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Evening star., 1915-11-20
DR.. HENRY R. CARTER I'LL
Of MALIGNANT FEVER
Head of U. S. Marine Hospital at
Baltimore Stricken in
Porto Rico.

DR.. Henry r. Carter, head of the
United States Marine Hospital at Bal
timore, and an authority on means Of
eradicating yellow fever and other dis
eases communicated by mosquitoes, has
been stricken in Porto Rico with
dengue, the malignant tropical fever
against which he left this city October
81 to start a campaign on the island.
A cablegram received by the United
States public health service. in which
he has the rank Of assistant surgeon
general, announced that while his con-
dition was serious, he was expected to
recover
With Dr. Carter is his daughter, Miss
Carter The veteran mosquito fighter
was expected to return to the United
States within week or ten days
Disease Dangerous in Tropics.
While dengue, which a generation or
SO ago was prevalent in the southern
states, is not looked upon as a particu-
larly malignant disease in this country,
in the tropics, particularly the West
Indies. it is considered extremely dan
gerous, the mortality rate running as
high. sometimes. as 80 per cent.
In this country it used to be, called
variousls "breakbone" fever and
dandy" fever, the latter probably be-
ing a corruption Of the Spanish name
"dengue.' 1t is an infectious disease
and is nearly always epidemic, as it is
in the present case.
Epidemic in Wet Season.
While dengue is not a disease gem
orally prevalent in Porto Rico, 1t be-
comes epidemic there at intervals dur
ing the wet season-the season there
now.
DR.. Carter. who. almost from the time
he joined the health department OF the
War Department in 187S,- devoted his
attention to the eradication Of conn
municable disease. helped stan, out
dengue in several of the. southern,
states. This he did largely by CARRYING
on a. campaign against mosquitoes IN
the sections affected.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
3. F. Pascoe Asks $10,O 900 Damages.

Raymond F. Pascoe. a carpenter, has
filed suit in the District Supreme Court
to recover $4,000 damages from the
Melton Construction Company for al
legged personal injury. Through Attor-
neys l.. j. Mather and r. ]. Downey
tie plaintiff says he was working for
the defendant on the building at 18th
and I streets when a board improperly
placed caused him to fall twelve or
fourteen feet to the ground. He al
leges he wAo Internally injured.
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TO SHOW BELGIAN ATTITUDE.
German Embassy Files With State
Department Reports of Diplomats.

The German embassy here delivered
to the State Department, FOR its in
formation" a compilation of reports
of Belgian diplomatic agents at various
capitals of Europe to their govern
ment, which were seized when German
troops entered Brussels.
1t is alleged by the German govern
ment that these reports show to what
extent the Belgian representatives were
interested in European politics in gen.
eral and in German politics In particu-
lar 1t is also claimed that they indi-
cate Belgiums alignment with the en-
tente powers.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
were SERVING HUMANITY"
SAY SISTERS OF ST. mary
when We Tell Others Of the Value Of Father Johns
Medicine As a Tonic and Body Builder
and for Colds

J The Sisters of st. Mary Of Mason,
Que. Canada. in recent letter. say:
I'VE will willingly permit you to
make use Of our testimonial in favor
OF Father Johns Medicine. We con-
slider that by doing SO we are render
Ing 2 great service to humanity at
large. but especially to people of linn
tied means. who are desirous Of hav-
ing a quick. sure. and comparatively
inexpensive restorer OF health. They
have all this in Father Johns Medi-
cine. For several years and with
best results we have been using your
medicine in our community. We have
already recommended 1t to several
young ladies, teachers. who say that
from tho very nrst bottle they. used
Evening star., 1915-11-20
H|LLSTR0M OUT Of TOWN
DAY OF MURDER, HE SAYS
William Busky Declares He and
Executed Were in Murray, Utah,
and Not Salt Lake City.

SEATTLE, Wash, November 20
William Busky. the German-A nerioan
who, in an affidavit sworn to before a
notary public, declared that Joseph
Hillstrom was not in Salt Lake City
the night of the murder for which Hill
strom was put to death yesterday, last
night made the following statement:
The day Of the murder Hiilstrom
and I applied for work at the smelter
at Murray, Utah, seven miles from Salt
Lake City. Our names should appear
on the books there. as we were given
employment and told to report that
night at II o'clock.
I'VE remained at Murray, and I did
not leave Hillstrom until 10 o'clock
that night. Hillstrom was not wounded
then.
His Evidence Cut Short.
when Hillstrom was given his pre-
liminary hearing before Judge Ritchie
in Salt Lake I was a witness for the
Evening star., 1915-11-20
SUPPORT PLEDGED
BY SPEAKER CLARK
Tells President He Is for a
Reasonable" Prepared
ness Program.
DENIES He HAS PURPOSE
OF QUITTING SPEAKERSHlP
leadership in Fight for Defense Will
Rest With Chairmen Pad
gett and Hay.

"Rea sonable preparedness" is the way
Speaker Clark defines the armament
proposition for which he will stand in
Congress-. Following a conference with
the President at the White House yes
terday afternoon, the Speaker left
Washington at o'clock this morning
to keep a speaking engagement and
will probably be back in the city Tues
day morning.
The White House conference is taken
to mean that the Speaker will aid the
administration in it's plans for pro-
gram of preparedness and national de-
fense, although it is understood no de-
tails were discussed yesterday. The
Speaker denounced the story that he
would relinquish the chair and give up
the speakership in order to take the
floor and help drive through a pro-
gram Of legislation.
Padgett and Hay Leaders.
1t was recalled that the leadership
for the naval appropriation bill is in
the hands Of Representative Padgett.
as chairman of the naval affairs com
mittee, and for the army bill, Repre-
sentative Hay of Virginia. as chairman
is plain to be seen that Floor Leader
Kitchin's detection is not worrying the
administration to any great.extent-
II only talked with the President
few minutes" said the speaker last
night. I'VE discussed briefly the army
and navy program. I told him frankly
/ would be in favor of legislation winch
would assure reasonable defense for
the country against any possible en-
envy did not go into details
,fvlr
be difficulty in working out the plans
for the SO o-called continental army, but
/ am confident Congress will work out
a general scheme to increase defenses
which will be satisfactory to every
one"
People for Preparedness.
Although details of the administra-
tion plan for a larger navy and army
were not discussed between the Presi-
dent and the Speaker, it is understood
that Mr.. Clark has given considerable
thought to the subject. He has done
much travelling during the past six
months and said last night that he
found the country in a state of mind
favorable to the support of a program
Of national defense on a larger scale
than heretofore. The Speaker said he
would introduce a bill to double ap-
pointments to West Point and Annap-
young man to attend either institution
at his own expense, at cost.
In his talk with the President he
mentioned the Importance Of legisla-
sion to prepare for revenues to meet
the added expense. The Speaker be-
heves an extension of the war tax is
necessary. He also believes that reve-
nue. raising is possible by reducing the
exemption In the income tax law. the
continuation OF the duty On sugar and
the sale of Panama canal bonds.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
COMBINED BOX OFFICE
AND SPEAKERS R0STRUM
Big Van to Be Used by Suffragists
for the Sale of Pageant
Tickets. -

A combination of moving box Office
and speaking platform in the shape Of
a big van with windows cut in the
sides, and manned by suffrage work
ers, has begun to tour Washington for
the purpose of dispensing tickets for
the Susan B. Anthony pageant. This
production, which will mark the con-
clusion of the weeks convention here
of the Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage, will be staged in Convention
Hall, December 13.
. Not only may tickets for the pageant
be purchased therefrom. but also tick
cts for the big mass meeting scheduled
for December 12 at the Belasco Thea
ter in honor of the two envoys Of the
recent women voters convention Of San
Francisco, who will by that time have
completed ross-continent automo-
bile tour
ENJOYS Bear Petition.
These ENJOYS, Mrs. Sara Bard Field
and Miss Frances ,Jo11iffe. will bear to
Congress a petition signed by many
thousands of the 'wo1nan-voters OF Cali
fornia on behalf of the Anthony
amendment. sLes 4,sts
From The van speakers in the cause
Of suffrage will make brief addresses
every night and at each noon hour at
various central points in the city, and
probably also at the hour of dismissal
Of the government employees. In charge
Of this moving suffrage center Is Mrs.
Grace Benefited CotterilI of Seattle.
Wash, who has recently been engaged
in suffrage work in New York state
and who has come to- Washington to
help with the convention plans before
returning to the west.
All Entitled to Vote.
All of Mrs. Cotterilrs staff who will
be aboard the vehicle are women who
have already used the ballot, and the
leader herself at intervals has voted in
three states-Idaho. Washington and
Oregon. Others composing the van
guard" are Miss Maud Younger OF San
Francisco, Miss Katherine Fisher of
Pasadena, Cal. and. Miss Anne Ma rtin
of Reno, Nevada.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
Succotash.
To tho Editor of The stss::

To tho Editor of The stss:
I read with interest your article on
"Succotash." Perhaps your readers
would like to know that the Narragan-
sett Indians first called boiled corn
succotash (only they did not spell 1t
just that way); later maize and beans
boiled together received the same ap-
pellation. I think the New England
housewives consider the lima bean far
better for making succotash than the
bean which comes from drying string
beans. My grandmother was a famous
Cape Cod cook and 1 have heard her
mention these interesting facts
SYLVIA NJ. CHARLTON,
Falmouth, Mass.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
RABBI sCHECHTER DEAD.
Was President of Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.

NEW YORK, November 20.--Rabhi
Solomon Schechter. president OF the
Jewish Theological Seminary Of Amer
lea and widely known as a traveller
and author, is dead at his home here
He was born in Fokshau. Rumsnia. No.
vember Z. 1s47. and came to the United
States in 1902 to accept the presids sncy
of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Rabbi Schechter was educated in the
Universities OF Vienna and Berlin
taught In the University College. Lon
don. and travelled in italy, Egypt and
Palestine examining Hebrew literature.
ism." Documents Of jewish Sectaries',
and other works.
Evening star., 1915-11-20

at the irksome toll of the classroom.
bottle Of Father Johns Medicine
gives them new vigor. In case cf
severe colds we find Father Johns
Medicine is q safe and prompt remedy.
Hoping that these few details Of our
own experience in the use Of the
medicine may be useful to you. we re-
main, Yours very respectfully,
(Signed) Sisters of st. Mary"
Because it contains no alcohol or
dangerous drugs Father Johns Medi-
we'll as older people. It is a doctors
prescription. more than fifty years in
use. It heals throat and lungs, and by
means of Its pure food elements nour-
ishes and builds UP those who are
weak and run down.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
PARCEL MAIL FOR HOLLAND.
Must Be Addressed Care Of "Neth.
erlands Oversee Trust"

Following its action in declining to
receive parcel post mail for Germany
the Holland-American steamship line
has notified the Post Once Department
that only such parcel post mail for
Holland as 10 addressed in care Of the
Netherland Oversee Trust will b. sc.
espted. The consignee. it.js stated. can
Evening star., 1915-11-20
SEEK TO CLEAR DEBT
FROM M'K|NLEY Church
Members and Friends Of Congrega-
tion Make an Appeal
r,. for Funds.

Members and friends of Mckinley
Memorial Church, 4th and L streets
northwest. Rev. s.. Geriah Lamkins.
pastor, are bending every energy to
free it from a present Indebtedness of
$500 before its dedication as an en-
during memorial to the life and char
acter of the martyred President.
On the occasion of the recent meet
ing of the grand encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic in this
city the leading officials Of that body
signed an appeal asking the general
public to assist in contributing the
sum of $500. the balance needed to
pay off the mortgage on the memorial
church that it might be dedicated free
of debt.
Organized as a Memorial.
This church was organized, named
and set apart as a memorial to the late
President Mckinley. 1t is the only
church in the District of Columbia
named for the martyred President. The
church edifice is modest two-story
brick building worth about $4,000.
The memorial is national in character,
as is attested by the signatures of those
who have Endorsed and signed the ap-
peal without regard to denominational
affiliations, to wit:
Z. r. Montfort. comma der in chief
Of the g. A. r.; d. J. Palmer. retiring
commander-in-c chief of the G. A. r.:
former United States Senator Charles
Dick, g. II. Slaybaugh. senior vice com
mander. District of Columbia; Col JOHN
McElroy, editor Of the National Tri-
bune: DR.. Charles Wood, pastor Of the
Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian)
DR.. Samuel H. Greene, pastor of Cal
vary Baptist Church, and DR.. U. G. B.
Pierce, pastor of All Souls Church
{Unitarian), Endorsed and backed up by
Bishop Earl Cranston Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and Bishop Alfred
Harding OF the Protestant Episcopal
Church
Evening star., 1915-11-20

defense I told the Judge about Hill
strom and / being together at the time,
but he cut mo short and said my evil
dence was not any good. 1 was not
put on the stand again, but was sent
back to Jail.
Il had been arrested previously by a
detective who heard me talking about
the Hillstrom case on the street. I was
In Jail forty-one days. Finally they
turned me loose and told me to leave
the state and never come back"
Evening star., 1915-11-20
To Speak on "Theory of Play"

W. H. J. Beckett. former secretary of
the 18th street branch of the Y. M. c. A.,
is scheduled to speak on The Theory
of Play" at a meeting of the Bethel
Literary Society Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock. Music will be furnished by the
Junior Choir of the Metropolitan A. NJ.
E. Church.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
To Apply on Trust Notes.

Contributions are to be sent to
Charles ]. Bell, president cf the Amer
fcan Security and Trust Company,
whore the trust notes on the church are
held, and he Is to apply the contribu-
tions to the liquidation of the indebt-
edness as fast as the money is received.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
Kenneth G. Triest Released.

LONDON. November 20.-Kenneth G..
Triest, the former Princeton student
held in London as a German SPY, has
been released by the British authorities
and will leave with his father for the
United States.
Evening star., 1915-11-20
Reappointed Notary Public.

The President has reappointed J. c.
Rathbone notary public in the Dis
trict of Columbia. This is his sixth
consecutive term of office, his original
commission having been dated April,
1891.
Evening star., 1915-11-20

arrange with the Oversee Trust for de-
livery on arrival.
The Post Office Department has cabled
the postal administration in Holland
asking whether the requirements of
the steamship company have official
sanction.
Efforts are now being made, it is stat
ed. to renew the service via Rotterdam
or some other route. '-
Evening star., 1915-11-20
BREACH IS THREATENED
IN ORGANIZED LABOR
Suspension Of Charter of United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners Discussed.
Committee Named to Seek Adjust
ment of Differences-Electi
of Officers Listed.

SAN FRANCISCO. November 20
What labor leaders said today they
consider one of the most serious
breaches that ever threatened organ
lied labor developed late last night
when a resolution was presented to the
American Federation of Labor in con-
vention here for the suspension of the
charter of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and JoinerS, which has a
membership of more than 100000. and
is said to be the second largest inter-
national union in America.
A substitute resolution not providing
for expulsion finally was adopted.
The proposed suspension was the re-
suit Of the afiliation of the Carpenters
and Joiners with the Machinists Union
Fail to Answer Accusation.
Throughout the discussion that fol-
lowed the introduction of the resoiu-
tions delegates from the Carpenters
and Joiners sat in silence and were
accused by Andrew Furuseth. president
Of the international Seamen's Union,
Of deliberately seeking to compel the
federation to withdraw their charters
IF this is not true, he said, why
do they remain so quiet and unpro-
testing?"
Samuel Gompers made a strong pro-
test against the adoption of the resolu-
tion. There is something bigger. he
said. than their rules and regulations.
I'VE are not safe from disintegra-
tion and failure" said Gompers, IF we
lose sight of the ideas of human broth
erhood.'
Charges Against Carpenters.
The carpenters union was accused Of
repairing. dismantling and setting up
machinery in buildings in various
cities, and with claiming the right to
do such work. in defiance of the express
commands of the federation convention
In Philadelphia last year.
George L. Berry. president OF the
Printing Pressmen's Union, offered the
substitute resolution. He moved that
committee Of five representatives of
international unions. with President
Gompers. be selected to attend the con-
vention of the carpenters and try to
get them to recede from the stand they
had taken. Berrys substitute was car
ried
The federation's program today calls
Tor the presentation Of more than fifty
resolutions and for the election OF Of
fcers. 1t is believed no candidate will
be named In opposition to President
Gompers for reelection.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
THE "JoKER" IN THE DECK

"HE military critics and the pub
lie at large may be wrong in
d concluding that the European
war is to be a long-drawn-out
contest in which wearing down" will
be the principal factor. 1t would not
be surprising to find an entire change
of tactics on the western front with
the coming of Spring. General Joffre's
so far effective plan of 'nibbling at
them" may give way to a gigantic Of
fensive movement on the part of the
allies. The "joker' in the war deck
at the present moment is the force
of 100000 men now in training in
British camps. When warm weather
comes. Kitchener will throw them
across the channel and with what
forces France may be able to bring
up will hurl them at the enemy. Much
depends, of course, on the makeup
of this new English army and 1t is
likely to prove the very flower of
British manhood. On the other hand,
Germany must rely now on her older
men. She has already put her best in
the field.
These are straws in the wind. The
war may not be one of utter exhaus-
ton after all. For the sake of all
concerned, 1t is to be hoped that it
will not be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
A MATTER OF INFORMATION

|" HE PUBLIC LEDGER of Phila-
delphia publishes an interesting
: article on the passing of toll
roads in Pennsylvania that very
we'll might serve as a text book for
the State Highway Department. AT
least it sets forth in as clear and con-
else q manner as could be desired
the position of the department with
respect to the abolition of the toll
road, and constitutes a logical and
convincing reply to the oft-repeated
charge that the only good roads in
the State are the turnpikes; and that
the Commonwealth has been sim
gularly neglectful of it's duty toward
providing proper roadways through
out the State.
1t is we'll known that the present
Highway Commissioner has pur-
chased under the act more than 100
miles Of toll roads in the State, and
that there are still 1000 miles of
turnpikes that the inhabitants of
Pennsylvania are waiting to see set
free. One wonders why the Depart
ment has not explained long since
why it has permitted these highways
to remain in the control of companies
or individuals. In the language of
the Ledger IT is all very simple and
acceptable. About $50 miles of roads
in the State are under the mainte-
nance of the Highway Commission,
and an effort is being made to build
about 400 miles of road q season.
While that is considerably more than
n milo a day the year round, 1t does
not take a mathematician to show
that at the same rate almost a genera
tion will be required for Pennsylvania
to have good roads throughout its
breadth and length. At least twenty
years of regular effort at the same or
better rate of speed would be required
TO give the State a reputation for its
highways. If the 1000 miles of turn
pike were taken over at once it would
be necessary to keep them in good
condition, and that would mean an
addition to the work already under
way, which either would retard the
completion of the good roads scheme
or would require an addition to the
forces already at work.
If the public understood these facts
fully there would be fewer complaints
against the State Highway Depart
ment. Tho trouble is that we do not
realize the tremendous problems in
yolved in the transformation of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-04
A GRAVE SITUATION

I"HE Underwood tariff law and
the European war have united
u their more or less harmonious
influences to produce a deficit
of over $SO,00O,000 in the national
treasury. This regardless of all the
carefully worded mouthings of Bryan.
Redficld and others of the administra-
ton who have been preaching good
financial housekeeping while aiding
and abetting those who have been ap-
propriating money by the million for
the purpose of building up the
strength of the Democratic machine
in preparation for the 1916 campaign.
And while the revenues have been
shrinking steadily, expenditures have
been just as steadily swelling, until
at the close of the year $11, 100000
more had been spent in running the
National Government than in 1913.
The question that naturally rises is
the attitude President Wilson will
take in what is really a very grave
emergency. Nearly all of the corpora
tion and income tax which was eX-
lectef in the latter half of the year,
and the Government will have the
benefit OF the emergency war taxes
for the full six months. 1t was esti-
mated that the Government would
receive $54,000,000 from the opera
! ton of the new taxes in the first seven
months, and it is understood that to
date the receipts under this measure
have exceeded expectations.
There is some talk in Washington
already OF a sale of Panama Canal
bonds to meet a deficit, but it is likely
nothing will be done along this line
until the Treasury Department has
had an opportunity to test the posi-
! bilities of q recovery in the second
! half year. At the present rate the
] Government will realize $4,000, 900
between now and June 80 from stamp
taxes, which, with the income tax,
! should wipe out most of the accumu-
lated deficit. Expenditures on ac-
count of the Panama Canal are run
ming on a much smaller scale now
that the new waterway is open to use
and big burden will be taken from
the Treasury in this way.
Nevertheless. the future is uncer-
! tain, IL not actually dark, and Con-
gress ought at least to be curbed in
its expenditures. The necessity of a
stamp act and the possibility of being
compelled to raise still other revenues
by means of an emergency bond is
sue TO meet the running expenses of
the Government, of themselves con-
stitute a condition, the gravity of
which ought to give even the most
reckless and inexperienced statesman
pause for thought.