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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
URGES REGISTRATION
OF AUTOS AND BOATS
Tax Collector Prince Suggests Plan
in Lieu of Personal
Taxation.

Annual registration of motor We
hicles. motor boats and other water
craft in lieu of levying personal taxes
on such property. is being urged upon
the Commissioners by Ben L. Prince,
tax collector. as an important need of
local government administration which
should be provided
Mr.. Princes plan is to have every
owner of an automobile. motor cycle.
motor vehicle and motor craft register
annually. the charge to be determined
by the amount Of horsepower. In this
connection he has familiarized the
Commissioners with the schedule of
charges in vogue in Maryland and Vir-
ginia under the registration system.
The present custom in the District is
to levy personal tax on all such prop
erty. Owners are required to submit
sworn statements of the value of the
property in July and the tax does not
become due until the following May.
This system is declared to be unsatis-
factory for the reason that many own
ers dispose of their automobiles before
the tax becomes due and the District
is unable to locate them or collect the
taxes.
Mr.. Prince also has called the Com
missioners' attention to the necessity
of taking action against tax dodgers.
apparently cannot be remedied by ad-
ministrative action. he proposes that
steps be taken to bring about a well
defined way of taking the tax dodRer
into an equity court and having the
claim against him adjudicated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
PARCEL POST DISCONTINUED
German Government Announces
Suspension of Service to America

BERLIN. October 25. via London, oc-
tober 26.-The parcel post service to
America has been discontinued until
further notice. No official reason for
the discontinuance Is given,
American postal authorities said today
they had no intimation from Germany
OF dlscontinuance of the parcel post
with the United States
Last April several thousand parcel
post packages mailed from Germany to
the United States via Switzerland were
returned 20 the Senders by the Swiss
postal authorities because the British
and French governments had given
notice that parcels addressed to Ger
man citizens in the United States
would be seized whenever they would
be found on shipboard. Parcels sent
from Germany to Spain and Portugal
have met similar fate in France.
April I the German postal officials
suspended the parcel post service to
various parts of South America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
Says Germans Were Checked.
BERLIN REPORTS GAINS
ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

BERLIN. October 26, by wireless to
sayville. N. Y.-According to today's
official statement by the German war
ONCE. on the northern part of the Rus
sian front Field Marshal Won linden
burg's army has again crossed the IL
loukst district and reconquered Kasi
mirshiki farm.
Further south. the Bavarian army of
Prince Leopold repulsed Russian at
tacks east of Baranovichi and south of
vygonovskoye lake.
The army of Gen. Won Linsingen has
stormed the Russian position east of
Kolki and west of Czartorysa and re-
pulsed . Russian counter attack. Four
officers. 1850 men and ten machine
guns wero cAptursA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
BOTH RUSSIA AND ITALY
PREPARING TO SEND HELP
British Troops Leave Saloniki to
Join With French on Bull
garian Front.
GERMANS PRESSING ADVANCE
Berlin Reports Tell of Steady Prog
ress Made by Teutonic
Forces South of
the Danube.

BERLIN, October 26, by
wireless to Sayville, N. Y
A further advance was made
yesterday by the German
forces in Serbia. East of
Visegrad, Bosnia, further
progress was made and
several positions were occu-
pied. South of Palanka
ground was gained on the
northern slope of the Raca
valley.
Farther east the Germans
captured Markovatsh, Laope
and Kutshevo. During the
last three days goo Serbians
have been captured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
WAR LOSSES OF TEUTONs
PLACED AT 5000, 900 MEN

LONDON, October 2s. 11:ls am.-The
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, as
quoted by Reuters Amsterdam corre-
spondent. gives German losses from Oc-
tober II to 20. at 57.424 In dead. wound
ed and missing.
The total Prussian losses are given
as 2,021.078. The newspaper says there
have also been issued 228 Bavarian, zoe
Saxon, 2S6 Wurttemberg and 68 naval
casualty lists, as well as lists Of officers
and under officers with the Turkish
army. The CourAnt dgurss the total
losses to the central poWssS-At koeoJ zoo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
Representative Rainey Voices Amaze
ment at Complete Rebuttal Of Charges
Of Underassessment in Capital.
Senator Chiffon Suggests Investigation Of Taxation Methods
by Congressional Joint Committee Theodore W.
Noyes Appears for Citizens

Arguments and statistics prove that the people the Dis
compared
of other American today submitted bv of
the joint the second day hearing before
select committee OF Congress investigating the fiscal
between the United States and the District
Representative Raney Illinois, member OF the congressional
committee, said during the hearing:
g" may say that amazed the complete which
the criticism charging the people of the District undaxed has
been answered."
Chiffon of West Virginia, chairman invest
eating committee indicated that the question the
of intimately connected with the questions
the proper burden of taxation and the proportion which
federal should for the ukeep the National
would
present investigation
Theodore W. Noyes member OF the committee of
the citizens committee the stand all
and continued this afternoon He will followed bv a Worth
the committee District
low and Kutz in attendance at the hearing today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
Telephone Main 244O.

A telephone message to
Main 244o, or postal card
mailed now, will start the
delivery OF The Star tomor-
row. a......-..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS..
Turks Reported to Have Killed En-.
tire Population of Kerasund.

LONDON. October 2s.-A dispatch
to the Daily Mail from Odessa says:
The Turks have massacred the en-
tire Armenian population of Kerasund.
on the Black sea-"
Kerasund lies seventy miles west of
TrebiZond on a rocky promontory. The
town has a population of $4,000. The
number of Armenians in the town liz
not known. Kerasund does a large
business in the expectation of nuts and
nut kernels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
GERMANY'S TERMS FOR PEACE
TO BE OUTLINED TO THE u. S.
AND SPAIN, SO MADRID HEARS

Prince Won Buelow, Former Imperial Chancellor, Re
ported HaDe Been Selected to Present Conditions
to President Wilson and King Alfonso
LONDON, October 26, 1888 p.m-A report reached here
today Prince Buelo former German chancellor
shortly submit President Wilson and King Alfonso Spain
outline of the conditions which Germany might
posed o discuss of peace.
The is contained in Reuter- dispatch from Madrid,
corroboated any
patch authority Prince Caporeae Italian noble
man, who is brother-n-law of Prince Bueow The
port first published Madrid the correspondent says
the form Of message from Rome
At last reports Prince Bueow i'll. message
Sunday said he confined Cologne
result of slight ndisposion. The prince on the
way Baden-Baden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
GERMANS REGAIN LOST
WORKS IN CHAMPAGNE
French War Office Says Fighting
Continues With Limited
Fluctuations"

BERLIN, October 2o, by wire
less to Sayville, N. Y.-German
advances on all fronts are re-
ported in today's official state
ment.
Captured Trenches Retaken.
German positions over a front of $50
meters IN the Champagne north OF lie
Mesnil. which the French captured
Sunday. are said to have been retaken.
Five officers and $50 French soldiers
were captured. Only one small trench
northeast of LIE Mesnil remains in the
hands of the French.
Says Germans Were Checked.
PARIS. October rs. 2:so p.m.-Fight-
ing has continued in the Champagne
district at La Courtine. with limited
fluctuations, according to the an
nouncement made by the French war
office this afternoon. The stubborn
French resistance and the offensive ac-
tivity of the French troops checked the
counter attacks of the Germans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow; some
what cooler tomorrow; moderate south
and southwest winds
Temperature for the past twenty-four
hours Highest, 70, at . pm. today;
lowest. 81. at l am. today
For full report see page sixteen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26

CONTINUED on Second PaSs.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26

Last Weeks sworn Net Circulation
Daily Average. 73.so7, sunday. 5t.3a3.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
Jailed For Killing
Man Thought a Spy
CBy Associated Press.o

IBy Assoclateu IIeSs'y
LONDON. July 1.-two young SOL
diers at Galway have been sentenced
to a years imprisonment each for
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
FEED WHIPPED
CREAM TO DOGS
Babies Get Skim Milk and
Society Women Are
Censured.

STETT1N, Germany. July 16.-The
discovery that Stettin women have
been feeding whipped cream to their
pet dogs while mothers have had a
hard time procuring a sufficient guam.
tity Of unskimned milk for their ba-
bies, has aroused a storm Of protest.
Stettin recently attempted, unsuc-
cessfully. TO have its allowance from
the government for the support OF sol.
diers' families increased. In opposi-
ton 1t was declared that Stettin wom'
en- were too liberal purchasers Of
cakes and whipped cream, things that
are not considered essential TO the
maintenance Of lie and health.
Some idea OF magistrates opinion
OF the Stettin women and their dogs
may be cleaned from the following no.
tice by him. recently published in the
local papers:
Since the present shortage OF milk
leaves much to be desired in the sup
ply OF wounded. sick and babies. every
effort should be made to AVOID dtmin-
ishing the existing supply. While. on
this account, persons actuated by feel
ings Of intelligence and duty. have i'm
posed upon themselves restrictions in
their consumption Of cream and whip
ped cream, because an extraordinary
amount OF urskimmed milk is neces-
sary for them. 1t has unfortunately
been noticed in the public stores that
individual female customers are or
dering special portions of whipped
cream to set before their dogs.
such a contemplate proceeding,
which makes self.sacrifice and re-
nunciation a mockery it is TO be hoped.
the exception and not rule. and there
fore does not warrant official action.
In the meantime those who have not
suspected the existing state OF affairs
must be shocked and COMPOUNDED that
Stettin must thus be exposed TO
shame"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
Big Coal Combine
Managed By Woman

LONDON, July 16.-Lady Mack
worth, who was one Of the survivors
of the Lusitania disaster. has taken
over the management Of the Cambrian
Coal Combine, aggregating 100000
900 year. during her fathers absence
in America on war work for the gov
eminent. Her father, D. A. Thomas,
is the head Of the combine. His gen
eral manager. Leonard Llewellyn. has
also been detached from the COM
pany's offices on war work.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
Married Widow To
Escape Fighting
1n Associated Pressl

HAvRE, July l6.-Among instances
Of attempted evasion Of military ser
vice recently noted here, one of the
mot UNUSUAL is the strategem of an
engineer, who served some time at
the front. and then came home on
leave. He was determined not to go
back. and set about finding a way.
He Is the father Of three children
thus lacking three 10 be exempt from
military service. However, Just be
fore his leave was up he vas married
to 1 widow, the mother OF three. and
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
Heat and Dust Kills
Soldiers At Kartoum

CAIRO, July 16.-The excessive neat
OF Kartoum. where daily maximum
temperature Of II degrees lasted Tor
some weeks. caused directly the death
OF some members Of the City OF London
Regimetn stationed there.
Now periodic dust storms rage IN
tie Sudan to edd to the miseries.
When the stor2l is on in full blast,
neither man nor beast can stand W
against it. 1t Is recorded that in 1897
an entire convoy was suffocated by
one.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
OF the Same sreed.

It's better than an even bet that the
nan who rushes by your open bed
Dom window every morning at $3.50
With his auto muller cut out would
flock the aisle with his feet if he were
a street car.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
When He Is Settled.

Wigwag-"Now that Newlywed is
married he seems to be quite settled"
Henpeckke--"Well, it's natural for a
fellow to be settled after he is mar
RED. His wife attends to that"-Ex-
change.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
NNNNgZZINlNNSSzZzzzzzzlENNNNNNzzZzZ
killing a man whom they took to be

killing a man whom they took to be
IA German syp.
The evidence showed that the sol
diers arrested the man while he was
in a train, took him to a lonely rat;
road station and beat him so severely
that he died The man proved to be
Ia former British soldier Of long ser
vice.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
RanuIar Hercules.

Whenever there is a street spat
nearly every woman has the idea
that her husband would be very
fiend for carnage II she didn't hold
him back-Louisville Courier-JournaL
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16
this freed him from further service.

A few days after the wedding he re-
ceived letter Of congratulation sign
ed by the members of his company. 1t
said:
Congratulations; you are a hero.
May you never sigh for the peace Of
the trenches"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-16

rThe West Virginian
circulates in a terri
tory inhabited by peo-
pie who have money
to spend and spend it.
Are you getting your
share of their patron
age, Mr.. Fairmont
merchant? Consult
our advertising de-
partment and let US
map out a campaign
of publicity for you
that will bring more
business your way.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17
MIR. Donald
Shields Andrews,
Who Has Had
Such a Hard
Lesson in Love.

to-heart Alk with his father. and
was later found doggedly at work
IN the paternal copper mines out
In Michigan.
stu later pretty, deserted Miss
Strong probably learned from news
paper cable dispatches from Lon
don how her erstwhile friend, the
love pirate, had acknowledged her
self a bitter bitten" how she had
"plucked a lemon IN the garden OF
love-" And last month when the
poorer, but wiser, love pirate re-
turned TO New York to engage law.
yers and lay siege TO the Andrews
fortress, to extort recognition OF
her marital rights, she added other
details. Here are the highlights
OF the sad story:
In London and neighboring
fashionable resorts the young
couple received much conviyial at
tention. Upon one such occasion
young Andrews, being In an ex-
pansi~- mood remarked quite pub
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17

Mr. Andrews is young, and It may be that this try.
ing experience will teach him such lesson that he
VIII rapidly turn into very creditabe citizen, In
deed II may be that the little girl he deserted still
loves him, and If he shows that he has become diff
ferent that they can take up their romance again
where II was so rudely broken If this is so Il NAV
all work out very happily. Mr.. Andrews most prob
ably would never do such thing again, and SO his
hrst love will have nothing to fear after marriage
as so many women have.
And If she does not take him back she is still lucky
IL Is strange and not unexpected sequel OF being
married in haste. There is much to be said for the
new idea OF pedgrees for the candidates for mar
rage The pin-feather youth who fancies a mature
enchanuess can at least learn something of her ro-
mantle past more doubtless, than she will choose to
tell him. The idea of marriage candidate record
onice is not half, nor quarter bad. The smitten
youth tormented by Cupid, would not be wholly de-
pendent upon the veracity OF the woman of his
IeYerish alteration. He would have a sufficiently
lucid interval in which common sense would prod
him to candidates office.
Why not have a matrimonial Dunns or Bradstreets?
The States that much interested in posterity
that they are passing sumptuary laws governing it.
could establish such bureaus Every youth or maiden
cover whether the candidate could show clear title to
his or her affections.
But the love-sick youth must wait the pro-
cess of license granting and while he is doing so
he may, indeed he must, the record of his
bride-to-be Her is thus recorded, her real age
Her homes The number of her marriages Her
reputation for stability the contrary In affairs
OF the heart These would face him, and the dis
play might be such to fan his ardor or it might
give him pause, perhaps permanent pause so far as
thAt particular enamorata is concerned.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17
"And in Six Short Weeks-Back to HomeHis Bride Sent
Him Packing"

when he ordered 800 worth of
shirts" Mrs. Andrews went on, 81
was forced to refuse the order, as
didn't have enough money to pay
for them.
when we went to England he
had with him four revolvers. He
slept with one of them under his
pillow.
Il was given to understand that
money would be sent to Mr..
Andrews. None came, and present
ly l had spent all | had. l was
stranded. / advised him to go
home to his mother. We had some
words about IL several times.
was in perpetual fear. He got into
a habit of threatening to commit
suicide. There were his four re-
Volvers, and besides, he showed me
a bottle of poison he had compound
ed In the Yale laboratories. 1t was
terriblel"
Well. that bottle of poison may
come in handy yet Mrs. Andrews
says she contemplates going on the
stage. Somebody has written a play
for her called Suicide" and she
has the poison bottle ready for the
opening night.
The elder Andrews-of the
Michigan copper mines - when
young Mrs. Andrews's tale of woe
was recited to him, said: ~
"All rot, every wogd Of II. Donald
made his mistake and am helping
him try to forget It,"
How the deserted and betrayed
fiancee is succeeding in that direc-
ton is not on record. She must
md some consolation, at least, in
this latest public demonstration of
the doubtful rewards of love piracy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17

licly:
"a married this little lady, and my
income was cut off"
This announcement producing a
rather startling effect, he added:
II should explain that before my
marriage, while was at Yale, my
income was $4,000 a year; now !
have 70 get along with only
$4,000"
Great heavens!" exclaims the
deserted love pirate wife. Il sup
ported him from the moment ! mar
ried him to the day of his return
to America. / spent $1,000 on him.
/ even paid for his clothes. Before
leaving New York he bought four
teen pairs of boots, and charged
them 10 me. He was not satisfied
with the love ! gave him"
Here's another moral for you:
Marry a love pirate and you can't
live on bve alone-you Instantly
contract a gnawing. passion for
boots
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17
Practically from Before the Very Altar and His Brdeobe,
Young Mr.. Andrews Vanished with Mrs. Hayne."

we're staying at Camden. s. @.
She heard all about Miss
Strong's engagement to marry the
young Yale undergraduate. Donald
Shields Andrews. The little Ohio
trusting fiancee was unreserved in
her condolences. as she was In her
alteration of her charming and
brilliant guest. When alma Vet
sera" left for New York 1t is said
that Miss Strong wrote 20 her
fience giving a glowing descrip-
ton OF her new friend. and end
ing:
BE sure and cali on her. You'll
find her a perfect love. Your de-
voted Bess."
Young Andrews proved to be an
obedient nance. He called on Mrs.
Hayne at her studio apartment,
Central Park South, New York.
He found her attractions quite up
to Miss Strong's specifications.
They dined at the Plaza. They did
not neglect each other appreciably
after that. Perhaps Mrs. Hayne
learned interesting things about the
elder Andrews and those Michigan
copper mines, and young Andrews's
nifty thousand dollars a year in
come. At any rate, about a week
after the meeting which little Miss
Strong had engineered, they went
10 Mamar0neck and we're married,
and sailed for Europe.
Two months later the deserted
and betrayed little fiance--if
she read the newspapers--leArne
that Donald Shields Andrews had
returned from Europe alone; that
he did not return to Yale to be
graduated with sthe Sest OF his
class but that he did have a heart
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17

full not to steer her pirate craft into
sheltered domestic harbors. Al
ready the disenchanted young Mr..
Andrews, for the first time In his
life, has gone soberly TO work.
Pretty Miss Elizabeth Strong has
escaped the all but impossible task
OF converting a rich and idle 'rah,
'rah college boy into a satisfactory
husband. His fathers copper mines
IN Michigan are performing that
prodigy with infinitely better pros
poets of succession some other
girl, when the love pirate bonds
have been lawfully shattered. OF
perhaps for little Miss Strong her.
self-who can say?
How could the American home
sheltered fiancee OF Donald Shields
Andrews be expected to resist the
destinations of the brilliant.
worldly-wlse young woman who
confessed that she was OF royal
birth, daughter of the Inflated
Crown Prince Rudolph Of Austria
and the heroine OF his tragic
romance, Marie VetseraY Espe-
cially as she had little son
who was. accordingly, the rightful
heir to the throne Of the aged
Emperor Francis Joseph-though
the then Mrs. George Osborne
Hayna declared that never would
she permit them to make an
emperor OF her'innooent child. She
was diyorceS from her cruel. non
supporting husband. which made
her all the more an object Of adj
miration and sympathy for this
little engaged girl q Cleveland
Ohio.
The divorced Mrs. Hayne gained
Miss strongs friendship when botL