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INCOME TAX EMPLOYEES
UNDER CIVIL SERVICE
Operation Of Law Extends It's Pro.
lection to About 500
Collectors.

About 500 employees Of the internal
revenue bureau in the field for the
collection of the income tax were COW
cred into the civil service October 8 by
operation of law. From now on no ap-
plicant for employment under the in
come tax division can get into the
service except from the civil service
eligible list. Collectors may not as.
sign to duty any person on the eligible
list except on authorization Of the
commissioner of internal revenue. and
the recommendations of the collector
for appointments must have the ap-
proval Of the civil service secretary OF
the district before such authority will
be given.
Open for Two Years.
Under the act of October 3, 1913
creating the income tax. all appoint
agents. internal revenue inspectors
clerks. messengers and deputy collec-
tors in the field service for the collec-
ton OF the tax were exempted from
civil service during a period of two
years; at the termination of that time,
the law provided. all then SO employed
whether they had worked one day or
the full period. were to be covered into
the competitive classified service.
The time Is up. There have been
covered into the classified service by
this operation Of the law about eighty
internal revenue agents. about seven
ty-fve inspectors. about sixty clerks
one or two messengers and between
ESQ and 900 deputy collectors
Trying to Better Service.
With this result in view the COM
missioner of internal revenue has
been for many months intent upon i'm
proving the service. Reports had in
dicated that many of those employed
in the field service were regarding
their jobs as sinecures. or had shown
themselves unable to collect enough to
compensate for the salaries paid them
The first time that Commissioner Os-
born made attempt to clean out the
service. he Is said to have been i'm
peded by the same influence that had
obtained appointment for many of the
drones.
But the matter did not end there.
Reports were asked for showing the
actual accomplishments Of men in the
field service. On these records, prob
ably half those employed were forced
to find employment elsewhere. while
others found 1t served their best in
terests to get down to work and cor
rect bad records made previously.
BY agreement with the civil service
have been made, so that, it is ex-
planned, no employe has been covered
into the classified service without a
demonstration of ability.
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TO Elect Rock Island Directors.

CHICAGO October 14.-Stockholdera
of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific
Railway Company met here this morn
ing. but owing to the delay in arrival
Of some proxies gathered by the Am
ster committee recess was taken until
2 DIN. E. r. johnson Of counsel for
the Amster committee stated that the
Interests opposed to Reid-Moore. as
represented by the Amster and the
Hayden committees. now have voting
control of the road. although real con-
troll is In the hands Of the federal
court, represented by Jacob NJ. Dick
tnson, the receiver. Seven directors
are to be chosen
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Turks Shoot Down Airship.
PARTIAL MARTIAL LAW
PROCLAIMED AT HAGUE

|. THE HAGUE, October 14.-Martial
law In a specified and partial form was
proclaimed here today. The proclama-
tion affects the various trades which
furnish supplies for the army.
The proclamation, announcing that
The Hague was placed under a minor
state of martial law, was. placarded
this morning. The measure affects
movements of workmen employed in
the trades which provide military sup
plies. These workmen hereafter will
be compelled to obtain military per-
mits If they desire to go to other dis
tricts Foreigners are not affected by
the decree.
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japan Sends Ammunition to Russia

NEW YORK, October AK. Okazaki.
a member of the Japanese parliament.
who arrived here today on the Ameri-
can liner St. Louis from. Liverpool.
said that japanese ammunition plants
and aresenals are running at full ca
pacity and that considerable portion
of the products are sent to Russia.
He said that Japan sells the war NUM-
tfons at cost to the Russian govern
ment.
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Russians Sweeping on II
After Striking Enemy
in Eastern GaIicia


LONDON. October 14.-On the east
ern front the Russians are now
in full possession of the initia-
tive. and the momentum which car.
ried them across tho Strfpa ri,e er, in
eastern Galicia. and over the last lino
of Austrian defenses has not yet di.
minished. It is reported unoficially
from. Petrograd that 1t 10 the Germans
who now lack ammunition. thus revers-
ing conditions of two months ago.
Although the Germans are continu.
ing their attacks on the Dvinsk lines,
the fury OF the onslaught has dimin-
ished. and. gaining in one sector while
losing in another. they appear to have
made no net gains recently In tact.
Petrograd press dispatches assert the
German troops are thrss mileA Afarthsr
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Bankers to Form Athletic Club.

NEW YORK. October 14.-One hun
dred or more Of the leading bankers of
the financial district are organizing a
bankers athletic club. which is ex-
pected to be the wealthiest athletic or
gantsation in the world. They have
leased 5000 square feet, comprising
the whole eighteenth floor Of the
Equitable building. and will be able to
walk from their ofncss TO their club in
q few minutes.
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SALANDRA IN CONFERENCE
WITH KING AT THE FRONT

ROME. October 13. via Paris. October
I14-Premier Salandra has returned
from the front, where he had inter-
views with King Victor Emmanuel and
Gen. Cadorna, chief of staff. He also
has held long conferences with the
ministers Of war and finance, but no
abatement has been made as to the de-
cisions reached.
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JAPAN DESIRES EARLY
ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA

LONDON. October 1.-THE Russian
foreign office has been informed. says
a Petrograd dispatch to the Times, that
the wish has been expressed at Toxic
that preliminaries to negotiations for
Russo Japanese alliance be con-
cluded as speedily as possible. 1t is
reported that Russia is about to send
a high official on a special mission to
Janan
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KILLED
|NRA|D ON LONDON
ia Are Injured When Zep-
peIins Again Drop Bombs
on City.
MATERIAL DAMAGE
Is REPORTED SMALL
Reprisals Against Germans Are
Urged-French Chateau Bombard-
ed-Turks Bring Down Aero.

LONDON, October 14AFifty-five per-
sons were killed and ia injured in the
Zeppelin raid over London last night.
The material damage done is said to
have been small.
Fourteen of the ffty-ive persons
killed and thirteen of the ia wounded
were military casualties, according to
an announcement made later by the
official press bureau.
The home office shortly after mid
night made the following report on the
raid:
"a Zeppelin raid was made yester-
day evening over a portion of the Lon
don area. when a certain number of
incendiary and explosive bombs were
dropped. The material damage done
was small. A few fires resulted. but
they were quickly put out by the fire
brigade. The admiralty will issue a
statement when particulars are avail
able.
"At present 1t is only possible to
say that no public buildings we're in
jured and that the casualties so far
reported number two women and six
men killed and about thirty-four in
jured. With the exception of a soldier
killed, all these were civilians.
These figures include all the casual
ties reported at 11:45 o'clock Wednes-
day evening"
Reprisals Advocated.
The Globe. which has been conduct
ing a campaign advocating reprisals
for Zeppelin attacks. says today:
The public knows now that the
Zeppelin choosing it's own time and
circumstances for attack is practically
immune against the ordinary weapons
Of aerial warfare. The only way to
hit the enemy is to strike at him as
he strikes at us-to bomb his Sleep
ing towns"
PARIS. October IA Zeppelin few
over Chateau Thierry Con the right
bank Of the Marne) last night and
dropped fve bombs. all Of which fell
outside the town. No one was injured
The airship then turned back to its
own lines.
Turks Shoot Down Airship.
BERLIN. October IA. by wireless to
Sayville, N. Y-An oficiaI communica-
tion from Constantinople says that the
Turks have shot down a hostile air
craft east of Ell Arish. The aviators
were captured.
Ell Arish is on the Sinai peninsula
about 100 miles east Of Port Said and
thirty miles west of the Arabian bor-
der. It is on the Mediterranean. 1t
was in this region that the Turks sew
eral months ago made their unsuccess-
full advance in the attempt to reach the
Suez canal OF recent months there
have been no reports of military activ-
ity in this vicinity.
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Archduke Ludwig Salvador Dead.

AMSTERDAM, via London. October
1.-THE death of Archduke Ludwig
Salvador Of Austria, at Brandeis Castle
on the Elbe, is announced by German
newspapers. He was sixty-eight years
old. The archduke was known chiefly
- an explorer and scientist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-14
RUSS REPORTED DRIVEN
BACK ACROSS THE STRIPA

BERLIN, October II, via London. AIS
p.m.-The Russian army. which has
been advancing victoriously in eastern
Galicia is said by the war office today
to have been checked. The Russians
were driven back across the Strtps
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LONDON, October I4.-Hav-
ing failed in their attack on the
British positions on the western
front, the Germans have turned
upon the French and made a gain
east Of Souchez. The advantage
to be obtained, however, is not of
sufficient importance 10 affect the
general situation of the French.
Their assault in the vicinity of
Tahure, in pursuance of the
movement begun three days ago,
likewise has been materially un-
productive thus far.
There has been a particularly
violent artillery engagement. In
the Artois district, northwest of
Hill No. 40, in which both sides
took part, according to the state
ment given out this afternoon by
the French war Office.
There has been also active
trench fighting in the vicinity of
Lihons.
In the Champagne district the
Germans have been throwing as
phyxiating bombs on the French
rear lines.
A German attack to the west
of Tahure has been repulsed by
the French fire.
In the Lorraine district the cam
nonading between the antagonists
has been almost continuous.
Germans Penetrate Trenches.
A strong German force attacked the
French lines around Souchez and Vimy
yesterday. A violent bombardment pre-
ceded the infantry attacks. which were
renewed from time to time and des-
perately carried out. The Germans
succeeded in penetrating some of the
trenches which had been badly shat
tered by the shells. but, according to
the French Official statement issued last
night. were repulsed everywhere else
with heavy losses.
Fighting Most Bitter.
Correspondents Of Berlin newspapers
report that the fighting Monday. IN the
districts around Loos and Souchez. was
most bitter. An intense bombardment
of twenty hours preceded the French
attack, which began Monday morning.
1t was directed against the hill near
vimy. as we'll as against the German
positions farther north. between Loos
and Givenchy.
The particular object OF the French
onslaught was the elevation to the west
of vimy. which commands the nat land
of Lens. The artillery battle was OF
such intensity that the guns could not
be touched with the bare hand
The French penetrated the German
trenches In only one small section,
where the defenders and their guns
had been buried by the French artil-
lery fire. Bavarian troops threw out the
French. using knives and hand gre-
nades. The losses of the French are
described as very severe.
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ARTILLERY CONTESTS
PARTICULARLY VIOLENT
Paris Claims Enemy Has Been Gen.
orally Repulsed, With
Heavy Losses.
TEUT0NS HURL GAS BOMBS
Fighting in Districts Around Loos
and souchez Exceptionally Bit
ter-Continuous Cannonad-
ing in Lorraine.

BERLIN, October IA. via
London, 4:I5 p.m.-A gen.
eral attack by the British
along almost the whole front
from Ypres to Loos, accom-
panied by bombardment of
the Belgian coast, is reported
in the official statement of
today from the war Office.
All attacks of the British
are said by army headquar-
ters to have failed.
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PROGRAM IS READY
| fORFETE SATURDAY
Twelve Events to Be Staged in
Testimonial to Govern
ment Bands.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO FUND
ARE COMING IN SLOWLY
Committee Feels It Has Worked
Hard and Looks to Public
to Do Its Part.
Program for the Citizens
Band Testimonial Saturda,

No. Events, Time,
1. High School Cadets
(entertainment) Il 80 p.m.-
2. Boy Scouts (drill).. Il ,45 Pm.
8. Pony race (ponies
twelve hands and
under to be ridden
by children under
fifteen years) =. .2sO5 Dim.
4. Fort Myer, Sd Field
Artillery, Battery
F (artillery drilD. z:zO p.m.
B. Saddle class. $50 Dim.
Q. Hunters .2:5O Nm.
2. Fort Myer, 5th Cav
airy I'm mounted
wrestling) ....3sO5 Dim,
8. Corinthian class
(shown in c0lers). .3.2s Dim.
D. Polo pony race. 80. $50 Dim.
10. Mule race. $3.50 DIM.
IL. Race. hunters and
hacks 400 p,m.
II. Race. free for all. .4,l0 p.u,
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HELD AS GERMAN SPY.
Frank Westmann, Taken Off Steamer,
Said to Be an American.

MOBILE. Ala. October 14-Frank
westmann. said to be an American. is
reported by his wife to have been taken
of the Norwegian steamer Dictator at
Belize British Honduras. suspected of
being a German spy. Mrs Westmann
says she has papers to prove her hus-
bands American citizenship.
Coast guard service records show
Frank Westmann enlisted at Mobile in
1898. giving his birthplace as Parow.
Germany. He then was a German cit
izen He was discharged from the
service in 1903 for physical disability.
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Prisoners of War In Austria and Germany
What of the thousands of allies soldiers captured
by the enemy? Are they we'll treated? How do they
endure their fate? What is the life they forced to
lead? Read this article in The Sunday Star
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WEATHER.

Showers tonight. Tomorrow partly
cloudy and cooler: gentle. shifting
winds.
Temperature for the past twenty-four
hours: Highest. "a. at 1:45 pm. yester-
day: lowest. 81, At am. today.
For full report see page 19.
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Building Plan Old Idea.

In general the idea of q continuinr
program has been recommended by the
general board of the navy for year.
but no Secretary Of the Navy ever has
recommended It to Congress. Original
ly the general board aimed to have
forty eight battleships by 1919. but Con-
gress In the last ten years has fallen
behind this schedule. so that, accord :
ing to Mr.. Daniels estimate Of ships
built and building, exclusive OF what
may be authorized by the next Con-
gress. the feet would number thirty
CONTINUED On second Pego.l
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Situation at Saloniki.
Turco-Bulgar Agreement.

AMSTERDAM. via London. October
14.-Semi- official announcement that
Turco-Bulgarian military agreement
has been signed is made in the Lokal
1Continued on eocopd Rge,l
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(Conunued on Sscond Pags.l
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On tho Porch of the Old Virginia Man.
sion.
the old earl 1t gave these Yankee
relatives" q prestige that even an earl
might envy.
For some time past the earl, through
his solicitor, Marmaduke Smythe, had
been in correspondence with the afore-
said yankee relatives"
Marmaduke Smythe was long, lean,
lank, dry as dust British barrister. He,
too, was versed in full knowledge Of
the fame and fabulous value of the
diamond from the sky. He, too, knew
the legends concerning it. But to his
timid mind faroff America was still a
wilderness, peopled by savages.
So It had been with much trepidation
and much nervous caressing Of his
scanty black sidewhiskers that Mar
maduke Smythe, barrister at law, Tenn
pie chambers, London, had received Or
ders from his distinguished patron,
Cecil, eighth earl Of Stanley, to depart
for America and arrange for the sue
cession.
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CHAPTER II.
n Will Cheat Lamar StanIey!r

HN the preliminary correspondence
concerning this matter Lawyer
Smythe had been gratified to note
that one of the Stanleys near Of
kin in Virginia was judge. To Law
yer Smythe's insular British under
standing being judge in the jungies
OF Virginia was to be an uncouth, to
bacco eating, hoarse voiced, red faced
individual.
The feud and its consequent bitter
enmities between Colonel Stanley and
Judge Lamar Stanley We're hardly
grasped by the testy old earl and his
timid London lawyer. But the Legal
mind of Lawyer Smythe prompted him
to rely mostly upon the far off Virgin
la judge.
So 1t was that to carry out his mis-
sion in what he deemed were the wilds
Of America Lawyer Smythe determin.
ed to place himself In contact with the
Virginia judge rather than what he
thought might be the more militant
head Of the American Stanleys, the eX'
soldier, Colonel Arthur Stanley.
The lawyer had written to the judge
and hard upon the heels Of his letter
he had arrived at the little railroad
station Of Fairfax in the dusk Of the
evening upon the day in which the
judge and the colonel had encountered
the gypsies. Matt Harding and his wife
Hagar.
All the barrister saw when he alight.
ed from the slow local train that had
brought him, and when his luggage
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and a bitter triumph over those you
hate the most comes to you, sir"
"Well, better fortune than that to
the child you expect" said the colonel
with a kindly smile. And here is 500
to buy christening clothes and found
the fortuSe Of my expected namesake
if he IS boy.
"It will be boy, and you will be
aware Of him." said the gypsy woman,
and again she closed her eyes and shiv-
cred as In great pain, not noticing the
money.
Take it, you fool woman, when the
kind gentleman offers it," snarled the
man.
Seeing the colonel still Offering the
money, the gypsy woman muttered her
thanks and took the money reluctantly,
and the gypsy, loud in his protestations
of gratitude, drove his caravan to the
copse.
Arriving at the gateway Of Stanley
hall, the grand old mansion built by a
great-grandson Of the original forbear
of the family in America, the colonel
cantered his horse up the splendid
wide driveway. There on the lawn his
flower faced young wife, Ethel, in a
garden chair, swaddled in silken shawls
and carefully attended by her old COL
ored nurse, Nanny Lucy. awaited
him.
The old negro manservant, Ned, chief
factotum and butler Of the establish
ment, appeared on the piazza and called
loudly to a half grown colored lad to
take the masters horse.
The colonel and the old nurse gently
supported the flower faced young wife
from the lawn to the portals Of the
great mansion.
1t must not be thought that any over
whelming desire for title or exalted po-
sition for themselves or for their ex-
pected child actuated Colonel Stanley
and his fair young wife. In fact the
colonel was not only contented but
proud in his position as head Of the
SLdllley LII hlhSiiSo oho AAAeASSSA
Of Stanley hall. 1t was only the grasp
ing snobbery Of his cousin that had led
the colonel to encourage the hope that
his wife might bear son to cheat his
kinsman foe of his hopes.
For the proud elder branch OF the
Stanleys-the Lords Stanley Of War
wickshire, England-Only survived In
the person Of a testy old bachelor In
valid. The next Of kin and in direct
line for the earldom Of Stanley was
Colonel Stanley Of Virginia, and, fall
ing hts surviving OF having son, the
earldom would 60 to his cousin, Judge
Stanley or the judges son, Blair, now
a child Of three.
1t was q sore point with the last
Lord Stanley that he had always hated
women after love disappointment in
early manhood and had never married,
and now the succession would go to
what he denominated as his yankee
relatives"
But the diamond from the sky was a
comforting thought in a measure to
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had been deposited beside him by un-
ceremonious hands, was a shambling
negro with a private mail pouch at
tached to a strap over his ragged shoul-
der. This negro was joined by several
other messengers of his sort, who were
busy receiving mail from the station
agent, who was evidently also the local
postmaster.
Lawyer Smythe looked up and down
the platform, expecting to see cowboys
or a prairie wagon, or some sort Of
backwoods person to greet him Or yehi-
Gle to convey him to Judge STAN
leys ranch. He finally summoned up
courage to inquire of the station agent
postmaster, as that individual was
locking up for the night.
Judge Stanley?" repeated the sta
ton agent. why, his niger, Zeke,
just got the judges mail and has gone.
The judge couldn't have been expect
ing anybody, or he would have sent
his carriage. But mebbe Zeke will tell
him he saw you, and you will be sent
for. You had better wait right here"
And he turned the key In the pad
lock on the station door and trudged
away, leaving the bewfldered lawyer
wondering If wild beasts might be
about.
In the somber living room that was
part law office and chambers Of Judge
Stanley, the judge and his equally
stern visaged spouse were awaiting the
evening mail on the last train down
from Richmond
In few minutes Zeke, the colored
handy man of the household, entered
with the judges mail bag. The judge
eagerly separated large, formally ad-
dressed envelope bearing English
stamps and sealed at the back.
The Judge opened it, glanced at it
hurriedly and handed it to his wife.
1T is from the earrs lawyer, Marina
duke Smythe, you see. He says be
may arrive at about the same time this
letter reaches u.s." He turned to the
slouchy negro. did you see strange
man get off the train-looked like an
undertaker-all English lawyers do"
eyes, sub, strange gemman did get
off de train," replied the negro, "but he
didn't say muffin to me, and / didn't
say muffin to him.
"You black scoundrelw roared the
judge. "That gentleman has come all
the way from England to see me on
an important matter. Get my horse
and put a saddle OIL the black mare. /
will 60 to the station for him myselfw
At Stanley hall, In the old colonial
bedroom Of the mistress Of the house,
the colored nurse Lucy, was minis
tering to her flower faced mistress,
while Colonel Stanley stood by solicit
ously confirming the old colored NAM
mys words with affirmative mods.
eyes, my honey, de doctor will be
here any minute" the old nurse was
saying. "Ain't the colonel jest back
from goin' after him? Bless my soul,
honey, dere come DR.. Lee hisself driv-
in up wild dat ole red boss, Stonewall,
of his"
The colonel's wife lifted her fair face
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