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1 SVNDAT, OCTOBER ZOIMS THlRTEItt HTE BIRMINGHAM NEWS, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. j1 The subscription prlos f. Two Influenza Fighters Jailed And Their Booze Goes to Sich Indoor Sports For th Interned During the Influenza Epidemic HIGHERTHAN EVER Soldiers Being Told They Must Fight Hard to Save Homes. The Birmingham New bjr Carrier In Greater Birmingham, Beeeemer, Tutcalooefc Gadsden, Sheffield, Annleton, Albany, Decatur, Talladega, and all points served by Car. rter la now Oglethorpe Squad Trounced to Tune of 48 to 0 By Donahues Men.

Reports of Proposed Construction of By-Product Ovens Are Circulated. Effort on the part of Robert Merrill and E. C. Lawson to help their fellow men have caused them no end of trouble, according to Commissioner JCen-neth Chylton, who issued Federal warrants for the two men Saturday afternoon after they had earlier in the day been arrested by Birmingham detectives 1 hs two men are charged by the polite with having attempted to bring Into Birmingham twenty-five gAilon of moonshine whisky alUged to be for ue of persons desirous of fighting the influenza epidemic, but the ofrhers failed to be mved by such altiuistU actions and after making the arrest turned Merrill and his driver of the whisky car" over to Federal officers. According to Commissioner Charlton the transportation of the liquor was against a well known Federal law that requites a tax to be paid before whisky can be moved from where it is manufactured.

It was reported that the whisky reached influenza patients, finally, being claimed that it was turned over to government officials and shipped to Sheffield. It Is said that all contraband liquors will be turned over to doctors for use of patients Just recovering from influenza to prevent them taking pneumonia, which Is said to be causing most of the deaths attributed to influenza Merrill and Lawson have made bond 2a PER WEEK for the Daily and Sunday. Flivvers and Limousines Will Preside as Gasless Ban Lifts the continent over There are some little bits of Information about the inventors of these games, however, which are not generally, known Rook. Frinstance. Right funny how Rook got its name.

Rpbert Oroaim and Ophelia Kuestera were married. Life was pretty dull in the little town in which they lived. The Methodists gave an Ice cream supper on the first Tuesday night of every month. The Baptists gave an Ice cream supper on the second Tuesday night In every month. The Presbyterians gave an Ice cream supper on the third Tuesday night of every month end the three churches gave a union Ice cream supper on the fourth Tuesday night In every month This left twenty -six nights each month on the of Robert and Ophelia.

They got together, invented a card game and decided to call it after the first letters in each of their names Hence Kook was introduced to the world. The fellow who Invented Hinrh was also working on an index to the dictionary when his keepers arrived on tha scene to carry him back. There was really never anything much to F'orty-two, but a Congressional Committee investigated, reported bark to the House that it wras harmless, and it was allowed full sway in every home Everyone has been so busily engrossed in trying to make the world safe for democracy that these three games were almost forgotten Brush up on your Book, practice forty-twoing foi awhile, and give Flinch the up-and- down once again Youll either have to do that or Mow a safe for some excite-ittunt To do the latter would be unpatriotic, as Unde ham needs all his nitro-glycerine in making war on the Hun. NO. S-rFLINCH, ROOK AND '42.

11 BY HENRY C. VANCE. For two weeks longer families must stick to the fireside at nights, for there is no place in the world to go, and very little acommodation to get there If there was Health officers have ruled with the City Oommlsh help that Birmingham is to be closed tight for two more weeks so far as public gatherings are concerned. A rude person suggested the other day that I was getting something out of the manufacturers for re-introducing games to entertain with these dull nights Nay, not so. I never received any tb.

ng out of any game in my life. Fact is. I have always been the fall guy In any contebt Today 1 will attempt to help plan entertainments for the coming nights of this week. Of course games should be taboo on Sundays and Sunday nights Even Drop the Handkerchief is not ranctioned of a Sunday by the pious But, now, for a few tips on a nice, qu.et, innocent game, which even the children can play without fear of losus of life, limh or missionary money. Go bak with me for a few years Well have to walk -for the cars do not run regularly enough Flinch.

I have played flinch by the hour without film mug I have also forty-twoed' with great fortitude. And, one time vas a willing rookie at rook. There are three games for you. They will help while away the duil evenings of the coming week Innocent to the core holeaome Is omi uoubt Not ns nter-as the pa.st.nus of Monte ario lerhaps, but the bank-roll has a far blowing of keeping intact with ioi Pinch or foitv-tvvo being piuved No use for me to elaborate on this trio of games. They have been played PER WEEK for tha Daily Edition only.

SINGLE COPIES WILL BE 80 LO AT 3c Sunday AUBURN. Oct II Special Auburns Inexperienced team opened it football season by defeating Oglethorpe by 58 to 0 Saturday. Auburn played better than was expected, while the Petrel played a plucky and spirited game all the way through, holding the Auburn Reserve on the one-foot line near the end of the game Hcott and Starling did most of Auburn ground gaining, with Stubbs, Howard and McDonald not far behind Gordy and Bidder did the best work for Auburn on the line. Captain Nichols made a first das lender for his team, doing good work all the time Turk, at iz.Lt guard, also allowed well, ua did Harrison and Turner, at halfback. Lemon, at center, passed accurately.

In fact, both team played a very fair article of bull fur the time of the year There waa no fumbling In spite of a wet ball The line, however, will have to be very much Improved In defensive Auhutns lu xt gun is with Camp Greene Nummary Referee, Tiche-nor, umpire. Lieutenant John, head linesman, Lieutenant Annlng. quarter. Auburn. 12, Oglethorpe, 0, Auburn, 13 Oglethorpe, Aub irn 19, Oglethorpe.

0, Auburn, 14, Oglethorpe, 0 Rutgers Infantry Bests Pelham Bay NEW BRUNSWICK. N. OcL 19 Lieutenant Torpayz Rutger Infantry defeated the Pelham Bay Naval Reserve eleven at football here this after. 7 to 0 Neuschafer recovered a fumble by the Tara and the soldier started a march toward Pelhams goal, which gave BacktO, who starred for Rutgers, a touchdown lie then kicked goal The game was extremely rough and thrre were many penalties on both BY HENRY VANCE. Pr Garfield decid'd to eschew gas-less' Bundavs As a conxequem many troud little flivwr.

afur champing at the carbureter fm the hut four or five Kundas ami pm lug restlessly In tho gtrsge will bud forth in all their glory today i haucts are the atrts will be clogged with ga-eathig. back-firing rip-roAring, tattie-hanginr motor cars as they rjxed to ami and von, and pro and con over asphalt, today 'i he ban has been lifted Is perfet tlv prtni-iMe to run that motor car Mindt ih long as the owner rhbir And iH a cinch bet tbit all of BiruunKh on In going to take advantage of ihi opjKitumty even though the men urv skids down tow irdx freezing There 1ui a chance of let ping that motor cir bitched thlA J-undiy One Lunged Car. The smati-Mhairied man will get his little cme-lunged motor out and sit proudly at the wheel as he steers the machine over the paved streets i Limousines, roadsters, runabouts, and all will be out for an airing today and the pool ped Irian will have to Jump for ills life once more Us going to be a gala day for the meaning Tin Lizzie Tribe No Special penults from the fuel board, no fake placards that the car is on es- sential business, no alibis that youvei been to a funeral are itec'ft! Ail I you gotta do Is to get out the petrol char'ot, order five cm inns crank her up and unav jiu go vc the I ifluenra epidemic dosen bar motoring and the Magic Ity man is going in for one rul day of pleasure today V. hazzat a flat tlrrs Oh, well, In life time Jack lur up bud, I gott i extra the nthe back The pmind of fllv and let fliv Is back with uh once again. i gambled when she knew her ships were Socialists in Germany Fight Both The Pan-Germans and Bolsheviki to be lost in the Rpantsh-American set- 1 tlement.

The argument Is now: Wht Germany make the same venture? G. M. Morrow Made Lieutenant Colonel 1 George Morrow, President of i the Birmingham Machine ft Foundry1 Company, is now a full-fledged Lieu tenant Colonel He was notified by the War Department Saturday that his commission was on the way to him and that he would be assigned to second command of a regiment of artillery 4 national army. ('olonel Morrow was graduated at Point and served In the United -States army several years before he Ni resigned to engage in the manufacture Ing business He is not advised when he will be called to active duty, but savs he is ready to respond promptly Americans Largely Responsible For Smashing Han Armies Bach BY CABL GROAT 1 tovn mile of the line from the coast International New Serviae Staff Correspondent, to the Mei'e, a front cf over 250 miles WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 American' Hun Retreat Rapid.

though not ghtlnjt the Belgian' Wlue our Atnerlian arinv Is fight-battle. are largely reaponetble )r ua uay across the Krlemh.idc line 6 on the wooded Inis between the Ar- smashing the Germans back across that onne arid the Meutt, In spite of strong despoiled terntorv, en route to his home owentation of enemy divisions, the, (ntmv ho retreated rapidly from the United States pressure between the Gobain highland, the Chemin-des- Aigonne and the an 1 Imted Tames, find the Champagne as far as Slabs allied pressure up to the Bunding line, relinquishing 8J0 aie the duett causes of the haste withjuaie miles in that sector in four whuh the Boohe had been hauling him- jdava. This developed a-harp salient self homeward He is making a dah southeast of Nt Quentin at now to get to the ne of the bottle the foik of lh(k Je and Serro vers. the German frontier before the Amer-j Renewed attacks bv British, Amerl-jean pressure on the southern pan of can and French forces south of Le the west front I'huts off his rail line inl'tleau 01 Thursday forced the enemy that region bat from his iosiuons on the east He abandoned 8o square mdes -Sellee to th da" i i. Ker of an advance on Aulnoje and mak- terntorv In four days thi week.

Gen The Woodward Iron Company Is contemplating extensive development during the coming twelve months, according to rumor in Industrial circle and especially in Bessemer. The taking on of H. IL Urban, superintendent of the by-product plant of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at Fairfield, as Genera! Manager, ts declared most significant, together with the fact that the big by-product plant at Woodward is undergoing extensive improvements. That additional battery of pro-product coke ovens is under consideration Is heard, leports having it that the Compnnv, when It can see Hs wav clear to get material and labor, will construct the same number of Wilputte ovens, the Otton patent, as last added to the plant, some 60 in all Coke is one of the principal commodities of the iron nuking company, and the output at the ovens alreadv tinder operation is said to he under the needs of the corporation i or io rahie repairing is now going on at the by-product' plant snd the full work wiM be complet'd bv the fust of the coming vtai. Sew mints opened up in Possum val- on loist Creek, shortly are to be producing coal while the new ore mines near Reeders, where 100 men are at work sinking a shaft, will before long he ready for steady work The Longyear Companv has the work in hand at the ore mines.

White the erection of a steel mill I held practically out of the question now, there is a vague report that the Woodward Iron Comparv proposes some extern ive development and that on the turn of the year a program of activities to be undertaken will be given out the new President. Frank Crockard The Company has a ufikini supplv of coal to umiertak uuditional coke ovens, but it will take manv priority orders foT matenul with which to con-slnict the addit on to the oke ovens I and more trouhh lo th necessary inboi with which to do the work. proinent maFdead Auburn Graduate Dies of Influenza at Greenville Home. GREENVILLE Oct 19 Spe-i cirl Werle Peagler one of Green-1 ville most prominent voung men. is dead from influenza, the nrat fitahtv reported since the disease made hs appearance here He was assistant cashier of the Greenvi'le Hank and was a graduate of the Alabama lol technic Institute at Auburn He is surviv'd bv his fe, rar-ents.

Major and Mis TV IVagler of this citv, and two sMers, Mrs Bolling, Jr, and Mi Mvra Peagler, all of this citv Funeral announcements have not yet been made I I LLE RSTOJE ET ERE War Problem to be Discussed by Many Representatives, of the Southeastern Millers A-somI non will meet in Birmingham tris for conMderatton of tonditions and pro-peits of the future John M'Lcmore Jecrctarv of the Association, wnh hindquarters ih-ville, has rent nT'e to manv mill rs throughout the comitr. in uferei.ee to the meeting and a full attendance is looked for. Inasmuch as the corn millers, as well as the wheat millers are interested in probablv legislation or ruling by the Government of the mar future, all discussion right now Is oi great importance Report has it that the Government in announcing the mixture of SO per cent wheat flour with 20 per cent of corn products, will make it compulsory on the millers to make the combination nt the nulls so that the 't ictory flour will be sure of the proportions out. when the call comes era! March offk tally stated todav Hi hold on Hindenburg line li is ib fi mg the Oise-Serre salient longer and mu rower so that the enemy gave up ST 1INOOLH ET1E ((uprrltfht itl lj Nw urX World By lo 1U tttrmUitfbam hwa WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST AUMy, CKt 1 1 Thors i no longer even the fhtntent vestigs of doubt lingering In ths minds of tbs German olriurl opposing us between Grand l-io and the Meu as to measure of pai, Nevertheless, they ars fighting more stubbornly and more savagely than ever betore. 1 had one opportunity today to as-eUain though an eximlnation of the imports of prisoners statements an ex plttimtlon of this seeming anachronism From these rejorts tt evident two factors are Influencing the rank and lile tn the maintenance of a morale higher than it no been at any time tee last July In the first place the German eoldVra have been taught to believe that the larder they fight now, with the end of the war In sight, the better will la peace term 4 acronhd to them the Allies In the second plate be believes that unless he reDT -1 renuoulv.

he prohibit will be mothered to ill In math the final erlea of attack, Untie liun hed by the allnd troo with a view of ompletlng the rletruition the Raiser armies. It has been drummed Into the German troops that their adversaries are ready to turn them into dead men and their country Into a desert on the slightest pretext, and that to avoid utter annihilation they must fight on for a few weeks more, until an armistice is actually signed The follow It summary of the in formation obtained from prisoners In the last week br our bore Is Illuminating as nhowincr that the enemy feeling rune Is thnt the situ ion cUarlv hopeless and that the test that can be ne I to avc Oi r-itisnv from devastation THESE PRtSONbRS INDICATE THAT THEIR PRESENT RESISTANCE IS ENTIRELY DUE TO THE BELIEF THAT THFY MUST HOLD BACK THF ALLIES FROM THE GERMAN BORDER AT ALL COSTS. SINCE THEY BELIEVE THAT ONCE THE ALLIED TROOPS ARE IN GERMANY. THERE WILL BE A GENERAL OE. VASTATION OF THEIR TERRITORY.

AT HOME THEY SAY, ANY PEACE TERMS EVEN THE CESSION OF ALSACE-LORRAINE WOULD BE WELCOME. The feePng has become Int ns-against the military party that thre 1 axe been ri'aortiira bordering on mutiny the ear ion towns among the tron trder'd to the front so wrioin has the situ itlnn become that soldiers in ihtse towns have ben deprived of their terns until they rea the forward tone, where they can be controlled The rumors that peace actually ha teen declated are prevalent behind i Geiman front The prisoners from i le Guards division bagged near rand fTe sad they bad been ln-mrmed that hontllltlea were to half paat 8 chirk la-t Monday afer-i oon They wers painfully surprised to find tbemaelxes In the thick of an merican afack at that hour" On Oct 12 the rcmpan commanders 2nd division told their that all the territory occupied by Germany in the HIa eounrirs would he evacuated within 45 days and that the pioneer lots In the rear were already being Uared In preparation for the evacuation 'I he prisoners from this division testl- 1 ted that on the night of Oct 13-14 their fficera informed them that the German line from Belgium to Switzerland would be withdrawn eighteen miles at midnight that night that the allies would lenmln wher tiey were and that the ormmtfre would come Into effect immediately Many of the men waited for the hour to arrive, with their pack on their backs, and were keenly disappointed -hen the orders to retreat failed to omr and the AmefUsn shells continued bursting among them Mist of the jiHomr seem to take It for granted In it the Kaiser will abdicate But a I rulaii officer whom eiw at divisional htariquarler this morning insistMl that the German peo-I le would nevr abandon their monarch who, he added, was more beloved now ihm e.r because he av deemed to be he of the pae, move New York Butchers Pledge Good Faith By International If ewe Service NEW YORK, Oct 19 As a pledge i of good faith 74 butchers who had bet found guiitv on chargts of profiteering. i l.tve the Federal Food Board hecks, livable to the Bed Crons Nixty-twol oi the checks W'ere for $inft each and two for In addition the butchers agreed to refund the ovcnhaige to their customers. One hundred and seventy butchers will appear fore the board on Mon-Jh on charges of pioflteering. tel Ami hiH retiat si, "Ured i ri nnpf ha ioi ward the northeast Warned Against Optimism.

senators visiting the War Depart Property Owners Are Asked To Pay Taxes While the tax on real estate and personal property does not become delinquent until the last of the last month of the year, it behooves all property owners to come forward at once and pay what they owe in order to escape the crowds that will be noticed later on The several assistants in the Tax Collectors office at the Courthouse are now practically doing nothing Property owners are advised to come for vvaid and pay their taxes as soon a podble, so as to avoid the big crowd that will be seen in December Crossties Needed By the Railroads Addressing persons who can produ i or aid In the production of crosstieb, the government being in need of cross- tie for thousands of miles, A. C. Mann purchasing agent, headquarters In Chi cago, for the Illinois Central Railroaft and the Yazoo ft Mississippi Valley Railroad, is asking for ties The state- ment is made that the highest priced, ever paid for crossties is now being aJt lowed and producers ate being called upon to provide the largest posslbo number The need for ties, it la an nounced. Is urgent, and the maximum 4 cutting 4s asked bv the Railroad Ad ministration offic'als Belgium wa9 such that the imt frontier has nowr been reached by the British. while the But he is reported preparing to quit Brussels about SO miles nnt today said they were told not to east of the present line he too optimistic about a complete col- Trfbute to Yank Power.

lapse of the German mihtaiv machine. The Bo he retreat Is another tribute There is still considerable fight left, it to Ament an manpower and effective-j was said, and this will become more ness Because of the meiue to the evident as tiie em mv nears his home mam rail lines the Hot he is getting outdefnse lines of Belgiun while the going i good 1 The Senators said they learnsd that And he has made a stubborn resist- Get manv hdd massed a quarter million ano in the Argonre-Meue region to Hoops Ik tween the Argonne and th keep off the pei "latent lanks as far as Meuse realizing that it is necessary to possible wh.le he affected the BJg an of a stubborn resistance to the Amer-tnaneuver. pans if the chief trunk line supplying Were it no for the Amen dis the wet iront is to be guarded at this Geiman would not have so distimt i time hrodt to hi am arteries hading fiom; In ulentally, military authorities fore-tfermanv to the west line But the in- the chance of making new ports -latent pressure of the Americans, aiibd along the Belgian coast, easing the by the French and Fritibn, constitute1 strain on French ports, shortening troop a menace that the Bo he haul, and also providing new bases for could not do otherwise than scurrv fm anti-submarine Work cover While the Belgian movement While the army is claiming the main has advanced further, more retirement attention for the moment, the navy Is in the Meuse and Moselle valley route.1 Keeping pace with the situation, mav be expected Naval officers just back from ver- Last SatunHv when I spoke to vou, seas there is speculation abroad as said General March todav, the enemv to whetler the Germans will risk was conducting a retreat along a 60- hi fleet in a last desperate gamble, mile front beta tan the Oise and Ar- especially as lie nnv ftgure that he will gonue During the wek this retreat! have to give up ships as well as tern- htts extended so as to effect all but fif- I tory in the final settlements. Fpain taken hostages to check further out-break. Todav Iwue of the VorwHerts spread over the front page a warning to workingmen.

whi(h Is significance retni ul-ful of the eirlv phase of the Russian revolution It show that the mw government fars both the Pan -German re-actionarifs and the LoWheviki, and conf rms the imj esion conveved bv the fj, rrmin pre.g it the last ftw davs that th moderate Liberals, who are behind the new government, aie bin ere in their expressions of tear that extreme ntum of some sort wnl follow continuous military defeat Vorwaert. which, as ie organ of the majority Socialists, has come warmlv to the support of the new government. Fas an itorial exptainu a the modciat' fatalist see salvation for tier nan In the Maxin dun mine-m The mlmtra is all on an annistue and on democratization aod the paper savs warnlnglv Lark forces of counter revolution are at work aiilnst this peaofui revolution in a caution against reactionaries and tio against the Holsheviki the editorial tontinues Pan-German, Chauvinist LnatUs, profiteer' and irresponsible amarilia have with metida ious posters aid high sounding natiol inlstlc palaver enveloped the errran people in a lord of Pes Thev have now reach'd ne summit of their infamy bv tr In turn anger tne government. Pan-German have become to bitter that possibly they may Induce agrarian sources to increase the difficulties of the new government by withholding foodstuffs." Healing with the other tvpe of counter revolutionist the Vorwaerts warns workingmen against Bolsheviki phrases lomandlng revolution, made by Irresponsible perfepns. who hope to atir up the working people to purposeless strikes and demonstrations against the governim nt thereby making peace and democratization more difficult, and alo therein uHrtlr.g the Pan-German reactionaries It bvg the working classes to refuse to become the tool of counter revolutions or of imperial advocate of force Renewal of Germany, It as, cannot come through the creation of Bol-shevikl chaos or by civil war.

which would bring stress, disaster and add stream of blood to the blood-streaming front are on the road to peace and democracy AU revolt against the government can only serve the cause of counter revolution TWO AUTOMOBILESSTOLEN Police Saturday Night Look For Two Missing Fords. Saturday night police were looking for two Ford cars ported stolen from their parking place in Birmingham during the last 24 hour Jesse W. McKinstrev, of the Flmmons Hardware Company, residing at the Melton hotel, reported that his Ford was stolen from in front of the Birmingham Athletic Club house James ance of Quinton, reported that hla Ford was stolen lioin First Avenue and Twentieth Mtett RAUST fNlirB ETT R. Pr B. Austin i reported better after an illnet at South Hghlands BT ARVO BOSCH TTEUBOT lOrtirrii, i If trk By, I at.

li 1 1 It rmlughum tOITAHVirN. ot 19 The Vor-wacrti eav the plv of President Wilson to the piae overtures by Germany wac the subject of deta led clls usslon In the War fWM i In LerPn on Thursday Prince iximilian, the chancellor presiding State nt were received from the milllarv comnwndi I beveral dnvs nwv et.tpe before anoth-1 er note may le romp'eted Wemlers of the Btindi srath have he a consulted In the matte- The meeting of the Reichstag was potponed. because the note was not reidv Grmai lave en so numbed bv the catastropheA tumbling nltout their heads that thev arc apptienily unable to reart to ustru revolution although they acknowledge that it puts Vastria-tlungai out of tf.e war ami turns the p.las and Czech peoples agaitiAt the Central Powers. The Hiniburrftr Fremdenhlatt acknowledges that Kmperor Carl, of Austria remains only as supervising director of the new Federated Mate, and casts tonidrnble doubt on tin willingness of the states to federate Piffaultns ara so many, tha newspaper iv that it finds in the Fimperor proclamation no solution of the troubles, but merlv a promise of somtion It savs the mperor Is unburdening himself of tradition and Is elding wltn Ifesld nt Wilaon. 'Connection te tween tha new federa-j tton and the hope of peace Is easily seen" the Fremdenblstt adds, resigning itst-if to the impending break-up of the utmn mptre.

The Czechs and Ukrainians wish no Quids post In Vienna, they count on outside forces to help them construct Independent states Nor will I the Poles let their future be decided in Vienna. Emperor Carl aaya he will not try to prevent their In- dependence The editorial ends by aaying the Germans view with sorrow the passing of the Austrian empire. 'i he ienna correspondent of the Voa-shhe telegraphs that the Czechs South Sins and Ikraimans have politelv refused to meet with Baron Von Hussar to discusA the formation of a fed ration, at.d that the Poles are counting on Waixaw foi orientation old historical Austria is gone. sus tho orwaertA, now the administration I aptr Will a new Austria, follow 9 Tho Poles are free to leave Austria, but ptohaps the ufrian rolih sentiment in not dead The fa that thev are no longer bound to the house of Haps-burg may furnish the best argument for a Polish king from tbit house The Cze hs and South Slavs are taking new atitufhs of reserve German Austria inut ban on Grmanv hhould a new economic union prove impracticable the Czechs and Slava wdl certainly demand the formation of separate state If the Hungarians do not find a basis for rapid agreement with tne Fntente It 1a incomprehensible how thev can resist the demands of tho Czeihs and Slav a who are supported by President iNon The Vossische admits that Poland It seething it has a dispatch telling briefly of the killing of German gendarmes In Warsaw. There is revolt In Ciechanow, where the Germans have Imposed penalties and You Can Still Buy On a Last ears Basis-- even though cost of material and workmanship has gone up Reilly Is Victim of Pneumonia Attack) GRLrwS, Oct 9 hunid 1 II UflUv, former baball plavrr with tho outhern Aocmtlon.

deJ lure tod tv of pneumonia. Keihv plived with tho New Orleans team in 115 and with Atlanta in IMu and 1917 Doctor Treats 300 Without Loss of Life One Birmingham doctor ha treated 200 cas of influenza without the loss bv death of a patient, according to Pr A Barrett President of the) Birmingham rny i'ommlraton ThN information wa given at a conference of Birmingham doctors and was iearrTed Dr Barrett at the inerting -till maintaining the status of a pin although he has been pnpicx far time and doe not praetbe inenmne except upon himejf Dr Barret tontlv was 111 and from all ovniptome nad influerza He is etill cm ful lest he take pneumonia, which1 le eavx aoompantefl influenza and is mui more dangerous. Dr Barrett could not he prevailed upon to give the dot tor's name because It is against medical ethics to advertise and explained that the physician would not be pleased at the publicity since most other Blrmlngbafh doctors are uing the same methods of treatment It was pointed out that most deaths occur among persons of niddle age and this wa explained by Dr Barrett theory that this class of persons know the are vigorous and imagine they cau go about their usual business without remaining at borne When a take the his parents take care of him and make him stay in bed until he ha passed the dangerous stage after all fever has left, said Dr Barrett. The older persons know from experience that thev mut be very careful, hut the middle I are strong and go ahead resulting in more deaths in these ages Hoover To Assist Fruit Dehydration! B- I et'ntiond Hews Service. WASHINGTON.

Oct. 19 The Food Administration will co-operate with the Department of Agriculture in a campaign to forward the dehydration of fruP and vegetables among the people, it wa announced tontght by Food Administrator Hoover Bou Sweet has been appointed to take charge of th work in the departrmnt He has been dire ting this phaso of food conservation, but under the appropriation of 2 51 000 m.uit. bv Congress for the creation of thu- offke the siope of his work will be broadened The need of the dthvdratmn of fruits ant vegetable is shown in the food ronstrvation movement from the fatt that about a million pounds of Irish po-t ilms which had been rendered unfit' for food bv freezing ki'-t Januaiy were thrown in the dump in New ork City. The value of dehjdrating fruits and vegetables has been reiognizod by the War Department Orders for lounds of dehydrated foods at a cost of $3,000 000 ere placed by the Department last Spring Orders to plants in the Ur.trt0 State and Canada, to be delivered next Julv. total 4D.OOO 00 pound, nt cost of $l0 These orders are chieflv for potatoes, carrots, onions, fruits and suppltes for soups.

QUERIES TO BE MAILED They Will be Sent Registrants of Older Ages Within Month. Announcement is made from Washington that questionnaires will begin to le mailed to registrants in the older ages within thutv This announcement was turritd in Birmingham pipeis two weeks ruro and was credited to Seiretaiv F'fpperman. The announcement chu- a siir among the 4 men In the ages between and 45 and draft boaid ofiklils could not answer questions ovci the phone and at the door fait enough Who staiUd all tin' Double asked the i hairmeu of ail mx Biiminghum ivonrd Suretirv I'cptnrmnn said the mw -pipers won mistaken in crediting him with making tie Ft item nt just announced as authentic from Washington and the chilnmn held a meeting whnh 11 CabanBs was elected chairman of all Birm.ngTiam Hoards with power to give out notice to the newspaers. No other ptraon connected 'with the local hoards shall give out nnv statement for publication connected with the woik of the boards according to the chati men except Mr Cabiniss. OhahisHn Cabaniss has an ooe on the twentv -second floor of the Jefferson Count) Bank Building and is easilv noce-sable to the public at all tunes.

b7aa changes'trains. hinge M.lieUulo goes into effect Sundu). Ottobir 2. on the Atlanta. Birmingham A Atlantic K.ilhoad.

Train No 24 will leave Birmingham at 4 15 No 22 to Dave at a tn Train Vo 23 will arrive in Birmingham at It 20 a. and No 21 at 1(1 55 p. No 24, leaving here at 4 15 p. ar-I rive at Talladega at 7 20 m. Line-I vllle at 8 28 in and arrives at Man- heter at 12 15 a.

tn. Train No. 22 arrives at Talladega at 8 50 a. Line-vllle at 10 10 a and Manchester at i p. m.

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