Senators Oppose Draft Clause in Aviation Bill
Prominent opponents of conscription led the debate as the Senate took up a $640 million aviation fleet bill. Hardwick Vardaman Reed urged against aviation conscription arguing it is un-American, while Chamberlain postponed action and La Follette Gronna signaled opposition to draft terms.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Chamberlain
War Department
Hardwick
Vardaman
Reed
Georgia
Grmany
Sed
Our Brothers
Canada
la Follette
Gronna
Wisconsin
Tor Chamberlain
Military Officials Inspect Hampton Military Works
Secretary of War Baker and a party of army officials visited Hampton Roads to inspect nearby military establishments. They traveled down the Potomac by government vessel then continued by auto to Langley aviation field and experiment station to observe Lieutenant La Matrie of the French army and Captain Bartholf, commander of the local station, with Fortress Monroe on the afternoon agenda and a return planned for the following day.
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Associated Press
Baker
Hampton Roads
Potomac
Vesgel
Langley Aviation Field
la Matrie
Bartholf
Fortress Monroe
La Fayette Birthday Celebration Issued By Officials
A call for nationwide observance of La Fayette's birthday was issued by municipal leaders and a committee chaired by H. Choate. The meeting approved urging locations to organize celebrations and public events on the anniversary date.
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Associated Press
New York
Sph H. Choate
Germans Faint Hearted Warned by Ministers
Amsterdam reports General von Stein says many Germans have grown faint hearted. He urges confidence in Germany and personal example to curb anxiety. He also notes public trust in leadership amid war. Admiral von Tirpitz adds the U boat is effective but requires time.
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Amsterdam
von Stein
Anzeiger
Dusseldorf
German National Union
Germany
Admiral von Tirpitz
Dragheim Shot At His Shop In local city incident
Walter B Dragheim a 40 year old cabinet maker was shot at his 515 Dauphin street shop by Sam Brabner 482 St Emanuel street Brabner is in custody charged with assault with intent to murder Doctors say Dragheim has a fighting chance to live if he survives the next few days Brabner cites his wife as motive Dragheim says he never saw Brabner before and has no reason for the shooting Brabner and his wife are separated
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Walter B. Dragheim
Dauphin Street
Sam Brabner
St. Emanuel Street
Brabner
Dragheim
Brabner Fires Hit at Dragheim Then Flees to Car
Witnesses say Brabner went to Dragheim dyke armed and fired three shots with one striking Dragheim in the left side above the hip and passing through the intestines. Dragheim fled to Webb’s store where Carney sheltered him. Dragheim was later taken to the city hospital. Brabner fled toward Government street and boarded an inbound car at Lawrence street. Health officer Rayford pursued. Continued on Page Seven.
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Brabner
Dragheim
S. E. Webb
Thomas Carney
Webb
City Hospital
Government Street
Lawrence Street
D. R. Rayford
Health Department
Law
Negro Youth Pleads Guilty to Murder of His Mother
Adam George Fountain Jr., a fifteen year old Negro boy, pleaded guilty in the circuit court to killing his mother Alabama Fountain at Froh sinn Alabama. A jury recommended ten years in the state reformatory Mt Meigs. The case was noted as an instance of juvenile homicide with a possible gubernatorial transfer.
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Adam George Fountain, Jr
Alabama Fountain
N. R. Clarke
Mt. Meigs
Fountain
Frohsinn
Ala
War Secretary Approves Marginal Military Highway Plan
Secretary Newton D. Baker of the War Department endorses a marginal military highway proposed by the Chamber of Commerce and coastal and frontier state representatives. The approval was received in Mobile via a letter from Governor Charles Henderson, chairman of the highway conference.
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Newton D. Baker
War Department
United States
Chamber of Commerce
Mobile
War Secretary
Charles Henderson
Constabulary Plan Prompts Labor Fight in Denver
Special war council met today amid labor leaders opposition to a proposal to establish a 25 to guard and police unit for guard duty. The discussion, in Denver, centers on a bitter confrontation over this security force and its potential powers.
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Denver
Col
San Redken
Constabulary
Re Y
Mobile Granted Relief on Export Permits
Relief will be given to Mobile shippers immediately by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to expedite licenses for exports under the president's embargo. Congressman Oscar L. Gray's telegram to Secretary Clemens says exporters should wire goods details and destinations to speed permits, with relief contingent on fixed reporting rules.
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Congressman Gray
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
W. M. Clemens
Chamber of Commerce
Oscar L. Gray
Bureau Foreign Commerce
Gray
Organal of Commerce
Bureau Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Pew
Cobb to Represent Mobile at Meridian Hearing July 25
Traffic Manager R. G. Cobb of the Chamber of Commerce will represent Mobile shipping interests at Meridian Mississippi on July 25 as the Interstate Commerce Commission hears Meridian’s rate case seeking railroad freight rate equalization with Alabama points. The case names the Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railway Company Southern Railway System Alabama Great Southern Railway Company and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. Cobb called the Meridian bureau’s question potentially as important as the Shreveport rate case.
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R. G. Cobb
Chamber of Commerce
Meridian
Miss
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alabama
Mobile
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway Company
Southern Railway System
Alabama, Great Southern Railway
Citronelle Readies Dairy Instruction by Rail Demonstration
Citronelle residents will hear stock-raising and dairying lectures from a corps of experts aboard the Southern Railway demonstration car. Speakers include Luther D. Fuller, R. M. Maer, and Humphrey. The car has stopped at three Mobile County locations including Caden and Crichton, drawing large crowds.
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Southern Railway
Luther D. Fuller
Mississippi
The
Southern
R. M. Maer
M. and O
Humphrey
Alabama
Mobile County
Caden
Crichton
Major Guthrie Aids In Camp Arrangement At Hattsburg
Major W. L. Guthrie, United States engineer in charge at this port, assists in arranging the mobilization camp at Hat tiesburg Mississippi. He confers with Major Dalton on layout of the camp site as three thousand workmen prepare to arrive for cantonment construction. President Li Yuan Hung urges support for Feng Kwo Chang for presidency after resignation.
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W. L. Guthrie
United States
Hattiesburg
Miss
Dalton
Feng Kwo Chang
Associated Press
Tien Tsin
Li Yuan Huang
Weather Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
Forecast notes local thunder showers likely tonight and Thursday in Alabama. Mississippi expected fair in the north and west, with possible local thundershowers in the southeast tonight and Thursday.
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Associated Press
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Mallory Line Asked to Continue New York Service
The Chamber of Commerce bureau resolved to urge Mallory Steamship Company to maintain its New York to Mobile service. A wire to the New York head office will seek full consideration, followed by a petition from leading Mobile shippers and merchants. General agent B F DuBois confirmed a ten to fifteen day service between New York and Mobile.
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Chamber of Comme
Mallory Steamship Company
New York City
New York
Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
B. F. DuBois
Mallory Line
Mobile
Sanders Faces Trial Thursday in Hess Case
Albert Sanders the second negro tax chauffeur indicted for the sensational killing of Mrs Julia May Hess of Fulton Alabama on May 21 will appear in circuit court tomorrow morning to answer to the charge of murder in the first degree Sanders will enter a plea of not guilty claiming he was not with Fisher Brooks another negro taxi cab driver who admits the crime and is waiting the death penalty Brooks says Hess was killed after resisting and that he dragged her from the automobile cut her throat and threw the body into Chickasaw bogue water after promising to return money and a bank check
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Albert Sanders
Julia May Hess
Fulton
Ala
Sanders
Fisher Brooks
Ted
Brooks
Chickasa Bogue
Commissioner Wade Demands Chief Clerk Jones Resign
In Montgomery Alabama on July 18 commissioner Wade called for the resignation of Emmetttones, chief of the immigration and markets bureau, as tensions over the development fund escalated. Jones refused to resign, citing trust from the legislature, while Wade set August 1 as effective date.
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Wade
Jones
Montgomery
Ala
Agricultural Department
James A. Wade
Emmettones
Immigration and Markets Bureau
Henderson
W. L. Lancaster
Ben
Barry Urges Mobile County Support for New Fair Building
J F Barry secretary of the Gulf Coast Fair urged Mobile County to appropriate 5000 dollars for an agriculture building at the fairgrounds. He said the project would advance agricultural education and benefit county residents.
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J. F. Barry
Mobile
Barry
Oklahoma Governor to wear Palm Beach suit in Tulsa visit
Governor L Williams of Oklahoma will meet the Belgian mission in Tulsa in a Palm Beach suit. The reception committee agreed to skip formal dress for the governor in 100 degree heat, opting for summer attire.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
L. Williams
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Palm Beach
U S Ship Encounters German Submarines on Atlantic Voyage
An American steamship reported three encounters with German submarines on a round trip Atlantic voyage. A U boat was sighted broadside. gunners fired and it disappeared. On return, wireless warnings sent the liner to port for two days as destroyers chased subs. A torpedo wake narrowly missed and a gas buoy misidentified as a conning tower later exploded after 62 shots.
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Atlantic
Red Cross Plans for Front Supplies
Washington July 18 plans for handling extensive mercy supplies going abroad and the purchase of drugs ambulances blankets bandages sheets and other materials were discussed at a conference of Red Cross supply service directors. The group included H R Labouisse of New Orleans and Asa G Candler of Atlanta.
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Associated Press
Washington
Red Cross Supply Service
H. R. Labouisse
Orleans
Asa G. Candler
Atanta
Allied demand for surgical dressings fuels Red Cross effort
Washington July 18 1 800 Red Cross chapters nationwide respond to Eliot Wadeworth acting chairman by sending idle gauze bandages to the nearest collecting station as fast as possible for allied needs.
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Washington
Red Cross
Eliot Wadeworth
United States Takes Full Control Over French Railways
The United States transport service will manage French railroad lines from port bases to the front. Tracks are being laid and expanded. American engineer regiments will staff the roads and American locomotives will be used. Supplies will largely come from the United States and 30 000 tons of lumber will be imported monthly for ties and barracks.
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Ey Associated Press
Paris
United States Transport Service
United States
America
British Ship Saved by U S Destroyer
The British steamship Cranmore, believed sunk, was saved from destruction by an American destroyer while convoying through the danger zone. Crew members, arriving from England aboard an American ship, said the Cranmore reached an Irish port under her own steam after sailing from Baltimore on May 22 bound for Manchester.
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New York
Cranmore
England
Baltimore
Manchester
Officials Give Bond On Bribe Charges In Bradford
R F Ash of Richmond Indiana and Timothy E Glenn New Paris Ohio were jailed on bribe offers to Bradford Ohio city council members to secure a 25 year franchise and a ten year contract for the Bradford and Gettysburg Light and Power Company. Bond set at 5000 dollars each. Preliminary hearing scheduled for tomorrow. Prosecutors say bribes ranged from 100 to 300 dollars and none of the councilmen will be arrested.
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Associated Press
Piqua
Ohio
Bradford
Power and Light
R. F. Ash
Traction and Light
Richmond
Ind
Timothy E. Glenn
New Paris
Barnett
Kerr
Miami County
Ash
Glenn
Gettysburg
New German Chancellor Expected to Speak for Peace
Basel and Amsterdam dispatches on July 18 report Munich sources anticipate the new German chancellor Dr Michaelis will address the Reichstag and push a peace strategy aligned with the left’s proposals. Berlin rumors claim Michaelis may be a stopgap paving the way for a dictatorship with General Ludendorff in control.
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Associated Press
Basel
Swix
Neueste Neuchrichten
Munich
Michaelis
Amsterdam
Berlin
Michael
Ludendorff
Alabama farm loans total over 284 000 dollars
Five per cent and other farm loans under the one farm loan system are being issued by the federal board. As of July 15 the board had processed 432 farm loan applications with total loans averaging about 397 dollars per farmer. The Southern states show varied totals with Alabama at 284 550 dollars and Texas at 2 112 000 dollars among others.
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Washington
Federal Board
Private’s impatience to see active service costs him
John Bryant a private in the regular army says his eagerness for war led him to desert to reach Europe. He sailed on a tramp steamer to France, was sent back by the American consul, and arrived in steerage to answer for desertion. He plans to report to Governors Island.
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Associated Press
New York
John Bryant
Bryant
Governors Island
Europe
France
Coal storage probe after heavy apartment purchases
New York July 18 heavy coal purchases by apartment house owners triggered an investigation by John J. Murphy city commissioner of tenements to determine how widespread outdoor storage has become. He said only the amount needed to heat a building should be kept outside and noted that courts have allowed lease breaks when homes cannot be properly heated. The ruling is seen as a factor contributing to outdoor storage alongside fears of high prices.
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New York
John J. Murphy
Murphy
Fines on East Side Set by Pocketbooks Says Magistrate
Magistrate Fuchs of the Essex Market court orders petty offense fines measured by the offender’s purse. Fines of 25 and 50 cents replace larger penalties to accommodate those with limited means. The policy aims at fairness for residents unable to pay substantial sums.
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East Side
New York
Fuchs
Essex Market Court
German Counterattacks Reported Near Novica and Kaluez
Associated Press dispatch from Petrograd reports ongoing fighting in the region of Novica and Kaluez. Russian forces reportedly repelled a German attack but were later driven back by a counter thrust, with reports stating the war office confirmed continued operations in the eastern theater.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Novica
Kaluez
War Office
Heavy German Contingents Drawn Up to Meet Prussians
The Associated Press war summary reports General Korniloff's armies in Galicia held by heavy contingents rushing to the front. The move aims to strengthen Austrian defenses along the Lomnica and safeguard the Galician border. French forces at Verdun complete a successful drive beyond their original line near Hill 304 Avecourt wood. British fronts show pronounced artillery activity and heavy bombardment along Belgian lines.
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Associated Press
Washington
Korniloff
Galicia
Lomnica
Verdun
Verdi
Avecourt -Wood
Belgium
Heavy rains fail to halt march of First Alabama Infantry
Evergreen Alabama July 18 Associated Press reports the Alabama Infantry arrived yesterday and began a sixteen mile march to Garland despite heavy rain and mud. Soldiers received cigarettes and tobacco, officers held a dance, and a civic reception awaits them en route to France.
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First Alabama
Associated Press
I. Evergreen
Ala
Alabama Infantry
Garland
Man
France
Chance for Graf Removed from Bill by Amendment
Washington July 18 The Senate adopted 54 to 17 a substitute by Senator Pomerene of Ohio to the bill after four weeks of discussion and a vote on amendments. Pro government agents including the defense council advised seeking to execute government contracts.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Pomerene
Ohio
Tm T Defense Council
Catholics Attend Opening of 25th Novena at St. Jean Baptiste
In New York on July 18 devout Catholics attended the opening of the 25th novena at St. Jean Baptiste Church. A relic, a small forearm bone of Mary the mother of Jesus, was shown at the rail drawing the poor and rich alike.
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Associated Red Press
New York
Church of St. Jean Baptiste
W. W. Threaten Take Law Into Own Hands
Globe Ariz July 18 warning IWW would take the law into its own hands if attempts to deport the organization from the Globe district continued. A telegram to Governor Campbell cited by F M Ligue organizer and warned of possible deportations if violence or disorder occurred.
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Associated Press
GLOBE
Ariz
Industrial Workers of the World
Globe District
F. M. Ligue
de Campbell
Campbell
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