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Evening star., 1914-08-09

Miss Mary f. Pond, contralto. has re-
turned to the family summer home at
Buena Vista Springs, Pa, after week
spent with her sister here. Last Sunday
she sang at the morning service at the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church and at
the evening service at the Soldiers Home
Evening star., 1914-08-09

Mrs Luciie Belts. after being the guest
Of relatives At Rehoboth Beach. DeL has
gone for short stay at the home of her
daughter, Mrs, G. l.. Rodier. at Hern-
don Va
Evening star., 1914-08-09

Regular price other times.
this sale at S7.S5. Shown in
an unusually attractive as
sortment of designs and
colors. Durable and sanitary
Sale price
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
BUSINESS DEAL.
N. H. Beall Buys Property at Pur.
cellville-Leesburg News.
al Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, March o, 1914.
NJ II. Beall of Washington. D. c., has
purchased the large hardware store build
ings. stock Of goods and business Of Jo-
seph v. Nichols of Purcellville, Loudoun
county. The price paid for the buildings
is said to be $500, while the stock ia
estimated at $4,000.
The Ahalt School, about five miles north
of Leesburg. which has not been in SEES
sion since the opening Of the high school
this morning with a good attendance. The
reopening of the school was due to the
persistent efforts of number of repre-
sentative citizens of the Ahalt neighbor-
hood.
Information has been received here Of
the death Of Cuthbert B. Rogers at his
home near Little river, in the eighty
sixth year of his age. He was a con
federate soldier, serving with the Sth
Virginia Regiment. His wife and two
daughters, Mrs. Hutchinson of Texas
and Miss Maggie Rogers, survive him.
Funeral services were held Wednesday,
interment being in Sharon cemetery, Mid
dleburg.
Floyd Myers has been appointed post
master at Lincoln. this county, to sue
coed G. @. Davis, removed.
News has been received here OF the
death of Sidney Stouts at his home, near
Bethel, this county. aged seventy three
years. Death was due to paralysis. His
wife and four sons survive. Interment
was made at Lovettsville, Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
TO Determine ATTITUDE
AT CONFERENCES HERE
What Steps, if Any, Government
Will Take Against Metropolitan
Tobacco Company Comes Up.

At conferences to be held IN this city
be determined the attitude of the govern
ment toward the Metropolitan Tobacco
Company of New York. the distributing
agent of producing concerns which made
up the old tobacco trust Attorney
General McReynolds and G. C. Todd, as
sistant to the Attorney General in charge
OF trust prosecutions. will go over the
matter with H Snowden Marshall, United
States district attorney at New York,
who has been conducting an investigation
of the Metropolitan's activities for several
months.
Charges by independent tobacco dealers
that the Metropolitan's methods OF dis
tribution maintained the monopoly OF the
old American Tobacco Company. dis
solved by the Supreme Court led to the
investigation. 1t has been generally CON
language of the Supreme Courts decree
might prove embarrassing to future prose
cutions.
Mr.. McReynoldS, who was the govern
ment's attorney in the case against the
American Tobacco Company, was never
satisfied with that decree, but his chief
at that time. Attorney General Wicker
sham, accepted 1t. Mr.. McReynolds has
kept a close watch on the disintegrated
trust" and any restraint of trade by
the companies into which it was dis
solved probably would be visited with
prompt prosecution.
Evidence gathered by Mr. Marshall will
be gone into carefully before any de-
cision is made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
VALUATION BOARD NAMED.
Will Determine Damages in Monroe
Libel Suit Against Nantucket.

AS an outcome of the recent collision
between the steamer Nantucket Of the
Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company feet and the steamer Monroe
Of the Old Dominion line, in which the
Monroe was sunk off Hog Island on
the Virginia coast, !. Fl. A. Steward
senior surveyor at Baltimore for Brit
ish Lloyds; j. A Marsden, representing
the same concern at Norfolk, and
Frank Martin, marine architect of New
York. have been selected as a board of
valuation on the Nantucket, now al
Newport News.
The Nantucket was libeled in the fed
eral court of the district of Norfolk
for colliding with and sinking the
Monroe and was transferred to a trus-
tee and taken to Newport News to
place her within the jurisdiction Of the
court issuing the libel. 1t is expected
the board of valuation will meet next
Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
DENIES IGNORING SIGNALS.
Capt. Nelson Says He Did No
Think He Was Needed.

NORFOLK. Va. March 9-Denial that
he had Intentionally ignored the signals
of distress flown by the steamer Charlie
magne Tower. jr., off the Jersey coast
Friday. was made by Capt Nelson of the
Old Dominion steamer Hamilton, through
Z. E. Palen. general agent of that line,
Saturday. when the Hamilton locked
here In his interview here Saturday
Capt. II. c. Simmons. master OF the
Tower. said the Hamilton paid no atten-
ton to his signals as the Tower was
laundering and the men were in the life
boat.
Capt. Nelson said he saw the signals
flying from the disabled steamers deck,
but at the same time observed a surf
boat landing on the beach nearby, and
thought all the crew of the Tower had
been taken off. He said he did not see
the small boat with the seventeen men
in it near the old steamer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
NAMED FOR LIGHTHOUSE.
W. W. Thomas Appointed Temporary
Assistant for Tangier Sound Station

". Wallace Thomas of Tangier, Va. the
lighthouse authorities for this district an
nounce, has been appointed temporary as
sistant keeper Of the Tangier sound light
station, Chesapeake bay, Md. The APP
pointment is for one month.
On her way from Norfolk to Baltimore
the lighthouse service steamer Holly
picked up buoy adrift two and a half
miles southeast of cove point, OFF III
mouth of the Patuxent river, and carried
It to Baltimore. The Holly is to engage
IN buoy work i'll the upper part of Ches;-
peake bay.
The next two months will be busy ones
with the lighthouse service fleet in the fifth
district as the buoy tenders will be called
upon to replace many buoys moved out of
position in tributaries of the Chesapea c
by drifting ice. II is stated that many
of the buoys marking the channel of the
Potomac between this city and Maryland
points are out of place, and will have to
be restored to their proper positions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Consumption Takes
$50 People Daily

i'll the United States and The
deadly germs claim more vic
)tims in cities than i'll rural dis
tricts. due no doubt 10 the M
creased number of indoor,
workers in conhnirs quarters
and their lack OF sunshine.
Tubercular germs always attack
when the system is weakened from
colds or sickness, overwork. overstrain.
continuing duties or any drain which
, has reduced the rcsistive forces of the
body. But nature always provides a
corrector. and the best physicians cm-
phasizc that during changing climate
our blood should be kept rich and pure
} and active by taking SCOTS Emulsion
\ after meals; the cod liver oil in SCOTS
( Emulsion warns the body by enrichine
the blood-it peculiarly strengthens
the lungs and upbuilds the resistiv.
7 forces of the body to avoid colds ana
} prevent consumption.
If you work indoors, tire easily. feel
SinSuid or nervous. SCOTS Emulsion Is
the most strengthening food medicine
I known; il builds energy and strength
( and is totally free from alcohol or any
I Supplying drug-every druggist has it.
} l:-iO6 Scott tS BOVINE, bloomfield. n. ].
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
WILSON NOT READY
T0G|VE DECISION
Government Ownership of TEL
egraph and Telephone Not
Administration Policy.

Government ownership of telegraphs
and telephones is not yet to be regard
ed as an administration measure. Pres
ident Wilson has expressed no opinion
for or against it, and Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson himself. through whom
the matter has been given prominence,
has simply suggested that the tentative
draft of the bill proposed in the case
be submitted to economists and au-
thorities on public utilities with a
view to securing valuable assistance in
duly safeguarding the interests of the
government and of the owners of the
properties affected.
This much appears from the report OF
the Post Office Department committee
on the subject. which has just been
turned out of the government printing
office as Senate document 1893. APP
pendix (A) Of the report is "ahistorical
resume of the agitation of the subject
from the time of Prof. Morse's inven-
ton Of the telegraph until the pres
emit" The closing part Of this section
contains the statement that govern
ment ownership of the electrical means
of transmitting intelligence has had
the Endorsement of every Postmaster
General since the civil war, with
score of favorable reports by commit
tees in Congress. and more than sew
enty bills have been introduced in
r-op0rnsS to arcomplish 1T
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
HOPE TO SETTLE PEACEFULLY.
Conferences Over N. T., N. H. & n.
Dissolution Expected This Week.

Conference over the dissolution plans
OF the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company. it is expected.
will be resumed here this week, although
no word has been received from Chair
man Howard Elliott of the road.
Reports that the New Haven directors
had decided to fight in the courts rather
than give up control over the Boston and
Maine road have not upset the hopes OF
officials that a peaceful settlement will
be reached. There has been no intima-
ton to the Attorney General since the
New Haven board met in New York FRI
day that its officers have abandoned ne
gotiationS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
STATUE PLANNED HERE
OF ADMIRAL De GRASSE
Navy League and Sons of the Revo.
luton Decide to Make
Effort.

The Navy League OF the United States
and the Sons Of the Revolution are per-
fecting plans for a united effort to
bring about the erection in Washington
of statue of Admiral Ccmte de Grasse.
whose aid, it is declared. virtually turned
the tide in the revolutionary war and
enabled Washingtor's forces to compel
the surrender Of Lord Cornwallis and his
army at Yorktown.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secre-
tary of the navy, who is a deep student
Of naval history and affairs of this
country, holds to the belief that Admiral
de Grasse was the real savior Of the
struggling American nation near the
close of the first wa= with Great Britain.
and is an enthusiastic supporter Of the
movement to erect in this city a statue
to the memory of tire crest French naval
commander. In recent, address before
the Sons of the Revolution In this city
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt paid the
following tribute to this achievements
of Admiral de Grasse III discussing his
part in bringing to an. end the long
struggle between the thirteen colonies
and Great Britain:
Aid Of French Fleet.
1.-The capture Of CORVALLIS in 1851
would not have been possible without
the cooperation of tho French fleet This
wing of the British. army had then been
successfully operating against the col
onists through the Tsaroliras. This force,
however, was gradually weakening be-
cause Of the natural casualties of long
operations in war So CORVALLIS ad-
vanced into Virginia With the idea of an
ultimate union with tae British forces
in New York. The British had had COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
BANS SALE OF LIQUOR.
Ainey Bill Would Bar Traffic or
Governmental Owned Property,

representative Ainey of Pennsylvania,
who is seeking the local option vote In
his campaign for the senatorial nomina-
ton on the republican ticket. has intro
duced a bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
in buildings in Washington owned by the
United States government and rented to
private persons.
The bill is aimed principally at one or
two hotels and saloons in the tract of
land south of the Avenue taken over by
the government for the purpose Of erect
ing departmental buildings at some future
time. 1t would prevent the granting of
liquor licenses to firms on government
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Las Vegas Wins Land Contest

The contest between George f. Priest
and associates on one side and the city
of Las Vegas, y. Mex, on the other
over title to portion Of the so-calied Las
Vegas land grant was decided today by
che Supreme Court of the United States
in favor of the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Legislation by the States.

Appendix OBJ is devoted to the leg
to telegraph and telephone companies
appendix Co contains fourteen charts
illustrating important deductions from
comparative statistics for the United
States and leading foreign countries
and shows that the United States has
more letters received and moro tele-
phone calls than any other country
while in kilograms 1t ranks ninth; also
that the American postage charged Is
nearly the lowest and the telegraph
and telephone charges nearly the high
est while in telephone efficiency-con
sidering the Bell telephones only-it
stands tenth" An elaborate compari-
son of subscribers annual telephone
rates for sixty large American cities
is also shown. Appendix Cd contains
postal. telephone and telegraph statis-
tics for the leading nations; appendix
(E). miscellaneous data relating to the
three services-postal. telephone and
elegraph-especially as to the matter
of rates. The last three appendices
IF. G and h. covering seventy
eight pages. constitute what is claimed
to be "the most complete statistical
survey of the telegraph, telephone and
postal services of the world ever pub
hshed in the English language"
Report Complete Presentation.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Daniel c. Roper is chairman of the de-
partmcntal committee that conducted
the inquiry and complied the report
He states that the Senate document
contains all the material necessary to
impartial and original investigation
and consideration Of the subject OF
government ownership of the electrical
off, ,{..af ion
bers of the committee are Chief Clerk
Merritt o. Chance and John c. Rooms
superintendent of the division of sala-
ries and allowances of the Post Office
Department.
The Senate document also contains a
tentative draft Of bill for bringing
about government ownership of the
telephone and telegraph systems and
a collection of supplementary statistics
furnished by the bureau of the census.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Blast in Russian Mine Kills "a.

EkATERINOSLAv. Russia, March O.
Twenty-four men yesterday were killed
in a gas explosion, in a coal mine here.
The explosion was caused by a miner
opening his safety lamp in a gas-fillcd
chamber to light a cigarette.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Is OPPOSED TO CHANGE
IN THE CANAL TOLLS ACT
Senator Gallinger to Argue for Re
tention of Clause Exempting
American Coastwise Vessels.

Senator Galinger of New Hampshire
has announced himself as unalterably OPP
posed to the proposed repeal of the tolls
clause of the Panama canal act. He will,
he says, address the Senate on the sub
ject within a short time.
The democratic administration, accord
ing to Senator Gallingef. is attempting TO
get out of a diplomatic tangle when it
asks for the repeal of the clause permit
ting the free passage through the canal
of American coastwise vessels. which in
reality would mean the violation Of a
covenant entered into by the United
States.
Preservation of Nations Rights.
When the Senate passed the resolution
permitting the fortification of the Pana-
ma canal" he continued, lit was with
the distinct understanding that the Sen
ate reserved to the United States the fun
rights of this country under the Hay
Pauncefotc treaty. 1t is impossible for
any man who has read the debate at the
time it was agreed to fortify the canal to
believe that the intention of the Senate
was other than to preserve all of this
nations rights.
we have come to the parting of the
ways The United States must state to
the world that she will manage the canal
and arrange the tolls question as seems
INT to her. or she must submit to the
eternal suggestions of powers who played
no part in the canals construction and
VINO are now trying to reap the benefit
OF something they did not SOW"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09

mand OF the seas and had been thus
able to transfer aid from one force to
the other.
washington and Rochambeau appre-
ciated this advantage and wanted above
all things. to isolate one of those armies
and concentrate their attack upon it.
This isolation depended on command of
the seas. They sent dispatches to Ad-
miral Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse.
then anchored at Cape Haytien, in the
West Indies. where he had been maneu-
vering against the British under Rodney.
DE Grasse decided, on his own initia-
tive, to move against the Chesapeake and
isolate CORVALLIS. With every available
Rochambeau. he sailed at once. He
anchored at Lynnhaven roads August so.
17S1.. When Graves of the British fleet
arrived at the Chesapeake a little later
he found de GraSSe in readiness Addl-
tional French ships soon afterward Joined
de Grasse. Thus were the French in
possession of much stronger force than
the English, who, realizing their predica-
ment retired and returned to New York.
Final Blow of Long War.
With the retirement. of Graves disap-
peared the last hope Of succor that might
have gladdened CORVALLIS eyes. De
Gfasse was left in complete control Of the
waters about the Chesapeake and Corn
vans .oiess we're iSoidteu from lhoSe
at New York. Clinton. in New York, was
unable to send him help. and the final
blow OF the long war logically followed.
Lord CORVALLIS surrendered at Yorktown
to Washington in October 1881.
"A year later de Grasse was defeated
and captured by the British, and because
Of this came in for much criticism. He
WAS acquitted of all blame for this unfor-
tunate termination Of his career by q
court-martial of his fellow officers This
circumstance. however, should not permit
his brilliant services to the American
colonies to be obscured. The memory of
Admiral de Grasse and his important
labors for the cause of our forefathers
deserves now to be f1ttingly recognized
by the American people. He should have
statue to stand among those to Lafay-
cite. Rochambeau, Kosciuszko. Pulaski,
Won Steuben, and other distinguished
foreigners who fought in the revolution .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Explains Committees idea.

Commenting on the purposes of the
joint committee, Mr.. Ryan, vice presi-
dent of the Washington Truth Society,
said today:
"Washingtonians need have no fear
that the decision of a local commission
for the censorship of plays would be
made in an unintellectual and arbitrary
manner.
The Commissioners would naturally
select for the censorship board only
men or women familiar with dramatic
art. These would always have at their
disposal the expert advice of experienced
theatrical managers. while the principles
of the great dramatic writer's, from
Aristotle to Ferdinand Brunetiere and
Brander Matthews, would doubtless fur
nish the basis for the discussion Of good
and bad plays.
THE four capable local dramatic edi-
tors would no doubt be willing to assist
the board also, by acting as judges in
cases where there would be wide diff
ference Of opinion regarding a particular
play
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
TO THE FRIENDS
OF THE NATIONAL
CAPNTAL9!!

Have not the citi-
zens and residents
Of the National Capt.
tai, both rich and
poor, tried to extend
a m-hearted hos
pitality to those who
come here as office
holders?
Hundreds of thou
sands of visitors and
tourists come here
every year. All are
proud OF what they
see.
Not one goes away
ashamed.
Every Patriot Ought
to Love Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
THINK ABOUT THIS.

THINK ABOUT THIS.
Do people ever erect
monuments to kickers
and GROWERS?
1t is easier to tear
down than build up.
To assert than to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09

ofEfSA TED 81
We're more than typcsetters and pressmen.
Were advisers on tine printing We plan and
direct full printing campaign for the smallest
business with much assurance of detailed
success as the campaign of the biggest mercan.
tile concern. Consult THE CARNAHAS
PRESS ;;::;;.a,- S3+ e st. NV. Phi. NJ. 664S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the Hyattsyille Building Association of Hyatts-
vile. Md, will be held in IieptssoDhs Hall.
corner Of Maryland and Johnson aves.. Hyatts.
willie. Md. Tuesday, March 10. 1914. at
o'clock pm for the election of officers and
directors for the ensuing year, and such other
business that may properly come before the
meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
CENSORSHIP PLANNED
FOR STAGE AND FILM
Commissioners Will Be Asked to Ap-
point Board Of
Critics.
Would Put Ban on Caricatures and
Scenes Detrimental to Good
.M"" Morals.

In an effort to elevate the moral tone
of the stage and to insure to Washing
ton theatersoers and patrons of the
movies" the presentation of only such
plays and films as are calculated to work
no injury to morals and manners and
to leave no bad taste in the mouth. the
National Anti Defamation League,
through its Washington branch has
asked the cooperation of other similar
organizations in the effort to have a
board of censorship appointed in Wash
ington.
The league, whose local officers include
Simon Wolf, president, and Rabbi Abram
Simon, secretary, has enlisted the aid
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton and the Washington Truth Society
in the effort to bring about the APP
pointment of such a board. Committees
representing the league and the Wash
ington Truth Society have been named
to wait on the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, and the appoint
ment of similar committee by the Y.
NJ. c. A. is expected. The leagues
committee is comp osed of Simon Wolf.
Julius /. Peyser, A. d. Marks and Rabbi
Abram Simon, while the committee rep
resenting the truth society includes Will
Aldui H. bc Lacy, former JuO&e OF the
Juvenile Court; William Cleary Sullivan,
r. 7. Moran. Rev. Eugene De L. Melon
nell president of the society, and Fran
els de Sales Ryan, its vice president.
Board of Censors Urged.
1t is the purpose of those at the head
Of the movement to induce, if possible,
the Commissioners to appoint d compe-
tent board of censorship, which board is
to be charged with the duty Of censoring
all plays or motion picture films intended
for presentation before Washington audi
ences. The plan contemplates the elimi-
nation from the stage and the screen of
all portrayals. either dramatic or in films,
of caricatures or burlesques. so-called
types. OF any race or people, Jews or
otherwise, and to bar from local theaters
all plays or pictures containing lines or
other features derogatory to religion or
religious observances.
About three years ago the appointment
Of "a board of dramatic censors in the
District of Columbia was sought. but the
Commissioners at that time, acting on the
opinion of the then corporation counsel
held they had not the power or author
ity to appoint such a board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09

ROBERT D. Law. Secretary.
E,h