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TODAY’S BEST OFFERINGS _l___ V' CREX RUGS $8.75 9x12 ('rex Rugs, spe cial today only $6.95 0 j Birmingham Special The New York Train Leaves 9 a. m. Southern Railway 1 We Grind Our Own Lenses TORIC LENSES EACH $1.00 Special low prices for prescription [work. ======= BEATSALL MESSENGER SERVICE PHONE MAIN 411 We give prompt, complete service. United Millinery Supply Co. PALM BEACH SUITS for women, value $7.50, specially priced for today $3.95, United Millinery Supply Co. 2010 Second Ave. Ben Spielberger, Mgr. REFRIGERATOR White enameled. 75-pounds Ice ca pacity, white ash hardwood case; regular $22.50 value. q»-l n or Special today .<P-LO.OO 0 ’BARR-OSBORN FURNITURE CO. 2221 2d Avenue Big Shoe Deal Just Closed $5000.00 stock of Walk-Over Shoes bought at 33 l-3c on dollar, to be sold at less than factory oost at Sparks Tailoring Co. Keep your eye on the window. Sale starts Saturday. AMERICAN CONSUL IN COLOGNE DEAD Cologne, June 10.—(Via London. 9:45 p. m.)—Albert Hemingway Michelson, the American consul here, died today of pneu monia. For several months he had been engaged In visiting soldier prisoner camps or. behalf of the United States govern ment. Charles i^esimple, the vice consul, also is ill, and the office is in charge of Lrnest L. Ives, American vice consul at Frankfort-on-Main. Albert H. Michelson was born in An napolis, Md., in 1878. He entered the American consular service in 1901. t ENGLAND WILL KEEP ( i 3,m000 MEN IN WAR « t London. June 10.—(4:35 p. m.)—The j * total number of men for the army $ * and navy sanctioned by Parliament $ \ for service so far in the present $ * war is 3,200,000. $ * "This number will not be exceeded 4 * without authority of Parliament," * i said Premier Asquith today, thus $ $ setting at rest rumors that other * 4 forces had been mobilized without $ $ public knowledge. i ♦ » I We Are Selling WHOLESALE AT RETAIL 2ft lbs pure lard .$2.35 50 lbs. pure lard .$5.50 10 lbs. compound lard .90c Good flour. Miles High ......... 90c ft. C. or Orris flour .$1.00 14 cans Pet milk ..50c 28 bars laundry soap .$1.00 Swift’s Premium hams .16^c New potatoes, per peck .35c 10 lbs. dried apples or peaches..75c can corn, 1 dozen ...35c 3 bottles flavoring extract .23c Georgia cane syrup. 1 gallon ...65c 3 cans Good Luck B. powder ...12c 3 pkgs. A. & H. soda ..12c 40 lbs. chicken feed .$1.00 ! lb. Lipton’s tea .55c Best meal. 1 bushel ..95c $1.00 can After Dinner coffee . . . .85c 6 cans kraut and hominy .45c 3 pkgs. table salt . 12c 1 dozen cairn tomatoes.90c Welsh’s grape juice, pts.22c Welsh’s grape juice, qts.40c Chicken feed, per 100 lb. sack ..$2.25 Mason fruit jars, x> gal ..80c Mason fruit jars. v4 gal.60c Mason fruit jars. pts. ..55c Icecream freezers, gal.$1.60 Ice cream freezers, 1 gal.$2,25 Fresh lemons, dozen .18c 3 cans salmon ..25c 2 cans Argo salmon .35c 1 dozen potted meats ..45c 3 cans Vienna sausage .25c 3 pkgs. Tokay tea .12c Tyler’s Store 2317-19 2nd Ave. Phone 7079 Painting and Decorating Done right by Hynds-Upshaw Paint & Glass Company 122 3. 21st St. Main 8049 AUTO OWNERS $10 Channel Bumpers—fits any car except the Ford. $5.50 Saunders Motor Car Co. Notice to Merchants Phone us your order for fine Ten nessee fryers and hens. Vorenberg Produce Co. Phones 410 and 8550 WEDDING GOODS Gloves, Ties. Shirts, Studs, Cuff Dinks—a full stock of up-to-the minute dress clothes and acces sories. Yeatman-Baugh Co. Brown-Marx Bldg. WAREHOUSE AT FLORALA BURNEE Florala. June 10.—(Special.)—-About day - light this morning fire destroyed a ware house on the Louisville and Nash villi | track belonging to J. F. Hughes of Elec trie Mills, Miss., and being used by R ! G. Hoover & Co., and Hoover-Poster com pany. There were about 125 bales of cot ton stored in the warehouse. The Hoover-Doster company had abou 300 sacks of cotton seed hulls and ovei 100 sacks of salt. Insurance was carrlec by Mr. Hughes on the building for $50<i ; It was valued at $1500. The cotton wa; insured by the warehouse company, ant will not b(* a total loss. Hoover-Doste company’s loss Is covered by insurance. BUTLE R~T AKE SUP LAST OF BONDS Greenville, June 10:—(Special.)—But le county a few days ago took up the las bond of the Issue made when the Butle county courthouse was built a numbe of years ago. The bonds were sold ti local capitalists. This leaves the count? out of debt. | This has come about by successful man agement of the affairs of the county, i The county owns all of its good roat [ equipment and mules, and has over 5 | miles of improved road, with no bonded oi | other indebtedness. new-fkwgli Jirecf~faSt GULF COAST LINES i&rnia Speoal New Orleans to Pacific Coast, via Gull [I Coast Lines (Frisco), New Orleans to I Houston, thence “Santa Fe all the way 1 over the new cut-off to both Expositions, n You save many miles in distance traveled. You i eat Fred Harvey meals. You can stop off cn route R ' and visit the Grand Canyon oi Arizona. Daily Excursions with liberal return limit and stop-overs. Ask for picture folders of both Expositions and the Grand Canyon. p t- noasrs W. L. MrWhlrtor or_' Mark Anthony Canorai Aecnt Santa re Gcnnral Apart Santa Fe nietrlrt Pnawnaer Apart 2 North Pryor St. 22i< St. Charles fat. (*ulf C "list Lines Atlanta New Orleans 223 St. <’harlea Street New Orleans M ® “Two fairs for one fare” J * * Hundred Good Roads En | thusiasts From Rome and Gadsden Come Here BANQUET SERVED AT NEWSPAPER CLUB Committee Named to Conduct Cam paign In Behalf of Proposed Dixie Highway Lateral—Visitors Leave for Anniston About 100 good roads enthusiasts from Gadsdeh. Rome and Cherokee and St. Clair counties gathered nt the Newspaper club last night and dis cussed the proiK>sed Dixie highway, which is to pass through Atlanta end Rome from Chicago to Miami, Fla. Fol lowing an address by nearly everyone present an organization for the purpose of constructing a lateral branch from Birmingham to tap the highway at Rome was formed. It is the intention of this organization to creatg sentiment in the counties through which the pro posed branch must pass for the con struction of the road. The federal government has prom ised to aid in the maintenance of the Dixie highway, provided it reaches a certain standard. The government’s promise includes also that if branches are constructed to tap the road and should be kept up to certain specifica-_ tions, such branches will he considered a part of the highway. The purpose of the meeting of last night is to construct a branch road from Birmingham to $omc. which shall come within the provisions set forth. Committee Is Named The following committee was ap pointed to have charge of the cam paign which will begin soon: J. L. Herring and N. R. Hood. St. Clair c oun ty: Earl Lay and Judge L. L. Hcrz berg, Etowah county: A. B. Arrington and A. N. Tumlin, Floyd county, Geor gia; D. N. Williamson and J. L. Sav age, Cherokee county: Hugh McGeever I and J. Asa Rountree. Jefferson county, and John W. O'Neill. The movement started in the Rome Chamber of Commerce and about NO members of that body left there yes terday morning, stopping in Gadsden at noon yesterday and picking up mem bers of the Gadsden Chamber of Com merce and other citizens. Citizens of St. Clair county and Cherokee county also were in the party, joining the good roads men along the route. At 7 o’clock this morning tlie Rome crowd will leave Birmingham for home, passing through Anniston. It is hoped to construct two roads to tap the Dixie highway from Birmingham, one fo pass through Gadsden and one through Anniston. Rufus Bivlngs and Hugh McGeever of the Jefferson county board of rev enue met the delegation at the Jetfcr son county line and escorted them into ; Birmingham. John W. O’Neill Presides John W. O’Neill, president of the Jefferson County Good Roads associa tion and vice president of the Alabam t Good Roads association, presided over the meeting. The first speaker was Hugh M> i Geever, who welcomed the visitors to Birmingham. He was followed by W. C. Radcliffe, speaking for the local Chamber of Commerce. J. A. Roun tree also welcomed the visitors here. , J. D. McCartney, representing the Ro tary club of Rome, responded to the welcoming addresses. Congressman John L. Burnett deliv ered a forceful address in which lie asked for the aid of Birmingham in securing this branch to the Dixie high ( way. Mr. Burnett pointed out that Jefferson county's roads already were 1 in such condition that they would meet the requirements, but. tie said, it. was necessary that Birmingham help in getting the other counties into line. Judge L. Jj. Herzberg of Etowah county, probate judge, said that Eto i wah already had the money in bank with which to construct the proposed • load and that it would be completed within the next IS months. Among others who delivered ad dresses were A N. Tumlin, Cave Springs, Gia.: D. N. Williamson, board • of revenue. Cherokee county; John W. Sibley, Wright Willingham, Rome, Ga.; C. B. Rogers, W. C. Woodall, editor the Industrial Tndex. Columbus, Ga.; Louis Loveman, president Chamber of Com merce, Gadsden, and several others. 1 The Rome party will hold a meeting > in Anniston today at noon and hope to arouse further interest in the pro posed branch connecting with the Dixie highway. They expressed their < eep appreciation of the entertainment af forded them In Birmingham. ELECTRIC DAY AT EXPOSITION Sun Francisco, June 10.—('elebratlon of Electric Day at the Panama-Pacific ex position was the feature of today's ses sion of the annual convention of the Na tional Electric Eight association. Speakers at a public policy meeting of the association tonight declared for pub lic regulation of public service corpora tions as the ultimate solution of problems created by the rapid development of ma chines propelled by electricity. ITALIAN AVIATION CORPS NOW FULL Turin, June 10.—(Via Chiasso to Paris, 11:10 p. ni.)—Seven hundred men have been enrolled in ihe Italian aviation corps and the military authorities announce that no more will be enlisted. The men who have joined the aerial wing include noble men, proU ssional men and workmen. Among those who have enlisted is a son of Ernesto Nathan, a former mayor of Rome. TO FEED SOLDIERS PRESERVED FRUIT Paris, June 10.—(10:30 p. m.i- The minis try of war has decided to add preserved fruits to the bill of fare of the soldiers in the trenches and to reduce proportion 1 ately their moat rations. This, it is be lieved. will have n beneficial effect on the health of the men, the army doctors having reported that most of the cases of sickness among the soldiers are due to too much meat. Liquor Dealers End Meet Cincinnati. June 10.—The twentieth an nual convenion of Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ association ended here today with re-eiejftion « f all or ih<- officers, the selection of Sl Lou.s as the 11*10 convention city, and the passage of reso luions urging that the fight against pro hibition ba prosecuted with greater vigor. • NEWS OF ml The Ensley club has been asked to co-operate in ..the city beautiful con test inaugurated by the Ensley Lana company. The secretary of the club has received a communication from Walker Percy, president of the land j ' company, asking that this matter he ( taken up at the regular meeting of the ‘ club next Tuesday night. Mi Perry f states that the prizes will be awarded j ' on improvements made over natural c disadvantages rather than on the j 1 amount of money expended, thus giv ing the smallest cottage equal chance 1 with the palatial mansion. Originality ' is especially desired in this rontest. 1 During the past two weeks much ,n- 1 terest has been taken in this move- * ment and many improvements have been made in and about the yards and ' premises of the contestants. City «’»»m- ’ missioner George Ward has been se- * lected as chairman of the committee } that will award the rash prizes. Tin ' contest will end July 15. 1 Active preparations are being made for the annual picnic given b> the Kns- < Icy Elks and many tickets have been ; sold for the affair. The picnic will “e held at West Lake on Wednesday. June I 16. Music, dancing, boating and s\\ ,m- i ming are included in the programme and a fine automobile will be given a/way on the grounds. Funeral services over tin remains of little Thomas Howard, the 2-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas How ard, who died Wednesday night at the family residence on Thirty-seventh < street. Wylani. were conducted yester day afternoon. Interment was at Pl« \s ant Groye cemetery. Funeral services over the remains of i Irene Shoemaker, the B-monthp-o’.d daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. \Y. Shoe maker of Mulga. who died vesterd.. • morning at the family residence, were conducted at the Mulga cemetery. Tlie Fairview and Ensley fire-depart ments were called to the Alabama Stat« Fairgrounds yesterday afternoon about 1 o'clock when a number of stalls on * the east fence caught fire. It is be lieved by the fire department that hoys had been smoking in the stalls and had thrown a lighted cigarette in some trash which ignited. The damage is estimated to be about $50. LETTERS TO EDITOR Culture Without a “K" To the Editor of The Age-Herald: Tn today’s • issue of your paper l no tice a communication from a reader in Tuscaloosa, and in this letter he attempts to define the culture that starts with a "k." used by Dr. Phillips recently at a school closing. The Tuscaloosa writer stntes that tills is the "made in Germany” brand, which burns libraries, destroys churches, sinks Lusitanias and a lot of other horrible things. It is a pity that in this article he did not give us an idea what English culture stands for and has accomplished In the past when they got a chance to inject a little of their “culture.” She tried in tills war to give the German a taste of it by starving out the whole nation of them, but the Teuton is a little too sharp for them and frustrated them in their diaboli cal scheme. The world remembers how England stoic the South African republics in 1900-1902. The Boers have not forgot ten the English brand of culture dealt out to them as the following will show; "On December 16, 1913. the Boers unveiled a monument at Bloemfontein, described as an obelisk of granite bearing at Its base [the figure of two Boer women and an emaciated, starving, dying child. The in scription on it as follows: ” ‘This monument lias been erected from voluntary contributions of the Boers In memory of the 26,663 women and children who died during the war of 190U-2 In the English concentration camps.' " If German culture starts with a "k." what does such British culture start with? Another example of Brltish-Bussian cul ture is seen in the following: "When the Russians captured the undefended town of Meniol, in East Prussia, and destroyed (it, dragging hundreds of women and chil dren in captivity like a hand of Indians and slaying unarmed civilians, the Lon don post, household paper of King George V commented as follows: " 'We are heartily glad that the Rus sians burned Memel, and we hope the al lies will burn a good many more German towns before this war is/ over.’ " I have come to the conclusion that the culture that starts with a "k" is not so bad after all. GEORGE J. BEYER. Cullman, June 1<>, 1915. Deaths and Funerals Kd S. Bohannon Funeral services over the remains of Ed S. Bohannon, aged 38 years, who died at the family residence in Pow derly Tuesday night, were held from the late residence yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The deceased Is survived by his widow and several children. In terment took place in Brighton ceme tery. Christopher B. Kelly Christopher B. Kelly, aged 24 years, died last night at 10:15 o'clock at a local Infirmary, after a brief illness. The de ceased Is survived by his widow' and three small children; his father and mother; five brothers. Fred, Marvell. Will, J. C., Jr., all of Marvel, and Charles of Chi cago. and one sister. Miss Ola May. The remains of the deceased are being held at Lige Loy’s undertaking parlors pend ing funeral arrangements. Owen Jones Funeral services over the remains of Owen .Jones, aged 55 years, who died at his late residence in Brook side, were held yesterday afternoon at Brookside. The deceased is survived by his widow and two daughters: Mrs. J. T. Culverhouse and Mrs. W. A. Tut wilder. y F. C. Link • Thr remains of F. C. Link, who was killed In a wreck on the Seaboard rail road Wednesday night, will be sent o Barry. Ontaria, Canada, by Like Loy this morning at !»;30 o'clock. The de ceased is survived by his mother and father of Barry. Robert Brooks The remains of Robert Brooks, aged 55 years, who was killed In the wreck on the Seuboard railroad Wednesday night, were sent to Atlanta by Shaw yesterday morning for interment The deceased Is survived by his widow and one son. J. J. Shaver News of the death of J. .1. Shaver, aged 55 years, formerly a resident of this city, was received in Birmingham last night by M. P. Messer, an inti mate friend of the family. The de ceased died at Chapel Hill, Tex., aft er a long Illness. He Is survived by his widow. Mrs. Mary R. Shaver; one daughter, Miss Hester, and two sons. Malrome and Edward. Also one broth er, A. P. Shaver of Chicago. At the time of his death the deceased was president to the Chapel Hill buna of chapel Hill, Tex. The deceased was' well know n In I’.li mingham, having a | great many Interests In real estate n I Ibis city. JOHNS Undertaking Co. Phone lOOI. .AST APPEAL IQ SAVE BECKER New York. June 10. The last appeal to ourts of New York for the life of 'haties Becker, sentenced to die the week f July 12 for tTe murder of Herman iosenthal, the gambler, was made today ’ben his counsel forwarded to the « (nu t f appeals at Albany h brief on a me lon for the reargument of the case. The court, the brief claims, overlooked wo facts of capital importance to Bee’; r which did not appear in the first trial nt were established 'in the second trial y the state’s principal witness. Jack lose, the informer. The brief says that inasmuch as Un cut hal had threatened to expose Becker n a New Y ork newspaper. Rocker must ave known that an attack on Rosenthal t that time would be attributed to his gency. The question as it should have been •resented to the jury, states the brief, ras whether Rose, who hired the gun iu’ii. animated by n desire to save his "ii life, which already was imperiled, wording to his own testimony, by Rose’s ^presentations to Jack Zelig. a gang eader, or if lie engaged the gunmen at be instance of Reeker to kill Rosenthal, "be only purpose of the crime In the lat er contingency, it Is argued, would have >een to prevent Rosenthal from doing omething which lie already had done hat is to publish charges against Reeker and from attempting something which ie could not accomplish. Becker's Indlot nent for bribery and his removal from •ffice. • If the question Instanced had been sub nit ted to the jury there could be little loubt that the defendant would have been icqultted, the brief contends. MOTE TO GERMANY ASKS ASSURANCE THAT NEUTRALS BE GIVEN PROTECTION (Continued from Paste One) • tide to find a way out of the dilemma hat would satisfy the United States. One phase of the note which attract 'd much attention In diplomatic circles vas that relating to mediatory steps >n tiie part of the United States look ng toward a reformation of warfare m the seas generally. In this conr.ee ion it was suggested that the chit f liffieulty might lie an insistence by lermany that the allies refrain from nterfering, not only with foodstuffs •unsigned to her civilian population nit with raw materials of ail kinds. Investigation Begins New York, June 10. \ federal grand ury investigation to determine wheth *r there was a conspiracy to defraud he United States in connection with iffidavits submitted by the German imbussy to the state department to move that there were guns aboard the it earner Uusitanla, was begun hero to iay. It is specifically directed against *aul Koenig, also known as Stemler. vho. according to the federal authori ies, Is head of a secret service de mrttnent maintained byvthe Humburg \merlcan steamship line. The flrst result of the investigation nhr the arrest today for perjury of tUBtnvp Stahl, a German reseVvist, who nade one of the affidavits submitted • y the embassy and who is alleged to >c closely associated with Koenig. Tl.c varrant on which In* was arrested al eges that he committed perjury, lie vas taken into custody immediately jpon the conclusion of his testimony <nd sent to the Tombs for lack «.f a 110.000 ball. Stahl, in ills affidavit, made before i notarj public, swore be visited the Lusitania on April HO. the day befote Jhe sailed, and saw four guns on her leek concealed lip leather covers. 'I'he repetition of this story, when lie was •ailed as a witness in the investigation if Koenig’s activities, was (lie basis of ours stand -the racket Wo go into every little detail with our maker.-, in the effort to make our boys’ elothes better we -top at nothing destined to improve them. It takes more time cost- more money, hut it means better clothes I'm your hoy—clothes that stand up in the wear, be the youngs ter ever so st renuous. attention! Boys’ $5 Palm Beach Suits — $3.95 — Heal Palm Beach cloths in various col ors, done into Norfolk styles that will hold their shape and come back from the laundry as shapeh as when they went—for boys to It?. More Good News 11.00 Shirts . 79c 76c Rompers .55c 76c Blouses . 55c 50c Union Suits . 39c 60c Blouses .35c 25c Underwear .18c Boys' Wash Suits—$1.00 to $5.00 M ai1 Orders Invited In Orrtrrlnv <«oml» Plt‘M$f Mrntinn THK \<*tt-tllCR \ I.D ! the perjury charge. I hi addition to tile statement by i u• I - j Joy Kteld Malone, collector of flu | 01 t. and by officials of the (’unaid line that the Lusitania was unarmed the gov ernment authorities said tonight that they had evidence by which they would prove tiiat .Stahl was not on hoard Hi*' Lusitania on any day before tin* depar- , lure of the Lusitania on Iter fatal ♦rip. Stahl was located day before \ »-a terday in Albany and immediately brought here. Information which Stahl furnished, together with other eviuenc ■ collected In the case, is understood In have led to the impaneling of the ape clal grand Jur> which met today. It, Wim intimated, howev er, that \. lv n called upon before tin* Jury to iep-at this Informal Ion, Stahl v\hh not so com municative. During the iwo days t c ■,» he w as brought back h« c. lie w h: • - niitted to consult t-ounsel and wa *»j consultation with Kdwnrd Sanford wmu acted as attOrne> for the I twin m ; Amerkan line in the government'* %• .\t against it. charging violation of Dio neutral!t> laws. Questioned about the case tonight, Sanford said lie was acting for Km ;ii ; In the case and w ould get Stahl aiioth r la wyer. V This $21 High-Oven * Cabinet Gas Range .And A $15 Water Heater -For- % No Cash AH Payment |^J/ JL • \J \J Deposit And You May Pay It Through the Meter My geltiug both the Range and the Water Heater you nave $.j from the regular price, because we make a saving if we inatall both at one time. In addition to this concession, we will allow you to pay the eutire amount through the meter, a little at a time. Kach 25c you put in registers a 12 1-2c payment on your purchase and 12 l-2c for gas. In a short lime you'll own a modern cabinet gas range and a fine waler healer, without having missed I he money. * Come By Today and Inspect Them b.r.lFp. co. First and Twenty-First ^ la Orderiag Goods Please Mention llit. AUk-UliILt ■ r>. ,.j . ^ -f.V ; . - v.( - ; .. . V /