississippi
Sport Extra Discontinued
This afternoon the Sport Extra will discontinue as an experiment to become a permanent feature. Low demand and extensive score boards by telephone have led to its cancellation during the baseball season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sport Extra
Sporting News
Kennedy wins nomination for Public Service Commission
Montgomery Alabama May 13 Special All doubt of Samuel P Kennedy's renomination ends as Henry P Merritt and Jefferson A Carney concede Kennedy leads with about a thousand votes Kennedy asserts a 1264 plurality and expects little impact from second choice ballots as they are few and evenly split Merritt returns home to Tuskegee Friday night unsure of final tally
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Montgomery
Ala
Samuel P. Kennedy
Public Service Commission
Henry P. Merritt
Jefferson A. Carney
Merritt
Tuskegee
Kennedy
Kennedy leads in counties by reported majorities
Bibb Graves, chairman of the state committee, said Kennedy has a 1 264 age based on reports of Kennedy and Merritt majorities in all counties obtained by long distance telephone and telegraph Friday.
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Bibb Graves
Waturcay
Kennedy
Merritt
American Women Among Victims of Modern Blue Beard
International police report details Bela Kiss known as the American uncle. He lured women via marriage ads, took their money, and murdered them. Eighteen women linked to Kiss, eight missing, ten not found, bodies located in lead cases with letters from around the world. Kiss died at Valjevo Serbia as previously reported.
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Budapest
London
Cinkota
Bela Kiss
Kiss
United States
Valjevo
Serbia
German Interior Minister Clemens Delbrueck Resigns
Berlin May 13 Dr Clemens Delbrueck minister of the interior and vice chancellor resigns citing ill health diabetes This follows years of newspaper attacks over the food crisis and riots in principal cities with Paris dispatches predicting imperial action.
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Berlin
Clemens Delbrueck
Cleme Debrueck
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Paris
Aeroplane Crashes During Record Attempt at Rocky Mount
A plane failed during a record attempt near Rocky Mount on May 13. The craft struck the ground heavily. one plane was damaged while Rinehart was reported unhurt.
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Rocky Mount
Rinehart
French Throw Sermans Back at Dourmont Paris
Paris dispatch reports a violent exchange as French townsfolk confronts Serman figures in Dourmont. Authorities scramble to restore order amid protests and street clashes across the city.
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Sermans
Dourmont
French Repulse German Attacks Southwest of Verdun
The Paris war office reports French trenches southwest of Fort Douaumont and near Thiaumont farm repulsed German attacks with heavy enemy losses. Artillery skirmishes persist along the Meuse front as French and German positions face ongoing bombardment and counterfire.
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Paris
Fort Douaumont
Thidumont Farm
French War Office
Meuse
Berlin
Sayville
Dead Man’s Hill
Verdun Front
War Office
SR Resz
Disorders on Samos Grow Serious
Riots on the Greek island of Samos near Asia Minor have intensified from minor disturbances to a more serious situation. The government is deploying vigorous measures to restore order and address the unrest.
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Athens
Greece
Samos
Asia
Minor
British gain and loss in trench region amid counterattack
London May 13 British official report says about 500 yards of trenches in the region were captured by the Germans on Thursday but the British counter attacked and regained part of their lost ground in the same area.
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London
Russian Persian theater push threatens Bagdad flank
Petrograd reports Russian forces in Persia have traversed mountains separating them from the Turco-Persian frontier and now stand near Khanikin, threatening the Turkish rear and risking the isolation of the Bagdad army. The Turkish retreat suggests Khanikin garrison strength was overestimated and Kut-el-Amara’s fall limits Turkish relief to northern Bagdad.
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Petrograd
London
Persia
Kha
Mesopotamia
Bagdad
Khanikin
Kut-el-Amara
Tur
Russians Press in Coast Region as Turkish Front Shifts
Russian forces resume advance along the coast while Turkish troops redeploy from southward lines to meet pressure in the Khanikin area and northern districts. The Irish Mesopotamian campaign faces regrouping challenges that could disadvantage Turkey if Russia sustains rapid gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dad
Khanikin
Cotton Rate Hearing Indefinitely Postponed
Washington May 1 The hearing on June 1 at New Orleans to consider continued low North cotton rates from Pennsylvania and South Carolina Florida to Mississippi river crossings and Gulf ports for export has been indefinitely postponed by principal Southern railways.
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Washington
Inpo
New Orleans
Southern
South Carolina
Florida
Gulf
Violent fighting near Verdun and Vienna reports
The Verdun front region in Douaumont sees renewed heavy bombardment and German attacks with heavy losses for Germans, while Meuse artillery on both sides remains constant. Vienna notes rising activity near the Volhynian fortress triangle with no major shifts on other fronts and Berlin announces the resignation of Clemens Delbrueck citing health reasons amid food-discontent riots.
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London
Douaumont
Verdun
Paris
Meuse
Salvage Plan for Schooner Dow Aboard in Western Cuba
Captain Joe O Toole and nine sailors of the American schooner Mary B E H Dow 1297 net tons ashore on Cuba arrived aboard the Nelson. He will lead a salvage expedition from this port to save the Dow which leaked after December and was stranded near Cape Corrientes. Despite signals to passing ships only the Nelson and Julia showed aid while the gunboat Paducah was reportedly not present.
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Joe O’toole
H. G. Dow
Cuba
Nelson
O'Toole
Dow
Norfolk
Bermuda Islands
Beville
Spain
Azores
America
St. Thomas
Cape Corrientes
Coral Reef
Iain O'Toole
Julia
O’toole
Cienfuegos
United States
Paducah
Down
Fair Weather Forecast Ahead for Atlantic States
Washington May 13. The Weather Bureau promises cool and cloudy conditions to prevail over the Atlantic states for the coming week beginning tomorrow. Temperatures will be normal and the week is expected to stay mostly fair with intermittent clouds.
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Washington
Atlantic States
All States States
March For National Preparedness Draws 145000 in New York
The May 13 parade in Manhattan drew about 145000 participants and an estimated 1 million spectators. Twenty thousand women marched in line with 125000 men as workers lawyers city officials and veterans joined the nationwide preparedness show. Major Nathaniel Usher and Mayor Mitchel reviewed the procession from the Madison Square stand as the crowd filled streets from the Battery to Fifty Ninth Street. The event closed with divisions marching for many hours and thousands of applications rejected for lack of space.
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New York
the Battery
Fifty-ninth Street
National Guard
the Supreme
Manhattan Inarth
Br F and
Lafayette Streets
F1 Avenue
Madison Sunte
Nathaniel KR. Usher
New York Navy Yard
Mitchel
Parade Sanctioned by City Celebrates Unity and Labor
Workers in stores and professionals formed a long line in a citywide demonstration. The divisions included theatre and allied arts, engineers, architects, clergymen, bankers, physicians, and teachers among others. Flags filled Broadway as Mayor Mitchel and General Wood led the event amid clear skies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royacientat
American Woman's League For Self- Defense
Women’s Preparedness Battalion
Binnacle Lamp Club to Attend Mothers Day Service
The Binnacle Lamp Club will attend Mothers Day services at Government Street Presbyterian Church after an invitation from the Du Bose Men's Bible class. Club members expected strong turnout despite a smaller Saturday meeting.
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Binnacle Lamp Club
Government Street Presbyterian Church
du Bose
Ll. T. Newberry
Nat Borden
Ca Mn Sherman
Laguna
du Boze
President and Wife Sail Up the James River
The Mayflower yacht carried President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson for a weekend cruise from Washington to Newport News where they swapped to the Sylph for a trip up the James River. They planned to visit James Town ruins with two Secret Service agents aboard. No salutes were fired to avoid attention as the Mayflower passed Fortress Monroe and battleships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Four Inches of Snow Paralyzes Hills Region
Deadwood South Dakota reports four inches of snow fell over hills Thursday into Friday. locals brace for slick roads and disrupted travel while crews work to clear highways and restore normal activities.
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Deadwood
5. D
Ptyce
Coe Or
Francis Taylor Grows Record 13 1 2 Pound Cabbage
Francis Taylor, a Deer River Cedar Point road truck grower, brought a cabbage to The Item office weighing 13 1 2 pounds, beating the paper’s previous largest by a quarter pound. He notes a prior cabbage weighed 14 1 4 pounds and offered witnesses to verify. The farmer claimed the latest entry was even larger than usual.
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Francis Taylor
Deer River
Cedar Point Road
Sunday baseball games in Mobile start at 3 30 p m
Sunday games in Mobile will be called at 3 30 p m henceforth with weekday dates starting at 4 p m beginning Monday per Mobile Baseball Association Secretary Parker announcing the change.
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Mobile
Parker
Mobile Baseball Association
Black man severely beaten by unknown assailants report
B Slade, colored, appeared at the sheriff's office with severe injuries including a swollen face two broken ribs and extensive bruising. He stated his attackers were unknown and could not be identified. He could barely walk up the steps to file his report.
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B. Slade
Assault and Battery Fines In Court
John White was fined five dollars or ten days for assault and battery by Judge Henry Chamberlain. Willie Davis was the complainant. John Pritchard, accused of assaulting Olivia Pritchard, was fined five dollars plus costs or ten days. Nathan Woolf Willie Reese Austin James Charley Goodman were fined one dollar or ten days for vagrancy. Irma Freeman faced the same charge and was fined five dollars or ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John White
Henry Chamberlain
Willie Davis
John Pritchard
Olivia Pritchard
Nathan Woolf
Willie Reese
Austin James
Charley Goodman
Irma Freeman
City to unfurl big flag for Mothers Day in Mobile
The city of Mobile will unfurl a large American flag Sunday morning to honor Mothers Day. Mayor Pat J. Lyons announced the plan and urged every man woman and child to read the city proclamation issued Friday requesting that the day be observed.
Indoor baseball double bill ties Gulls Cubs atop standings
Saturday two junior league indoor baseball games were held on the M C A floor. The Gulls beat the Ku Klux 7 to 5 and the Cubs defeated the Fords 7 to 4. Gulls and Cubs share first with eight wins and four losses. Fords are third and Ku Klux last.
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M.C. A
Gulls
Ku Klux
Cubs
Fords
Upstate Party Ends Five Day Trout Trip in Mobile
A party of anglers including Ben 8. Griel Henry Loeb Mose Wampole Lawrence Weil Sylvan Baum Charles Kohn Sam Kauffman Meyer Gerson Mose Scheuer Henry Abraham and A Nachman of Montgomery with Leo Steiner and Godfrey Goldman of Birham Ala passed through Mobile en route home from Coden Ala after five days fishing on the Mississippi Sound They caught 1800 speckled trout and Spanish mackerel while hosted by Rolston's hotel.
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Upstate
Ben 8
Griel
Henry Loeb
Mose Wampole
Lawrence Weil
Sylvan Baum
Charles Kohn
Sam Kauffman
Meyer Gerson
Mose Scheuer
Henry Abraham
A. Nachman
Montgomery
Leo Steiner
Godfrey Goldman
Birham
Ala
Mobile
Coden
Rolston
Mississippi Sound
Marriage Licenses Issued Saturday in Colored District
The following marriage licenses were issued Saturday in the colored division Lean der Hayes wed Ma Utier Avery Sylvester Orser tied with Johnie Topling and Rosa O Can in a local license list.
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Leander Hayes
Ma Utier Avery
Sylvester Orser
Ants ‘Johnie Topling
Rosa O'Can
Mexican troops move toward border in chase of bandits
Washington officials see no hostile intent but expect cooperation with Mexico in pursuing bandits. Col. A. C. Macomb and Brig. Gen. Langhorne lead detachments from Columbus Oklahoma frontier units toward the Gmder region, with reports of raiders last seen about seventy miles south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marathon
Tex
Mexicans Arrested in Texas Plot to Uprisings
Eleven Mexicans suspected in a plot to incite uprisings were arrested in Kleberg County Texas by federal officials and local authorities. They were jailed in Kingsville with three additional men detained. The plan had targeted May 6, later postponed to May 10, with a scheme to unite Mexicans in Mexico and Arizona against the Yankee yoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corpus Christi
Texas
Department of Justic
Kleberg County
Kingsville ’S
Uprisin
Mexico
Arizona
Border Patrol Engagement Near Rio Grande Reported
A U S border detachment near the Rio Grande was fired upon from the Mexican side early Friday. No injuries were reported. General Alfredo Ricaut of Matamoros pledged stricter patrols on the Mexican shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Texas
United Stat Border Patrol
Alfredo Ricaut
Matamoros
Carranza Troop Movement Reported in Coahuila
Washington reports 1,500 Carranza troops moving toward a district in Coahuila. Officials today regarded the advance as potentially significant in the regional situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carranza
Coahuila
Lifeboat From Roanoke Found Off Port Venture
A lifeboat believed to belong to John G. Dex second officer of the sunken Roanoke was found by the Pacific Mail liner after a radio message. A boat with surf was located off Port Burl at sea and no survivors were reported from the Roanoke incident.
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San Francisco
John
G. Dex
Pacific Mail
Laum
Roanoke
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