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Danish and British Vessels
Torpedoed and Sunk.
Crews and Skippers
Are Saved
London, May 31.—(8:12 p. m.)—The Dan
ish steamer Soborg has been sunk In the
English channel by a German submarine,
according to an announcement made by
Lloyd’s agency. The crew was saved.
——
The Soborg was built at Sunderland in
1899 and was of 1333 tons net register.
The vessel was 386 feet long, 43 feet beam
and 19 feet deep. She sailed from Baltl- (
# more on her last eastern trip acc00G the
Atlantic on April 6, when she was bound
for Kirkwall and Aarhuus.
Dixiana Sunk
London, May 31.—(5:35 p. m.)—The Brit
ish steamer Dixiana was torpedoed fcff
Vshant Saturday last while on her way
from Savannah. Ga., t<? Swansea, Wale*.
According to the skipper of the Dixiana,
the submarine which sank his vessel had
sails hoisted when first observed. H%w&s
led by this disguise to mistake her for
a harmless sailing craft. This is ths
first time the use of this device by a
German submarine has been reported.
Savannah. May 31.—The British steamer
Dixiana, Brunswick and Savannah to
I Ha vie and Port Talbot, with a cargo of
cotton and steel billets, has been sunk
off the French coast near Ushand by a
German submarine, according to tele
graphic advices to the agents of the Dix
iana Steamship company here today. The
captain and crew are reported saved.
News of the torpedoing of the Dixiana
was contained in a cablegram from
Hartlepool, England, to F. D. M. Strach
an of Brunswick, Ga., head of ihe com
pany owning the vessel. The cablegram
stated that the Dixiana was sunk last
Saturday and that her captain ami crow
had been safely landed at Sawnsea. The
Dixiana Steamship company is a British
concern.
WILSON CAREFULLY
AVOIDS REFERENCE
TO PRESENT CRISIS
(Continued from Page One)
liver an address, but merely reverently
to take part in expressing the senti
ment of this impressive day,” said the
President in his address. “It is neces
sarily a day of reminiscences. Remin
iscence is not always a profitable ex
ercise. It generally belongs to those,
appropriately to those only, who have
left the active stage of life and have
i nothing to think about except the
things that are gone and dead. It
dees not behoove a nation to walk
viih its eyes over its shoulder. Its
business is constantly in the years that
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AFTER suffering defeat for six
consecutive games, the New
York Yankees won yesterday
morning at the Polo Grounds with one
of the three Rays pitching, It was
Fisher, the schoolmaster, that turned
the trick. The victory was timely, as
"Wild Bill" Donovan was fast losing
his smile.
* • *
After trying for years Ralph Do Pal
ma. the noted automobile drive.*, has
finally won the Indianapolis 500 mile
classic—and in record time. The per
severance of the Italian in his pursuit
of the honor made him a popular fa
vorite with the 100,000 or more motor
fans that attended the race. De Palma
has now won every important automo
bile event in the country and is gener
ally recognized as the champion of
champions in the auto world.
* * *
Burleigh Grimes returned to the
mound yesterday in the first game and
without undue exertions defeated the
Travelers with the necessary co-op
eration of his teammates. Burleigh
has yet to lose two games in succession
for the Barons this season. It can't be
dona.
• • •
The victory of Grimes also disposed
of Fincher, the star hurlei of tht Trav
elers. Fincher is having hard luck
with the Barons. The first tim<; he
faced the athletes of Rick Wood
ward he lost by the score of 3 to 2 in
13 innings. Yesterday it was by the
same count, but in the regulation nine
stanzas. This was because Grimes has
serious objections to working- extra
time and other things.
• * *
However. Fincher must he regarded
as one of the finds of the season This
youngster from the sand lots of Little
Rock has the remarkable record of
having won seven games and lost five
for a tail end team that has won only
14 games thus far during the season.
Fincher has seldom been hatted hard,
and his defeats have been largely
through the errors of his mates It is
the consensus of managerial opinion
that Fincher is the best looking pitch
ing prospect that has broken in the
Southern league in years.
• • »
For some unknown reason the press
agent of Cholly Frank in New Oileans
has not emitted his daily hoot for some
time. What's the matter. Colonel
Cluke. take an overdose or run out of
the stuff?
• • *
\N hen Clyde McBride was retired
from.the game owing to an attack of
mumps he was swatting a little below
his normal average, but still above
what his substitute lias been hitting.
However, the placing of Coombs regu
larly in the game may improve his bat
ting eye.
• • •
This spring much was expected of
Charlie Carroll as a swatter, it was
pointed out that the youngster would
hit around the .300 mark. Thus far
Charlie has fielded like a champion
around the first station, where he was
supposed to be weak, but has *watted
like a pitcher where he was thought to
be strong. A clairvoyant would have
trouble doping out the strong points of
a player in the sprTVig time.
m * •
Jimmie Magee's average of .23a is n >t
of the usual outfielders' brand, but it
is argued by the experts that Magee'3
sensational fielding makes up for his
lack with the stick. Still. Jimmie is
quite a handy man at the bat and
manages to get a timely bingle every
now and then.
* • •
President Baugh's announcement to
the umpires yesterday regarding l he
coaching rules was not surpris ng to
the well informed, as it was Known
that the executive of the Southern
league looked with displeasure on the
buffoonery of George Klrcher. The In
sistence of the Nashville management
to foist Kircher on the coaching linos
for comedy purposes finally brought
forth the edict of the president to the
managers, club presidents and um
pires that such coaching method- be
immediately eliminated from all games
In the Southern league. The fans will
generally applaud the decision of
President Baugh.
lie phead of it and in the present what
challenges it to the display of its
power. But there are reminiseencoo
which are stimulating and wholesome,
and among those reminiscences are
chiefly to be ranked the recollections
of days of heroism, days when great
nations found it possible to express the
best that was in them by the ardent
fxercise of every power that was in
them.
Not a Day of Regret
“That is what gives dignity to a
day like this. It is not a day of re
gret: it is not a day of weakening
memory. It is a day of stimulation.
Put. my friends. ese stimulating
memories we are sometimes apt to min
imise because we do not see the full
significance of them. We are constant
ly speaking of the great war of which
we think today as a war which saved
the union, and it did indeed save the
union, but it was a war that did a
great deal more than that. It created
in this country what had never ex
isted before—a national consciousness.
It was the time when America for the
11rut time realized its unity and saw
the vision of its united destiny. '
•‘The solemn lesson of these mem
ories for us is not that wre must be
ready to save the union again, for there
arc rone among us w ho threaten its life,
but that we must see to it that the
unity then realized, the vision then seen
is exemplified in us and the things
that we do. Because there is no stim
ulation in any lesson unless it be the
stimulation to duty. There is no stim
ulation in any occasion if it be mere
ly the pleasure of recollection: it must
r.lso be the ardor and courage of hope.
(ticater days lie before this nation than
it has ever seen yet. and the solemn
consciousness of those who bear of
fice in this time is that they must
make their best endeavor to embody in
what they do and say the best things
in the United States.
me winy irm
"It does not do to talk too much
about oneself and I do not think
that It is wholesome for the I'nited
Mates to talk too much about Its. If.
J dc not want to know what you are
today so much as 1 want to know what
you are going to do tomorrow. The
only test I know ef that is competent
to determine what you are is the test
of what you do. I**t us not th>.k
of our characters; let us think of our
cuties and of the actions that lie be
fore us. 1 have-always maintained that
the man who lives to cultivate his own
character will resulj^only In cultivat
ing an intolerable- prig, because his
object will he himself. Character, my
friends, is a by-product. It Is produced
In the great manufacture of daily duty.
Eut duty la not easy to determine.
Duty for a nation is made up of so
many complicated elements that no man
can determine It. No group of men
without wide common counsel can pos
sibly determine what the duty - of the
day is. That is the strength of a dem
on acy, because there daily rises in the
great body of a democracy the expres
sion of an untrammeled opinion which
seems to fill the air with its sugges
tions of duty, and those who stain' nt
the head of affairs have it ns their
bcunden duty to endeavor to express in
their own actions those things that seem
to rise out of the conscience and hope
nnd purpose of the great body of the
people themselves.
"America, I have said, was reborn
by the struggle of the civil war, but
America is reborn every day of her life
bv the purposes we form, the concep
tions wo entertain, the hopes that wo
cherish. We live in our visions. We live
in the things that we see. We live, and
hope abounds in us as we live in the
tilings that we purpose. Let us go away
from this place renewed in our devo
tion to daily duty and to those ideals
which keep a nation young, keep it
noble, keep it rich in enterprise and
achievement; make it to lead the na
tiona of the world in those things that
make for hope and for the benefit of
mankind."
At the conclualon of the exercises
In the amphitheatre of the cemetery
President Wilson witnessed the unveil
ing of the Maine memorial monument.
The monument la the main mast and
fighting top of the Maine, set in a
granite and marble base chiseled in the
form of a gun turrent.
Secretary Daniels, principal speaker
at this ceremony, raised a tribute to
“•kcrlflce," saying It was the one at
tribute to which everybody paid homage.
“The universe teems with stout
hearts," said the Secretary. "Courage is
the commonest virtue among men. If
you once doubted this truth the abun
dant display of It on land and sea In
the past few months haa not left you
a skeptic. The call of home and country
111 the day of danger drowns all the
baser cries of self, of paaalon, of
avarlc^TT'he love of one’s own land
r.tlra as no other affection. One hour
the free man stands In the assemblies
and declaims against what tie believes
the unjust policies of his government.
The next hour another country la in
arms against his motherland. In ihs
supreme passion of being true to hts
own, opposition fades away and the
■overeat critics forget he had ground
for censure."
Aa part of the ceremony Frank Bailey
Daniels and Jonathan Worth Daniels,
sons of the secretary, and nephews of
Ensign Worth Bagley. the first Ameri
can officer killed in the Spanish war,
raised an ensign to the top of the mast.
Fifty white uniformed marines manned
the rigging of the mast.
Secretary Bryan was the speaker at ex
ercises held by the Spanish war veterans
at the base of the Spanish war monu
ment. He declared that for the past 10
months the people had been surfeited
with accounts of the war In Europe.
“We are depressed and distressed by
the reports of battles," he said, “of skies
redaened by the glare of guns and th~
soil crimsoned by the blood of men. or
homes made desolate and of hospitals
filled to overflowing. of babies born
fatherless while sires are burned like
worthless stubble in the fields over which
the grim reaper has passed."
TUSCALOOSA FULL OF
OLD GRADUATES FOR
1915 COMMENCEMENT
(Continued from I'ngp One)
Senator White and various members of
the congressional delegation, will ar
rive. Speaker Carmichael of the Ala
(bama legislature came Uiis afternoon
Among w'ell known residents of Birming
ham on the scene are Hugh Morrow,
member of the board of trustees: Judge
William M. Walker, Commissioner
James Weatherly, Gen. D. V. Clark,
Frank B. Clark. Henry and Hardin Fitts,
H. U. Sims, Curran Goodwin, Borden
Burr, Robert Me David, Thomas E. Huey,
O. G. Gresham, Edwin Robinson, F. P.
Cheape and Thomas W. Palmer, Jr.
Other prominent alumni w'ell known
throughout the state who are taking
part in the season of merriment are
W. A. Gunter of Montgomery, Ray Rush
ton of Montgomery, Harry Pillins of Mo
bile, John D. Rather of Tuscumbia. John
H. Peach of Sheffield, William Mitchell
of Florence, assistant attorney general;
Dr. Tlj. l. Hill of Montgomery, Stab
senator William W. Hill of Montgomery.
John H. Bankhead of Jasper. Maj. R. E
Steiner of Montgomery, Judge Thomas
C. McClellan of Montgomery, Judge
Thomas C. Coleman of Eutaw, one of the
oldest of the alumni; Thomas W. Palmer,
president of the Girls’ School at Monte
va.Ho; Daniel Pratt of Prattville. H. J.
Lancaster of Wetun.pka; Thomas S. Fraz
er of Union Springs, and others.
A feature of the commencement season,
which attracted general attention today,
is the reunion of the academic and law
classes of 1910. These boys In patriotic
manner are painting the town red. They
are dressed in palm beach suits, flowing
yellow ties and Mexican sombreros. To
morrow morning in compliment to the leg
islature. which is distinctively a prohibi
tion legislature, the class wili ride across
the university quadrangle and campus of
the top of a water wagon. During these
exercises several of the members,
equipped with spy glasses, will gaze in
all general directions, the play being a
skit of the legislative “probe” commit
tee. The atmosphere is one of spirit senti
ment, good humor, color and song, one
in which the old grades reassume that
lalssez faire which characterized their
youth, and the boys, preparing to leave
this joyful scene, are mystified with a
sense of mingled laughter and tears.
CONFEDERATE VETS
THRONG RICHMOND
FOR 25TH REUNION
(Coatlatacil traaa Pua On)
Virginia of 1914 has at the solicitation
of tha Ladies' Hollywood Memorial as
sociation and United Daughters of ’he
Confederacy of Virginia placed ir. per
petual care this section, where lie buried
18,000 Confederate soldiers."
Another event of the day was the un
veiling in the Louisiana room of ihe Con
federate museum of a bust of Gen. p. a
Beauregard, the gift of the Junior Con
federate Memorial association of Now
Orleans. After the presentation, the bust,
which was of bronsed plaster, was acci
dentally overturned and shatte-ed, but
assurances were given by its donors Glut
it would be replaced.
Tomorrow the reunion will be In full
swing, Governor Stuart of Virginia wel
coming the visitors at the opening ses
sion.
JUSTIFY KILLINGOF
GERMAN PRISONER
London, May 31.—<9:65 p. m.)—A ver
dict of Justifiable homicide, returned
tonight by a coroner’s Jury at Leigh,
gave the first news that a German orie
oner named William Karl Schmidt, who
v/as Interned In the prison camp there,
had been killed by a sentry on Sun
day.
It seemed from the evidence that a
number of prisoners tried to escap i
Sunday by piercing the dormitory wall.
When the attempt was discovered the
guard was doubled. Later Schmidt
scaled the dormitory partition and was
endeavoring to escape through tha
roor. Not heeding the commands of
tne sentry to descend, Schmidt was
■bot dead
DIRECTOR HOF R
backwithW :te$
Y. M. C. A. Made a Good
Showing at New Orleans j
Despite Handicaps
teturned from New Orleans well satis
fied with the showing the squad of young
sters made against the seasoned material
gathered from the southern states. The
team was not expected to make any show
ing in the meet as to points for team
standing, as but six men were taken or.
the trip, and it was with the idea or
giving the boys the much needed expert
t nee as much as anything else, that the
association entered the team. Mr. Hoffer
stated last night that with the present
squad as a nucleus the coming season will
find the association with a well balanced
group of representatives for the various
meets In the future. In spite of the small
number of men taken on the trip, the
team took fifth placer out of 13 teams
entered in the junior event, and also won
the junior relay, which is also one of the
big attractions of these events. Captain
J/ange, though somewhat heavy, placed
third in the 100-yard, which was won by
Jenkins. who has proven himcelf in meets
(if the past spring, ong fcof t&c greatest
athletes the south has ever produced,
l.ange also took second place in the 220.
and fourth in the running broad jump
Lee Pope placed fourth in the 440 out of
a good field of runners. Henry Beatty
placed fourth in tlie pole vault and ran
third in the three-mile event, junior da-.
The relay team composed of McCullough,
Coughlin, Poe and Goodall running In
the order named, won its event in the
junior meet in spectacular fashion and
were never under any danger of being
headed.
ATHLETES NEEDED
THE EXPERIENCE
In the senior event Saturday, Captain
Lange, together with Jenkins, was set
hack for a false X^rt, and although h«>
did not place, ran a good race. Goodall,
running in the 220, should easily have
placed third had he not misjudged the fin
ish line. This event entered some very last
company and was run in record time. \n
ctiter year will undoubterly see this Bir
mingham boy- contesting on an even foot
ing with the best of them, as under the
recent weeks of coaching, his start and
stride has materially improved.
In the senior three-mile, Henry Beatty
placed third, following the veteran Smy the
and Norman of the Y. M. C. A. A new
record was set up for this event and
Beatty ran the distance well under tin
old record. L*. Norman, who won the
junior three-mile event the day preceding
from Beatty, was forced to take fourth
p'nce in a beautiful race between the two.
Had Beatty used the same judgment in
his event on Friday, he would undecided
ly have won the junior event. This event
virtually settled down into two races,
one between Smythe and Norman, and the
| other between the Birmingham lad and
! Noran, and it made a big hit with the
crowd. Tlie relay team running against
the seasoned squad of seniors represent
ing the Y. M. G. A. of New Orleans, with
such as Lpton, who the same day won
the 100-yard dash from Jenkins; Robinson.
Clann and Johnston, ran a nice race and
finished a good seconll. This team of
youngsters has matlC steady improve
ment in form and time in every rac'd
they have run. and with another year
of maturity , will develop Into one of t>*
b»st teams of the south, at the distance.
The Y" athletic squad will |ontinu>»
In light training several nights a week,
with the expectation of entering several
additional meets before the season is
over.
PLEAS TO COMMUTE
FRANK’S SENTENCE
HEARD IN ATLANTA
(Continued from Page One;
that Janies Conley, who Is serving a
prison sentence as accessory after tha
murder, conceived and wrote the notes;
that they were written in his style of
expression and language; that they had
to be written immediately after the crime
and that Frank would not have had time
to learn Conley's mode of expression and
simulate it if he had dictated the notes
as Conley testified.
"The purpose of our argument,” said
Mr. Howard, "would be to show that
there inheres in the record, without out
producing any extraneous matter, such
doubt of Frank's guilt, that your course
I would be clear. When Judge Roan's let
i ter came and he wrote that he had been
moved to ask you to commute the seo
! fence because of his doubt ns to Frank's
guilt, we felt there had been accomplished
all that we had expected to accomplish
by argument.
Ask Alternative Sentence
"Under the law, the sentence under the
verdict in this case could have been either
death or life Imprisonment. We mere
ly ask fhe prison commission and the
governor to pass this alternate sentence.
We ask it in the* name of mercy, based
upon the doubt Inherent in the case as
to the prisoner’s guilt, and this is an ap
peal for mercy that has reverbrated from
one end of the country to the other, and
aroused the instinct of human sympathy
as few cases in the history of the coun
try ever have done.”
Judge O’Conner declared that the judge
who came nearest to passing upon the
sufficiency of the evidence in Frank's
case was the late Judge Roan, and that
he was uncertain of the.prisoner’s guilt.
Me submitted petitions signed by Chicago
citizens, by Illinois legislators, all of Chi
cago's aldermen, many jurists, lawyers,
clergymen and bankers and a petition
containing 350,000 names of citizens of 17
states.
Solicitor Dorsey, who prosecuted Frank,
did not attend the hearing and was not
officially represented and no member
of Mary Phagan’s family was seen among
the spectators.
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SAITOHS HEALTH
Popular University Pro
fessor Back From Leave
of Absence
By HIGH W. ROBERTS
University, May 31.—(Special.)—Dr. Den
ny announced to the members of the
university faculty and student body this
morning, that Dr. VV. B. Saffold. who on
a leave of absence of a year, has been
in the west In the interest of his health.
I h; greatly improved, and that In all prob
ability, he would be ready to resume hl3
duties as professor of the school of Latin
j by the beginning of the fall term.
The announcement was received with
great pleasure, for Dr. Saffold is one
of the most popular men of the state with
the large family of university people.
About a year ago he felt that his health
was failing, and applied for leave of ab
sence for a year. He went direct to
Arizona where hi* remained for severs!
months. From that state he has recently
gone, to Colorado. From the latter state,
he writes the president of the university,
that he is fast regaining his health, and
that very probably lie would be able to
resume his professorship by fall.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Sunday Afternoon Concerts
To the Editor ot The Age-Herald:
May I say through your liberal column*
how delighted I am to hear that Mrs. J.
E. Frazier is again taking up, for next
season, the Sunday afternoon concert*
with which she gave so much pleasure to
so many last season?
I do think in many instances Mrs. Fraz
ier deserves great appreciation for her
effort to bring pleasure to the many.
Birmingham, I am very sorry to say,
lags behind her sister cities in enthus
iasm concerning matters artistic, and here
is her chance. Make of Mrs. Frazier’s
project a grand success by rallying to her
with money and appreciation.
Sunday afternoon spent in listening to
good music, well rendered, can but bring
broader spiritual vision, and in conse
quence better living even of life’s most
difficult days, to the listener.
With thanks for your courtesy In giv
ing place to an opinion purely personal,
I am, sincerely yours,
JULIA NEELY FINCH.
Birmingham, May 25, 1916. 1912 South
Twellth avenue.
Memoriam
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Mrs. J. H. McCoy was a woman of rare
charm and personality, ever faithful to the
smallest trust, and always ready with a
word of cheer and comfort to those who
needed it. I only knew her three short
years, but to know her was to love her;
she lias been a we-derful help to me, an
Inspiration to higher things, to want to
do my work better, to live a better Ilf#
and lie a better woman. When I would
have faltered In my work ahe would en
courage and urge me to go on. I mis*
her, oh so much, and I thank God tor
having known her, and for having had the
honor of calling her my friend, and my
prajere are mingled with those of thou
aands of others for our beloved bishop and
his dear children in this sad hour. May
Uod bless, comfort and strengthen you.
Bishop McCoy. RUBIE G. MOORE.
Birmingham, May 28, 1915.
Regarding Park Concert*
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
A short article in The Age-Herald
recently quoting the favorable opinion
of someone regarding your suggestion
of a tag day for the benefit of park
concerts by Memoir* excellent banJ
this summer attracted my attention and
tolced my own sentiment* In th* mat
HOW SUBMARINE SANK
PORTUGUESE VESSEL
Brest. May 31.—(11:15 p. md—Captain
Uarojo, of the Portuguese steamer Cysno, ,'
torpedoed recently by a German sub
marine between the Scllly Islands and
(’ape Finfsterre, today described the at
tack on his ship. The crew of the Cysne
were brought hefe by a French torpedo
boat. i
"When tM» miles from Ouessant (Ushant)
on our way to Nleuport," said the can
lain. “we were hailed by a German sub
marine officer. He boarded us and di
rected ills men to seise our provisions
und some parts of the machinery. Ho
gave us five minutes to get to our boats.
Our ship, which was loaded with mine
props, was then sunk by dynamite bombs.
“We saw two British ships sunk In the
same way. The crew of one /;ie;i**e> was
landed at Brest: the fate of the crew of
the other is unknown."
DR. P. cTtRENT
DIES IN ROANOKE
Roanoke, May 31.'—(Special.)—Pr. P. C.
Trent, Hr.. iii«*d suddenly at his homo
here at o'clock this evening of heart
failure. Dr. Trent was about 70 years at
age, and was the oldest practitioner in
this town. He was a native of Virginia,
hut had resided in Roanoke for more
than a quarter of a century. Interment
will be made in Roanoke cemetery, likely
tomorrow. Dr. Trent was a prominent
church man. having been a steward in
the Methodist church for a number **f
years. He leaves a widow' and several
children.
Mrs. fl. N. Rledge. wife of a prominent
planter residing just out of Roanoke,
died and was hurled yesterday. Mrs.
Rledge was well advanced in years and
bad been In all health for sometime. She
is survived by her husband and several
children.
TOO LUTE ID CLASSIFY
Wild.# the person who called Main
L309-.I In regard to lost camio ploasa
call again at once? Jdberal reward.
DIVERSE ROUTE ROUND TRIP TICKETS
Denver, Colorado Springs and QQ
VIA DIRKCT LI.NFS
On sale daily, return limit October 31
r j |
The Cool Route to Colorado. j
For Pullman reservation* and full detail*, see or address
R. ANDERSON, D. P. A.
Phone Main 079 2010 First A▼«. BirwlBsliapt* Al*»
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