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Evening star., 1915-06-19
FIRST SUMNER HALF HOLIDAY
Government Employees Today Leave
Their Desks at O'Clock

Government employees In all branches
of the service lost little time TODAY In
closing their desks and getting out
into the open for breath of fresh air
Promptly at / o'clock the doors Of the
big government buildings poured forth
their humanity for the first summer
Saturday half holiday
The rushing of work necessary IN
some of the Offices made the afternoon
OFF all the more enjoyable for those
who had to make up" The employees
spread out In various directions. som.
going to the river for a ride in small
boats and big steamers. Others soueh,
the shade of the woods. while others
held picnics.
Announcement also was made TODAY
that the Congrsssional Library would
close at I o'clock Sundays during the
summer months.
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NEW CABINET FOR PORTUGAL.
Premier Castro to Be Minister of
War and Interior.

LISBON. Portugal. June 10. via Paris.
The new Portuguese cabinet to sue
ceed the ministry which resigned June
Is is constituted as follows:
Atose Castro. premier. minister of
war and minister of the interior, pro
TEN.
catano Menezes, minister OF justice.
Augusta Spares, minister of foreign
affairs
Norton Mattos. minister of the col
onies.
Manuel Montero, minister of public
works.
struction-
The posts of minister Of finance and
minister of marine have not vet been
filled.
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TWO BRITISH STEAMERS
ARE SUNK BY GERMANS
Dulcie Torpedoed Off Suffolk and
the Ailse Off Scot
land.

LONDON. June 1.-TWO more British
vessels have been sunk by the Ger
mans
The c.000-ton British steamer Dulcie
was torpedoed and sunk off suffolk
today The members of the crew. with
one exception. were saved.
The Dulcie was 215 feet long. was
built in 1900. and owned in Hartlepool,
Eng. She was last reported as arriving
May p at the Tyne from Rouen,
France.
The British steamship Ailsa of Leith
was sunk by a German submarine on
the southeast coast of Scotland. The
crew was saved.
The steamer Ailsa was of s16 tons
gross and built in 1854 She was zoo
feet long. 81 feet beam and lo.3 feet
deep.
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Or. Meyer-G Gerhard, Ambassa-
doris Envoy. to See the I'M
periaI Chancellor.
NO CLUE TO THE TENOR
OF GERMANY'S RESPONSE
Conferences Which Are to Be Held
to Determine Policy Not
Yet Begun.

BERLIN. via London, June ~. ll:4O
a.m-Dr. Anton MeyerGerhard. whose
long report to Foreign Minister Won
Jagow. DIR. Alfred Zimmerman. under
secretary of foreign affairs. and Count
Mont gelas. head of the American sec
ton of the foreign office, acquainted
these officials fully with the status OF
public opinion in the United States,
will be given an opportunity to make
similar report direct to Chancellor Won
Bethmann-H -Hollweg before the actual
work is commenced of preparing the
German reply to the second United
States note regarding submarine war
fare.
Whether DR.. Meyer-Gerhard, who vas
sent to Germany by Count Won Bern
storff, amba ssador to the United States.
will visit headquarters and present his
facts to Emperor William in person has
not been decided.
Conferences to Be Held.
In any case the German reply prob
ably will not be ready for delivery III
less than ten days or two weeks.
Extended conferences between rep
resentatives of the various depart
mentS concerned Will te iequAeu W
unity the opinions of the foreign office.
the ministry of marine and the havai
general staff, for presentation TO the
United States. ,,.
These conferences and denpera'lons
have not yet begun and there fs notn-
ing to show what direction the CuIr
OF German policy ultimately Will take.
1t still is an open question whetner the
reply Will be another ad interim coih-
munication or a definite re1olhueF.
Little New Information.
1t may be stated regarding DE- Mey-
er-Gerhard's report that the informa-
tion brought by him contained little
which was absolutely new to the Tor
eien Office, and its chief value lay In
presenting a report of the strength OF
the various currents OF public opinion
in the United States and the a5tltuoe
of President Wilson and his ADVISERS
in a more positive and convincing form
than could have been possible IN
written communication. :.
He is understood to have made II
clear there Is no doubt the American
neonIe are standing solidly behind the
President in his insistence upon guar
antees against q repetition OF such an
incident as the sinking OF the Lusl-
tania. and equally little doubt that no
imnortant section of the American peo-
ple favor war If it can be avoided nom
orably.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
John v. MITCHELL DIES
AT HIS VIRGINIA HOME

John W. Mitchell, newspaper man
and former correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press at st. Petersburg-now
Petrograd-and London. died last night
at his homo at Lacey, near Clarendon,
Va. Death followed an illness of sew
eral years of q peculiar and progress
sive form Of paralysis. The body was
taken to Lees undertaking establish
ment in this city, where 1t was GRE
mated this afternoon. Funeral sery-
Ices are to be held in the chapel at
Oak Hill cemetery at 4 o'clock Monday
afternoon, and interment. which is to
be private, will be in the Mitchell
family lot in Oak Hill.
Mr.. Mitchell. who was forty-fiye
years old. was the son of tho late John
+, Mitchell. at one time one of Wash
ineton's foremost merchants. He en-
gagged in newspaper work with the
Washington Post about 1895. and at the
outbreak OF the Spanish-American war
he was a member of the night staff of
the Associated Press. He was assigned
being one of the very first correspon-
dents to land with the American troops
under Gen. Shafter In Cuba.
His work in the Cuban campaign was
extremely arduous. his final exploit be-
ing to travel on foot a distance of
nearly thirty-dve miles to and from the
wont to get and to send to the United
states the frst story of the battle of Ell
Caney. This exploit. performed under
the blazing rays of midsummer tropic
ann. resulted in an Illness from which
M Mitchell never recovered, the ILL
n..s being. in fact, the beginning of
,he trouble which finally caused his
the close Of the war he was sent
70 st. Petersburg in the hope that the
eb.nee of climate would be helpful.
Ist.r he was transferred to the London
ar,ca of tho Associated Press. his stay
IN europe covering about three years.
Member Of Smithsonian Expedition.
PRIOR to tho Spanish American war
Nv Mitchell represented a New York
nawspaper as a member of the Smith
"nnian Institution's expedition to Tib-
Son Island, in the Gulf of California,
the expedition being headed by the
,ate w ]. MCGEE.
IN his return from Europe Mr..
nitchell entered the employ of The
| Evening Star and was connected with
this paper until his death While a
,nember of The Star staff he chron-
icled tho development of the aeroplane
| rom its crude beginnings, his writ
;rss on this subject being among the
.aYliest and most authoritative in re-
| gard to heavier-than- craft
he is survived by his widow and six
children, the Oldest being twelve years
old.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
See Dissension Among Supporters.
GUNBOAT GOES TO VERA CRUZ
Marietta Will Replace the Machias,
Now En- Route to Norfnlk.

The gunboat Marietta was ordered
from Boston to Vera Cruz last evening
to replace the gunboat Machias. now en-
route north. bringing sick from Vera
Cruz to Norfolk. Later tho Machias
will return to Mexican duty.
At present the cruiser Sacramento and
the gunboat Petrol are off Tampico,
while the cruiser Washington and the
gunboat Wheeling are at Vera Cruz
The Marietta probably will be sent from
Vera Cruz to Progreso.
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have established = number of heavy
The dispatches say that the Russians
in their retirement are fighting des-
perately to defend their home soil. and
are burning villages behind them and
urging the Inhabitants to retire with
the army.
Would Deliver Serious Blow.
Austro-German military experts do
not consider that the Russian reverses
up to the present constitute a definite
strateEical victory for their opponents
so far as the outcome of the war Is
concerned German and Austrian mill
tary authorities are as well informed
as the Russians themselves OF the rea-
sons for the Muscovite retreat. They
have decided. a Budapest correspond
ent says. to continue the campaign In
the east with every resource at their
command in an effort to inflict upon
Russia a blow so serious that she will
be unable to recover for a long time.
thus enabling the Teutonic allies to
assume the offensive on other fronts.
Budapest newspapers are giving great
prominence to the attitude of Bulgaria.
and fear is expressed by the people
that another disappointment is in store
for Austro- Hungary.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
Popes Nephews in Italian Army.

ROME, June Is. via Paris, June 10.
40 .m.-Three nephews of Pope
Benedict, sons of his sister, are now at
the front with the Italian army. An
ether nephew the son of admiral Della
chiesa. who IL preparing to rejoin the
artillery regiment in which he is an
offlcer, was received by the Pope.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
FOR RELIEF OF MEXIcANs.
Supplies of Beans and Corn Reach
Monclova in Interior.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. June la-The
first relief supplies to reach the inte-
rior of Mexico have been delivered in
Monclova. 215 miles south of Piedras
Negras. according to message re-
ceived here by Brig. Gen. c. A. Devol
general manager of the Red Cross
from his agent, J. c. Weller. who ac-
companied the two cars of beans and
corn.
At Monciova. Mr.. Weller was given
the cooperation of the military au-
thorities. Food will be sold to persons
with money and the receipts turned
back to the Red Cross for further re-
lief work.
Gen. Devol will leave today on a trip
of inspection along the border.
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Italy Holds Large Austrian Area

ROME. June Is. via Paris. June 10.
40 am.-The assertion is made by
newspapers of Rome that tho Italian
Arny now occupies 10000 square kiIo-
meters "a kilometer IL about two
thirds of a mileD of "unredeemed" ter
rftory. more than twice as much as
Austria offered Italy for rsma In n
neutral
Evening star., 1915-06-19
Deadlock Stays Legislative Session

SPRINGFIELD. Ill. June ia dead
lock between the house and senate over
an appropriation of 100000 for stats
normal schools resulted in the faiIure
Of the legislature to quit work and adl
tourn Its session last night as had been
planned Instead 1t resumed work this
morning, with the possibility that it
today or tonight
Evening star., 1915-06-19
Beer Shortage in Munich.

1s.-Munich, the greatest beer-drink-
N1TNICH. Bavaria, via London. juno
ing center in Germany, has been COM
PEELED sharply to curtail the consump-
ton of beer owing to the expropria-
ton by the military authorities OF a
large part of the product OF the
brewertes. The amount of beer now
available for public use is only ono
third of the ordinary supply.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
Petoskey. Mich, Hotel Burns.

PETOSKEY, Mich. June la.-rhe
Hotel Arlington of this city was burn
cd to the ground early today. causing
property loss estimated at s25o,0oG.
All occupants Of the hotel are thought
TO have escaped. The Arlington was
owned by r. Taylor Heck Of Grand
Rapids. ~, .-.. .s..s
Evening star., 1915-06-19
D|SSENS|0N SPLITS
CARRANzA CABINET
Continued from First Page

tion. and should further signify pres
sure or threat. the conventionist gov
ernment. still harboring the conscience
of its sacrifices, will maintain the dig
nifty of the Mexican people. We con-
tinue. however. to conjecture that the
general idea of the government of the
United States is to help US in friendly
way to bring to an end our fractricidal
struggle. which would be for the great
est good of the country.
The government is ready to bring
about by all means consistent with its
dignity the fusion of all the contend =
ing groups, to initiate all the economic.
political and social reforms aimed at
by the revolution and to establish a
strong stable government with which
all tendepcies and all legitimate inter
ests will find the fullest favor and en-
joy the guarantees which our funda- =
mental law provides"
Evening star., 1915-06-19
TO BE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
AT MINER NORMAL SCHOOL
Supt. Thurston to Address the Grad
yates at Commencement Exercises
Next Wednesday Evening.

Ernest l. Thurston, superintendent Of
public schools, ts to be the principal
speaker at tho commencement exer-
cises Of tho Myrtilla Miner Normal
School at the building. Georgia avenue
and Euclid street. Wednesday evening
Henry P. Blair. president of the board
of education, 10 to preside. DR.. Charles
H Marshall, a member OF the board. Is
to present the diplomas. while Mrs
Coralie r. Cook. another member, Is to
present the scholarships. Rev. F. I. A.
Bennett is to lead the devotional ex-
ercises, and music is to be furnished
by q section Of the United States Ma
rine Band.
Graduates were announced today as
follows:
List Of the Graduates.
Primary grade course - Emily A
Alexander. Edna N. Barker. Villa V.
Carter, Helen G. Hairston. Martha A
Harris, Ernestine HAWKING Jeretta
w, Hawkins, Olga G. Hutchins, Emma
Jones, Rhea e. Jones. Josephine v.
Lawrence. Cora L. Lucas. Esther Nc
Lendon, Catherine e. Minor, Lillian B.
Murdock, Nettie c. Norris, lone D.
odell. Esther c. Peyton. Julia B. Pride.
bessie scipio. opheiia B. Scott. Edna v
Sedgewick, Grace N Tanner. Esther
I. Tolson. Gertrude e. Turner, Annie
M. tyler. Emma B. Wallace. Sametta
1. Wallace. Martha e. Watson. Justine
NJ Weir, Ella Wesley and Enoch c.
Gray.
Kindergarten course-Edith J. Biddle
Edna 8. Boyd. Maud w. Gates, Dorothy
d. Hutchins. Bernice c. Lumpkins
Marie n. Piper and Ethel e. Turner.
Manual arts course-Peter L. Rob
inson-
Household arts course Parthenis
r. Woodson.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
Edward Flore Again Heads Alliance

SAN FRANCISCO. June is.-Edward
FIore Of Buffalo. y. Y. was reelected
president of the Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees International Alliance
and Bartenders' international League
~ Louis, Mo was selected as the 1917
meeting place at the closing session of
the convention here last night
Evening star., 1915-06-19
To Feed $1,000 by End of Week.
ViI|istas Urge Recognition
of vasquez Tag|e as First
Step for Mexican Elections

Reports that President Wilson has
made representations to Carranza urg-
ing him to agree upon some neutral
Mexican as provisional president are
believed to be premature, although it
is said in we'll informed circles that
pressing suggestions have been COM
municated to the first chief, indicating
that the United States would view with
qualification an attitude on his part
that would admit of parleys with the
faction headed by Villa.
Villa has expressed a willingness to
agree to any reasonable compromise
that will be attended by general cleo
tions for a congress. Carranza main
tains. however, that he alone should do
this. and that certain preconstitu
tional period should intervene before
the selection Of a constitutional presi-
dent Is made.
Agents of the Villa faction point to
this as proof of Carranza's desire to
usurp power and establish a Dictator
ship. Friends of Villa assert that the
best way to re-establish constitutional
government is to begin by constitu-
tional means, an dtherefore advocate
the recognition Of Casquez Tagle. min
| lister of justice in Madero's cabinet,
| and who, according to law, is next in
| line of presidential succession. the
| others having resigned in February.
1913. Vasquer Tagle, it is asserted. is
| a man of experience. an eminent law
yer and one well fitted to harmonic
| things. since he has been a partisan of
| neither faction.
See Dissension Among Supporters.
The resignation of four members of
Carranza's cabinet on the 18th instant
| is accepted among those familiar with
tho Mexican situation a 8 Indicating a
probable disinte, grafton among his
| supporters. Zubaran. minister of in
| terror; Cabrera, minister of finance
Verdugo, minister of justice, and Uru-
| eta, minister of foreign relations, are
| warm friends of Gen Obregon, Car
| ranza's ablest military leader and it is
| thought they will now endeavor to
gain his aid in bringing pressure to
| bear on the first chief to retire.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
AMERICANS ARE RELEASED.
Marx and Finkelstein to Be Sent to
the Texas Border.

Villa authorities at Chihuahua have
turned over to George B. Carothers,
American consular agent. George Marx
and S. Finkelstein (also known as
Franklin). Americans threatened with
execution on the charge Of circulating
counterfeit currency. Carothers re-
ported to the State Department that
he would send the men to the Texas
border.
Liberty for Marx and Finkelstein was
brought about through the interven-
tion of Carothers on instructions from
the State Department. After forward
ing protests to Villa and his secretary
of state Carothers made a special trip
to Chihuahua to personally press his
representations.
The report last evening did not men,
tfon the case Of w. B. Cox, arrested al
Torreon, also accused of circulating
counterfeit currency.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
Shares With Pennsylvania
Honor of Being Worlds
Biggest Battleship.
MONSTER FIGHTER BUILT
AT COST OF $4,000, 900
Designers Sacrificed Speed to Ability
to Give and Receive
Heavy Blows.

NEW YORK. June 19.-The new battle
ship Arizona was successfully launched
a the Brooklyn navy yard here today
The Arizona shares with her sister
ship. the Pennsylvania. the honor of
being The worlds largest battleshp
The Arizona slipped into the water at
1:12 O'Clock
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KANSAS CITY RESIDENTS
WARNED AGAINST FLOOD
Move Household Goods From First
to Second Floors to Es.
cape Water

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 19.-The
government weather bureau today is
sued a warning to residents of the
east and west bottoms of Kansas City
to move Immediately from first to Sec
prepared for a flood. The districts are
in sections Of the city adjoining the
banks Of the Kansas and the Missouri
rivers which because of recent rains
are rising rapidly. Most of the foreign
laborers. employees at the packing
houses, live in the west bottoms. The
district also contains many of the big
wholesale houses. and this morning
hundreds Of clerks were engaged In
carrying goods from Easements and
nrst floors to higher stories.
A colony Of truck gardeners inhaoits
the east bottoms. Here the Missouri
river is swiftly spreading out from
its banks.
Streams Swollen by Storms.
Storms prevailed over Kansas and
this section of Missouri today, causing
fears of serious foods. All Kansas
streams are at a dangerous stage, and
a heavy precipitation would be disas-
trous. The Kansas river here meas
ured 1876 feet at 9 o'clock this morn
ing, a rise of a foot since yesterday.
Al Topeka the same stream continued
its upward spurt, and the weather bu-
reau predicted 1t would exceed by sew
eral feet its highest mark of last week.
DELAYED reports from the scenes Of
Thursday nights storm in Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma continued TO tell
Of property damage and narro" es-
capes from small tornadoes. but the
death list was not increased and stood
at nineteen
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Killed Interfering in a Quarrel.

Gilbert Teanhl of Oklahoma City,
Okla. superintendent Of Mexican
mine, was killed while interfering in
a private quarrel near Charcas. Mexico,
Wednesday. A dispatch to the State
Department from Consul Bonney at
San Luis Potosi today announced
three arrests had been made.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
THOUSANDS IN MEXICO
ARE FED BY RED CROSS
Another Trainload Of Supplies Need
ed at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Conditions Reported.

Desperate famine and disease condi-
tions prevail in Monclova- Mexico. ac-
cording to a dispatch to the American
Red Cross headquarters here today from
Brig. Gen. Carroll A. Devol. general
manager Of the American Red Cross. who
is on the border experimenting the relief
work.
Gen Devol reported that the trainload
Of supplies for Monclova that was held
up several days ago by Gen. Hernandez
Villa commander had reached Mon
clova, and was being distributed to the
famine -crazed populace He said this
was the only corn and peas to be had in
that territory, and that an additional
shipment was imperative. The local au
thorifies, he said. were doing all that
they could to assist in the distribution OF
relief
Reports Of starvation of civilians in
the vicinity of Monterey have reached
the State Department and the Amer
ican Red Cross headquarters
To Feed $1,000 by End Of Week.
United States Consul General Hanna,
at Monterey, reported that June Is he
sent by the Red Cross.
I'VE will be feeding $4,000 by the end
Of the week." he added.
Have sent corn and beans to Vic
toria and Monte Morelos, also have
urgent call from Linares.'
From Salina Cruz food is reported
scarce, with no prospect of relief.
Locusts are destroying crops in that
region.
Evening star., 1915-06-19
Fourth Built by United States.

The new sea fortress. as she took the
water today cost more than $1,000. 900.
That was for hull and machinery alone.
The guns and armor will cost as much
more and other equipment necessary to
fiji her for duty will add another million
to her total cost. She is longer and
wider than any but the newest trans
atlantic liners. If it is desired to put
her through the Panama canal the
locks and bends in the channel will be
taxed almost to the limit to give her
passage way.
The Arizona is the fourth battleship
to be built IN a government yard and
her place on the ways will be taken at
once by the California, a larger and
faster, but similarly armed ship.
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Cost $15.OOO.O 900.

Another fifteen million dollar battle
ship was launched for the American
navy today when the superdreadnaught
Arizona slid into the water at the New
York navy yard. She is a sister ship
to the Pennsylvania. recently launched
at Newport News. and in size and ar
powerful craft ever built for any navy.
Ships of the line, like the Arizona, are
built to give and receive punishment in
sea battles. Their mission has little in
common with that of the battle cruis-
ers. which have been the largest ships
to engage each other during the Eu-
ropean war. Speed Is sacrificed in the
construction of the battleships to
weight OF armor and against such a
ship as the Arizona with her broadside
fire from twelve fourteen-inch guns
and protection of more than a foot of
the toughest steel that can be made
around the vessels vital parts like a
wall. battle cruiser would be helpless
and must depend on her speed and seek
safety in flight. There are few ships in
any navy At to cope with the Arizona,
ship to ship.
The range of the Arizona's guns is
from twelve to thirteen miles as they
will be set in her turrets. or as far as
her un-pointers and observers can
- e
ships carrying the fourteen-inch guns,
the Arizonas main battery will have
a maximum elevation of nearly twenty
degrees. 1t would be possible. 1t is
said. to almost double that elevation
and add miles to the range of the guns
but already they can shoot and hit
farther 1t is probable than they would
ever be called upon to do.
Three-Gun Turrets.
The Arizona will carry the three-gun
turrest which have been developed by
American naval constructors. her twelve
big rifles being housed in four turrets,
two forward and two after. In addition
she will have a secondary battery of
twenty-five f1ve-inch. long range rifles
for defense against destroyers. torpedo
boats and submarines. The big guns
can be fired over either broadsde and
around the entire circle with the ex-
ception of an arc of less than thirty
degrees directly forward for the after
turrets and directly astern for the for
ward turrets. Four of the secondary
battery guns two on each side. are SO
placed that they can fire fire three de-
grees across the ships bows. taking the
place of bow chasers of the old wooden
ship days
Compared to the Arizona the old bat
tleships of the Oregon class are almost
IKE toys. Inc ne" snip COulO engage d
fleet of three of them at the same time,
turning upon each as many guns as it
could bring to bear and her guns would
be bigger and of longer range In ad-'
dition she could steam away from them
or overtake them at pleasure, develop
ing twenty-one knots against their six
teen or seventeen. The remarkable
thing about the great increase in size
and gun power, however. is that each
of the smaller ships would need as
many or more men than the Arizona,
which will carry a complement Of 915
in her crew