DRAIN ON POWERHOUSE: DARKENS ONE SECTION OF CITY
Mone Electric Company appeals for electricity conservation to keep shipyards running. General Manager T. K. Jackson cites heavy demand on Monday night forcing Dauphin street residential lights to be cut. Turbine repair delaying until next Monday after armature burned Sept 16. big armature half rewound Tuesday. Community cooperation noted with Mobile Light and Railroad Company.
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Mone Electric Company
T. K. Jackson
Jackson
Mobile Light and Railroad Company
Allied Forces Advance on Three Fronts in Balkans Palestine and France
Anglo Greek and Franco Greek units link to push Bulgarians at Smokvitsa and Bazarli as Allied forces press in Palestine and central Macedonia. Haig’s troops invest St Quenti, British cavalry seize Haifa and Acre, while Serbian and Italian forces advance near Monastir and Prilep.
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London
Smokvitsa
Vardar
Bazarli
Lake Doiran
Washington
Associated Press
Palestine
Macedonia
France
Entente
Allenby
Fiek Marshal Haig
St. Quenti
Vermand
Haifa
Acre
Jaffa
Jordan
Hedjas
New Zealand
Es Medge
Monastir
Eran
Prilep
Gradsko
Ukub
la Doiran
Ephir Bity Birian
Ellie
Ardar
Wesles
Uskub
Registrants Urged to Aid Draft Boards in Deferment Claims
Provost Marshal General Crowder urged registrants in a formal statement to help draft boards by indicating deferment status where eligible. He stressed speed is vital to classify the about 13 million registered on September 12 and noted a third party can make the claim when a registrant cannot.
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Washington
Crowder
Selective Service
German peace hopes tied to Wilson in exile centers
Berlin based Lokal Anzeiger reports a leftist fringe pushing for parliamentary reform of Germany and claims American influence shapes this movement. It cites defeatist centers at The Hague and Copenhagen with access to German officials and hints Wilson’s motives aim for Germany’s welfare, despite opposition from German editors.
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Amsterdam
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
The
Hague
von Hintze
Wilson
Copenhagen
Germany
America
Americans Face You Kaiser Tells Troops
London reports an address to Austrian officers at Briey near Metz in which Emperor William warned that Americans, who had promised France Alsace Lorraine, would be given the right answer at the right moment. He said heavy fighting lay ahead and spoke to wounded from German, Austrian, French and English forces.
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London
Briey
Metz
William
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Delive
2Nd
Brieg
Field Is
Peddler Attacks Woman Spur Manhunt in Mercer County
Posses in Mercer county search for a foreign peddler who yesterday assaulted the wife of a tobacco grower, beat her into insensibility, and clipped her hair. Bloodhounds failed to find a scent as foot and one horse back units sweep a wide area.
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Harrodsburg
Mercer County
Cotton prices steady at 31.50 on spot market
The Mobile Cotton Exchange quoted spot cotton at 31.50 on Tuesday, marking a rise from Monday. The market saw 22 bales sold as traders logged activity and price levels.
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Mobile Cotton Exchange
Forbidden German Women Barred From Military Zones
The order bans unnaturalized German women over 14 from entering or living within a half mile of camps or other prohibited military facilities after midnight October 5. U.S. marshals may issue special permits, and efforts will be made to minimize impact on law abiding women. The zones include forts, camps, arsenals, naval bases, munitions plants, and other army material facilities.
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Washington
Gregory
Toay
United States
Mobile Plans 10 Get Portion of Warrior Trade
The Joint Rivers and Harbor Committee of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Exchange discussed using a barge line to link Alabama coal fields with New Orleans. A special committee led by John T. Cochrane will coordinate with railroad administration officials to secure Mobile’s share of the anticipated trade. The barge operation date remains unset after prior postponements. Members present included Walter D. Beilingra Horace Turner and several chamber and harbor officials.
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Mobile
Railroad Administration
Alabama’ Coal Fields
New Orleans
Joint Rivers and Harbor Committee
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Exchange
John T. Cochrane
HB. Crocker
Warrior River
M. J.sanders
Henry Bardeleben
Walter D. Beilingra
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Horace Turner
Messrs. Cochrane
Albert P. Bush
8. P. Gaillard
Harbor Committee
Jail population at record low as venire summoned
Mobile county jail holds ten prisoners for the upcoming circuit court grand jury, the smallest jail population on record. Judge Safford Berney cites sharper prohibition effects and full employment as factors. Grand jury empanels October 7. veniremen listed include Harbin Unruh Vass Ramsey Hicks Rapier Car rie, and many others in the community.
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Mobile County
Safford Berney
James M. Harbin
George W. Unruh
Harry Vass
John L. Ramsey
James C. Hicks
Ees. G.rapier
Paul E. Carrie
Harry Edgar
George A
Steamer Apollo Adopts Winter Schedule Changes
The eastern shore steamer Apollo shifts to a winter timetable with 3 p.m. departures from Mobile on weekdays and 9 a.m. Sundays, returning from Fairhope at 4 36 p.m. Sundays, with 8 o'clock departure from Mobile. The note mentions S am ML H. n as master and hints at a past summer season.
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Apollo
Mobile
Fairhope
Pes Ping
Sam ML H. N
Apole
Thousands Pay Final Tribute to Cardinal Farley in New York
Funeral services for Cardinal John M. Farley drew officials from city, state and nation along with clergy from multiple faiths. More than 1,000 priests and thousands attended the four hour pontifical requiem at St Patrick's Cathedral, with the body laid in a crypt beside Cardinal McCloskey and Archbishops Hughes and Corrigan.
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New York
Cardinal Farley
Catholic Hierarchy of
St. Parick’s
Cardinal McCloskey
Hughes
Corrigan
Hickey
Rochester
John Farley
York
Hayes
War Policies of the Department of Labor Address in Mobile
Louis F. Post assistant secretary of labor will speak to business and labor in Mobile at 8 pm in the Cawthon hotel assembly room. He appeals for laboring men to attend and promises an important message for both skilled and unskilled workers. Post notes wartime loyalty of labor and praises yard workers for supporting the war effort.
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Secretary of Labor
Cawthon Hotel
Department of Labor
Louis F. Post
Post
Men Leave for Camp from Local Selective Service
Mobile will send 118 colored selectmen to Camp McClellan Anniston Ala Thursday morning over the Southern Railroad Local Board No 2 will send 65 men and the Local County Board 53 These are men who registered prior to September 17 and their going exhausts the old class Local Board No 2 men are asked to meet at Bethel Church on Franklin street between Monroe and Eslava streets at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening to receive instructions and for first roll call The county men will meet Wednesday at 3 a m at the Federal Building first floor Local Board No 2 sent 3 selectmen Monday afternoon to Jackson Barracks New Orleans for special limited service to fill a call for typists for government work The men who left are Jesse Leftwich John Lawretta and John that canine Board will oe Mr c P Hill of Texarkana Ark to Tulane University New Orleans midnight Mr Hill i sees the Miller County Board of Arkansas but was transferred recently
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Mobile
Camp McClellan
Anniston
Ala
Southern Railroad
Bethel Church
Franklin Street
Monroe
Eslava
Federal Building
Jackson Barracks
New Orleans
Jesse —— Leftwich
John Lawretta
John
Canine
C. P. Hill
Texarkana
Ark
Tulane University
Hill
Miller County Board
Arkansas
German Train Crash Kills 31 at Dresden Station
An express Berlin to Vienna train collided with another at Dresden station. Thirty-one people were killed and fifty nine injured according to an Allied Telegraph dispatch quoted by Agence de Presse. The collision occurred in Dresden on September 24.
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Associated Press
London
Berlin
Vienna
Dresden
Aan
Weather forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
The forecast from Washington reports fair conditions in Alabama and Mississippi tonight and Wednesday with warmer temperatures tonight.
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Rassciated Press
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Columbus Liberty Loan event planned for October 12
The Fourth Liberty Loan drive advisory committee in Mobile County will meet Wednesday at 5 PM in Parlor C Battle House to finalize plans for a Columbus Day celebration on October 12. Representatives of local and out of town concerns will help boost the city’s subscriptions and a talk by Rep Thomas Heflin is planned. Women’s groups outline house-to-house canvassing with captains and assistants, with headquarters in the Federal Building.
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Mobile County
Battle House
John T. Cochrane
Mobile
Thomas Heflin
Fifth Congressional District
N. E. Stallworth
J. Thomas Heflin
Washington, D. C
A. L. Staples
Liberty
Rhett Goode
Meanenti
Fourth Liberty Loan
Joan. Huarters
Federal Building
Negroes Postpone Service Flag Raising
The service flag raising at the Col ored Y M C A on Virginia street and Marys Lane was postponed due to the death of Lee Washington connected with several members. Visitors included Mayor Pat Lyons and his brother Thomas. The flag will be raised Sunday September 29 at 2 p.m. A musical entertainment will follow at the Y M C A that night.
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Virginia Street
Mary’s Lane
Lee Washington
Pat Lyons
Thomas Ene
Motor Corps Class Is Organized Here
At a Red Cross meeting held Tuesday morning at the Battle House a Motor Corps was formed with Mrs. W. A. Powell as chairman to organize automobile mechanics classes. Due to a misunderstanding the existing corps lacked representation and ten women were enrolled in three classes under Mr. L. G. Adams.
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Red Cross
Battle House
W. A. Powell
Motor Corps
L. G. Adams
Cotton States Oppose Price Fixing for Raw Cotton
A delegation from state agriculture officials and cotton marketing bodies opposed price fixing for raw cotton before the presidential cotton investigation committee. They urged keeping supply and demand laws in marketing, said they would accept war measure decisions, and proposed a consultative committee to work with the Page committee.
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Washington
Cotton States Official Advisory Marketing Committee
Presidential Cotton Investigation Committee
J. J. Brown
Georgia
War Industries Board
Senator Smith
South Carolina
Baruch
Southern governors oppose price fixing on cotton
Governor Charles Henderson of Alabama reports telegrams from Southern governors protesting President Wilson's proposed price for the cotton crop. They contend a price should be set at no less than thirty five cents a pound on a middling basis.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Charles Henderson
Senetoeny
Wilson
First House Closed Under Morality Law
The lodging houses run by A. Cumbie at the Hotel Royal and 2612 South Royal Street will close Wednesday by order of Mayor P. J. Lyons after his conviction for violating a morality ordinance. Chief P. J. OShughnessy notes Cumbie has been notified and will cease business after Tuesday following Monday's recorder’s court conviction for an insult to a young woman at the Hotel Royal. He paid a fine.
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A. Cumbie
Hotel Royal
South Royal Street
P. J. Lyons
Police Department
P. J. O’shughnessy
Cumbie
Recorder’s Court
Iene Royal Street
President approves DollarTon advance on iron prices
President Wilson formally approves the maximum prices set by the war industries board and ore producers for iron ore pig iron and iron and steel products. The adjustments run to December 31 with an advance of one ton on pig iron and 25 cents per ton on ore. Basing points are Pittsby and Birmingham with no change in steel prices.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
War Industries Board
Pittsby
Birmingham
Peace Note Failure Deplored By German Gazette
The Rhenish Westphalian Gazette deplores the Austrian peace note failure saying the motives were multiple but the refusal is unanimous. It notes the allied war cry is not of heart and emphasizes that offers of peace must come from us.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Austria
War Office Says French Take Forty Prisoners in Champagne
Paris dispatch reports two raids in the Perthes region and near the Butte de Mesnil road where French forces captured forty German prisoners. It notes artillery activity around St. Quentin and along the Aisne and Champagne fronts.
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Paris
St. .Quentin
Allette
Aisne
Champagne
Perthes
Butte de Mesnil
Enrollment figures show 4566 in white schools on opening day
On opening day of the 1918-18 session 4566 white students enrolled with full figures due Tuesday at the School Superintendent's office. Murphy cites a modest rise amid wartime labor trends. colored schools report 675 Owen 361 Cornell and 16 percent at Maysville, while four colored schools totaled 1,572 last year.
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Spaleet Ie
Cornells
Maysville Ie
Wear
Mobile
Barton Acade
F. L. Grove
Farkas
Reserve
Russell
Leinkauf
Yerby
Semmes
Oakdale
Old Shell Road
Clark
Tucker
Owen
Cornelll
Maysville
United States Steel Adopts Eight-Hour Day
United States Steel Corporation announced the adoption of an eight hour basic day for employees. Chairman Gary said the finance committee approved the move on recommendation of corporate and subsidiary heads. The open shop plan remains. Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company employs about 4,500 workers.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company
The
Tag Day for Italy Columbus Day Event
Italian Red Cross day coincides with Columbus birthday. Dr Angelo Festorraz asks the Women's War Service to conduct a tag day to raise funds for the Italian Red Cross committee. The group promises additional features for the public.
Gompers and Party Welcomed to Paris
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor and a party of ten arrived in Paris greeted cordially by government representatives and the federation. The Americans will attend a reception today and have luncheon at the foreign office tomorrow.
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Paris
Gapt
Samuel
American Federation Labor
Federation
Foreign Office
Turkey and Bulgaria Might Seek End With Allies
Paris dispatch notes that Turkey and Bulgaria would welcome peace with the Allies but the Entente expects a decisive defeat of their power first. The Matin says reversal of positions could occur if military reverses force cooperation with Germany.
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Paris
Turkey
Germany
Ententec
Chaplains to wear only one insignia cross
Washington announces War Department order prohibiting chaplains from bearing rank insignia except the cross. The policy, filed with public release today, follows Pershing general regulations and reflects student protests at the Camp Nergee School for Chaplains.
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Washington
War Department
School For Chaplains
Bolshevik Arrests German Who Kicks
Consul general at Moscow dispatch reports a German man kicked a Bolshevik official, triggering an arrest as tensions rise amid wartime hostilities.
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Moscow
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