Mobile to Spend 400000 on Worker Housing Near Shipyards
A Mobile plan estimates spending over 400000 to build 174 five room cottages in the south and 40 upscale homes in Macy Place plus remodeling existing structures for temporary quarters. A survey committee led by Joseph Espalla will identify disused buildings and coordinate city school buildings for dormitories to house incoming shipyard workers.
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Mobile
Macy Place
J. C. Rich
County Council of Defense
Joseph Espalla
Messrs
W. P. Burgett
Joseph L. Hermann
Espalla
Board of
School Commissioners
Russell School
Jefferson Street
Augusta
Savannah
Augusta Street
Wilkinson
Dearborn
Franklin Street
Jett- Muths
Mobilians
Huns Attack Lorraine, American Guns Repel Assault
German infantry tried to pierce American lines west of the Moselle but was driven back by heavy American artillery and anti air fire. Observers said many Germans lay dead in the area while German air forces failed to locate targets due to mist and cloud. American aviators reported direct hits on German guns near Lachaussee and multiple emplacements were destroyed.
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Associated Press
Lorraine
Moselle
Vandieres
Lachaussee
British advance nears St Quentin amid fresh gains
British forces push toward St Quentin after breaking the Hindenburg line at Villeret Gouzeaucourt advancing two and a half to three miles on a fifteen mile front. Haig reports 1 5500 prisoners and severe fighting around Epehy Holnonwood and Hargicourt. French lines hold on Sancy plateau against German counterattacks near Soissons.
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London
Field Marshal
Haig
Epehy
Hindenburg
Villeret
Gouzeaucourt
le Verguier
Roussoy
Berthaucourt
Hargicourt
Holnonwood
St. Quentin
Paris
Sancy
Soissons
French War Office
Brewer Money Helps Buy Brisbane’s Paper
A. Mitchel Palmer says German brewers with the United States Brewers Association funded the purchase of a major newspaper fighting liquor traffic near the Capitol. Washington Times owner Arthur Brisbane admits borrowing 375000 dollars via brewer C W Feigenspan to buy the paper and still owes 256000 to Frank A Munsey.
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Associated Press
Washington
A. Mitchel Palmer
Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee
Harrisburg
United States
United States Brewers’ Association
Brisbane
the Times
C. W. Feigenspan
Federal Trust Company of
Newark
N. J
Munsey
Liberty Sing in Bienville Square During Play Week
Children in Mobile under Mrs. Carl Kiinge planned a Liberty Sing at Bienville Square at 4 pm Wednesday as part of Play Week. Private Daniels of the U S Guards, a former circus performer, would perform a Punch and Judy show, with soloists Jack Humbert Margaret McGovern and Gussie Jones performing listed songs.
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Carl Kiinge
Mobile
Bienville Square
Private Daniels
United States Guards
Jack Humbert
U. S. Buttons
Margaret McGovern
Gussie Jones
No Ban Placed on Soft Drink Makers
Washington reports that no restrictions are placed on soft drink manufacturers and none will be until an investigation shows it necessary for the war effort. Fuel Administrator Garfield stated inquiries by Senator Hitchcock prompted the answer.
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Associated Press
Washington
Garfield
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Meeting on motor trucks to ease railroad shortages
L. G. Adams, chairman of the Mobile Highway Transportation committee, calls a Wednesday 7:30 pm conference at the Cawthon hotel of wholesalers, truck dealers, and large shippers. The goal is to establish auto truck lines from Mobile to points on the Mobile and Ohio and other routes to relieve railcar load constraints and move war orders efficiently.
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Mobile
Ohio
Louisville
Nashville
Bay
Shoreline
L. G. Adams
Mobile Highway Transportation Committee
Council of National Defense
Cawthon Hotel
Adams
Lucedale
John Craft
Mobile County
Craft
TWO MEN KILLED WHEN CLAY CAVES NEAR CHICKASAW
A clay bank collapsed on the Telegraph road near Chickasaw injuring two and killing Oscar Armstrong and Perry Bullard. Ten workers and a foreman were present when the wall gave way at about 10 o clock Wednesday. Despite efforts by doctors and company officials the two men died instantly. The two injured received hospital care and the bodies were sent to Roche and Burke for burial.
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Chickasaw
Tlegraph
Oscar Armstrong
Mount Vernon
Perry Bullard
Prichard
Chickasaw Company
Roche & Burke
Navy Voluntary Induction Permitted Under Mobilization Order
Washington announces that Provost Marshal General Crowder will allow voluntary inductions of draft registrants into the navy and marine corps. Navy calls will go out this month with marine contingents soon after, and state quotas will allocate personnel to fill naval and marine needs. If voluntary inductions fall short, boards will forward additional men to meet quotas. mobilized personnel are counted toward state totals.
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Associated Press
Washington
Crowder
Navy
Marine Corps
Marine
Naval
Marine and Navy
National Army
Mer
Four Months More for Escape in County Court Case
Dan Gilmore, a Black man, received four additional months of hard labor after an inferior criminal court found him guilty of escaping while serving eleven months on the county road. He now faces thirteen months total. deputies captured him last Sunday.
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Dan Gilmore
Inferior Criminal Court
Gilmore
NY City Editor Indicted for First Degree Murder
Charles F. Chapin city editor of the New York Evening World was indicted for first degree murder after confessing to shooting his wife two days earlier and attempting suicide. The case centers on a fatal shooting within New York City.
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New York
Charles F. Chapin
New York Evening World
Questionnaires Mailed To 650 Registrants In Mobile
Mobile draft boards mailed questionnaires to 650 men aged 19 to 21 and 82 to 65 who registered on September 12. They have seven days to respond with assistance from legal advisory aids. City and county boards listed 12 070 total registrations, with City Board No 1 and No 2 exceeding estimates.
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Legal Advisory Board
D . Seice
Washington
County Board
City Board No. 1
City Board No
Tuscaloosa
Local Board No. 1
University of Alabama Call
Colored Selectmen
Locomotive Powers Mobile Yard as Power Shortage Bites
The Mobile Electric Company borrows a locomotive from Louisville and Nashville to drive a compressor and save 100 horsepower. Electric lights may stay off at night to conserve power while repairs to the 4000 horsepower turbine continue, and workers will stay on the big machine until fixed. General Manager T K Jackson urges continued conservation to keep shipyards running and asks the public to reduce daytime electricity use. An expert from General Electric is en route to assist.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Electric
Jackson
Mobile Shipbuilding Company
Mobile Electric Company
T.K. Jackson
General Electric Company
Sale of Liquor to Soldiers Aided by Sheriff Conviction
Hattie Sidney, a negro woman, was convicted in the inferior criminal court on Wednesday of selling liquor to soldiers. She was fined $500 and costs of 140 days and three months more in jail. Seven soldiers testified to purchases. The judge said he would set maximum penalties in similar cases. A separate case against George Pearson, roadhouse proprietor, for violating the prohibition law, was continued until September 21.
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Hattie Sidney
Inferior
George Pearson
Wounded and Sick Soldiers Returned to U S Posts
War department reports 884 sick and wounded American Expeditionary Forces soldiers landed in the United States in the week ended September 13, with 447 prior week. The arrivals highlight ongoing evacuation efforts as personnel ship homes.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
War Department
Mobile Spot Cotton Unchanged at 32.63
Mobile spot cotton middling remained at 32.63 as of Wednesday from the Mobile Cotton Exchange. The market stayed nominal with no sales and receipts recorded at 189.
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Mobile
Mobile Cotton Exchange
Weather forecast summary from Washington AP page
The Associated Press report from Washington notes a general forecast across Mississippi with regional variations. Unclear details remain due to transcription gaps and partial lines.
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Associated Press
Washington
German divisions wiped out on Lorraine front
American forces on the Lorraine front report twenty German infantry divisions, about one hundred eight battalions, disbanded to fill gaps from a year of fighting. The note adds women and boys are mobilized for auxiliary service with some five thousand women already called up and boys of fourteen used. Captured officers say Germany is exhausted and aims only to hold its current territories.
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Associated Press
Lorraine Front
Germany
Gasoline Stove Explosion Sparks Fire Response at 360 St Francis Street
An explosion of four gasoline stoves rocked a two story brick house at 360 St Francis Street on Tuesday afternoon, drawing Fire Companies Nos. 3 and 4. The damage was slight. The occupants were Mrs. T. B. Krehier and the property owner was James K. Glennon.
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St. Francis Street
New Aenial Ladder Company
T. KB. Krehier
James K. Glennon
Georg e Pearce Turner Dies on Wednesday
George Pearce Turner 42 a Mobile native died Thursday morning at his home 902 Marine street after a long illness. He was the son of James W. Turner and Lucy Bennett Turner and had four brothers Messia J G Robert L W L Turner in the family. An uncle George Bennett of Memphis and an aunt Miss Barbara Turner are also named in the notice.
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George Pearce Turner
Mobile
James W. Turner
Lucy Bennett Turner
Marine Street
Messia
J. G
Robert L
W. Li
F. Turner
George Bennett
Memphis
Tenn
Miss. Bar
War profits to yield big sums in bills
The House adopted the war revenue plan with no amendments, projecting about 3.2 billion dollars from excess profits taxes and 80 percent levy on corporate profits above 10 percent invested. The rates are largely unchanged, with exemptions and broader taxes on estate, transportation, oil, and alcohol shaping a sweeping revenue bill.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Kitchin
Ways and Means
Representative Alexander
Missouri
Merritt
Connecticut
Treasury
Hughes Surrenders Says He Shot Tillman
James Hughes a 40 year old Chickasaw worker surrendered at the county courthouse on Wednesday and admitted shooting Vander Tillman at Whistler on Tuesday night. He said Tillman broke up his home and that a second bullet wounded John Rawls in the arm and grazed his stomach. Tillman was taken to the city hospital while Rawls returned home.
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James Hughes
Vander Tillman
Whistler
Tillman
John Rawls
Hughes
Tilman
Rawls
Right of Minor to Marry Set Aside in Circuit Court
Registrar James Crane on the equity side set aside the application of Charles Everett Mahler for removal of disabilities of non-age. Mahler swore he had no parents or guardian and was relieved of non-age disabilities. Days later guardian Mrs. Wc. Culver showed Mahler had a guardian and thus no right to file. Mahler seeks exemption to marry and now must obtain guardian consent.
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James Crane
Equity
Circuit Court
Charles Everett Mahler
Mahler
Gurdian
Wc. Culver
John W. Davis Named U.S. Ambassador to Britain
President Wilson selects John W. Davis of West Virginia solicitor general to replace W. H. Page as ambassador to Great Britain. Davis has arrived in Switzerland to lead the American delegation at the Berne conference on German treatment and exchanges.
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Rykesogite
Washington
John W.W. Davis
West Virginia
United States
Wilson
W. H. Page
Great Britain
Davis
Switzerland
Bernemont
Bulgarian Resistance Weakens on Macedonian Front
London dispatch reports Bulgarian resistance on the Macedonian front weakening as rallied troops advance about ten miles. Fifty guns have been captured in the latest Saloni report.
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London
Saloni
Germans Aid Bulgars in Macedonia Front
German troops aid Bulgarian defense against allied attacks in Macedonia as British forces push from St Quentin toward Cambrai. Reports note Holnon and Maissy captured, with German positions dominating the St Quentin area. Allied drives toward Metz and the Moselle area see German artillery opposing Americans. Prisoners and guns captured in Sokol ridge advance as Foch’s offensive momentum grows.
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Old Line
Macedonia
Berlin
London
War Office
Hindenburg Line
Holnon
St.uentin
St. Quentin
Cambrai
Hindenburg
Mouevres
Scarpe
Oise
Metz
Moselle
Sokol
Turkey
Marin
Serbia
Are Paca
4 800 000 Men to Be Under Arms by July 1919
General March told the House Appropriations Committee the enlarged American military plan calls for 4 800 000 men under arms by next July after casualties and rejections. He said about 2 200 000 are now in service and 2 700 000 of new draft registrants will be called to the colors between now and July.
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Associated Press
Washington
Sept
March
House Appropriations Committee
Florists Declared Essential by General Crowder
Florists are affirmed as essential, not covered by work or fight orders. Goodbrad of Goodbrad Floral Co says Congressmen and Washington Rep W F Gude secured confirmation that greenhouses will remain active. Provost General Crowder stated florists have never been non essential and no order has been issued to remove them from business.
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G. 8. Goodbrad
Goodbrad Floral Company
Mr. Goodbrad
W. F. Gude
Washington
Southern Association of Florists
Gude
Marshal Crowder
Goodbrad
Crowder
Mobilian Wounded in Canadian Army
E A Mc Sweeney of Mobile Alabama and J Booth of Marshallville Georgia are named among today's Canadian casualty list. Ervin X McSweeney son of T J McSweeney the British consul at the port is reported wounded. He was an auto mechanic for Mobile Auto Company before joining the Canadian forces over a year ago.
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Ottawa
Ont
E. A. McSweeney
Mobile
Ala
J. Booth
Marshallville
Ervin Xx. McSweeney
T. J. McSweeney
Mobile Auto Company
Mac
Favorable Cotton Weather Reported Across Belt
The national weather and crop bureau reports a week of normal temperatures and limited rain improving cotton picking conditions. Showers occurred in Oklahoma and a few local areas while the belt states including Georgia and Arkansas show satisfactory crop conditions.
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Washington
Oklahoma
National Weather and Crop Bureau
Georgia
Arkansas
Without Bail for Robbery Charge in Circuit Court
Worth Abrams, a Black man, was held without bail by the recorder in circuit court on Wednesday for robbery. Moses Bell testified Abrams held him up on September 7 at gunpoint, stealing $30, and Abrams allegedly shot himself in the arm with the pistol used in the robbery. Abrams appeared with his arm bandaged.
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Worth Abrams
Moses Bell
Abrams
Tax Collection Costs Rise With Record Revenues
Washington reports the Internal Revenue Service spent about 12 million dollars to collect taxes totaling 3.694 billion in the last fiscal year ending June. Commissioner Roper notes efficiency but highlights the burden of administration on federal revenue.
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Washington
Revenean Cosioner’ Roper Eee Newi
McAdoo
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The
Alabama
Leternoon
Marne
Brewer Money
Children IN Square
Liberty Sing
Council of Defense Committee
Man
Mt. Vernon
Perry Allard
Indict
Electric Company
Geo. Pearce Turner
U. S
England
Foch
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