Gulf Coast plans cannery and depots at Alabama Port
The Gulf Coast Fishing and Products Corp announces a $50,000 cannery fish depot and ice plant project at Alabama Port on mainland land with storm proof buildings. Anthony Smith heads the venture backed by the Pennsylvania Securities Co. Frank Henderson guides operations. Machinery for cannery en route to Mobile. Sidetrack and more trackage planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast Fishing and Products Corporation
St. Francis and
St. Joseph Streets
Alabama Port
Anthony Smith
Mobile Fish and Oyster Company
Frank Henderson
Pennsylvania Securities Company
Mobile
Cedar Point
Bay Shore Road
H. C. Heidenkamp
Biloxi
Miss
Bayou la Barre
Railroads show wartime gains despite income drop
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports a $108,196,836 five month operating income decline across 123 major railroads under government control from last year, with Southern lines exceeding prior year figures. May 1918 revenues and net income remain strong despite higher costs and blizzards.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Railroads
May
Southern Roads
Crowder Urges Deferred Classmen to Take Useful Work
Washington July 2 The Provost Marshal General clarifies that work or fight applies only to draft-age men. He says deferred classes must seek useful employment to support the war effort and free capable fighters, or risk losing deferment. He stresses the policy targets not unregistered men but boosts employment opportunities for all non-draft personnel.
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Washington
Crowder
Army
Navy
Rosseter Named Director of Operations for Shipping Board
J H Rosseter vice president of Pacific Mail Steamship Co is appointed director of operations for the Shipping Board. He will join September 16 after adjusting his private business and replaces Edward F Curry who resigned to become chairman. Rosseter has deep experience in Oriental and European shipping and helped start the San Francisco to South America service.
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B.y. Associated Press
Washington
J. H. Rosseter
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
The
Shipping Board
Rosseter
Hurley
San Francisco
South America
Port and Harbor Commission
Edward F. Curry
Pedigreed Bull Donated for Red Cross Sale Wins Blue Ribbon
Laven ders Lord, the blue ribbon winning bull judged by Dean Curtis of Iowa State College, becomes President Wilsons property and the proceeds of the Red Cross sale in Birmingham will go to the war relief. President Wilson plants a one dollar check toward the prize animal auction to raise funds, with estimates reaching up to 250000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Lavender
Lord
Red Cross
Wilson
Dean C. F. Curtis
Iowa State College
Albert Marty
Kansas City
South
Middle West
Cassin Repaired After Torpedoing Returns to Duty
The destroyer Cassin, torpedoed October 16 last in European waters, has been repaired at a British yard and returned to station with American destroyers, the Navy Department announced.
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Ghon Suly
Washington
Cassin
Navy Department
House Passes Uniforms Bill for Army Clothing
The House approved an urgent deficiency bill totaling about 1 billion dollars, including 712 million for army clothing. The measure, the last of the big supply bills, now advances to the Senate after the Appropriations Committee report.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Mobile cotton price holds at thirty cents
Spot quotations show middling cotton at 30 cents on the Mobile Exchange with six market nominal. Receipts Tuesday total 35. sales none. In sports news, W. T. Tilden Jr. of Philadelphia defeated Raider J. Hub er Evanston Ill. yesterday in a national clay court tennis championship match.
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Viimns
Nisitle
Chicago
W. T. Tilden, Jr
Philadelphia
Raider J. Huber
Evanston
Uls
Mobile street workers seek higher pay and shorter workday
Twenty six Mobile city street department employees petitioned the city commission for a general wage increase and a uniform 8 hour day plus a twice monthly pay date citing high living costs. They also request higher sexton fees from $3 to $5 due to lumber costs as the pauper coffins are supplied locally. The Dixie Fruit Products Company received a loading platform franchise at Water and Adams streets. Weights and measures reported June activity: 45 scales inspected 91 stores visited 139 packages reweighed 112 ice deliveries reweighed 32 complaints and $17.15 in fees.
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Street Department
City of
Mobile
City Commission
Joseph F. Sands
City Sexton
Dixie Frmrit Products Company
Water and
Adams Streets
Plan Opposed for Welfare Council in City Meeting
Commissioner Crawford proposed a plan to unite interests for improving child welfare work in Mobile. Commissioners Pillans and Mayor Lyons rejected it, with Pillans arguing even a nickel spent would be misuse and Lyons calling it a scheme to create more offices. The plan sought a conference of Defense officials, the School Board, and city leaders to discuss uniting forces in welfare work.
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Mobile
City Commission
Crawford
Harry Pillans
F P. J. Lyons
Pillans
Lyons
Elizabeth Fonde
J. C. Rich
Council of Defense
Avery G. Clinger
War Activities Board
Crawfierd
Board of
School Commssioners
Mobile County
Board of Commissioners
City of
Elizabeth Fuonde
County of
Mobile officials consider joint conference on child welfare
Commissioner Pillans moves to have the conference proposer explain the call. Resolution proposes uniting city and county efforts in Mobile for the physical training, care, education and recreation of children, with a meeting set for July 9, 1918 at 3 p.m. in the mayor's office.
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Board of Commissioners
City of
Mobile
Cty
County of
Alabama auto dealers to meet in Mobile convention
About 150 to 200 Alabama automobile dealers are expected in Mobile next week for the Alabama Automobile Dealers Association convention at the CaWthon hotel. The three day meeting, chaired by L G Adams, will address key issues in the auto business and open on Monday after a state wide canvass to boost attendance.
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Alabama
Mobile
Alabama Automobile Dealers Association
Cawthon Hotel
L. G. Adams
Plea for a National Anthem Moves German Press
The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin urges replacing God Save the King with a new German national anthem. It says Germans should express their patriotism with a suitable original tune rather than the British royal song.
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Amsterdam
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Negro sock thief gets three months
Charles Coleman identified as a black man was sent to the county road for three months by the oe Se ee Beern pa of socks from the Pincug Clothing Company.
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Charles Coleman
Oe Se Ee Beern Pa
Pincug Clothing Company
Weather forecast for Alabama and Washington region
Forecast notes Alabama fair and slightly warmer tonight and Wednesday. Weather outlook mentions warmer night and midweek conditions across the region with no precipitation indicated.
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Associated Press
Washington
Alabama
Dutch Probers Sell Food To HMNS In Potatoes Trade
An official Hague disclosure says the Netherlands will export 60 000 tons of potatoes to Germany amid a policy to feed all belligerents. U S officials note the move could breach prior grain and food accords and invite retaliatory action or protests in Holland and questions about Britain and the United States.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hague
Netherlands
United States
Holland
Germany
Great Britain
Night visitors to cemetery held after closing
Charles Naef Meyer Jacobson and Edward Taggert were arrested shortly after midnight by Police Officers Delahounty and Lawrence for being in Magnolia cemetery after closing. They were arraigned before the recorder and the case postponed until Wednesday as Commissioner Crawford noted repeated gate tampering by unidentified persons.
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Charles Naef
Meyer Jacobson
Edward Taggert
Delahounty
Lawrence
Magnolia Cemetery
Recorder
George E. Crawford
Hungarian Forecasts Fair Crops Amid Frost Damage
A Hungarian report to July 1 predicts fair crops in Hungary for the year. It notes a larger cultivated area than in 1917 but March frosts damaged summer cereals and garden produce. effects of frosts in early June are included. Complaints of extortionate demands by farm hands are reported nationwide as farmers seek help with harvest work.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Hungary
Quakers Given Six Months Imprisonment
A clipped OCR note reports sentencing where activists linked to a pacifist leaflet campaign received six months. The passage mentions authorities and circuit context but details are unclear due to damaged text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orbye Grag Ss Fe
Twenty three Mobile men head to Camp Shelby for training
Twenty three men from Mobile and county will depart Friday afternoon for Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg Miss to enter military training. The group includes twelve from City Draft Board No 1 and eleven from the county board with names listed. A second call for white men to mechanical training at the University of Alabama and a large call for about 500 negroes are noted. Five mobile selectees are also sent to camps Jackson Pike and Sevier to replace rejected contingents.
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Mobile
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg
Miss
Frog City Board No. 1
County
City
County Board
Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
University of Alabama
Jack Co. Hunt
Robert Miller
Joseph Arnel Jones
Carey Waters
Samuel
Mitchel Fillingim
Louis Adams
Gordon Burtwell Purdy
John Collins Owen
Clarence RR. Hartsock
Norman Daniel Green
Kk. M. Threadgill
Jackson, Pike and Sévier
Messrs
William Orton
F. A. Wortner
Camp Jackson
8. C
Ernest Phillips
E. M. Foley
Camp Pike
Ark
Dan T. Shepherd
Camp Sevier
Czech Has Warning of Harsh Czech Reprisals
Colonel Hurban in Tokio says he is in contact with Prof Maszyk in Washington about reports Austrians are killing captured Czechs. He warns Czech forces in Siberia will exact reprisals and will not let the 200000 Austro German prisoners escape unless shootings stop.
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Associated Press
Hurban
Tokio
Times
T. Gd. Maszyk
Washington
Siberia
Cover Comfortable When Mercury Drops
Mobile slept under blankets early Tuesday morning and was comfortable after a Monday of unusual warmth. The temperature fell to 66 degrees from a high of 92 degrees the day before. June figures show a mean of 91 degrees with a high of 101 on June 17 and a low of 62 on June 9.
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Mobile
American Troops Move East Through Canada for Courtesy Visit
Secretary Baker said units from Western camps travel east through Canada and will visit Ottawa under governor general supervision. An American battalion had been reviewed in Montreal by the governor general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Baker
Canada
Ottawa
Montreal
Execution of Bailey and Nixon for Norfolk merchant murder
Tolson Bailey and Guy Nixon, African American men, were executed by electric chair today at the state peniten tiary in Richmond for the murder of a Norfolk merchant. The case drew regional attention as a high profile capital crime.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Tolson Bailey
Guy Nixon
Work or fight rule enforced by Mobile police edict
Police chief P. J. O'Shaughnessy says the work or fight mandate is being enforced and will continue until all draft age men in nonessential jobs seek work. Four to five named as summoned to headquarters were told to work or join the armed forces amid an anti vice drive with sheriff and government cooperation. Some former idlers have already begun shipyard work.
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Police Department
P. J. O'Shaughnessy
Mobile
Police
Sheriff's Department
John O. Bush
Gulf and Ship Island Co. appoints new federal manager
Gulfport Mississippi July 2 announcement of the appointment of fh. Ke Baush as federal manager of the Gulf and Ship Island Company with headquarters at Hattiesburg in place of W T Stewart who declined the post. Regional director C M Kittle in Chicago transmitted the decision. Stewart, directing head of several corporations in Mississippi and New York, says the role cannot be added to his other duties.
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Associated Press
Gulfport
Miss
Ke ‘Baush
Mississippi Ral Railroad
Gulf and Ship Island Company
Hattiesburg
W.T. Stewart
C. M. Kittle
Chicago
Mississippi
New York
Stewart
Gulf
Ship Island
Czech and Slovak Troops Triumph At Monte di Val Bella
Italian headquarters report Szecho-Slovak troops helped capture Monte di Val Bella. A Czech company held Austrian prisoners including a brother who recognized him. The reunion sparked by the find followed a question about who was conducting the offensive.
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Associated Press
Monte di Val Bella
Tillman’s Condition Remains Unchanged in Health Report
Washington July 2 The condition of Senator Tillman of South Carolina, chair of the Senate naval affairs committee, who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last week causing paralysis, was reported unchanged today with no favorable development. He spent a quiet night but remains unconscious.
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Associated Pres
Washington
Tillman
South Carolina
Senate Laval Affairs Committee
Explosion at National Shell Filling factory kills many
An explosion at the National Shell Filling factory in the Midlands on Monday caused 60 to 70 deaths, according to an official announcement.
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Bunotiated Press
London
Tuly 2
National Shell
Midlands
Bank Is Admitted to Federal Reserve System
Washington July 2 The Wachovia Bank and Trust Company of Winston Salem North Carolina was admitted to the federal reserve system today Resources placed at 16 892 000
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Washington
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Wington-Salem
N. C
Federal Reserve System
Raids and Prisoner Capture On Marne Front With Allies
Reported actions west of Chateau Thierry and Vaux Hill near the Marne resulted in the capture of over 300 prisoners, including officers, as French and American forces raided positions and improved their hold on the Vaux heights. Smaller raids between Montdidier Noyon and east of Rheims yielded a few prisoners, while German raids near Belloy and in Alsace failed under French fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chateau 7
Aisne
Paris
Vaux
Chateau Thierry
Paria
Chateau
Vaux Werd
Marne
Vaux Hill
Montdidier
Noyon
Rheims
Belloy
Upper Alsace
Italian Front Advances Near Brenta in Key Alps Actions
July 1 report details Italian forces recapturing Monte di Volda Col del Rosso and Col di Chelo as they widen the front west of the Brenta. Italians claim lower losses than Austrians due to intense Italian and Allied artillery. Austrian shells destroy houses and 150 year trees on Monte Melago. Col del Rosso assault supported Eudelweis division. London report notes German northwest of Albert near the Somme fails to retake trenches after bombardment.
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Monte di Vidella
Col del Rooso
Col di Chelo
Brenta
Ia Trians
Monte Melago
Col del Rosso
Eudelweis
Charles
Divisio
London
Albert
Somme
War Office
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Daniels
Ria Ie
House Commerce Committee
Aswell
Gordon
Ohio
Becau
Burleson
Parker
New Jersey
Anwell
Mr. Baker
Esch
Wisconsin
Montague
Virginia
France
Daniela
Mr. Daniels
Sims
Western Union
Mhai
I’rees
White Wings
Plan For Welfare Council
HMNS
Shelby
FADAY
Pik, Jackson and
Viz
Negroe
Polce
R. K. Smiths
U. S
BANK
Federal Reserve
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