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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1913
Page
4
Government revenues from customs receipts show a material May decline as imports stay low during tariff revision periods. Experts note the drop is typical while business holds back to seek better rates, with twelve days of May totaling 7,428,278 versus 10,768,976 last year, yet the year to date remains 12,250,000 higher than the prior year.
Bucklen’s Armea Salve is promoted as the best remedy for all skin diseases and for burns bruises and sores. The advertisement notes it reduces inflammation soothes and heals with a testimonial from J T Sossaman publisher of News Cornelius NC who says one box helped his serious skin ailment after other remedies failed. It is recommended by Van Antwerp Jug Corp.
In Chicago on May 14 cabaret singer Garnett Fairfield, Sweetheart of burglary convict Harry Evans, passed him her handkerchief with a knife. Evans used it to attack Detective Boschulte and Deputy Bohaber, wounding the former and stabbing the latter before being overpowered. Fairfield was arrested as crowds and police kept the scene from turning deadly. Evans claimed the detective beat him in custody seeking a confession.
Representatives from the war and navy departments the bureau of standards and the weather bureau plus aeronautic experts form an advisory panel. They will meet next week to discuss laws for an Angley Aero Dynamic laboratory with Atlantic to Pacific experiments and a possible new central building. Dr Walcott says the work will be evolutionary and could end if dirigible experiments render aviation useless, though that is not expected.
Clarence P. Brokaw of New York, jailed in Colorado Springs on a domestic assault charge, sought sheriff help to stop his wife from taking their 8-year-old son Buster toward New York. The sheriff refused, noting she had the right to travel with the child. The case follows past kidnaping and multiple domestic disputes.
May 14. The Mount Morgan Gold Mines in Queensland sold to an English Australian syndicate for about $6,000,000. The Morgans, led by Donald Gordon, grew fortunes. Walter Hall financed locals and left a $12,000,000 fortune, his widow donating $5,000,000. The mine yielded up to 800 ounces per ton, paid a $5,000,000 dividend, and later became a copper-gold producer.
The Telegraph reports a proposed visit of the American fleet to Mediterranean ports early next year with Gibraltar Malta and possibly an Egyptian port as hosts. The article notes the ships would be the Mediterranean’s strongest force and aims to project American diplomacy while influencing Britain to adjust its naval focus from home waters.
Andrew B. Willingham chief buyer for the American Tobacco Company in Richmond was killed when an automobile owned by T. J. Walker an American Tobacco director and manager of the local plant overturned after leaving the Country Club. Several others were injured with broken ribs and bruises. Walker's injuries were described as not known.
Port Arthur Texas May 14 resolutions by the Texas Federation of Labor urge the appointment of James M Lynch president of the International Typographical Union as public printer.
The federal parole board has determined parole eligibility for Julian Hawthorne and Dr. William J. Morton, convicted in New York of mail misuse, and for other Atlanta penitentiary inmates. They reach one third of their sentences on July 25 and could be released if approved. Robert V. La Dow, head of the parole board, returns from Atlanta to prepare recommendations for the attorney general.
Two reports appear in one item as a brief: free film show at Monroe Park this evening after a long run. The other involves a bank scandal. Joseph K. Dickerson and Major W. E. Breese face prison terms for conspiracy in the First National Bank failure. Dickerson is to be sent to Atlanta, Breese absent, bond forfeited.
Washington May 14 In planning its new rural organization service the Agriculture Department seeks outside suggestions. Dr William Thompson president Ohio State University Prof William D Hurd of Massachusetts Agricultural College and Dr Thomas N Carver of Harvard take active roles starting June 1 Secretary Houston and Assistant Secretary Galloway solicit information to start the service. Investigation followed by demonstration rather than evangelism is needed to help farmers and organize their work for measurable results.
Al lon von Behren, 23, son of a wealthy manufacturer, pleaded guilty to one manslaughter charge for the February shooting deaths of three black workers at his father's factory in Evansville. He was sentenced to two to twenty-one years in the state reformatory.
John E. Wilkie longtime chief of the United States Secret Service and supervising special agent of the customs service will resign soon to take a commercial job in Chicago. He helped head the force investigating customs frauds and organized the emergency service that countered Spanish spies during the war. He was in Boston for a grand jury probe into gown importation frauds.
Lansing May 13 Secretary of State Martindale today received the resignation of H Olin Young United States Republican representative from the twelfth district Mr Young announced he would resign because William J Mac Donald his Progressive opponent in the fall election received more votes but lost the contest due to a ballot printing error that misnamed him.
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