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!?.! ?4,472| S[L tlimmtaii ' i I f a Quality Newspaper for the Home B /^T warmer. [ ' Northern West Virginia's Greatest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1868. today's news today FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1917. member associated press. PRICE THREE CENTO germ; FIVE 311 no mif (MEASURES INJUR America Will Take the Initiative If War Comes NOI AGAINST NATION Our Quarrel is With the German Government, Says Washington. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 24.?The United States government Is getting ready to put Into effect measure of the most far-reaching and aggressive character In the event of war with Oe'rmany. It will not be satiefied with mere attempts to protect American merchant I^TesselB. Its preparation will be designed to meet any eventuality along war If necessary. There will be no half way measures. U This program was agreed upon at long cabinet meeting yesterday and It guided the council of national defense when It met today with Its ad visory commission. - The program decided upon Includes military naval, industrial and financial measures. The question of sending an army abroad will be left for future consideration. Whether political allances with Entente allies will he formed Is not known although military as well as naval cooperation Is possible, and r the government will furnish both money and supplies to the allies without stint. ly Suggestions before President Wilson today Included the possibility of floating a loan of five million dollars for Entente. When President Wilson goes before Congress soon after It meets In extra session on April -2 be Is expected to make It clear that the government of the United States will not be prompted by hostilities toward the German people but only by the acts of the German government. So far the President has given only a preliminary consideration to his address to Congress. The object of today's meeting of council of national defense with Its commission was to take an Inventory of what has been done In the way of Industrial preparMness and to decide what future measures are necessary. The council Is expected to take an Important part In tho conduct of actual warfare. ("Nt-v Hall Nr?f*=>c I J ! LI Signs of spring are beginning to stir thingB about the Municipal building. Doors have been flung opon, fires remain unlighted each day and talk (when there is a moment or two in which to talk) Ib always concerning garden planting and the price of potaties and how easy it would be to make a million out of a few chickens. The war has taken a second place lb the conversation activities. The checker and chesB tournament being held at the Fire department la on the home stretch this afternoon A caloionf DivaIIHln land IT >VU *>UVIVtM?k VUtUk WWUtllMO 'VOU' Ing with choss reports in his favor and Chief Harr being dethroned from checker champion In favor of Tom Powell. NEW BOWLING RECORD. GRAND RAPIDS, March 24?A new Forld record in doubles was made at the American Bowling Congress tour, lament here today by Ous Santorious ind Wm. Hokschuh of Pe<xV. 111. The icore was 1346. Honors For Moewe's Commander LONDON. March 24.?A Central Kews dispatch from Amsterdam says t Is reported from Berlin that Count ron DohnaSchlodlen. commander of |he Moewe, has been appointed aide le camp to Emperor William. The West Virgin INS PR :LION LP. WILLIAM lEffi WILL ERECT CITY'S II III BRIDGES ! His Company Was Selected by City Commissioners Today. COAL M UDRE FIRST It Will Cross Ravine Where Present Structure Does. , The first vote taken at the meeting ot the Board of Affairs this morning, gave the contract for the erection ot the Monongahela river bridge and the Coal run bridges to William Muesser, ot the Concrete Steel engineering com pany. The vote carried unanimously. A report submitted by Street Commissioner Albert Lehman and City Engineer Shrewsbury Miller was present ed and written in the minuts ot the! meeting. The report was made last! night following a deadlock vote ycsterl day at which two ot the commission-] ers stood for The Conrete Engineer-! ing company and two for Sanderson i tand Porter, Industrial egninoers of New York. The report in part stated that a vote of the bridge committee which consisted of the four commlsslners and three citizens stood fire to two for tho same engineer to build the two bridges and live to two for The Concrete Steel engineering company. The bridg es are to be built out of the bond issue of December 5, 1916, at which election the city voted for an expenditure of $760,000 for the erection of two bridges and street, sewer and general Improvements. The Coal run bridge will bo erected first at a cost of $100,000. Upon the completion of this the river bridge will be started and will cost $360,000. The river bridge will not be the longest span In the world as the first tentative plans submitted showod. Tills, according to many engineers will be impracticable and will also cost muchi more than the amount appropriated for the work. The Coal run bridge will be built In the same location the present bridge occupies. || industrial!1 fairmont 'I Home additional equipment has been purchased by the Harry B. Coal and Coke company for their mine at Pit Cartn, near Clarksburg. One hundred additional mine cars have been purchased and a new electric haulage motor Installed. These additions will bo about double the out-put of the mine. A huge bin for storing coal has been constructed at the mine at Evtrson and this will materially Increase the out-put of this mine since It will enable them to work it on the days when cars cannot be secured. The Maderia Hill Coal company has opened a new mine, which is electrically equipped, at tVllsonburg and have in stalled electrical equipment in mine No. 1 at that place. Lloyd Layman, who with his brother owns and hag been operating a number of coal mines, is contemplating the purchase of a motor truck for transporting the coal to the railroad. The mines that are being operated arc ' not located on the railroad and tho boys have been hauling the coal in ?9trnna onS r, 111 ? r? rfia " ? I?? ? ' *1 ' u?u nuiwuQ fcuo UV.IIUU U1 IUC I Pennsylvania road In regard to the small track operator. But now that this has been settled the Improved method , of transportation will be adopted as soon as the business warrants It. At a meeting which was held at Jane Lew last night the final touches were placed upon the organization of the Graham-Scharfnecker coal company. This concern which has had a charter for some time has a paid up capital of 125,000 and the mines are in such Bhape that will be able to ship coal within two weeks. The officers of the new company are T. II. Graham, president; Alex Watson, treasurer and J. J. Scharfnecker. general manager. The concern, however, Is a promotion of Alex Watson and the success of ilie enterprise Is most gratifying to his many friends throughout the district who know him for an enterpr'sing businessman as well as a good i ,l<ow. ian Leads in Advert EPARIf AN TO Tl MILITARY DICTATOR !| OF NEW RUSSIA | Gem, Ale-xeipf' Gen. AlexellT Is carrying through | plans of the new Russian government] 10 pusn tne war naraer against tne central powers. 311101 IN WAKE OF WIND j SIM III It: 8 j . Ten More of the 100 Injur- ^ ed at New Albany Will Jj Die. ? ti (By Associated Press) 11 NEW ALBANY, Ind., March 24.? c Revised official lists of the victims of c the storm which swept over New Al- * bany late yesterday sbiw.d the num- ? bor of dead to be .11 ann placed the e Injured at approximately 100. t Of i he injured 10 or more aro expect- * ed to die, while It :s thought that a s number of bouie3 still lie buried under ), the debris of wrecked buildings. II The search of the ruined structures " In devastated sections Is going for- n ward under military supervision and ? all persons except tuose actually en- c gaged In the work of rescue are being t sent out of the stricken district. s Early this morning a cordon of state troops was thrown about the storm- v swept part of the city anil these sec- t; lions were cleared. Thereafter only those persons bearing military passes ]< were admitted within the lines estab- b lished by the 3oldieis. Approximately 3U0 residences. Indus- j trial plant3. and other buildings wero I badly damaged or destroyed. In some I Instance:, houses had been so torn to I pieces and the wreckage intermingled with that from other structures that those who had lived in them were unable definitely to locate the sites upon which thoy had stood. Houses nad been picked up bodily apparently and then thrown to the earth with terrific force smashing them to kindling wood. Other houses appeared to have been flattened aB If some iremendouB weight had been laid on them. Smnll outbuildings and sections of roofs were carried for blocks and trees were torn -1 ,.U ? AR?4l. U- *1 UUlll(jll?> 1IUU1 klic QUI 111 UJ 1116 1UU13. j Special Services at lt First M. E, Church i Plans haVe been made for splendid 0 sendees to be held at tho First Methodlst church on Sunday In connection 11 with the evangelistic services which 11 began at this church last Sunday, f Kev. C. E. Goodwin, pastor of the 0 church will preach at both services, his theme for the evening being "The Brldgeless Gulf." Special music has t been planned for this service and Bplen t did results are expected. Dr. J. T. Keenan, of Grafton, who is , assisting with the services went home f this morning but will return here t next week. Dr. Keenan preached a t o|iiouvti(i oci UJUU Uil lUt) HUDJtJCL 1 U0 | ^ Throe Groups" last night which waH . heard hy a large and appreciative . congregation. No servlco will be held tonight. c M 1 MUSTERING OUT THE SECOND j HUNTINGTON, March 24?Work h of mustering out the West Virginia f troops from Federal service was com- y plctcd here this afternoon. Mustering them out as a Btate body will not t be accomplished until the men havo c reached home stations. The members a of machine company will entertain s with a banquet tonight. li ising in Fairmont, B IG TO IE ENTEl hmeb's Fate W BE KNOWN THISJVEHING udgc Haymond Read Instructions tt^Jury Right After Lunch. lEFENOAITJ STAaD Jrosecutor Called Christner Dirty Coward in Address to Jury. The fate of Hoy Christner charged rlth the murder of Fred Shaver will e in the hands of the jury this ?fernoon and it is possible that a ver let will bo returned before the court djourns this evening. At the start f the afternoon session Judge Hay lond read bis instructions to the juy, a half hour being required, and uner his instructions and on the evienco submitted in the case it is belg expected that a verdict of acqultal rill be returned. Yesterday afternoon the defendant res placed on the stand and told the lory of the shooting, his being the ist testimony to be heard in the case. Vhile the prosecutor got him tangled p on a few minor points the bulk of is story was a straightforward reltal of the events leading up to the 1 ital shooting and the Bhooting itself.: With every available inch in both > he court room and gallery, packed to , :s capacity this afternoon,.the biggest | rowd that has been present in the ourt house for any trial in recent ears was present. Word going to 1 he street that the prosecutor was i taking his final plea to the jury caus- ] d hundreds of Saturday visitors in own to try to get in but only a few ,-ere able to squeeze inside the room. In his final plea, the prosecutor is houting his aase to the jury and as e dramatically points his finger at ttle Mrs. Cbristner and belittles , that woman's" heroic efTorts on the ; tany occasions she was called upon to ' rotect and minister to her husband, he Is sitting huddled up In her big hair with her head bowed and her hin fingers picking jerkily at her kirt Christner is pale but calm, turning , fhitcr every few moments as Haggery calls him a "dirty cowiard." Attorneys in the court room are ooking for an acqultal within the I our i :iSHBS i GET SQUARE DEAL! Agreement Signed at Chari- ' eston Yesterday Makes This Point Clear. News from the Charleston district : hat the coal operators and miners | here had signc ' contracts lor a year , vhlch gave to the miners an Increase I f six and a half cents a ton, and to \ ho day laborers an increase in wages | t from 15 to 25 per cent., brings to , Ight the fact that miners in tho Pair- I aont district have been much more 1 avored with raises than those of any tber district j The raises granted by tre Charles- i on operators yesterday were the tlrst bat had been given in three years, and iy contract the miners there are bonnd . o work at the same rates for one year. Ipposed to this the Fairmont miners iave been granted four Increases In he past thirteen months and had their forking time reduced from tsn to nine lours. The increases to day labor i iave totaled 30 per cent. Tho local miners were given inreases on February 1, 1916, May 1, 916, November 1, 1916 and the last on i larch 1.1917. It will be seen that they j iave been getting the benefits of the Irst of these raises for more than a car. The total Increases granted to local ] elners amount to between 8 and 9 ] ents a tun, granted in thlrteon months, s opposed to tho six cents a ton given : s a reward for three years of faithfnl ibor by the Charleston operators. I ut it is a Modern I ABANI VT? IS Pi GERMANS' NEXT STAN apaxKUot E L G }. JlTPRES o N. COURTVAi ? jyija ?V : > BETBJJHZ^r \ ' yjJN/a f #"?N5 ABEA?^. vaimwJWSC^BfimnJgNfc ^ ocAxy^: " SAWlTrtSo /") -% O ^TKr^roni^i*V*( ^ ami ems 3t ffjnmra rare % ? tUArEM ^ novra^^^OLAO? f EHEll^S^ / ^ -g-a-ax - _ If the Germans are driven from ally reports their next stand is to be Franco-Belgian border, In the foothill would mean giving up about half the German hands. The new, shorter lin this map. together with the supposed manB are now defending. BUILDERS SUmi 1 MEN JET HEBE1 C. H. Toothman Was Elected Chairman of this District Organization. A district meeting of the West Virginia Lumber and. Builders Supply Dealers' Association, attended by about thirty men from this district, including Mat ion, Monongalia, Prestr.n and Taylor counties, and representing Morgantown, Grafton, Fairmont and Mannlngton, was held in the office of the Fairmont Wall Plaster Company last night. The, mee'lng was presided over by George D. Hawkins, state secretary, with headquarters In Huntington, in the absence of C. A. Short, president, of Shinnston. Several new members wore received into the association and It was arranged to have re ruler monthly meetings in Fairmont on the second Tuesday of each month. Fairmont was selected for the meetings because members from Grafton and Morgantown can come to this city easiest. C. H. Tootbman, of the Fairmont Wall Plaster company, was elected chairman of the local association and Murray Dickerson, secretary. The West Virrinia Lumber cm. Builders Supply Dealers' Association Is a state association designed to promote cooperation among <bo builders of the state. The state is divided Into thirteen districts and Fairmont is the headquarters for one of these. A meeting was held in Clarksburg, the head mother district, I ist week and more than sixty were prosent. It is the intention to t'.ke n number of members Into the local division and it is expected to make it one of the strongest In the state. Lee Guthrie Was Buried This Morning The body or Leo Guthrie, aged 32 rears, whose death occurred on Thursday at his home at Akron. Ohio, accompanied by a number of relatives arrived here last night on the 9:36 train and were taken to the home of his niece, Mrs. Luther Hawkins on Haymond street. This morning fu neral services were conducted at sight o'clock by Rev. W. D. Reed, pastor of the Diamond Street M. E. church snd following the services the fnneral party drove to Mt. Xebo where fur:hcr services were held In the church there and Interment made by Undertaker R. C." Jones. Many at the Funeral of Late Luther Lowe Many Falrmonters and Marlon county resldentg left yeBterday for Lowesvllle to attend the funeral of Luthur Lowe, who was hurled at the Mt Hood cemetery from the ML Hood church. The pall bearers were members of the Odd Fellows lodge which took charge of the funeral services. Mr. Lowe Is survived by a brother Phillip Lowe, and two sisters, Mrs Rebecca Wlsman and Mrs. Tlllle Starrett He was aged 46 years and four months when he died. He was for years a residents of Fairmont, at the time of hlB death being agent here For the Cadillac automobile. *aper and Ads Nevi ly.wnV )0N U KOPOSED iD BELGIAN BORDER? >Amvzgp ? fc ? I U M J/jp BRUSJU5 ^ J3 ' umipJ ^ r "s2 /. a* -r?\ f \ rorrcrf) # - i I ? (k *v^L v% )M<n YerdukVj , \ iSTKmn'"', \ \ HAMCYO the "Hlndenburg line," according to : on a line closely paralleling the is of the Ardennes mountains. This territory In France that remains in e from Lille to Verdun is shown on "Hlndenburg line," which the GerBUNG TRADES ~ TO HAVEEXCHANGE iMeeting for Final Organization Will be Held Mon day Night. For the purpose of completing the organization of a Builders' Exchange, comprising a co-operative association of all the contractors, supply men, and others allied to the building trades in Fairmont, a meeting will be held In the office of the Fairmont Wail Plaster comnanv next Mondav even Ing at which time a committee will submit by-laws which are now being prepared and the final organization of the Exchange effected. The Fairmont Exchange will be the only one,of its kind in West Virginia, although not the first, since a similar organization was once in effect in Wheelling and aboutyiifteen years ago one was extant in Fairmont. It will be the object of the Ex change to promote closer relations among the members of the organization, which will permit of a very valuable interchange of ldoas and make much easier the arriving at facts neccs sary in the building trades. It will also be the aim of the Exchange to see that none of its members does any job in a manner that would be a discredit to his profession. In this way the public is rendered a service by the assurance that any Job done by a member of the Exchange must be first rate. The committee which is preparing the by-laws for the Exchange is composed of W. H. Speddon, T. L. Burchinal, Fred Mclntlre, C. C. Meredith, and Charles H. Toothmnn. At present the Exchange's sessions will bo held in the office of the Fairmont Wall Plaster company but soon quarters of its own will be secured. T*T H .f TIT...13 vvooamenoi vvona Honor Fairmont Man H. T. Jones, a local man, was for the third time elected head clerk of the West Virginia Jurisdiction of the Woodmen of the World at the recent convention In Bluefleld. The other officers elected are as follows: Head consul. Dr. H. S. Herman, Hagerstown, Md.; head advisor, H. W. Tippett, Washington, D. C.; head banker, E. T. Redlnger. Grafton. W. Va.; head clerk, H. T. Jones, Fairmont, W. Va.; head escort, A. L. Thomas, Huntington; head watchman, J. E. Satterfield, Parkersburg; sentry, J. S. Hall, Bluefield, W. Va.; managers?C. C. Floyd, Clarksburg, W. Va.; W. G. Scott, Wash ington; C. B. Linger, Terra Alta ,W. Va.; Albert Markley, J. Blaln Dlvin, The following delegates were In attendance from the White Oak camp No. 20 of Fairmont: E. F. Morgan, | Bruce Morgan. W. C. Daugherty, L.j D. Snider, J. W. Snowden. A. F. Carpenter, George Ice, J. C. Phillips, H. T. Jones. John Hartley. Guard'Phyilclan Promoted. CHARLESTON, W. VA? March 24? Dr. W. W. Point, captain in the Medical department of the Second West Virginia infantry, who was with the troopB in Texas since last summer, has been promoted to the rank of major according to advices received by Adjut. General John C. Bond from the War Department Dr. Point has been doing service as a major since the recent resignation of MaJ. Sfancls T. Ridley of Blueeld. When Dr. Point is mustered out of the Federal service it will be with the new rank. ir Are Permitted to I ! - i FEREI Itt NEXT | OBJECTIVE IFTflS Men and Munitions Massed on North End East Front OLD HIBI1 IDEA French Making Decided Gains in Vicinity of La Fere. Increased peril to the so-called Hln aennurg uno or the Germans In northem France, running through Cambral, St. Quentln, Le Fere and Loan la Indicated by today's Paris official statement. The French are continuing their strong pressure from St. Quentln to the Alsne an have driven through to the Olse river directly north at La Fere at some points. Apparently they have gained control of high ground In this region and are able to command the city with their guns. That the Germans were despairing of holding La Fere a point to the new line was Indicated by last nlght'a announcement that they had opened the sluice gates and flooded the city. new French advance to the Olse can hardly fall to make the place Still more difficult to hold. Further progress has also been made by the French further to the southeast on the east bank of the Ailette river west of Laon where the Germans, while still falling back toward their new lines are apparently offering a stiff resistance. Paris military critics also point to a German peril hero where the left end of the German line at St. Gobaln Is threatened with out flanking. Last reports from the British mid of the line also Indicated strong German resistance but recorded also further advances for General Halg> forces. notably in the region southeast of Arras. in jmrt at lease, ine uerman nun> . ment in Franco may be explained by an official statement of tbe new Bussian war ministry in which it Is announced that the Germans are concentrating* great quantities of munition. supplies and men on the aartbern end of the Russian front. A Teutonic offensive in the near future in this Important but long neglected war area is thus indicated. Field Marshal con Hindenburg who Is credited with establishing the new line in the west, la classed as a believer in tbe idea that a decision- in the war can thus be gained in a campaign on the eastern front against Russia. Meanwhile the Russian provisional government continues its effort to strengthen the defensive measures ot the nation. Want New Bids on Hauling the Mails Postmaster Manley has been authorized to again a^k for bids for screen "afeun oui ?n-c uv.m'.tu iuc acyvb miu the postofflce. Owing to a misunderstanding on the part of some of the bidders about tiie Dight service required. It was necessary to reject all bids and new bids have beon asked for. Intending bidders can get the necessary information -egtrding this service by inquiring at the office of the postmaster. Bids must be in tho hands of the postmaster to forward to Washington, u. C.. not inter than 12 o'cloc c noon April second. For lnforfnaUon ' regarding n unices have been posted on the bulletin board in the lobby of the postofflce and at the conrt honse. Intending bidders should show whether they intend to use horse-drawn or motor vehicles. Intending bidders should enclose proposals in sealed envelopes, marked "Proposal for Screen Wagon Service cn Route No. 416007," giving the- names, ana then should hand same to tho postmaster to forward to Washington. RUSSIANS TAKE A TOWN PETROGRAD, March 24.?Capture ;$ by Russian troops of the Persian town of Kerlnd in the sectors west of Kermanshad about 40 miles from the MSaopotamlan border is announced by the War office. Persuit of the Turks continues. Crowd the News 1