Ships contracts unsettled amid fleet move
Howard Coonley, vice president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, says contracts to build additional ships for the Mobile Shipbuilding Company are not decided. Ernest Jahncke in Philadelphia proposes transferring steel contracts to a steel yard to focus on wood vessels and coal barges, with officials reviewing the idea.
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Associated Press
Washington
Howard Coonley
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Mobile Shipbuilding Company
Mobile Corporation
Ackerson
Naval
United States Navy
Ernest Lee Jahncke
Jahncke Shipbuilding Company
Shipping Board
Philadelphia
New Orleans Times-Picayune
New Orleans
New Orleans Times- Picayune
Jahncke
The
Times- Picayune
Fleet Corporation
Gulf Coast
Urges Speeding Up of Coal Shipments
A. H. Smith regional director of eastern railroads calls for faster coal movement to the Atlantic seaboard. He stresses avoiding summer slumps, improving coal loading equipment circulation, and pressuring carriers to meet the fuel administration program. He notes production peaked for the fortnight ending June 15 but has declined due to slow car supply from stalled coal movement.
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Associated Press
New York
Atlantic Seaboard
A. H. Smith
Fuel Administration
Prussian Lord Predicts Near Victory in War
Paris reports Count Beh rendorff in the Prussian house of lords says victory is near with German sword aid and condemns recent Reichstag speeches. He asserts confidence in government and says they have vanquished in the east and will conquer in the west.
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Associated Press
Paris
House of Lords
Count Behrendorff
Reichstag
Brake Beam Likely Caused Troop Train Wreck
J C Stamm, superintendent of the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific Railroad, blamed a broken brake beam on a baggage car for the derailment near Shreveport Louisiana that injured five soldiers. Corporal T P Houston Caldwell Texas and Private Joseph Alen Tatum Texas were taken to a hospital with serious internal injuries. Other injured workers sustained no serious harm as officials opened an investigation.
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Shreveport
J. C. Stamm
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad
T. P. Houston
Caldwell
Tex
Joseph Alen
Tatum
Mobile City Boards Short of Class One Men for Hancock Call
Two Mobile city boards lack enough white men in class one to meet the July 20 Camp Hancock draft quota. Board No. 1 has 18 available. Board No. 2 needs four, all from re classified registrants. Appeals and re classification delays await district board action before final lists are set. Local names from county and city boards listed for contingent to Camp Hancock.
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Camp Hancock
District Exemption Board
City Board No. 1
Board No. 2
District Board
County
Jennings B. Miller
Crichton
Scott Mason
Oak Grove
Westley E. Cantrell
Wilmer
Tommy L. Rat
Registrants fail to return 10 questionnaires in county draft
Twenty two new registrants did not return their questionnaires to the county draft board reports from the board office. The list includes Henry Martin Chickasaw Ala Jesse Nord Hestie Ala George Wagner Chickasaw Ala Peter Yeatman Prichard Ala Alonzo James Lawrence Prichard Ala Corinthus Cox Bell's Wharf Ala and others. The southern Alabama district board in Mobile will hear appeals on re classification matters mostly from northern counties. Local cases include sawmill workers moved from Emergency Fleet Corporation deferred lists to regular classes. The board notes no Washington instructions to defer these men and will classify them accordingly.
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Deere Peiday
Wx. 1
Toulminville
Randolph E. Brookshire
Meridian
Miss
Henry Martin
Chickasaw
Ala
Jesse Nord
Hestie
George Wagner
Turner Foster, Jr
Peter Yeatman
Peter Agee
Alcorn Hall
Calvert
William Casley
Chattanooga
Tenn
Devotie Williams
Walker Springs
Frank Rhinebit
Portland
Walter Taylor
Jackson
McKinley Williams
Creola
District Exemption Board
Alabama
Mobile
Emergency Fleet Corporation
District Board
Washington
H. I. Shelley
Selma
W. FR. Holley
Atmore
S. S. Pugh
John Russell
Frank J. Yerger
Smith Discusses Cotton Price Fixing
Senator Smith of South Carolina discussed new price fixing regulations on manufactured cotton products with President Wilson in Washington. The War Industries Board had ordered reductions from twenty to thirty percent for prices of government and private use cotton goods. He urged caution not to harm the cotton industry’s financial credit or broader production while supporting regulation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senator Smith
South Carolina
Wilson
War Industries Board
Smith
Christian Endeavor Society in Meeting
Delegates from nearly all Southern states gathered in Memphis Tennessee for the annual all South convention of the Christian Endeavor Union. The four day meeting opens with officer elections and the unfurling of a service flag bearing 15 739 stars.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
The
Christian Endeavor Union
Weather Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
TiEWEATHER in Washington reports scattered showers likely tonight and Friday after partly cloudy skies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Spur railroad ties Mobile bay ship plant to existing lines
Workmen for Fred Ley & Company erect a spur track from the old road bed near Cedar Street in Mobile to connect with lines planned by Louisville and Nashville and Gulf, Mobile and Northern. The concrete shipbuilding plant on Mobile bay will span about half a mile of frontage with side launched vessels. Dredging by a government vessel will move 600,000+ cubic yards toward the old ship channel as Arlington street improvements progress.
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Fred Ley & Company
Springfield
Mass
Mobile Bay
U. S. Shipping Board
Ear
Sims
Louisville
Nashville
Gulf, Mobile
Frort
Wright Smith
H. A. Stone
Philadelphia
Live Oak Street
Parham Street
Cedar Street
Ley
Ship
Arlington
Negro fined for clock timing in bootleg case
Elijah Singleton was charged with violating the prohibition law. When asked why he missed court, he blamed his clock. Judge Henry Chamberlain sentenced him to 101 and costs or fifty days of hard labor, and Singleton chose hard labor.
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Elijah Singleton
Henry Chamberlain
Inferior Criminal Court
Singleton
German Antipathy Clear in Petrograd
Kiev correspondent for the Weser Zeitung reports from Petrograd that the Russian middle classes reject monarchy and Bolshevism, desire to retain revolution gains, dislike Germans, and show clear antipathy to Germany amid chaotic conditions along Nevsky Prospect.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Petrograd
Kiev
Weser Zeitung
Nevsky
Germany
Federal child labor standards upheld by older law noted
Federal employment directors in states with weaker child labor rules were advised by the Labor Department to observe the former federal standards after a Supreme Court ruling. The old law barred children under 16 from mines and quarries and those under 14 from mills factories and other manufacturing establishments.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Department of Labor
Italian Troops Advance in Albania Reach Berat Region
Rome reports unchecked Italian progress in Albania with Berat as a target. Austrians retreat beyond Berat Fieri line toward Skumbi river as Allies claim 1000 prisoners and several aircraft. Paola notes Missouri Kansas Texas train robbery near Koch Siding with two wounded and bandits fleeing into timber.
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Berat-Fieri
Skumbi
Bilbasan
Berat
Vienna
Fieri
Lake Ochrida
Tormorica
Cee Theater
Lake
Ochrida
Elbasan
Associated Press
Paola
Kas
Marias de Cygne River
Koch Siding
Italian Troops Advance in Albania as Austro Hungarians Fall Back
A Rome dispatch reports Italian forces pushing forward in Albania while Austro Hungarians retreat toward the Skumbi river, 25 miles north of Berat. In Russia, White guards seize Yaroslav near Moscow cutting Moscow Vologda lines, with Bolsheviks moving toward the town.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rome
Albania
Berat
Vagusa
Semeni
London
Skumbi
Sy Associated Press
Vologda
Russia
Yaroslav
Moscow
Kaiser Says Hans Will Conquer Soon
Amsterdam July 11 The German emperor replies to Cologne University telegram praising German bravery and sacrifice. He says victorious arms have not yet broken enemy will but German sons rally around their war lord to win life happiness and freedom for the father land and to create a free path for development of intellectual and economic forces.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
University of Cologne
Germany
Arrives from Home on Futile Errand in Florida
Mrs. J. Furress of Jacksonville filed a complaint against J. M. Johnson of Gainesville a War Savings Stamps Worker for a statutory offense. She arrived Thursday to testify but learned Johnson was free due to lack of state court jurisdiction. She met Assistant District Attorney Harry T. Pegues with her husband and child.
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J. Furress
Jacksonville
Fla
J. M. Johnson
Gainesville
Johnson
Harry T. Pegues
Wilmer man freed on cattle tick charge
Wiley Henton of near Wilmer testified before U S Commissioner J Irwin Burgett that Mississippi tick inspectors told him he could move tick infested cattle into Mobile County. He was released with a warning not to repeat the offense as U S Live Stock Inspector H W Bales and county assistants observed 46 witnesses.
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Wiley Henton
Wilmer
U.S
J. Irwin Burgett
Mississippi
Mobile County
H. W. Bales
Henton
Club Women to Address Mobile On Defense Work
Mrs James F Hooper of Selma state chairman and Mrs Thomas M Owen of Montgomery will arrive in Mobile this afternoon to discuss the Councils Defense division. They speak at 7 at the Battle House and later address a gathering at the Cawthon Hotel at 9.
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James F. Hooper
Selma
Council of Defense
Thomas M. Owen
Montgomery
Mobile
Council
Battle House
Cawthon Hotel
Labor Is Patriotism Urged in Gulfport Meeting
Secretary of Labor Wilson told the Gulfport gathering that mobilizing labor for war industries is crucial to victory. He said six to ten workers per soldier in Europe shows the scale of mobilization and that the federal employment service will handle all recruiting after August 1 to curb abuses from high labor turnover.
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Y Associated Press
Washington
Eith
Europe
Wilson
Southern Sociological Congress
Gulfport
Misa
Federal Employment Service
Autrust
Evans Woman Held on $750 Bond in Grand Larceny Case
Henrietta Evans was arrested in Whistler on grand larceny charges. Held to circuit court under $750 bond after a Thursday hearing before Judge Henry Chamberlain in the Inferior Criminal Court. Prosecution says she stole a gold wrist watch and a diamond brooch from Miss Marguerite Green.
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Henrietta Evans
Whistler
Ciircuit Court
Henry Chamberisin
Inferior Criminal Court
Evans
Missy Marguerite Green
Bogus Check Case Set for Friday Hearing
Forrest Reese was brought before the police court on Wednesday and reappeared Thursday morning on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses from A Miller using an alleged bogus check. The case was postponed until Friday.
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Forrest Reese
A. Miller
Mesons
Cize
U S Tabriz Consul Safe at Tehran
The State Department announced the safe arrival in Teheran of Gordon Paddock United States consul at Tabriz. He left Tabriz over a month ago with a group of Americans and Europeans as Turkish forces threatened the city and the American consulate was sacked.
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Associated Press
Washington
Teheran
Gordon Paddock
United States
Tabriz
State Department
Paddock
Miss Fonde Enters Race for Mobile School Board
Miss Hilzabeth Fonde, noted for home economies and child welfare work, files to run for Mobile County school commissioner. She joins four candidates including M J Vickers, B O Richard, and Henry A Morchheimer. She is the first woman to announce for office in Mobile County.
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Miss Fonde
Hilzabeth Fonde
Mobile County
D. R. Cobbs
Democratic Executive Committee
Miss'Fonde
Messrs
M. J. Vickers
Boo. Richard
Henry A. Morchheimer
State
American Ship Sinks U Boat After Two Hour Fight
A German submarine attacked the American steamer Lake Forecat about 1500 miles from Cape Henry during a return voyage to Europe. Captain O. R. Johnson led the defense and his ship is believed to have sunk the submarine after a two hour running battle. Details remain scarce and official word cites commendations for Johnson.
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Associated Press
New York
Cape Henry
Europe
O. R. Johnson
U. S. Navy Reserve
Navy
Senate Debates Wire Control Measure During War
Consideration began in the Senate today of a house resolution authorizing the president to direct telegraph, telephone, cable and radio wires during the war. Administration leaders predicted prompt adoption as debate was limited and the wartime issue took precedence over an emergency agricultural bill. telegrams from business groups and telegraphers urged hearings while several senators presented letters from operators detailing layoff due to union membership.
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Washington
Senate
House
Smith
Iterstate Commerce Comittee
Garston
Western Union
Kellogg
Minnesota
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Sherman
Mlinois
Pomerene
Ohio
Walsh
Montana
New Orleans Chosen by Advertising Men
San Francisco July 11 Delegates of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World ratified New Orleans as the 1919 convention city and elected officers. A contest over the presidency pitted William d Arcy of St Louis against Wilbur Nesbit of Chicago. An amendment to add a vice president for England was to be introduced.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
New Orleans
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
William'. d'Arcy
St. Louis
Wd Wilbur PD
Nesbit
Chieapres
England
Brook Exonerated of Reckless Driving
Morris Brook a grocer was cleared of reckless driving at the recorder's court arraignment. The charge stemmed from an incident near Dauphin and Franklin streets on Saturday June 29 when a child allegedly ran into the street. Evidence showed the child moved into the path of the car and the vehicle was traveling slowly.
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Morris Brook
Recorder’s Court
Dauphin
Franklin Streets
Brook
Box Car Damaged by Blaze at 1 30
A box car on a siding opposite the Gulf Department of the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company at Elmira Street was badly damaged by fire at 1 30. An alarm from Box One at the new fire station near the shipyards alerted responders.
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Gulf Department of the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
Elmira Street
Thurstey
Frenchmen Capture Town on the Marne Front
French forces tied their raiding actions to advance on the Marne front southwest of Soissons capturing Corye and the Corcy railway station and the St Paul chateau. The push extends toward Villers Bretonneux and the Retz forest as the Allies seek to straighten the line along a Aisne to south corridor. Prisoners are reported and American detachments operate around Thierry with activity near Corcy Longpont and Villers-Cotterets.
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Marne
Soissons
Capturand
Corcya
Chateau
St. Paul
South Town
Villera-Cot
Retz
Commplegne
Corey
Aisne
Petain
Alllea
Bund
Unday
Paris
Hat Thierry
Battle Line
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Corcy
Longpont
Villers-Cotterets
Chavigny
Thierry
New York Stock Exchange Suspends Three Members
Three members of a brokerage firm are suspended for one year by the New York Stock Exchange for engaging in an order flow deemed not genuine and contrary to the exchange’s mission. The action targets J Muir Edwin Muir and Charles A. dealers in odd lots stocks, authorities say.
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New Youk
J Muir
Edwin Muir
Charles A
New York
Rainreturns as thunderclouds lift heat wave across city
Mobile weather bulletin notes showers expected this afternoon and tonight into Friday after a warm spell. Temperatures reach a high near 88 degrees with a 78 degree reading earlier, ending the heat wave that preceded the rainfall.
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Mobile
Weather Bureau
Resignations Lead to Appointments in Local Service
Seymour Brannan and T. B. Overs resigned from their posts elsewhere. Chief C. Ker appointed Clarence to the regular roll, indicating changes in the site’s personnel and ongoing staffing adjustments.
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Seymour Brannan
T. B. Overs
C. Ker
Clarence
Palmoom Company Increases Capital Stock
The Palmoom Company of this city boosted its capital stock from $20,000 to $50,000 in a court hearing held Thursday. W. H. Mrouno serves as president of the company.
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Mrouno W.H
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