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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-03
DISTRICT FAIRGROUNDS
OFFICIALLY OPEN TODAY
Real Work Of Season to Begin We'd
acknowledgements of Teach.
ers Announced.

School Fairgrounds of the District of
Columbia were officially opened today.
The real work of the season will begin
Wednesday, however. because of to-
morrow being a holiday.
Dr. Rebecca Stoneroad is the director
of school Fairgrounds this year, with
Miss Sarah E. Tichenor as supervisor
of industrial work, and Miss Katherine
Follin as the assistant supervisor of
this work. Miss Anita Turner is as
sistant director. in charge. of colored
Fairgrounds.
Teachers Assigned.
Following are the assignments of
Arthur, Cecilia Rogers and Mrs. Stella
Thomas: Bowen. Mary B. Inkster and
Ethel Keats; Bryan. Marian McGill and
Mary Underwood; Congress Heights,
Bessie Lacy: Cleveland. Edna Carr and
Eta Schaeffer; Henry. Olive Wright
and Ednah Robinson; Jefferson, Mrs.
Gleason, Louise Crittenden. Otis Biggs
and Ella Crook: Ketcham, Virginia Lit
Teton and Harriet Murray; Ludlow,
Ethel Day and Irene Meyers; Monroe,
Harriet Snow and Margaret Stephens
Morgan. Alice NJ. Couehlin, Maud
Burklin and Mrs E. c. Weston Wal
ZACH, Dorothy Breuninger, May Rafferty,
and Mrs. l. w. Vanderwerker: Powell,
Imogen lexis, Emma Marshall, E. ].
Dakin. Mrs. McKeever and Jane Smith;
Langdon, Isabelle Collins and Marion
Anderson: Force, Eva Baker and
Esther Lackey: Jackson, Katherine
Harrington. and E. v. Brown. W. P.
Hay.
Colored Schools.
Magruder, Helen Alexander, Mr.. Fer
guson and Anna Payne: Phillips. Clay
ton Bannister and Beulah Mcneil; Gid
| dings. E. A. Clarke, Marian Jordon and
Sarah Jackson: Langston, Martha Hen
son and Lucille Galloway, and Birney,
Valerie Chase.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

FREIGHT CAR TO CALIFOR-
mia about August 20 for household goods at re-
duced rates. SECURITY STORAGE CO.. 1140
18th ste warehousemen packers. forwarders
transit Insurance
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sPIRITUALIsTs.

MIS-. ]. E. MALTBY. SPIRITUAL MEDIUM.
ZIP 10th st. n.w. Meetings, Mon. Z 80 q m :;
Wed, pm, and Fri, 7:30 pm. PC. A mes
sage 10 each. Daily reaiings. 81 North SOS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-03

Secretary Redfield of the Department
OF Commerce visited the camp Satur-
day. He visited Brig. Gen. Harvey.
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E. A. Lang. commander of Cushing
Camp, Sons of Veterans. was a visitor
a the camp yesterday. There are many
Sons of Veterans at the camp and also
large representation of grandsons of
veterans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-03

Lieut. Langdon Moore of Troop A
left camp for the city early this morn
ing with $780, given him by the men
to be deposited in their banks.
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Capt. o. c. Terry, commanding the
signal company, was busy today check
ing up the property of the men, pre-
paratory to the movement to the front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-03

Battery B began to cook today in
the new portable field kitchen of the
semi-fireless cooker variety. 1t will
be used the remainder of the time of
the organization in camp.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
ORANGE SHOW PLANS
GREATEST IN HISTORY

LOS ANGELES, Aug. Sired M.
Renfro, of San Bernardino, secretary
of the Orange Show association of that
city, was in Los Angeles, accompanied
by George N. Haven, San Bernar-
dino newspaper man, who is chairman
of the Orange show publicity commit
tee
The two were here to select poster
designs and make preliminary ar
rangements for an extensive advertis-
ing and publicity campaign for the
1917 show, which will be held from
Feb. 20 to 28.
"The Orange show has grown to be
our annual PRIDE" said Mr.. Renfro,
"and from the crop indications, from
the growth Of the industry, and from
the general conditions confronting us,
we are satisfied that this seasons dis
play will be far and away ahead of
anything we have ever accomplished" "
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
BILLION AND HALF FOR GOOD
ROADS IN NEXT five YEARS
FEDERAL FUNDS FOR AIDING CONSTRUCTION and MAINTENANCE
TO TOTAL STAGGERING sum DURING NEXT FIVE YEARS
Thirty States At the Present Time Have An Outlined System of Many
Trunk Lines California Was First State Apply For Apporonmen
of Money-Texas Will Receive Largest Amount Of Any State

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. S.-Con
servatively estimated, $780, 100000
will be expended by the federal gov
ernment, the state governments, the
counties and the townships in the
and maintenance, or ian average OF
$250OO0,00O yearly.
1t is around the $3.50, 100000 jointly
supplied by the national government
and the several states, half and half
that this enormous attention to the
arteries of communication of the en-
tire country will revolve. The roads
receiving the joint attention of fed
eral and state authorities undoubtedly
will serve as example highways for
the work, which will range from the
big trunk lines down to the little road
reaching the farmers "way back on
the hill"
When President Wilson, in the pres
ence of representatives of farmers or
ganizations, the American Automobile
association and the American Associa
ton of State Highway Officials, signed
the Bankhead-S d-Shackleford bill, he
thus commented:
81 take a great deal of pleasure in
signing this bill and having a part in
the good work that has been done
particularly because it tends to thread
the various parts of the country to-
gether and assists the farmer in his
intercourse with Others"
While it is true that the linking to-
gether of main county and state roads
encourages distance travelling, the
motorists have considered this fact
as natural sequence of the general
development, and not to be primarily
sought.
ultimately, we received credit fol
this broad Interpretation of the stu
ation," says former A. A. A. President
John A. Wilson, "and this recognition
is made apparent by the fact that the
pen used in the signing of the bill
now reposes in the A. A. A headquar-
ters in Washington. We are just plain
The Parker post., 1916-08-12

American citizens, and we have sought
general good in our insistence that
the time had come for the national
government to accept a percentage of
the multiplying highway burdens.
"Thirty-four states have now out
lined in some form system of main
trunk lines, which is now an augury
for the success of the federal aid
plan just inaugurated. In this con-
nection it is worthy to note that Cal
ifornia was the first state to apply for
it's apportionment of the money, and
California is expending $4,000, 900 on
two main highways extending from the
Oregon to the Mexican line. 1t should
be kept in mind that an application
for federal aid in the Improvement of
any road must be made by the high
way department of the state. Conse-
Quently, if anybody in the state de-
sires to have road improved at the
aid of federal funds, it is necessary
that the matter be taken up with the
state highway department, and not
with the federal government, which
will have the final say through the
secretary of agriculture"
ouCt vi lu0 lOuCId1 IOdU
law is that state must have duly
constituted highway department
through which to deal with the ma
tional government.
This means that Texas, Indiana,
Georgia and South Carolina must fol.
low the lead of the forty-four other
states, and do so within the next four
years, and meanwhile their apportion-
ment of the federal money is being
held up.
Texas receives the largest amount
of all of the states, $4,515, ,750; Indi-
ana is generously treated in receiving
$2,1O9,OOO, Georgia gets $2,O79, $50, and
South Carolina does fairly we'll with
81 Iii, 800.
Thus it will be seen that before
$9,S16,00O of the federal $75,000,0O0 is
expended, four states must centralize
their highway labors.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
Army BILL CUT 46,373,47
BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR DE-
TENSE BROUGHT DOWN
Reduction Leaves Balance of $267, ).
597,000-BiII Will Be Present
ed to Both Houses for
Their Approval

WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-The con-
ference report on the army appropria-
tion bill, completed, but held up by
objections of President Wilson and the
war department to an amendment to
the revised articles of war, reduces
the total appropriations as the meas
ure passed the senate by $46,373, ,447.
it became known that, as it will be
reported for final approval, the bill
carries $267 1897, 900, against $313,970,-
900 appropriated tby the senate bill,
and $1S2,000,000 by the house.
The report will be submitted to both
houses in it's present form within a
few days unless the house conferees
yield to urgent war department re-
quests for consideration of the amend
ment of Representative Hay exempt
ing retired army officers and enlisted
men from the military criminal code.
Representative Hay said that he an
ticipated no trouble with President
Wilson and the war department over
the amendment. He said retired SOL
diers were in fact civilians, and he
saw no reason why military courts
had been called upon to dispose of
their cases when civil courts could
serve. Opponents of the amendment,
however, fear exemption from military
discipline will open the door to acts
prejudicial to the army's interests.
Total appropriations for national de-
Tense, however, have been reduced
from $685., ,343 ,O17, where they stood on
senate figures, to $637, 7,947,2S2, with
the navy bill still subject to revision.
In the army bill the conferees made
appropriations for winter clothing for
soldiers on the Mexican border, be-
cause it is not known how long the
men will be kept there.
No stigma should be attached to Col
Herbert J. Slocum, Thirteenth cavalry,
for failure to guard Columbus, N. M,
where he commanded, against the
Villa raid that precipitated the pres
ent Mexican trouble, Gen. Hugh L..
Scott, chief of staff, reported
Secretary of War Baker approved
General Scott's report, which is final.
Unreliable reports as to Villas
whereabouts, unfortunately credit
ed" were responsible for the success
of the surprise attack, the report said.
Colonel Slocum and his men were
commended for their repulse of the
bandits.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
BILL INTRODUCED TO
SAFEGUARD EXPLOSIVES

WASHINGTON Aug. 8.-Attacking
the interstate commerce commission
as having virtually turned over to the
DupOnts and other powder manufac-
turers it's duty of regulating explosive
cargoes, Representative Hammill, of
New Jersey, introduced bill to take
such authority away from the inter-
state commerce commission
His bill gives local authorities prac-
tically unlimited power to regulate ex-
plosive shipments.
Hammill declared the commission
responsible in part for the holocaust
at Black Tom. The commissions ex-
pert who fixes the regulations under
which munitions are shipped, he said,
is Col. B. w. Dunn, retired army
officer, inventor of Dunnite, and often
employed by the munitions firms as
an expert.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
26-MILE ROAD WILL
BORDER HARBOR LANDS

LOS ANGELES HARBOR, Aug. s.
Information was received here that
twentysix miles of road will be built
in the near future through the Palos
Verdes ranch, which comprises most of
the hill land between San Pedro and
Redondo Beach,
, The road system will connect with
the present extension of the Western
avenue boulevard, which is now COM
pleted into the hills to a point about
mile south of Lomita. The road will
be of most permanent character, and
will span the numerous canyons with
artistic reinforced bridges.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
LITTLE HAWAIIAN BUGS TO
SAVE CALIFORNIA BEET CROP

SACRAMENTO, Aug S-Califor
MAS sugar-beet crop is saved.
There arrived at the state insectary
from the Hawaiian islands a shipment
of little bugs that delight in scrapping
the pest known as the sugar-beet leaf
hopper.
The Hawaiian bugs have won the de.
cision over the beet leafhoppers in
every contest that has been staged
eating 'em alive. They will be turned
loose in the beet-growing sections OF
the state.
In 1914 the beet leafhopper caused
$1,O00,O00 damage to the sugar-beat
crop in California. The pest began
showing signs of activity this year
but with the arrival of the Hawaiian
bugs practically all the $6,O0O,O00 su-
gar-beet crop will be saved.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
DANES CRITICIZE
SALE OF ISLANDS

LONDON, Aug. 7.-Some of the
Danish conservative papers have
opened violent attack on the gov
ernment over the treaty with the Unit
ed States for the sale of the Danish
West Indies.
The National \Tidende says:
In a question of such great import
ance for the whole nation the governv
ment acted in a manner such as it's
worst antagonists would not have be-
lieved it capable of. Nobody but the,
Danish government would have risked
such course"
On the other hand, the Politiken
points out that Denmark several times
attempted to utilize the islands, but
her efforts were in vain. This paper
says that under the present war con-
ditions the islands might become a
danger to Danish neutrality, and that
1t might be difficult for Denmark to de-
fend them from encroachment.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
STEPHENS CANNOT NAME
LIEUTENANT, DECISION

SACRAMENTO, Aug. S.-According
to a ruling by Attorney General U. S.
Webb, person appointed lieutenant
governor and assuming the duties of
governor through the vacation of the
governors office cannot make any ap-
pointment to the lieutenant governor
ship. In the event of retirement of
the governor, the Office does not be-
come vacant, under the ruling of
Webb, because the lieutenant govern
or assumes the duties of the governor
If Governor Johnson is elected to
the United States senate, Lieutenant
Governor Stephens will take up the
duties of governor, and he will have
to serve until the people elect sue
cessor.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
new REVOLT IS LAUNCHED
TO GUST CARRANzA PARTY
NEW MOVEMENT is BACKED B\
LEGALlSTA PARTY
Six Hundred CavaIrymen Rushed
After PIotters Who Wish to
Overthrow the Present
Government

Ell PASO, Aug. "a new reVOiu-
ton is launched in Mexico. Colonel
Mariana Tames, former Carranza COM
mander, and, prior to that, a Villista
chieftain, sponsors it ostensibly. But
a proclamation spread throughout the
northern part of the country intimates
that the new movement is backed by
the Legalista party, is made up of the
wealthy class of Mexico, driven from
it's country, and advocates the restora-
ton of the old Diaz regime. Carran-
Za's downfall is the aim of the party
which offers Vasquez Tagle as his
successor.
Tames, with about 100 Carrapza
troops, deserted the garrison at
Juarez. He was joined by $50 more
CarranZa deserters at Ojo Samala-
yuca, thirty miles south of Juarez, and
is presumably now marching south
west, gathering recruits.
Simultaneous with Tames' revolt,
$4,000 in Mexican gold disappeared
from the paymasters' Office in Juarez
This money is supposed to have been
smuggled into Ell Paso. 1t is said a
similar amount in Mexican silver was
smuggled back across the border,
taken to Ojo Samalayuca, and turned
over to Tames.
One report has it that Mexican
official named Rodriguez abscOnded
alone with the sum stolen from the
paymaster, and that the other fund
was supplied by Legalista sympathlz-
ers in the United States.
Tames' proclamation, dated Aug. 4,
blames Carranza for ''our internal dis
aster and the international danger to
which the impudence of the so-called
first chief has exposed Mexico" 1t
expresses the utmost friendliness to
the United States.
These are among the principles ad-
vocated:
Immediately after taking posses
sion of any town, civil authorities will
be appointed in accord with the peo-
force up to Jan. 81, 1913 (the end of
the old regime).
Cali industries which may furnish
work for the destitute will be the OBJ
ject of special protection"
Immediately the proclamation ap'
peared in JuareZ, General Francisco
Gonzales, CarranZa commander there,
dispatched a force of 800 cavalrymen
in pursuit of Tames and his band No
trace of the revolutionaries, however,
was found. 4
THE real instigators were the reac-
tionary faction in Ell Paso,' said Gen
eral Gonzales, who have been trying
lately to organize, revolt. We think
we have now reached the bottom of
the plot. My order to the men after
Tames is to bring back his dead
body"
He declared he would execute all
conspirators caught.
Tames was granted amnesty as "a
Villista chieftain last fall by Carranza,
and made an officer of the de facto
government forces
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
ORANGE COUNTY EXPECTS
100000 BEET CROP

SANTA ANA, Aug. S.-With the
opening Of sugar company plants for
the season, it was estimated that the
beet sugar crop in Orange county
would yield $4,OO0,000.
The Santa Ana Sugar company s
plant opened Saturday. The Anaheim
and Los Alamitos plants have been
working for several days. The South
ern California plant in Santa Ana and
the Holly plant at Huntington Beach
will open within a few days. The
plants employ 1,500 hands.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
CANADIAN TOWN is
RENAMED KITCHENER

OTTAWA, Aug. 7.-Berlin, Ont, is
no more. The little town, which has
been suffering under the stigma of
lack of patriotism ever since war be-
gan, because of it's German name,
finally has taken new title. =
Berlin in future will be known as
Kitchener.
The agitation for change in name
dates from the first month of the war
Many suggestions proved worse than
the original; a voting contest and
symposium we're unfruitful; the town
council was in despair, when the in
spiration to take the name of Eng
lands dead war lord came to save the
day.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
is CARLOADS ORANGES
SHIPPED BY REDLANDS

REDLANDS, Aug. 8.-Sixteen cars
of Valencia oranges went out from the
Redlands district last week. This
brings the total for the season to 3,443
cars.
Packers say that there is every indi-
cation Of a good navel crop. Dropping
has stopped, and the fruit is large size
now, indicating that it will mature
earlier than in the past two years, per-
mitting of earlier shipments.
Several packing houses are being re-
modelled and new machinery installed
in preparation for the rush of navels
that will start about Dec. 1. Valencia
shipments will continue for several
weeks yet.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
Salt Lake to Change Name

LOS ANGELES, Aug. S.-The San
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake rail-
way is to officially change it's name.
The San Pedro part of it lis to be
dropped, and in the advertising it will
be known as the Salt Lake Route. 1t
was immortalized in Casey Jones" as
the Salt Lake line.
General Manager H. c. McNutt has
announced the change. The reason for
the dropping of the San Pedro portion
of the appellation is that the harbo1
town is now part of the city of Los
Angeles.
The changing of the name of a rail
road is bigger job than would appear
to the casual observer, as it involves
the relettering of rolling stock and
the changing of the type in all adver-
tising matter.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
FRENCH BLACKLIST OF
AMERICANS PUBLISHED

PARIS, Aug. 1.-THE official journal
publishes the names of American indi-
viduals and firms which have been
placed on the French blacklist under
the trading-with-the-enehy act The
list, which is marked No. 1, is the same
as regards American individuals and
firms as that given out in London
July 1S.
The complete list printed in the Off
cial journal covers twenty-four col
umns, and includes firms and individ-
uals in Africa, South America, Japan,
the Philippines, Cuba, Denmark, Spain,
Portugal, Greece, Holland, Norway
and Sweden, with whom French citi-
zens are forbidden to trade.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
Islands Annexed by British

MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. T.
Ocean, Tanning and Washington ISL
ands, in the mid-Pacif1c, have been at
tached by the British government to
the Gilbert and Ellice grolps for ad-
ministrative purposes. During Novem-
Der last the native governments of the
Gilberts and the Ellices, which had
been British protectorates since 1892,
were at their own request annexed Ito
the British dominions under the title
of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands col
ony 1t therefore follows that Ocean,
Tanning and Washington islands now
will be part of that colony.
Ocean island is famous for it's rich
deposits of phosphate rock, and Fan
ming island is the site of relay sta
tion of the Canadian-Australian
Zealand cable.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
CALIFORNIA BIRTH RATE
DROPS SINCE 1918

SACRAMENTO, Aug S.-The gen
eral trend of California's birth rate
for the past ten years has been down
ward, according to a bulletin of the
state board of health. From 1907 to
1909 there was a rapid decrease.
From 1909 to 1918 there was grad
ual increase, but the rate has been de-
creasing from the last named year.
The bulletin declares that the death
rate from infantile paralysis is almost
negligible in the state.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
Sails to Save stefansson

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. S.-The new
power schooner Great Bear, owned by
Captain Louis Lane, widely-known
Arctic navigator, and John Borden, a
wealthy Chicago sportsman, sailed for
the Far North in the expectation OF
making a junction with Wiljalmour
Stefansson, the explorer, who went
into the Arctic three years ago.
Aboard the Great Bear, besides Cap
tain Lane and Mr.. Borden, are Mrs
Lane and her sister, Mrs. Isabel Rob-
son. =
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
U. S. China Parcel Post

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-Parcel
post packages for China are now &C
cepted at the San Francisco postoffice.
Postmaster Charles w. Fay expects
large parcel post business will de-
velop between this city and China.
By the parcel post convention re-
Gently entered into between the United
States and China, the maximum weight
of packages is eleven pounds, at the
rate of twelve cents per pound. The
packages may be registered.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
CAPTAIN OF BEAR HAS
HIS LICENSE REVOKED

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-The
United States hull and boiler inspec-
ton service revoked for six months
the masters license of Captain Louis
N. Nopander of the steamer Bear,
which stranded on the Humboldt
county coast in a midnight fog, June
ID, with loss of five lives. Tqge
GLAND, third officer of the Bear, in
charge of the soundings, was deprived
of his license for the period of a year.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
Ignore State Bureau

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 8.-Harris
Weinstock, market director, announced
that the California Fruit Growers ex-
change, which ships about two-thirds
of the citrus crop of the state, had de-
clined to enter the proposed state bu-
reau of fruit distribution, on the ground
that the exchange was already distrib-
uting most equitably the citrus crop
of the state. G. Harold Powell, gen
eral manager, notified Weinstock OF
the refusal of the board of directors OF
the exchange to join the proposed bu-
reau.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
Charter S. S. Harvard and Yale

SEATTLE, Aug. 8.-The Pacific
Alaska Navigation company, of Seat
tie, operating the Admiral line, char
tered the big steel steamships Har
ward and Yale for five years from the
Metropolitan Steamship company, OF
New York.
The Seattle company will continue
both vessels in the Southern Califor-
mia route out of San Francisco, in
which they have been operated for the
last five years.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE
CHAMP CLARK TWELFTH TIME

MONTGOMERY, Mo-, Aug. S.-For
the twelfth time without opposition in
his own party, Speaker Champ Clark
was nominated for congress by the
Democrats of this district. Attorney
Walter L. Cole, nominated by the Re-
publicans without opposition will be
Mr. Clark's opponent at the November
election.
The Parker post., 1916-08-12
U. S. GIVES STATE
$2,5oo,ooo FOR ROADS

SACRAMENTO, Aug. S.-Under the
provisions of the federal road act ap-
proved July II, California will receive
nearly $2,500,OO0 in the next five years
for building new and improving old
roads. For the first year, 1917, Cali
fornia will receive $151, ,O63.93. During
the following four years over $780,
600 will be received. The total amount
to be distributed among the states dur
ing the next five years is $75,00O,OO0